The Department of Environment and Natural Resources 6 has created a steering committee and regional and provincial technical working groups that will prepare the Boracay Environment Master Plan.

The committee is chaired by DENR Regional Executive Director Lormelyn Claudio and and co-chaired by Regional Technical Director for Forestry Rainier Ecang.

All the other regional technical directors are members, as well as Aklan Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Raul Lorilla.

The steering committee will supervise the over-all implementation of the action plan that will be formulated by regional and provincial technical working groups chaired by Regional Technical Director for Research Alicia Lustica.

The groups are expected to hold consultations with various stakeholders and come up with a plan six months.

Claudio, through Regional Special Order 2007-263, also instructed the technical working groups to include in their gathering of data existing plans and programs of different national government agencies, local government units, business and private sectors, non-government organizations and individuals with stakes in Boracay Island.

The creation of an Environmental Master Plan for Boracay will result in the lifting of the moratorium on the construction of infrastructures in Boracay that recently ordered by DENR Secretary Jose Atienza Jr.*PNA

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