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• Republic Act No. 9003 or the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act”
• Section 2- plant one tree every month for five (5) consecutive years
• Section 4- The trees to be planted shall be fruit-bearing
• Republic Act No. 9275- AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
• SECTION 5:Water Quality Management Area- The Department, in coordination with National Water Resources Board (NWRB), shall designate certain areas as water quality management areas using appropriate physiographic units such as watershed, river basins or water resources regions.
• SECTION 13. Wastewater Charge System. - The Department shall implement a wastewater charge system in all management areas including the Laguna Lake Region and Regional Industrial Centers through the collection of wastewater charges/fees.
• SECTION 14. Discharge Permits. - The Department shall require owners or operators of facilities that discharge regulated effluents pursuant to this Act to secure a permit to discharge.
• SECTION 15. Financial Liability for Environmental Rehabilitation. - The Department shall require program and project proponents to put up environmental guarantee fund {EGF).
• SECTION 16. Clean-Up Operations. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 15 and 26 hereof, any person who causes pollution in or pollutes water bodies in excess of the applicable and prevailing standards shall be responsible to contain, remove and clean-up any pollution.
• SECTION 17. Programmatic Environmental Impact Assessment. - The Department shall implement programmatic compliance with the environmental impact assessment system, as in the following types of development.
• CA No. 141, dated 07 November 1936, known as the Public Land Act, and its amendments.
• PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 705 May 19, 1975- REVISING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 389, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FORESTRY REFORM CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
• Section 68. Cutting, gathering and/or collecting timber or other products without license- shall be guilty of qualified theft as defined and punished under Articles 309 and 310 of the Revised Penal Code;
• Section 69. Unlawful occupation or destruction of forest lands. Any person who enters and occupies or possesses, or makes kaingin for his own private use or for others any forest land without authority under a license agreement, lease, license or permit, or in any manner destroys such forest shall, upon conviction, be fined in an amount of not less than five hundred pesos (P500.00).
• Section 70. Pasturing Livestock. Imprisonment for not less than six (6) months nor more than two (2) years and a fine equal to ten (10) times the regular rentals due, in addition to the confiscation of such livestock and all improvement introduced in the area in favor of the government.
• Republic Act No. 9275 -March 22, 2004-AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
• s provided in Section 4 of the Act, in cases of lands granted through CA No. 141, dated 07 November 1936, known as the Public Land Act, and its amendments, the IA shall: