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- tourist use, including airport taxis an tourist drivers; accommodation establishments such as but not limited to hotels, resorts, apartment hotels, tourist inns, motels, pension houses, private homes used for homestay, ecolodges, condotels, serviced apartments, and bed and breakfast facilities; hotel and tourism estate management services; meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibition organizers and facilities, sports and recreational facilities such as but not limited to dive shops, amusement parks, adventure and ecotourism facilities; foreign exchange dealers and such enterprises as may be identified by the Secretary of Tourism, after due consultation with concerned agencies.
- Protected area – refers to identified portions of land and water set aside by law by reason of their unique physical and biological significance, managed to enhance biological diversity and protected against destructive human exploitation, as provided in RA 7586, the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.
- Public forestlands – refer to those lands of the public domain which have been set aside by law for forest purposes. These lands may be either presently forested or denuded.
- Public consultation – refers to a stage of public participation at which information is disseminated and opinions gathered in public in order to ensure that public concerns are integrated into the process of environmental impact assessment.
- RA 7160 – refers to the Local Government Code of 1991.
- Salvage Zone – refers to the banks of rivers and the shores of the seas and throughout their entire length and within a zone of 3 meters in urban areas, 20 meters in agricultural areas, 40 meters in forest areas, along their margins are subject to easement of public use in the interest of recreation, navigation, floatage and fishing.
- Sanitary Landfill – refers to a waste disposal site designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a manner that exerts engineering control over significant potential environmental impacts arising from the development and operation of the facility.
- Scoping – refers to the stage in the EIS system where information and assessment requirements are established to provide the proponent with a scope of work for the EIS.
- Small-scale mining – refers to mining activities which rely heavily on manual labor using simple implements and methods and do not use explosives or heavy mining equipment.
- Small Water Impounding Project (SWIP) – are dams made of earth, rock or concrete with many purposes like, irrigation, domestic water supply, inland fish culture, flood control or any combination of purposes. To distinguish it from high dams, its height is limited to below 5 meters.
- Solid waste – refers to all putrescible, non-putrescible and discarded materials (excluding human excrement) including but not limited to food waste, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned vehicles, sewage treatment sludge in non-liquid form, incinerator ash and residue, commercial, industrial, hospital, funeral, and agricultural wastes; and special wastes, whether combustible or non-combustible such as paper, rags, cartons, woods, tins cans, lawn clippings, glass, or litter of any kind. The type of wastes covered under this Code shall include wastes from residential houses, commercial establishments such as hotels, restaurants, cinema houses, public market, department stores, groceries, institutions like hospitals, schools, churches, public and private offices, industrial establishments like factories, plants and other establishments of any kind, and agricultural wastes.
- Special Land Use Permit/Agreement – is a privilege granted by the State to a person to occupy, possess and manage in consideration of specified return, any public forest land for specific use or purpose. (FAO 8-3, as amended)
