TO:	All Regional Development Councils
	The Director-General National Economic & Development Authority

In the planning of development programs for the various regions, it is desirable that tho views of the political leaders within each region be heard and taken into consideration by the Regional Development Councils end the National Economic and Development Authority.

The Interim Batasang Pambansa is scheduled to go on a twenty-day recess beginning August 19,1978.  This break in the legislative session will provide the members of the Interim Batasang Pambansa an opportunity to spend time with their constituents and consult with them on possible developmental programs that will benefit their respective regions, particularly in connection with the Infrastructure Program for 1979.

The Regional Development Councils are hereby directed to meet during this recess of the Batasang Pambansa and invite members of the interim legislative body within the region to propose such projects and programs as they may consider beneficial to the region.  The Batasang Pambansa members so  invited are entitled to participate in the deliberations of the Regional Development Councils but may not vote on matters raised for decision.

The Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority shall consider programs proposed by Batasang Pambansa members as endorsed by the Regional Development Councils subject to the approval of the President and Prime Minister.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.