CREATING THE SACOBIA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the government to
provide integrated basic economic and social services and facilities in all
areas, particularly the underdeveloped or resettlement sites in order to
solidify the economic and social structure of our society;

WHEREAS, an integrated rural development, in the
form of the Ministry of Human Settlements’ Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services
(BLISS) Program has been adopted for the development of the Sacobia area;

WHEREAS, the successful provision of integrated,
rationalized, basic services and facilities to the Sacobia community requires
that the planning, implementation, and management of the area be comprehensive,
decentralized and framed within regional, national plans and overall strategy
for the BLISS Program;

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to enhance the
organizational framework, systems capacity and streamlining of developmental
efforts, for planning, implementing, and managing the programs in the Sacobia
Development Plan, to maximize benefits not only for Sacobia, but for the nation
as a whole;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution in
order to ensure the success of the project, do hereby order the following:

SECTION 1. Creation of Sacobia Development
Authority. There is hereby created the Sacobia Development Authority,
hereinafter referred to as the Authority;

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. – The
development of Sacobia is hereby declared to be within the implementing
strategies of the Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services (BLISS) Program, under the
direct supervision of the Board herein created;

SECTION 3. Terms of Reference. The Authority
shall adopt the following Terms of Reference:

1. Acquire, purchase, own, hold, develop, lease
mortgage, pledge, exchange, sell, transfer or otherwise invest, trade, or deal
in, in any manner permitted by law, real and personal property by every kind
and description or any interest therein, as may be necessary for the
accomplishment of the purposes of the Authority;

2. To borrow money and otherwise, contract
indebtedness and to secure payment thereof by mortgage, pledge or deed of trust
of, or any encumbrance upon any or all of its then owned or after-acquired real
or personal properties and assets;

3. To enter into, make, perform and carry out or
cancel and rescind contracts of every kind and for any lawful purpose, within
any person, firm, association, corporation, syndicate, domestic or foreign, or
other;

4. To cause to implement any other acts and things,
and to exercise any other powers which may be necessary to accomplish the
purposes for which this Authority is organized.

SECTION 4. Board Membership. The Authority
shall be governed by a Board of Directors composed of the following:

Chairman:	Minister of Human Settlements
Members:	Minister of Agriculture
	Minister of Public Works
	Minister of Public Highways
	Minister of National Defense
	Minister of Local Government and Community Development
	Minister of Economic Planning
	Minister of the Budget
	Minister of Agrarian Reform
	Chief of Staff, AFP
	Minister of Natural Resources
	Minister of Energy
	Minister of Industry

SECTION 5. Program Execution Group. – A
Program Execution Group acting under the authority of the Board shall
administer and provide operational coordination in the affairs of the
authority. The Program Execution Group is composed of the:

Deputy Minister of Human Settlements
Director of National Food and Agriculture Council
Director, Bureau of Animal Industry
Deputy Minister of Public Works
Deputy Minister of Public Highways
Deputy Minister of National Defense
Deputy Minister of Agrarian Reform
Assistant Minister of Local Government and Community Development
Administrator, National Electrification Administration
Administrator, Farm Systems Development Corporation
Governor, Province of Tarlac
MHS Regional Supervisor, Region III
The Deputy Minister shall serve as head of the group.

SECTION 6. Powers and Functions of the Board. The
Board of Directors shall have the following functions:

1. Oversee the coordination of the planning,
implementation and monitoring of the project:

2. Review and Authority’s consolidated plans,
budgets and work programs and recommended approval to the Chairman;

3. Arrange and or negotiate with local and foreign
financing institutions, subject to the approval of the Ministry of Finance with
concurrence by the Ministry of the Budget for funding the development of
projects in the area;

4. Appoint the Authority’s Executive Director and
Field Office Director and designate them for the on-site or field office;

5. Call upon any Ministry, office, instrumentality
or any political subdivision of the government for such assistance that may be
necessary in achieving the objectives of the Authority;

6. Exercise such other powers as may be deemed
necessary and expedient for the successful development of the area.

SECTION 7. Domicile and Officers of the Sacobia
Development Authority. – The Authority, covering the entire 5,612 hectares
of Sacobia, shall have a main office in Manila to be headed by an Executive
Director duly appointed by the Board who shall maintain a technical and
management staff to assist him in the performance of his duties and
responsibilities

There shall also be an on-site Field Office headed
by the field office director duly designated by the Board and who shall
likewise maintain a technical and management staff for effective planning,
implementation and monitoring of the area’s programs and projects in
coordination with the main office.

SECTION 8. Powers and Functions of the Executive
Director, the Field Office and the Field Director.
The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Board of the Directors. He
shall serve until such time as the Authority is dissolved unless sooner removed
from office for cause by the Board of Directors. He shall have the following
powers, duties and functions:

1. Execute and administer the policies and
decisions of the Board of Directors;

2. Directly coordinate the activities of all
agencies and instrumentalities of the government in the planning and
implementation of projects on site;

3. Monitor the progress and evaluate the effects of
project execution by these agencies and instrumentalities; and submit periodic
financial reports relating to the development of the area;

4. Apply for, receive and accept grants and
donation of funds, equipment, materials and services needed for the development
of the area within and outside the Philippines;

5. Perform such functions as are inherently
necessary in the operational management of the area’s development in accordance
with the policies and guidelines formulated by the Board of Directors.

The field office Director shall be appointed by the
Board of Directors. He shall serve until such time as the Field Office is
dissolved unless sooner removed from office for cause by the Board of
Directors. The Field Office Director shall have the following powers, functions
and duties:

1. Execute and administer the policies and
decisions of the Board of Directors and the Executive Directors;

2. Directly coordinate the activities of all
implementing government instrumentalities of on-site projects;

3. Submit periodic financial and work
accomplishment reports relating to project implementation to the Board of
Directors;

4. Organize and manage the Field Office and adopt
administrative rules and procedures for its internal management;

5. Call upon any Ministry, office, agency,
instrumentalities or any political subdivision of the government to assist in
the planning and implementation of the Sacobia Development Plan;

6. Performs such other functions as may be assigned
by the Board of Directors or the Executive Director of the Authority.

The Field Office shall have the following
functions:

1. Serve as the coordinating center for
inter-agency planning and management of Sacobia programs and projects;

2. Identify such development projects in the area
for inclusion in the integrated development program as authorized by the Board
of Directors;

3. Prepare feasibility studies for identified
projects in Sacobia;

4. Maintain a continuous feedback system with
national agencies and cooperating government instrumentalities involved in
Sacobia’s development;

5. Promote and encourage private enterprises and
government agencies and instrumentalities to plan, develop, implement projects
necessary of conducive to the acceleration of development in the area;

6. Apply for, receive and accept grants and
donations of funds, equipment, materials and services needed for the
implementation of the Sacobia Development Plan from services within and outside
the Philippines;

7. Call on appropriate Ministry, Office or other
government instrumentality for assistance in the discharge of its duties; and

8. Perform such other related functions as may be
necessary to attain the objectives of the Sacobia Development Plan.

SECTION 9. Appropriation. For the Sacobia
Development Authority, the amount of Five Million Pesos (P5,000,000) is hereby
appropriated out of any available funds from the National Treasury not
otherwise appropriated. For the succeeding calendar year until its termination,
the budgetary requirements shall be provided for in the General Appropriation
Act of the government in such amounts as shall be adequate for the purpose.

SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. – All laws,
decrees, executive orders, administrative orders, rules and regulations, or
parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any provision of this Order are
hereby repealed amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 11. Effectivity. – The Order shall
take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 25th day of March,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Staff Director