The Regional Investment Priority Investment Priority Plan. Plan as formulated shall be integrated in the National Chapter 8 Cluster Agency SEC. 33. Cluster Agency. - The Regional Board of Investment shall form part of the cluster agency on trade and investments. It shall maintain a coordinative linkage with the Department of Trade and Industry, Regional Economic Zone Authority and other related agencies. TITLE XIII TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS Chapter 1 General Provisions SECTION 1. Declaration of Policy. – The Autonomous Regional Government is committed to the promotion, maintenance and expansion of viable, efficient, fast, safe, and dependable transportation and communications systems as effective instruments for regional development and economic progress. It shall not compete as a matter of policy with private enterprise and shall operate transportation and communications facilities only in those areas where private initiatives are inadequate or non-existent. SEC. 2. Mandate. - The Department of Transportation and Communications of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or DOTC-ARMM shall be the primary policy, planning, programming, coordinating, implementing, regulating and administrative entity of the Executive Branch of the Autonomous Regional Government in the promotion, development and regulation of dependable and coordinated networks of transportation and communications systems as well as in the fast, safe, efficient and reliable transportation and communications services. SEC. 3. Powers and Functions. – To accomplish its mandate, the Department shall: (1) Formulate and recommend regional policies and guidelines that will aid in the preparation and implementation of an integrated and comprehensive transportation and communications systems at the regional and local levels; (2) Establish and administer comprehensive and integrated programs for transportation and communications, and for this purpose, it may call on any agency, corporation or organization, whether public or private, whose development programs include transportation and communications as integral parts thereof, to participate and assist in the preparation and implementation of such programs; 170