WHEREAS, the rehabilitation of the Manila Bay involves the various agencies, institutions and instrumentalities and necessitates coordinated and sustained efforts; and

WHEREAS, there is a need for a body to oversee and coordinate the planning and rehabilitation efforts for the development of Manila Bay.

SECTION 1. Creation of the Presidential Task Force on Manila Bay Rehabilitation. There is hereby created under the Office of the President, the Presidential Task Force on Manila Bay Rehabilitation.

SECTION 2. Duties and Responsibilities. The Task Force shall undertake, among others, the following duties and responsibilities:

a.	Serve as forum for the deliberation and clarification of issues and concerns;
b.	Review existing policies, programs, laws, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning Manila Bay;
c.	Formulate a comprehensive and integrated Program for the rehabilitation and development of Manila Bay, and
d.	Determine the need to create a permanent body to oversee the implementation of the above mentioned comprehensive and integrated program, and to coordinate and recommend to the President policies, strategies and measures for the development/improvement of the Bay.

SECTION 3. Composition. The Task Force shall be composed of heads of the following agencies or their duly designated representatives with the ranks of at least Undersecretary or Assistant General Manager, as the case may be:

Department of Environment and Natural Resources		Chairman
Public Estate Authority		Vice-Chairman
Office of the President		Member
Department of Agriculture		Member
Metropolitan Manila Authority		Member
Laguna Lake Development Authority		Member
Department of Public Works and Highways		Member
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System		Member
Department of Tourism-Philippine Tourism Authority		Member
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council		Member
Philippine Coast Guard		Member
Philippine Ports Authority		Member
Governors of the Provinces of Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan and the Chairman of Metro Manila Authority		Member
Private Sector representatives from the fishing, tourism, construction, real estate and shipping industries		Member
Representatives from the academe and environmental groups		Member

SECTION 4. Technical and Administrative Support. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Environmental Management Bureau shall provide technical, administrative and secretariat support to the Task Force. Whenever it is deemed necessary, the Task Force, through the Chairman, may tap the assistance of other government agencies, private/civic organizations, for the furtherance of its mandate.

SECTION 5. Effectivity. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately. The Comprehensive Plan for the Rehabilitation and Development of the Manila Bay shall be submitted to the President three (3) months after the signing of this Administrative Order.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 8^th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary