TO	The Prime Minister
	The Minister of the Budget
	The Minister of National Defense
	The Chairman Executive Board National Cartography Authority
	The Director Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey
	All Concerned

Pursuant to Section 6 of Executive Order No. 667 dated April 12, 1981, amending Presidential Decree No. 1588, and to enable the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey (BCGS) to concentrate on its substantive functions relative to oceanography, hydrography, aeronautical, charting, geophysics, and geodesy, among others, as well as to enable the National Cartography Authority (NCA) to become fully operational, it is directed that the transfer of the following functions of the BCGS to the NCA be now effected:

1. Topographic mapping functions, excluding the establishment and maintenance of the first and second order geodetic primary control network of the country; and

2. National Mapping management functions such as standardization, coordination, regulatory, development and data banking.

The transfer shall include such applicable appropriations, records, equipment, property, personnel and projects as may be necessary.

Notwithstanding the above transfer of functions, the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey shall continue to undertake, in cooperation with the National Cartography Authority, the establishment of horizontal and vertical control stations for the location of navigational aids and dangers as are necessary in support of its hydrographic and aeronautical charting function.

The Prime Minister is hereby directed to supervise and coordinate the orderly and smooth transfer of the functions, including such applicable appropriations, records, equipment, properly, personnel and projects as may be necessary, as herein provided, and for this purpose convene immediately all officials concerned to adopt the necessary measures to effect such transfer.

This Letter of Implementation shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 1st day of March, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Four.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant