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Seventeenth Congress

First Regular Session

5037

House Bill No.

Introduced by HON. ROMEO M. ACOP

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Engineering districts are key institutional mechanisms in the implementation
of priority infrastructure projects such as the construction, maintenance and
rehabilitation of national roads and bridges, as well as irrigation and flood control
projects in a given district. These infrastructures serve as building blocks of
economic and social development in the area.

Republic Act No. 8793 enacted on June 27, 2000, created the Rizal First (1)
Engineering District which has jurisdiction over infrastructure and public works in
the municipalities of Angono, Binangonan, Cainta and Taytay of the First (1°)
Legislative District of Rizal, and including Antipolo City. Consequently, the then
existing engineering district office in Pasig was renamed as the Rizal Second (2)
Engineering District with jurisdiction over the municipalities of Tanay, Jala-Jala, San
Mateo, Teresa, Rodriguez, Morong, Baras, Cardona and Pililia; the same jurisdiction
of the Second (2) Legislative District of the Province of Rizal.

However, since the conversion of Antipolo from a municipality into a
component city of Rizal Province on April 4, 1998 under Republic Act No. 8508, the
city has grown to its present status as a highly-progressive and the most populous
city in the CALABARZON region with a population of 776,863 in 2015. Antipolo City
alone consists of two (2) legislative districts. To ensure the efficient implementation

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of infrastructure projects in the two legislative districts of the city, it is imperative
that a new engineering district be created for the City of Antipolo.

This bill seeks to create a separate district engineering office in the City of
Antipolo which shall be known as the Rizal Third (3) Engineering District, amending
for the purpose Republic Act No. 8793. It shall have jurisdiction over infrastructure
and public works in the sixteen (16) composite barangays of the city divided into
eight (8) barangays of each legislative district. It will free the current Rizal First
Engineering District from the burden of stretching its limited resources to provide
for the ever-growing public work needs of the City of Antipolo, as well facilitate a
more focused response to the developmental requirements of the city.

Under existing guidelines of the Department of Public Works and Highways
(DPWH), the creation of a new district engineering office (DEO) requires a national
road length of less than 100 kilometers for a third class DEO, and with a land area
of 100 square kilometres and a population of 250,000 inhabitants. At present,
Antipolo City has a national road length of 98.73 kilometers (including bridges),
with a land area of 156.68 square kilometres and a population of 776, 386
inhabitants as of 2015.

For the foregoing reasons, the immediate approval of the bill is earnestly
urged.

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Quejon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

5037

House Bill No.

Introduced by HON. ROMEO M. ACOP

AN ACT
CREATING A SEPARATE DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE IN THE
CITY OF ANTIPOLO, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Republic of the Philippines in Congress assembled :

SECTION 1. There is hereby created, under the supervision of the
Department of Public Works and Highways, a separate district engineering
office in the City of Antipolo and shall be known as the Rizal Third
Engineering District.

SECTION 2. The Rizal Third Engineering District shall be separated from
the Rizal First Engineering District and shall assume jurisdiction over
infrastructure and public works in the First’ and Second Congressional
Districts of Antipolo City.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of the Department of Public Works and
Highways is hereby authorized to promulgate and effect rules and
regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this Act.


SECTION 4. The Secretary of the Department of Public Works and
Highways shall include in the Department’s program the funding
requirements for the operationalization of the Rizal Third Engineering District
for the year following the enactment of this Act, the initial funding of which
shall be charged against the current year’s appropriations of the Rizal First
Engineering District. Thereafter, the amount necessary for the continued
operation of the said district engineering office shall be included in the
annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 5. Republic Act No. 8793 is hereby amended accordingly. All
laws, decrees, executive issuances, rules and regulations inconsistent with
this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved.