Letter of Instructions No. 172

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 172, February 28, 1974 ]

AFFIRMING THE CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION OF THIRTY-THREE TIMBER LICENSES.

TO: The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Diliman,Quezon City It is my desire that our forest resources be utilized and developed to improve our economy without sacrificing our country's ecological balance. To this end, I have given you instructions to phase out all log exports by 1976 and provide for the establishment of wood processing centers in strategic locations to increase our foreign exchange earnings and to create more employment for our people. At the same time, I want you to take vigorous measures to strictly enforce all our forest laws and to punish all concessionaires who despoil our forests. Toward these objectives which are in the national interest, I have exercised my authority under Article XVII, Section 12 of the New Constitution to review the licenses of all timber concessions which you cancelled or terminated after a field evaluation of each licensees' performance. Based on the records, I find that the cancellation of the licenses were due to violation by concessionaires of our forest laws, rules and regulations or their failure to establish processing plants as required. In view thereof, and in the exercise of the aforesaid constitutional authority, I hereby affirm the cancellation or termination of the thirty three (33) licenses issued to the licensees listed hereunder:

1. Catanduanes Mahogany, Inc. 17. Isabela Roque 2. Jack Arroyo 18. Gay Incorporated 3. Trinity Lumber Corp. 19. Alto Lumber Corp.

4. Central Zambales Working Unit No. 20. Northern Palawan Logging Corp. 2 21. Timber Export Inc.

5. Eastern Paper Mills Co, 22. Malalag Wood Products Corp, 6. Mindanao Plywood Corp. 23. Maco Forest Products Corp.

7. Dipala Timber Co., Inc. 24. Henry Becker 8. Agusmin Promotional Ent.s Inc. 25. Northeastern Timber Dev. Corp.

9. Sultana Philippines, Inc. 26. Alta Vista Logging Corp.

10. San Mariano Timber Resources 27. Timber & Agricultural Development Corp. Corp.

11. Makabayan Development Corp. 28. Upi Log Producers Corp.

12. Puzon Forest Products, Inc. 29. Rosalina Castro 13. Baler Forest Products, Inc. 30. Ramon Y. Chu 14. Central Mindanao Wood Products 31. Pablo Faraon Logging Ent.

15. J.M. Javier Corp. 32. Palanan Lumber & Plywood Co.

16. San Isidro Logging & Sawmill 33. Phil-Asia Timber Ent.You are hereby directed to implement this Letter of Instructions immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines