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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 258 -
ESTABLISHING AND DELINEATING THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NATIONAL POWER
CORPORATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
OVER WATERSHEDS AND RESERVATIONS UNDER THE FORMER’S JURISDICTION AND
CONTROL, AND RESTORING TO THE NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION JURISDICTION
AND CONTROL OVER THE ANGAT WATERSHED RESERVATION
WHEREAS, Sec. 3(n) of Republic
Act No. 6395 vests in the National Power Corporation (NPC) “complete
jurisdiction and control over watershed areas surrounding the
reservoirs of plants and/or projects constructed or proposed to be
constructed by” the NPC;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 192 (1987) declares the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources as the “sole agency responsible for
the conservation, management, development and proper use of the
country’s natural resources within the forest lands including watershed
reservations;”
WHEREAS, NPC continues to have jurisdiction over watershed areas
adverted to in Sec. 3(n) of Republic Act No. 6395 as Executive Order
No. 192 is a general law while the former is a special law;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 224 (1987) recognizes NPC’s jurisdiction
over said watershed areas; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to establish and delineate the respective
responsibilities of the NPC and DENR over watersheds/reservations under
the former’s jurisdiction and control, for purposes of effective and
closer policy and program coordination between said entities.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, hereby order
as follows:
Section 1.
NPC
shall:
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DENR shall:
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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
10th day of July in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Five.
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