Initial Environmental Examination

November 2009

People’s Republic of China: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (Xupu County Non-core Subproject)

Prepared by Hunan Hydro and Power Design Institute for the Hunan Provincial Project Management Office and the Asian Development Bank.

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Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project

Environmental Impact Report Table

Constructed by: Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project Construction Headquarter

Compiled by: Hunan Hydro and Power Design Institute

Compiled on: November 2009

Environmental Impact Assessment Qualification Certificate

(1/3-size duplicate of original color copy)

Assessment Unit: Hunan Hydro and Power Design Institute (Seal)

Project Principal: Zhou Tao

Assessment Personnel

Name Profession Title Certificate No. Duty

Environmental Project analysis, Zhao Environmental Assessment Senior Engineer environmental impact Weihua Engineering Certificate No. analysis and prediction B27130003

Environmental Environmental Assessment Ren Yu Engineer Public participation Engineering Certificate No. B27130005

Environmental Environmental Zheng Environmental Assessment management and Assistant Engineer Qingli Engineering Certificate No. environmental B271300014 protection measures

Environmental Investigation and Environmental Assessment Zhou Tao Assistant Engineer assessment on the Engineering Certificate No. current environment B271300017

Former Residence of Martyr Xiang Jingyu One Side (toward Xushui River) of the Former Residence of Martyr Xiang Jingyu

Ancient Camphor Tree in the Garden of Martyr Xiang Jingyu Water Catchment of Xupu County Waterworks

Xupu Great Bridge Ancient Camphor Tree on the Opposite Side of Xupu Waterworks

One Side (the side toward the river) of Jingyu Primary School One corner of Jingyu Primary School

Basic Information of the Construction Project

Xupu County Subproject under Hunan Hilly Regions Urban Flood Control Project Project Name Utilizing ADB Loans

Construction Unit Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project Construction Headquarter under ADB Loans

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Construction Site Embankment lines along Xushui River of Xupu County in Hunan Province

Approval Department for Approval Document

Project No. Establishment

ng Construction Newly construction√ Rebuildi Sector Category and nological Water Conservancy Property or expanding□ Tech Code innovation□ Land Acquisition Afforestation Area Area 72422.86 2 42065.81 2 (m ) (m ) The percentage The investment of Total Investment for environment environmental 5918.31 protection 105.82 1.8% (RMB 104) protection (RMB 104) investment in total investment

Evaluation Expected Expense Commissioning (RMB 104) Date Project Content and Scale: I Project Content The Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project includes the Chengbei protection cycle from Zaozipo caijiachong to Railway station, which is 3.991km and protection area of 10.67km2; and Chengdong Changlefang Protection Cycle starts from Yanwan and ends at Xinping Township with a total length of 8.925km and protection area of 2.52km2; meanwhile the Chengnan Juhuayuan Protection Cycle from Changjitan to Diping with a total length of 6.991km and protection area of 6.14km2, and the total protection area is 19.33km2. The details of flood control project are as follows: i) Dike: newly built mortar rubble masonry flood control wall of 2567m; ii) Newly built flood control earth dikes of 1570m;

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iii) 5 new culvert gates; iv) Grouting hose dike section of 834 m; v) 2 new electrical drainage station: Xiajiaxi Electrical Drainage Station 3×220kwand Changlefang Electrical Drainage Station3×220kw; vi) Construction flood prevention headquarters and the necessary administration facilities. II Construction Camp Arrangement i Transportation Arrangement in the Construction Area The land and water transportation in Xupu is very convenient, the Xiangqian railway passes through the north of the urban area, the road connects west and east, and at the same time, the Xushui River opens for transportation in the whole year. Every construction sites are connected by county or township class road for the construction mechanical equipment transportation; and the earth material, sand gravel material, cement, reinforcing steel bar, steel products, block stone, lumber, oil products, metal structures and electrical equipments should be transported through roads; the temporary road with a length of 1.5 km should be built for inside transportation, the road will be cement stone surface, and however the building is relatively easy job due to the flat topography. ii Building Facilities Arrangement in the Auxiliary Construction Camp The occupied lands in the project are mainly used for the construction of temporary facilities, such as the road construction, factory building, warehouse construction, and various storage yards building. The off duty in the construction area should be utilized for site cleaning, vegetation and cultivated recovering. There are tow type of construction factory layout: dike project and waterlogging drainage station project. The main construction factory facilities in dike project are: concrete mixing and system, mechanical equipment parking place, sand and gravel yard, block stone yard and cement warehouse etc., but the mechanical equipments should be repaired and maintained in urban machine repairing factory. The concrete mixing system, sand and gravel yard, block stone yard, cement warehouse, reinforcing steel bar processing factory, reinforcing steel bar warehouse and so on should be set in the construction site of waterlogging drainage station project. The construction factory layout should be arranged nearby with little or no agriculture land occupying, if it is possible, the renting should be taken as the main method. iii Construction Material Yards Arrangement A Soil material yard The earth material required by this dike project is mainly used for levee and cofferdam reclamation, except for utilizing a part of excavation earth material, the rest material should be borrowed form material yard, according to the topography material, and the short conveying distance, easy exploration, Fengshou is selected as the main borrow pit in this project The earth yards are all classified as hillock earth yard with covered layer, the layer includes surface weed, root and muck etc., the earth layer should be bulldozed by 74kw bulldozer and dumped to the place 40m away. Meanwhile, the earth excavation should be conducted by the 1m3hoe excavator and transported by 8t self loading and unloading truck for earth reclamation.

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B Sand and stone yard There some sandbars in Er’du River, Sandu River of Xushui River within the urban area of Xupu County, the sand and stone material will be from these sandbars, their exploration, reserves and quality all meet the design requirements, the average transportation distance is only 2 km. C Block stone quarry Block stones will be greatly used in this project, according to the topography data, the Tongmutuo Block Stone Quarry is selected as the main supplier, the stone is dolomite limestone with good hardness and quality. It is very convenient from the quarry to the urban through roads, the block stone material can be bought directly, then transported by self load and unload trucks to the site, the average transportation distance is only 5 km. iv Spoil Areas Arrangement According the construction organization and the earthwork balance calculation, the excavation are all utilized for the project without any excavation waste to dump, the spoils need not be taken into consideration. v Wind, Water, Power Supply and Telecommunication Equipment Arrangement The feature of this project is dispersal constructions, so the wind, water and power supply are also not collective. The construction wind are mainly used by few construction assistant enterprises, the wind consumption is little, the air compressor of 3m3/min will be adopted. The construction water consumption is mostly from production and living need, and the production water are mainly used in concrete, mortar, mixing, placing, maintenance water consumption, earthwork reclamation sprinkling, mechanical equipment, construction assistant enterprises etc.. Two pumps with type of IS65－ 50－80A are selected for pumping from the channel directly to meet the production water need. In addition, the living water is from the water supply in urban area or the residential water supply in the project site. The power of construction is supplied by the local electricity system net, the nearest access point will be selected. Local telecommunication net will be utilized for the construction telecommunication, the program control telephone will be equipped, and some mobile communicators will be equipped by the construction units. III Construction Plan i Construction of Dike Works A Earthwork excavation The earthwork excavation mainly includes the dike surface earth cleaning and cut slop excavation, the cleaning excavation earthwork collection should be conducted by 74w bulldozer, and the earth will be carried by the 1m3hoe excavator and transported by 8t self loading and unloading truck to the near stockyard, the average transportation distance will be 500m. Meanwhile, the earthwork from cut slope will be excavated by 1m3hoe excavator and transported to the near stockyard as the reclamation earthwork of levee building or mortar rubble masonry feet slot cofferdam, and the rest earthwork will be carried by 8t self loading and unloading

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truck to the excavation waste dump, the average transportation distance is about 3km. B Earthwork reclamation construction The earth surface in material yard will be cleaned by 74w bulldozer and dumped to the nearest waste dump. The explored earthwork will be carried by the 1m3hoe excavator and transported by 8t self loading and unloading truck to the earthwork reclamation construction operation surface for unloading., and the earthwork will be levelled by 74w bulldozer and vibrated for compacting by 59kw crawler tractor of 13～14t, the corners and joint parts will be compacted by the frog compactor. The utilizing material will be carried by 74w bulldozer to the earthwork reclamation construction operation surface, and compacted by the crawler tractor of 13～14t, the corners and joint parts will be compacted by the frog compactor. The reclamation construction should be conducted form the lowest part, and put the earthwork layer by layer horizontally, the reclamation along the slope should not be allowed, and there is no gap covering earthwork, and the thickness of the earth should be 30 cm, and the length of each operation section should be less than 100m, the compaction of the earthwork should reach the design dry density requirement. The operation procedure is: unloading-earthwork laying-rolling-quality control-cleaning-unloading for next layer. The base excavation material will be utilized for the base earthwork back filling for protection back, protection slope and hose by man, and compacted by the frog compactor. C The mortar rubble masonry laying construction The mortar rubble masonry laying construction includes the laying constructions of flood control wall, protection bank and protection slope. The block stones should be carried by 8t self loading and unloading truck from the block stone quarry to the construction section, and then carried by man to the construction site. The construction scaffold should be built all around by man, the protection bank and the back protection slope of the slope protection base should be laid first, and the back protection slope laying should be conducted after the base excavation. The mortar rubble masonry base construction should not be conducted until the cut surface compaction, levelling passing the acceptance; and the mortar rubble masonry protection slope construction shouldn’t be conducted until the sand and pebble bed course passing the acceptance, at the same time, the slope should be laid from bottom to top by use of lashing thread according to the design requirements. The laying mortar is from 0.2m3 movable mixing and machine mixing, the part for the protection slope construction should be carried to the warehouse by man, and the part for the flood control wall construction should be carried by double tyre truck to the warehouse directly or rolling tank to the warehouse. The type mortar laid by man is M7.5, and the M10 should be adopted for joint filing and surface finishing. In addition, the mortar should be mixed under mixing proportion requirements, and used entirely at one time; the block stones should be shaped uniformly without sharp edge and angle, the weight should be controlled within 20～40kg, the nature of the stone should be fresh, hard with good efflorescence resistance, and the ordinary portland cement should be used. The drainage holes should be built on the mortar rubble masonry flood control wall at intervals. The vertical staggered building should be adopted for blocks construction, the bigger surface should be downward and kept close to each other, the principle is: there are no big joint between stone, and no holes on the surfaces”; the open joints, fold building, floating blockage,

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waterlogging due to infilling and holes should not allowed in the construction. The constructions will be maintenance by sprinkling or grass bag covering after completion. D Sand and pebble cushion construction The sand and pebble material should be used in the constructions of mortar rubble masonry protection slope, the cushion of protection bank, sand and pebble cushion, and the constructions should be conducted after the base laying and ramp finishing passing the acceptance. The sand and pebble material should be carried by the purchasing type trucks to the site, and then re-carried by wheel barrow to the warehouse; the course should be laid by man from bottom to top, the pouring from the top along the slope should not be allowed, at the same time, the course should be sprinkling during laying, and the course should be compacted completely. E Sod revetment construction The sod used for the sod slope protection should be carried by the trucks to the site, and planted by man. Before grass planting, the slope surface should be cleaned, and the earth layer should be levelled and compacted, the easy planted sod with high survival rate should be selected, they should be protected by sprinkling after planting. F Concrete road surface construction The concrete surface should be adopted for the road of the levee crown, and the surface laying material should be carried by 8t self loading and unloading truck to the site, and the road surface should be levelled by man and compacted by 12t-15t vibration roller. ii Through-dike Structures Construction for Waterlogging Drainage Station A The earthwork excavation As the main part of the earthwork excavation, the base earthwork excavation will be conducted by 1m3 excavator, a part of the earthwork will be taken as the backfilling material, and the rest will be carried by the 8t self loading and unloading truck to the excavation waste dump. B Earthwork backfilling The earthwork backfilling are all from the excavation earthwork, and it should be levelled by the bulldozer or backfilled by man, and then compacted by the frog compactor. C Culvert gate concrete The concrete for culvert gate should be mixed by the machine, and then carried by the double rubber tyre truck to the warehouse and vibrated by the vibrator. D Waterlogging drainage station and culvert gate concrete The 0.4m3 concrete will be adopted in machine mixing and carried by the double rubber tyre truck to the warehouse, The construction scaffold should be built all around by man, then the forms should be built and the reinforcing steel bars should be seized. The bed course concrete should be conveyed to the warehouse through the slide tank or slide groove, and the plate vibrator should be adopted for its vibration; The culvert gate concrete should be conveyed through the slide tank to the warehouse, the upper part concrete should be lifted vertically by 5t windlass, and the concrete should be carried by the wheel barrow, then levelled by man and

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vibrated and compacted by 2.2kw plug in type vibrator. E Grouted rubble The through-dike structure mortar rubble masonry construction mainly includes the inlet outlet section building, the stones will be carried by self loading and unloading trucks to the site, and then carried by the man to the building operation site, and 0.2m3 mortar will be mixed by machine on the spot, and then carried by man to the warehouse for building. F High injection mortar The high injection mortar is mainly used in the dike base anti-seepage construction; a row of holes will be arranged with 2m between two holes, and then high pressure solid injection mortar should be adopted. The triple tubular type will be adopted for the injection mortar, the procedure are as follows: preparation-hole positioning and orifice pipe laying-150 type drilling machine standby-drilling to the design depth-let the mortar in the prefixed hole depth-injection test, the injection pipe should be lifted up with the mortar injection to the design top altitude-top low pressure grouting-draw back the orifice pipe-shift to the next hole site. IV Overall Construction Schedule Plan The earthwork and concrete project of Xupu County will be conducted by machines, and other constructions should be conducted by man. The construction processes are as follows: i) The base construction procedures, National policies, regulations should be strictly obeyed. ii) According to the project features and project layout, the main projects are all arranged in the dry season. iii) All projects should be conducted by turns, the preparation and completion should be all taken care with reasonable connection, please avoid the disturbing. iv) The overall project should be mainly conducted by machines, and the man construction will be the auxiliary part. The overall construction period of this project will be 32 months, it should be divided into 4 construction periods, every construction should be conducted for 8 months, there are 4 dry seasons the overall construction from the first year to the fifth year. The period from Jan. to Sep. in the first year in every construction period is the project preparation, the project bidding, construction figure design, and necessary 3 connections and 1 levelling and building dismantling etc. should be finished in this period. In the preparation period (Sep. in the first year), the construction of constructions for temporary roads, factory, warehouse and other assistant facilities, the covering layer stripping for the material yard, and cofferdam construction should be conducted. In the main-body construction period (Oct. of the first to Mar. of the next), the flood control levee construction, protection slope, bank and hose constructions, waterlogging projects should be conducted. And in the round off period of the main body project (Apr. in the next year), the temporary buildings dismantling, project handing over, and personnel, equipments withdrawing should be conducted. In the first and second construction period, the Flood Control Levee in Chengbei

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Protection Cycle and Chengbei Xiajiaxi Waterlogging Drainage Station should be completed; the Juhuayuan Protection Cycle Flood Control Levee should be finished in the third construction period, and the Chanlefang Protection Cycle Flood Control Levee and Changlefang Waterlogging Drainage Station should be completed. The total number labour man-hour for Shuangfeng Country Flood Control Project is 920,600 work-day, and the labour number of construction peak time is 150 persons/d. and the main construction material used in the project are: 11472t of cement, 379t of reinforcing steel bar, 93369m3 of block stone, 57838m3 of sand and pebble (gravel). V Land Acquisition and Resettlement i Land Acquisition and House Demolition The project land occupied of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project will affect 5 residential committees, 2 villages, the relocates is amounted as 40 households of 202 persons, and the area of dismantling is 13960m2including brick and concrete structure of 9054m2 and brick wood structure of 4361m2, earth and wood structure of 352m2 and the attachments of 193m2. The area of the permanently occupied lands is 108.58 mu including cultivated lands of 56.88 mu (dry farmlands of 20.88mu and vegetable lands of 36 mu), the housing plots of 15.70 and the urban construction lands of 36.00mu. The area of temporary land occupied is12.14 mu. The length of affected low pressure line is 2.1 km, while the affected post communication line of 0.4 km. ii Resettlement Plan Agricultural Resettlement: According to the cultivated land adjustment of 25mu within the village group for 30 persons’ resettlements. The affected area is the urban area with developed economy, and the farmers are experienced about second and third industries with the geographical and transportation advantages, 14 persons will be resettled by small scale commercial, transportation industry and the agricultural and sideline products processing industries. According to the separately distributing along the flood control dike, the resettlement residential area will not planned collectively, all the resettlement area should be arranged at the good places with convenient transportation, power supply and good water resource conditions 50m away from the dike line according to the principle of back separately resettlement; the relocates can build their houses by use of the compensation fee, and the daylight and ventilating conditions should be considered at new house building. Urban Residents Resettlement: Without any negative effects to the urban overall plan and public facilities construction, the urban residents should be relocated backup dispersively, and then build the houses on the original site uniformly for the resettlement of 8 households of 47persons. Combined with old urban area rebuilding、Comfortable Housing Project and so on, some resettling buildings should be arranged, and proprieties exchange should be used for the resettlement of 24 household with 111 persons.

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iii Special Facilities Plan After Urban Flood Control Project completion, the affected roads, power supply an post telecommunication facilities should be restored by combining the resettlement, a low voltage line with length of 2.1 km and a 0.4 km length post telecommunication line should be restored

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Profile of Natural and Social Environment Profile of Natural Environment (terrain, landform, geology, climate, meteorology, hydrology, vegetation, biodiversity, and so on): I Profile of Natural Environment Located at the west of Hunan province, the east of Huaihua City, the middle reaches of Yuanjiang River, and the north foot of Xuefeng Mountain, Xupu County is in a region of N 27°17′~28°19′ and E110°15′~111°01′. It borders Xinhua County of Loudi City on its east, Longhui County of Shaoyang City on its southeast, Dongkou County of Shaoyang City on its south, Zhongfang County of Hongjiang City on its southwest, Xupu County on its west, and Yuanling County and Anhua County (of Yiyang City) on its north. The whole county is 113km long from south to north, and 74km wide from east to west, with a total area of 3440km2, farmland of 42066.6 ha and forest land of 223360 ha. It governs 11 towns, 32 townships, 42 residential committees, 652 village committees, with a total population of 0.8406 million and 14 ethic minorities as Yao, Hui, Dong, Miao and Tujia. The south and north ends of Xupu region is medium low mountain, and the center is the low hillock composed of red course with the width of 9km. The riverside is covered by alluvial deposit of Quaternary System with the width of 3.5km, and the northeast area is flat and wide. Three rivers, namely Erdu River, Sandu River and Sidu River, are passing through basin, then merge into Xushui River at the north end of urban area, and westward passing Simeng Gorge to finally merge into Yuanshui River at Jiangkou. There are five terraces at both banks of Xushui River, the terrace at the left bank is mature, while that at the right bank is fragmentary. Among them, Terrace I is flat and wide with the altitude between 145m and 170m, whose topography is low and flat and soil is loamy. The surface layer is the alluvial deposit silty clay of Quaternary System, and the lower layers are alluvial deposit sandy gravel of Quaternary System. The hydrochemical type of underground water is classified to be HCD3-Ca, and the degree of mineralization is less than 0.50g/1, so the underground water will not erode the cement. This region is situated at the depressed red layer basin. As the regional geological structure is simple, there is no regional rupture. Based on Seismic Zoning Map of China with Parameters and China Zoning Map of Characteristic Cycle of Seismic Response Spectrum GB18306-2001 with the scale of 1: 4,000,000, the acceleration at the seismic peak of this district is 0.05g, the characteristic cycle of seismic response spectrum is 0.35s, and the basic seismic intensity is Grade Ⅵ. Located at the west of Hunan Province, which is classified to be subtropical monsoon climate region, Xupu County is wet in Spring, dry in Autumn, hot in Summer and cold in Winter, with intermittent drizzles at the transition of Spring and Summer. The northwest and northeast parts of river basin are close to Yanxi and Xiaoxi storm area of Zishui River basin, the south part is mountainous area rich in precipitation, with the annual precipitation between 1400m and 1700m. According to the statistics of observed meteorologic data in 1954~2003, the average temperature was 16.9℃, the highest temperature was 40.5℃ (on August 27, 1972), the lowest temperature was -12.6℃ (on January 30, 1977), the average relative humidity was 77%, the minimum relative humidity was 4%, the average precipitation was 1411.4mm, the average evaporation capacity was 1413.0mm, the average sunlight was 1520 hours, the maximum water vapor pressure was 38.8mb, the minimum water vapor pressure was 1.4mb, the maximum accumulation depth was 26cm, the average wind speed was 2.1m/s, the maximum wind speed was 19m/s, and the

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southwester was the main wind in Summer and northeaster in Winter. The east of Xushui River basin is higher than the west, and the river basin is in a form of belt with long distance from south to north and short distance from east to west. Along both banks of river, the soil is loamy and there are large and small valleys and basins alternated. With many branches, advanced water systems, and staggered mountains, the big and small branches amount to 175, among which those with the area exceeding 150km2 are Guidong Stream, Gezhuping Stream, Gaoming Stream, Sidu River, Sandu River and Mayang River, those with the area over 90km2 amount to 10, and others are small branches. Xupu County is a typical agricultural county in mountainous area, so the agriculture is the pillar and foundation of county’s economy. Currently, the farmland amounts to 0.6 million mu, including paddy field of 0.44 million mu, and the sown area of paddy ranks first among the grain crops. The soil-forming parent materials in the area mainly include seven kinds, namely metamorphic rock, granite, limestone, red rock, sandshale, grit rock, and loose deposit of the Quaternary Period. The soils developed from metamorphic rock present acidity or slight acidity, the layer is thick, and the texture presents moderate cohesive sand; the soils developed from granite are thick, but with high fertility, and the texture is sandy; concerning the soils developed from limestone, the texture is much cohesive, and the thickness is not uniform, with many base rocks exposed; the soils developed from red rock are the purple soil, which is thin and cohesive; the soils developed from sandshale are rich in nutrient ingredients and present acidity; the soils developed from grit rock are coarse with many gravel; and the loose deposit of the Quaternary Period is composed of the cohesive red clay of the Quaternary Period and the riverwash. This region enjoys moderate climate and high coverage of vegetation. Due to human activities, the main vegetation in the region is orange forest and farmland. The terrestrial animals include artificial animals and wild animals, among which the main artificial animals are livestock and poultry, while the wild animals are mainly living in the deep hillock, with the small terrestrial vertebrate as the main. The main wild animals in project area are the familiar birds and rodent, and there is no rare protective wildlife in this area. The main aquatic life in the natural water area includes fishes, with the grass fish, bighead, carp fish and chub fish as the main. Xupu County occupies a total area of 3458.17km2, however, the natural factors and the unreasonable human activities result in the increasing loss of water and soil in the county. According to the field survey, currently, the area of water and soil loss in the county amounts to 1227km2, accounting for 35.48% of total land area. Among them the minor loss accounts for 31.6%, the medium loss for 42.9%, the severe loss for 16.03%, and the super severe loss for 9.47%. The annual soil loss amounts to 4.9452 million ton, and the annual average soil erosion module is 1430t/km2.a. Profile of Social Environment (socioeconomic structure, education, culture, relics protection, etc.): Xupu County achieved a rapid growth of economic gross, and the gross production value of the county reached CNY 2.996 billion in 2004, increased by 10.03% or 0.8% higher than last year. Among them, the added values from primary industry, secondary industry and tertiary industry were CNY 1.266 billion, CNY 0.864 billion and CNY 0.866 billion respectively, increased by 5.1%, 17.6% and 12.7 % respectively. Calculated on the permanent population, the GDP per capita was CNY 4034. The structural proportion of three industries (based on the current price) is 42.3:28.8:28.9. Compared with last year, the proportion of primary industry is reduced by 3.3%, that of secondary industry is increased by 3.8%, and that of tertiary industry is reduced by 0.5%. The general index of resident consumption

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price in the whole county is 105.6, up by 1.8% over last year; the regular general index of resident consumption price (with year of 2000 as the base period) is 116.3, up by 10.8% over last year; the general index of commodities retail price is 106.8, up by 0.7% over last year; and the general index of agricultural material price is 106.5, up by 4.9 over last year. The whole county keeps a stable and rapid growth trend for economy, the quality and the benefit are improved simultaneously, the economic vigor is enhanced obviously, the social career is comprehensively developed, and the living standard is further improved. In 2004, the gross output value from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery reached CNY 1.85009 billion, increased by 5%, among which the total output value from agriculture was CNY 1.05950 billion, up by 4.7%; that from forestry was CNY 102.25 million, up by 5.7%; that from animal husbandry was CNY 650.07 million, up by 5.3%; that from fishery was CNY 33.46 million, up by 7.2%, and that from agricultural services was CNY 4.80 million, up by 4.3 %. The proportion of output value from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and services for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 57.27:5.53:35.14:1.8:0.26, and the agricultural industrial structure was improved over the last year. In 2004, the gross value of industrial output reached CNY 1.81738 billion, up by 14.3%. The gross output value of industrial enterprises above designated size was CNY 1.19463 billion, up by 15.5%, and that of industrial enterprises with the designated size at the county level was CNY 620.24 million, up by 33.9%. The output-sales ratio of industrial products was improved, and that of industrial enterprises above the designated size in the whole county reached 99.7%. Xupu County is the hometown of Martyr Xiang Jingyu (a famous female leader in China). The former residence of Ms. Xiang Jingyu is a courtyard house facing south and with five columns through Dou (the wooden square blocks inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam), whose floor space is 1444m2 and building area is 694m2. The central room facing the south is the main body, which was built in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. A stele of “The Former Residence of Comrade Xiang Jingyu” written by Jiang Zeming (General Secretary) is hung on the door. This former residence was maintained in 1978 with the appropriation from Hunan Provincial People’s Government, formally opened to the public since 1981, entitled as one of the first batch of patriotism educational bases in Hunan Province in 1995, and awarded as the nationally key cultural relics protective unit on November 20, 1996. With long history and rich culture, Xupu County witnessed rapid development of cultural career. The anti-Japanese martyr cemetery reserves many historical relics and revolutionary relics, and the ancient architectures in the County such as Chongshi Academy of classical learning amount to over 10. In Xupu County, there are 59 ordinary middle schools and 378 ordinary primary schools. The former has the enrollment of 56303 students, including 19435 new enrollment and 15440 graduates; and the later has the enrollment of 45322 students, including 14655 new enrollment. The educational ratio of the children of the right age to enter primary school reached 96.4%, and the number of teaching and administrative staff in the county amounted to 6689. There are 59 medical care institutions and one epidemic disease prevention institution in Xupu County. The health workers amount to 1884, including health technicians, and the health institutions possess 1342 beds. Each thousand people can possess 2.22 health technicians and 1.58 beds. According to the statistics of annual report on epidemic situation in Xupu County in 2003, a total of 15 kinds of infectious diseases of Types II and III with 436 cases have been reported by various

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health care units in the County. The gross morbidity rate was 51.1/0.10 million; as there was one person dead, the mortality rate was 0.12/0.10 million, and the case mortality rate was 0.23%, decreased by 19.5% over that in 2002. Among them, 11 kinds of infectious diseases of Types II with 392 cases were reported, and the morbidity ratio was 45.9/0.10 million, decreased by 22.7% over that in 2002. Moreover, there was one people dead, which was the same as the previous year. A total of 4 kinds of infectious diseases of Type III with 44 cases were reported, and the morbidity ratio was 5.15/0.10 million. No people dead of illness. Ecological Environment Status of the Areas around the Main Environmental Protection Sensitive Spots Project Area Sensitive Sports Ecological Environment Status It is classified to be suburb area, the land Xingfu Park (welfare around can be used as orchard, the main Juhua Garden facility) vegetation is citrus tree, and there are only Flood Control few scattered households around. Protective Project Residential Complex in It is classified to be urban area, the land Area urban area near the flood around are being used to build many embankment at the south houses. bank of Xushui River Jingyu Primary School Former residence of It is classified to be urban area, and the revolutionary martyr Xiang land around are to be used for buildings. Jingyu The vegetation has been replaced by Chengbei urban buildings, and the vegetation around Protective Area Partial residents near the is in a form of urban green belt. under Urban flood embankment at the Flood Control north bank of Xushui River Project Located at the estuary of Sandu River and Xushui River at the middle and upper Water intake of Xupu reaches in the urban area, namely the right County Water Works bank of Sandu River opposite to No.2 middle school in the County.

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Environmental Quality Profile Current environmental quality and main environmental problems within the project construction area (air environment, surface water, underground water, sound environment, ecological environment, etc): I Current Water Environmental Quality According to the Xushui River water area environmental function division requirement of Hunan Provincial Main Surface Water System Environmental Function Division (DB43-2004), the division of the water environment nearby the Xupu County Seat of Xushui River is as follows:  The river section of 103.0km away from Xupu County Gezhuping Township Qiliwan to Chetou Village’s ferry is generally fishery water use area, and implements the Grade III Standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002);  The 1.8km river section, 1000m away from the upstream of Xupu County Chetou Village’s ferry to County Waterworks water catchment is classified as the Grade 2 protective area of domestic potable water source and implements the Grade III Standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002);  The 1.2km river section, 1000m of upstream to 200m of downstream of Xupu County Waterworks water catchment is classified as the Grade 1 protective area of domestic potable water source and implements the Grade II Standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002);  The 200m river section of Xupu County Waterworks water catchment downstream to 21km river section of Xiaojiangkou Yingzhen Power Station dam is classified as the landscape and entertainment water use area and implements the Grade III Standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002);  The Xupu County Xiaojiangkou Yingzhen Power Station dam to the 16.0km river section for water of Xushui River flowing into Yuanjiang River mouth is classified as the fishery water use area and implements the Grade III Standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002). Xushui River section of Xupu County sets 3 monitoring sections: Chetou, Honghuayuan and Water Supply Source protective areas, and the water quality data in recent 3 years was collected by the routine water quality monitoring of 3 sections, for the details, please see the following table: Table for Water Quality Monitoring Values in Recent 3 Years of Xupu County Water Quality Monitoring Sections

Average Average Average State Name of Section Main Items Value in Value in Value in Standard 2002 2003 2004 pH value 7.32 7.30 7.33 6～9

CODmn 2.69 2.55 2.60 ≤4 Chetou Ammonia nitrogen 0.235 0.241 0.240 ≤0.5 Volatile 0.235 0.241 0.240 Hydroxybenzene ≤0.002

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Faecal coliform 0.001 0.001 0.001 grouppiece/L ≤2000

pH value 1125 1132 1046 6～9

CODmn 7.46 7.48 7.52 ≤4 Ammonia nitrogen 3.02 3.01 2.99 ≤0.5 Honghuayuan Volatile 0.285 0.268 0.256 Hydroxybenzene ≤0.002 Faecal coliform 1865 1817 1726 grouppiece/L ≤2000

pH value 7.33 7.36 7.35 6～9

CODmn 2.87 2.79 2.81 ≤4 Waterworks Water Ammonia nitrogen 0.234 0.253 0.248 ≤0.5 Source Protective Volatile Area 0.001 0.001 0.001 Hydroxybenzene ≤0.002 Faecal coliform 1435 1426 1384 grouppiece/L ≤2000 Xushui River section of Xupu County sets 3 monitoring sections: Chetou, Honghuayuan and Water Supply Source protective areas, of which, Chetou Section is the background section, Honghuayuan Section is the vanishing section, and the Waterworks water source protective area is the control section. The monitoring items include pH value, BOD5, CODMn, ammonia nitrogen, volatile hydroxybenzene, faecal coliform and heavy metal. Through analysis on the water quality monitoring results of 2002 to 2004 Yangwu Monitoring Section in high, common and low water periods, the water quality monitoring items are basically up to the GradeⅡ water quality standard of Environmental Quality Standard of Surface Water (GB3838-2002). II Current Atmospheric and Sound Environmental Quality Xupu County Environmental Monitoring Station conducted the air monitoring on the representative locations in the urban area, the air environmental assessment adopts the Grade 2 Standard of Ambient Air Quality Standard for items of SO2, NO2 and TSP. Through the analysis on 2002 to 2004 monitoring results, the total level of Xupu County air environmental quality in the 3 years was good and all of the monitoring items are up to the Grade 2 Standard of Ambient Air Quality Standard. For the details, please see the following table: Table for Xupu County Urban Air Environmental Monitoring during the Years 2002～2004 mg/L

Year SO2 NO2 TSP 2002 0.036 0.063 0.27 2003 0.031 0.059 0.25 2004 (up to the end of third season) 0.038 0.044 0.27 Grade 2 Standard of GB3095-1996 0.15 0.12 0.30 Up to the Standard or Not Over standard Up to the standard Up to the standard

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The sound environment pollution of Xupu County mainly comes from the traffic noise, but the traffic noise pollution is greatly reduced compared with the last two years. Since the urban comprehensive environmental treatment in April of 2004, with the reduction of vehicles runoff, the traffic noise has the over-standard rate obviously reduced. The sound environment standard of the county implements the Class 4 standard limit≤70dBA , for the details, please see the following table: Table for Xupu County Urban Air Environmental Monitoring during the Years 2004～2005 Monitoring Total Length of Road Annual Average Over-standard Rate Year Locations Section Value (%) 2002 6 5900 74.4 91.6 2003 6 5900 70.9 68.2 2004 6 5900 69.6 33.3

III Original Pollution and Main Environmental Problems Related to the Project: The main discharge exits of Xupu County industrial and domestic pollution sources involve the discharge exits of Xiajiaxi, Xihukou, Shejianglou, Chongchongkou (No.2 Middle School), Xuefeng Company, Juhuayuan and Huaiqu Pavilion nearby in South Urban Area. i Major Industrial Pollution Sources According to the investigation, the main industrial pollution source in Xupu County Seat include the industrial and mineral enterprises such as People’s Hospital, County Hospital of TCM, Changlong and Xuefeng Company and the main pollutants are industrial waste water. In 2004, Xupu County Urban had 6.50 million tons domestic and industrial waste water discharge, including 0.30 million tons industrial waste water discharge, accounting for 4.62％ of the total sewage discharge. The industrial waste water drained into Xushui River includes the main pollutants such as COD, SS, ammonia nitrogen, BOD5 and petroleum. The industrial waste water shall be emitted nearby along Xushui River and the discharge exits are mainly distributed at midstream and downstream river section of Xushui River, basically not around the protective scope of the County Waterworks water catchment. ii Major Domestic Pollution Sources The main domestic pollution source is the domestic sewage of the county seat, 6.20 million tons total discharge of the urban domestic sewage in 2004. The domestic sewage is directly emitted into Xushui River through the city sewer, the domestic sewage is emitted dispersedly and distributed along the urban section of Xushui River. The sewage in the Xupu County Seat is mainly city domestic sewage with the discharge accounting for 95.4％ of the total urban sewage discharge, and the main pollutants in the urban domestic sewage include bacteria, organic waste water, nitrogen and phosphor. iii Major Environmental Problems A Pollution on water quality of Xushui River by city sewage discharge As it is known from the Xupu County Environmental Protection Monitoring Station, Xupu County is a newly-developed industrial city, has no important industrial

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pollution sources and the sewage emitted is mainly domestic sewage. There is no city sewage treatment plant in the county seat, additionally, the industrial waste water produced from the other small-sized enterprises during the production process is directly emitted into rivers nearby, thus the emitted industrial waste water has quite impact on water quality of Xushui River. In addition, due to fast development, gradually increased population and gradually increased discharge of domestic sewage, the discharge of sewage in the total discharge of various sewage shall be increased further, the discharge of domestic sewage without treatment in the sewage treatment plant shall bring the further impact on the pollution of water mass at the local river sections of the Xushui downstream. B Impact on water quality and landscape by rubbish piling in river course There are a lot of residential areas along the two banks of Xushui River in Xupu County Seat, the structures in the old urban area is especially concentrated, mostly built facing the river, where a great deal of domestic, construction and industrial rubbish are dumped. On one hand, the rubbish dumped on river bank shall produce large pollution on the water quality of water mass; on the other hand, the rubbish dumped on river bank shall produce great unfavorable impact on the natural environment and the beauty of the city. C Flood disasters The Xushui Water Basin over the Xupu County Seat is at the edge of the rainstorm center, suffers from impact from multiple rainstorm areas to distribute in radiated form with Xupu Plain as the center and along Erdou, Sandou and Sidou River and converge in the county seat, therefore resulting in concentrated flood, short flow concentration time, over chopping of forests, serious soil and water loss, blockage of river course, unsmooth flood flow, due to low topography for farmlands and towns along the bank, thus Xupu County has serious and frequent flood and waterlogging disasters. According to the records in historical data, since the liberation, flood disasters of different extents have appeared in 14 years, on average once every 2.83 years. On June 16 to Aug. 4, 1954, it rained continuously for 50 days, especially on June 17, the flood disaster was most serious and resulted in 53 persons drowned, 467 houses damaged and wood sailing boat traveling in the street. On July 5, 1965, it rained in the whole county with river water abruptly rising to wash 194 houses away, 755 houses collapsed and 20 persons drowned. The flood disaster occurred in 1975 resulted in 0.0241 million mu paddy field inundated, 830 hydraulic works damaged, 29 houses collapsed and 3 persons drowned. The flood disaster occurred in 1979 was the quite serious flood disaster since the liberation, on June 19, Sandou and Sidou River had the water level rising to destroy 0.045 million mu fields, 329 ponds and dams, 80 houses and 6 persons drowned; on June 28, Erdou River had the water level rising to destroy 0.05 million mu field, 353 ponds and dams, 96 houses and 7 persons drowned, and the max. water depth in the street of the county seat was up to over 2 meters. The flood and waterlogging disaster occurred on June 13 to 15, 1990 is the most serious since the liberation. At that time, the county seat has the max. water level of 157.3m, the inundated area of 4.99km2, accounting for 57% in the urban area, and the water depth in the main streets are1 to 5m. 0.03 million people suffered from the disaster including 3 persons died, 1700mu stricken farmlands, 0.59 million jin grain reduction of output, 46 buildings collapsed and in total, the total economic losses are quite serious, almost 53.50 million yuan.

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On July 15, 1996, the county seat also suffered from the extraordinary flood disaster through the max. flood water level up to 157.33m, the max. flood flow up to 4750m3/s and the direct economic loss up to RMB 89 million yuan. After the situation of disaster was reported to the authorities, great attention was paid to it by the CCPC and the relevant leaders in Hunan Province and a number of news units and internal references had made detailed reports. With the fast economic development of Xupu County Seat, the land use scale shall be gradually expanded, the urban population shall be fast increased and so the losses incurred by the flood disaster of the same water level shall be redoubled.

Main environmental protection objectives (list name and protection level): I Environmental Protection Objectives Water environment: requiring the waters of various affected river sections to maintain their original environmental functions. Atmospheric environment: requiring that the atmospheric environment within the assessment scope is not polluted because of the project construction and that the air quality meets class 2 assessment criteria of Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-96). Sound environment: The protection subjects are inhabitants and construction workers in the project affected area, requiring that the sound environmental quality meets class 1 criteria of Ambient Noise Standard in Urban Areas (GB3096-93). Ecological environment: requiring to minimize the destruction on vegetation caused by immigration resettlement area, construction area, newly-built construction hauling road, borrow pits, and spoil pits, requiring to restore as soon as possible the destroyed vegetation and to adopt measures for compensating or mitigating the impact on aquatic ecological environment of reservoir area and dam during the project construction and operation phases, requiring to reduce as much as possible the destruction degree on ecological environment of the project area and peripheral areas caused by this engineering construction. II Main Sensitive Spots of Environmental Protection within the Scope of Assessment

Sensitive Locations Specific Position and Characteristics Protection Level Located in Juhuayuan Embankment The ambient air quality is up to Grade Protective Area (Stake No.4+083m), 2 Standard of Ambient Air Quality Xingfuyuan and the edge of the embankment Standard (GB3095-96) and the section; belonging to the welfare ambient sound quality is up to Class 1 facility of the suburb area. Urban Ambient Noise Standard. Located at 200m embankment site at Residential Buildings the left bank of Xupu Bridge Group along the flood downstream, in the concentrated control embankment residential area, and the peripheral at the south bank of land is main utilized for the urban Xushui River houses construction.

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Located in North Urban Protective Circle, viz. nearby the right bank of Xupu Bridge downstream, 60 to 80m Jingyu Primary away from the embankment project;

School belonging to the sensitive location of culture and education where schools are separated from the outside with fence. Located in North Urban Protective Residential Areas Circle, viz. nearby the embankment along the flood line of North Urban flood control control embankment embankment section (Stake at the north bank of No.1+963m to 2+506m) with relative Xushui River more residential areas, so belonging to the flouring site in the urban area. Located within 100m of Xupu Bridge downstream of North Urban Flood Belonging to the national important Former Residence of Control Section of Xushui River, 50 to Xiangjingyu 60m away from the embankment cultural relics protective unit and don’t destroy them during the construction Revolutionary Martyr bank; belonging to the sensitive process protective unit of the cultural relics on history. 2 ancient camphor trees are respectively located at the riverside nearby the former residence of Ancient Camphor The national precious protective tree Xiangjingyu Revolutionary Martyr and Trees species along the embankment line of Changlefang Protective Area (Stake No. 2+630). Located at the right bank of Sandou Xupu County River in North Urban Protective Area Protected in line with Class Ⅱ Water Waterworks Water (Stake No. (1+440m), and the three Quality Standard(GB3838-2002) Catchment sumps are 20m, 60m and 120m away from the Waterworks respectively.

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Applicable Standards for Assessment i) Water environment: According to the water functional zoning requirement of Xushui River near Xupu

Environment Quality Standard Quality Environment County, the water quality assessment of class 1 water source protection zone enforces class III criteria of Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002), and the water quality assessment of class 2 water source protection zone and industrial water zone enforces class III criteria Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). ii) Air environment: The air quality assessment of construction area, sand and stone stockpile, earth borrow pit, and areas along transport road enforces class II criteria of Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-96). iii) Sound environment: The sound environment assessment of construction area and areas along hauling route enforces class I criteria of Ambient Noise Standard in Urban Areas (GB3096-93). Pollution Discharge Standard Discharge Pollution i) Waste water: The emission of construction waste water enforces class II criteria of Sewage Comprehensive Emission Standard (GB8978-1996). ii) Noise: The noise produced from construction enforces the Noise Limit Value in Construction Boundary (GB12523-1990). iii) Atmosphere: It is to enforce the monitoring concentration limit value of non-organized discharge stipulated in table 2 of Air Pollutant Comprehensive Emission Standard of People's Republic of China (GB16297-96). iv) Solid waste: The handling of construction spoils and solid wastes enforces the Solid Waste Pollution Environmental Prevention Law of People's Republic of China (revised on December 2004). Total Control Quantity

The waste water, waste gas, solid waste, and noise produced during this project’s Standard construction phase are required to discharge after meeting standards by taking corresponding environmental protection measures. The operation phase of this project does not produce pollutants and thus does not affect the peripheral environment; therefore no pollution discharge index quantity is applied for this project.

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Project Analysis Project Construction I Construction Process The environment will be affected by Xupu Urban Flood Control Project mainly in the construction period. Such construction activities as foundation excavation, transportation by vehicle, land occupied by structures, and waste slag will affect the environment. The construction process is as follows: A Flood Embankments: Earth excavation—→soil transportation—→filling of flood embankment —→ mortar rubble protection slope —→ sodding protection—→Concrete pavement or clay-bound macadam pavement B Mortar Rubble Masonry: Foundation earth excavation—→concrete placement —→ manual compaction and earth filling C Sandy Pebble Cushion: Exploitation, rinsing and screening of sandy gravel—→mixing by concrete mix system —→ concrete transportation —→concrete placement —→ manual watering for curing D Sodding Protection: Unusable material from foundation excavation and house demolition —→ transportation by vehicles —→ deposit at spoil sites II Main Pollution Process The main pollution process during construction of Xupu Urban Flood Control Project is given as follows: A The foundation earth excavation for flood embankments, electric drainage stations, and sluices, the earth excavation at borrow area, and the construction of body of flood embankment will generate such unfavorable impacts on environment as the noise, dust, dust emission, tail gas of fuel, leakage of oil stain and loss of water and soil. B The exploitation, rinsing and screening of sandy gravel, the precasting of concrete for protection slope of flood embankment, the concrete placement in sluices, and the curing will generate the noise, dust and wastewater. C Such construction processes as the waste deposit at spoil site, the waste and material, and the transportation of building materials will generate the noise, dust, dust emission, and water and soil loss. D The domestic garbage, sewage and hidden danger to human health will be generated in the temporary residential area of construction personnel in construction period. Resettlement: A total of 5 residential committees and 2 administrative villages will be involved in Xupu urabn flood control project, and a total of 202 persons in 40 households shall be resettled, houses of 13960m2 shall be demolished, and 44 agricultural populations need economic rehabilitation. As many relocatees are involved in Xupu Urban Flood Control Project, large area of houses shall be demolished, so during the house construction and economic rehabilitation, the production and livelihood of residents will be affected, and in short time, the quality of their life will be lowered.

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Project Operation: During operating period of Xupu Urban Flood Control Project, such works as urban embankment along river, sluice and electric drainage stations will not pollute environment, but make favorable effect to improve current scattered sewage drainage along urban riverside, and partial scattered sewage drainage outlet will be changed into concentrated drainage outlet. Meanwhile, the operation of sluices can drain the water pollutant in urban area to Xushui River in time. Furthermore, Xupu Urban Flood Control Project will greatly improve the flood control standard and the waterlogging harness standard, as well as hydrological environment.

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Environmental Impact Analysis Environmental Impact Analysis during Construction Phase: 1.1. Impact Analysis on Surrounding Environment by Overall Arrangement of Construction Camp during Construction Period The overall arrangement of construction camps in the project area of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project mainly includes arrangement for main works construction area, arrangement for various construction plant facilities, arrangement for different material yards, arrangement for spoil area, arrangement for temporary roads for construction mobilization, and arrangement for counterpart temporary domestic areas. 1.1.1. Impact Analysis on Surrounding Environment by Auxiliary Items of Construction Camp The auxiliary items of the construction camp mainly include different plants of the auxiliary projects and construction roads leading to the worksite. Based on the feasibility study report of the project, we know that the construction arrangement scheme is arranged according to the characteristics of scattered embankments along the line. i Impact analysis on surrounding environment by construction plant arrangement The arrangement of different plants is divided into embankment and waterlogging drainage project. The main arrangement content of the embankment project construction plant is concrete mixing system, mechanical equipment parking lot, sand and stone pile yard, block stone pile yard, cement warehouse, etc. The repairing and maintenance of the mechanical equipment could be carried out in the machinery repairing plant in the urban area (see table 1.1.1-1 for details of its arrangement). Its arrangement principle is that making the existing levee crown and plain flood at its inside and outside as the main arrangement area, trying to occupy less or not occupy the cultivated land. Table 1.1.1-1 Arrangement of Construction Camps of Embankment Section and Description of the Current Surrounding Environment

Detailed Characteristics Arrangement Arrangement Embankment Current State of of Facility Item Location Section Stake Surrounding Environment Arrangement Number The main part of the embankment is the land Concrete mixing Along the levee for urban construction, Levee crown Movable system crown and large part is the centralized land for urban residents Locate in Mechanical The place around the Juhuayuan Juhuayuan equipment Fixed arrangement area is the protective 3+950 parking lot land for orchard currently circle Locate in The arrangement area is Sand and stone Juhuayuan Juhuayuan Fixed the land for orchard pile yard protective 3+890 currently circle

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Locate in The arrangement area is Block stone pile Juhuayuan Juhuayuan Fixed the land for orchard yard protective 3+700 currently circle Locate in The arrangement area is Cement Juhuayuan Juhuayuan Fixed the land for orchard warehouse protective 3+650 currently circle Detailedly, it is located in Existing Repairing and the urban area of Repairing plant maintenance and maintenance of project-located county, in the urban Fixed repairing mechanical and it is the repairing and area workshop of the equipment maintenance site with urban area business characteristics. In addition, the construction camp arrangement of the waterlogging drainage station project includes concrete mixing system, sand and stone material yard, mechanical equipment parking lot, cement warehouse, steel bar processing plant, and steel warehouse. The local residential houses will be leased for partial facilities mostly. See table 1.1.1-2 for details of construction camp arrangement of the waterlogging drainage station project and its surrounding place. Table 1.1.1-2 Construction Camp Arrangement of the Waterlogging Drainage Station Project and Description of the Current Surrounding Environment

Detailed Arrangement Arrangement embankment characteristics Surrounding Item Location Item section stake of construction environment number camp Sand and stone It is located in material yard, the interface of cement The Sandu River and warehouse, Locate within arrangement Xushui River, Changlefang Stake concrete mixing Changlefang method is: besides few electric (self) number: system, flood control arrangement residential drainage Changlefang mechanical protective nearby and houses in the station 2+780 equipment circle leasing the surrounding parking lot, steel private houses. place, there are bar processing paddy fields and plant, and living flood plain.

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quarters of construction The current state workers of the surrounding area is the river mouth where Xiajiaxi enters Locate within into Xushui Xiajiaxi Stake Chengbei River, the main electric (self) number: flood control part of the land drainage Chengbei protective utilization station 2+868 circle structure is the land for urban centralized buildings, and few flood plains exist in the construction site. Through analysis on arrangement sites of various plants in the construction camp and the surrounding environment, we know that, as the construction camps of projects along the embankment are mainly concentrated near Juhuayuan of Juhuayuan protective circle (stake number is 4+023, and they are not arranged in the place with dense urban construction land, its surrounding environment is close to the rural area, and the land is used as the orchard currently, therefore, the adverse impact of the arrangement of construction camps of the embankment project on the surrounding environment is small. Except 2~3 households near the arrangement area and partial residents along the construction road will be impacted, its impact on the surrounding environment and other aspects is slight. Regarding the arrangement of the construction camp of the waterlogging drainage station, as the surrounding place of Changlefang construction camp is the cultivated land and flood plain currently, there are only about 2~3 rural households around it. Probably, the development of the project will bring certain impact to the utilization structure of local land, noises from construction will impact partial rural residents, while, the impact of the waterlogging drainage station on the environment of the area is slight. While, the arrangement of the construction camp of Xiajiaxi waterlogging drainage station is mainly situated in the urban area, though it is arranged on a small flood plain, it will make the construction area comparatively crowded and do harm to construction, therefore, surrounding private houses should be leased to serve as the warehouse and auxiliary construction facilities. Accordingly, the construction materials should be conveyed to the worksite, thus, noises from frequently passing large-scale construction machinery will impact the surrounding residents. During dry seasons, as roads in the urban area are occupied by conveyance vehicles frequently, it will lower the air quality of the area, moreover, the adverse impact of the arrangement of the construction camp of the electric drainage station on the surrounding environment is comparatively small. With the completion of the project, the impact of the arrangement of the construction camp on the surrounding environment will become zero, therefore, the adverse impact of the arrangement of the construction camp on the surrounding environment during the construction period is temporary and resumable. 1.1.2. Impact Analysis on Surrounding Environment by Temporary Construction Road Arrangement The land and water traffic of Xupu County is very convenient, Xiangqian Railway passes it from the north part of the city, highways traverse the east and west part,

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and Xushui River is navigable the whole year. While, in order to satisfy the in-site traffic, the temporary road with a length of 1.5km should be built, with the purpose to connect with Fengshou clay material yard as well as convey materials in the construction site. It is situated in Juhuayuan protective circle, passing through the joint of Majia Village and Fengshou Village from south to the north. The temporary construction road could change the land utilization structure of the joint of these two villages probably. As the temporary construction road is also used to convey materials during the construction period, therefore, a lot of construction conveyance vehicles will pass through there, and it will bring adverse impact to living environment of partial rural residents, which are mainly reflected in degraded air environment quality and acoustic environment. With the completion of the flood control project, the adverse impact will become zero or cut down to the minimum. 1.1.3. Impact Analysis on Surrounding Environment by Spoil Areas Arrangement The material yard mainly includes the soil material yard and sand and stone material yard, there are one soil material yard (Fengshou clay material yard) and three sand and stone material yards, that is, I, II, and III sand and stone material yard in Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project. As the project needs materials from outside for filling, and it is not equipped with lots excavated materials, no special spoil area is established for the project temporarily. The soil material yard is situated within Fengshou Village, with an area of about 2.98hm2. Currently, the soil material yard is located in a small hill, and the mountanious region is the main part of the land utilization structure of the surrounding environment, and the part above the hill is planted with man-made forest. With the development of the main works, the existing environment will be destroyed. Large numbers of earthworks will be used for the project, accordingly, ecological environment of partial areas will be destroyed in a certain degree, and the living environment of partial vegetations and animals in the mountanious region will disappear. While, with the completion of the main works in the flood control project, it is not required to borrow earth anymore, by means of measures of conservation of water and soil, the impact on the ecological environment of the area could be reduced to the minimum. Three sand stone material yards are all located on the flood plain of Xushui River, and it is located within the project area, accordingly, it could be excavated by dredge and land exploitation and conveyance modes. The sand and stones will be excavated on the flood plain, its impact on the ecological environment is slight, and the noise impact on the water environment is a main part. The loud noise from the exploitation of sand and stones in the material yard will bring certain adverse impact to the surrounding residents, accordingly, corresponding prevention measures should be adopted for mitigation. Regarding impact on water environment, as the sandy pebble course connects with the river, the exploitation of sandy pebbles will impact water quality of local part near banks. The main factors which affect the water quality are the water body suspended solid, it will increase partial SS concentration in a short term, while, the location of sand and stone exploitation is situated at the lower reaches of the water intake, no environmental sensitive sites at the lower reaches of the exploitation location, after flow and diffusion of water body, the concentration of the suspended solid will debase slowly, in addition, with the self-purification of the water body, the impact on the water quality of the lower reaches will be reduced to the minimum. 1.2. Impact on Water Quality of Downstream River Section by Waste Water Discharge during Construction Phase

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The project construction wastewater mainly refers to that from sand and stone washing, that from concrete precast and curing in the precast yard, and that from vehicle and mechanical equipment washing. Thereinto, main pollutants of wastewater from sand and stone washing and concrete precast and curing in the precast yard are suspended solids (SS) and alkalescent matters, and main pollutants of wastewater from vehicle and mechanical equipment washing are wastewater containing oil. The SS concentration density of sand and stone washing wastewater is about 15000mg/l, and pH value of wastewater produced from the concrete precast product curing is about 11~12. The concrete placing strength during the concrete prefabrication and placing peak of the project is 27m3/d, and the construction wastewater output is 300~500m3/d. The project mechanical equipment includes excavator, loader, bulldozer, crane, and other vehicles, with an amount of about 35. Compared with similar projects, calculate wastewater from mechanical equipment washing by 0.8m3/piece.day, the daily discharge capacity of wastewater from mechanical equipment washing is about 28m3/d, and the oil pollution concentration of wastewater is about 40mg/l generally. Xushui River in Xupu urban area belongs to a wide and shallow middle river, Jinjiadong, Shenzi River, and the reservoir at the upper reaches of the river section all possess the regulated function. Impacted by the regulated storage capacity of the power station in the upper reaches, the flow of river section in the lower reaches will decrease in a period of time, and the diffusion and dilution capacity of pollutants in the water body will change. Accordingly, if construction wastewater is directly drained into the lower reaches of the discharge mouth, the water quality would be impacted a certain extent. The river section with large pollution is situated within the place about 500m of all sewage drainage sites of the project, the concentration of suspended solid in the water body alongshore will largely increase. Meanwhile, as leaked oil stain will flow into the river along with rainwater during the operation of the mechanical equipment, petroleum pollution is hard to degrade, and it is easy to pollute water quality of the water body in the river section of the inleakage area. 1.3. Impact on Water Quality of Water Intake of Xupu County Waterworks There is one waterworks under Xupu County Waterworks, the water intake of the waterworks is situated at the confluence of Xushui River and its branch, Sandu River, namely, at the place of the flood control embankment section of Chengbei protective circle (Stake number: Chengbei 1+440m), and the water intake straightens to the river center, by taking underground collector well of the riverbed for water intake and entering relevant processing facilities into the domestic running water networks of the residents, there are three catchment mouths, with a distance between the waterworks of 20m, 60m, and 120m respectively, and water quality of the river section reaches the provincial qualified standard, and it is considered as superior water source in Huaihua district. The area 1000m up to the waterworks and area 200m down to the waterworks is the Grade-I drinking water source conservation zone. The actual water output of the waterworks is 15000 t/d, and the designed water supply capacity is of 40000t/d of water output. The distribution of its water supply area: the paved water supply pipe network extends to the Cannery eastwards, to No. 710 Minery Plant westwards, to Radar Station southwards, and to Yatang northwards. The water supply main pipe is featured by the diameter of 75~800mm,

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and total length of 40km. The percentage of coverage of water supply of the city reaches above 92%, there are about 11000 households of water consumers in the whole city, and the total water consumption population reaches about 50000. As the water intake of the waterworks is located at the lower reaches of Chengbei embankment project of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project, the project construction will impact the intake water quality of the waterworks a certain extent. While, the pollution during the construction of the flood control embankment is mainly produced by loss of water and soil, embankment line stripping, and layout of gentle slope, its main pollutants are mud and suspended solid (SS). As the removal of SS in the water body is comparatively simple in the running water processing technique, the impact of suspended solid produced by construction on the water quality of the running water is considerably small. Regarding domestic sewage and oil stain produced by construction, reduce discharge capacity of pollutants by means of changing the position of discharge mouth, making it discharged at the lower reaches of its water intake, and adopting corresponding environmental protection measures, and its impact on water quality of water intake of the waterworks in the county is comparatively limited. 1.4. Impact on Local Air Quality by Construction The main atmospheric pollutant during the construction period is dust from vehicle transportation and tail gas from fuel machinery. Compared to construction situations of similar projects, dust pollution will diffuse along both sides of roads generally, when the distance between the subgrade and the ground is less than 3m, the max. dust appears at both sides of the road. With increased distance away from the roadside, the concentration will decrease gradually and tend towards the background value, in general conditions; the affected area is within 30m at both sides of the roadside. The main pollutants of tail gas from fuel of construction vehicles are NO2, and CO. The tail gas discharge belongs to surface source one, the discharge capacity of its pollutants is comparatively low, and the impact of tail gas discharge on the local air environment is considerably small. The pollution of dust, tail gas, and local atmospheric environment will be largely impacted by the climate. As the wind direction of Xupu County owns obvious seasonal changes, the southwest wind is prevailing in summer, and northeast wind is prevailing in winter, the mean average wind velocity is 2.1m/s, and the max. wind velocity is 19m/s. In the project area, changes of wind direction of small range obey the prevalent wind direction of the district. Based on the overall construction arrangement, the conveyance lines and flood control project construction sites are distributed along river banks of Xushui River, and the main construction period is concentrated in the dry season, namely, autumn and winter. As Chengbei flood control area of Xupu County is located in the northeast direction of the flood control project, namely, the windward direction, the atmospheric pollution produced by construction will slightly impact the part north to Xushui River in the urban area of Xupu County. While, the urban area of the south bank of Xushui River in Juhuayuan protective circle is located in the leeward direction, it will be impacted by wind direction of monsoon when constructing in autumn and winter, air pollution of the flood control project will adversely impact of air quality of partial road section in Juhuayuan protective circle. 1.5. Impact on Sound Environment in Construction Area and Peripheral Areas The construction noise during project construction comes from machinery

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construction and conveyance vehicles, the main construction machinery and conveyance vehicles are as follows: excavator, bulldozer, loader, concrete mixer, and large conveyance vehicles. Based on the project scale and construction strength during the construction peak, the synthetical sound level of noise from the construction site is about 80dB (A) generally. Without regard to landform, barrier, plant sound absorption, and other additive attenuations, the impact of construction noises on acoustic environment of the residential area could be predicted by the distance decline mode of point sound source in the free sound field. See following table for details of noise decline degree calculation of the place with a distance between the sound source boundary of 30m, 50m, 100 m, 150m, and 200 m when the strength of the sound source is 80dB(A). Predication of Noise in Construction Area

Background Predicted sound Distance Sound level Standard reaching between the after sound value level (GB3096-93) Class I sound source source dB(A) dB(A) boundary decline Daytime Daytime Night Daytime Night Night (50) (m) dB(A) (60) Over Over 30 64.4 57.4 45 65.2 64.5 standards standards Over Over 50 60.0 57.4 45 61.8 60.1 standards standards slightly Reaching Over 100 54.0 57.4 45 59.2 54.5 standards standards Over Reaching 150 50.5 57.4 45 58.2 51.7 standards standards slightly Reaching Reaching 200 48.0 57.4 45 57.9 49.8 standards standards Based on the site investigation, there are dense residential areas and units near the project construction area. The distance between residential areas, units, and schools and the construction site varies from 30~300m. Thereinto: Xupu County Jingyu Primary School is located within the Chengbei flood control protective circle of Xushui River, that is, about 230m place of the lower reaches of the lower reaches of Xupu Bridge at the right bank of Xushui River, the boundary of the school is close to the embankment line, and the main teaching area of the school is about 50~100m away from the embankment line. Jingyu Primary School of Xupu County is relatively close to the embankment line, and the main teaching area of the school is located near the embankment line, therefore, noises from the embankment project construction will largely impact the acoustic environment of the school, accordingly, corresponding management and controlling measures for noise should be adopted, so as to mitigate adverse impact on teaching of the school. Almost large part of Chengbei flood control protection area of Xupu County is located in the main urban area, with the stake number from Chengbei 1+963m to the comparatively flourishing road section of Xupu County north to Chengbei 2+868m, the distance between numerous residential concentrated sites, shops, and boundary of the school on the embankment section and the embankment line is about 80m, therefore, noise of the embankment during construction will bring

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certain adverse impact to adjacent residential area and teaching area of the school probably. In addition, the construction noise will largely impact construction workers, accordingly, the construction unit should try to allocate construction machinery feasibly, and adopt corresponding measures for sound insulation and absorption, so as to protect construction workers. 1.6. Impact of Solid Waste on Environment The solid waste of the construction period mainly includes construction slag and domestic rubbishes. The construction slag comes from temporary piling of excavated earthworks of the foundation, with the main part of clay, sand and stone, etc. Based on the main works design and construction earthworks balance, the amount of earthwork excavation during construction is 0.3710 million m3, and the excavated earthworks will be utilized directly, the soil materials of 74500 m3 should be borrowed from the soil material yard. During construction, if construction slag is piled randomly, it will produce comparatively serious loss of water and soil, therefore, prevention measures should be taken for the spoil area. By means of engineering and plant measures, the loss of water and soil of the spoil area could be controlled effectively, in addition, environment pollution could be prevented. Domestic rubbish for construction area is relatively fewer. Average construction workers in the period of construction per day are 200 persons or so. Calculating at 0.5kg of rubbish produced per capita, average produced rubbish is 100kg daily. If the domestic rubbishes are piled freely, not only scenery and air are affected, at some climate condition, but also the mosquitoes, flies and rats will reproduce much in quantity, accordingly, various infectious diseases will transmit among the construction personnel. In order to prevent environment being polluted by domestic rubbishes, domestic rubbishes should be piled concentratedly, cleared and conveyed by special persons periodically. In addition, domestic rubbishes should be embedded, and it is forbidden to throw rubbishes randomly, for it will pollute the environment. 1.7. Impact of Soil Erosion The main reasons of loss of water and soil of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project is excavation of main works foundation, land leveling of construction site, excavation of earth borrow yard, slag piling in the spoil area, and other construction activities, and the area with loss of water and soil is mainly concentrated in local part of the construction area. Generally, the loss of water and soil is comparatively serious at the beginning of construction, with progress of the project construction, implementation of slope protection, vegetation restoration, sodding afforestation measures, the loss of water and soil could be controlled and stabilized at a lower level. The area with loss of water and soil due to project construction includes: exposed surface due to top soil excavation within main works area and construction area of the earth borrow yard, land occupied for temporary construction facilities, slag piling spoil area, etc., and newly-exposed surface and side slope after completion of main works of the flood control embankment. The area of newly-increase area of loss of water and soil is 38.33hm2. The newly-increase loss of water and soil amount due to the project is as follows: surface excavation, land occupied by temporary facilities, loss of water and soil due to waste soil and slag, and newly-increased loss of water and soil due to exposed surface of the main works. Calculating by the construction period of three years, the

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total amount of newly-increase loss of water and soil due to Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project is about 61500 t. 1.8. Impact of Land Acquisition and Demolition of the Project Five residential committees and 2 administrative villages will be impacted by Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project, 40 households of 202 persons should be relocated. In the area affected by the flood control project, the cultivated land per capita is 0.37 mu, and the total land excavated and occupied by the flood control project is 108.58 mu, thereinto, the total area of the cultivated land is only 56.88 mu, accordingly, from the overall analysis, the impact of the project land occupation on the reduced local land utilization and cultivated land per capita is not big. Based on the demolition and land occupation resettlement plan of the project, after economic rehabilitation of residents, their environment will not change, and their living habits and production conditions are kept same as before. In addition, as few persons need economic rehabilitation and they are situated in the urban area or the suburb, it is easy to carry out economic rehabilitation and development. Through adopting compensated adjustment of cultivated land and reasonably developing the secondary and tertiary industry and other measures, as well as supported by production and development funds and various preferential policies, the production and living conditions of residents will be higher than the original level. 1.9. Impact on Vegetation by the Project Implementation The embankments and dams, counterpart projects, earth borrow yards, spoil areas, and other areas in Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project will occupy some land. Based on the investigation data of current state of vegetation in the affected area, the top plant on the cultivated land in the project-affected area is the orchard generally, and general group plant on the wasteland is celery wormwood, and shrubbery is the low firewood forest. No original vegetation in the project affected area, and no rare plants. And the main vegetation chopped due to acquisitioned woodland is man-made forest, shrubbery, and woods. As large part in the project area is the urban area, if local existing vegetation is affected by factitious factors, such as, land development and urban development, the vegetation coverage ratio of the district will be much lower, the concentrated urban structures appear. Accordingly, the impact of the development of the embankment project on local vegetation is slight. In order to integrate urban sight with the project much better, it is advisable to reserve abundant construction area for green belt during project implementation, so as to fully prepare for vegetation restoration and construction of ecological sight in the future. The forestry is temporarily occupied during the project construction period, as the project-affected area is featured by rich rainwater, suitable climate, and good soil quality, it is suitable for plant growth. After completion of the project, the vegetation on the temporary land occupation could be restored in a certain degree by manual vegetation covering measures. Compared with the similar hydraulic works, by means of manual vegetation measures, recovery of vegetation on temporarily occupied land normally takes three to five years. The original appearance of the forestry vegetation could be restored about 10 years. There are two ancient camphors with a history of one hundred years in the project-affected area, one is located in the former residence of Mr. Xiang Jingyu, the revolutionary martyr, with a history of about two hundred years, with a close distance between the embankment bank line, therefore, if not pay attention to standardized, safe, and protective construction during the construction period, it will

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impact the rare species adversely. Another ancient camphor is located near the embankment line in Changlefang protective area, with a history of about one hundred years, accordingly, the rare species should be paid attention to during the embankment construction, try to avoid bringing unwanted losses to the local ecological environment. In addition, the implementation of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project could protect the local urban ecological environment largely, prevent various vegetations in the protective circle being attacked by flood, therefore, it will play an active role in restoration of the vegetation in the area. 1.10. Impact on Human Health by Construction With mobilization of construction workers into the construction area, they will bring hidden troubles to the original living environment and personal health. On the one hand, with mobilization of construction workers into the construction area, the population density and fluidness will increase, accordingly, the ratio of disease prevalence will increase too. On the other hand, as construction workers live in the temporary living quarters or residential area near the construction area, domestic services and facilities as well as hygiene and disease control measures of the construction area are hard to keep up with temporarily, in addition, due to large labor strength of construction workers, their immunity from disease will decline, if they do not pay attention to diet and living environment hygiene, infectious diseases will happen and prevail easily. 1.11. Impact on Cultural Relic Preservation Units by the Construction From the above we can know that there is one historical and cultural site under government protection in the area related to Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project, namely, the former residence of Mr. Xiang Jingyu, the revolutionary martyr. As the former residence of Xiang Jingyu is located near the embankment line, (with a distance between the embankment line of about 50~80m), it will be impacted or occupied during the construction process of the embankment line of the flood control project, accordingly, corresponding engineering measures should be taken. The protective warning line should be established in the protective areas for cultural relics and former residences, so as to prevent the national historical and cultural relics under state protection being impacted by the embankment construction adversely.

Environmental Impact Analysis during Operation Phase 2.1. Impact on Urban Water Quality Regarding Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project, the flood control standard could be improved to 20-year-occurrence, and the waterlogging harnessing standard could be improved to 10-year-occurrence. The ability of flood control and waterlogging drainage will be reinforced so as to avoid inundated flood in the urban area resulting in destroyed urban environment and deteriorated water quality, therefore, it will do good to improvement of water quality in and out of the urban area. Regarding the internal river water body within the urban area, the implementation of waterlogging drainage project makes rainwater, sewage, and waterlogging in the urban area drained into Xushui River by electric drainage stations and sluices of all drainage areas, reduces accumulated contamination in

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the water body of the internal river, as well as avoids polluted water body of the internal river due to obstructed discharge of contaminations. Therefore, the implementation of the flood control project will give positive effect to water quality of the water body in the urban area. 2.2. Impact on Social Economy When 20-year-occurrence flood occurs in Xupu, the max. inundation water depth of Xushui River passing through the urban area reaches 11.68m, the inundated area of the urban area is 4.9km2, the inundated cultivated land is 12500 mu, 35700 persons are stricken by the flood, 134industrial and mining enterprises are inundated, with a direct economic loss of 150 million yuan. With the rapid development of economy of the urban area of Xupu County, the land scale of the urban area will be enlarged, the urban population will be increased fast, and fortunes will be increased constantly, if the same flood happens again, the losses from the flood will be increased duplicately. After implementation of the flood control project, it could effectively resist flood attack to the city, avoid or largely mitigate large economic loss due to flood, and lighten the heavy economic burden arising from input of manpower, materials, and financial resources for flood control and disaster relief. Therefore, it will do good to sustainable development of urban economic construction, improve the investment environment, so as to create a superior condition for economic development of Xupu County and a stable society. 2.3. Impact on Urban Construction After implementation of the flood control project, the rivershore buildings against rules will be cleared and removed, and the dumping ground along the river will be cleared too. Additionally, the urban flood control project will plan the rivershore embankments unifiedly, fully consider construction demand of the rivershore scenic belt. Together with forestry, grasses, and other scenic measures, the rivershore appearance will take on an entirely new look, and it will be propitious to urban development and construction. 2.4. Impact on Human Health by the Project Implementation The inundant flood seriously pollutes the city, result in prevalent disease, as well as threatens person health of residents badly. After implementation of the flood control project, the urban flood control capacity would be improved; it will also avoid or lighten pollution by flood disasters, as well as protect the ecological environment of the city and guarantee health of residents. Meanwhile, the establishment of the flood control project could eliminate the psychological burden of urban residents during the flood season, as well as create a peaceful and satisfactory production and living environment, which is beneficial to physical and mental health of residents.

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Environmental Protection Measures Water Environmental Protection Measure: In the course of construction of the Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project, management shall be enhanced prohibiting discharging oil, acid liquid, lye and other tonic or waste liquid into the waters or washing containers of oil or other tonic pollutants, and preventing dumping excavated wastes, domestic garbage and sewage or other wastes directly into Xushui River. The construction waste water and other sewage produced by the dike constructions within the first class water reserves shall not be discharged into the waters in this restrict. No new sewage discharge ports shall be constructed during the construction of the dike construction on the river banks. The original discharge ports shall be removed or moved to other protection zones in the dike works design and the construction course. The construction waste water shall not be released into the waters without being treated in the sand basins that are constructed in the sand stone processing area in keeping with the relevant standard. The sediments in the basin bottom shall be delivered to and piled in the slag disposal pits. Isolation measures shall be taken against the noise produced in the sand stone exploitation plants to avoid disadvantage to the people nearby. The domestic sewage produced by the constructors shall be collected and initially treated in the septic tanks, and then released into the underground pipelines of the city. The septic tanks shall be flexibly distributed according to the layout of the temporary residential areas. The silt at the tank bottom will be manually delivered to the farming land nearby as fertilizer. The domestic sewage cannot be discharged into the first class protected waters. The area 150m around the drinking water wells shall be protected from toilets and channel seepage without any garbage, soil and waste residues piles nor sumps or waste pipes constructed. In the culvert gates construction are, the waste water produced in foundation pit excavation and concrete placement shall be well treated and drainage channels, baffles and sand basins will be constructed. The water in the foundation pit will be pumped to the sand basins for treatment. The waste water within the first class drinking water source reserve shall be treated and discharged into the nearest underground pipelines. Preventing and Controlling Measures for Air Pollution: According to the characteristics of the air pollution in Xupu County during the Flood Control Project and the main air pollutants are dust, dirt and engine exhaust gas, the prevention approaches are made as the table below. Air Pollution Prevention Plans

Project Item Protection Measures

The construction dikes faces shall be compacted in time and watered to avoid dust. When it is dry, more watering shall be conducted more Dike construction lines frequently. The dike slopes shall also be protected by watering.。 The dike sections that are located at the densely populated area shall be fenced out with a supported fiber cloth to avoid pollution to the residents.

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Sand and stone Measures shall be taken against dust, and persons will be arranged to take processing plants and charge of watering. When it is dry, more watering shall be conducted more concrete mixing plants frequently to protect environment and the staff from pollution.

The roads in the construction area shall be hardened and regularly cured, Transportation cleaned and watered to control the dust volume. Construction Trucks delivering cement, lime, rubbish and spoil shall be covered to avoid dusting.

Management of constructing machines and vehicles shall be enhanced; clarifier shall be installed for large-sized machines and carrying vehicles Others and regularly checked and repaired to ensure the engine exhaust gas meets the environmental standards. Burning toxicants and substances that emits fetidity are forbidden

Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal i) Spoil Waste materials from construction (both temporary and permanent wastes included) shall be carried to spoil piles, and can not be piled along the construction line at will. Appropriate water and soil conservations measures shall be adopted accordingly.

ii) Domestic Garbage Temporary garbage storage facilities shall be laid by the Contractor and the other units in operation. And one garbage station shall be constructed in the temporary residential area of the construction personnel’s, and regularly cleaned by persons in charge, 3-4times a week, and the garbage shall be carried to and buried in the spoil piles and covered with earth to avoid flies. Noise Prevention and Control: Any unit is not allowed to use althorns within the residential area and other non-construction areas. The vehicles entering the construction camp or residential area shall not use high tone loudspeakers or strange-sounded loudspeakers. The broadcasting station in the construction area shall be well timed trying not to affect people’s working, study and resting. Other noisy facilities like compressors, vibrating rods and concrete mixing stations shall be used at appropriate time considering the people’s working and rest. Measures shall be taken for all facilities that may influence the people nearby because of noise and vibration to reduce their influence, selecting facilities and technology that produce low noise and weak vibration. The fixed noise sources such as mixing system and sand stone screening field shall be equipped with mufflers, sound insulation rooms and enclosures, and the operators of the mobile sources, such as carrying vehicles, shall be equipped with noise insulation appliances such as earplugs. Constructions close to the construction camp and the urban residential area shall be well timed, trying to reduce or even avoid affecting the people, and any complaints, if there are, shall be sensibly and responsibly dealt with.

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In order to provide protection for the urban residential areas, No.2 Middle School of Xupu County, the Vocational Technical School of the County, Jingyu Elementary School, Juhuayuan Elementary School and Xingfuyuan (a charitable institution) along the north and south banks of Xushui River, sound barriers shall be set up on one side or the two sides of the road by the relevant contractors and other units in operation, if the Environment Engineer deems it necessary. Ecological Protection In the construction course of Xupu Urban Flood Control Project, the Contractor and the other units in operation shall enhance propaganda and education of wildlife protection and improve the people’s awareness of protection wildlife and ecology. Hunting shall be forbidden in the project area, and someone who is found cutting or hunting wild plants or animals shall be stopped immediately and reported to the Engineer and the department concerned and if finding or doubting habitats of any valuable and rare animals or plants, he shall immediately adopt protective measures and report to the Engineer. Fishery production and the fishing activities in the study area shall be conducted in keeping with the relevant official prescriptions and fishing with poison bait, explosive or power shall be forbidden during the construction, and also the Contractor and the subcontractors and their employees are not allowed to fish any beneficial animals, such as frogs. The Employer shall emphasis the importance of protecting fishes and other aquatic lives. In addition, in the construction course the contractors and the other units in operation shall carry out corresponding water and soil conservation measures according to the design to prevent water and soil loss and destruction of vegetation and other environment resources. The detailed measures include: Works concerning earth material, sandstone collecting and processing shall be done within the planned area with cofferdam built or vegetation buffer area retained to ensure vegetation outside the working field not destroyed. Works of cutting trees and cleansing waste earth and other materials for construction shall be done within the design limits. Unnecessary and excessive cuttings shall be avoided. In the construction of dike works and culvert gates engineering or biological protective measures shall be adopted according to the topography and geology condition of the study area to avoid landslide, sloughing or water and soil loss. Construction wastes shall be delivered to the appointed spoil piles and can not be piled along the dike lines at will. Water and soil conservation measures, including construction of drainage channel, riprapping and vegetation recovery, etc., shall be adopted for the spoil piles to avoid spoil loss. The water and soil conservation measures include construction of drainage channel and riprapping. Temporary spoil piles thus shall be constructed nearby and fenced with spoil retaining embankment for the advantage of surface humus backfill after excavation. The surface hums shall be filled back to the surface and be leveled and cleaned. More measures shall be taken for vegetation recovery. Before the water and soil conservation measures are well taken or not under sound operation, revetment shall be constructed in rain season to avoid scouring erosion. The temporary construction land shall be leveled after construction and vegetation

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shall be recovered as soon as possible. The acquired farming land shall be immediately plowed, leveled after removal of the temporary structures, and appropriate field ridges shall be set to recover the drainage and irritation system, and well planted. The acquired wasteland shall be leveled and planted with sod after the removal of temporary structures. Protective Measures for Human Health During the construction of the Xupu Urban Flood Control Project, some corresponding hygiene and disease control and quarantine control measures shall be adopted since the construction persons live for a long time. These measures include: i) The employees of the Contractor and the sub-contractors can’t enter the construction field without having physical examination by approved hygiene and disease control departments. ii) The Contractor and the subcontractors shall organize physical examinations for their employees once a year and set up individual health files. And the personnel dealing with food shall be qualified with certificate. iii) The Contractor and the subcontractors and the other units in operation shall carefully monitor the infectious diseases. Any infectious diseases found shall be reported to the local hygiene and disease control department for corresponding urgent measures, and to the environment Engineer. iv) The Employer, the Contractor and subcontractors and the other units in operation shall conduct battles against rats and mosquitoes and regular sterilization and cleaning in the residential and administrative areas, and prevent the persons and the environment from the rodenticides and pesticides v) All catering places (employees’ canteen included), public places and other service units shall abide by Food Hygiene Law and the other relevant national and local governmental rules, and accept any inspections organized by the official hygiene and disease control departments and the environment engineer any time.

vi) The owner, the contractors and subcontractors and other operational units must conduct good hygienic management over living and drinking water and prevent waterborne diseases, the living water should be supplied from Xupu County running water as much as possible, if unavailable, the drinking water source of local residents can be used. The life Waterworks must be chlorinated for sterilization and disinfection. The living and drinking water must be monitored once per month by total coliform. Any found problem must be treated promptly under the guidance of environment supervising engineer and be reported to the environmental management office at once. vii) In the densely-populated areas, toilets are very important for environment and health protection thus well management and cleansing are necessary and shall be conducted regularly. All contractors and the other units in operation shall construct toilets with water supply and effective septic tanks. Toilets in those less populated areas shall be kept clean with soil well treated Protective Measures for Resettlement Sound management and organization institutions guarantee a smooth resettlement process. According to the practical situation, Xupu County will set up a resettlement

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management institute in charging of works like organization, leadership and implementation in resettlement. The compensation standard and the investment volume for infrastructures will be set down in keeping with the Regulation of Compensation and Resettlement for Large-Medium Hydro and Power Construction Landuse, Hunan Provincial Resettlement Regulation for Large-medium Reservoir, and the relevant demands of the Xupu County government and be executed in time as prescribed. The resettlement management institute shall provide adequate funds for the affected people in time to ensure they can acquire all the compensation money before resettlement for effective living and working recovery. Domain preferential policies will be provided to the resettled people to help them out of temporary difficulties. The resettlement layout will start from a macrocosm perspective. In the course, the affected people may have complaints because of some unexpected changes, operational deviation, compensation standards and money issues, etc. In order to maintain their lawful rights and interests the relevant departments shall guarantee the smoothness of appealing. Protective Measures for Cultural Relic Landscape Contractors of all levels and other units in operation shall be strengthen the publicizing and education of protecting culture relics to improve the people’s awareness of culture relics conservation, letting them know all culture relics, on and under the ground, belong to the country, and no unit or individual has the right to possesses them privately. In the construction period, if any culture relics, or uncertain culture relics, are found the Contractor shall immediately terminate works, take appropriate protection measures to avoid any moving or destruction, and report to the Environment Engineer and administrative department in charge of culture relics for indication. The protection of culture relics in the project area will be in the charge of Xupu Prefectural Culture Relics Protection Bureau, and thus any other organization or person can not take upon themselves on this issue.。 Warning lines shall be set up around the former residence of Jing Yu, a revolutionary martyr. Constructions shall not directly cover its protection area as possible, and any constructions including excavation and vehicle transportations shall be well monitored in case of influence on the stability of the ancient buildings. Environmental Monitoring Plan Environmental monitoring is necessary to control the environmental influence caused by constructions of the Xupu County Flood Control Project, take corresponding measures, reduce the disadvantages of the project construction, and provide scientific grounds for environment management, project completion and acceptance. Monitoring schedules can be seen from the tables below.

Water Environment Quality Monitoring Plan during Construction Phase

Monitoring Position Monitoring Items Monitoring Frequency

Construction site of flood pH, SS, and petroleum products Once a month during the

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prevention dike and peak hours of the culvert/sluice construction

Once a month during the Domestic sewage discharge pH, SS, COD, ammonia nitrogen, TN, TP, peak hours of the outlet animal and vegetable fats, Fecal coliform construction

pH, SS, COD, ammonia nitrogen, TN, TP, Once a month during the Water catchment of animal and vegetable fats, petroleum peak hours of the Waterworks products, Fecal coliform construction

Air Environment Quality Monitoring Plan during Construction Phase

Monitoring Monitoring Position Monitoring frequency Items

Construction site of the flood control Once a month during the peak hours of the TSP project construction

Once a month during the peak hours of the Concrete mixing stations TSP construction

Once a month during the peak hours of the Dust on haulage ways TSP construction

Sound Environment Quality Monitoring Plan

Monitoring Monitoring Position Monitoring Frequency Items

Once a month during Construction site of the flood control project Leq(A) the peak hours of the construction

Once a month during Boundaries of the residential areas along the haulage way Leq(A) the peak hours of the construction

Boundaries of No.2 Middle School of Xupu County, the Once a month during Vocational Technical School of the County, Jingyu Elementary Leq(A) the peak hours of the School, Juhuayuan Elementary School and Xingfuyuan (a construction charitable institution)

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Environmental Management Plan and Institutional Arrangement Environmental Management Environmental Management Principle The main purpose of an environmental management plan ( EMP) of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project is to : Ensure the effective implementation of state and local environmental protection laws , regulations, standards and contract clauses during construction; Ensure that environmental protection measures, management plan and monitoring plan are implemented during the construction of Xupu County subproject. required by Environmental Impact Assessment Report of Hunan Hilly Regions Urban Flood Control Project.

Environmental Management Scope The area of environmental management is Xupu County flood control project area, including dike alignment project, culvert gate project, soil disposal sites, and temporary life camp and resettlement etc. during construction. Environmental Management Organization Environmental management office of Xupu County Flood Control Project is responsible for managing this project environmental protection. Entrusted by environmental management office, environmental inspection engineers (EIEs) supervise environment when construction units exercise their building activity during construction period. Environmental Management Methods About the important environmental problems existed in construction area or life camp, EIEs will issue The Notice about Environmental Problems through site inspection engineers, and require contractors to deal with problems within time limit. In accordance with the requirement of The Notice about Environmental Problems, The contractors must take any effective measures to solve problems on time and inform environmental inspection engineer. For demanded Problems-solving in The Notice about Environmental Problems, the contractors cannot deal with them, or not tackle them after expiration. After consulting with environmental management office (EMO), EIEs (Environmental Inspection Engineer) will issue the notice about environmental action to contractors through construction inspection engineers. After 14 days of issuing the notice (after 7 days under special conditions), EMO or employed qualified persons can enter the site for handling environmental problems. Because of this, contractors need pay the increase of owners’ costs or loss. From next month, the loss will be deducted from contractors’ monthly payment. All written documents between EIEs and contractors must be officially signed and issued by construction inspection engineers. Every contractor and other units in operation ought to enhance environmental protection education to employees, increase consciousness for environmental protection, and abide by laws, legislations, standards, contract clauses and all requirements relating to environmental protection. For all actions against

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environmental protection laws, legislations, standards, contract clauses and this regulation, every contractor and other units in operation will be investigated accordingly. In accordance with specific condition of contract and current account, every contractor in construction area and large-sized units in operation must commission specialized environmental protection officials to establish environmental protection system and be totally responsible for environmental protection work of their own units (under EIEs’ guidance). The specialized officials monitor periodically environmental items and parameters about environment (based on environmental monitoring plan or requirements of EIEs). They must submit a monthly newspaper about environment to EIEs every month, which reports this month’s work and monitoring conclusion. Xupu Urban Flood Control EMO Environmental Management Office can commission relative units or organizations to specifically inspect and monitor construction area and life camp periodically. Construction inspection engineers on site arrange monitoring work. The relative units or organization need notify contractors or other units in advance, and all units must coordinate with great efforts on the above-mentioned monitoring work. Every contractor and unit must ensure that measures of preventing pollution keep in step with the contracted items, or else, EIEs do the job by ways of written instruction of site construction inspection engineers. Responsibilities of Relevant Parties of Environmental Management The main relevant parties of environmental management involve the PPMO together with its social and environmental office, Xupu County Subproject Management Office, Subproject Office Social and Environmental Section Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Dept., Xupu County Environmental Protection Bureau and its Monitoring Station, Environmental Supervision Engineer, Engineering Quality Supervision Engineer, Contractor and ADB Assessment Mission. The responsibilities of these relevant parties are as follows: a) The PPMO shall be responsible for: i. Assistance in the social and environmental office to compile the environmental management rules and regulations for the subproject; ii. Cooperation with the Provincial Environmental Protection Dept. regarding the environmental issues in the project implementation; iii. Summary of the environmental protection measures of project implementation into the project progress report and submission to the ADB for review. b) The environmental and social office under the PPMO shall take charge of: i. The overall environmental management for the Hunan Provincial Flood Management Project; ii. Compilation of environmental management rules and regulations and supervision on its implementation; iii. Guarantee of the environmental protection measures of the subproject included into the Contractor’s contract clauses in a reasonable way; iv. Organization of training on the personnel of the subproject office;

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v. Recruit, monitor and assist in the environmental supervising engineer; vi. Recruit, monitor and assist in the supervising engineer of project quality; vii. Guide the social environment office and the subproject PMO to prepare the environment monitoring contract; viii. Complete the form1 of the project environmental monitoring report and the report includes the following aspects: a. Monthly environmental report provided by the subproject contractor; b. Monthly environmental report of the subproject; c. Monthly report of the environmental supervision provided by the subproject environmental supervising engineer; d. Quarterly report and yearly report of the environmental management of the subproject; e. Quarterly report and yearly report of the environmental management of the whole project. ix. Review and approve the quarterly report and yearly report of the subproject environmental management; x. Prepare for the quarterly and yearly reports of the project environmental management; summarize the environmental progress of the subproject and submit it to ADB for approval; xi. Help HEPB and ADB carry out the environmental supervision and inspection; and xii. Prepare the summary of the environmental assessment report of the whole project based on IEE of each subproject. c) The social and environmental section of the Subproject Office shall be responsible for: i. The overall environmental management for the relevant subprojects; ii. Guarantee of environmental protection responsibilities included into the subproject’s construction contract; iii. Compilation of the equipment and address choice plan in relation to the subproject, including reasonable arrangement sites of temporary work shed, architectural device and spoil yard, to ensure the plan reviewed by the local environmental protection bureau, public affairs and cultural bureau as well as other associate departments; iv. Recruit, monitor and help the local EPB to carry out the monitoring on the environment and pollution discharge; v. Recruit, monitor and help the environmental supervising engineer and the supervising engineer of the project quality; vi. Receive and compile the monthly reports provided by the environmental supervising engineer and the supervising engineer of project quality;

1 Requirements on the environmental reports of the subproject and whole project and the form of the environmental report are described in the project implementation and monitoring reports.

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vii. Fix attention on the environmental problems produced during the environmental supervision and monitoring plans; viii. Take proper measures to treat with the environmental problems in accordance with the environmental action notice issued by the Engineer of the Project; the Contractor shall undertake relevant expenses, which shall be deducted from the funds of the following month. ix. Submit the quarterly and yearly environmental reports to the social and environmental section2 of PPMO. x. Declare the public the project preparation and implementations including the issuance of bidding information, construction schedule, disclosure of relevant information, introduction about the Contractor, who has won the bid and so on. xi. Compile and issue information about the public environment, including potential environmental impacts, environmental protection measures and monitoring results and so on. xii. Set special boxes for public opinions so as to collect the opinions and complaints of the public about the environmental pollution, noise and other issues concerned. The opinion boxes shall be regularly checked and feed back opinions of the public to relevant departments. d) The Contractor of the subproject shall be responsible for: i. Implementation of project construction and environmental protection measures in line with the requirement of the contract; ii. Abidance by the environmental protection requirements stated in the contract; iii. Formulation of the subproject environmental management plan to satisfy the requirement in Table 5-5; iv. Formulation of the health and security plan; v. Provision of training on environment protection, health and security for the staff; and vi. Preparation of environmental monthly report and submission to the environmental supervision engineer and the local environmental and social section. e) The environmental supervision engineer, under the supervision of the environmental and social section of the subproject office, shall be responsible for: i. Supervision on the implementation of environmental supervision plan and environmental protection measures at construction worksite, work shed and traffic roads stipulated in the subproject contract; ii. Guarantee of the subprojects in conformity with the Environmental Impact

2 Quarterly and yearly environmental reports of the subprojects are the combination of the monthly reports and monitoring reports provide by the Contractor, which will be part of the subproject progress quarterly and yearly reports. The requirements on the project environmental report are presented in Section 5 and see the report outline for Appendix I.

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Assessment Laws of PRC together with the relevant environmental laws, regulations and standards; iii. Issuance of notices on environmental issues and actions to the Contractor and making a copy for the local environmental protection bureau and PMO; and iv. Prepare the monthly report of environmental supervision and submit it to local subproject PMO. The environmental supervision engineer shall keep to the stipulations in relation to the project supervision issued by the State Environmental Protection Dept. f) The engineering quality supervision engineer, under the supervision of the environmental and social section of the subproject office and the closely assistance by the environmental supervision engineer, shall be responsible for: i. Assistance in the environmental supervision engineer to supervise the implementation of environmental protection measures by the Contractor; ii. 14 days after the notice on environmental issues was issued (7 days under the peculiar conditions), if the Contractor refuses to settle the issues or fails to settle them after the expiry, the notice on environmental action shall be issued. The subproject’s environmental and social section or the qualified personnel recruited by it can march into the worksite on site for disposal of the relevant environmental issues. The expenses arising out of it or the losses incurred by it shall be undertaken by the Contractor and be deducted from the monthly payment to the Contractor since the next month. iii. Help the environmental supervising engineer prepare for the monthly report of the environmental supervision. The project supervision engineer shall conform to the regulations regarding the project supervision by the National Environmental Protection Dept. and Construction Dept. g) Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Dept.: Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Dept. is the administrative management unit in charge of the environment in Hunan Province, and shall conduct management on all environmental supervision, monitoring and environmental issues in line with the environmental impact assessment laws, which mainly includes: i. Review and approval of the environmental impact assessment report of the overall project and its subprojects; ii. Review the environmental impact report table of the subproject selected; iii. Review and approve the siting plan of auxiliary facilities of the subproject; iv. Review the environmental assessment report of the subproject; v. Ensure that the environmental protection measures for solving any significant environment problem can be effectively implemented. h) The environmental protection bureau of the subproject shall be responsible for:

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i. Monitoring on the air, water and noise quality as well as pollution emission stipulated in the subproject environmental management plan; ii. Review and approve the siting plan of auxiliary facilities of the subproject; iii. Supervision and monitoring on the environmental issues in the subproject construction and operation as the deputy of the Provincial Environmental Protection Dept. i. ADB Assessment Mission: As stated in the ADB Loan Agreement, the ADB Assessment Mission shall, twice per year, conduct supervision on the implementation progress, the implementation of the overall project and its subprojects’ environmental management plans. The two assessments refer to the mid-term assessment and final assessment. And the final assessment on the project shall be accomplished 3 month prior to the termination of the project. Environmental Protection Clauses in the Contract of the Contractor As a portion of the Contract for bidding, the Contractor must, in the bidding Contract, include the environmental management plan in construction and describe the methods that the Contractor completes the environmental responsibilities. The environmental management plan must include, but not limiting the following items: (i) equipment and procedure of managing solid wastes including spoil, construction and domestic garbage; (ii) equipment and procedure of managing liquid wastes (including construction waste water, domestic waste water and waste water produced when cleaning equipment); (iii) measures of controlling soil and water loss at project areas (embankment, gate, flood diversion canal, spoil yard and material yard); (iv) measures of reducing and controlling air pollution (by vehicles emission system and dust control); (v) measures of reducing and controlling noise pollution (by operation procedure and vehicles emission system); and (vi) vegetation re-cultivation plan after the completion of construction (of spoil yard and material yard). Project Management Regulations PPMO and ADB have agreed to compile the environmental management regulations of the project construction so as to provide a legal base for the environmental management of the project construction. The environmental and social office of PPMO will be responsible for the compilation of the environmental management plan, which will put emphasis on the rules for environmental management and protection shared by all subprojects. And the environmental management plan shall at lease include the following aspects: i) Environmental protection measures included in the general environmental management plan report; ii) Environmental specifications and standards suitable for PRC; iii) Considerations about environmental protection in the construction document and contract of the subproject;

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PPMO has compiled the preliminary draft of the construction project environmental management regulations and been reviewed by ADB. Main conclusions are as follows: i) Environmental protection measures: analysis on the potential impacts on natural and social environments and the environmental monitoring plan shall be attached. ii) The preliminary draft of the construction project environmental management regulations shall be carefully checked so as to keep the consistency with the general plan of environmental management. PPMO has agreed on the opinions above.

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Public Participation Public Participation Method On April 2005, supported by Xupu Water Resources Bureau, we adopt different kinds of public consultation for construction impacts. The main participants are representatives of construction impacts areas and emigrants. We adopt spot field investigation, interview and questionnaire survey, and know about the participants for comments, suggestions about environmental impacts by different ways. During survey, 20 copies questionnaires have been issued to the public. The questionnaires make the preliminary introduction about background information such as location, scale, resettlement etc The following table presents the composition of the people consulted. Composition of the People Consulted in Public Participation

Sex Age Nationality Occupation Education

Above Below Non Middle Male Female 40 years 40 years Han others Agricultural agricultural school old old University

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Public Opinion i. Local Government’s Opinion The suggestions from Water Resources Bureau, Bureau of Finance, and Municipal Government are : The construction of this project is favorable for enhancing the capacity-controlling flood, accelerating economic development of Xupu County. After completion of the project, the social, economic and environmental benefit will be great. The negative impacts on environment will be few. The affected scopes are limited to construction area, periphery partial areas. The affected period is mainly in construction phase. The project must be implemented as soon as possible. At present, the main environmental problem is that the dike construction makes more houses be demolished, so the compensation and resettlement must be coped. The main opinions of the local fisheries administration department are: Because there are not natural fish eggs-laying ground, nursery ground and over wintering ground in Xushui River in Xupu County, and, no dredging channel and changing its course in flood control project, this project will have little effect on aquatic organism in river stretch of water gage. The ideas from department of cultural relics are: Xupu is an old city, with long history. During building dike distribution areas and construction sites, the historic buildings exist. In addition, there having municipal cultural relics, such as Dufu Bridge, Qinglong tower near dike and the borrow pit areas, it must enhance protection and management work, guarding against destroying cultural relics, during construction. The Water Works considers:

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According to the manufacturing technique and disposal degree of water extracting and purifying, although suspended substances, sand have effects on water quality, the quality will be better after disposal. During construction process in flood control project, sanitary sewage drain cannot be established in protection areas for drinking water resource. And old sewage drain must be transformed and cannot be drained into the protection areas. ii. Mass Opinions Through public consultation, the public know about the feature, positive and negative effects of flood control project. Most of them are of opinions that this project will be social project, and hope that it will be started at an early time, in order to reduce hidden trouble from flood. At the same time, they are also aware that this project will have some negative effects on natural, social and ecological environment, especially the large-scale housing removal. The most attentions are : If paying for compensation on time and in full; If dealing with problem of employment; If advancing the standard of living. They also hope that this project can make them gain material interests, and make good use of ecological protection around construction areas. In the questionnaires, there are two copies which disapprove this project; 3 copies of questionnaire are ambiguous about this project. The main reasons of these 5 copies disapproving the project: during project investment and choice of contractors, the secretive process will result in corruption, which will waste government investment, and bring about damage of project safety, flood control safety. The disapproval from the public must be paid great attention. Treatment of Public Opinions About ecological quality and environmental protection, the measures for preventing negative impacts must be put forward in EMP as far as possible. The comments and suggestions about construction quality, process must be told to project construction departments for reference through related channels. About the comments and suggestions of resettlement will be told to construction departments and organizing departments of resettlement planning by related ways , in order to adopt reasonable suggestion offered by the public during resettlement. Project Office must inform the public of first-phase job, inviting and submitting a bid, the information of contractors and investment progress by ways of newspaper, TV and news briefing. Meanwhile, Project Office must confirm effective and available telephone, fax and reception stations through organizations of letters from and visits of the people. Thus, Project Office can know the suggestions of the public about the project; solve these problems effectively through contacting with related departments.

Public Participation Questionnaire of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project

Interviewees Unit or Address Name Age Nationality Occupation Title Education Main construction content:

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The flood control construction includes guard circle in Northern part, guard circle of Juhua garden in southern part and Changle fang in eastern part. The total length of dike is 5.8091km, 1.672km of established dike and 4.137km of newly established dike. Among them, there are 2567m of newly established flood control wall made of wet masonry, 1570m of newly built dike, and 5 new culvert gates; 2 new electro drain stations with 1680kw. Land acquisition and house removal The impacts of this project will be on 5 residential committees, 2 administrative villages. It need relocate 40 households and 202 persons, and demolish 13960m2. in this project, it need relocate 32 households and 158 persons in urban areas, and demolish 11240m2. Land acquisition for construction: 108.58mu, hereinto dry land: 20.88mu, vegetable field: 36mu; residential base: 15.7mu, housing land; 36.0mu. The temporarily occupied dry land is 12.14mu. the facilities include 2.1km of low voltage line and 0.4km of post and telecommunications. Main resettlement method: The agricultural population for production placement is 44. It adopts the mode of farmland regulation for value in the village to resettle emigrants. The farmland regulated is 25mu, 30persons resettled, in combination with the second and third industry, 14 persons will be resettled. There are 8 households and 44 persons of emigration. 2720 m2 of buildings will be demolished. According to feature of demolished houses diffusing along the dike, the house resettlement will adopt resettle 8households and 47 persons after diffusion; property right changing resettle 24 households and 111 persons; resettle population centre with irregular concentration. After all households relocate, they will live in 50m place apart from the dike, having convenient transportation, convenient power supply and rich water source. The households resettle themselves by making use of compensation for demolition

Do you know the construction of Xupu Urban Yes No Heard of Flood Control Project? At present which Flood and environmental problem Ecological Air Water waterlogging Noise Other exerts biggest impact on destruction pollution pollution disaster you? Do you think what is the Flood priority to consider in urban prevention and Landscape Farmland Resettlers’ flood prevention waterlog environment protection living quality construction discharge Do you think what kind of benefit this project should Economic benefit Ecological benefit Social benefit mainly consider Type of impact on you by Environmental Other House removal Land acquisition this project pollution impacts The best resettlement Dispersed Outside Anything will Centralized backward method in you opinion backward immigration do. Do you obey to land acquisition, removal, and Yes No Conditionally resettlement Which environmental pollution will exert the Vegetation Water biggest impact on you Air pollution Noise deterioration Others pollution during the construction phase

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Certain Suggested measures to Enclosed compensation Afforestation Others mitigate the impact construction to influenced residents Do you agree to this project Yes No Ambiguous

Relevant opinions and suggestions

1. To answer these questions, please mark “√”. 2. All questions can be answered with multi-choices. Remarks 3. For opinions and suggestions not addressed by these questions, please fill in the column “Other opinions and suggestions”. Investigator: Time:

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Estimate for Environmental Protection Investment Environmental Protection Investment The estimate of the environmental protection expenses is based on Regulations on Hydraulic and Hydropower Project Environmental Protection Design Budget (Estimate) and in combination of the price standard of Xupu County in 2007. The environmental protection investment for the works is mainly the expenses of engineering facilities, devices, environmental monitoring and management in order to avoid the unfavorable impact on the environment by the works. The total investment of environmental protection is RMB 1.0582 million yuan. For the environmental protection investment estimates in details, please see the following table. Estimate for Environmental Protection Investment of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project Annual Cost Items RMB 104 yuan Total Remarks 1 2 3 4

Water pollution Collection and control 2.04 2.69 2.69 2.69 10.74 treatment of domestic sewage. Setting of garbage bin and interim rubbish station, collection and Solid Waste Control 0.68 0.90 0.90 0.90 3.58 treatment of rubbish. Treatment of solid construction waste. Dust control of road and construction worksite by Air pollution control 1.36 1.79 1.79 1.79 7.16 spraying water, Environmental ground hardening Protection and equipment Measures rent. Noise control measures sound isolation device Noise control 0.34 0.45 0.45 0.45 1.79 and the necessary compensation funds. Medical expenses of construction personnel; Human health 0.54 0.72 0.72 0.72 2.87 sanitation and protection epidemic prevention in toilet and kitchen. Caution sign and Public safety 0.34 0.454 0.45 0.45 1.79 security measures.

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Environmental Monitoring 1.36 1.79 1.79 1.79 7.16 8% of the total costs of environmental protection measures and monitoring; the Mitigation ecological measures 0 0 0 0 0 conditions and design other relevant investigations; design and plan of the detailed protective measures. Engineering management environment 0.48 0.63 0.63 0.63 2.51 monitoring capability building 4% of the total costs of environmental protection Project measures and management and Administrative monitoring; Environment 0.24 0.31 0.31 0.31 1.25 management The overhead Monitoring expenses of the Capability Building environmental management organ. The company with Site qualification checks 2.98 3.92 3.92 3.92 15.69 investigation the implementation of measures. 0.25% of the total costs of environmental protection Construction measures and 0.068 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.36 supervision monitoring; The quality check of the implementation of protective measures. Training of local Training and environmental capability 1.63 2.15 2.15 2.15 8.60 administrators and building in-situ training of supervisors.

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Engineering measures of soil and water conservation of the main works area, material yard and Structural spoil yard, including 1.57 2.06 2.06 2.06 8.25 measures slag-retaining wall, engineering waste water drain ditch, interim sedimentation pool and ditch and canal slope protection. Vegetation restoration in material yard and Biological 2.15 2.83 2.83 2.83 11.33 spoil yard; measures Trees planting and Soil and Water afforstation on Conservation embankment Interim facilities of Temporary soil and water measures for conservation in the soil and water 0.22 0.26 0.29 0.26 1.14 material yard such conservation as slag-retaining fence and the main works area Fundamental 0.10 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.54 contingency Design, Administration supervision, and 1.17 1.54 1.54 1.54 6.16 monitoring and management check Compensation for facilities of 2.83 3.73 3.73 3.73 14.90 soil and water conservation Total 20.11 26.46 26.46 26.46 105.82

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Assessment Conclusion and Recommendations Assessment Conclusion After the project implementation, the flood control standard of the urban of Xupu County shall be promoted to 20-year-occurrence. The project construction has obvious social, economic and environmental benefits, shall bring new power for the economic development of Xupu County and bear a positive function to the areal economic development. The unfavorable impact produced by the project implementation involve the project land occupation and resettlers’ resettlement as well as the impact on Xiangjingyu Former Residence by the cultural relics protection unit. In the project construction period, the construction waste water shall produce a certain pollution on the water quality of the river section; the dust produced and the tail gas by the project construction shall bring a certain pollution on air quality in the construction area and the surrounding residential areas; the construction noise shall bring a certain impact on the surrounding residents and construction personnel. The project construction shall disturb the earth surface so as to easily produce soil and water loss. The construction personnel shall suffer from the health problems due to being comparatively concentrated. The impact of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project are mainly the favorable impact, also long-range and obvious, while the unfavorable impact of the project are minor, mostly concentrated in the construction period, thus having short impact time. After the treatment, compensation and restoration by taking the corresponding environmental protection measures, except the losses incurred due to project land occupation, which is irreversible, the other unfavorable impact shall be alleviated and restored in a certain extent. In comprehensive analysis of the favorable and unfavorable impact and impacted extent incurred by the project construction as well as the reversibility, deliberated from the viewpoint of environmental protection, the project construction is viable. Recommendations i) The layout of structures shall be base on the topography to reduce the works quantity of excavation; the construction slash shall be leveled and compacted as soon as possible, and the corresponding engineering or vegetation measures shall be taken to conduct the protection of soil and water loss for the construction slash. ii) In order to prevent the water quality of Ceshui River section from polluted in the construction period, the construction unit shall strengthen the construction management on construction waste water, which is allowed to be drained out after treated. iii) In order to avoid or alleviate the impact on the protected targets around the construction area by the waste gas in the construction period, the construction transportation trunk and construction area shall be regularly cleaned and sprinkled by the special person assigned by the Contractor. iv) The construction unit shall strengthen the construction management and carry out the civilized construction. The construction time section shall be strictly controlled to avoid the rest time of residents, especially controlling the construction time at night. The construction personnel under the high dust aroma, the necessary labor prevention measures must be taken to restrict the

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successive operation time. v) The human health management of construction personnel shall be strengthened, and attention shall be paid to the human health and epidemic prevention of the interim domestic quarters, the human health and epidemic prevention organ shall be entrusted to regularly monitor the prevention and epidemic situation for convenience of timely grasping the development of epidemic situation and treating the outburst of epidemic situation. vi) The demolition and relocation for the project must be designed. The reasonable compensation for resettlers must be made in line with the relevant state regulations to ensure the domestic standard of resettlers not lower than the original domestic standard. vii) Before the project implementation, the preparation of the report on soil and water conservation scheme shall be conducted, the detailed measures of soil and water conservation must be fulfilled in the project construction, the construction slash must be leveled and compacted as soon as possible and the corresponding engineering or vegetation measures shall be adopted to prevent the construction slash from soil and water loss. viii) The authorities of the project shall establish a special environmental protection management organ to take charge of fulfillment of the environmental protection measures; conduct the environmental monitoring (on water, air and noise) and supervision in the construction period.

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Table for Approval Opinions Pre-approval Opinions:

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Annex and Attached Figures

Attached Figure 1 Project Location of Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project

Attached Figure 2 General Layout for Project Construction and Distribution of Sensitive Spots

Annex 3 Registration Table for Approval of Construction Project Environmental Protection

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Registration Table for Approval of Construction Project Environmental Protection

Filling Unitseal：Hunan Hydro and Power Design Institute Filled bysignature: Zhao Weihua Undertaker:Signature:

Project Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project under ADB Construction Place Xupu County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province Name Loans Xupu County Urban Flood Control Project shall provide flood control and protection for the county seat by the engineering measures such as building embankment, drainage sluice gate and side slope protection, Constru including North Urban, South Urban Juhuayuan and √ Newly built ction East Urban Changlefang Protective Circles along Construction Content Xushui River. The embankment is 5.809km long in tion Nature □expansion and reconstruc and total, including 1.672km built embankment and

Construction ProjectConstruction Scale 4.137km newly-built embankment, including 2567m □ technological innovation newly-built mortar rubble anti-flood wall and 1570m newly-built earth embankment; 5 newly-built sluice gates; 2 newly-built electric drainage stations of 1680kw in total. Environmental Sector protection Categor Water Resources □ prepare report √prepare report table □ fill in management registration table y category Total Environmental Investm Protection Percentage ent 5918.31 4 236.93 4.00 4 Investment 10 % 10 yuan yuan Proposa l Approval Document Proposal Hunan Provincial Planning Commission Depart No. date ment

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Approva l Approval Document Approval Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Dept. Depart No. date ment Xupu County Urban Flood A Hunan Hydro and Unit s 073156077

Construction Un Construction Control Project Tel. Name of Unit Power General Tel. Name 74 Construction s Design Institute Headquarter e s s No. 26, Laodong Address Postcode m Address Road, Changsha Postcode 410007 e City

it nt National Legal U Environmental Type Assessment Repres Contact ni Certificate No. B Certificate fee entative t No.2713 Environ mental Ambient Air: Grade 3 Surface Water: Grade 3 Underground Water: / Ambient Noise: Grade 3 Seawater: / Quality Soil: / Other: / Current Grade Environmen t in Project Environ □ drinking water source protection zone □ natural reserve □ famous scenic spot □ forest park □ basic farmland protection zone Area mental □ ecological functional protection zone Sensitiv e □ soil erosion key prevention and control zone □ ecological sensitive and vulnerable zone √ densely-populated zone √key Feature relics protection unit Alleviation Alleviation Measures

Environmental Index Taken Measures Impactand Ecological Ecological Im Adjus Proj Relo Monit Proj pa Impa tment Land Biologi Controlled Protec Impact ect catio oring ect Le ct ct of scape cal Item Name tion positio Avoi n Mana Trea Other vel de meth Prote Desig Compe object n danc Prote geme tmen gre od ction n nsation e ction nt t e Area

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Effect s In Back differ ward ent Other settle plac ment e Relocat ed Local and Populati backward Invest on due 202 Resettle resettlement, ment to ment in different for Perso 4 Project ns Mode place and 10 Land cash yuan Occupat compensation Demolition of ion Resettlers Relocat ed Populati Antici Resettle Rest on due pated Resto ment oratio to — — Effect ration Mode n Environ s mental Impact

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Noise Low- reduc Sou Sound nois Proje Monito Treated Soil 13.73 tion Engineering nd Rem proof e ct ring and Water hm2 Biological Treatment: by Other treatment: isola oval windo equi avoid manag Loss Area affore ting w pme ance ement statio nt n Invest Project ment Afforestation Rate: Afforestatio 8.412 hm2 for 61.27% 4 n Area Operat 10 ion yuan Waste Period Antici Water in Sedimentation Physical-chemical pated

Constructio √ Change Effect n Period SS s Noise Noise Creatures Quantity in the Land Invest ment Occupied Before After Construction: for by the Construction: / / 4 Project Constr 10 ton/hecta uction yuan re Period Antici Project 73.47 pated Stonework Effect 104m3 s Basic Farmland Forestl Total Land Occupation farmlan Grassland Fish pond occupation and Natur d Land e 4.60hm2 Temporary Permanent

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