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Letter of Instructions No

The President issues a letter of instructions to various government agencies to establish an Inter-Agency Committee to address environmental protection in the Philippines. The Committee will be chaired by the Department of Natural Resources and will coordinate policies and programs across agencies. Agencies will report their current environmental protection efforts within 15 days and the Committee will assess accomplishments, propose new programs, suggest legal amendments, and monitor compliance within 1 month of organizing. Agencies will also submit short and long-term environmental protection plans to the Committee. All other relevant agencies will assist the Committee in its work.

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Letter of Instructions No

The President issues a letter of instructions to various government agencies to establish an Inter-Agency Committee to address environmental protection in the Philippines. The Committee will be chaired by the Department of Natural Resources and will coordinate policies and programs across agencies. Agencies will report their current environmental protection efforts within 15 days and the Committee will assess accomplishments, propose new programs, suggest legal amendments, and monitor compliance within 1 month of organizing. Agencies will also submit short and long-term environmental protection plans to the Committee. All other relevant agencies will assist the Committee in its work.

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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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