REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6964 - AN ACT CONVERTING THE HINULUGAN TAKTAK RECREATION AREA IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ANTIPOLO, PROVINCE OF RIZAL, INTO A NATIONAL PARK TO BE KNOWN AS THE HINULUGAN TAKTAK NATIONAL PARK, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Hinulugan Taktak recreation area in the Municipality of Antipolo, Province of Rizal, as established, described and set aside in Presidential Proclamation No. 330 dated July 15, 1952, is hereby converted into a national park to be known as the Hinulugan Taktak National Park.

SEC. 2. The Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall administer the park in coordination with the Department of Tourism and the provincial government of Rizal.

SEC. 3. The sum needed for the conversion, operation and maintenance of said national park is hereby authorized to be appropriated in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,

(Sgd.) JOVITO R. SALONGA (Sgd.) RAMON V. MITRA

President of the Senate Speaker of the House of Representatives

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was finally passed by the House of Representatives Senate on August 2, 1990 and July 26, 1990, respectively.

(Sgd.) EDWIN P. ACOBA (Sgd.) QUIRINO D. ABAD SANTOS, JR.

Secretary of the Senate Secretary of the House of Representatives

Approved: September 18, 1990

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO President of the Philippines