MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1010

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN METRO MANILA AND THE

PROVINCES OF BATAAN, BULACAN, PAMPANGA AND

ZAMBALES WHICH WERE ADVERSELY AFFECTED

BY TROPICAL DEPRESSION “BINING”.

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of National Defense and Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the existence of a State of Calamity in Metro Manila and the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga and Zambales due to continuous rains cause by tropical depression “Bining”.

All Departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans, directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.

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 26th day of May in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)

LUIS C. LIWANAG II


Acting