EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 399  - CREATING A PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE ON REHABILITATION OPERATIONS

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to determine the extent of damages wrought by the recent natural calamities on facilities and installations of the national and local governments, likewise to property, establishments and sources of livelihood of households and individuals in the private sector;

WHEREAS, there is an equally urgent need to determine the financial and physical requirements as well as the logistical and administrative support for speedy and effective rehabilitation, repair, replacement and restoration to operational productive capability of damaged and impaired facilities, services, establishments and occupations; 

WHEREAS, there is a correspondingly urgent need to identify the sources of financing and to generate and effectively channel these financial resources so as to realize and effect restoration and rehabilitation immediately;

WHEREAS, the present circumstances demand monitoring, coordinated implementation, timely and reliable reporting of rehabilitation and restoration efforts of both the private and public sector agencies and institutions, at the highest levels of responsibility and authority.

WHEREAS, there is an immediate need to formulate a medium-and long-range program strategy for the rehabilitation and restoration effort; 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority and powers vested in me by law, do hereby create the Presidential Task Force on Rehabilitation Operations to be composed of the following:

The Executive Secretary or his
representative    Chairman

The Secretary of Public Works and
Communications or his representative Vice-Chairman

The Secretary of Finance or
his representative   Member  

The Secretary of National Defense or
his representative   Member

The Secretary of Social Welfare or
his representative Member

The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural
Resources or his representative Member

The Secretary of Health or
his representative Member

NFAC, Provincial Representative  Coordinator

Highway District Engineer *   Member

Public Works District Engineer *     Member

DSW, Provincial Representative  Member

PC, Provincial Commander   Member

Provincial Health Officer   Member

Technical Staff: Presidential Economic Staff,

  Development Management Staff,
National Computer Center, National
  Food & Agriculture Council

Secretariat: National Disaster Control Center,

  Infrastructure Operations Center
  and National Computer Center

Support Group:   Infrastructure Operations Center,

Presidential Arm on Community
Development, Development Bank
of the Philippines, AFP Civic
Action Group, and 51st Engineer
Brigade of the Philippine Army 

1. Determine and submit reports on the financial and physical requirements as well as the logistical and administrative support for speedy and effective rehabilitation, repair, replacement and restoration to operation of productive capacity of damaged and impaired facilities, services, establishments and occupations in both the public and private sectors.

2. Identify the sources of financing, from both domestic and foreign sources, and means of generating, and effectively channeling these financial resources so as to effect and complete immediate rehabilitation and restoration.

3. Formulate appropriate medium and long-range programs and strategies for speedy rehabilitation and restoration, including the relevant counterpart financial plan.

4. Formulate and put into operation effective, quick-response system for monitoring and coordinating the implementation of rehabilitation and restoration efforts and programs in both the public and private sectors, as well as for timely and reliable reporting of the status, progress and problems of the rehabilitation and restoration efforts and programs in both the public and private sectors.  

Since 19.07.98.