AN ACT TO DECLARE FIFTY METERS ON EACH SIDE OF THE BANGAN HILL ROAD IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAYOMBONG, PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA, AS A NATIONAL PARK AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Nineth Congress
Third Regular Session

[ REPUBLIC ACT No. 7954, March 29, 1995 ]

AN ACT TO DECLARE FIFTY METERS ON EACH SIDE OF THE BANGAN HILL ROAD IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAYOMBONG, PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA, AS A NATIONAL PARK AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

Section 1. National Park. - An area of fifty meters width on both sides along the Bangan Hill Road in the Municipality of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, is hereby declared a national park, to be called as the Bangan Hill National Park.

Section 2. Description of Site. - The proposed site is centrally located at Barangay Magsaysay, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, with an aggregate area of 130,106.43 square meters on the south, Bayombong Cadastre; on the southwest and west, Lot No. 2884-B, parcelled and surveyed lots for NGO'S, project of the DLF, provincial government of Nueva Vizcaya; on the northwest, north and northeast, portion of Lot No. 2884-A, also parcelled and surveyed for NGOs lots, same project of the DLF, provincial government of Nueva Vizcaya; on the east and southeast, portion of Lot No. 2884-A, EVAC now NVSIT land uses; on the southeast, old provincial hospital site and Lot No. 2997, constabulary reservation. All fall within Project No. 2, Block 1, timberland certified December 28, 1921, per LC Map No. 1137 and within the Magat River forest reserve under Proclamation No. 573.

Section 3. Control and Supervision. - The Bangan Hill National Park shall be under the control and supervision of the Bureau of Parks and Wildlife and for this purpose a branch office of the said bureau shall be established in the Municipality of Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya.

Section 4. Maintenance and Improvement. - For the purpose of beautifying and improving the road side park and the road itself, support shall be provided by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its appropriate agencies, the Department of Public Works and Highways and other departments and agencies upon the request of the Bureau of Parks and Wildlife.

Section 5. Appropriations. - The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

Section 6. Repealing Clause. - All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Section 7. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was finally passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on February 21, 1994 and February 2, 1995, respectively.

Approved: March 29, 1995

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines