EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 829

: The purpose of Executive Order No. 829 is to create a Task Force on the Manila Bay Cleanup to fast-track the cleanup project and to ensure it could be bid out before June 2010.
: The Task Force is created under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
: The estimated cost is Three Billion and Eight Hundred Million Pesos (P3,800,000,000.00).
: The Philippine Gaming Corporation is tasked to take the project on as part of its project to build a waterfront leisure center so that the cleanup project does not need funding from the General Appropriations Act.
: It is compared to the Pasig River Rehabilitation Committee created by President Fidel V. Ramos.
: The Supreme Court has ordered the Manila Bay cleanup.
: The order took effect immediately upon signing on August 25, 2009.
: It was signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and countersigned by Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita.
: Because the Philippine Gaming Corporation will fund it as part of its waterfront leisure center project, thereby avoiding the need for General Appropriations Act funding.
: The project should be bid out before June 2010.