[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 690, May 16, 1978 ]

TO: Bureau of Public Works
National Housing Authority
Budget Commission
Pursuant to Letter of Instructions No. 19 dated 2 October 1972 directing the removal of illegal constructions from public and private lands, you are to relocate the remaining 774 squatter families from the Interim Batasang Pambansa Complex and resettle them at Sapang Palay Resettlement Project or otherwise cause their return to their respective provinces within three months.

For this purpose:

  1) The National Housing Authority is directed to prepare 1,000 serviced homelots in Sapang Palay Resettlement Project, and undertake thereat the construction of sanitary cores and complete an adequate water system;
  2) The Bureau of Public Works to provide technical assistance in the installation of an adequate water system in the area; and
  3) The Budget Commission to release from the Special Activities Fund of the Office of the President the amount of Three Million Nine Hundred Eighty Pesos (P3,980,000.00) broken down as follows:
     
    a) For construction of 1,000 sanitary
cores at P2,500,00 each
P2,500,000.00
    b) For completion of the water system
in Sapang Palay
1,480,000.00
       
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TOTAL-------------
3,980,000.00

DONE in the City of Manila, this 16th day of May, the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines