WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 76, series of 1999, constituted the Ta on Strait Commission to serve as the planning, policy and program coordinating body for the accelerated, balanced and sustainable development of the Ta on Strait;

WHEREAS , Section 3 of Executive Order 76 provides the composition of the Commission to include, among others, the Mayor of a Negros Oriental and Cebu municipality/city along the Ta on Strait;

WHEREAS , the coverage of the Commission includes one city and three municipalities of Negros Occidental located along the Ta on Strait;

WHEREAS , said city and municipalities are not represented in the Ta on Strait Commission;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPHEJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Section 3 of Executive Order 76, to include as member of the Commission the Mayor of a Negros Occidental Municipality/City along Ta on Strait.

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 19th day of November, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.

(SGD.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary