Bureau of Lands
        The Director
        Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey
        The Commanding Officer
        Armed Forces of the Philippines, Mapping Center
        The Chairman
        Human Settlements Commission
        The Commissioner
        Budget Commission
        The Director-General
        Technology Resources Center
        The Director-General
        National Intelligence and Security Authority
        The Commanding
        General Philippine Air Force
        All Government Officer and Agencies Concerned

1.    You shall constitute, as there is hereby created and constituted under the Technology Resource Center, a National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee to be composed of the Director of the Bureau of Lands, as Chairman, and the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Mapping Center, the Chairman of the Human Settlements Commission and the Director-General of the Technology Resource Center. The Technology Resource Center, under the direction and supervision of the Director-General, shall provide management, administrative, clerical and other staff support to the Committee.

2.    The National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee shall be responsible for formulating and implementing through the Technology Resource Center an effective nationwide program on aerial photography and cartography which will establish technical standards, coordinate, and complement the efforts and activities of government office and agencies in this field.

3.    To enable it to carry out its functions, duties and responsibilities under this Letter of Instructions and in addition to such personnel which it may directly hire or contract for, the Technology Resource Center is hereby authorized to form and constitute a pool of highly technical and other personnel from any and all offices and agencies of the government for detail or assignment to the Technology Resource Center and/or the National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee, such personnel are authorized to receive honoraria compensation or other incentives as the Committee or the Director-General may prescribe.

4.    The National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee is authorized to purchase by importation or otherwise a specially designed Universal Survey Aircraft and related equipment which in its judgment are technically and operationally adequate for its purposes. Photogrammetric and cartographic materials, equipment, spare parts supplies, and related computer facilities imported or purchased locally by Technology Resource Center and the National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by the Republic of the Philippines or any of its political subdivisions.

5.    All technical personnel of the National Cartography and Photogrammetry Committee and the Technology Resource Center shall be authorized to handle the equipment, facilities, instruments and materials, supplies, records, papers, negatives, prints, documents and other properties and information of any form involved in the program and activities on aerial photogrammetry and cartography in accordance with such system as may be devised by the Technology Resource Center in coordination with the National Intelligence and Security Authority. 

6.    The Budget Commissioner shall release a lump sum of five million pesos for 1977 from the Special Activities Fund as contained in Item XXIX -G of Presidential Decree 1050 and shall consolidate the funds of relevant government agencies into a pooled budget for the operation and maintenance of the program for Fiscal year 1978. Thereafter the necessary appropriations for the operation and maintenance of the program shall be included in the Annual General Appropriations Decree.

7.    The Technology Resource Center and the Committee may call upon any department, office, agency or instrumentality of the government or any of its political subdivision for such assistance as it may need in carrying out these directives and its duties, responsibilities and functions.

8.    All orders, issuances, memoranda, rules and regulations inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Since 19.07.98.