The Millennium Challenge Compact ll of the United States
Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, Albay 2nd District
Congressman-elect, announced the full-council meeting of the Bicol Regional
Development Council (RDC) on Friday that the MCC called him again for a meeting
last week to present his "pipeline projects" or important projects
that will pull Bicol up because the MCC found out in its study that the region
has been left behind the other regions in Luzon in terms of development.
Salceda said some personalities at the MCC were his former
fellow international economists in the group called Foundation for Economic
Freedom like Joseph Yap, Emmanuel De Dios and others who want to visit again
Bicol to put in place their flagship program or projects to accelerate economic
growth in the region.
He disclosed that the MCC l, during the administration of
former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, first gave USD878 million for the
Bicol Region through the RDC but because it failed to submit the needed
requirements, the budget went to the circumferential road in Samar .
Salceda said he presented five big projects for which he
asked the support of some member-agencies of the RDC like the Department of
Public Works and Highways, Philippine Ports Authority, Department of
Agriculture and others to make programs of work for the five projects he would
submit to the MCC for funding and to begin next year.
First is the program for the operation of the Bicol
International Port of Pantao in Libon, Albay wherein the DPWH will make a
program of work to change and rehabilitate the problem on soil erosion that
causes the roads to easily get damaged.
Second, he said, was the Bicol River Basin Development
Program, which calls for an integrated watershed and irrigation at flood
control system.
The third is the Tutuban-Legazpi City-Matnog Railway system;
while the fourth is the Guicadale (Guinobatan-Camalig-Daraga-Legazpi)
connecting roads) and Donpicaso (Donsol-Pilar-Castilla-Sorsogon connecting
roads) tourism connectivity project wherein the town of Manito
The fifth, Salceda said, was the SLEX Lucena-Legazpi-Matnog
Expressway or Freeway, including the Malicboy channels wherein a tunnel would
be created passing through the "M" mountain in Quezon so that no more
vehicles would negotiate the top of the mountain dubbed as "chicken intestine"
so ensure fast and safe travel.
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