San Agustin Parish Church (Bay, Laguna) San Agustin Parish Church (Bay, Laguna) St. Augustine Parish Church (Filipino: "Simbahan at Parokya ni San Agustin") is the only Augustinian Roman Catholic church in Bay, Laguna, in the Philippines. The church was first administered by Augustinians friars and later transferred to the Franciscans. The current parish priest is Reverend Father John F. Tabot. It is historically considered as the oldest Roman Catholic church in the Province of Laguna upon the early conquest and establishment of La Laguna. The first church of Bay was constructed made of light material of bamboo and nipa by the first ever catholic missionaries in
Laguna Lake Development Authority policies to curb the possibility of stressing the lake’s assimilative capacity. The most recent policy was the Environmental User Fee System (EUFS). The EUFS was implemented by virtue of LLDA Board Resolution 22 in 1996. The objective of the policy was to “…(reduce) the pollution loading in to the Laguna de Bay by enjoining all discharges of liquid wastes to internalize the cost of environmental degradation…”. Formally, the said board resolution aptly defined the EUFS as a “market–based” policy instrument aimed at reducing the pollution loading in the lake. As such, companies found to have unusually high concentration of pollutants