DECLARING AS SCHOOL SITE RESERVATION FOR THE ITBAYAT NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN SITIO YAURAN, BARANGAY STA. ROSA, MUNICIPA…

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the Provisions of Section No. 18 of Presidential Decree No. 705, otherwise known as the Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby set aside as school site reservation of the Itbayat National Agricultural High School under the administration of the Department of Education subject to private rights, if there be any, a parcel of land of the public domain containing a total area of fifty point eighty (50.80) hectares situated at Sitio Yauran, Barangay Sta. Rosa, Municipality of Itbayat, Province of Batanes, Island of Luzon as shown in the attached Map C.R. Map No. FMB-003 which is more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at point Corner “1” which is identical to BLLM #5 Itbayat, Batanes N. 15° E., 190 meters to corner 2;

Thence,	N. 15°	E.,	190	m. to corner	2;
Thence,	S. 70°	E.,	200	m. to corner	3;
Thence,	S. 70°	E.,	200	m. to corner	4;
Thence,	N. 10°	E.,	100	m. to corner	5;
Thence,	N. 65°	W.,	200	m. to corner	6;
Thence,	N. 65°	W.,	200	m. to corner	7;
Thence,	N. 15°	E.,	300	m. to corner	8;
Thence,	S. 68°	E.,	920	m. to corner	9;
Thence,	S. 34°	W.,	80	m. to corner	10;
Thence,	S. 34°	W.,	220	m. to corner	11;
Thence,	S. 34°	W.,	200	m. to corner	12;
Thence,	S. 68°	W.,	200	m. to corner	13;
Thence,	N. 68°	W.,	200	m. to corner	14;
Thence,	N. 68°	W.,	200	m. to corner	15;
Thence,	N. 68°	W.,	250	m. to corner	1

containing a total land area of approximately fifty point eighty (50.80) hectares, more or less, subject to change based on future actual ground survey.

This reservation shall be jointly under the administration and management of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Education (DepEd) of the Province of Batanes. For this purpose, a five (5) year development plan shall be submitted to the Office of the President by the Principal of the said school within one (1) year from the approval hereof, furnishing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Forest Management Bureau copies thereof.

The extraction and utilization of timber and other forest products remaining in the area shall be subject to the Forest and Internal Revue Laws and Regulation and to such other regulations that may hereafter be prescribed/promulgated.

In the event that the area is no longer needed for the purpose stated, or its development has already been abandoned for a period of two (2) or more years, this proclamation is automatically withdrawn, revoked or cancelled and the subject area is reverted to its original status as part and parcel of the forest land.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 18th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Three.

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALBERTO G. ROMULO
Executive Secretary