Section 2
SEC. 2. National and Local Laws Defined.-For purposes of this Decree, national and local laws, ordinances and rules and regulations governing pollution control and other activities which create imbalance in the ecology or disturbance in environmental conditions shall be understood to be those designed to prohibit, control or regulate the contamination of the soil, the water or the air with poisonous, destructive, unwholesome or undesirable materials, chemicals, gases, elements or substances so as to render the soil, water or air unsafe for use of human, animal or aquatic or plant life; or those that are provided to prohibit, control or regulate activities that cause ecological imbalance or environmental disturbance, including, but not limited to, denudation of forest or watershed that precipitates soil erosion, floods, drying up of rivers, lakes and streams or uncontrolled change or alteration of natural water course and other similar occurrences.