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PRESS RELEASE                                                            FOR REFERENCE
July 5, 2010                                                                      ALFREDO S. ARAYA
                                                                                         Chief, Regional Public Affairs Office
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DENR announces 2010 Saringaya Awardees

FIVE entities consisting of one hospital, local government unit, a multipartite monitoring team, science high school, and a water district got this year's SaringayaAwards from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Bicol.

The awards were given in a simple ceremony during the culminating program of the Environment Month celebration held recently at the Casablanca Hotel in Legazpi City.

The recipients of the 2010Saringaya Awards were the following: USI-Mother Seton Hospital in Naga City (Small-Scale Industry Category), Municipality of Magarao in Camarines Sur under the able leadership of Mayor Nelson B. Julia (Local Government Unit Category), Bacon-Manito Multipartite Monitoring Team (Special Category), Philippine Science High School - Bicol Region Campus in Tagontong, Goa, Camarines Sur (Academe Category), and Camarines Norte Water District under the able leadership of General Manager Ma. Antonia F. Boma (Special Category).

DENR Regional Executive Director Joselin Marcus Fragada said Saringaya Awards is an annual event organized by the DENR in Region 5 aimedat recognizing the Academe, the LGUs, People's Organization, other Government organizations, small-medium to large scale industries and individuals whose operations and systems, ina general sense, favor the upkeep of the natural resources and the environment in its entirety. It is now on its 10th year.

           The individual citation of the 2010 Saringaya Awards read as follows:

                   USI-Mother Seton Hospital - for its environmental and social commitments of bringing to fore various
            programs and projects that include healthcare waste management system, tree plantation and vegetable
            gardening, thus ensuring the protection and preservation of a healthy environment.

                   Municipality of Magarao - for the effective implementation of eco-friendly policies and various             programs and projects in support to the mission and vision of the DENR, that provides a clean and healthy             environment through proper solid waste management, organic farming, tree plantation, mangrove plantation             and river bank rehabilitation. Its solid waste management program characterized by segregated collection             at source with Material Recovery Facility for its 15 barangays is worth emulation as it won the Zero             Basura Olympics Philippine Garbology Marathon.

                    Bacon-Manito Geothermal Multipartite Monitoring Team - for its outstanding performance as an              operational Multi-Partite Monitoring Team through the formulation and adoption of Manual of Operation              which ensures the judicious compliance to sound environmental management systems of Energy              Development Corporation and NPC-Bacon Manito Geothermal Power Plant and Bac-Man Airshed.

                   Philippine Science High School - Bicol Region Campus - for its steadfast stewardship of molding the              minds of its students by instilling in them excellent understanding of sound environmental practices, forest              and mangrove conservation, climate change, solid waste management and other pertinent topics affecting              humans as they relate to the environment. Its programs and projects involving the students in tree                            plantation activities, mangrove plantation establishment, adopt a school and barangay, adopt a mountain              and beach clean-up, supportive of the DENR mission and vision, are worth of emulation.

                    Camarines Norte Water District - for its conscientious implementation of various environmental              projects and social development that include integrated watershed management and protected area              management, coastal rehabilitation, scholarship to deserving students, livelihood programs, advocacy and              trainings on sustainable resources management.

                     Saringaya is a Bicol term which means lushful, abundance of growth.(ASA)

CAMARINES NORTE WATER DISTRICT is DENR Saringaya Awardee.  Ma.Antonette F. Boma, General Manager of the Camarines Norte Water District is congratulated by Environmental Management Bureau Regional Director Gilbert Gonzales (left) after receiving in behalf of CNWD, Saringaya Award trophy and plaque from DENR Regional Executive Director Joselin Marcus Fragada (2nd from right)and Dr. Amelia Ayo, Dean of Bicol University College of Science in a simple ceremony during the culmination program of the Environment Month celebration held last week at the Casablance Hotel in Legazpi City. The CNWD was cited for implementing environmental projects and social development such as integrated watershed management and protected area management, coastal rehabilitation, scholarship to deserving students, livelihood programs, advocacy and trainings on sustainable resources management. On its 10th year now, Saringaya Award is an annual event organized by DENR Bicol aimed at recognizing programs and projects of other entities that support the mission and vision of the DENR

Ms. Irma Guhit (2nd from right of the Philippine InformationAgency - Sorsogon and a member of the Bacon-Manito Geothermal Multipartite Monitoring Team (BMGMMT) receives Saringaya Award trophy and plaque from DENR Regional Executive Director Joselin MarcusFragada (2nd from left) and EMB Regional Director Gilbert Gonzales during the culmination program of the 2010 Environment Month celebration held last week at the Casablanca Hotel in Legazpi City. Others in photo are PENR Officer (PENRO) Oscar Dominguez (left) and an unidentified lady member of the BMGMMT. The Saringaya Award (Special Category) was bestowed on the BMGMMT in recognition of its "outstanding performance as an operational multi-Partite Monitoring Team through the formulation and adaptation of Manual of Operation which ensures the judicious compliance to sound environmental management systems of Energy Development Corporation and NPC-Bacon-Manito Geothermal Power Plant and Bac-Man Airshed".

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     JOSELIN MARCUS E. FRAGADA
     Regional Executive Director
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