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EXECUTIVE
ORDER NO. 217 - CREATING THE NATIONAL TASK FORCE DIWALWAL
WHEREAS,
pursuant to Sec. 2, Article XII of the Philippine Constitution, all
minerals and other natural resources are owned by the State and that
the exploration, development, and utilization of natural resources
shall be under the full control and supervision of the State;
WHEREAS, an area of particular concern for the government is the
Diwalwal Mineral reservation area in Monkayo, Province of Compostela
Valley, where activities of thousands of informal miners, conducting
operations without the required permits from the DENR and the Mines and
Geosciences Bureau for many years, have resulted in massive ecological
degradation of the area and its immediate environs;
WHEREAS, the DENR had issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) No.
2002-18 last August 12, 2002 declaring an Emergency Situation in the
Diwalwal Gold Rush Area; ordered the stoppage of all mining operations
therein; and provided for Interim Guidelines to address the critical
environmental and social consequences resulting therefrom;
WHEREAS, the Office of the President had in the meantime issued
Proclamation No. 297 last November 25, 2002 excluding an area
consisting of 8,100 hectares to exclude the Diwalwal mining areas and
the Mabatas area from the coverage of Proclamation No. 369 dated
February 27, 1931; declaring the same as a Mineral Reservation and an
Environmentally Critical Area; and providing that mining operations in
that Mineral Reservation may be undertaken either by the DENR directly
or through a qualified contractor;
WHEREAS, despite the direct intervention in the mining activities at
Diwalwal by the DENR and the NRDC, the critical environmental and
socio-economic concerns had not been sufficiently addressed and the
related problems continue to fester;
WHEREAS, the CPP/NPA had turned Diwalwal into its main source of funds
running into millions of pesos annually to finance its insurgency
activities nationwide, thus creating serious internal security concerns;
WHEREAS, the urgent need to formulate specifically focused policies and
coordinate the implementation of measures thereof by all concerned
government agencies to address all vital concerns of the government and
rationalizing all mining activities in the area has attained extreme
urgency;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order:
Section 1.
Secretary
of National Defense
Secretary of Environment and Natural
Resources
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
Secretary of Health
Secretary of Labor and Employment
Secretary of
Justice
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
Director General, National Economic and Development
Authority
Press Secretary
Presidential Adviser on Media Affairs
Solicitor General
Commissioner, Bureau of Internal Revenue
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The DBM shall then recommend to the President the necessary amount to
fund said activities.
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DONE, in the City of Manila,
this 17th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Three.
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