MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 390, May 23, 1994 ]
DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN FOUR (4) PROVINCES AND TWO (2) CITIES ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY TROPICAL STORM “BISING”
Upon recommendation of the Acting Secretary of National Defense as Acting Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare additional areas under a State of Calamity adversely affected by tropical storm “Bising”. These areas are the provinces and cities of:
Surigao del Sur
Surigao del Norte
Surigao City
Camiguin
Agusan del Norte
Butuan City
All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans and directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.
The local government units concerned should set aside five per cent (5%) of their annual budgets as reserve for disaster operations. The declaration of a State of Calamity will authorize the same LGUs to utilize their own calamity funds for the initial operations.1aшphi1
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines, to be affixed
Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.
(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD. TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary
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