By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez (INQ7.net)
Updated 04:43pm (Mla time) 06/26/2006
FUNDS will be immediately available to assist residents around restive Mount Bulusan in case of deadly mudflows or a major eruption, Malacañang assured on Monday.
Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor said he has been instructed to coordinate with Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya to ensure the quick release of funds for contingency purposes.
In a telephone interview, Andaya said his department has allotted funds from the "quick response fund" from the Office of the President to different agencies as standby funds for any eventuality.
The Department of Social Works and Development will be getting 65 million pesos; the Office of Civil Defense, 35 million pesos; the Department of Public Works and Highways, 48 million pesos; and the Department of National Defense, 36 million pesos for.
Tropical storm Domeng brought heavy rains to Sorsogon over the weekend, dislodging rocks and boulders from the slopes of Bulusan.
Before she left for Europe on Saturday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered civil defense officials to prepare contingency measures for the Bulusan area.
The President also put on stand by what she called the “Bulusan Express,” a fleet of two C-130 cargo planes, eight helicopters, including the presidential helicopter, and a train.
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