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    Letter of Instructions No. 551

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    This letter instructs government agencies and law enforcement to implement pollution control measures outlined in Presidential Decree No. 1152, also known as the Philippine Environment Code. It requires all public vehicles to install anti-pollution devices within 3 months, and allows the apprehension of privately owned vehicles emitting black smoke after another year deadline. Factories are given 1 month to submit pollution control plans to the National Pollution Control Commission and risk closure without certification of adequate devices within another month. Citizens are urged to report pollution issues.

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    This letter instructs government agencies and law enforcement to implement pollution control measures outlined in Presidential Decree No. 1152, also known as the Philippine Environment Code. It requires all public vehicles to install anti-pollution devices within 3 months, and allows the apprehension of privately owned vehicles emitting black smoke after another year deadline. Factories are given 1 month to submit pollution control plans to the National Pollution Control Commission and risk closure without certification of adequate devices within another month. Citizens are urged to report pollution issues.

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    This letter instructs government agencies and law enforcement to implement pollution control measures outlined in Presidential Decree No. 1152, also known as the Philippine Environment Code. It requires all public vehicles to install anti-pollution devices within 3 months, and allows the apprehension of privately owned vehicles emitting black smoke after another year deadline. Factories are given 1 month to submit pollution control plans to the National Pollution Control Commission and risk closure without certification of adequate devices within another month. Citizens are urged to report pollution issues.

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    Letter of Instructions No. 551

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    LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO.

    551

    TO : The Commissioner National Pollution Control Commission


    The Commissioner, Land Transportation Commission
    The Chief of Constabulary
    All law Enforcement agencies
    All Concerned

    In line with the pollution control program of the government, you are hereby directed to implement the
    following:

    1. All public utility and government vehicles shall install anti-pollution devices within three (3) months
    from the effectivity of Presidential Decree No. 1152, otherwise known as the Philippine Environment
    Code.

    2. The law enforcement agencies shall apprehend vehicles emitting visibly black smoke after the
    deadline, the same to be immediately grounded after the trip they had been making when apprehended so
    as not to inconvenience the passengers, and shall remain grounded until their deficiency shall have been
    corrected.

    3. All privately owned vehicles shall install anti-pollution devices within one (1) year from the issuance
    of the Code on June 6, 1977.

    Any effective anti-pollution devices in the open market shall be sufficient for the purpose.

    4. Factories that are nuisances per se due to noise, or the discharging of effluents into rivers and bodies
    of water, or oppressive odor caused by their wastes or by-products shall within one month submit to the
    National Pollution Control Commission plans for the installation of effective anti-pollution devices.

    5. These factories shall be listed by the NPCC and the list shall be submitted to the President within one
    month.

    6. Within one month after submission of the list by the NPCC, the factories shall be closed unless they
    are able to obtain from the NPCC a certification that they have installed an adequate anti-pollution device
    demonstrated in actual examination to have abated the noise, effluent discharge or oppressive odor
    constituting the nuisance.

    7. All citizens are urged to report to the NPCC vehicles, factories and sites which are nuisances per se
    (that is, on account of their emitting visibly black smoke, creating noise, discharging effluents, or yielding
    oppressive odor and having no anti-pollution device to eliminate these undesirable characteristics). The
    NPCC is hereby directed to take immediate action on the reports in keeping with the aims of the
    government anti-pollution policy.

    Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-
    seven.

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