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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 422
TO
: The Department of Natural Resources
The Department of Agriculture
The Department of Health
The Department of Local Government and
Community Development
The Department of Public Highways
The Department of Public Works, Transportation
and Communications
The Department of Education and Culture
The National Economic and Development Authority
The Energy Development Board
The National Pollution Control Commission
The Philippine Atomic Energy Commission
The Human Settlements Commission
The Laguna Lake Development Authority
The Philippine Council for Agricultural and
Resources Research
The National Housing Authority
The National Irrigation Administration
The U.P Natural Science Research Center
The Philippine Coast Guard
The PAGASA
Pursuant to our desire to prevent the deterioration of environmental quality which induces stress on biological systems and destructions of natural ecosystems with accompanying impoverishment of flora and fauna, and considering that the most serious environmental problem in the country today is the destruction of our natural resources resulting in ecological backlashes, I hereby issue the following orders:
1.
The Department of Natural Resources is hereby
directed to initiate the creation of an Inter-Agency Committee which
shall be charged with the formulation, implementation and monitoring of
policies and programs relevant to environmental protection. The
Secretary of Natural Resources shall oversee and coordinate the
activities of all participating government agencies and
instrumentalities.
2. Agencies
concerned with environmental protection
shall report to the Inter-Agency Committee, within fifteen (15) days
from the date of the creation of the Inter-Agency Committee, what they
have done and are doing to implement the laws, rules and regulations on
environmental protection.
3. The
Committee shall prepare and submit within one
(1) month from its organization the following:
(a)
An assessment of the accomplishments and present
activities of each concerned agency along the line of environmental
protection;
(b) Capsule
proposals of such agencies for further
programs on environmental protection;
(c)
Suggestions regarding amendments to existing
laws or regulations relevant to the protection of the environment; and
(d) Monitor
to agencies concerned existing laws or
regulations on environmental protection.
4. Agencies concerned shall each immediately prepare and submit to the Committee its own short-range program relevant to environmental protection and identify the portions thereof which may be immediately implemented. They shall also study, prepare and submit to the Committee their respective long-range programs on environmental protection.
5. All other agencies which are directly or indirectly involved in environmental protection are hereby directed to extend assistance to the Committee herein created.
All concerned are hereby enjoined to act accordingly.
This Letter of Instruction shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
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