Section 2
SEC. 2. Powers and objectives.&mdashThe NIA shall have the following powers and objectives: (a) To investigate, study, improve, construct and administer all national irrigation systems in the Philippines; (b) To investigate all available and possible water resources in the country for the purpose of utilizing the same for irrigation, and to plan, design and construct the necessary projects to make the ten to twenty-year period following the approval of this Act as the Irrigation Age of the Republic of the Philippines; (c) To collect from the users of each irrigation system constructed by it such fees as may be necessary to finance the continuous operation of the system and reimburse within a certain period not less than twenty-five years the cost of construction thereof; and (d) To do all such other things and to transact all such business as are directly or indirectly necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objectives.