OUTLINE

I. INTRODUCTION
• Mindanao River Basin Maps
•

• II. FLOODS – TOWARDS THE CREATION OF THE

TASK FORCE
•

• Aerial Survey 2008

• Photos of Flooded Areas
• Summary of the three (3) Executive Orders creating the Task
Force
• Aerial Survey 2009
•

III. IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF FLOODING

•

IV.DAMAGES
V.EVACUEES
VI.RECOMMENDATIONS
 Republic of the Philippines
PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE
Mindanao River Basin
Rehabilitation and
Development
Executive Order No. 753 – A

TASK FORCE - MRBRD

Consolidated Report
and Recommendations
I . INTRODUCTION
 MINDANAO RIVER BASIN
T RIVER BASIN IN THE PHILIPPINES
AGUSAN
River
Basin

MINDANAO
River
Basin

Rivers Length
Pulangi 323 km.
Ala 120 km.
Mindanao R 100 km. Basin Area=23,170 Sq.
km
The Major Rivers within the Basin are:
1. Ala River

2. Banga River traversing Ala Valley in the South

3. Pulangi River with head water from Bukidnon,
traversing Ligawasan Marsh

4. Mindanao River, Simuay River , and Tamontaka

River in the Lower Cotabato area
which are the major egress of all river-flows in
the whole Mindanao River basin towards Illana
bay
MINDANAO RIVER BASIN

ALA VALLEY

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 Courtesy of RDC 12, FRANK_2008 presentation

The Mindanao (Cotabato) River Basin

HEAD WATER PULANGI R .
P
ELEV . – 1 , 500
M. U SCHEMATIC RIVER FLOW
L TIGUA R .
A
N
G
SAWAGA R I MANUTO R .

KULAMAN R .

MANUPALI R R M ’ LANG R . HEAD WATER ALA R.

I MALASILA R .
NATAYLAN R V KABACAN R . ELEV . 1600 M
E ALIP R .
MARAMAG R . R LAKE BULUAN
BANGA R .
LAKE SEBU
MULETA R
LIGAWASA BULUAN R
N MALADUGAO R .
N MARSH SEPAKA R .
MALITUBOG R PAGALUNGAN
PIKIT
A
LEGEND: M A L MAGANOY R
I R
Rivers NV I
ALLAH R . CROSSING E
R D DATU PIANG
Existing Cut - A EBPANAN
off LIBUNGAN N MARSH
Channel MARSH A
LIBUNGAN R
O LOWER
R TAMONTAKA COTABATO
Marsh Area COTABATO CITY RIVER RIVER BASIN
River Flow SIMUAY R BRIDGE
Direction

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 II . FLOODS –
TOWARDS THE
CREATION OF THE
TASK FORCE
Aerial survey taken after typhoons “Frank” and
“Cosme” last year (2008)
Salimbao area , Sultan Kudarat ,
Maguindanao

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Delta Bridge Volume of
water
hyacinth
after the
typhoons
Frank and
Cosme in 2008

Photos taken in
2008

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Volume of water
hyacinth under
Quirino bridge
Delta
Bridge

Quirino Bridge
Matampay
Bridge
ND VILLAGE AREA, Cotabato City

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Notre Dame Avenue (in front of Notre Dame University)
Creation of the Task Force
EO # Title Date
Executive Order Creating a Task Force on July 24, 2008
# 743 Cotabato Flood Control
Executive Order Creating a Presidential Task September 29,
# 753 Force for the Mindanao River 2008
Basin Rehabilitation

Executive Order Amending EO No. 753, series of January 5, 2009

# 753-A 2008, which created the
Presidential Task Force on
Mindanao River Basin
Rehabilitation and Development
TASK FORCE OFFICERS
AND MEMBERS
 Chairman:
Archbishop Orlando B. Quevedo, OMI, DD
Co-Chairman:
ARMM Governor Datu Zaldy Uy Ampatuan, AlHaj
(the Chairman of RDCC-ARMM)
Three Vice- Chairmen
Undersecretaries of DPWH and DENR and Chairman of RDCC XII

Usec. Bashir Rasuman - DPWH

Usec. Demetrio Ignacio – DENR
PNP XII Director P/C Supt. Josefino Cataluña - RDCC
Executive Secretary of the Task Force
Executive Director of the Task Force Secretariat/Support Office:
Solomon D. Badoy
 MEMBERS
Regional Directors/Head of Office of DPWH, CARBDP, DSWD, DOH,
DepEd, DILG, DENR, NEDA, RPDO, DAR, DA, BFAR, OCD and
NIA of Regions XII and ARMM, AFP-Engineering Brigade/Philippine
Navy and PNP
and the
Local Government Chief Executives of the
4 Provinces in Region XII:
Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, and Cotabato
and 1 Province in ARMM: Maguindanao

Cotabato City & Gen. Santos City

and the
Municipalities of: Lambayong in Sultan Kudarat
Pigcawayan and Midsayap in Cotabato
Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao
Sultan Sa Barongis in Maguindanao
Datu Montawal in Maguindanao
 PTF – MRBRD
TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP
REHABILITATION and LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT MEMBERS

Rehabilitation
Chairperson
Regional Director Hadja Sinaolan Macarambon, DPWH 12

Co-Chair
Regional Secretary Razul K. Abpi, DPWH ARMM

Long-Term Development

Chairperson
OIC-Director Teresita Socorro C. Ramos, NEDA 12

Co-Chair
Executive Director Diamadel E. Dumagay, RPDO ARMM
Aerial Survey 2009
OLANDANG BRIDGE – connecting
Midsayap and Datu Piang

Damaged portion
of the bridge
 Olandang Bridge
Bridge 1

Bridge 2

Bridge 3
Site Inspection at Olandang Bridge
 CONVERGING
Kapingkong River POINT

Ala River

BANGA RIVER

ALA RIVER

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Repair/Rehab of Ala River Flood Control at Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat

Project Site
 Lambayong
Municipalit
y
Lambayong Municipality
ALA RIVER SULTAN SA BARONGIS

PROJECT SITE

LAMBAYONG

ALA RIVER

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Installed gabions , mattresses and timber
piles – Ala River , Lambayong Project -
Phase I , ( As of April 13 , 2009 )

As of June 20, 2009, (Monitoring/Site Inspection by TWG)

After the typhoon “Jolina”

Project
site
LIGAWASAN MARSH
Pagalungan Bridge
 Tunggol Bridge

Montawal
 Tunggol Bridge

Montawal
Tunggol Bridge
Tunggol Bridge
Tunggol Bridge (Slope Protection collapsed)
 two spans of Grebona Bridge linking Libungan,
In Libungan Alamada and Banisilan collapsed and swept
away
 Grebona Bridge

Video courtesy of Fr . David Procalla , DCC

– Social Action Director of the
Archdiocese of Cotabato
Denuded Mountains in Alamada
 Simuay Flood Timber piles at the suspected breach –
Control Project during heavy rains last September 2008,
(Emergency works ) the breach opened at around 50-60 m
width and during the typhoon Jolina, the
Phase I – 2.65 kms Phase II breach became huge with around 150-200 m
Accomplishment: and 1.5 m depth
54.63% = 1.45 kms.
LOCATION PLAN (Courtesy of Sir Flores)

THIS SITE
 AMBAL RIVER

SIMUAY RIVER

:POINT OF CONVERGENCE
 SHORT MAPPING & BRIEFING
AT
AMBAL BRIDGE,
BARANGAY ARATUC,
BULDON MUNICIPALITY

COURTESY : TO THE
HOUSE OF BARANGAY
CHAIRMAN
APPROACHING
THE
CONVERGENCE
OF
TWO RIVERS
THE SIDE AMBAL RIVER
THE SIDE SIMUAY RIVER
TWO RIVERS TO SULTAN KUDARAT
& COTABATO CITY AREA
VOLUME OF WATER FLOWING TO SULTAN KUDARAT
& COTABATO CITY

TO SULTAN KUDARAT

SIMUAY RIVER AMBAL RIVER

 OBSERVATIONS / COMPARISONS

SIMUAY RIVER AMBAL

§COLOR OF WATER OF AMBAL IS CLEARER COMPARED

TO SIMUAY
§SANDY FOR AMBAL : MUDDY FOR SIMUAY
 AMBAL

SIMUAY

§THE BEHAVIOR OF FLOW OF THE TWO RIVERS

§VOLUME OF WATER
A CLOSER LOOK OF AMBAL RIVER

RIVER BANK
ABOUT 20 METERS HEIGHT
OF THE ERODED RIVER
BANK

RE SI DE NT S
DO IN G
SO ME
LA UN DR Y

APPROX .
20
meters
 SIMUAY RIVER

THE STILLNESS OF SIMUAY RIVER FLOW COMPARED TO AMBAL

 UPSTREAMS OF THE TWO RIVERS

AMBAL RIVER SIMUAY RIVER

APPROX .
50
meters
The sites are
formed by narrow
V - shape valley and
underlain by in -
place sandstone -
shale rock
FAVORABLE / STABLE
for Slit - Sediment
Storage - Gateless
Dams .
 SIMUAY RIVER
( August 2 , 2009 PTF - MRBRD AERIAL SURVEY )

OLD ROUTE
BREACHED
PORTION

SIMUAY RIVER

Upstream

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Simuay Flood Control Project ( Timber Piles )

August 17 , 2009
2008

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Ground View ( August 17, 2009 ocular inspection)

Estimated width ( W ) of Breached Portion

is 150 - 200 meters ( Ave .)

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 Simuay River Old Course
Breached Portion

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• Agricultural lands in
Sultan Kudarat,
Maguindanao
SULTAN KUDARAT, MAGUINDANAO

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Interior part of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao

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 Bucana area

Dredging Operation by Vic Lao

Construction
Photo taken

Heavy siltation at Bucana area Photo taken August 2 , 2009 ,

Aerial survey
Mouth of Bucana
Damayan Dredger
Rio Grande (Quirino Bridge site)
Rio Grande (Matampay Bridge site)
Matampay Bridge
• Delta Bridge and Quirino Bridge
III . IMMEDIATE
CAUSES OF
FLOODING
qContinuous heavy rain over
Bukidnon , Agusan , Davao , Lanao ,
South Cotabato , North Cotabato ,
Sultan Kudarat , Maguindanao

qSuch heavy downpour dislodged

hectares of grass and water
hyacinth covering large portions
of the Mindanao River Basin and
pushed them down river
qLong standing siltation of all the
rivers to and from the Mindanao River
Basin itself, a problem compounded by
a long period of inactivity in the Simuay
River project and the dredging of Rio
Grande.

qFlood waters damaged the initial

engineering projects done at the Simuay
River and Ala River
qSilt and other debris that have clogged
the Mindanao River channels
•

qThe accumulation of sand, mud, and

sediments brought about by water
flowing from various parts in the area
further worsened by the accumulation of
water hyacinth (water lilies)
qThe large-scale transformation of the
original vegetation of the basin’s forests
to non-forestry purposes
q
qInappropriate land use practices
q
q
IV . DAMAGES
Cotabato Province
•

 In Pigcawayan – provincial, Barangay Roads and dikes damaged;

 Libungan – two spans of Grebona Bridge linking Libungan, Alamada and
Banisilan collapsed and swept away;
 Montawal – the Tunggol bridge is at risk
Maguindanao
•

 Sultan Kudarat – The SimuayRiver flooding completely swept away the

timber piles done by FFJJ Construction (Simuay River Flood Control
Project Phase I); and a third breach was opened.
Cotabato City
•

 High siltation level of Rio Grande and the volume of water hyacinth with
heavy rainfall caused flooding of all the low lying areas of Cotabato
City; siltation at the Bucana is increasingly undoing the work that Vic
Lao Construction did.
Sultan Kudarat Province
•

 Flood waters damaged the engineering work done at the Ala River,
Lambayong area.
Areas declared under state of calamity

Cotabato Province Sultan Kudarat Province

Sarangani Province South Cotabato Province

Cotabato City Sultan Kudarat ,

RDC XII – RPMC Field Monitoring Activity , August
18 - 19 , 2009
Flood-Affected Infrastructure along National Roads
Provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani
San Felipe Bridge
along Midsayap-Marbel Road, Tantangan, So.
Cotabato
Saravia Section along Marbel-Gen Pangyan Bridge along Sarangani-Davao
Santos National Road, Saravia, del Sur Road , Glan, Sarangani
Koronadal City
Lun Padidu Bridge along Sarangani-Davao del Sur Road,
Malapatan, Sarangani
 Kumaba Bridge
Damage: Scoured/Damaged Approach "A"
Estimated cost : P500 , 000 . 00
Tambilil Bridge
Km. 1739+236.60
Damage: Scoured/Damaged Approach "A"
Estimated cost : P10 . 0M .
Lumatil Bridge
Damage: Scoured/Damaged Approach "A"
Estimated cost : P500 , 000 . 00
Gabion
Siguil
Bridge
Km. 1675 +247.46
Damage: Scoured/Damaged Approach "A"
Damaged Flood Control Structure - Gabion
Estimated cost : P10 . 0M .
 ARMM
Sarakan Bridge in Matanog , Maguindanao
ITIL Bridge Approaches ( Cotabato -
Malabang - Lanao del Norte Road )
Purakan Box Culvert ( Cotabato - Malabang -
Lanao del Norte Road )
Manuan Box Culvert ( Cotabato - Malabang -
Lanao del Norte Road )
Balabagan Section
Landslides ( Marawi - Malabang Road )
AFFECTED AREAS as of August 20, 2009
NORTH Mun. Bgy.
COTABATO 7 134
COTABATO CITY Bgy. ( NORTH )
31 COTABATO

MAGUINDANAO
MAGUINDANAO Mun. Bgy.
14 89
SOUTH Mun. Bgy.
COTABATO 4 42
SULTAN
KUDARAT
SOUTH
SULTAN Mun. Bgy.
COTABATO
KUDARAT 6 20

SARANGANI Gen . Santos

City
GEN. SANTOS CITY Bgy.
SARANGANI Mun. Bgy. 2
PROVINCE 6 33
 Total Cost of Damages
On Infrastructure as of August 20 , 2009
( Region XII and ARMM )
PhP 383.3 M
Estimated cost of damages to infrastructure (national roads and bridges) –
based on the reports from DPWH field offices

Province/City Cost of Damage

Cotabato Province P 216.5 M

Cotabato City P 10 M

South Cotabato Province P 4.3 M

Sultan Kudarat Province P 25 M

Sarangani Province P 102.9 M

ARMM (Maguindanao & Lanao) P 24.6 M

GRAND TOTAL P 383.3 M

 Total Cost of Damages
On Agriculture & Livestock as of August
20
PhP, 2009
824 million
 Total Cost of Damages

On Infrastructure ,
Agriculture & PhP 1 . 2 B
Livestock
as of August 20, 2009 (Region XII and ARMM)
Actions done regarding
Infrastructure
1. Deployment of DPWH teams (Region XII,
ARMM, and Sub-district Engineering Office),
Cotabato City Engineering Office and of the
Watermaster to clear the Delta, Quirino, and
Matampay bridges on a daily basis
2. Instructions from Task Force, Region 12 DPWH
Director and Secretary Ebdane to fast track:
•The building of a temporary detour for heavy vehicles,
bypassing Grebona bridge, to connect Alamada and Libungan,
as well as to make Grebona Bridge passable soonest;
Improvement and opening of NIA Road to Nicaan bridge for
light vehicles.
•The soonest temporary closure of the Simuay River 3rd
breach
(estimate two to three weeks) through which flood waters
passed towards Salimbao and Bulalo and at the same time the
rechanelling of the Simuay River Flood Control Project Phase
II towards the sea (estimate about three months); the new
contractor is committing about 20 heavy equipment for this
purposes and 60 million pesos are allocated for this project.
 •The preparation of plans to re-do the Ala River
Project;
•
•The deployment of a second Watermaster to the Rio
Grande (It will finally arrive in Cotabato City on August
26, 2009);

•The availability of funds to operate the Damayan on a

continuous basis;

•The awarding of contract to continue the dredging of

the
Rio Grande River, including the updating of hydro
topographic survey;
 •Approval of other priority projects – Tunggol Bridge,
Olandang, Bridge and three bridges in Lambayong,
construction of drainage canal at Buluan creek, and
improvement/rehabilitation of Malu-ao to Guigeken
drainage in Pigcawayan. (At the present moment, the
approach A of Tunggol bridge going to Davao is
under repair because of the collapse of slope
protection)

•Construction or upgrading of access roads on both

ends
of Delta Bridge.
Water Master Classic III
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Clearing of water hyacinths and grasses under the Quirino bridge
Cotabato City government backhoe clearing of water hyacinth
at Matampay bridge
Clearing of water hyacinth at Matampay bridge
V. EVACUEES
 INDIVIDUALS
Province/City No. of Families No. of Individuals
Cotabato Province 26,538 137,029
Cotabato City 31,462 131,201
South Cotabato Province 886 4,271
Maguindanao Province 25,096 126,014
Sultan Kudarat Province 8,428 42,140
Sarangani Province 3,449 13,320
Gen. Santos City 130 517
TOTAL 95,989 454,492

Damaged Houses 457 Totally 359 Partially

Casualties 24 dead 6 injured
In Sultan Kudarat Municipality –
flood waters still in Brgys.
Katuli, Banubo, Bulalo, Calsada,
Limbo, Salimbao and Gang. Flood
waters mixed with mud from Simuay
River slowly moving towards Rio
Grande. 1,498 IDP families are
still staying in various
evacuation centers. But a total of
12,910 families were affected.
Vehicles transporting affected families and
individuals
 Evacuees moving to the nearby evacuation
centers

Military trucks were used to transport Internally Displaced Persons

(IDPs)
Cotabato City
payloader
 ACTIONS DONE FOR EVACUEES
1.The following agencies mobilized themselves the soonest possible time to
tend to the needs of evacuees:
A . LGUs : C .INGOs / Local NGOs
vLocal Government Units of Region XII and vWorld Food Program
ARMM and their Chief Executives and vUNICEF
officials
B . GOVERNMENT AGENCIES vJICA
vNational / Regional / Provincial / City / vSupreme Master
Municipal Disaster Coordinating Councils vOperation Blessing 700 Club
vDPWH XII and ARMM , DSWD XII , DSWD ARMM vCanari Motorcycle Club, Inc.
and DSWD Local Offices vGMA Kapuso Foundation
vDOH XII & DOH ARMM , IPHO , and RHUs
vCotabato Regional and Medical Center vABS CBN Central Mindanao
vPNRC vKALASAG Foundation
vDAF - ARMM vMindanao Tulong Bakwet
vTESDA XII
v Military and Police Officers and vand others
Personnel v
D . CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS E . BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS , and
vKarancho F . CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS who
vRVM of Cotabato City and Davao City extended financial
vNotre Dame Hospital assistance ,
vImmaculate Conception Cathedral r elief goods , used
vSocial Action Center, Archdiocese of clothings , etc .
Cotabato
vPiso Serbisyo, Archdiocese of Cotabato A GOOD NUMBER OF SCHOOLS
vMobilization by parishes SERVED AS EVACUATION CENTERS …
vDonations from Notre Dame & CEAP THANK YOU !
schools
2. Action taken by the above-named agencies:
•
•deployment of teams to rescue evacuees trapped by floods
and/or to bring them to safer areas; the use of dump trucks,
payloaders, military trucks, freight trucks, patrol
boats of Task Force Tugis, etc.

•setting up of evacuations centers in public buildings

(schools, gyms, etc) and church buildings (chapels, gyms,
parish halls, etc);

•establishment of disaster operation centers;

•immediate supply of bread and drinking water;

•donation and distribution of relief goods, rice and
other food supplies, medicines, clothes, blankets,
etc.; World Food Program donated several
thousands of sacks of rice;

• medical missions by DOH ARMM, SALA'AM

37th IB with MDCC, RHU, IPHO and DOH
ARMM; referral os sick people to CRMC;

•setting up of community kitchens, providing hot

meals;

•provision of generators, water tanks.

Coordination with different line agencies for quick
response
Situation of children at the evacuation
centers
 Emergency Stations at the
Cathedral

Relief distribution by
concerned agencies

Emergency Stations near crossing

Salimbao and Bulalo
VI . RECOMMENDATIONS
 For the Office of the President to fast-track the following projects in
their order of priority:
Channelization and Bank Protection with
• 60,000,000.00
Sluice gate for Emergency Project at Simuay P
River and closure of the breach.
2. Immediate Deployment of One or Two P -
Watermaster for Task Force Deployment.
3. Simultaneous dredging of Rio Grande de P 250,000,000.00
Mindanao from Bucana to Quirino Bridge
4. Tunggol
(7 kms) Bridge II, Bank Protection, P 70,000,000.00
Channelization Phase 1 and Phase 2, Datu
Montawal, Maguindanao (very critical), bridge
linking Davao City and Cotabato City
5. Repair of Olandang Bridge which P 49,000,000.00
collapsed one year ago during
typhoon Frank and Cosme

6. Repair/ Rehabilitation of Ala River Flood P 100,000,000.00

Control, Channelization at Punol, Sigayan,
Panabungan, Papakan Section, Lambayong, SK
7. Repair/Rehabilitation of Ala River Flood P 100,000,000.00
Control & Bank Protection along Punol, Sigayan,
Papakan Section Lambayong, SK

8. Proposed Upgrading/Concreting of Quirino P 33,488,500.00

Delta Bridge Access Road at Barangay Salimbao,
Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao
9. Repair and Rehabilitation of Ala River Flood P 50,000,000.00
Control, Channelization and Bank Protection
Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao

10. Construction of Pingiuaman Bridge I P 40,000,000.00

Lambayong , Sultan Kudarat

11. Construction of Pinguiaman Bridge II P 20,000,000.00

Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat

12. Construction of Sadsalan Bridge II P 80,000,000.00

Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat
13. Construction of Drainage Canal at Brgy. 5,000,000.00
Buluan Creek, Phase V, Brgy. Buluan, P
Pigcawayan, Cotabato

14. Improvement/Rehabilitation of 20,000,000.00

Malu-ao - Guigeken Drainage Canal, P
Pigcawayan, Cotabato (Phase 1)

15. Protection Dike and Extension of Cut-off 15,000,000.00

Channel of Libungan River, Phase 1 (NIA) P
16. Repair/Rehabilitation of Grebona Bridge at P 35,000,000.00
Banisilan, Alamada

17. Replacement of Quirino Bridge P 203,060,000.00

18. Preparation of Master Plan for P 50,000,000.00

the Mindanao River Basin

TOTAL P 1,180,548,500.00
Commendation
I commend all the government agencies
and officials (regional, provincial,
municipal, and city), including the
military and police, in their quick
mobilization of equipment and personnel
to assist the thousands of evacuees in
Cotabato City, Region 12 and ARMM. When
crisis comes, the assistance is
thankfully fast and expeditious.
 
Sense of Urgency , Drive for
Action
I pray that our action on documentation
for the release of funds, deployment of
personnel and equipment, would be
similarly fast and expeditious with
regard to the implementation of the
projects (e.g., Rio Grande, Simuay, Ala)
that help prevent crises. We all need a
sense of urgency and a drive for
immediate action.
End of Presentation

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