The House of Representatives on Monday authorized a invoice establishing evacuation facilities in each metropolis and municipality within the nation on third and closing studying.
House Bill 7354, which gathered 307 sure votes, one no vote and no abstention, establishes an evacuation heart in each metropolis and municipality within the nation that shall present instant and momentary lodging for individuals who have been displaced or evacuated from their properties because of disasters, calamities, or different emergency occasions.
Likewise, the measure states that current constructions that meet the minimal necessities or these that may be upgraded to serve successfully as evacuation facilities could also be designated as such in compliance with the native authorities unit (LGU) involved.
In addition, House Bill 7354 mandates the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to assemble the evacuation facilities, together with the formulation of constructing specs, in addition to duties the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), in coordination with the native executives of provinces, cities, and municipalities, to establish areas to be given the very best precedence within the institution of recent evacuation facilities.
The invoice additionally mandates the NDRRMC to make a precedence listing of LGUs that want evacuation facilities, in addition to permits an LGU included within the precedence listing of LGUs that want an evacuation heart to enhance colleges or current constructions used as evacuation facilities by making these compliant with the minimal necessities similar to location and structural capability, when there isn’t any obtainable website to assemble a brand new evacuation heart.
Further, the invoice designates the LGUs involved as primarily liable for the operation, supervision, and administration of evacuation facilities established beneath this Act and authorizes the LGUs to situation the foundations and rules on the right use and upkeep of evacuation facilities, amongst others.
Ultimately, the invoice offers authority to the native sanggunian to promulgate tips and procedures for the use and operation of the evacuation heart beneath its jurisdiction.
The invoice additionally permits using the evacuation heart, when it isn’t used as such, for different actions or functions that contain using collapsible facilities and people that won’t in any manner compromise the serviceability of the evacuation heart or impede the use thereof when a catastrophe happens. — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
