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PD 1586 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) System
PD 1586 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) System
Manila
Section 1. Policy. It is hereby declared the policy of the State to attain and maintain a
rational and orderly balance between socio-economic growth and environmental
protection.
For the same purpose as above, the Ministry of Human Settlements shall: (a) prepare
the proper land or water use pattern for said critical project(s) or area (s); (b) establish
ambient environmental quality standards; (c) develop a program of environmental
enhancement or protective measures against calamituous factors such as earthquake,
floods, water erosion and others, and (d) perform such other functions as may be
directed by the President from time to time.
Section 5. Environmentally Non-Critical Projects. All other projects, undertakings and
areas not declared by the President as environmentally critical shall be considered as
non-critical and shall not be required to submit an environmental impact statement. The
National Environmental Protection Council, thru the Ministry of Human Settlements may
however require non-critical projects and undertakings to provide additional
environmental safeguards as it may deem necessary.
Section 8. Rules and Regulations. The National Environmental Protection Council shall
issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Decree. For this purpose,
the National Pollution Control Commission may be availed of as one of its implementing
arms, consistent with the powers and responsibilities of the National Pollution Control
Commission as provided in P.D. No. 984.
Section 9. Penalty for Violation. Any person, corporation or partnership found violating
Section 4 of this Decree, or the terms and conditions in the issuance of the
Environmental Compliance Certificate, or of the standards, rules and regulations issued
by the National Environmental Protection Council pursuant to this Decree shall be
punished by the suspension or cancellation of his/its certificate or and/or a fine in an
amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00) for every violation thereof, at
the discretion of the National Environmental Protection Council.
Section 10. Environmental Revolving Fund. Proceeds from the penalties prescribed in
the preceding Section 9 and other penalties imposed by the National Pollution Control
Commission as authorized in P.D. 984, shall be automatically appropriated into an
Environment Revolving Fund hereby created as an exemption to P.D. 711 and P.D.
1234. The fund shall be used exclusively for the operation of the National Environmental
Protection Council and the National Pollution Control Commission in the implementation
of this Decree. The rules and regulations for the utilization of this fund shall be
formulated by the Ministry of Human Settlements and submitted to the President for
approval.
Section 11. Repealing Clause. The Inter-Agency Advisory Council of the National
Pollution Control Commission created under Section 4 of P.D. 984 is hereby abolished
and its powers and responsibilities are forthwith delegated and transferred to the
Control of the National Environmental Protection Council.
All other laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
Section 12. Effectivity Clause. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and seventy-eight.