THE PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS(1987 Philippine Constituti

Different Environmental Laws

Effects to Health and Environment

Six Criteria Pollutants

Clean Air Act of 1999

(RA 8748)

• Any alteration in the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the atmospheric air.
• Discharge or any liquid, gaseous, or solid substances that will likely to create or render the air resources harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health and safety.

RA 8749

• An act providing for a comprehensive air pollution control policy and for other purposes.

• The state shall protect and advance the rights of people to a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature.

• The state recognizes the principle that polluters must pay

• The state recognizes that clean and healthy environment is for the good of all and should therefore be the concern of all.

Efforts to reduce Air pollution (Clean air program)

• Promotes Alternative fuel

-Bio-diesel, Bio-ethanol (E10)

-LPG (for Taxis), CNG (for buses)

• Intensified anti smoke belching program
• Intensified information and education campaign
• Enhanced coordination with LGUs and other gov’t and private agencies
• Intensified compliance monitoring of industrial and commercial establishments

Requirements for segregation and volume reduction

RA 9003 Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

• Separate containers for compostables, recyclables, special wastes and residuals
• Separate collection schedules / separate trucks or haulers / compartmentalized collection vehicles
• MRFs for recyclables and biodegradables
• Inventory of markets for composts and recyclables

Management of residuals and final disposal sites

• Closure of all open dumpsites
• Conversion of all open dumpsites to controlled dumpsites within 3 years
• Minimum requirement in siting, designing and operation of disposal sites
• Sanitary landfills

Water usage and classification

Solid Waste

• Discarded household
• Non hazardous institutional / industrial waste
• Street sweepings
• Construction debris
• Agricultural waste
• Other non-hazardous / non-toxic wastes

Classification of Waste

• Composites
• Recyclables
• Special wastes
• Non-recyclables

DAO 90-34: Stream Standards or Ambient Water Quality Standards

Class AA Public Water Supply Class I. This class is intended primarily for waters having watersheds which are uninhabited and otherwise protected and which require only approved disinfection in order to meet the National Standards for Drinking Water (NSDW) of the Philippines.

Class A Public Water Supply Class II. For sources of water supply that will require complete treatment (coagulation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection) in order to meet the NSDW.

Class B Recreational Water Class I. For primary contact recreation such as bathing, swimming, skin diving, etc. (particularly those designated for tourism purposes).

Class C 1) Fishery Water for the propagation and growth of fish and other aquatic resources;

2) Recreational Water Class II (Boatings, etc.)

3) Industrial Water SupplyClass I (For manufacturing processes after treatment).

Class D 1) For agriculture, irrigation, livestock watering, etc.

2) Industrial Water Supply Class II (e.g. cooling, etc.)

3) Other inland waters, by their quality, belong to this classification.

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

RA 9003

RA 9275 Clean Water Act

• Classifies water bodies according to designated uses and the degree of protection required to maintain the quality level according to the uses.

• The administrative order distinguishes fresh surface waters or inland waters from coastal and marine waters

Implementing Rules and Regulations

• Institute measures to promote a more acceptable system which corresponds to the vision of sustainable development. Generally, it aims to merge environmental protection with economic pursuits, recognizing the reorientation of the community’s view on solid waste, thereby providing schemes for waste minimization, volume reduction, resource recovery and utilization.

Prohibited Acts

• DAO 90-34 – water usage and classification / water quality criteria

• DAO 90-35 – effluent regulations

Salient features of RA 9003

• Creation of the National Solid Waste Management Commission, National Ecological Center and LGU Solid Waste Management Boards
• Creation of Multi-purpose Environmental Cooperatives or Associations in every LGU
• Waste segregation, waste reduction and recycling programs.
• Construction of Material Recovery Facilities / systems
• Conversion of open dumpsites to sanitary landfills
• Integration of ecological waste management concepts in academic curricula for formal and non-formal education
• Administrative and enforcement procedures

• Littering, throwing and dumping of waste matters in public areas and water
• Open burning of solid wastes
• Collection and transport of non-segregated or unsorted wastes
• Squatting in open dumpsites and landfills
• Open dumping, burying or biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials in flood prone areas
• Unauthorized removal of recyclable materials for collection by authorized persons
• Operation of open dumpsites
• Manufacture, distribution or use of non-environmentally acceptable packaging materials
• Importation of consumer products packaged in non-environmentally accepted materials.
• Importation of toxic wastes misrepresented as “recyclable” and “with recyclable content”.
• Transportation and dumping in bulk of collected domestic, industrial, commercial and institutional wastes in areas other than centers in facilities prescribed by law.

Construction, expansion or operation of waste management facilities without an environmental compliance certificate.

DAO 90-35 – Revised Effluent Regulations of 1990

• Effluent Standards
• These are the maximum allowable limits of water quality parameters for discharges to water bodies. Like the ambient water quality standards, the effluent standards also depend on the classification of the receiving body of water.

• Scope
• These rules and regulations shall apply to all industrial and commercial wastewater effluents.

Ecological Solid Waste Management

Systematic administration of activities that provide for segregation at source, segregated transport, storage, transfer, processing, treatment and disposal of solid waste and all other waste management activities that do not harm the environment

Functional Elements / mechanics of the solid waste management

RA 9275 Clean Water Act

• Waste Generation
• On- Site Storage
• Collection
• Transfer and Transport
• Processing/Treatment

Objectives

• To protect the country’s water-bodies from pollution from land-based resources

• To provide comprehensive and integrated strategy to prevent and minimize pollution through multi-sectoral and participatory approach involving all stakeholders

Chemical Management

Prohibited Acts

• Discharging or depositing any water pollutant to the water body, or such which will impede natural flow in the water body
• Discharging, injecting or allowing to enter into the soil, anything that would pollute groundwater.
• operating facilities that discharges regulated wawter pollutants without the required permits.
• Disposal of potentially infectious medical waste into the sea by vessels.
• unauthorized transport or dumping into water of sewage or solid waste.
• Transport, dumping or discharge of prohibited chemicals, substances or pollutants listed under RA6969.

PICCS (Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances- It is a list of chemicals and chemical substances that are stored, imported/exported, processed, manufatured, used or transported in the Philippines.

PCL (Priority Chemical List) - It is a list of chemical that DENR has determined to potentially pose unreasonable risk to public health, workplace and the environment.

CC0 (Chemical Control Order) - DAO to regulate the import/export, manufacture, use, transport, storage, transport and waste disposal of priority chemicals.

PMPIN (Pre-manufacture and Pre-Imprtation Notification) - Scree new chemical substance to assess their risk posed to public health and to the environment.

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and

Nuclear Waste Act of 1990

RA 6969

• To regulate, restrict, or prohibit the importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use, and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures that potentially pose unreasonable risk to public health, workplace and the environment.

• To prohibit the entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes and their disposal into Philippine territorial limits for whatever purpose.

Criteria for PCL

• Persistence
• refers to the property of substance whose half life in water, sediment, soil, or air exceeds a duration of 50 days.
• Toxicity
• Refers to the quality of a substance which meets any of the following criteria:
• Acute lethality, chronic or sub-chronic toxicity, teratogenicity and carcinogenicity
• Bio-Accumulation Potential
• The measure of a substance’s ability to bio-accumulate in the food chain.

Chemicals Issued with CCO

Chemicals IRR

Mercury and Mercury Compounds DAO 38s1997

Cyanide and Cyanide Compounds DAO 39s1997

Asbestos DAO 02

Polychlorinated Biphenyls(PCBS) DAO 01s2004

Ozone Depleting Substances DAO 08s2004

Coverage of CCO

• Importers and distributors
• Manufacturers, processors, and industrial users
• Transporters
• Treaters/waste service providers

Common Control Measures

• Registration / Permitting, requirements, gradual phase out, limitation of use, substitution

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Different Environmental Laws

Environmental Impact Statement System

PD 1586

• Provides permitting requirements
• Provides penalty provisions
• Provides Air and Water Standards

• Executive Order No. 192 designated the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

• Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) is specifically tasked to implement, recommend, and provide technical assistance for their implementation and monitoring

• Simplification of Requirements for Securing ECC
• Clarification on the Scope of the Philippine EIS System.
• Strengthening the Implementation of the Philippine EIS.

Project / Undertaking

Covered

(ECC)

NOT COVERED (CNC)

Category A - Environmental Critical Project

Category B - Projects located in Environmentally Critical Areas (ECA)

Category C - Projects enhancing environmental quality or address existing environmental problems

Category D - Project not falling under other categories or unlikely to cause adverse environmental impacts

Amending an ECC

Major Amendment

• Expansion of Land/Project area
• Increase in production capacity
• Major change/s in process flow or technology.

Fees, Fines and Penalties

Minor Amendment

• Typographical Error
• Extension of deadlines for submission of post-ECC requirement/s
• Extension of ECC validity
• Change in company name / ownership
• Decrease in land / project area or production capacity.

Upon submission of the application shall pay filing fees and other fees in accordance with prescribed standard cost and fees.

Penalty of suspension or cancellation of ECC and/or fine of not more than 50,000/violation

• Projects established and / or operating without ECC
• Projects violating ECC conditions, EMP, rules and regulations
• Misrepresentation in the EIS/IEE or any other documents submitted.

The Philippine Environmental Law

THE PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS(1987 Philippine Constitution)