EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 221, March 23, 2000

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1086, SERIES OF 1986, ENTITLED “FIXING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RECLAIMED AREA OF THE VITAS IN THE TONDO FORESHORE AND TRANSFERRING TO THE NATIONAL HOU…

Executive Orders March 23, 2000
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WHEREAS, the National Housing Authority (NHA) owns a Vitas reclamation area in Tondo, Manila pursuant to Executive Order No. 1086;

WHEREAS, the NHA embarked on a joint venture project known as the Smokey Mountain Development and Reclamation Project (SMDRP) which, among others, provides for the provision of housing units for residents in the Smokey Mountain area;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 1086 (s. 1986) provided for certain guidelines fixing the boundaries of the reclaimed area of the Vitas in the Tondo Foreshore and Dagat-Dagatan Development, and utilization of the proceeds of any disposal of said property;

WHEREAS, there is a need to amend Executive Order No. 1086, in order to make the SMDRP, particularly the housing project, benefit from the proceeds of the disposition of the Vitas property of NHA;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. section 2 of Executive Order No. 1086, series of 1986, shall be amended to read as follows:

“Section 2. The Bureau of Lands, Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Land Titles and Deeds Administration shall take immediate steps to issue the title of the above described land and those to be reclaimed in the name of the National Housing Authority which is authorized to dispose either by sale or lease or any other mode of disposition to qualified proponents, the proceeds of which shall be used to recover investments in the development of the residential areas in the Tondo Foreshore and Dagat-Dagatan Development Project and the Smokey Mountain Development and Reclamation Project.”

Section 2. All orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with this order are hereby amended accordingly;

Section 3. This Executive Order takes effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of March in the Year of Our Lord, Twenty Hundred.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary

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