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Environmental Impact Assessment E2700 Pilot Demonstration of GEF City Cluster Eco-Transport Project (P121263) v. 4 Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental Impact Assessment For Western Changsha Terminal Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental Impact Assessment Center of Hunan University March 21, 2011 Public Disclosure Authorized TABLE OF CONTENT 1. OVERVIEW..............................................................................................1 1.1 BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT ..................................1 1.2 POLICIES, LAWS AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK .....................................2 1.3 ASSESSMENT PRINCIPLES.......................................................................3 1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT CLASSES.........................6 1.5 ASSESSMENT SCOPE..............................................................................6 1.6 ASSESSMENT STANDARD ........................................................................7 1.7 ASSESSMENT PARAMETERS ....................................................................9 1.8 ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVE SITES ..........................................................9 1.9 ASSESSMENT SCOPE............................................................................12 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT.......................................................13 2.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW ............................................................................13 2.2 PROJECT LOCATION .............................................................................17 2.3 PROJECT COMPONENTS AND SCALE ......................................................17 2.4 PROJECT DESIGN.................................................................................20 2.5 TRAFFIC OVERVIEW OF THE ROADS AROUND THE SITE ............................23 2.7 ROADS AND TRAFFIC FACILITY CONSTRUCTION.......................................32 2.8 RELEVANT FACILITIES ...........................................................................32 2.9 CONSTRUCTION ARRANGEMENT ............................................................34 2.10 TRANSITION PERIOD TRANSPORTATION ARRANGEMENT.......................35 2.11 RESETTLEMENT PLAN.......................................................................39 3. DESCRIPTION OF ENVIRONMENT (BASE LINE) ...............................44 3.1 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT .......................................................................44 3.2 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT..........................................................................46 3.3 ENVIRONMENT BASELINE ......................................................................49 4. ALTERNATIVE COMPARISON..............................................................58 4.1 WITH AND WITHOUT PROJECT ALTERNATIVES .........................................58 4.2 ALTERNATIVE LOCATIONS......................................................................60 4.3 ALTERNATIVE PROJECT LAYOUTS...........................................................62 4.4 CONSISTENCY WITH RELEVANT PLANS ...................................................65 5. ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS AND MIGIGATION .................................67 5.1 AIR QUALITY ........................................................................................67 5.2 WATER QUALITY ..................................................................................78 5.3 NOISE IMPACT......................................................................................81 5.4 SOLID WASTE ......................................................................................88 5.5 ECOLOGY ............................................................................................90 5.6 RISK ANALYSIS OF GAS STATION OPERATION..........................................90 5.7 VEHICLE MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP......................................................95 5.8 COMMUNITY DISTURBANCE ...................................................................96 5.9 HEALTH AND SAFETY ............................................................................97 5.10 RESETTLEMENT .............................................................................100 5.11 POSSIBLE CHANGE OF PROJECT SCOPE OR DESIGN .........................101 5.12 POSITIVE IMPACTS .........................................................................102 6. PUBLIC CONSULTATION....................................................................105 6.1 SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION AND SURVEY ...............................................105 6.2 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION METHOD ..........................................................105 6.3 PUBLIC CONSULTATION RESULTS.........................................................109 6.4 PUBLIC CONSULTATION DURING RAP PREPARATION.............................. 111 7. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN .........................................113 7.1 OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................113 7.2 MITIGATION MEASURES ......................................................................113 7.3 MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION ORGANIZATIONS ................................113 7.4 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ............................................................114 7.5 ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION ...........................................................114 7.6 INDEPENDENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT (IEC)..............................115 7.7 CORRECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF MITIGATION MEASURES.................116 8. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.......................................117 1. OVERVIEW 1.1 Background and Significance of the Project China’s transportation is facing significant challenges in energy saving and CO2 emission reduction. With rapid economy growth, transportation has become a major consumer of energy and a major source of CO2 emissions in China. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the transport sector accounted for more than 38% of total crude oil consumption in China in 2007. According to the Ministry of Transport (MOT), the amount of CO2 emissions generated from transport—roughly 290 million tons in 2004—is estimated to double by the end of 2015 and reach 1.1 billion tons in 2030. To achieve energy saving and CO2 emission reduction amid the anticipated continuing rapid growth in transport demand, the transport sector must seize all opportunities in a strategic way to promote eco-transport—a way of sustainable transport development that is resources saving and environmentally friendly. Multi-modal integrated transport development in the rapidly growing city clusters is such an opportunity. GoC established the National Strategy of "Resource-saving and Environment- Friendly Society” in 2004. In 2007, GoC started a new initiative targeting at the city clusters, and approved the city cluster of Changsha-Zhuzhou- Xiangtan as a pilot. In 2008, the government of Hunan Province and the Ministry of Transport have agreed to take joint initiatives to implement the pilot of the city-cluster based SUTS. A special attention is given to tapping the potential of inland waterway transport as a region-specific unique transport resource with sizable transport capacity, lower energy consumption, lighter pollution and lower requirements for land. In this context, this project aims to develop and implement a strategy for city- cluster based sustainable urban transport systems (SUTS), focusing on capacity building, policy and institutional innovations, and with a pilot demonstration in the city cluster of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan. It has an overall goal of increasing the efficiency of resource use, reducing transport energy consumption and GHG emissions while meeting the need for transport accessibility and mobility in city clusters. It is hoped that the project will create a national best/good practice model for city-cluster based low-carbon transport system. The success of the project will also provide an important reference for other developing countries. The Western Changsha Terminal is selected for pilot demonstration of design. It is an existing bus terminal located in the Wangchengpo Economic Zone of Changsha. The terminal is designed to be dismantled and reconstructed in order to function as the hub for long-distance bus, urban public bus transport 1 and urban rail in the future. At present, transport facilities of the existing Changsha West Bus Station are becoming old, and the bus station lack of reasonable management planning. The service provided by the station cannot meet the increasing passenger transport need. Therefore, to build a new advanced transport terminal is urgently necessary. 1.2 Policies, laws and institutional framework 1.2.1 EIA procedure in China A complete and mature EIA management procedure has been established in the PRC. The EIA management procedure is based on Environmental Protection Law, Management Regulations of Environment protection of Construction Project, Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Environmental Impact Assessment, and Notice on Enhancing Management Work of EIA of the Construction Project loaned by International Finance Organization (No. 324, MEP, 1993). The latter regulated the management procedures during each phase of environmental impact assessment for construction projects. The technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment published by Ministry of Environment Protection (MEP) indicate the requirements and technical methods in preparing EIA outlines and EIA reports. As required by the EIAL and the construction project
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