E-290 VOL.4

The Highway Network Improvement Program in the Poverty Area of Shuiren- Highway Project Public Disclosure Authorized

IEE & Environmental Action Plans Public Disclosure Authorized

Guangxi Communications Department

Public Disclosure Authorized Nanning, P. R. September, 1999

Assessment Institution: GuangxiEnvironmental Protection Scientific Research Institute

Assessment Certificate: No. 0949

Public Disclosure Authorized Director: Wang Censheng

Project Chief: Yu Wanli

Deputy Project Chief: Gan Zhengqi I Members of Project Group: Niu Ling, Fan Zhenhui, Gu Zhanqi, Chen Bei

Preface

The assessed project herewith belongs to the World Bank Aided project under the Highway Network Improvement Program in poverty-stricken area of Shuiren-Nanning Highway project, it consists of ten sub-projects of road improvement. The target of the project construction is to improve the transportation conditions of the poor area nearby the main project, to promote local economic development and upgrade the comprehensive traffic capacity of the road network in this region. According to the environmental management policies for project construction of the World Bank, Guangxi Roads & Highways Bureau entrusted Guangxi Environmental Protection Scientific Research Institute with the task to compile the IEEs and EAPs in December of 1998. On this basis, our Institute conducted successively two times of field environmental investigation respectively in December of 1998 and April of 1999. In February of 1999, we finished the IEE and EAP for the seven sections including G209 Qintang - Wuli sub-project. In April of 1999, upon exchanged ideas with Guangxi CommunicationsDepartment, we made necessary adjustment, amendment and addition to this report according to the suggestions proposed by the World Bank Delegation during its preparation mission. We also added G324 - Tianlin section, G323 Pingcun - Juxu section and formed a revised report. In August of 1999, the World Bank delegation undertook detailed examiniation of the revised report and put forward written suggestion for revision. According to the revison suggestion, we again made necessary adjustment and revision, thus this Report is done. I Contents

PART ONE INITIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION (IEE) 0

1. BEREF INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT 0 1.I Brief Introduction lo the Project 0 2 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT 3 2.1 Description of natural environment 3 2.2 Present ecological situiation 5 2.3 Description of social environment 6 3. SCREENINGCRITERIA 9 4. RESULTOF SCREENING. 9 PART TWO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLANS (EAP) 9

5. ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS 9 5.1 G209 Qintang - Wuli project 9 5.2 G209 Wuli- project 12 5.3 G209 Changle - Hepu couni project 13 5.4 G325 Shinan - city project /5 5.5 G325 Wiyia - project 16 5.6 S20323 Wuming - Luoxu project 18 5.7 G323 Pingcun - Jiuxu project 19 5.8 G324 Baise - Tianlin project 20 5.9 Main conclusion of analysis of environmental impacts. 22 6. ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLANS 23 6.1 Environmental Management Plan 23 6.2 Environmental Supervision Plan 27 6.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan 28 6.4 Investment estimate for environmental protection facilities 31 7. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ANALYSIS 33 7.1 Range and Methods of Public Participation 33 7.2 Statistical Result and Public Participation 33 7.3 Solutions to the Problems of Public Participation 33 ANNEX: LISTS OF COMPONENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLANS OF THE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IN THE POVERTY AREA 35

Part One Initial Environmental Evaluation (IEE)

1. BriefIntroduction to the Project 1.1 Brief Introduction to the Project 1.1.1 Project components and brief introduction The assessed project belongs to the attached road rehabilitation and improvement portion in poverty-stricken area of Shuiren-Nanninghighway project, it consists of 10 sub-projects which are briefly introduced as the follows: (1) G324 Baise - Tianlin improvement project. It is situated in Baise city and of Guangxi, from K1977.26 to K2047.26 totally 65 km. The existing road belongs to grade III of asphalt pavement. The width of existing subgrade is 8.5m, width 7m. The improved road belongs to grade III, asphalt pavement, 8.5 m subgrade and width 7m. (2) G323 Pingcun - Jiuxu improvement project. It is situated within city of Guangxi, from K1258 - K1276 of total 18km. Existing road belongs to grade IV, asphalt surface finish pavement, subgrade 9m, pavement width 6m. Improved road shall be grade III, cement concrete pavement, subgrade 8.5 m, pavement width 7m. (3) S20324 Mashan connecting road improvementproject. It is situated within , from KO to K4, totally 4 km. Existing road belongs to grade IV, asphalt surface finish, 9m subgrade, 7.5 m of pavement width. Improved road belongs to grade, cement concrete pavement, 12m subgrade and 9m pavement. (4) S20324 Dahua connecting road improvement project. It is situated within Dahua county, from KO to K16, totally 16 km. Existing road belongs grade IV, asphalt surface finish, 9m subgrade, 7.5m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 12 m subgrade and 9m pavement width. (5) G209 Qintang - Wuli improvement project. It is located within Guigang city, from K3127 to K3148, totally 11 km. Existing road belongs grade III, asphalt surface finish, llm subgrade, 8m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 11 m subgrade and 9m pavement width (6) G209 Wuli - Heng county improvement project.: Located in Guigang city and Heng county, from K3148 to K3178, totally 30 km. Existing road belongs grade III, asphalt surface finish, 8.5m subgrade, 6m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 8.5 m subgrade and 7m pavement width (7) G209 Changle - Hepu county improvement project. Located in Hepu county, from K3310 to K3330, totally 20 km. Existing rcad belongs grade III, asphalt surface finish, 1lm subgrade, 7m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 11 m subgrade and 9m pavement width (8) G325 Shinan - Guigang improvement project. Located in Guangxi Xingye county and Guigang city, from K1500 to 1551, totally 37 km. Existing road belongs grade II, asphalt surface finish, 15m subgrade, 12m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 15 m subgrade and 12m pavement width (9) G325 Wujia - Hepu improvementproject: Located in Hepu county of Guangxi, from K644 to K659, totally 15 km. Existing road belongs grade III, asphalt surface finish, 15m subgrade, 12m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 15 m subgrade and 12m pavement width (10) S20323 Wuming - luoxu improvement project. Located in Wuming county, from KIO to K40, totally 20 km. Existing road belongs grade III, asphalt surface finish, 12m subgrade, 7m pavement width. Improved road belongs grade II, cement concrete pavement, 12 m subgrade and 9m pavement width Construction standards and investment estimates of various sub-projects are shown in Table 1-1. Geological graph of the improvement project is shown in Graph 1-1, the Graph 1-2-1-9 show geological locations of various sub-projects. 1.1.2 Features of Project construction The 10 sub-projects of the project do not have plans of new road construction, and there is no requirement of land requisition. It is only to extend and strengthen the existing road belonging to road improvement project. Two sub-projects of Mashan connecting road and Dahua connecting road are included in the range of environmental assessment of the main project - Shuiren-Nanning Highway Project. Detail environmental assessment have been done in this regard (refer to the environmental assessment report of Shuiren-Nanning Highway project), so we do not undertake further assessment herewith. 1.1.3 Progress arrangement of project implementation The project plans to be implemented during 2000-2003. Respective implementing timetable are referred to Table 1- 1. I

I 2 Brief Introduction to the Environment 2.1 Description of natural environment 2.1.1 Local topography, geomorphy and soil types of project sites Qintang - Wuli section, Wuli - Heng county section, Shinan - Guigang section are located in the southeast of Guangxi, the geomorphy mainly belongs to plains and hills. Wujia - Hepu section, Changle - Hepu county section are located in the south of Guangxi, the geomorphy belongs to alluvial plain and micro hillock around 30 km away from the Beibu Gulf. Jiuxu- Pingcun, Baise-Tianlin are located in the west of Guangxi, the formnerbelongs to karst topography showing continuos mountains and embedded with various sizes of round or honeycomb low- laying land; the latter are mainly hills and basins. Except for Pingcun-Jiuxu section, the eight sections are mostly of twisted roads of many curves and big slopes. Baise-Tianlin section has many small slopes, and the other six sections are mostly of smooth area but with some undulation. The districts of these sections are mainly of plains and micro hills. Details refer to Table 2-1 2.1.2 Climate The climates passed by the eight sections do not vary distinctly belonging to subtropical monsoon climate, showing long summer and short winter, adequate sunlight and rainfall, rainfall and heat of same season, long frost-free season, distinct dry and wet seasons etc. The district is also one of those districts of frequent disastrous weather. According to meteorological data of counties and cities, the summer begins from end of April and ends at mid of October nearly half a year. Winter starts from mid of January and ends at mid of February only one month. The average highest temperature is in July, and lowest in January. March and April are humid. November and December are the driest months. Typhoon mostly occurs in May - August. Meteorological data of different sections are shown in Table2-2. 2.1.3 Hydrographic conditions of various sections The places along the eight sections have adequate surface water with well-developed rivers. There are many rivers, ditches, reservoirs and ponds. Main rivers are Yongjiang river, Yujiang river and Nanliujiang river, Diaojiang river and Lelihe river. Youjiang river: It originates from Jiuling mountain of Guangnan county of province, it is the upper branch of Yujiang of Xijiang river belonging to the Pearl River water system. It runs through Wuming county of the eight sections. The perennial average flow of Youjiang river is 400 3 3 m /s , minimum flow in dry period is 40 m /s, the drainage area is 38612 square kilometers. Yujiang river: It is the lower reaches of Yongjiang river flowing through Heng county and Guigang city of the seven sections. According to the statistical dada of 1996, the catchrnent area of Yujiang river is 68.1 thousand square kilometers, annual runoff volume is 53.29 billion cubic meters, water conservation resources are 3558.6 thousand kW. The catchment area accounts for 28.2% of total area of Guangxi. The river is navigable. Nanliujiang river: It headsprings from Darongshan mountain belonging to littoral catchment area. It runs through Yulin city and Hepu county and directly to the sea. According to the statistical data of 1996, the catchment area of Nanliujiang river is 9.2 thousand square kilometers, annual runoff volume is 4.47 billion cubic meters. Diaojiang river: It headsprings from running southward to Hongshuihe river through Duan county, belonging to Pearl River water system. There are 60 km running in Hechi prefecture. The forth section of Jiuxu - Pingcun road can identify the river. There are several small hydraulic power stations. Lelihe river: It is also called Jiajiang river. It originates from the south side of Mihualing of Bantao village, runs southeast-ward to the YouLjiangriver, belonging to Pearl River water system. It has 83.5 km within Tianlin county. Catchment area is 875.3 square kilometers, average annual flow is 6 m3/s. Some sections of the road from Baise to Tianlin are along Lelihe river but keeping minimum distance of 50-60 meters to the river bank. There are many reservoirs mainly of small sizes. There are eight reservoirs of above-medium sizes. Except for Chengbi Lake belonging to big size reservior which can be seen along the road, other reservoirs are at least one kilometer away from the highway. Main Topography and Geomorphy of Sections Table 2-1 Section Towns in the Geomorphy Main geology Main soil types section Qintang-Wuli Qintang, Sanli, Plan, hill Carbonic sys., Paddy soil, Wuli, North port Cambrian sys., cnmson soil area Permian svs. Wuli-Heng Wuli, Yunbiao, Plain, hill Cambnan sys., Paddy soil county Maling, Nayang, Devonian sys., quatemary period Fucheng Permniansys., red soil, purple carbonic sys., Soil Trias sys. Changle-Hepu Shikang, Hepu -Hill Siluarin sys., Paddy soil, cretaceous sys. latente soil, crimson soil, alluvial soil, ______marshy soil Shinan- Shinan, Shanxin, Table land, Low cretaceous Paddy soi, Guigang Zhangjiang, plain, valley sys. tertiary sys., crimson soil, Qiaoxu, Batang, D evonian sys. limestone soil suigyang City Wujia-Hepu Wujia, Xingdao Alluvialplain Tertiary sys., Paddy soil, lake, Hepu cretaceous sys. laterite soil, Silurian sys. crimson soil, alluvial soil Wuming- Wuming, Lijian Hill Permian sys. Paddy soil, Yingxu Investment zone Carbonic sys. laterite soil, crimson soil, marshy soil Pingcun-Luoxu Jiuxu Karst low- Devonian sys., Red ' earth laying land Carbonic sys. subclass, paddy soil, limestone oil Baise-Tianlin Baise, Rongle, Valley, Trias, Quatemary Sand-shale, Wangdian, mountain, sys. paddy soil, Tianlin hills, basin limestone soil, ______I I_ alluvial soil

The implementation of sub-projects only cover road maintenance and improvement, and the whole project does not affect river and irrigation system. Therefore, the environmental impacts on surface water of project are not obvious.

Brief Description of Climates of Counties & Cities along Sections Table 2-2 Name Annual aver Sunshine Annual aver. Frost-free Annual aver. Relative Annual aver. temperature time rainfall season wind speed humidity evaporation (0O) (hr./year) (mm) (days/year) (m/sec) (%) (mm) Guigang city 21.1 1703 1450 346 2.5 77.3 1629.3 Heng county 21.4 1778.3 1415.4 336 2.5 80 1655.4 Hepu county 22.4 1920.9 1650 350 3.1 >75 1019 Yulincity 21.9 1738.5 1582.7 1.7 80 1558.1 Wuming 21.7 1665.1 1249.2 336 1.9 81 1777.9 county . Yongning 21.8 1692.4 1243.7 353 2.4 1684.7 county Hechicity 20.4 1397.9 1470.0 345 Baisecity 22.1 194.71 1053.38 350 1.2 76 132.13

Id Tianlin 20.9 1696.4 1166.3 346 1.2 81 159.01

2.2 Present ecological situation 2.2.1 Qintang-Wulisection Ecological environment of both sides of the section of Qintang-Wuli of No.209 national highway is mainly agricultural vegetation cover. Within the range of 300 meters on both sides, paddy rice, sugar cane, fruit are growing. There are still other kinds of melons and fruits, vegetables and green manure. Natural vegetation are mainly thin shrubbery, original primitive forest remains little and there are only patches of masson pine and eucalyptus in the hilly districts. Forest coverage rate is about 15-20%. Parent material soils along the section are mainly sand- shale and granite. Soil types include: periodicalwater-logging paddy soil, submergiencpaddy soil, ground water paddy soil, crimson soil and alluvial soil. Soil organic content is 1.80/%-2.7%.Soil erosion stages vary from low-grade to moderate degrees accounting for 90.1% of total erosive area. Partial sections have intensive and severeerosions. 2.2.2 Wuli-Heng county section Natural vegetation covered along the section has been substituted by artificial vegetation indicatingrather highly developed agriculture. Main farm crops are paddy, sugar cane, jasmine flower, fruits. Forest vegetation are mainly village protection forest, road protection forest etc. There are some thin forest growing in hilly area featuring arbor tree of eucalyptus and masson pine. Forest coverage rate is 15-25%. Parent material soils along the section are mainly lime rock, granite, sand-shale and quatemary period red soil. Soil types are mainly paddy soil and dry land crimson soil. Soil organic content is 1.5%-2.8%. Soil erosion stages in this section cover vaiious grades but mainly of low and moderate degrees accounting for 80.2%. Partial sectionshave severe erosion occupying 9.8% of total erosive area. 2.2.3 Changle-Hepu section This section is an agricultural district mainly of agricultural ecological environment. Main agricultural vegetation include paddy, sugar cane, com, peanut, waternelon, vegetables and fruits. Paddy plantation accounts for around 60%. Soil maturation degree is high. Soil parent materials are complicate. Parent materials of irrigated field are mainly seaside sedimentary deposits. Soil types include periodical water-logging paddy soil, submergienc paddy soil. Tillage thickness is less than 15 cm. Due to frequent storms, soil is mainly of sandy loam soil. Soil erosion grade features severe degree accounting for 71.2% of total erosive area; erosion grades of low-grade and moderate only account for 19.0%. 2.2.4 Shinan-Guigang section This section is the agricultural productionbase showing smooth relief. Therefore, the ecological environmentof the section is mainly of agricultural vegetation. Main crops are: paddy, sugar cane, com, peanut, cassava, vegetable and fruits. Natural vegetation are mostly scattered masson forest and eucalyptus, plus road protection forest and village protection forest along the section. Forest coverage rates are between 15-25%. Other ecological environments belong to the same as those of Qintang-Wulisection. 2.2.2.5 Wujia-Hepu section Partial sections of the sub-project are hills and plains. The vegetation of hills are mainly of scattered masson forest showing minority of eucalyptus; micro hillocks are mostly of fruits. Plain sections include farmland.. Main crops are paddy, sugar cane and corn etc. Forest coverage rates are between 20-30%. Soils along the section are slope washes of sand-shale and granite in hills, deluvial washes, red soil of quatemary period; tableland belongs to ancient shallow sea deposit; plain belongs to river alluvial materials. Paddy soil belongs to medium loam. Organic content is between 1.0-2.5%. Soil erosion of the section features severe grade belonging to destructive soil erosion. 2.2.6 Wuming-Luoxu section The section is the district of paddy and fruits. Annual growing area of paddy are 1615 ha.; fruit plantation area are 1289.8 ha. Main fruits are litchi, longan, orange and mango etc. Natural forest vegetation are thin masson forest showing forest coverage rate of 18-25%. Soil parent materials are developed from sand-shale, including crimson soil, tillage crimson soil, limy soil etc. Soil erosions of the section belong to low-grade and moderate degrees, accounting 93.2% of total area; intensive erosion accounts for 6.8%. Soil erosion of the section is not very serious. 2.2.7 Pingcun-Jiuxusection The section locates at the southern edge of Yun-Gui Plateau showing good climate conditions and rich biological resources. The ecological environment of the road-improvement section are mainly of forest vegetation. Due to frequent human activities, protophyte vegetation nearly vanishes and artificial forest have substituted. In the hills and mountains, mixed broadleaf-conifer forest, conifer forest, road side protection forest etc are distributed and manly of broadleaf evergreen forest. Some places have fruit trees. Forest covering rate in the area is between 30%-40%. Agriculture is not highly developed along the section showing scattered small farmland. Main crops are paddy rice, corn etc. Soils are mostly red soil, limestone soil, alluvial soil and paddy soil. Soils are poor. Soil erosion belongs to light degree and the potential danger belongs to light degree. 2.2.8 Baise - Tianlin section The section locates at the south-western edge of Yun-Gui Plateau. The ecological environment is mainly of artificial vegetation, including coniferous wood. Main trees are masson pine, fir tree etc. Slight slopes are gardening land. Valley and slight-slopehills are mainly of agricultural vegetation. Forest covering rate is about 30%. A number of places are mainly of shrubby grass. Protophyte vegetation have been totally damaged, and wild animals are very rare. Soils along the section are mainly red soil, crimson soil. Soils lean to be sour. Soil erosion is relatively serious, but mainly of light-degree, accounting for 74% of total erosion, moderate erosion is 17%, turbidity erosion is 9%. Storms will cause serious water erosion. Therefore, it is necessary to undertake vegetation protection along the section to avoid the influence on the highway. 2.3 Description of social environment 2.3.1 Brief introduction of social economy The sections under improvement and rehabilitation cover three cities and five counties, crossing twenty-six towns. The places of direct impacts are: Baise city, Tianlin county, Hechi city, Wuming county, Heng county, Hepu county, Guigang urban area and Xingye county. Places of indirect impact cover other places of Guangxi. The economic situations of the places of direct impact are briefly stated as the follows: Baise city: Baise city is situated in the west of Guangxi with Nanning-Kunring railing and national highway No.323 and 324 crossing. It the important place in the western Guangxi to connect Yunnan and . Total population is 315.2 thousand people, including 242.5 thousand people of minorities of Zhuang, Yao and Miao etc., accounting 77% of total population. Hydraulic, mineral and agricultural resources are very rich, thus forming an economic system that agriculture is the base with mining machinery, sugar making, construction materials, chemistry, electric power as the backbone industries. Tianlin county: It is situated in the north-western part of Guangxi and is one of the 48 poverty- stricken counties in Guangxi. Tota population is 222 thousand people, including 202 thousand village people. It has abundant resources of land, forest, minerals etc., but without suitable and reasonable development due to backward transportation. Industrial structure is mainly of agriculture, and the industry is only on the starting point. Hechi city: It is located in the north-western part of Guangxi and it is the bottle-neck for Guizhou and Sichun etc. to the sea. Total population is 307 thousand people. The area has rich mineral, hydraulic, forest and touring resources. Industry features metallurgy, foodstuff, cement, farm tools etc. forming the backbone body of economy. Agriculture is mainly of plantation and livestock production. Wuming county: It is located in the mid-south of Guangxi. It is a county of Zhuang minority and concentration of various minorities. Zhuang minority accounts for over 85%. Industrial structure mainly features coordinative development of agriculture. Natural and touring resources are rich. Yilingyancave is one of the famous tour spots in Guangxi. Hepu county: It is situated in the south ol Guangxi facing to the Beibu Gulf. It is the world- famous hometown of South Pearl. Total coastal length is 307 km. It enjoys the exceptional advantage of ocean resources. Mineral and touring resources are very rich. Industrial structure is mainly of agriculture. Marine fishing and aquiculture account for great proportion. Heng county: It is located in the south-eastern part of Guangxi. Total population is 1039.3 thousand people, and rural populationis 919 thousand people. Good land and natural environment enable Heng county to become the important base for rice and sugar production in Guangxi. Urban area of Guigang city: Guigang is located in the south-eastem part of Guan.gxi. It is the important inland harbor and transportationhub of the Xijiang River Economic Corridor, it is also the important industrial centre of the south-east Guangxi. Industry is the main economic pillar of the city. Sugar making, constructionmaterials, food staff and chemistry and relative industries are quite well-developed. Xingye county: It is located in the south-eastern part of Guangxi. Total population is 630.8 thousand people, including rural population 603.9 thousand people. Rich mineral and natural resources have provide advantageous conditions for it to attain remarkable achievement for the township enterprises. In 1997, gross domestic product of the whole county is 2.27 billion yuan, which includes over 50% financialrevenue from private enterprises.

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Table 2-3 shows the main economic data of 1997 of the counties and cities covered by the sub- projects. 2.3.2 Transportation situation Guangxi is the most convenientpathway to sea for the south-west China and it is also the traffic passage connecting the south-west and southern China. After years of development, transportation has achieved remarkable progress, infrastructare and transport equipment are under continuous improvement, hence formninga comprehensive transport network with principal road and railway communications plus the assistant waterway and aviation transport. The transport network of the section impacted by the project is well-developed. Five national highways of No.209, No.322, No.323, No.324, No.325 and provincial hi,ghways of No.20323, No.20124, No.20133 and No.20222 cross the project section. There are many village roads connecting with these highways showing cbnvenient transportation. But due to inferior standards and bad road conditions of these roads, these sections are turning into streets. Sections which are planned to be improved and rehabilitated are in saturated traffic condition. 2.3.3 Residents' living standards Primary education is popularized in the sections covered by the project. One village has one primary school, one town has one to three middle schools. Schooling rate of school-age children reaches more than 98%. Each town has one hospital with 4-15 ward beds each ten thousand population. Telephone is the main device of communication among towns and villages and with outside world. Telephone owning rate is 100-500 units every ten thousand population. Annual income per capita of town residents is between 1700 - 6800 yuan, while that of peasants is about 2000 yuan. According to the yearbook of Guangxi of 1998, comparisonsbetween living standards of people in affected eight cities and counties and the average figures of Guangxi are shown in Table 2-4. From the figures of the table, peasant's average annual income of the eight cities and counties (Tianlin's is a bit lower), schooling rates and number of middle school students etc. are near to or higher than those of average of whole Guangxi. Employee's average incomeper capita, residential area (except Heng county of moderate level) are lower than those of average figures of whole Guangxi. Communication facilities of Baise and Hechi are well-developedand with good medical conditions. Communication and medical conditions of other six places are lower than the provincial average figures. 2.3.4 Tourism resources The places impacted by the project have rich tourism resources including beautiful Baise Chengbi lake, water-fall group of Fulv river, Sanchuan cave of Tianlin Pingshan, Longjiang beauty of Hechi, the small three gorges of Liujia, Wuming's Yilingyan cave, Lingshui reservoir, Damingshan mountain, Hepu's Xingdaohu lake vacationland, Shankou's mangrove conservation district, Xingye's famous Shiyita tower, Longchuanyan cave enjoying the name of "the first cave in the south", Guigang's Xishan mountain beauty spot, Nanshan temple, Donghu beauty spot and Yingtian temple of Nanshan mountain of Heng county etc. According to statistic data, the places influenced by the project have received 52997 tourists in 1997 with total tourism income of 8.55 million U. S. Dollars. The above beauty spots and historical relics are kilometers away from the highways which are under improvement planning, and the project's impacts on these places will not be obvious.

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3. Screening criteria All projects under the Highway Network ImaprovementProgram in the Poverty Area (HNIP) are classified into two categories: Category 1 and Category 2. * Category 1: Projects which are not expected to have significantenvironrnental iimpacts. This category includes widening, improving and upgrading of existing rads without substantial land acquisition. Only EAPs are required for this category. * Category 2: Projects which may have potentially significant environmental impacts. This category includes new road construction, upgrading of existing roads with. substantial widening and land acquisition, and other road upgrading projects passing through environmentally sensitive areas. Projects;under this category need EIAs and EAP's. 4. Result of screening. As decribed in the previous chapters, there is no new road construction and no land acquisition under this program. Along the proposed alignments, no natural and cultural protected sites are observed. While several environmentallysensitive sites such as school and hospitals are located along the alignments, environmentalimpacts at those sites are temporary during the construction period. And, their environmental conditions (noise, dust, etc.) are expected to be improved after the completion of this program. Therefore, according to the screening criteria, all projects under this program are classied as Category 1 which needs only EAPs.

Part Two EnvironmentalAction Plans (EAP)

5. Analysis of potential environmentalimpacts The analysis of environmental impacts of this program adopts the following criteria: acoustic environment adopts GB3096-93, "Environmental Noise Standards in Urban Area"; air quality adopts GB3095-1996, "EnvironrmentalAir Quality Standards". 5.1 G209 Qintang - Wuli project 5.1.1 Construction period The construction type of this project is "improvement and rehabilitation". The project plans to broaden the pavement from the existing 8 meters to 9 meters. Therefore, land requisition is not necessary. The analysis of potential impacts of the project construction on environment is shown as follows: 5.1.1.1 The analysis of acousticimpacts on environment The additional noises arising during construction period include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noise produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noise produced by construction machinery. Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer,electric generator,mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB

0 (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road construction will affect the traffic and increase traffic noise level. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project Qintang-Wuli has 11 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including, Sanli Town, Wuli Town, Tao Village, Changling Village, Xiluo Village,Shuixian Village, Wubao Village and Lin Village etc. There are only four schools (Changling Primary School, Linchun School, Wuli Peizheng Secondary School, Wuli Central Primary School) built within range of 100 meters. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard limited value. The enclosing wall of Changling Primary School very closes to the road, the two-story teaching building trends rectangularily towards the road and classrooms are about 20 meters away from the road. The construction and traffic noises will have some impacts on the school teaching and studies in daytime. The noise value in classrooms close to the road will exceed the standard limited value. Since no students study and live in school at night, construction and traffic noises will not seriously affect the school. The exterior walls of Wuli Central Primary School are also the walls of those campus-facing bungalows which are served as the dormitories for teaching staff. The teaching building is 25 meters away from the dormitories and trends rectangularily towards the road. Residential areas of Wuli Town are spread around the school and construction and traffic noises will not cause much impacts on people nearby. Both Lincun School and Peizheng Secondary School are 50 meters away from the road and have enclosing walls. Between Peizheng Secondary School and the road are numerous resident lodgings. Therefore, the construction and traffic noises have no obvious influence on the teaching environmentof the two schools. With the completion of construction, the impacts of constructionnoises will disapear. 5.1.1.2 Analysis of the impacts on air environmentalquality During the construction period, TSP is the main pollutant causing new impacts on the surrounding environment. Such pollutant comes from lime-soilmixing, concrete casting, materials transport, loading and unloading, earthworketc. during pavement widening and strengthening. Pavement material mixing is divided into two types: road mixing and station mixing. TSP pollution produced by road mixing is less and less-range but of long distance; while that produced by station-mixing is great and extensive, it also has serious impacts on the surrounding of the station. Because the project has not entered the designing period, the quantity and positions of mixing stations can not be specified, so this report unables to underatke any environmental assessment in this regard. But this report stresses that if the project adopts fenced mixing station, the location should be selected at the leeward place to which there are no residential areas within the range of 200 meters. Meanwhile,it is required to attend to labor protection. In addition, TSP content would possibly exceed the standard within 200 meters of the construction sites. Due to less such kind of construction links and short working time in the project, the TSP pollution will be relatively small. Furthermore, TSP pollution can be controlled timely by water spraying during construction, and living quality of residents along the sectionwill not be affected by road improvement. 5.1.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmentalimpact a. Ecological environmental impact There is no requirement of land requisition. Road widening and improvement are conducted on the basis of previously acquired land, and most construction is on the existing subgrade. Working on existing subgrade will cause scalping of slope vegetation while subgrade broadening will result in cutting of road protection forest and consequently it will cause certain adverse environmental impacts on the ecological environment along the sections covered by the project. These are unavoidable during road construction. These can be recovered with timely recovery measures upon project completion. Pavement broadening and concrete casting are conducted by maintaining current traffic, so it will cause some regolith which will further turn to dusts under passing traffic. Concrete mixing will also produce some TSP which will further land onto crop leaves in farmland lccated on both sides of the road. This will affect the photosynthesis when the dust settlement reaches certain thickness; especially during crop flowering stage, this will influence the quality and output of crops. In Wuli-Heng county section, such pollution will affect the quality of jasmine. However, the construction period of the project is short, and the places where the project located are of heavy rainfall, rain can wash away the dust from leaves.Therefore, such impact is not obvious. b. Water environmental impact & water and soil conservation There is no land requisition plan in this section, nor any watercourseand bridge improvement.It is only required to control dust by spraying water during mixing and crushing. Water requirement is very less, and will has very little impact on local irrigation system. It should be noted that the project zone is located in sub-tropical area. Frequent stomis will cause water erosion and hence affect the water quality of both sides of the road. But such kind of influence is temporary and can be reduced by adopting some precautions by attending to weather forecast. In additnion,domestic sewage of construction site will also cause pollution to water if not treated prior to discharge, this shall be seriously attended by construction units. Land form of the section is plane. The existing subgrade and slope are low. According field investigation, the slope vegetation is good and there are not any grade descending sections, hence soil erosion does not exist. In addition, waste materials will arise during construction and they must be well disposed by building retaining vvallsto avoid soil erosion in rainy season. 5.1.1.4 Impacts of traffic environment and other factors In order to safeguard traffic operation during constructionperiod, half of the road will be under construction and the other half will be opened to traffic. This construction method accords with Chinese social situation. On this occasion, itrafficjam will be more serious than before during construction period and this will affect traffic environment. After the road is put into normal operation, the traffic situation will be greatly improved. In addition, project construction will bring some inconvenienceto the local people in their daily life. However, this is the temporary inconveniencebearable for most of them. 5.1.2 Operating period 5.1.2.1 Analysis of impacts of traffic noises After the improvement,the road situation and traffic capacity will be greatly improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops and the population is less. So the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are inclusive of Qintang Town, Sanli Town, Wuli Town, Tao Village, Changlin Village, Xiluo Village, Shuixian Village, Wuyi Village, Lincun Village and Changlin Primary School. Traffic noises will affect teaching environrmentof the schools close to both sides of the road. The impacts will become substantial with the increase of traffic burden. Governments and administration departments of all levels should undertake periodical monitoring and take protective measures to control its compacts if necessary. 5.1.2.2 Analysis of air environmental impacts After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. The discharge capacity of pollutants depends on traffic flow, type of cars and running condition of the vehicles etc. In addition, impact on air environment is also concemed with local meteorological phenomena. Comparing with those of other roads, it is evident that the traffic flow after improvement of the road will not obviously affect the quality of air environment. There are four schools built along the road as shown in table 1-1. Especially Lincun School and Wuli Beizheng Secondary School are 50 meters away from the road. Under normal conditions,

, , they will not be affected by offgas emitted by vehicles in normal meteorological condition. According to analogical analysis, the two schools, Changling Primary School and Wuli Central Primary School located beside the road will not be obviously affected by the traffic flow in short- term operation, while in medium-term and long-term operation, NOx contents of these two schools will probably exceed the standard limit. CO content will still keep in standard limit. Therefore, effective preventive measures should be taken to reduce the impacts on the sensitive regions.

5.2 G209 Wuli-Heng countv project 5.2.1 Construction period The construction type of this project is "improvement and rehabilitation". The project plans to broaden the pavement from the existing 6 meters to 7 meters including subgrade strengthening, pavement widening and thickening and cement concrete casting. The analysis of potential impacts of the project construction on environment is shown as follows: 5.2.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The additional noises arising during construction period includethe following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery. Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road construction will affect the traffic and even cause traffic jam. Traffic noise level will be also increased. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-projectWuli-Heng county has 30 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Sanli town, Wuli town, Nayang bridge development zone, Yunbiao town and villages of Zhenxing, Xinghua, Shuanping, Guangping, Nanxin, Lianghe, Qingjiang, Caocun and Changan etc. There are two schools (Qingjiang Yicheng school, Huiyi primary school) built within range of 100 meters. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard limited values. Out-patient departments of Nanyang bridge hospital are back to the road, noise disturbance can be reduced by closing windows. These departments have no ward bed and lodging personals, traffic noises do not affect too much. Huiyi primary school and Qingjiang Chengyi school are quite near. With the completion of construction,the impacts of constructionnoises will disapear. 5.2.1.2 Analysis of impacts on air environmental quality The environment of this section is similar to that of Qintang-Wuli sub-project and the impacts on air environmental quality remains similar. Details refer to the analysis item 5.1.1.2. of this report. 5.2.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmental impacts The impacts on ecological environment of the places along this section refer to the item 5.1.1.3 of this report. 5.2.1.4 Impacts of traffic environment and other factors In order to safeguard traffic operation during constructionperiod, half of the road will be under construction and the other half will be opened to traffic. On this occasion, traffic jam will be more serious than before during construction period and this will affect traffic environment. After the road is put into normal operation, the traffic situation will be greatly improved. In addition, project construction will bring some inconvenienceto the local people in their daily life. However, this is the temporary inconvenience bearable for most of them. 5.2.2 Operating period

P., 5.2.2.1 Analysis of impacts of traffic noises After the improvement, the road situation and traffic capacity will be improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. Both sides of the section will be affected to some extent and some sensitive points may exceed the limits. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are inclusive of Sanli town, Wuli town, Yunbiao town, Nanyang bridge development zone and villages of zhengxing, Xinghua, Shuangping, Guangping, Lianghe, Nanxin, Qingjiang, Caocun and Changan etc. Because the surpassing distancein daytime is within 30 meters, and the above-mentionedtwo primary schools and one hospital are outside such range, and there are no teachers, students and hospital staff studying or working at night, so the noise disturbanceto the schools and hospitals is riot serious. 5.2.2.2 Analysis of air environrnentalimpacts After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase accordingly. Comparing with those of other roads, it is evident that the traffic flow after improvement of the road will not obviously affect the quality of air environment. There are two schools and one hospital out-patient department built along the road. Especially Nayang bridge hospital is only 10 meters away from the road. Content of CO will not exceed the standard while NOx density will surpass the standard limit in long-term period. However,Huiyi primary school and Qingjiang Yicheng schocilare some far away from the road. these two schools will not be affected much by vehicle offgas 5.3 G209 Changle - Hepu county project 5.3.1 Constructionperiod The construction plans to broaden and strengthen the pavement with cement concrete. The analysis of impacts of the project construction on environmentsis shown as follows: 5.3.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The width of existing road is 7 meters which will be broadened to 12 meters in irnprovement. The additional noises arising during constructionperiod include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery.Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road constructionwill affect the traffic and even cause traffic jam. Traffic noise level will be increased. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project Changle-Hepu has 20 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Shikang town, Lianzhou town andl villages of Liannan, Shuiche, Songshuyuan, Qili etc. There are three schools built within range of 100 meters: Branch Liannan primary school, Shuiche primary school and Shikang middle school. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard limited values. Three schools including Shikang middle school are about 40 meters away from road, and they will be influenced by construction and traffic noises quite seriously. With the completion of construction, the impiactsof noises will decrease.

I. 5.3.1.2 Analysis of impacts on air environmentalquality The environment of this section is similar to that of Qintang-Wuli sub-project and the impacts on air environmental quality remains similar. Details refer to the analysis item 5.1.1.2 of the section. 5.3.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmentalimpacts a. Ecological environmental impacts Project construction cause TSP pollutants. Such pollutants come from running vehicles, construction machinery, crushing and mixing of constructionmaterials etc. These TSP will then land onto crop leaves in farmland located on both sides of the road. This will affect the photosynthesis when the dust settlement reaches certain thickness, and hence will cause output reduction. However, the construction period of the project is short, and the places where the project located are of rich rainfall, rain can wash away the dust from leaves. Therefore, such impact is not obvious. b. Water environrmentalimpacts & water and soil conservation There are not any construction of watercourse and bridge, so impacts on hydrological and irrigation system do not exist. It is only required to control dust by spraying water during mixing and crushing. Land form of the Changle-Hepusection is plane. The existing subgrade and slope are low, and the slope vegetation is well-protected. Normally, there is not any soil erosion in this section. However, storms will wash away regolith from existing road, hence cause some quantity of soil erosion. In addition, some wastes will be produced during constructionperiod. The wastes must be disposed differently. In order to avoid soil erosion, disposal sites for wastes must be well controlled. 5.3.1.4 Analysis of impacts of traffic environment and other factors In order to safeguard traffic operation during constructionperiod, half of the road will be under construction and the other half will be opened to traffic. On this occasion, traffic jam will be more serious than before during construction period and this will affect traffic environment. After the road is put into normal operation,the traffic situation will be greatly improved. 5.3.2 Operating period 5.3.2.1 Impacts of traffic noises After the improvement, the road situation and traffic capacity will be greatly improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. The traffic flow will increase gradually, and thus will increase traffic noise pollution. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. Some sensitive points nearby the road will exceed the limits. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are inclusive of Shikang town, Liannan, Shuiche, Songshuyuan,Qili etc. There are three schools located within 100 meters of the road and traffic noise may affect teaching environment. 5.3.2.2 Analysis of air environmental impacts After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. Comparing with those of other roads, it is evident that the traffic flow after improvement of the road will not obviously affect the quality of air environment.During medium-tern and long-term period, CO content can meet the standard with NOx may exceed. There are three schools built along the road including Branch Liannan primary school located at K3311, Shuiche primary school at K3314+200 and Shikang middle school at K3321. These schools are all with the range of 40 meters from road. According to analogical analysis, these schools will not be affected by the traffic during short-term operation. In medium-term and long- term peri6ds, the CO contents of these schools will keep conforming to the standards while

1 .4 content of NOx will exceed. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt effective preventive measures to reduce the pollution degrees of these sensitive areas.

5.4 G325 Shinan - Guigang city project 5.4.1 Constructionperiod The constructionrequires no widening of the road. It is only to improve the road conditions and cast cement concrete. Therefore, the project has very little impact on vegetation along the section. The impacts on the environment are mainly acoustic and air pollution. The analysis of potential environmentalimpacts are described as the follows: 3.4.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The width of the existing road is only 12 meters, and it is to change the existing asphalt pavement to cement concrete road. The noises arising during construction period include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. constructionmaterials will be used to improve the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery.Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterativenoise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road constructionwill affect the traffic and increase traffic noise level. Chinese existing roads have the characteristicsof street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project Shinan-Guigang has 37 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages. There are five schools and one hospital (Shanxin hospital, Kuiling primary school, Zhanjiang central primary school, Zhanjiang No.2 middle school, Qiaoxu No.1 middle school, Batang No.1 middle school) built within range of 100 meters. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneousmoment will exceed standard lirnited values. Sensitive points such as Shanxin hospital, Kuiling primary school, Zhanjiang central primary school, Batang No.1 middle school are near to the road, even they have two-meter high enclosing walls, the disturbance of construction and traffic noises are still quite serious, and the noise levels both at daytime and nighttime will exceed standards. Zhanjiang No.2 middle school and Qiaou No.1 middle school have enclosing walls are out of 50 meters away from the road, construction and traffic noises will not have too much impacts on teaching during daytime, while they will affect life and study of teachers and students at nighttime. Noise level at nighttime will exceed standard. 5.4.1.2 Impacts on air environmental quality The impacts on air environment of this section project are similar to those of Qintang-Wuli project. Details refer to item 5.1.1.2 of this report. 5.4.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmentaliimpact a. Ecologicalenvironmental impact There is no requirement of land requisition, nor road widening. It is only to improve the existing road, hence it will not cause much adverse impacts on vegetation along the section. During construction, some TSP will be produced by various kinds of machinery,vehicles and crushing of construction materials. Dust will land onto crop leaves in farmland located on both sides of the road. This will affect the photosynthesis and even influence the output of crops. However, such action will not be obvious. This is because that production period of crops is in the same time with rainy season. Rainfall will wash away the dust from the leaves and hence get rid of such impacts b. Water environmental impact & water and soil conservation Because this section only plans to improve the existing road, materials mixing and road maintenance only require little quantity of water, thus will not affect the water qualityn.earby. Land fomi of the section is plane. There are not any grade descending sections, nor any damage to the vegetation, hence soil erosion does not exist. However, construction will produce some quantity of wastes which are required to be wvelldisposed to avoid soil erosion. 5.4.1.4 Impacts of traffic environment and other factors This section project plans to adopt the constructionmethods that: half of the road will be under constructionand the other half will be opened to traffic. On this occasion, traffic jam will be more serious than before during construction period and this will affect traffic environment. However, such will be temporary. When the road is under normnaloperation, traffic environment will be greatly improved. 5.4.2 Operatingperiod 5.4.2.1 Impacts of traffic noises After the improvement, the road situation and traffic capacity will be improved due to better road durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases. The improved pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasingtraffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops or factories, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are inclusive of Shinan town, Shanxin town, Zhanjiang town, Qiaoxu town, Santang town, Batang town and villages of Shigutang, Mingshui, Fengtang, Yuanliu, Mengtong, Heping, Yaoping, Daxin etc. Within the range of 100 meters from the road are the sensitive points of Shanxin hospital, Kuiling primary school, Zhanjiang central primary school, Zhanjiang No.2 middle school, Qiaoxu No.1 middle school and Batang No.1 middle school etc. They are all affected by traffic noises. Shanxin hospital, Kuiling primary school, Zhanjiang central primary school and Batang No.1 middle school are near to the road, they are disturbed by traffic noises more seriously in daytime. Qiaoxu No.1 middle and Zhanjiang No.2 middle school are a bit far away from the road and are enclosed by walls, they suffer less from noises. At nighttime, the above sensitive points will be affected by traffic noises quite seriously, and the noise levels will exceed the standards. Teachers and students in Kuiling primary school and Zhanjiang central primary school do not work or study at night, they will not be affected by noises at night. 5.4.2.2 Air environmental impacts After the improved road enters operation, with the gradual increase of traffic flow, the amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. According to analogical comparisonwith other roads, in shot-term operating period, it is evident that the road will not cause much obvious impact on air enviromnent.In the medium-term and long-termperiods, CO content will still satisfy while NOx content may exceed. As per the above-mentioned, there are some schools and ohospitals. According to analogical analysis, during short-term period of operation, Qiaoxu No.1 middle, Batang No. I middle school and Zhanjiang No.2 middle school will not be affected by the road, while other sensitive points will exceed NOx standards. During medium-term and long-term period of operation, the above sensitive points will exceed NOx standards. Therefore, monitoring system shall be established for these sensitive points and, if necessary, effective preventive measures should be taken to reduce the impacts.. 5.5 G325 Wujia - Hepu county project 5.5.1 Constructionperiod The constructionis to broaden the road based on existing roadbed and to pave the road surface. Due to the undulating topography in partial sections of the road, descending grade is necessary. The potential impacts of project construction are as follows: 5.5.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The width of existing pavement is 9 meters and it will be 12 meters after improvement. The noises arising during construction period include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand

16 clay, cement, steel bars etc. constructionmaterials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery. Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road construction will affect the traffic, even cause traffic jams. Traffic noise level will increase. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project Wujia-Hepu has 15 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Wujia town, Xingdaohu town, Dantian town, Walian village, Shangyang village and Zongjiang . There are two schools (Walian primary school and Dantian primary school) built within range of 100 meters. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard limited values. Walian primary school and Dantian primary school are 50 meters away from the road. The teaching environment will be obviously affected by construction and traffic noises. However, the impacts will not be serious for there are no students living in school at night. 5.5.1.2 Impacts on air environmentalquality The impacts on environment during construction period are similar to those of Qintang-Wuli section. Detailsrefer to item 5.1.1.2 of this report. 5.5.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmentalimpact a. Ecologicalenvironmental impactson vegetation There is no requirement of land requisition. It is only to improve the existing road, hence it will not cause much adverse impacts on vegetation along the section. On the other hand, such kind of influence is reversible. The dust caused by crushing and mixing of construction materials and the passing vehicles and construction machinery during constructionperiod will affect the photosynthesisof the leaf blades of the crops along the road. However, the impacts are reversible. In rainy season, the rainwater will wash away the dust on leaf blades and the impacts will be eliminated. b. Water environmental impacts & water and soil conservation The project has no bridge extension and water channel planning. Only little quantity of water is needed to settle dust caused by crushing and mixing of construction materials. This will not affect water quality nearby. Sewage produced by construction and daily life in working sites will possibly cause pollution to the water body if not properly treated. But such quantity little, serious environmentalpollution will not occur if constructionunits attach importance to such matter. In the course of widening and improving the pavement, partial sections of about 680 meters need descending grade which will cause soil erosion. Especially in storming weather, soil erosion will be serious during construction period. It is estimated that in storming weather and without any preventive measures, the yearly volume of soil erosion in excavated sections is about 30t. However, the construction period is short. The actual volume of erosion will be probably smaller than expected. With protective measures takcen,the erosion volume will be much, smaller. In erosive sections, the muddy water drained into the farmland will cause impacts on the field soil. Therefore, construction shall avoid to be done during rainy season. It is necessary to protect the farmland and to open up ditches and gutters for timely drainage. 5.5.1.4 Analysis of impacts of traffic environment and other factors In order to safeguard traffic operation during construction period, half of the road will be under construction and the other half will be opened to traffic. Therefore, during construction period, traffic jams will increase. As a result, traffic environment will be affected, noise and offgas pollution will be more serious. However, these are temporary impacts. After the road is under normal operation, the traffic situation will be greatly improved. 5.5.2 Operating period

17 5.5.2.1 Impacts of traffic noises After the improvement, the road situation and traffic capacity will be greatly improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. Some places may obviously affected by traffic noises, and some portions may exceed the limits. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops or factories, so the population within 100 meters away from the road and the traffic noise in daytime will not exceed standard. Therefore, the teaching environment will not be seriously affected. Since there are no students living in school, noise disturbance will not be serious at nighttime. 5.5.2.2 Air enviromnentalimpacts After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. The discharge volume depends on traffic flow, types of cars and running condition of vehicles. The extent of air environmnentalimpacts also is concemed with local meteorological condition. The local annual average wind speed is high (3.3 m/s) and the frequency of no wind is low (5.1%). These are favorable conditions for dilution and diffusion of pollutants. According to analogical comparison with other roads, it is evident that CO and NOx will not cause serious impacts in normal meteorologicalcondition. There are two primary schools inclusive of Walian primary school and Dantian primary school respectively located at K659 and K654. The two schools are less than 50 meters from road shoulder. According to analogical analysis, in the short-term period and medium-term period of operation, the contents of CO and NOx of the two sensitive places will not exceed GB standard.

5.6 S20323 Wuming - Luoxu project 5.6.1 Construction period The construction is to broaden the road based on existing roadbed and to pave the road surface. Due to the undulating topography in partial sections of the road, descending grade is necessary. The potential impacts of project construction are as follows: 5.6.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The width of existing pavement is 7 meters and it will be 9 meters after improvement. The noises arising during construction period include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery. Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road construction will affect the traffic and increase traffic noise level. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project Wuming-Luoxu has 20 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Luoxu town, Chengxiang town, Feiyang Village, Lijiang Village and Huaqiao Farm etc. There are no hospital and school built within range of 100 meters. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard. 5.6.1.2 Analysis of impacts on air environmental quality The impacts on environment during construction period are similar to those of Qintang-Wuli section. Details refer to item 5.1.1.2 analysis of this report. 5.6.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmental impact The construction type of this project is similar to that of Wujia-Hepu project. The ecological environmental impacts are also similar. Details refer to item 3.5.1.3 analysis of this report. . 5.6.2 Operating period 5.6.2.1 Analysis of impacts of traffic noises After the improvement,the road situation and traffic capacity will be greatly improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. According to environmental impact assessment of other second-grade highways, some sections of the road may exceed the noise standard during long-term operating period. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops or factories, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are inclusive of Luoxu town, Chengxiang town, Feiyang village, Lijiang village and Huaqiao farm etc. 5.6.2.2 Analysis of air environmentalimpacts After the improved road enters operation, ithe traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. The discharge volume depends on traffic flow, types of cars and running condition of the vehicles. The extent of air environmental impactsalso has concerned with local meteorological condition. According to analogical comparison with other roads, CQ and NOx in offgas emitted by vehicles will not cause obvious impacts on the surroundingenvironment. 5.7 G323 Pingcun - Jiuxu project 5.7.1 Construction period 5.7.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The additional noises arising during constriction period includethe following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by constructionmachinery. Main constructionmachines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are normally above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road construction will affect the traffic flow and increase traffic noise level. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project G323 Pingcun-Jiuxu has 18 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Jiuxu town, Yuyuetun, Hlongyingtun and Xincun residential area etc. 30-70 m away from the road. There one school - Nayu primary school. This school is about 16 meters from the highway, the height 12 meters on the slope. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. The noise levels at instantaneous moment will exceed standard limited values. Nayu primary school is only 16 meters from the road, the estimated noise value will exceed the limit values. The life and study of the teachers and students will be affected to some extent. With the completion of construction and the improvement of road situation and traffic capacity, the impacts of noises will decrease. 5.7.1.2 Analysis of impacts on air environmental quality The environment of this section is similar to that of Qintang-Wuli sub-project and the impacts on air environmental quality remains similar. Details refer to the analysis item 5.1.1.2 of the section. 5.7.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmental irnpacts a. Ecological environmental impacts This project has no requirement of land requisition. The improvementis done within the existing land range. The improved subgrade shall be 0.5m less than the existing one. Except for improvementof some curves and descending slopes, the sub-project will not cause obvious impact on vegetation. Vegetation will be possibly affected during equipment passing. But this can be recovered upon project completion. Agricultural vegetation are not too much along the section. Dust caused by construction will have short-timeimpact on the crops, but not obvious. The construction period is short, and rainfall is frequent. rainfall can wash away the dust from leaves.. b. Water environmentalimpacts & water and soil conservation Most sections of this sub-project go with Diaojiang river but not crossing. There are not any construction of watercourse, there will not have much impact on utilization of water resources. But the project is located in sub-tropical belt with frequent storm. This will cause some water erosion in constructionsite, which will directly affect the water quality of Diaojiang river. But this kind of impact is temporary and it will disappear upon project completion. Improvement of K1270-K1271 section needs certain slope descending. During construction, if meeting with storm, it will cause small-range water erosion. In addition, certain quantity wastes will be produced during construction period. These will also affect the local water and ecological environment if not well-treated. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid construction in rainy season and take preventive measures. 5.7.2 Operating period 5.7.2.1 Analysis of impacts of traffic noises After the improvement, the road situation and traffic capacity will be greatly improved due to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amount of traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore,the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. According to the analogical comparison with other highway traffic volume and noise levels, some portions will exceed noise standards during long-termoperating period. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises is manly Jiuxu town.. Nayu primary school is located on high slope, and classroom is 30 meters away from the road side, plus fence, the traffic noise will not exceed standards both in daytime and nighttime. So traffic noise during operating period will not have much influence on Nayu primary school. 5.7.2.2 Analysis of air environmental impacts After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. Comparing with those of other roads, it is evident that the traffic flow after improvement of the road will not obviously affect the quality of air environment. There are one primary school and some towns. Nayu primary school is 16 m away from centre; the highway crosses Jiuxu town. According to analogical analysis, these places will not be affected by the traffic, air quality will not be affected obviously.

5.8 G324 Baise - Tianlin project 5.8.1 Constructionperiod 5.8.1.1 The analysis of acoustic impacts on environment The additionalnoises arising during constructionperiod include the following three aspects: a. The traffic noises produced by transport vehicles. During construction period, gravel, sand clay, cement, steel bars etc. construction materials will be used to widen and strengthen the pavement. Such kind of transport vehicles will somehow increase the traffic flow of certain sections of the road hence cause traffic noises. b. The noises produced by construction machinery. Main construction machines are: road roller, scraper, spreader, excavator, bulldozer, electric generator, mixing machine, crane etc. According to previous monitoring results, noises produced by these machines are nornally

jr above 65dB (A) within 50 meters and the iterative noise level will exceed 70dB (A). c. Road constructionwill affect the traffic flow and increasetraffic noise level. Chinese existing roads have the characteristics of street-like roads. Many shops and houses are built along the roads in towns and villages. The sub-project G324 Baise-Tianlin has 65 kilometers crossing a number of towns and villages including Rongle town and Wangdiantown. Pingbing primary school, Tangxing Zencheng primary school, Tangxing Baigao primary school are respectively 100m, 150m, 90m away from the road; Tangxing hospital is 50m away from central line of the road. Daily life of the people living nearby the road will be affected by construction and traffic noises, especially at night. Pingbing primary school, Tangxing Zencheng primary school, TangxingBaigao primary school are all 90m away from the road and will not be seriously affected by construction. Tangxing hospital is only 50 meters away from the road and will be more seriously affected by the construction,and noise levels during daytime and nighttime will exceed the limited values. With the completion of construction,the impacts of noises will disapear. 5.8.1.2 Analysisof impacts on air environmental quality The environment of this section is similar to that of Qintang-Wuli sub-project and the impacts on air environimentalquality remains similar. Details refer to the analysis item 5.1.1.2 of the section. 5.8.1.3 Analysis of ecological environmentalimpacts a. Ecological environmentalimpacts This project has no requirement of land req[uisition.The improvement is done at the same width with the existing road. The improvement is lay bitumen surface, thus will not cause obvious impacts on ecologicalenvironment of the section. b. Water environmentalimpacts & water and soil conservation The section is only laying asphalt surface without any excavating and refilling, nor any damage on existing structure, so the impact on water environmentwill be very little and will not cause water erosion. It should be noted that partial section of this project are near to the river, and materials stacking shall be adequately attended to avoid storm-washing and the consequent pollution of water body. 5.8.2 Operating period 5.8.2.1 Analysis of impacts of traffic noises After the improvement,the road situation and traffic capacitywill be greatly improveddue to the widened pavement and better durability. In the initial stages (before 2005), the amnountof traffic slightly increases, the widened and strengthened pavement will improve the traffic situation and lower mechanical noises of the vehicles. Therefore, the traffic noise level will be lower than that before. With the prolonged years of operation and increasing traffic, traffic noise level will grow gradually year after year. According to the analogical comparison with other highway traffic volume and noise levels, the traffic noise may exceed standards during long-term operatingperiod. Most of the buildings along both sides of the road are shops, so the population affected by noises is limited. The villages and towns affected by noises are manly Rongle town, Wangdian town and Tangxing hospital. The noise level of Tangxing hospital will exceed the standards at nighttime. Because this hospital has no ward bed, so traffic noise of nighttime will not affect too much. The three primary schools inclusive of Pingbing primary school are all 90 meters away from the road. Traffic noises will not seriously affect teachers and students during operating period. 5.8.2.2 Analysis of air quality environment. After the improved road enters operation, the traffic flow will increase due to the improvement of traffic situation. The amount of NOx and CO emitted by the vehicles will increase. Comparing with those of other roads, it is evident that road improvementwill not obviously affect the quality of air environment. The section crosses two towns - Rongle town and Wangdiantown, three primary schools and one hospifal. Pingbing primary schools is 100 meters away from the road central line, Tangxing Zengcheng primary school is 150 meters away while TangxingBaigao primary is 90 meters away. According to analogical analysis, these places will not be seriously affected by the vehicle offgas, the COx and CO contents are also within the allowed range. Based on analogical analysis, Tangxinghospital is 50 meters away from road center, and it will not be affected by COx and CO.

5.9 Main conclusion of analysis of environmentalimpacts. 5.9.1 Construction period All sections of various sub-projects belong to road improvement project. It is only required to extend, strengthen and improve the existing road pavement without requirement of land requisition and residents' resettlement. Therefore, the environmental impacts done by the project actions mainly include the following aspects: A. Noises and dust of constructionequipment and transport vehicles will affect the acoustic and air environment of the sections of various sub-projects to some extent. It is necessary to adopt environmental measures such as suitable construction time, working site and sanitary protection distances etc. to ensure the environmental quality of sensitive points inclusive of schools and hospitals along the sections covered by various sub-projects. B. No rare animals and plants are found along the section of various sub-projects. The project construction will not have obvious impact on rare animals and plants. C. The environmental ecological influence on vegetation and soils of the sections covered by these sub-projects is not serious. It is only required to take grade descending in some sections to formnsome filling-excavating slopes. In addition, due to removal of some vegetation on slope, it will cause certain damage and water erosion in some sections. But such can be controlled through environmental education during construction and adopting suitable preventive measures such as to re-plant the vegetation inrmediately after construction. D. The existing road will be half-open and half-constructionduring constructionperiod, this will obviously affect the traffic flows. Such shall require mitigatory measures such as adopting sectionalized construction and proper traffic leading. 5.9.2 Operating period A. During the operating period, with the increase of traffic flow every year, the noise level will also increase. It is estimated that, as upto the operating period, the sensitive points nearby the highways will received obvious traffic noises. Noise levels of some schools and hospitals may exceed the environmental standards. It is necessary to adopt noise preventive measures for these sensitive points of relative higher estimated values if necessary. B. Vehicle offgas and dust will reduce the air quality of the section covered by the sub- projects during the operating period. But this will not exceed the assessing standard during short-term period.

List of Above-normSensitive Points of Environmental Air Quality in Operating Period Table 5-1 Sections Sensitivepoints Distancefrom road (m) Pollutants G209Qintang-Wuli Changlingprimary school Tightlyclose NOx Wulicentral primary school Tightlyclose NOx G209 Wuli-Heng out-patient department of Nayang bridge 25 NOx county hospital

G209 Changle- Branch of Liannanprimary school 40 NOx Hepu Shuiche primaryschool 40 NOx Shikang middle school 40 NOx G324 Shinan- Batang No. middleschool 30 NOx Guigang Qiaoxu No.I middle school 60 NOx ZhanjiangNo.2 middle school 50 NOx Zhanjiang Centralprimary school 20 NOx Kuilingprimary school Tightlyclose NOx Shanxin hospital 10 NOx

C. Environmentalecological impacts during operating period are mainly lead offgass and dust of vehicle. But the quantity of dust retention on vegetation is limited due to adequate and relatively higher frequency and strength of rainfall in the sections covered by various sub-projects. Rainfall has strong washing capacity of the dust settled on surface of vegetation. So road dusting have less impact on vegetation. 6. EnvironmentalAction Plans 0 Basis for Compilationof EAPs (1) Circular on Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment of Foreign-aided Construction Projects issued by the State EnvironmentalBureau, State Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, People's Bank of China,No.(1993) 324. (2) The WorldBank Operational Manual, OP, BP, GP4.01. January, 1999. (3) Memorandumof the World Bank Delegation,April 14,1999. (4) Comments on the Draft of IEE and EAP for Road Rehabilitation and Improvement Component,World Bank Delegation, August, 1999. 3 The EnvironmentalProtection Action Plans include four parts: (1) EnvironmentalManagement Plans: to prevent, reduce or mitigate environmental impacts. (2) Environmental Supervision Plans: the supervision activities to ensure synchronous implementationof mitigated measures and project actions. (3) Environmental Monitoring Plans: monitoring activities for implementation of rnanagement plans during construction and operating periods. (4) Investment estimate for environmentalprotection. 6.1 EnvironmentalManagement Plan 6.1.1 Laws, Regulations and Standards for EnvironmentalManagement 6.1.1.1 Laws and regulations (1) Law of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, Dec. 26, 1989 (2) Law for Prevention and Cure of Water Pollution of the People's Republic of China, May, 1996; (3) Law for Soil and Water Conservation of the People's Republic of China, June 29, 1991 (4) Ordinance for Prevention and Cure of EnvironrmentalNoise Pollution of the People's Republic of China; (5) Circular on Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment of Foreign-aided Construction Projects issued by the State Environmental Bureau, State Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, People's Bank of China,No.(1993) 324. 6.1.1.2 Standards (1) GB3095-1996, Environmental Air Quality Standards; (2) GB3096-93, Environmental Noise Standardsin Urban Area (3) GB12523-90,Noise Limits for Construction Sites 6.1.2 Environmentalprotection plans during feasibility study phase. The main environmental work during the phase of project feasibility study is the compilation of IEEs and EAPs, which shall be undertaken by Guangxi Environmental Protection Institute. 6.1.3 EnvironmentalProtection managementplans during the phase of design period. It is proved that it is the one of the most effective, economical and reasonable ways to reduce and avoid environmental pollution by taking into consideration of possible environmental impact of the project during the phase of project design and proposing relevant solving administrative measures. Therefore, during the phase of project design, it is required to abide by the following principles of environmental management: (1) If the project has earth borrowing and discarding, it is necessary to ascertain the source sites of earth, disposal sites of wastes and earth. Farnland can not be used, and the project can not cause adverse effects on rivers, ditches and reservoirs. It is not allowed to destroy river beds and scenery spots during sand dredging and stone mining. (2) If trenching system of road sides have to be occupied by the project, subgrade and trenching system must be re-designed, and it is also required to avoid discharge of oily sewage to farmland and drinking water. (3) Project afforestation should be included in project general planning, for which necessary funds shall be placed to guaranteethe timely implementationafter the project completion. The most important places to be afforestated are schools, sections of road near residential areas, slopes where the vegetation are destroyed, temporary land use, borrow pit and waste area etc. (4) If the newly-designed slopes are big, necessary technical measures must be taken to stabilize the slopes to prevent water erosion and add to the beauty of the highway. Upon completion of the project, it is required to construct protection slope, shoulder, ditches and other places which have been damaged by the construction. All these places shall be recovered with vegetation to prevent water erosion. (5) This project belongs to road rehabilitation and improvement project. Due to historical reasons, there are a lot of schools, hospitals and villages, during project design and construction, it is important to avoid or reduce the environmentalimpacts on these places during construction. In the stage of design, it is required to choose the sites which are possibly far away from these places for materials stacking, concrete and asphalt mixing etc. Materials transportation shall be equipped with dust-proof facilities and try to detour to avoid pollution. These facilities include water sprayer, low-noise equipment etc. Equipment of high noise shall be adequately treated to avoid noise pollution such as by using sound arresters. (6) According to the result of project environmental impact assessment, necessary preventive measures against noise and water pollution are required during project design. (7) Earthwork construction shall avoid being done during storm season so to reduce water erosion. 6.1.4 Environmental management plans during the period of construction 6.1.4.1 Ecological environmental protection measures (1) During earth excavation, it is required to strictly abide by the plan, and try using the discarded earth or choose those hills which have little impacts on ecological environment. Excavation from farmlands located on both sides of the road is prohibited. If it is necessary to excavate earth from road sides, measures for comprehensive development such as construction of fish ponds must be considered. Before earth excavation, it is necessary to negotiate with locate people and offer reasonable design. Excavation of earth without consent is prohibited. If farmland is temporarily needed during construction, existing ripe soil of the plough horizon should be removed to one side. After completion of the project, the removed ripe soil should be spread and made even as it used to be. It is not allowed to dump the wastes into farmland, ditches and rivers. After the completion of the project, effective measures should be taken to prevent soil erosion in waste area, surface afforestation is also required. (2) It is upmostly required to protect the existing green belt and other vegetation. Those vegetation damaged during the construction shall be recovered during the last period of construction. 6.1.4.2 Noise preventive measures (1) When the construction approaches sensitive sections of towns, schools and- hospitals, equipment of high noises must be stationed 150 meters away from schools and dense. If the distance is less than 150 meters, working at 22:00 - next 6:00 shall be avoided so as not to disturb people's life. (2) If construction is done nearby schools, construction time shall be consulted with school authorities to reduce the disturbanceto teaching by the construction. (3) Labor protection for construction staff must be also attended to. Workers working long time nearby noise sources must take rotating shifts and be equipped with earplugs, hence to reduce the noise impact on workers. (4) Loading, unloading and transporting of construction materials shall try to avoid the rest time to reduce the impacts of noise done to nearby schools and residential areas. 6.1.4.3 Preventivemeasures for air pollution (1) Materials storage site, lime stone and concrete mixing plant must be stationed 200 meters away from schools, hospitals and dense residential area. Lime blending must adopt water spraying, mixing plant must be equippedwith duster to reduce dust pollution. (2) Bulk material trucks must be of closedcarriage and covered to reduce dust pollution. (3) During construction, roads, materials stacking sites must apply water spraying to settle dust. (4) Asphalt heating shall adopt full-closed and full-automatic equipment. If half-closed equipment, asphalt-heatingplaces shall be stationed at the places to which 300 meters are without residential areas, schools etc. Labor protection shall be also greatly attended. (5) Location of asphalt mixing plant shall be at least 300 meters away from sensitive points such as residential area and schools, so to prevent pollution of asphalt smoke. 6.1.4.4 Preventivemeasures for water pollution (1) Daily rubbish and sewage of constnrction sites must be concentrated for non-polluting treatment. Casual discharge is prohibited, hence to avoid pollution to local drinking water and disease transmission. (2) Construction materials such asphalt, oil, chemicals can not be stacked nearby drinking water and riverwater body to prevent entering the water body by storm. Solid wastes can not be casually disposed, nor dischargedinto the river. (3) Oily sewage can not be directly dischargedinto drinking water sources, ponds *andditches. 6.1.4.5 Traffic management Road improvement project norrnally adopts half construction and half traffic, so it is necessary to strengthen materials stacking and traffic leading, hence to reduce traffic jam and consequent pollution of noise and vehicle offgas. 6.1.5 Environmentalmanagement plans during operating period (1) Green belt has remarkable functions in controlling noise and air pollution. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen afforestation especially for the places of schools and dense residential area at the range of 50 meters from the road. Evergreen trees and bushes of different heights which have good preventive features can better exert the function of dust and noise reduction in four seasons. (2) To place horn prohibited signboard 100 meters ahead from schools to reduce noise disturbance. (3) To place signboards of speed-restricted,village, school and walkway etc. at the places of cities, towns and schools located along the road, hence to safeguard people's life. (4) Roads and highways departments are required to establish the system of monitoring of noise and offgas. Periodical and sampling tests of local and passing vehicles shall be done to strengthen the monitoring management of offgas and noise. Vehicles of surpassing discharge of noise and offgas are prohibited to run on road. (5) Leaking and over-loading vehicles are prohibited running on the road to prevent pollution to air and water by dropped materials. (6) Vehicles carrying dangerous load shall be reported to the roads and highways administrative stations and can not drive on the road without approval. Transportation of such goods shall be greatly attended to prevent water pollution. (7) Land planning for road sides shall be also attended. Schools, hospitals and other buildings which require higher environmental quality shall not be constructed within 100 meters from the road. Formation of sensitive points shall be controlled. (8) During the medium and long term periods of the project, the noise levels of some schools and hospitals will exceed the specified standards. Therefore, it is necessary to entrust qualified monitoring units to undertake periodical or nonscheduled monitoring against these sensitive points. If necessary,technical measures to reduce noise disturbance shall be adopted. The schemes of noise reduction for sensitive points are shown in Table 6-1. According to statistics, the following shall be constructed: I noise barrier of 120 m2 at the costs of 24 thousand yuan at RMB200/ m2 ; 9 high wall fences of total 2400 m2 of 120 thousand yuan at RMB50/ m2 ; 5 place of tree growing of 155 thousand yuan at RMB50/ m2; 3 change of house and resettlement of total RMB600 thousand..

Noise PreventiveMeasures for SensitivePoints Table 6-1

Sub- Name of Sensitive Distanceto Immentin projects Points centerline Preventivemeasures g pefiod

Qintang- Changlingprimary Tightly No night school; heighten school 2005 Wuli school close fence wall Wuli centralh rimary Tightly Change house, resettlement 2010

schoo cios Lincun primary 50 Heighten wall 50m 2010 school Wuli Peizheng 50 3m-height wall secondary school Nayang bridge 15 Change house, resettlement 2005 nospital Heng Huiyi pnmary 30 3m-height wall county ~ school Qingjiang Yicheng 30 3m-height wall school Liannan primary 40 branch school Tree Changle Shuiche pimary 4 3m-height wall; tree plantation plantation52 Changlepu shchoopnmary 40 around school 002 -H-lepu school _ high forest Highfence Shikang middle 40 wallO2015 school 40 Walian primary 50 Wujia- school Tree plantation (school without 2002 Hepu Dantian primary 50 night school) school

Tianlin Tangyi hospital 50 Tree plantation 2010 Batang No.1 middle 30 3m-height wall 2001 school Zhangjinag No.2 50 Tree plantation 2010 middle school Shinan- Kuiling primary Tightly 2m-height noise barrier] 60m- 2001 Guigang school close length ZhangJiang central 20 3m-height wall 2001 pnmary school

Shanxin hospital 15 Change house, resettlement 2005

6.2 Environmental Supervision Plan The environmental supervision plans for this project are shown in Table 6-2

Environmental Supervision Plans Table 6-2

Phase Institutions Supervising contents Supervising targets -_ . 13To ensure that all great and o < potential problems of the project m. R e;, :: Appraise IEE & EAP have be reflected. 2. To ensure practical and

Ln I: n c3. -: 3 s: Creliable implementing plans for mitigation of environmental x3° >0 0N' ; impacts have been executed.

I _To check whether or not the environmentalprimary design and 1 ETo ensure "3-simutaneities" environmental investment have and EAP been settled. 2]Inspect stacking site and 20To ensure the sites can satisfy asphalt mixing plant, lime mixing environmentalrequirement. - ~~~~~fieldetc. p ds a 30To reduce the influence on controlling m01peasures;andee nearby environment; execute >3° construction. sites..1 free from pollution OCheckrecovery and treatment E5OTo ensure scenery and land CD > 5 0 Checkrecovery and treatment rA~ . ^ . , resourcesare free from n m of earth excavating and discarding r ousrfefo ______~~~~pollution. 6 cInspect environmental 60Approval of environmental M. a- facilities; take curative measures facilities to ensure for those unsatisfied. environmental requirement I OCheck implementationof EAP 2. Check implementationof ° S = 3° ; monitoring plans 10To ensure EAP EOi 33 301Inspectsensitive points 2 0iToensure monitoring plans Z 3- requiredto take further 3 OToensure environmental MD g P 3 environmental measure (future protection - oc. cc : possible environmentalproblems) 4 0To strengthen environmental r O ,O8 -°s'x 4]Inspect environmental quality management, and protection S3 r 3 of sensitivepoints people's health. X° T 2 s-

- na suddenc event of danger or .______poisonous leaking etc.

6.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan 6.3.1 Monitoring target The target of environmental monitoring is the acquire the knowledge of the states of degrees of environrnental pollution during different phases of various sections of the project, to inspect the situation of actual implementation of various environmental measures and their results, so as to strengthen environmental management service by providing necessary grounds for decision of environmental measures in different periods (including the adopted measures for the unpredicted environmental problems). 6.3.2 Monitoring institutions Environmental monitoring during construction and operating periods shall entrust Guangxi.provincial environmental monitoring centers. 6.3.3 Monitoring implementation Normal monitoring shall be done by the above-mentioned units according to the schedules specified in Table 6-3 and Table 6.4. 6.3.4 Monitoringequipment, monitoringcharges and monitoring reporting system The monitoring plans of the project shall be undertaken by the environmental monitoring institutions entrusted by the ProvincialRoads & Highways Dept., and the monitoring equipment required by the monitoring plans under this project shall be of the property of monitoring units. The communications departmentshall pay suitable depreciation cost and monitoring charges. The monitoring charges during construction period shall be: RMB30000 X 8 ;subprojects RMB240000 (average); monitoring charges during operating period shall be: RMB22000 / subproject *yrX 8 subprojects X 20 yr = RMB3.52 million; monitoring charges for emergency event shall be RMB 100000. The total of the above shall be RMB3.86 million. The system of monitoring reporting of the program is shown in Graph 6- 1.

Environmental Monitoring Plans (noise) Table 6-3

Phase Subproject Monitoringlocation Items Frequency Duation lg Institutions Sponsor ______~~~~~~~~~~time__ _ 50m range with or

Period various schools, hospitals noise - o Id = L o 9 subproject and residential o . area _ _

Changlin primary a U° G209 ~~school;l; Wulii

Environmental Monitoring Plans (air quality) Table 6-4

Phase Subproject location Items Frequency Duration Institutions Sponsor

Period various Lime blending & un- TSP c Iday Monitor = o n subproject finishedroad station L

0 G209 l7000NOX ~ ~ Qintang- TSP , 5days 1000 < wuli primary school co0 G209 wuli- Huiyi primary 1800 Heng school 100 county 10 G209 Shikang middle 0 Changle- school Hepu G324 Kuiling primary

Guangang school G325 Walian primary Wujia-Hepu school G324 Baise- Luoxu town

Tianlin ______G323 Navu primary Pingcun schoo

Jiuxu school ______S20323) Wuming- Tangxing Baigao ______Yingyu primary school _

|Environment.al Office of| h ol Hechi-Nanning Road Project Bankl

Road Maintenance Section Construction Bureau of GCD (Operating period) (constructionperiod)

Moniorin:, units

Graph 6 -1 ijnusErallionOImmm=lrlnl Report

6.4 Investment estimate for environmentalprotection facilities 6.4.1 Lump-sum investment for environmentailprotection The lump-sum investment estimate for environmental protection facilities of the project is shown in Table 6-5, and total investmentis RMB663 I thousand.

Investment Estimate for Environmental Measures Table 6-5 Investment Items Contents & way of computation Environmental benefits (RMB10000)

Construction of noise barrier 2.4 Noise . Reduce noise pollution to ensure Construction of high fence wall 12 reduction environment for schools and House exchange & resettlement 50 measures _ hospitals Tree plantation 15.5

Dust 180dxRMB500/dx8items 43.2 Reduce air pollution reduction Reduction of noise and pollution, RMBIOOO0/kmxl 8krnDasper recovery of ecological scenery; Afforestation 118.0 50% of total length: water & soil preservation; environmentalbeautification

Environmental technical Upgrade professional levels for Personnel training for road construction & 36.0 environmental administrativeand training administration units, emergency monitoring staff team

RMB240 thous. in construction Timely know about the Monitoring period; RMB4 million in , ~~~ ~~~~386environmental quality in charges operating period; RMB I 00 construction & operatingperiods thousand for emergency event.

|Total i 1 663.1

6.4.2 Technicaltraining for environmental staff In order to smoothly implement the environmentalmanagement and monitoring plans, the project should undertake environmental policy and professional training for those relevant personnel of the project such as project administrative staff and emergency staff etc., hence to improve their administrative and technical levels. During construction period, there are totally 24 persons who will receive training, including I environmental administrative person, I environmental monitoring person and I emergency event person (concurrently charged by the supervising engineer if required) in each of the 8 subprojects, total charges will RMB 120 thousand. During operating period, training shall be done in every two years for one person of roads and highways administrative stations in counties (cities) for traing of environmental staff, total charges will be RMB240 thousand. Details are referred to Table 6-6.

Technical Training Plans for Environmental Staff Table 6-6 Unit: RMB10000. Period Category Qty. of personnel Total qty. Time Charges

Administrativestaff 1 person / section 8 2000 4.0

X Monitoringengineer 1 person / section 8 2000 4.0

X5' Emergencystaff 1 person I section 8 2000 4.0 I person in each

roads & highways O Environmental 2003-2022 administrative 8 24.0 o: administrative staff lperson/2yr station in cities

(counties)

Total 8 36.0

7. Public Participation and Analysis 7.1 Range and Methods of Public Participation Respectively in December of 1998 and A.pril of 1999, the environmental assessment group of Guangxi Environmental Protection Scientific Research Institute conducted social investigations and public participation survey in various sections covered by the project including Guigang city, Heng county, Xingye county, Hepu county, Wumingcounty, Baise city, Tianlin county and Hechi city. Survey of public consultation included discussion, questionnaires,individual consultationetc. The investigationhas covered widely government officials of various levels, representatives of the People's Congress, teachers, common people who are impacted by the project etc., and also institutions and department of environmental protection, agriculture, forestry, irrigation, communications.The group has consulted and discussed with more than 200 people, received 153 questionnaires. 7.2 Statistical Result and Public Participation The investigation results are shown in Table 7-1 . The results show that: (1) The local People's governments of various levels covered by the project show great passion for the project, and they agree to vvell coordinate with construction units and offer convenience in the aspects of manpower and materialresources. (2) 69.28% people answer that they know "something" or "very much" about the road improvement project, and the balance 30.72% people got to know that the road section are to be improved in this consultation. (3) 77.78% people are not satisfied with the local traffic situation, and they think the existing roads are too narrow, of bad quality and have too many slopes etc. Some sections are easy to occur traffic accidents. But 5.23% are still satisfied with the present traffic condition. (4) 78.43 people are in the opinions that road improvement will cause slight impact on their residential and living environment. Bul 95.42% people think that road improvement and construction will be benefited to local economic development. 96.73% hope the projects shall be started as soon as possible. "Good road will bring good fortune" is the common idea of local people. (5) As for environmental problems caused by the project, the proportions respectively holding the ideas of noise, vehicle offgas and dust as the main pollution come near, and the sequence is noise>dust>vehicle offgas. 77.12% people suggest road afforestation to reduce such pollution.

7.3 Solutions to the Problems of Public Participation As for the noise, vehicle offgas and dust pollution caused by road construction, road afforestation shall be the main solution, especially in the section of schools and residential area. Meanwhile, during the period of construction, equipment of high noise shall be operated upmostly to avoid schooling and rest hours of schools and residents, hence to reduce the impacts the minimum, content. Some officials in Luoxu town of Wuming county are in the opinions that the traffic pollution will affect local residents, it is recommended to defer the process of road improvement in this section which shall be settled by local government according to future traffic conditions.

Statistical Report of Project Public Survey Table 7-1 Investigating items Options People nos. Proportion (%) Very much 10 6.54 To what degree do you know about the road So-so 96 62.74 project ? Not know 47 30.72

Very much 8 5.23 To what degree are you satisfied with local So-s 2 1.99 traffic situation? So-so 26 16.99 Not satisfied 119 77.78 Greatly 5 3.27 To what degree does the project influence the Slight 120 78.43 residential and living environment? I don't know 28 18.30 Good 146 95.42 What do you think of the road improvement will Not good 0 0 do to the economic development of your units or go_.- villages? I don't know 7 4.58

Accelerated 148 96.73 Road construction shall be Postponed 3 1.96 Cancelled 2 1.31

Which pollution do you think is the serious Noise 58 37.91 during road construction? Offgas 40 26.14

Dust ____35__95 Afforestatio 118 77.12

What measures do you think to reduce losses Noise barrier 14 9.15 - and pollution ? Far away from 4 2.61 villages Others 17 11.12 Notes: 1. Investigating time: December 8 - 28, 1998 2. Places: Wuming county, Hepu county, Heng county, Guigang city, Xingye county, Baise city, Hechi city, Tianlin county. 3. Information of people who filled the questionnaire: total 153 questionnaire. Including 10 persons of university education, 22 of college education, 62 of high school education, 40 of secondary education, 19 of primary education. 77 persons are peasants, 48 cadres, 28 workers. 110 are mal, 43 are female. 62 are Zhuang minority, 84 are Han nationality, 7 are Yao nationality. Totally 52 units and villages.

Annex: Lists of Componentsfo]r EnvironmentalManagement Plans of The HighwayImprovement Program in the PovertyArea Lists of Comnonents for Environmental Management Plans of The Highway imprnovementProgram in the Povertv Area Annex 1 Item Actionplans to bcadopted Implementing Rcsponsibleinstitutions components institutions

Design period I. Soil erosion * Newly-designedslope shall be designed with protectionto avoidwater erosion. Designingunit Guangxi * To selectreasonable earth-excavation sites to avoiddamage to farmland,river, Communications ditchand reservoiretc., thus to avoidwater erosion. Earth-excavation in plain Department;the World area shall be combinedwith comprehensiveutilization such as pond BankOffice construction * Constructiondiscarding earth and waste residues shall be plannedin stacking andprotect scenery and avoid water erosion. * To selectlow-noise construction equipment. Equipment of high-noiseshall be shieldedor closedduring operation. * Necessarynoise-reduction measures for sensitivepoints of exceedingnoise standardsshall be planned. 2. Noise * To selectlow-noise equipment, Equipment of high-noiseshall be shieldedor Designingunit Guangxi closedduring operation. Communications * Necessarynoise-reduction measures for sensitivepoints of exceedingnoise Department;the World standardsshall be planned. BankOffice 3. Air pollution 0 To takeconsideration of theimpacts on sensitivepoints (schools, hospitals and Designingunit Guangxi residentialareas) done by dust, asphaltsmoke and other problemswhen Communications selectingsites for materialstacking and asphalt mixing plant. Department;the World BankOffice 4. Water 0 If requiredto useexisting roadside ditches and other water draining system, the Designingunit Guangxi pollution drainingsystems of subgradeand pavement shall be re-designed.Oil sewage Communications shallavoid to directlydrain to drinkingwater source and farmland. Department;the World BankOffice Construction period 1.Ecological * Strictlyfollow thedesigned scheme to quarrystone so to minimizethe damage Contractor ConstructionBureau of environment to ecologicalenvironment. Earth excavationfrom nearby farmland is Guangxi prohibited. Communications * If requiredto occupyfarmland, ripe soil shall be stackedaside and shall be Department recoveredafter completion. Existinggreen belt and vegetationshall protected during construction. Damaged ones shallbe timely recovered after construction completion.

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43 2. Noise * High-noiseequipment shall be stationed 150 m away from sensitivepoints. If Contractor Construction Bureau of high-noiseequipment is lessthan 50 m away from residentialarea, night-work Guangxi (22:00-6:00) is prohibited. Communications * When construction is done nearby schools, it is required to negotiatewith Department schoolauthorities to avoid noisedisturbance to teaching. * Labor working protectionshall be attendedto. Workersworking nearby noise sourceshall be equippedwith earplugsand taketurns in operation. 3. Air pollution 0 Materials stacking sites,lime soil and mixing plantsshall be stationed200 m Contractor Construction Bureau of away from schools,hospitals and residentialareas. Mixing equipmentshall be Guangxi equippedwith dust-reducingfacilities andmeasures. Communications * Vehiclescarrying bulk materialsshall be covered. Department * Asphalt mixing plant shall be stationed300 m away from residentialareas and schools. The mixing equipment must be closed, operators shall also be protected. * Measuressuch as water-sprayingshall be used to reducedust in dusty road, load-unloadingsites and materials stacking sites. 4. Water 0 Domestic garbageand sewageof constructioncampus shall be collected for Contractor Construction Bureau of pollution innocuoustreatment which cannotbe directly dischargedto waterbody. Guangxi * An asphalt,oil andchemical material etc. cannotbe stackednearby houschold Comminiunications wells, rivers, and shall be safely coveredto avoid leaking to water body by Department storm. * Solid wastescan not be discardedwithout arrangement,nor be dischargedto river andditches. * Water containing oil producedby equipmentcannot be directly dischargedto water body and farmiand. _ 5. Traffic 0 Constructionmaterials shall be stackedin good arrangement.Special personnel Contractor administration shall be employedto guidetraffic.

6. Implementationof EAP environmentalmonitoring plans during construction period. Environmental Environmental monitoring station monitoring ._. _ Operatingperiod

(continued) 1. Noise& air * Afforestationon both sidesof the road,especially on the sections50 m withiin whiich Roads & llighway Guangxi Roads & | pollution areschools, hospitals and residential areas. Bureaus in cities & Ilighway counties Administration Bureau

44 I * To place "Horn Prohibited" nearbythe sectionwhere schools are located. I Roads & Highway l I Bureaus in cities & I counties * In land planning,construction of schools,hospitals and thoseof high environmental Local governments requirementis prohibitedwithin the rangeof 50 m on both sidesof the road. Roads & Hlighway Bureaus in cities & counties * Sensitivepoints exceedingnoise standardsshall bc built with noise barrier or other Roads & Highway noisereduction measures. Details refer to Table6-1. Bureaus in cities & counties * To establishthe inspectionsystem for vehicles.Offgas inspectionsshall be doneto Roads & -llighway local and passingvehicles periodically or non-periodically.Over-discharging vehicles Bureaus in cities & arenot allowedon road. counties;public security & communicationsdept. * Vehiclesof various leakages,bulk-carrying andover-loading are not allowed to run Roads & Highway on the road. Bureaus in cities & counties;public security & communicationsdept. 2. Risk of 0 To set up and perfect the examiningand approving regulationsfor chemical- Roads & Highway Guangxi Roads & transportationof carrying vehicleswhich can only run on approvedroad in specifictimc. Bureaus in cities & liighway dangerous 0 To formulate emergencyplans for hazard leakage.Hazard leakage shall be counties;public security Administration Bureau materials reportedto concerneddepartment to takenecessary emergency actions. & communicationsdept.

3. To implement the environmental monitoring plans of this EAP based on Environmental Guangxi Roads & Environmental environmentalmonitoring standards. monitoring station Highway monitoring Administration Burcau

45 Table I-I ImprovementStandards & Investment Estimates Existingconditions Improvementstandards

SL Section name & SL,~0 IT 5TimeRmak No. rarfiSection *' -~~scheduleReyak as n ~~~n t

Total 236 47058 G324Baisc- Tianlin >Iirv akadtafcstaini (K 1977.26- 65 III 913 43 8.5 7 0.83 III 8.5 7 4;~ 5525 2000-2001 Imrebakrdratcittonn 2047.26) G323 Pingcun- 2 JiuxuEJKl258-' 18 IV 3022 46 9 6 .3 I 85 7 400 21-02 lniprove backward traffic situation,to K1276L11. connectShui-Nan grade11 highway

S20324 ___ 3__ Mashanconroad 4t 1V, 1975 5 2 9 7.5 0.5 II 12 9 cc 1300 2002 Existing road scriously damaged, to 4 S20324Dahua C. 16 IV 1835 50 9 7.5 0.5 II 12 9 cc 5203 2002-2003 iniprove traff-iccondition. Road____ 6209 Qintang- 5 Wuli it III 3923 St It 8 1.17 II II 9 cc 2530 2001-2002 Extsting road seriously damaged, to ___(K31I37-K3 148) improve traffic condition,______6 G209 wuli-Heng 30 II 39E785 6 11 1 85 7 c 00 20-03 xisting road seriously damaged, to (K3148-K3178) 30 II 392o7v8. 6r.a711i85 7 CCn000t002200

7 GHepuhK3310- 20 II 54 1 I1 7 33 1 I1 9 cc.,. 50 20120 Existing road seriously damaged,to HeuK3330-l 20iI54 1 I mprovetraff-ic condition. G324 Shin-an-Exsigraseiuldmgd,t 8 G uigang(K1510- 37 III 5287 52 15 12 1.38 II IS5 12 cc 8100 2000-2001 Eitmpgrovtaffi condiion.ydmae,t

G325Wujia- T improve traff-ic condition and 9 Hepu(K644- 15 III 6755 60 I 9 1.79 if S1 12~ CC 4500 2001-2002 capacity (sectional improvement

K659) __ ___1] ______15km) 10 Wuming-Luoxu 20 III 4133 4212 7 9 iI 2 9 c 40 0220 Wuming to poor county

OKI1O-K301J ______I- traffic. Remarks:The above subprojectsbelong to road rehabilitation and improvementprojects, without requirement of land requisition.