Oro City effective September 17, 1990, and Ramona S. Nono, Administrative Officer II, was designated officer-in-charge from September 1990 to February 5, 1991. Cristeto Ra. Abrea, vocational school principal I of Kinoguitan National Agricultural School (KNAS), Misamis Oriental, was designated officer-in-charge of SANAC effective February 6, 1991. Starting the academic year 1992–93, through DECS Order No. 88 s. 1992, two academic programs were added: Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd) major in Technology and Home Economics, and the Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) with concentration in Work Education and with the initial offering of Laboratory Grade School. In the same year, Congressman Ceferino S. Paredes Jr. sponsored Batas Pambansa House Bill No. 1432 and supported by the Senate Bill No. 1690 of Senator Edgardo J. Angara, for the conversion of SANAC into a state college. On March 1, 1995, President Fidel V. Ramos signed RA No 7932 transforming SANAC into Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology (ASSCAT). More degree programs were offered: Diploma in Inland Fishery Technology (DIFT) leading to Bachelor in Inland Fishery Technology (BIFT), Bachelor of Science in Agro-Forestry (BSAF), and Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness and Information Technology (BSAIT). The DAT-BAT program was strengthened when ASSCAT was one of the four identified institutions in Mindanao which availed the support and assistance from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and Education Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF). The project gained bilateral funding from the Philippine-Australian Agricultural Technology Education Project (PA-AGRITECH) from 1996 to 2000. The 60 million pesos grant-in-aid for ASSCAT was in the form of refurbished theory room, library, farm mechanics shop, laboratories for science, crop and food processing, nursery, and Community Outreach Center (COC). Computers, typewriters, overhead-projector, photocopier, recent editions of library books, course materials and other references were provided. 1996 to present Cristeto Ra. Abrea served as OIC college president from 1995 to 1997 and became the first installed ASSCAT president in January 1997. Upon his retirement in January 2001, Dr. Roberto N. Padua, CHED Commissioner assumed as Chair of the Management Committee on January 13, 2001, to August 22, 2001, while Bernardino Z. Ente Jr. M.P.A. served as ASSCAT OIC president from August 22, 2001, to February 13, 2002. During the academic year 2001–2002, three curricular programs were added: Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering (BSAE), Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering (BSECE) and Bachelor of Science in Information