DAO 2010-21 DEFINITION OF TERMS Flashcards
refers to R.A. No. 7942 otherwise known as the “Philippine
Mining Act of 1995.”
Act
refer to all lands exclusively and actually possessed, occupied or utilized by Indigenous Cultural
Communities by themselves or through their ancestors in accordance with their customs and traditions since time immemorial, and as may be defined and delineated by law.
Ancestral Lands
refers to a yearly environmental management work plan based on the approved environmental protection and enhancement strategy.
Annual Environmental Protection and Enhancement Program
(AEPEP)
refers to a yearly community development programs/projects/activities based on the approved five-year Social Development and Management Program.
Annual Social Development and Management Program
refers to all waters within the baseline of an archipelago except internal waters such as roadsteads, lakes and rivers.
Archipelagic Sea
means an area, bounded by one-half (1/2) minute of latitude and one-half (1/2) minute of longitude,
containing approximately eighty-one (81) hectares.
Block or Meridional Block
refer to portions of land within the municipality or barangay actually occupied as residential, commercial or industrial areas as embodied in a duly approved land use plan by the
appropriate Sanggunian.
Built-up Areas
the Central Office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau under the Department.
Bureau
refers to an independent component city as classified under the Local Government Code.
City
refers to the production of sufficient quantity of minerals to sustain economic viability of mining
operations reckoned from the date of commercial operation as
declared by the Contractor or as stated in the feasibility study,
which ever comes first.
Commercial Production
refers to the applicant’s proof of its
community relations which may consist, but is not limited to,
sociocultural sensitivity, the character of its past relations with local communities, cultural appropriateness and social acceptability of its resource management strategies: Provided, That this shall not be required in cases where the applicant has no previous community relations experience in resource use ventures, locally or internationally.
Community Relations Record
means the wise use and optimum utilization of mineral resources.
Conservation
refers to water, sea bottom and substratum measured twenty-four (24) nautical miles seaward from the baseline of the Philippine Archipelago.
Contiguous Zone
means the land or body of water delineated under a Mineral Agreement or FTAA subject to the relinquishment obligations of the Contractor and properly defined by longitude and latitude.
Contract Area
a Qualified Person acting alone or in consortium who is a party to a Mineral Agreement or FTAA.
Contractor
refers to a drainage area of a river system, lake or water reservoir supporting existing and proposed hydroelectric power, domestic water supply, geothermal power and irrigation works, which needs immediate rehabilitation and protection to minimize soil erosion, improve water yield and prevent possible flooding.
Critical Watershed
refers to specific portions of land covered by an existing project of the Department such as, but not limited to, Industrial Forest Management Agreement (IFMA), Community Forest Management Agreement (CFMA), Community Forestry Program (CFP), Forest Land Management Agreement (FLMA) and Integrated Social Forestry Program (ISFP).
DENR Project Area
the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Republic of the Philippines.
Department
the work undertaken to explore and prepare an ore body or a mineral deposit for mining, including the construction of necessary infrastructure and related facilities.
Development
as used exclusively for FTAAs means the period to prepare an explored orebody or mineral deposit for mining including the construction of necessary infrastructure and related facilities.
Development Stage
refer to expenditures and expenses directly incurred in the mechanical and physical processing and/or
chemical separation of the ore from the waste to produce marketable mineral products: Provided, That, for cement plant operations, direct milling costs are limited to expenditures and expenses directly incurred from raw materials crushing and grinding up to ground raw meal homogenizing, prior to clinker manufacturing.
Direct Milling Costs
refer to expenditures and expenses directly incurred in all activities preparatory to and in the actual extraction of the ore from the earth and transporting it to the mill plant for mineral processing.
Direct Mining Costs
means the Director of the Bureau.
Director
refers to geographic-based instruments for planners and decision-makers, which presents a description of the environmental setting including the state of environmental quality and evaluation of the assimilative capacity of an area.
Ecological Profile or Eco-Profile
means any wastewater, partially or completely treated, or any waste liquid flowing out of mining operations, wastewater treatment plants or tailings disposal system.
Effluent
refers to the physical factors of the total surroundings of human beings, including the land, water,
atmosphere, climate, sound, odors, tastes, the biological factors of
animals and plants and the social factors of aesthetics. In a broad
sense, it shall include the total environment of human beings such
as economic, social, cultural, political and historical factors.
Environment
refers to a systematic, documented
verification process of objectively obtaining and evaluating audit
evidence (verifiable information, records or statements of facts) to
determine whether or not specified environmental activities, events,
conditions, management systems or information about these
matters conform with audit criteria (policies, practices, procedures
or requirements against which the auditor compares collected audit
evidence about the subject matter) and communicating the results
of this process to the concerned stakeholders.
Environmental Audit
refers to the document issued by the Secretary or the Regional Executive Director certifying that based on the representations of the
proponent and the preparers (the proponent’s technical staff or the
competent professional group commissioned by the proponent to
prepare the EIS and other related documents), as reviewed and
validated by the Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Committee (EIARC), the proposed project or undertaking will not
cause a significant negative environmental impact; that the
proponent has complied with all the requirements of the Environmental Impact Assessment System; and that the proponent
is committed to implement its approved Environmental
Management Plan in the Environmental Impact Statement or
mitigation measures in the Initial Environmental Examination.
Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC)
refer to the probable effects or
consequences of proposed projects or undertakings on the
physical, biological and socioeconomic environment that can be direct or indirect, cumulative and positive or negative.
Environmental Impacts
refers to the process of
predicting the likely environmental consequences of implementing
projects or undertakings and designing appropriate preventive,
mitigating and enhancement measures.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
refers to the document(s)
of studies on the environmental impacts of a project including the
discussions on direct and indirect consequences upon human
welfare and ecological and environmental integrity. The EIS may vary from project to project but shall contain in every case all
relevant information and details about the proposed project or
undertaking, including the environmental impacts of the project and the appropriate mitigating and enhancement measures.
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
refers to an applicant’s high
regard for the environment in its past resource use ventures and
proof of its present technical and financial capability to undertake
resource protection, restoration and/or rehabilitation of degraded
areas and similar activities: Provided, That this shall not be
required in cases where the applicant has no previous experience in resource use ventures, locally or internationally.
Environmental Management Record
refers to the comprehensive and strategic environmental
management plan for the life of the mining project on which
AEPEPs are based and implemented to achieve the environmental management objectives, criteria and commitments including
protection and rehabilitation of the disturbed environment.
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Program (EPEP)
refers to the comprehensive
and strategic environmental management plan to achieve the
environmental management objectives, criteria and commitments including protection and rehabilitation of the disturbed environment during the exploration period.
Environmental Work Program (EWP)
refers to the water, sea bottom and
subsurface measured from the baseline of the Philippine
Archipelago up to two hundred (200) nautical miles offshore.
Exclusive Economic Zone
means searching or prospecting for mineral resources by geological, geochemical and/or geophysical surveys, remote sensing, test pitting, trenching, drilling, shaft sinking, tunneling or any other means for the purpose of determining their existence, extent, quality and quantity and the feasibility of mining them for profit.
Exploration
a contract involving financial or technical assistance for large-scale
exploration, development and utilization of mineral resources.
Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA)
acts or circumstances beyond the
reasonable control of Contractor/Permit Holder/Permittee/Lessee
including, but not limited to, war, rebellion, insurrection, riots, civil
disturbance, blockade, sabotage, embargo, strike, lockout, any
dispute with surface owners and other labor disputes, epidemic,
earthquake, storm, flood or other adverse weather conditions,
explosion, fire, adverse action by Government or by any
instrumentality or subdivision thereof, act of God or any public
enemy and any cause as herein described over which the affected
party has no reasonable control.
“Force Majeure
any corporation, partnership,
association or cooperative duly registered in accordance with law
in which less than fifty percent (50%) of the capital is owned by
Filipino citizens.
Foreign-owned Corporation