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Benguet Environment and Natural Resources Office
Julius T. Kollin
Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer
Mission
To ensure quality environment through protection, regulation, scientific, indigenous knowledge and stakeholder’s collaboration.
Vision
BENRO is the principal advocate of an effective and efficient management of environment and natural resources towards ecological balance.
Mandate
Formulate measures for the consideration of the sanggunian and provide technical assistance and support to the governor or mayor, as the case may be, in carrying out measures to ensure the delivery of basic services and provision of adequate facilities relative to environment and natural resources services as provided for under Section 17 of the Local Government Code of 1991;- Develop plans and strategies and upon approval thereof by the governor or mayor, as the case may be, implement the same, particularly those which have to do with environment and natural resources programs and projects which the governor or mayor is empowered to implement and which the sanggunian is empowered to provide for under this code;
- Provide extension services to beneficiaries of forest development projects and render assistance for natural resources-related conservation and utilization activities consistent with ecological balance;
- Coordinate with government agencies and non-governmental organizations in the implementation of measures to prevent and control land, air and water pollution with the assistance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources;
- Establish, maintain, protect and preserve communal forests, watersheds, tree parks, mangroves, greenbelts and similar forest projects and commercial forest, like industrial tree farms and agro-forestry projects;
- Manage and maintain seed banks and produce seedlings for forest and tree parks;
- Promote the small-scale mining and utilization of mineral resources;
- Develop and implement provincial solid waste management plan from the submitted solid waste management plans of the municipal solid waste management boards herein created. It shall review and integrate the submitted plans of all municipalities and ensure that the various plans complement each other, and have the requisite components ; and
- Provide extension services to beneficiaries of forest development projects and technical, financial and infrastructure assistance;
- Be in the frontline of the delivery of services concerning the environment and natural resources, particularly in the renewal and rehabilitation of the environment during and in the aftermath of the man-made and natural calamities and disasters; and Â
- Recommend to the sanggunian and advise the governor or mayor, as the case may be, on all matters relative to the protection, conservation, maximum utilization, application of appropriate technology and other matters related to the environment and natural resources.
Formulate measures for the consideration of the sanggunian and provide technical assistance and support to the governor or mayor, as the case may be, in carrying out measures to ensure the delivery of basic services and provision of adequate facilities relative to environment and natural resources services as provided for under Section 17 of the Local Government Code of 1991;Organizational Outcome
- Sustainably managed natural resources;
- Ensured clean and green environment; and
- Conserve, develop and maximize utilization of mineral resources.
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