Legal basis and recommendation
- The President issues Proclamation No. 1158 upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources.
- The President acts “by virtue of the powers vested in me by law.”
- The reservation is made to designate the land as sites for the New Bilibid Prison and a DENR-Calabarzon field office site, with technical descriptions attached.
Purpose and policy of reservation
- Proclamation No. 1158 reserves land as the new site of the New Bilibid Prison under the Department of Justice.
- Proclamation No. 1158 reserves another portion as the field office site of the DENR-Calabarzon.
- The reserved land includes designated areas for DENR institutional and operational purposes for the Province of Rizal and the Calabarzon Region.
Reserved land and coverage details
- Proclamation No. 1158 reserves a parcel located in Barangay Cuyambay, Municipality of Tanay, Province of Rizal, Island of Luzon.
- The reservation covers an area of Two Hundred Seventy (270) hectares as the New Bilibid Prison site under the Department of Justice.
- The reservation also includes Thirty (30) hectares as the field office site of the DENR-Calabarzon.
- The proclamation states that the reserved portions are subject to private rights if any there be and to future subdivision survey.
- The proclaimed reservation uses the complete technical descriptions of the parcel as follows: Lot 10, Psu-103291-Amd.; O.C.T. No. 3556; Republic of the Philippines; A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 10, plan Psu-103291-Amd., L.R. Case No. 1328, L.R.C. Record No. 52645).
Exact technical description
- The parcel is described as “A PARCEL OF LAND (Lot 10, plan Psu-103291-Amd., L.R. Case No. 1328, L.R.C. Record No. 52645)” situated in the Barrio of Cuyambay, Municipality of Tanay, Province of Rizal, Island of Luzon.
- The parcel is bounded on the NE. by property of Lupo Dumandan and Lots 9 and 8; on the SE. by Public Land; on the SW. and W. by the Mariquina Watershed; and on the NW. by Property of Lupo Dumandan.
- The proclamation provides the metes-and-bounds starting point “point marked ‘1’” and lists successive bearings and distances leading to the point of beginning.
- The parcel is said to contain an area of THREE MILLION (3,000,000) SQ. M., more or less, with all points indicated on the plan and marked on the ground.
- The bearings are stated to be true, with the date of original survey, April 15–May 6, 1937, and the amendment survey, February 1–15, 1959.
Allocation within the DENR portion
- Thirty (30) hectares is allocated as the site of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO).
- Thirty (30) hectares is allocated as the site of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).
- Thirty (30) hectares is allocated as the site of a Forest Tree Nursery Site of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Province of Rizal, Calabarzon Region.
Signatures and execution
- The proclamation is signed by GLORIA M. ARROYO (President).
- The proclamation is signed on behalf of the President by EDUARDO R. ERMITA, Executive Secretary.
- The proclamation is “Done in the City of Manila” on September 08, 2006.