Land Acquisition, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Indigenous Peoples’ Policy, 3rd edition (2007) free and prior informed consent of the IPs and ICCs concerned; (Chapter III, Section 7c); 6. The right to be secure in the lands to which they have been resettled; (Chapter III, Section 7d); 7. The right to determine and decide their own priorities for the lands they own, occupy, or use; (Chapter IV, Section 17); 8. The right to maintain, protect, and have access to their religious and cultural sites; (Chapter IV, Section 33); 9. The IPRA also created the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to carry out the policies set forth in the IPRA. The NCIP has issued a number of orders that puts into operation the provisions of the IPRA; the most important for the purposes of this policy is NCIP Administrative Order No. 1 or the Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) Guidelines of 2006. D. Other Applicable laws and Policies: Executive Orders, Administrative Orders, and Department Orders. 1. Commonwealth Act 141 Section 112 or Public Land Act - prescribes a twenty (20) meter strip of land reserved by the government for public use, with damages being paid for improvements only. 2. Presidential Decree 635 amended Section 112 of CA 141 increasing the width of the reserved strip of twenty (20) meters to sixty (60) meters. 3. EO 113 (1995) and EO 621(1980) a. National Roads shall have an ROW width of at least 20 meters in rural areas, which may be reduced to 15 meters in highly urbanized areas; b. ROW shall be at least 60 meters in unpatented public land; and c. ROW shall be at least 120 meters through natural forested areas of aesthetic or scientific value. 4. EO 1035 a. Financial assistance to displaced tenants, indigenous peoples, and settlers equivalent to the average annual gross harvest for the last 3 years and not less that PhP15, 000 per ha. Environmental and Social Services OfficeDepartment of Public Works and Highways February 2007 6