Executive Order No. 92, May 31, 1993

PROVIDING SPECIFIC PERIODS FOR THE REVIEW BY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS OF INFRASTRUCTURES AND OTHER SECTORAL PROGRAMS AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE SECTION 2 SUBPARAGRAPH b (v) OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 308 (1987) AS AMENDED

WHEREAS, there is a need to expedite the formulation and implementation of infrastructure and sectoral programs to effectively respond to the growing demand for infrastructure and social services in the country.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. Section 2 subparagraph b (v) of Executive Order No. 308 (1987), as amended by Executive Order No. 505 (1991), is hereby amended further to read as follows:

Functions of the Council. The Council shall have the following functions:

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(v) Review and approve the annual and multi-year regional infrastructure and other sectoral programs, including LGU-proposed programs for national funding, which require appropriation of national government funds.

The Council shall complete its review and forward its recommendation(s) within sixty (60) days from the submission of the infrastructure or sectoral program to the Council. For programs already submitted and pending before it, the Council shall complete its review and forward its recommendation(s) within thirty (30) days from the effectivity of this Executive Order.

Proponent agencies shall coordinate with the Council at the early stage of project development, preferably at the identification or feasibility study (F/S) preparation stage, and shall have made available the necessary requirements requested by the Council by the time the program is submitted for review.

Failure of the Council to submit its recommendations within the periods aforestated shall be deemed equivalent to an approval of the particular infrastructure or sectoral program.

Section 2. The Council, or its counterpart, in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are strongly urged to adopt the foregoing procedure.

Section 3. All executive issuances, rules and regulations or portions thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

Section 4. The NEDA Board is hereby authorized to promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Executive Order.

Section 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of May 1993 in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ANTONIO T. CARPIO

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel