TO:	The Director Bureau of Mines, Manila

In order to attain the purposes and objectives of the Government as envisioned in Proclamation Nos. 1636 and 1637, you are hereby directed to suspend:

	1)	The registration of mining claims covering areas described in and embraced by the above-mentioned Proclamations;
	2)	The processing of all applications for mining Bights filed pursuant to Presidential Decree Nos. 412 and 463 and the sand and gravel regulations within the aforesaid areas;
	3)	Receiving/accepting applications for Quarry Permit/License, applications for guano permits, and applications for Industrial, Commercial, Foreshore and Gratuitous Permits; and
	4)	Mining and other allied/related activities, quarry operations as well as sand and gravel operations within the areas above-mentioned unless cleared by the Ministry of Human Settlements upon consultation with the Bureau of Mines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.