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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 224 - VESTING
ON THE NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION THE COMPLETE JURISDICTION, CONTROL
AND REGULATION OVER WATERSHED AREAS AND RESERVATIONS SURROUNDING ITS
POWER GENERATING PLANTS AND PROPERTIES OF SAID CORPORATION
WHEREAS,
Watershed areas are critical and essential to the life span of
water-based projects including flood control and other environmental
programs;
WHEREAS, the sustained operational capability of hydro and geothermal
plants depend on the productive conditions of the
watersheds;
WHEREAS, due to its importance to the over-all economic undertaking, it
has become imperative that its inalienable and non-disposable character
be assured, and therefore, more stringent measures be adopted for its
protection, development, management and rehabilitation;
WHEREAS, the National Power Corporation pursuant to its mandated
responsibility for developing and generating cheap, reliable
electricity for national development has developed and administered
watersheds in its geothermal and hydro-electric power plants;
WHEREAS, with its mandated functions, the National Power Corporation is
in a better position and has the manpower and resources to exercise the
desired protection, development, management and rehabilitation of
watershed, development, operational water-based power plants;
WHEREAS, the National Power Corporation is vested by law with the power
to exercise complete jurisdiction and control over watersheds
surrounding the reservoir of plants and/or projects constructed or
proposed to be constructed pursuant to the provisions of Sec. 3,
paragraph (N), R.A. 6395;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
do hereby order the following:
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Done in the City of Manila,
this 16th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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