QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 629)
It cites Executive Order No. 543 (24 June 2006) as the source of PRA’s power to approve reclamation projects, and Presidential Decree No. 1084 (as amended) as the basis for PRA’s authority to undertake infrastructure and facilities in the reclamation area.
To direct the PRA to convert Sangley Point into an international logistics hub through a modern container port and airport complex, and an economic processing zone with cyber/technoparks, enabled by a reclamation component.
Chair: Philippine Reclamation Authority; Co-Chair: a representative of the Office of the Mayor of Cavite City; Members: Department of Transportation and Communications, Department of National Defense, National Economic and Development Authority, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Public Works and Highways, and Philippine Economic Zone Authority.
It oversees the planning and implementation of the Sangley Point Project.
It assists the PRA in evaluating joint venture/BOT proposals, monitoring actual development, resolving issues, and ensuring compliance with laws and engineering standards across relocation, livelihood, waste management, environmental aspects, reclamation, and port development, including drainage facilities.
It directs development through a private sector joint venture or a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme.
A container port and airport complex, and an economic processing zone with cyber or technoparks.
Portions of Bacoor and Caacao Bays.
It includes evaluation of invited joint venture/BOT project proponents, requiring feasibility studies, engineering design, land use plan, environmental studies, soil investigation, tidal studies, hydrographic plans, other ancillary tasks, and consideration of financing and project execution.
The committee shall conduct selection/bidding, evaluate legal, financial, technical, and environmental aspects, and recommend to the President the most advantageous bid/offer.
Yes. It requires regular consultation meetings with local residents to apprise them of the plan.
It includes facilitating the titling of the reclaimed lands.
It requires evaluating the proponent’s environmental impact study for the issuance of an Environmental Clearance Certificate.
It states that responsibilities are subject to existing and pertinent laws, rules, and regulations, and requires conformance with existing laws and engineering standards.
The President of the Philippines.
It takes effect immediately.
It is justified by the need for infrastructure to enable more efficient and cheaper transportation of inputs and outputs of industrial goods, making them globally competitive, and by the economic utility of the R-I Expressway Extension.