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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 433, July 31, 1994 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM AUGUST 1 TO 7 OF EVERY YEAR AS RURAL ELECTRIFICATION WEEK

WHEREAS, R.A. 6038 was enacted on August 4, 1969, declaring a National Policy objective for the Total Electrification of the Philippines on an area coverage basis;

WHEREAS, R.A. 6038 provided for the creation and establishment of an agency that would carry out the mission and objectives of said Act to be called the National Electrification Administration (NEA);

WHEREAS, the same Act mandated the organization, promotion and development of Electric Cooperatives;

WHEREAS, the Rural Electrification Program as envisioned by R.A. 6038 as amended by P.D. No. 269 and P.D. No. 1645 has grown by leaps and bounds over the past twenty-five (25) years, through the efforts of the Electric Cooperatives and the National Electrification Administration;

WHEREAS, the pioneering and continuing meritorious achievements of the men and women of the Electric Cooperatives and of the National Electrification Administration have to be recognized;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period from August 1 to 7 of every year as Rural Electrification Week.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 31st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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