SAN JOSE, Tarlac: The dream of local residents (Tarlaqueños) to have more than 34,000 hectares of their agricultural lands irrigated through a multi-billion-peso dam project hangs until the Sangguniang Bayan (SB or municipal council) here re-classifies a relocation site for the families that will be displaced.

But municipal officials point out that for the project to be realized, the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has to apply for the re-classification of land in Barangay Sula where around 970 families from Barangay Maamot would be relocated.

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