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WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 7227, otherwise
known as the Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992, created the
Bases Conversion and Development (BCDA) to accelerate the sound and
balanced conversion of the Clark and Subic Military reservations and
their extensions into alternative productive uses and promote the
economic and social development of Central Luzon, in particular, and the
country in general;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 15
of Republic Act No. 7227, the President issued Presidential Proclamation
No. 163, s. of 1993, which created the Clark Special Economic Zone
(CSEZ) and defined its extent;
WHEREAS, Executive
Order No. 80, s. of 1993, created the Clark Development Corporation
(CDC) to be the implementing and operating arm of the BCDA to manage the
CSEZ;
WHEREAS, part of the former Clark Air Base
Military Reservation, which reverted to the Philippine Government in
1979, is a vast land comprising approximately of five thousand seven
hundred twenty four (5,724) hectares covering the municipalities of
Bamban, Tarlac and Mabalacat, Pampanga, more commonly known as
Sacobia;
WHEREAS, CDC's development objectives for
communities around the former Clark Air Base area is in consonance with
the Sacobia Development Authority's (SDA) specific objectives as
identified in Executive Order No. 586, s. of
1980;
WHEREAS, to alleviate the economic situation of
the communities in Sacobia and in response to the clamor of investors
to open up the area for agri-business activities, the CDC envisions
Sacobia to be the food basin for the CSEZ, the Central Luzon region, and
the country in general with its abundant produce feeding other parts of
the world to generate dollars for our
economy;
WHEREAS, investors have shown strong
interest to infuse capital for the development of Sacobia once it is
included in the CSEZ and put under the management, operation, and
control of the CDC since the latter can offer incentives and attractions
for business and entrepreneurship;
WHEREAS, the
Province of Tarlac and the Municipalities of Bamban, Tarlac and
Mabalacat, Pampanga, through Resolutions of their respective Provincial
and Municipal Boards, signified their concurrence to have the Sacobia
area included in the CSEZ;
WHEREAS, Sacobia, once
included in the CSEZ, will enjoy the incentives and privileges granted
to the CSEZ thereby ensuring the development of the area through active
participation of private investors and entrepreneurs and the attainment
of the basic goals and objectives for Sacobia and its
communities;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS,
President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers
vested in me by law and the sovereign will of the people, do hereby
include in the Clark Special Economic Zone the five thousand seven
hundred twenty four (5,724) hectare portion located in the
municipalities of Mabalacat, Pampanga and Bamban, Tarlac, more commonly
known as Sacobia, which parcels of land, subject to the final survey and
delineation on the ground by the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR), are described and defined in Survey No. 03-000083 of
the DENR, Region III, Land Management Sector. Further, vested rights and
valid ancestral domain claims within the Sacobia area as verified and
validated by the DENR and other pertinent government agencies shall be
respected.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be
affixed.
Adopted: 14 June
1996
(SGD.)
FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the
Philippines
(SGD.) RUBEN D.
TORRES
Executive Secretary