WHEREAS,
the offices and laboratories of the Forest Products Research and
Industries Development Commission (FORPRIDECOM) are located at the
Forestry Campus and are part of the U.P. Los Baños Complex at
Mt. Makiling, Los Baños, Laguna, which is relatively far from
residential areas;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there exists an acute shortage of housing facilities within
the vicinity of the Forestry Campus; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, to meet this shortage, the different agencies in the Los
Baños Complex such as the UPLB College of Agriculture, the UPLB
College of Forestry, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),
and the Southeast Asian Research Center for Agriculture (SEARCA), have
provided their employees with housing quarters;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB)
has set aside a housing area for FORPRIDECOM personnel near its
laboratories in the Forestry Campus;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the UPLB that all housing quarters in the
UPLB area should be government-owned; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the intended low-cost housing quarters to be put up will serve
as a venue in service-testing newly-developed housing materials,
designs, and techniques;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, to recover the amount that will be spent on their
construction, the low-cost housing quarters will be rented to deserving
FORPRIDECOM employees at reasonable rates to be paid to FORPRIDECOM,
thus making them self-liquidating;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree that:cralaw:red
"Sec 1. The sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand
(P1.5-M) Pesos from the Special Fund of the Forest Products Research
and Industries Development Commission is hereby appropriated to finance
the low-cost housing quarters for its deserving employees as the
Commission may determine." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"Sec 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately."
Done in the City of Manila,
this 3rd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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