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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 356
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 356 -
PROVIDING FOR THE FORMULATION OF THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSPORT PLAN AND ITS TERMS OF REFERENCE
WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 65 dated 2
October 1992 adopted the National Physical Framework Plan providing
policy and program direction for land using activities, environmental
management, settlements pattern and the development of other physical
resources in the country, to ensure focused national development
efforts as well as promote sustainable development;
WHEREAS, the above physical
framework, to be responsive to the national development thrusts,
requires, among others, a cohesive blueprint for infrastructure
development which should include an integrated plan on transport
facilities of various modalities in the country which shall serve as
the National Strategic Infrastructure Transport Plan;
WHEREAS, there is a need to
integrate existing and proposed transport and transport-related
projects in the present Transport Plan of the country, towards evolving
the National Strategic Infrastructure Transport Plan with the
end-in-view of enhancing the project's complementation and thereby
ensure their consistency with the national development thrusts;
WHEREAS, the updating of the
National Physical Framework Plan and its components is lodged with the
National Land Use Committee pursuant to Letter of Instruction No. 1350
dated 2 August 1983;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V.
RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in
me by law, do hereby issue the following order:
Section 1.
Formulation of the National Strategic Infrastructure Plan. — The
National Land Use Committee, through its appropriate Technical
Committee, is hereby tasked to formulate the National Strategic
Infrastructure Transport Plan herein after referred to as the
Infrastructure Plan, which shall integrate all existing and proposed
transport and transport-related projects in the country towards
enhancing their complementation and thereby, ensure their consistency
with the national development thrusts.
Sec. 2.
Terms of Reference. — To attain the above objectives, the
Infrastructure Plan shall include the following:
a.
Computerized database of all major infrastructure projects which shall
include existing and proposed infrastructure projects covering all
modalities, such as highways, railroads, seaports and airports; and
b.
Computer-based topographic maps of national and interregional
transportation infrastructure projects in the country, including the
guidelines and standards on the preparations of said maps and their
accompanying texts.
Sec. 3.
Activities. — In line with the formulation of the Infrastructure Plan,
the National Land Use Committee shall undertake the following
activities:
a.
Review the draft of the above Plan and the preliminary maps thereto
towards identifying and resolving possible geographic areas of conflict
vis-a-vis the requirements of protection and production land uses and
settlements development;
b. Cause the
updating of existing topographic maps of the transport and
transport-related infrastructure projects, in close coordination with
concerned government agencies and local government units;
c. Cause the
wide dissemination of the above Plan, in particular making the updated
maps available to the public at nominal cost; and
d. Undertake
and/or cause the undertaking of other activities it may deem necessary
to further enhance the Physical Framework Plan, including the
submission of recommendations on the possible incorporation of other
infrastructure projects in the succeeding mapping activities of the
Committee (e.g., communication infrastructure, energy projects, public
buildings, etc.).
Sec. 4.
Timetable. — To allow the Infrastructure Plan's integration in the
updating of the National Physical Framework Plan, the Plan shall be
completed and submitted to the President for approval not later than 31
December 1997. Thereafter, it shall serve as the strategic
infrastructure plan for the transport sector of the country.
Sec. 5.
Technical Support. — The National Mapping and Resource Information
Authority (NAMRIA), the Department of Transportation and
Communications, and of Public Works and Highways shall provide
technical support to the Committee in carrying out the above
activities. The Committee may call upon any government agency or
instrumentality to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of
the provisions of this Order.
Sec. 6.
Funding. — Aside from its own-generated resources, the Committee is
hereby authorized to source Ten Million Pesos (P10,000,000) from the
1997 OP-DBM Reserve Fund to defray the cost of the above activities,
including its publication subject to the applicable accounting and
auditing rules and regulations.
Sec. 7.
Effectivity. — This Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the
City of Manila, this 21st day of August, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and ninety-seven.
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