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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 248 -
PROVIDING FOR THE CREATION OF A SPECIAL TASK FORCE TO OVERSEE THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOCIAL MEASURE COMPONENT OF THE CASECNAN
MULTI-PURPOSE IRRIGATION AND POWER PROJECT (SMC-CMPIPP)
WHEREAS, the improvement of agricultural
production and power generation capability is among the primordial
development thrusts of the National Government;
WHEREAS, the National Irrigation Administration has found that the
run-off waters of the Taang and Cagayan Rivers, the uppermost
tributaries of the Cagayan Rivers, could be tapped to irrigate 50,000
hectares of farmlands in Central Luzon and at the same time generate
140 MW of power;
WHEREAS, the project is one of the identified power generation projects
of the administration and is envisioned for implementation under the
Build-Operate-Transfer Scheme;
WHEREAS, the project design was subjected to several public
consultations primarily to establish its social acceptability and to
reassure the affected localities that it would have no adverse effects
to their environment and indigenous culture;
WHEREAS, the implementation of the Casecnan Multipurpose Project
further underscored the need for protection of its watershed areas
which are the ancestral domain (Region 02) and Aurora (Region 04);
WHEREAS, the indigenous Bugkalot community and the Provincial
Development Councils of Nueva Viscaya, Isabela, Quirino and Cagayan
have endorsed the implementation of the CMPIPP in support of the
food-production and improved-power-generation-capability programs of
the government;
WHEREAS, a Social Measure component of the project was identified in
CORD-RDCC Meeting on June 27, 1995 as essential to the social
acceptability of the CMPIPP for which the Regional Development Council
of Region II has identified fast-tracking intervention on on-going and
proposed infrastructure projects in Region II;
WHEREAS, in response to an earlier call for focused attention to the
twenty demands of the affected communities within the Bugkalot
territory (ANNEX 2) a Plan of Action has been formulated by an Ad Hoc
Inter-agency Committee created by the Region II Peace and Order Council
last May 1995; and
WHEREAS, after completion of its task to formulate an Action Plan of
Bugkalots, the Committee has since been dissolved.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby order the Creation
of a Special Task Force to Oversee the Implementation of the Social
Measure Component of the Casecnan Multi-Purpose Irrigation and Power
Project (CMPIPP) with the following composition and functions:
Section 1.
Chairman:
Members:
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DONE in the City of Manila,
this 1st of February in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Six.
ANNEX 1
RDC II Resolution No. 326-95 - ENDORSING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
SOCIAL MEASURE COMPONENT OF THE CASECNAN MULTI-PURPOSE IRRIGATION AND
POWER PROJECT (SMC-CMPIPP)
WHEREAS, the implementation of the Casecnan Multipurpose Project
further underscored the need for protection of its watershed areas
which is an ancestral domain of the Bugkalots, an indigenous tribe of
Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino (Region II) and Aurora (Region IV);
WHEREAS, the indigenous Bugkalot community and the Provincial
Development Councils of Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Quirino and Cagayan
have endorsed the implementation of the CMPIPP in support of the
food-production and improved-power-generation-capability programs of
the government, despite the minimal trickle-down effect of the project
to their local economies;
WHEREAS, in recognition of the support to national development of the
Bugkalot community and Region II in general, President Fidel V. Ramos
has instructed different departments to accommodate priority social and
development projects of Region II to include the Bugkalot communities
to be known as the Social Measure Component of the CMPIPP;
WHEREAS, after close coordination and consultation with the Bugkalots
and the Provincial governments of Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Isabela and
Cagayan, the following have been identified as the components of
SMC-CMPIPP;
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2.
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b.
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3)
c.
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WHEREAS, the components of the SMC-CMPIPP were earlier identified and
endorsed by the Regional Development Council through the Regional
Development Investment Program for 1993 to 1998 as presented in
attached project profiles which form integral part of this Resolution;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Regional Development Council II in session
assembled, RESOLVES as it is hereby RESOLVED, to favorably endorse the
attached program package known as Social Measure Component of the
Casecnan Multi-Purpose Irrigation Project (SMC-CMPIPP).
RESOLVED FURTHER, that copies of this resolution be forwarded to His
Excellency President Fidel V. Ramos and a copy furnished to Hon.
Domingo L.zon, Jr., Secretary of Foreign Affairs and CORD for Region
II, Hon. Roberto Sebastian, Secretary of Agriculture, Hon. Victor O.
Ramos, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Hon. Renato S.
de Villa, Secretary of National Defense and Chairman of the National
Peace and Order Council for their information and support.
APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY, this 31st day of July at Tuguegarao, Cagayan.
ANNEX 2
LIST OF 20 DEMANDS OF THE BUGKALOTS
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