Amendment to DENR Surveying Procedures for Protected Areas

DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 is issued in the interest of the service.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 standardizes the verification and mapping procedures for national parks and other protected areas.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 amends DENR Administrative Order No. 72 (1990) to expressly cover surveying and mapping actions needed for protected areas.

DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 covers surveying and mapping of proposed national parks or protected areas.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 covers relocation or delimitation surveys of existing national parks and other protected area boundaries.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 requires monumentation of boundaries for national parks and other protected areas.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 prescribes standard map sizes and scales for specified protected-area map types.

Survey of proposed national parks or protected areas must be conducted by the Land Classification Survey Team assigned in the Regional Offices.
The Land Classification Survey Team shall start the survey only upon issuance of the survey authority by the Regional Executive Director.
Survey issuance of authority must be based on an evaluation report of Regional field personnel and the PAWB.
The survey must be plotted by the LC Team using their usual procedures.
The Regional Office shall forward the original map with technical description to the DENR for approval by the Secretary.

Relocation or delimitation survey of national parks and other protected area boundaries must be done by NAMRIA.
NAMRIA must base the relocation or delimitation survey on the technical description in the Proclamation.

The boundaries of national parks and other protected areas must be marked permanently with concrete monuments on the ground.
Concrete monuments must have a size of 15 x 15 x 50 cm.
Monumentation must be done by the party conducting the survey.

National Park map size is variable and the scale must be 1:50,000.
Marine Park map must use a size variable (same as the National Park map entry) and a scale of 1:50,000.
Marine Reserve map must use a size variable (same as the National Park map entry) and a scale of 1:50,000.
Game Refuge and Bird Sanctuary map must use a size variable (same as the National Park map entry) and a scale of 1:50,000.
Municipal/ Barangay Tree Park maps must be 21 x 33 cm in size and must use a scale of 1:500.

DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 takes effect immediately.
DENR Administrative Order No. 72-1 adopts the enumerated protected-area surveying and mapping rules for integration into the amended DENR Administrative Order No. 72 (1990) framework.