House Bill seeks to authorize city, municipal mayors to approve extraction, quarrying permits

She filed House Bill 748 to amend Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991 to transfer the power to issue permits to extract sand, gravel and other quarry resources from the provincial governors to the mayors of municipalities and cities.

“The Sangguniang Bayan and Sangguniang Panlungsod can perform a better function of screening and regulating quarrying activities because they oversee fewer applicants of licenses and are closer to the quarrying sites. Indeed, the existence of such an unfair balance of benefits and risks among the LGUs as well as the need for better oversight on quarrying activities call for a remedy that is consistent with the ideals of decentralization and local autonomy,” she said.

House Bill 748 specifically deletes Section 138 of RA 7160 which grants the provinces the power to issue permits to extract and to tax sand, gravel and other quarry resources, she explained.

It will be abused!

Binabaha na nga tayo tapos mag babawasan nyo pa ang mga bato na sumusuporta sa kalupaan natin? Mga gago ba kayo?

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