[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 19-A, October 28, 1972 ]

TO: The Executive Secretary
The Secretary of National Defense
The Secretary of Public Works and Communications
The Secretary of Social Welfare
The Secretary of Health
The Secretary of Agrarian Reforms
The director of Public Works
The General Manager, PHHC
The Presidential Assistant on Housing and Resettlement Agency
The Presidential Assistant on National Minorities
Governors, City Mayors and Municipal Mayors
City and District Engineers

In order to facilitate the implementation of the program of reforms on public health, safety and peace and order caused by squatters and effect the prompt implementation of Letter of Instruction No. 19, dated October 2, 1972, the Presidential Coordinating Committee on Housing and Urban Resettlement created and constituted by Executive Order No, 2153 dated March 7, 1970, as amended by Executive Order No. 343, dated October 13, 1971, shall serve as a continuing Coordinating Committee to implement instructions in aforecited Letter of Instruction.

To maximize the efficiency of all agencies concerned and insure rational allocation of resources, the following functions are assigned to the various government agencies involved in solving the squatter problem:
 
FUNCTIONS
PRIMARILY
RESPONSIBLE
SUPPORTING
        A. SITE PREPARATION PHASE       1. Preparation of Development PHHC     2. Funding Office of the
Pres., Budget
Commission, DP-WC,
DH, DE, PHHC-
AFP PHHC

BPW-BPH-NEA
CAO         B. PRE-RELOCATING PHASE       1. Coordination w/ Local PAHRA DSW, Local   2. Survey PAHRA Gov't, AFP   3. Security Local Police           C. RELOCATION PHASE       1. Dismantling Local Gov't BPW-PAHRA   2. Security Local Police AFP     a. Relocation Site toResettlement PAHRA AFP-BPH-Local Gov't     b. Relocation Site to other areas DSW AFP-BPH     c. Convoy Security AFP           D. RESETTLEMENT PHASE       1. Lot Assignment PHHC Private Sector   2. Relief in Resettlement Site one Month DSW AFP-Local Gov't   3. Maintance of roads and facilities BPH-BPW  
The Coordinating Council shall immediately consider the relocation of squatters in the Greater Manila Area in the priority established in Letter of Instruction No. 19, dated October 2, 1972.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

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