CREATING A NORTHWESTERN LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE COMMISSION

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WHEREAS, The Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan for 1993-1998 has
identified the development of the Northwestern Luzon Growth Quadrangle (NWLGQ)
comprising the Laoag-San Fernando-Dagupan-Baguio area as a component strategy
towards agri-industrial development;

WHEREAS, the development of the NWLGQ into major industrial area is
supportive of the government’s industrial dispersal policy and concern for
accelerated socio-economic growth and development of the Northwestern Luzon
Area;

WHEREAS, the coordinative and management mechanism for the planning,
implementation and monitoring of the NWLGQ was already approved by the Regional
Development Council (RDC) I and the Cordillera Executive Board (CEB) and is
found to be within the framework of the government’s decentralization and
regionalization policy as provided under Executive Order Nos. 363 and 505;

WHEREAS, notwithstanding the RDC and CEB approval of the management
structure which led to the organization and operation of the existing structure
for managing, planning and implementation activities in the NWLGQ, there is a
need to strengthen the mechanism for the overall direction, coordination and
supervision of the NWLGQ development efforts;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V.
RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. NWLGQ Commission. There is hereby created under the
Office of the President, a Presidential Commission to be called the
Northwestern Luzon Growth Quadrangle (NWLGQ) Commission, hereinafter referred
to as the Commission. The Commission shall be responsible for the overall
policy direction, coordination and supervision of the entire NWLGQ Development
efforts. It shall be composed of the following members:

Secretary of Trade and Industry

CORDs for Region I and CAR

Secretary of Tourism

Secretary of Agriculture

Secretary of Environment and Natural
Resources

Secretary of Transportation and
Communication

Secretary of Public Works and
Highways

Secretary of Energy

NEDA Director General

The Presidential Assistant for
Regional Development

The Chairman of Regional
Development Council I

The Chairman of the Cordillera
Executive Board

The Provincial Governor of
Ilocos Norte

The Provincial Governor of
Ilocos Sur

The Provincial Governor of La
Union

The Provincial Governor of
Pangasinan

The Provincial Governor of
Benguet

The City Mayor of Dagupan City

The City Mayor of Baguio City

The PCCI Chairman of Region I

The PCCI Chairman of CAR

The BCDA Chairman

NGO Regional Federation
Representative each for Regions I and CAR to be appointed by the President

The Commission shall be chaired
by the Secretary of Trade and Industry and co-chaired by the CORDs for Regions
I and CAR.

The Commission shall have the
following functions:

a) Review and submit to the
President, for approval, the NWLGQ Master Plan and Development Program;

b) Provide overall direction,
coordination and supervision in the planning, implementation and monitoring of
all program/project components and development activities of the NWLGQ
Development Program in consultation and coordination with the Joint RDC-CEB
Interregional Consultative Council;

c) Cause the update, refinement
and endorsement of the NWLGQ plans, investment programs and projects within the
context of the NWLGQ Master Plan and the Regional Development and Physical
Framework Plans and Investment Programs of Region I and CAR.

d) Cause the preparation of
feasibility studies for and financing of the various projects identified for
the NWLGQ;

e) Encourage the support and
assistance from government and non-government institutions in planning and
implementing the various projects under the NWLGQ Development Program;

f) Organize the Program
Management Office (PMO), define its organizational set-up, establish its
staffing pattern as well as internal operating systems, and procedures;

g) Review and confirm contracts
entered into by the Executive Director of the Program Management Office (PMO);

h) Review and endorse to the
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) the annual budget of the NWLGQ
Development Program including the Work and Financial Plan for the operation of
the PMO;

i) Submit to the President,
progress reports on the NWLGQ Development Program and such other reports as may
be required.

Section 2. Program
Management Office. The Program Management
Office (PMO) shall serve as the implementing arm as well as technical and
administrative secretariat of the Commission, and as such, shall undertake the
day to day activities of the NWLGQ Development Program. It shall be headed by
an Executive Director to be appointed by the President. The DTI Regional Office
shall provide office space and technical and secretariat support to the
Commission on an interim basis until such time that a staffing pattern for the
PMO shall have been determined and approved by the Commission. Fiscal austerity
will be observed strictly.

The Program Management Office
shall perform the following functions:

a) Coordinate with implementing
bodies including local government units, line agencies, financing institutions,
non-government organizations and other concerned entities in the updating,
refinement, endorsement and implementation of the NWLGQ Master Plan and
investment programs and projects;

b) Coordinate with the Local
Development Councils (LCDs) in the implementation of policy decisions
promulgated by the Commission;

c) Coordinate the preparation of
feasibility studies of the project components of the NWLGQ Development Program
and the evaluation and financing of feasible projects;

d) Coordinate the preparation of
the annual budgetary requirements of the NWLGQ Development Program and submit
the same to the Commission;

e) Undertake periodic review and
evaluation of the NWLGQ Development Program and shall, for the purpose, design
and operate a program implementation, monitoring and evaluation system
consistent with the Regional Project Monitoring and Evaluation System (RPMES)
and enhanced with Planning Programming Budgeting Monitoring and Evaluation
(PPBME) and impact evaluation and;

f) Perform such other functions
and responsibilities as the Commission may direct.

Section 3. Role of National Line Agencies/Local Government Units, NGOs/PS,
GOCCs. National line agencies/government owned and controlled
corporations/local government units/non-government organizations/private
sector, shall, as appropriate, serve as implementing entities of the
Commission. In case where national line agencies are designated as lead
implementing entity, implementation shall be undertaken in close coordination
with concerned local government units.

Section 4. Joint
Inter-regional Consultative Council. There is
hereby created a Joint Inter-regional Consultative Council which shall be
composed of three (3) representatives from the Regional Development Council
(RDC) I and a counterpart group from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
to be composed of three (3) representatives of the Cordillera Executive Board
(CEB) and three (3) representatives of regional line agencies (RLAs) whose head
offices are members of the NEDA Board, all of whom shall be chosen from among
themselves. The Joint Inter-regional Consultative Council shall serve as the
Commission’s inter-regional advisory group.

Section 5. Role of Local Development Councils. The Local
Development Councils of the program area shall perform the following functions:

a) Approve the respective local
components of the multi-year and annual plans and investment programs under the
NWLGQ Development Program;

b) Monitor and conduct periodic
review of the local project component with respect to achievement of goals,
objectives and targets of the NWLGQ Development Program;

c) Coordinate and facilitate the
preparation of site specific development plans, programs and projects;

d) Coordinate the passage of
municipal and/or provincial resolutions declaring the areas for industrial and
tourism use, if not yet declared or classified as such;

e) Coordinate with the Provincial/Regional
Land Use Committees and Sanggunians concerned on the review and approval of the
land use and zonation plans of NWLGQ component sites;

f) Spearhead the coordination of
area inter-agency activities within the area/province of jurisdiction in the implementation
of the NWLGQ Development Program; and

g) Perform such other functions
as the PMO may request.

Section 6. Operational Requirements. The amount of Five Million
Pesos (P5,000,000.00), to be drawn from the DTI funds for Locally-Funded
Projects, shall be released for the initial operational requirement of the
Commission for the year 1994. Appropriations for the succeeding years for the
operations of the PMO shall be incorporated in the budget proposals under
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Section 7. The Term of the Commission and the Program Management Office.
The Commission and Program Management Office shall have a term corresponding to
the implementation period of the NWLGQ Development Program. The NEDA Board is
hereby directed to conduct a regular review and evaluation of this management
and coordinating structure and recommend revisions as may be deemed necessary.

Section 8. Effectivity. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this
30th day
of April in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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