Purposes.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Purposes. — The Authority shall have the following purposes: To undertake and continuously update a comprehensive survey and inventory of the physical and natural resources, problems and opportunities in the province of Leyte, more particularly those of the Sub-A Basin as delineated and described in Section 2, to provide the officials of the Province of Leyte and managers of the Authority up-to-date and accurate data and information for the most economic and socially beneficial development projects of the province and of the Basin; To provide the manpower capabilities and facilities by extending the necessary planning, management and technical assistance to existing and prospective investors in the Basin, the Province of Leyte or elsewhere; To arrange for and negotiate with the proper bodies and institutions, whether Governmental or private, domestic or foreign, and/or directly provide guaranty, venture or debt financing, technical support, or other form of assistance or service, to any entity, enterprise or project organized, operating or habitually engaged in substantial trade, with or within the Basin; (d) To pass upon all plans, programs and projects within the Basin proposed by the national, provincial and municipal governmental agencies, public corporations and private enterprises where such plans, programs and/or projects are related to the development of the Basin as envisioned in this Decree. The Authority shall determine whether such plans programs and/or projects need its approval, modification or implementive supervision and where the Authority makes a decision in this respect, its decision shall be conclusive and final upon the parties concerned. To engage in all projects and enterprises, whether in the agricultural, mining, forestry, fishery, commercial, industrial or service lines: Provided, That such projects or enterprises are located or doing substantial business in the Basin; for this purpose, whether by itself or in joint venture or cooperation with private persons or entities, to organize, finance, invest in the operate subsidiary corporations; To plan, program and undertake the readjustment, relocation, resettlement of populations within the Basin as may be deemed necessary for the attainment of the objectives of this decree. A suitable relocation site will be developed for the residents thus displaced; To undertake and/or provide social benefit services, works and facilities to and for the inhabitants of the Basin, particularly in the containment of endemic diseases to humans and animals, and in the creation of opportunities for gainful employment, housing, education and wholesome recreation for such inhabitants; To dredge and otherwise undertake works on waterways, irrigate, inundate, dry or fill up natural water basins, and to undertake reclamation projects, as may be necessary to accomplish the aims and purposes of the Authority; and To control and regulate the use of lands, rivers, waterfalls, springs and lakes in the Basin.