Land Acquisition, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Indigenous Peoples’ Policy, 3rd edition (2007) e. The reasonable disturbance compensation for the removal and/or demolition of certain improvements on the land and for the value for improvements thereon; f. The size, shape and location, tax declaration and zonal valuation of the land; g. The price of the land as manifested in the ocular findings, oral as well as documentary evidence presented; and h. Such facts and events as to enable the affected property owners to have sufficient funds to acquire similarly-situated lands of approximate areas as those required from them by the government, and thereby restore their lives, dwellings, and productive assets as early as possible. 7. Quit Claim. A quit claim instrument is required to be executed by owners of lands acquired under the Public Land Act because of the reservation made in the issuance of patents or titles thereto. In other words, even if the title or free patent describes the whole area as owned by the patentee or title holders, by operation of the law, a strip of twenty or sixty meters, as the case maybe, of that area described is not absolutely owned by him, because it is reserved by the government for public use. Hence, if the government should exercise its right to use the area reserved by it for public use, the owner shall be required to execute a Quit Claim over such area reserved and actually taken by the government for public use. This mode can be availed of not only in cases where the lot acquired under the Public Land Act is still covered by Free Patents but also even after the issuance of Certificate of Title or Transfer Certificates of Title because of a series of transactions involving transfer of ownership from one person to another. No payment shall be made for land acquired under the quit claim mode except for damages to improvements, and, if eligible, assistance with income restoration. 8. In case PAPs/PAFs are qualified for compensation but with arrears on land tax. To facilitate the processing of payment on land acquired from the PAPs with tax arrears, the DPWH will pay the arrears and deduct the amount from the total compensation cost. 9. In case the PAPs/PAFs are qualified but already dead and the heirs have not undergone extra-judicial partition, the PAPs/PAFs will be given a grace period to meet the requirement within the validity period of allotment which is two (2) years. Beyond two years, PAPs who could not comply with the requirement have to settle the case in court. 10. In case of expropriation. Environmental and Social Services OfficeDepartment of Public Works and Highways February 2007 4