Executive Order No. 837 (1982) — WHEREAS, consistent with the government's policy that the Ministry of Energy shall formulate and implement policies and plans and programs on the development of indigenous energy resources and shall contribute to the desired protection, development, management and rehabilitation of watershed and forest reservation/areas, the geothermal area covered by Proclamation No. 2036-A should be included within the coverage of Presidential Decree No. 1515, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1749.

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Executive Order No. 837 (1982)

WHEREAS, consistent with the government's policy that the Ministry of Energy shall formulate and implement policies and plans and programs on the development of indigenous energy resources and shall contribute to the desired protection, development, management and rehabilitation of watershed and forest reservation/areas, the geothermal area covered by Proclamation No. 2036-A should be included within the coverage of Presidential Decree No. 1515, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1749.

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Sec. 1 Sec. 2 Sec. 3 · This Order shall take effect immediately

Sec. 1

Sec. 1. The jurisdiction, control and regulation over the watershed areas of the Manito, Albay and Bacon, Sorsogon Geothermal Reservation established and described under Proclamation No. 2036-A shall be vested with the Ministry of Energy.

Sec. 2

Sec. 2. The Ministry of Energy, through the National Power Corporation, shall be responsible for the management, protection, development and rehabilitation of the aforementioned watershed areas in accordance with Section 2 of Presidential Decree No. 1515, as amended.

Sec. 3

This Order shall take effect immediately

Sec. 3. This Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.