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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 787, April 19, 1996 ]

DESIGNATING THE NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY TO ACT AS THE PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE PROPOSED MUSLIM RESETTLEMENT VILLAGE AND AUTHORIZING THE LATTER TO IDENTIFY, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP RESETTLEMENT SITES

Upon the recommendation of the Presidential Adviser on Youth Affairs, Housing Urban Development Coordinating Council, the Metropolitan Development Authority, the Local Government of the City of Manila, and the Department of Tourism, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby designate the National Housing Authority to act as the Project Administrator of the proposed Muslim Resettlement Village tasked to perform the following functions, to wit:

1. Identify feasible relocation site/s for the proposed Muslim Resettlement Village;

2. Define concepts and strategies of project implementation;

3. Formulate policies and implementing guidelines pertaining to land allocation and distribution to qualified relocatees;

4. Identify and mobilize fund resources for project implementation, in coordination with the HUDCC and the Local Government of the City of Manila;

5. Monitor and evaluate all phases of project implementation;

6. Tap the assistance and support services of appropriate government agencies, whenever necessary; and

7. Perform such other related tasks and functions as may be directed by the President.1aшphi1

In the implementation of the proposed Muslim Resettlement Village, the National Housing Authority shall be authorized to enter into contracts regarding the acquisition and development of the property, subject to existing accounting and auditing rules and regulations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 19th day of April in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By authority of the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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