Giovanni Cyrene Romero

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Republic Act 6969

Republic Act 9275

Republic Act 9512

Presidential Decree No. 1586

Republic Act 900


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Republic Act 6969

AN ACT TO CONTROL TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND HAZARDOUS AND

NUCLEAR WASTES PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF,AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES


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a. To keep an inventory of chemicals that are presently being imported,manufactured, or used, indicating among others, their existing and possible uses, test

data, names of firms manufacturing or using them, and such other information as may

be considered relevant to the protection of health and the environment;

b. To monitor and regulate the importation, manufacture, processing, handling,storage, transportation, sale, distribution, use and disposal of chemical substances

and mixtures that present unreasonable risk or injury to health or to the environmentin accordance with national policies and international commitments;

c. To inform and educate the populace regarding the hazards and risks attendant tothe manufacture, handling, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, use and

disposal of toxic chemicals and other substances and mixtures; and

d. To prevent the entry, even in transit, as well as the keeping or storage and disposal

of hazardous and nuclear wastes into the country for whatever purpose.

The objectives of this Act are:


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Criminal Offenses and Penalties

1. The penalty of imprisonment of six (6) months and one day to six (6) yearsand one day and a fine ranging from Six hundred pesos (P600.00) to Four

thousand pesos (P4,000.00) shall be imposed upon any person who shall violate

section 13(a) to (c) of this Act and shall not be covered by the Probation Law. If

the offender is a foreigner, he or she shall be deported and barred from any

subsequent entry into the Philippines after serving his or her sentence;

2. In case any violation of this Act is committed by a partnership, corporation,

association or any juridical person, the partner, president, director or managerwho shall consent to or shall knowingly tolerate such violation shall be directly

liable and responsible for the act of the employees and shall be criminally liable

as a co-principal;

3. In case the offender is a government official or employee, he or she shall, in

addition to the above penalties, be deemed automatically dismissed from office

and permanently disqualified from holding any elective or appointive position.


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AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WATER QUALITY

MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Republic Act 9275


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Use of this act:

a) Aquifer - means a layer of water-bearing rock located underground that

transmits water in sufficient quantity to supply pumping wells or natural springs.

b) Aquatic life - means all organisms living in freshwater, brackish and marine

environment.

c) Beneficial use - means the use of the environment or any element or segment

thereof conducive to public or private welfare, safety and health; and shallinclude, but not be limited to, the use of water for domestic, municipal, irrigation,

power generation, fisheries, livestock raising, industrial, recreational and other

purposes.

d) Civil Society - means non-government organizations (NGOs) and people's

organizations (POs).

e) Department - means the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

f) Discharge includes, but is not limited to, the act of spilling, leaking, pumping,

pouring, emitting, emptying, releasing or dumping of any material into a water

body or onto land from which it might flow or drain into said water.


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g) Classification/Reclassification of Philippine Waters - means the categorization of all

water bodies taking into account, among others, the following: (1) existing quality of the

body of water; (2) size, depth, surface area covered, volume, direction, rate of flow and

gradient of stream; (3) most beneficial existing and future use of said bodies of water

and lands bordering them, such as for residential, agricultural, aqua cultural,

commercial, industrial, navigational, recreational, wildlife conservation and aesthetic

purposes; and (4) vulnerability of surface and groundwater to contamination from

pollutive and hazardous wastes, agricultural chemicals and underground storage tanks

of petroleum products.

h) Cleaner Production - means the application of an integrated, preventive

environmental strategy to processes, products, services to increase efficiency andreduce risk to humans and the environment;

i) Clean-up operations - means activities involving the removal of pollutants discharged

or spilled into a water body and its surrounding areas, and the restoration of the

affected areas to their former physical, chemical and biological state or conditions.

j) Contamination - means the production of substances not found in the natural

composition of water that make the water less desirable or unfit desirable or unfit forintended use.

k) Drinking water- means water intended for human consumption or for use in food

preparation.


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Republic Act 9512

Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008


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Its an Act to promote environmental awareness through Environmental Education and

covers the integration of EE in the school curricula at all levels, be it public or private,

including day cares, preschools, non formal, technical, vocational, indigenous learning, and

out-of-school youth courses or programs.

Section 6 of the Act says that the DepEd, CHED, TESDA, DENR, DOST and other relevant

agencies, in consultation with experts on the environment and the academe, shall lead in

the implementation of public education and awareness programs on environmental

protection and conservation through collaborative interagency and multi-sectoral effort at

all levels.

It also declares November as the Environmental Awareness Month in the Philippines.


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ESTABLISHING AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING OTHER

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT RELATED MEASURES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Presidential Decree No. 1586


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WHEREAS, the pursuit of a comprehensive and integrated environment protection

program necessitates the establishment and institutionalization of a system

whereby the exigencies of socio-economic undertakings can be reconciled with

the requirements of environmental quality;

WHEREAS, the regulatory requirements of environmental Impact Statements and

Assessments instituted in pursuit of this national environmental protection

program have to be worked into their full regulatory and procedural details in a

manner consistent with the goals of the program.

Environmental Impact Statement System. There is hereby established an

Environmental Impact Statement System founded and based on the

environmental impact statement required, under Section 4 of Presidential Decree

No. 1151, of all agencies and instrumentalities of the national government,

including government-owned or controlled corporations, as well as private

corporations, firms and entities, for every proposed project and undertakingwhich significantly affect the quality of the environment.


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Republic Act 9003

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM,

CREATING THE NECESSARY INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS AND INCENTIVES,DECLARING CERTAIN ACTS PROHIBITED AND PROVIDING PENALTIES, APPROPRIATING

FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES


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Use of this act:

(a) Ensure the protection of the public health and environment;

(b) Utilize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the utilization of

valuable resources and encourage resource conservation and recovery;

(c) Set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume

reduction through source reduction and waste minimization measures,

including composting, recycling, re-use, recovery, green charcoal process,

and others, before collection, treatment and disposal in appropriate and

environmentally sound solid waste management facilities in accordance

with ecologically sustainable development principles;

(d) Ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment

and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adoption of the

best environmental practice in ecological waste management excluding

incineration;

(e) Promote national research and development programs for improved

solid waste management and resource conservation techniques, moreeffective institutional arrangement and indigenous and improved methods

of waste reduction, collection, separation and recovery;

(f) Encourage greater private sector participation in solid waste

management;


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