E2191 V5 Public Disclosure Authorized

Anhui Medium Cities Urban Transport Project Environmental Impact Statement

Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized

Anhui Environmental Science Institute

2009-6-1 Public Disclosure Authorized Table of Contents Preface...... 1 1 General...... 2 1.1Evaluation Purpose And Guiding Concept 2 1.2Evaluation Basis 2 1.3Evaluation Grade Of Environmental Impacts 6 1.4Evaluation Range 7 1.5Environmental Protection Target 8 1.6Evaluation Standard And Evaluation Period 19

2 Project Introduction...... 26 2.1Basic Project Construction 26

3. Environmental And Social Status...... 40 3.1 Natural Environment ...... 40 3.2 Social Environment ...... 45 3.3 Relativity Of Overall Planning Of Project Cities ...... 48 3.4 Evaluation And Management Of The Atmospheric Environment...... 50 3.5 Evaluation On Noise Environment...... 52 3.6 All Conservation Zones, Scenic Areas And Cultural Relics...... 52 3.7 Quality And Management Of Surface Water Environment ...... 53

4.Evaluation On Environmental Impacts...... 58 4.1 Analysis On Environmental Impacts During Construction Period...... 58 4.2 Analysis On Environmental Impacts During Operation Period ...... 66 4.3 Analysis Of Impacts Of Projects On Cultural Relics And Scenic Spots ...... 73 4.4 Analysis Of Impacts Of Project On Removal And Settlement...... 75 4.5 Analysis On Environmental Risks...... 77

5. Plan Comparison And Selection...... 87 5.1with/Without Project Comparison ...... 87 5.2 Comparison Of Road Lines ...... 90 5.3 Comparison And Selection Of Project Works ...... 92 5.4 Selection Of Road Surface Material...... 98 6. Environmental Management And Monitoring Plan...... 100 6.1 Target...... 100 6.2 Environmental Management And Supervision...... 101 6.3 Mitigative Measures ...... 102 6.4 Environmental Monitoring Plan ...... 112 6.5 Training Of Environmental Protection Personnel...... 117

7. Public Consultation And Public Notification Of Information ...... 119 7.1 Target And Significance...... 119 7.2 Survey Scope And Method...... 119 7.3 Survey Statistic Results ...... 130 7.4 Analysis On Results Of Public Survey...... 134 Preface Lu’an, Wuhu, Huaibei and Anqing are four prefecture-level cities in Anhui province. With the development of economy, the traffic mobility in such four cities is in the trend of rapid growth. However, the traffic congestion and blocking is very serious in cities so the traffic condition is very bad. The construction of road infrastructures lags behind the city economic development and cannot satisfy the sustainable economic development and improve living level in such four cities and their surrounding areas.

Therefore, it is urgently to perfect urban traffic network under strategic guideline of general development of urban transportation and improve the operation efficiency of urban traffic system in aspects of perfection and public transportation of established road networks so as to adapt the development of such four cities and their surrounding areas. Lu’an, Wuhu,

Huaibei and Anqing plan to apply loans from World Bank for newly construction and reconstruction of urban roads.

In April of 2007, the World Bank agreed to arrange a loan of USD0.1 billion to support

Anhui provincial urban transportation in the loan planning discussion with National

Development & Reform Committee, and planned that this project would be approved by the

World Bank in its fiscal year 2010 (i.e. July 01, 2009 to June 30, 2010).

The World Bank Investigation Team visited Hefei on April 22, 2008 and made primary study and discussion on the bank’s planning to support the transportation project of medium- sized cities of Anhui province.

1 1 General

1.1 Evaluation Purpose and Guiding Concept Evaluation Purpose This evaluation on environmental impacts combines urban social investigation and current environmental supervision of all sub-projects, makes an overall and systemic analysis on the positive and negative impacts brought about by natural environment and social environment in cities during the construction and operation period of this project based on features of urban road construction, puts forward mitigative and compensation measures for unfavorable impacts of the construction project on natural and social environment based on public opinions, clarifies whether the project construction is practical at the aspect of environmental protection and confirms the environmental protection management and environmental monitoring plan of this project.

Guiding Concept

The guiding concept of this evaluation is to properly confirm the evaluation scope and monitoring items by making full use of current basic information and reference to relevant evaluation results of road construction projects in accordance with requirements in Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment (HJ/T2.1-93, HJ/T2.3-93, HJ/T2.2-

2008, HJ/T2.4-1995, HJ/T19-1997) and Specifications for Environmental Impact

Assessment of Highways (On Trial) (JTJ 005-96) on the basis of detailed engineering analysis on the project, select representative monitoring points, monitoring factors and forecast model according to project features and ensure to be scientific, objective, just, explicit and creditable.

1.2 Evaluation Basis Approval Files for Loan Project

(1) Ministry of Finance of Anhui Province transmitted CJH[2007] No.1194 Notice of Department of International Affairs of Ministry of Finance on 2008-2010 Fiscal Year Planning of World Bank Loans (Dec. 24, 2007).

2 Feasibility Study Data of Loan Project (1) Traffic Projects of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities – Feasibility Study Report on Construction of Urban Roads and Public transit depots of Lu’an City (By Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design General Institute Anhui Branch in May of 2009); (2) Feasibility Study Report on Newly-Built Projects in The 3rd Ring Road (Limin Road – Wunan Road) and Improvement Projects of Traffic Facilities in Jiuhua Road and Yijiang Road of Wuhu City (By Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University in May of 2009); (3) Traffic Projects of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities – Feasibility Study Report on Construction of Urban Roads, Public transit depots and Transportation Management

Facilities of Anqing City (By Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji

University in May of 2009);

(4) Traffic Projects of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities – Feasibility Study Report on

Construction of Urban Roads and Public transit depots of Huaibei City (By Architectural

Design and Research Institute of Tongji University in May of 2009);

Miscellaneous

National Environmental Protection Laws and Regulations

(1) Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (Dec. 26, 1989);

(2) Law on Environmental Impact Assessment of the People’s Republic of China (No. 77

National President Order, Sep. 01, 2003); (3) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Sep. 01, 2000); (4) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (June 01, 2008); (5) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Noise Pollution (Mar. 01, 1997);

(6) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution By Solid Waste (Apr. 01, 2005);

3 (7) Cleaner Production Promotion Law of the People’s Republic of China (Jan. of 2003); (8) Law of the People’s Republic of China on The Protection of Cultural Relics (Oct. 28, 2002); (9) Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China; (10) City Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China; (11) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation; (12) Administration Methods of Environmental Protection in Transport Construction Item (No. 5 Order of Department of Communication, May of 2003); (13) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental

Protection (No. 253 Order of State Council, Nov. 29, 1998);

(14) Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection By Means of

Classification Catalogue (No. 2 Order of State Ministry of Environmental Protection, Oct. 01,

2008);

(15) Notice on Strengthening Loan Project Environmental Impact Assessment of

International Financial Organization (State Ministry of Environmental Protection,

HJ[1993]No.324, 1993).

Related Technical Documents for Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment

(1) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact – General Principles (HJ/T2.1-93) by National Bureau of Environmental Protection, Sep. of 1993; (2) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact – Surface Water Environment (HJ/T2.1-93) by National Bureau of Environmental Protection, Sep. of 1993; (3) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact – Atmospheric Environment (HJ/T2.2-2008) by National Bureau of Environmental Protection, Apr. of 2008; (4) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact – Sound Environment (HJ/T2.4- 1995) by National Bureau of Environmental Protection, Nov. of 1995;

(5) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact – Non-Polluted Ecological Impact (HJ/T191997) by National Bureau of Environmental Protection, Nov. of 1997;

4 (6) Specifications for Environmental Impact Assessment of Highways (On Trial) (JTJ 005-96). Relevant Planning and Environmental Functional Division Documents

(1) Summary of the 11th Five-Year Plan of Lu’an National Economic and Social

Development, Summary of the 11th Five-Year Plan of Wuhu National Economic and Social Development, Summary of the 11th Five-Year Plan of Anqing National Economic and Social

Development, Summary of the 11th Five-Year Plan of Huaibei National Economic and Social Development; (2) General Urban Planning of Lu’an City (2003~2020), General Urban Planning of Wuhu City (2006~2020), General Urban Planning of Huaibei City (2006-2020), General

Urban Planning of Anqing City (2003-2020);

(3) 2008 Statistical Yearbook of Lu’an City, 2007 Statistical Yearbook of Wuhu City,

2007 Statistical Yearbook of Huaibei City, 2008 Statistical Yearbook of Anqing City;

(4) Environmental Protection Planning of Lu’an City, Environmental Protection

Planning of Wuhu City, Environmental Protection Planning of Huaibei City, Environmental

Protection Planning of “the 11th Five-Year Plan” of Anqing City;

(5) Ecological Construction Plan of Lu’an City, General Planning of Ecological

Construction of Wuhu City, General Planning of Ecological Construction of Huaibei City,

Ecological Construction Plan of Anqing City;

(6) Protection & Planning of Water Resources of Huaibei City (Aug. of 2007); Prevention and Control & Planning of Water Pollution of Anqing City (2008-2010), Planning of Drainage Project of Anqing City (2005-2020). Standard Letter of Confirmation (1) HJH[2009] No.14 Traffic Project of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities - Letter of Confirmation on Executive Standard of Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Urban Roads and Public transit depots of Lu’an City by Lu’an Bureau of

Environmental Protection (Mar. 05, 2009); (2) Letter of Confirmation on Executive Standard of Environmental Impact Assessment of New Construction Project in The 3rd Ring Road (Limin Road – Wunan Road) and 5 Improvement Project of Traffic Facilities of Jiuhua Road and Yijiang Road of Wuhu City by Wuhu Bureau of Environmental Protection; (3) Traffic Project of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities - Letter of Confirmation on Executive Standard of Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Urban Roads and Public transit depots of Huaibei City by Huaibei Bureau of Environmental Protection; (3) HJH[2009]No.080 Letter of Confirmation on Executive Standard of Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Urban Roads, Public transit depots and Traffic Management Facilities of Anqing City by Anqing Bureau of Environmental Protection. Relevant Regulations of World Bank (1) Business Handbook of World Bank – Environmental Assessment (OP4.01);

(2) Business Handbook of World Bank – Natural Ecological Environment

Protection (OP4.04)

(3) Business Handbook of World Bank – Cultural Relics Protection of Project

Financed by World Bank (OP4.11);

(4) Safeguard Policy of World Bank.

1.3 Evaluation Grade of Environmental Impacts In accordance with the classification principle of environment evaluation of the World Bank

OP4.01, the environment evaluation of this project is Type B.

According to national regulations on the classification of the evaluation of environmental impacts and discharge features of pollutants and regional environmental quality requirements of construction of public transit depots, confirm the evaluation grade of all environmental elements. Refer to Table 1-3-1. Table 1-3-1 Evaluation Classification of All Environmental Elements Environmental Reference Grade Element

Sound The noise degree before project construction is 5-10db higher than that after project I Environment construction, or influence people are remarkably increased.

Atmospheric In accordance with requirements of Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact II/III Environment Assessment, the assessment level of new construction and expansion project of urban

6 highways and trunk roads shall not be lower than Grade-II, and for the xylene and toluene

emitted in public transit depots: Pmax<10%.

Due to the single ecological environment in the region and little influence brought by the Ecological III Environment project, the project construction shall not cause sharp reduction of biomass and species diversity in this region. The influence range of this project is less than 20km2.

The possible pollution on the water during the construction period mainly comes from the

Surface Water construction wastewater in the construction site and domestic sewage at public transit depots III Environment with little pollutants and simple composition; the domestic sewage at public transit depots

enters the urban sewage treatment factory after being pretreated.

The oil gas tanks and natural gas tanks in Lu’an, Huaibei and Anqing public transit depots Risk II shall not constitute giant danger sources

1.4 Evaluation Range The evaluation range of the environmental condition monitoring and impact forecast refers to Table 1-4-1. Table 1-4-1 Evaluation Range of Environmental Condition Monitoring and Impact Forecast

Evaluation Contents Evaluation Range

Current

Condition Within 200m of both sides of central lines of roads Ambient Monitoring Noise Impact Within 200m of both sides of central lines of roads Forecast

Current

Condition Within 200m of both sides of central lines of roads

Ambient Air Monitoring

Impact Within 200m of both sides of central lines of roads Forecast

Current

Condition Ecological Areas within 200m of both sides of central lines of roads and soil-breaking range along the Investigation Environment road Impact

Analysis

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Condition Four cities of Lu’an, Wuhu, Huaibei and Anqing Social Investigation Environment Impact Four cities of Lu’an, Wuhu, Huaibei and Anqing Analysis

Current Lu’an (Fenghuangqiao River, Pingqiao River, Pi River General Main Canal, Pi River), Condition Huaibei (Laosui River, Zhahe River, Longdai River water), Wuhu (Pipeline ditch), Surface Water Anqing (Yangtze River) Investigation Environment Impact Surface water quality Analysis

1.5 Environmental Protection Target The environmental protection target of Anqing city refers to Table 1-5-1; the environmental protection target of Lu’an city refers to Table 1-5-2; the environmental protection target of

Huaibei city refers to Table 1-5-3; and the environmental protection target of Wuhu city refers to Table 1-5-4.

8 Table 1-5-1 Main Environmental Protection Targets List of Anqing City Distance to locating Road No. Items Redline Remarks Section or Project (m) Yuanbai Village belongs to Shilipu Lion Mountain Town, Daguan District, Anqing in 1 Bus Parking Yuanbai Village 50 administrative aspect, with a total Station area of about 1km2, a population of over 1600 and most are fishermen. Employee dormitory 98 households are influenced and 2 Shuguang Road of Plastic Machinery 10 should be removed before Factory construction I.e. former suburb hospital, locating Anqing TV in north of Shuguang Road, one 4F 3 Shuguang Road Laparoscopy 150 building with 110 employees and Specialty Hospital 100 beds. Yanjiang East Be removed as a whole before 4 Marine Bureau 0 Road construction Two commerce-residence buildings, 5 Huxin North Road Hengxiang Garden 50 vertical to road, 16 windows along the street. Four high-rise commerce-residence Century Celeb 6 50 buildings, vertical to road, about 70 Community windows along the street. Now there are more than 2200 No.9 Middle School students, one 2F teaching building, 7 30 of Anqing one 4F teaching building along the street, forming 45 with the road. National Healthy Residence Demonstration Project, the building 8 XiangXieLiNaShuiAn 80 near the road is a 10F resident building, vertical to the road, about 20 windows. The main teaching building is about Anqing Electronic 180m away to the straight line of 9 180 School Huxin Road, isolated by many buildings.

9 The building along the street is a 2F commercial building, behind which 10 Sunshine Garden 30 there are five 5-10F residence buildings, and about 23 windows are influenced. 11 Linghu Park 10 City Park 12 Huxin Middle Lianhu Park 10 City Park 13 Road Dahu Park 10 City Park 14 Shimin Square 10 City Park Provincial Key Relics Protection 15 Yingjiang Temple 10 Unit The building along the street is a 7F Huxin South Road commerce-residence building, 16 Kangjuli Community 10 parallel to the road, about 30 windows are influenced.

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Table 1-5-2 Environmental Protection Target of Lu’an City

Distance to Type No. location Items Redline Location Detailed Information (m) School, hospital, Bagongshan 1# Municipal National Taxation Bureau 5 East of road, vertical to road One 9F building kindergarten, Road Party and Bagongshan Municipal Gardens Virescence 2# 10 East of road One 3F building government Road Management Office organizations, Bagongshan 3# Blue Kite Kindergarten To be removed Two 2F buildings etc. Road Bagongshan Lu’an Textile Factory Primary About 20 teachers, 360 students and 3 windows along 4# 20 West side, vertical to road Road School the street Bagongshan 5# Textile Hospital 5 West side, vertical to road Grade-I Class One hospital Road About 50 teachers and employees, about 1200 Bagongshan students, one 4F teaching building along the street, 6# No. 8 Middle School of Lu’an city 10 West of road, parallel to road one 2F teaching building, one 5F students’ dormitory Road building, about 20 windows along the road Longhe 7# Kindergarten of No.9 Middle School 30 North of road 10 teachers, about 200 students, one 2F building Middle Road Longhe Sanitary Service Center of Jianghuai About 20 medical care personnel, about 30 sickbeds, 8# 50 North of road, parallel to road Middle Road Community one 2F building Longhe About 20 teachers and employees, about 450 students, 9# Binhe School of Lu’an city 60 Northwest of road Middle Road one 2F building Longhe 10# Lu’an Bureau of Water Resource 5 West of road, vertical to road One 12F building, 12 windows along the road Middle Road

11 Longhe 11# Lu’an Hydrological Bureau 5 East of road, parallel to road One 5F building, about 30 windows along the road Middle Road Longhe Technical secondary school, about 100 teachers and 12# Lu’an Senior Technical School 80 East of road Middle Road employees, about 2000 students Longhe Lu’an Sanitary School of Anhui 13# 30 South of road One 5F teaching building Middle Road province 14# Pihe Road Xiwai Primary School of Lu’an city 5 South of road 30 teachers and employees, 500 students 15# Pihe Road Sanli Street Arts Kindergarten 20 South of road 10 teachers, about 190 students Sanitary Service Station of Sanli 16# Pihe Road 80 South of road 20 medical care personnel Street Community Sanitary Service Center of 17# Pihe Road 80 South of road Fenghuangqiao Community West of road, the teaching One 5F teaching building along the road, five 18# Xicheng Road Fenghuangqiao Primary School 5 building vertical to road windows along the road Municipal People’s Police Training 19# Xicheng Road 90 East of road 50 teachers and employees, about 2200 students School Lu’an Gaocheng Culture & Martial 20# Xicheng Road 60 West of road 30 teachers and employees, about 800 students Arts Vocational School Has merged with Fenghuangqiao Middle School, has 21# Xicheng Road Wuliqiao Primary School 30 West of road been moved 22# Xicheng Road Talent Kindergarten 40 East of road 10 teachers and employees, about 120 students Bagongshan Both sides of road, part to be 23# Flat Residence Houses 5 Flat houses, about 20 windows along the street Road removed Part to be removed, the Resident Bagongshan dormitory after removal Twelve 4F buildings, about 30 windows along the 24# Dormitory of Textile Factory 20 locating in east of road and districts and Road street vertical to road

12 villages along Bagongshan Three 6F buildings, about 18 windows along the 25# Jinlu Textile Dormitory Building 50 West of road, vertical to road trunk roads Road street Bagongshan Residence Community of Sunshine 26# 5 West of road, vertical to road Four 6F buildings, about 24 windows along the street Road Shui’An

Bagongshan Dormitory of Zhaoyang West of road, part to be After removal, four 5F buildings along the street, 27# 10 about 50 windows along the road Road Pharmaceutical Factory removed Longhe North of road, part to be 28# Family District of Gear Factory 5 Flat house Middle Road removed

Resident Longhe Residence District, Wangcheng Street, Northwest of road, part to be 29# 5 districts and Middle Road Jin’An district, Lu’an city removed villages along Longhe 30# Fengqiao Village 40 Southeast of road About 15 households and 40 persons sub-trunk roads Middle Road Longhe 31# Wuxiaozhuang To be removed About 30 households and 100 persons Middle Road Longhe Family District of Yangzi Passenger 32# Part to be removed Eight 4F buildings Middle Road Car Factory Longhe Southeast of road, vertical to 33# Dongyuan Community 5 Eight 5F buildings, about 40 windows along the road Middle Road road Longhe 34# Xinghua Village East of road, to be removed Flat house Middle Road Longhe 35# Dormitory of umbrella factory West of road, to be removed Middle Road Longhe 36# Dormitory of Plastic Factory East of road, to be removed Middle Road

13 Longhe Living Area of Yong’An Shipping Both sides of road, to be 37# Middle Road Company removed

Longhe West District Family Area of East of road, vertical to road, Four 5F buildings along the road, about 20 windows 38# part to be removed Middle Road Chang’An General Factory along the road Longhe 39# Lijiazhuang To be removed About 20 households and 60 persons Middle Road Longhe Family District of Municipal Jianlai Five 6F buildings along the road, about 30 windows 40# 15 East of road, vertical to road Middle Road Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. along the road Longhe 41# Xidun To be removed Middle Road Longhe 42# Zhanglaozhuang 30 South of road About 10 households and 30 persons Middle Road Longhe 43# Caotangguaizi 5 North of road, to be removed Over 100 households and 400 persons Middle Road Longhe South of road, vertical to and One 4F building along the road, about 20 windows 44# Dormitory of Petroleum Warehouse 5 Middle Road parallel to road along the road Both sides of road, to be 45# Pihe Road Sanlijie Community removed 46# Pihe Road Rice Farm 5 North of road 8 households and 20 persons Family District of Yu’An District 47# Pihe Road 50 North of road Qiangli Building Materials Factory 48# Pihe Road Boiler Factory Group 5 South of road Flat houses, about 300 households and 1000 persons 49# Pihe Road Fenghuang Bridge 5 North of road 50# Pihe Road Zhangdazhuang 5 North of road 51# Pihe Road Zhaojiaguai 5 North of road

14 Both sides of road, part to be 52# Xicheng Road Family District of Steel Factory removed East of road, part to be 53# Xicheng Road Hongxing New Village removed West of road, part to be 54# Xicheng Road Jingzhuang removed West of road, part to be 55# Xicheng Road Lidazhuang removed 56# Xicheng Road Zhangjiazhuang 50 West of road About 20 households and 80 persons 57# Xicheng Road Changzhuangzi 90 East of road About 30 households and 120 persons West of road, part to be 58# Xicheng Road Huangjiazhuang About 10 households and 30 persons removed 59# Xicheng Road Youyidui 5 East of road About 20 households and 80 persons 60# Xicheng Road Shangjun River 20 West of road About 10 households and 30 persons 61# Xicheng Road Zhangzhuangzi 5 West of road About 10 households and 30 persons 62# Xicheng Road Qianjindui 5 East of road About 30 households and 120 persons 63# Xicheng Road Dingjiazhuang 60 West of road About 5 households and 20 persons

Parks along the Bagongshan line 64# People’s Park 5 West of road Road

15 Table 1-5-3 Main Environmental Protection Targets List of Huaibei City

Type No. Location Items Min Distance to Red Line (m) Location Detailed Information School, About 70-80 teachers and 2000 students, the 6F Huaihai Huaihai Road Primary South to Road, parallel hospital, 5—10 building along street is an office building, and about 1 Road School to the road enterprises & 80 windows are influenced units, Huaihai Huaibei Environmental South to Road, parallel 10—20 6F, about 74 windows are influenced kindergarten, 2 Road Protection Bureau to the road etc. Huaihai North to Road, parallel Huaibei Traffic Bureau 5—10 Over 2F, about 50 windows are influenced 3 Road to the road Comprehensive Outpatient Clinic of Huaihai South to Road, parallel 7F, Outpatient Department Building, 77 windows Huaibei Municipal 5—10 4 Road to the road are influenced (over 2F) Center for Disease Control Grade-III hospital, the building along street is the Huaihai Huaibei People’s North to Road, parallel 50 3F Outpatient Department, 54 windows are 5 Road Hospital to the road influenced, the In-Patient Department is very far Huaibei Bureau of Huaihai South to Road, parallel Quality and Technical 20 About 60 windows along street 6 Road to the road Supervision Huaihai Huaibei Science & North to Road, parallel 20 About 58 windows are influenced 7 Road Technology Museum to the road Teaching Building and 224 teachers and employees, two buildings along Huaihai Family Dormitory South to Road, parallel street are a 6F teaching building and a family 10 8 Road Building of Huaibei No.1 to the road dormitory building, 84 and 57 windows are Middle School respectively influenced Huaihai BlueSky Kindergarten at South to Road, parallel 25 About 15 teachers and employees and 160 students 9 Road Huaihai Road to the road Huaibei Zhongshan East to Road, parallel to Suixi Road 20 About 20 windows along street 10 Hospital the road East to Teaching About 80 teachers and employees and about 1900 Suixi Road Primary Building Road, and the students; 4F teaching building, which is about 60m Suixi Road 10 11 School in Huaibei teaching building is away to the road and vertical to the road; about over vertical to road 20 windows are influenced

16 Zaohui Kindergarten in West to Road, parallel to Suixi Road 5 Near the street, 1F, 5-6 teachers, about 50 students 12 Huaibei the road Cadre School of Mining The school gate is about 20m away to the road and Suixi Road 5—10 West to Road 13 Group the teaching building is very far away to the road Over 200 teachers and employees and over 4000 Huaibei Vocational Suixi Road 20 East to Road students; 6F teaching building, about 100m away to 14 Technical College the road Cuifeng East to Road, vertical to Huaibei Meiyuan School 10 Part needs to be removed 15 South Road road Huaihai South to Road, vertical Huaibei Hotel 5 About 30 windows along street 16 Road to road Huaihai 8 buildings in total, two 7F buildings along the Tainxiang Huayuan 5 South to Road 17 Road street, about 110 windows are influenced Huaihai The apartment building of the hotel is far away to Xiangshan Hotel 60 South to Road 18 Road road Family Area of Power Both sides of road, Five 5F buildings and five 4F buildings, about 55 Suixi Road 5—10 19 Factory vertical to road windows in bedrooms East to road, vertical to Suixi Road Huaixi Restaurant 5—10 5F, 10 windows in bedrooms 20 road Kaixuan Century Four 11F buildings to the street, vertical to road, Suixi Road 10 East to road Hotels and 21 Community and about 88 windows along street collective Liyuan Two 6F buildings to the street, 120 windows are living Middle Jindianyuan Community 5 North to road 22 influenced communities, Road etc along Eight teams, about 2700 people, part to be removed Cuifeng road Flat houses and residence buildings in Dadinglou village Both sides of road and most are flat-houses or private 2F town 23 South Road buildings Tuohe Part of buildings need to be removed, and most are Flat-house residence in Dongguan village, Suixi Town South to road 24 Road 1F brick-tile structure Flat-house residence in Part of houses to be Tuohe Erlang Temple removed, most are 1F Part to be taken out of stitches and most are 1F 100 25 Road Community, Yangzhuang brick-tile and adobe brick-tile and adobe structure Office structure Tuohe Flat-house residence in Xinxing Community, Renwei All to be removed, most are 1F brick-tile and adobe Both sides of road 26 Road Office structure Tuohe Flat-house residence in Lieshan Village and Xinbei Part of houses to be removed, most are brick-tile, South to road 27 Road Village brick-concrete structure Branch stream, flow into Longdai River, Type-IV Rivers along Tuohe Through newly-built Xiliu River water (refer to data provided by Huaibei Water the road 28 Road Tuohe Road Resource Protection & Planning) Tuohe Through newly-built Type-IV water (refer to data provided by Huaibei Longdai River 29 Road Tuohe Road Water Resource Protection & Planning) 17 Tuohe Through newly-built Type-IV water (refer to data provided by Huaibei Zhahe River 30 Road Tuohe Road Water Resource Protection & Planning) Type-V water, part of section water is bad Type-V Cuifeng Laosui River (refer to data provided by Huaibei Water Resource 31 South Road Protection & Planning) Huaihai Town buildings along street, most of those with Residence Building 5—10 Both sides of road Scattering 32 Road over 2F are residence buildings; most are 5F, 6F residence Town buildings along street, most of those with Suixi Road Residence Building 5—10 Both sides of road building 33 over 2F are residence buildings; most are 5F, 6F along the Liyuan Residence building and road Middle 5 Both sides of road Residence building and flat-house residence 34 flat houses Road Parks and Scenic Spots Tuohe Nanhu Wetland Park 200 South to road State-level wetland park along the 35 Road road

18 Table 1-5-4 Main Environmental Protection Targets List of Wuhu City Min Nature Distance Relative Sensitive of to Red No. Locating Road Section Scale Position Points Sensitive Line of Points Road (m) Both About 36 The 3rd Ring Road (Limin sides of Shanyang households Resident 1 East Road – Eshan East road Village and 144 district 15 Road) persons The 3rd Ring Road (Limin East About 44 East Road – Eshan East side of Zha households Resident 2 Road) road Village and 176 district 20 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Limin West About 28 East Road – Eshan East side of Chentang households Resident 3 Road) road Village and 112 district 180 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Limin West About 12 East Road – Eshan East side of households Resident 4 FengWuJi Road) road and 48 district 150 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Eshan East About 160 East Road – Wunan Road) side of Liangfu households Resident 5 road Village and 640 district 200 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Eshan West About 120 East Road – Wunan Road) side of Dawang households Resident 6 road Village and 480 district 20 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Eshan East About 38 East Road – Wunan Road) side of Wangjia households Resident 7 road Village and 152 district 20 persons The 3rd Ring Road (Eshan West About 24 East Road – Wunan Road) side of Damao households Resident 8 road Village and 96 district 40 persons

1.6 Evaluation Standard and Evaluation Period 1.6.1 Evaluation Standard

1.6.1.1 Sound Environment (1) Environmental Quality Standard

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The sensitive points of sound environment at both sides of road to be built execute Type-2 Standard of Environmental Quality Standard for Noise (GB3096-2008) and these at both sides of traffic trunk road execute Type-4a standard. (2) Discharge Standard The noise executes Noise Limits for Construction Sites (GB12523-90) during the construction period; the noise at public transit depot boundary executes Type-2 of Emission Standard for Industrial Enterprises Noise at Boundary (GB12348-2008); the noise at both sides of traffic trunk road executes limits in Type-4. The executive standard of sound environment refers to Table 1-6-1. Table 1-6-1 Environmental Noise Executive Standard [Unit: dB(A)] Index Senstive Target Day Night Instruction Evaluatio n on Plan to build sensitive points along Type-2 standard 60 50 Current roads applicable region Condition Plan to build school and other Type-2 standard sensitive buildings at both sides of 60 50 Forecast roads applicable region Evaluatio Plan to be built within certain Type-4a standard n distance of both sides of center lines 70 55 applicable region of roads Soil cubic 75 55 Structure 70 55 GB12523-90 Construct Construc Noise Limits for ion noise Piling 85 tion Construction noise Sites Decoration 65 55

1.6.1.2 Surface Water

(1) Environment Quality Standard

Requirements on environmental functions of cities refer to Table 1-6-2.

Table 1-6-2 List of Requirements on Environmental Functions of Surface Water of Cities Environmental Standard and City Surface Water Current Water Quality Functional Grade to be 20

Requirement Executed The water at the section of Yaogangzui is common and mainly with Grade-III- IV water; the water in ferry of Guanghua Factory is medium polluted and mainly with Grade-IV-bad Grade-III of V water with main Grade-III of Pi River GB3838-2002 pollution factors of GB3838-2002 ammonia nitrogen; the water in Xin’An ferry and at the section of Dadiangang is lightly Lu’an polluted with main pollution factors of ammonia nitrogen. Can satisfy requirements of Type-IV standard of Fenghuangqiao Grade-IV of Grade-IV of Environment Quality River GB3838-2002 GB3838-2002 Standard for Surface Water (GB3838-2002) The water except petroleum satisfies Grade-IV of requirements of Type-IV Grade-IV of Pingqiao River GB3838-2002 standard and the others all GB3838-2002 exceed the requirements of Type-IV standard. The water satisfies Grade-IV of Grade-IV of Wuhu Pipeline Ditch requirements of Type-IV GB3838-2002 GB3838-2002 standard The index NH3-N of the water at 500m of downstream of projects to be built exceeds the Grade-V of Grade-V of Laosui River requirements of Type-V GB3838-2002 GB3838-2002 standard, and remaining indexes can satisfy Huaibei requirements on water of Type-V standard The water satisfies Grade-IV of Grade-IV of Zhahe River requirements of Type-IV GB3838-2002 GB3838-2002 standard The water satisfies Grade-IV of Grade-IV of Longdai River requirements of Type-IV GB3838-2002 GB3838-2002 standard The water at Anqing Grade-III of section of Yangtze River Grade-III of Anqing Yangtze River GB3838-2002 satisfies requirements on GB3838-2002 water of Type-III of 21

Environment Quality Standard for Surface Water; the drinking water resources in No.1, 2, 3 Water Factories of Anqing and Shihua Water Factory meet requirements on collective drinking water sources of Type-III standard, and the water qualification rate is 100%. Notes: (2) Discharge Standard of Pollutants

The executive standards of pollutants of cities refer to Table 1-6-3 and the executive standards of surface water environment refer to Table 1-6-4.

Table 1-6-3 List of Executive Standards of Pollutants of Cities

City Executive Standard

The wastewater discharge executes Grade-III standard of Integrated

Lu’an Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB8978-1996) during the operation

period. During the construction and operation period of roads in the city and main districts, the wastewater will execute Grade-III standard of Integrated Wuhu Wastewater Discharge Standard and the discharge of construction wastewater will execute Grade-II standard in Table 4 of Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard.

During the operation period, the discharge of wastewater will execute

Huaibei Grade-III standard of Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard

(GB8978-1996) The wastewater discharge executes Grade-III standard of Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB8978-1996) taken over by Anqing Anqing Chengdong Wastewater Treatment Factory within its governed range. Out of this range, the wastewater discharge executes Grade-I standard (GB8978-1996).

Table 1-6-4 Water Environment Executive Standard Value (Unit: mg/L, except pH)

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Pollutant Standard Petroleum, pH COD SS N-NH3 etc. Environment Quality Standard GB3838-2002 Type- 6-9 20 / 1.0 0.05 GB3838-2002 Type- 6-9 30 / 1.5 0.5 GB3838-2002 Type-V 6-9 40 10 / 2.0 Discharge Standard of Pollutants (GB8978-1996 Table-4) Grade-III (discharged into 6-9 500 400 / 20 Sewage Treatment Factory) Grade-II (discharged into 6-9 150 150 25 10 Type-IV, V waters) Grade-I (discharged into 6-9 100 70 15 5 Type-II, III waters)

1.6.1.3 Air

(1) Environment Quality Standard

Common pollutants TSP, PM10, NO2 and CO execute Grade-II standard of Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996 and Notice of Revision Sheet in 2000); non-methane hydrocarbons executes by reference to Israel Standard; the xylene discharged by painting and drying in public transit depots in Lu’an city executes limits of maximum allowable concentration for residence district of Hygienic Standards for Design of Industrial Enterprises

(TJ36-79); toluene refers to the former Soviet Union Standard, and non-methane hydrocarbons refers to Israel Standard. Specific standard values refer to Table 1-6-5.

Table 1-6-5 Ambient Air Quality Standard Value (Unit: mg/Nm3) Average per Average per Standard Type Pollutants hour/time day Ambient Air SO2 0.50 0.15 Quality Standard NO2 0.24 0.12

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Maximum allowable concentration for residence district Non-Methane Refer to Israel Standard 5.0 2.0 Hydrocarbons Refer to the former Soviet Union Toluene 0.6 — Standard (2) Discharge Standard of Pollutants The tail gas will execute Limits and Measurement Methods for Emissions of Pollutants from Light-duty Vehicles (the P.R.C III & IV Stage) (GB18352.13-20012005). The specific standard refers to Table 1-6-6.

Table 1-6-6 Type-I Test Discharge Limits Limits Hydrocarbon Arti Carbon Nitrogen Hydrocarbon and Nitrogen cles Basic monoxide oxide (HC) oxide (PM Stag Grad Mass (CO) (NOX) Type (HC+ NOX) ) e e (RM) L1 L2 L3 L2+L3 L4 (kg) Dies Gas Dies Gas Diese Gas Dies Gas Diese el oil el oil oil l oil oil el oil oil l oil oil Type -I 0.05 / All 2.30 0.64 0.20 / 0.15 0.50 / 0.56 Vehi 0 cle RM130 0.05 III I 2.30 0.64 0.20 / 0.15 0.50 / 0.56 Type 5 0 -II 1305176 0.10 III 5.22 0.95 0.29 / 0.21 0.78 / 0.86 0 0 Type -I 0.02 / All 1.00 0.50 0.10 / 0.08 0.25 / 0.30 Vehi 5 cle RM130 0.02 IV I 1.00 0.50 0.10 / 0.08 0.25 / 0.30 Type 5 5 -II 1305176 0.06 III 2.27 0.74 0.16 / 0.11 0.39 / 0.46 0 0

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The waste gas discharged by painting and drying in public transit depots executes Grade-II Standard in Table 2 of Integrated Discharge Standard of Atmospheric Pollutants (GB16297- 1996) during the operation period of Lu’an projects. The specific standard refers to Table 1-6- 7. Table 1-6-7 Discharge Standard of Atmospheric Pollutants Allowable Allowable Discharge Rate Discharge Standard Type Items Concentration Height (m) Height (m) (mg/m3) Integrated Toluene 40 15 3.1 Discharge Standard of Xylene 70 15 1.0 Atmospheric Grade-II Non-Methane Pollutants 120 15 10 (GB16297-1996) Hydrocarbons

1.6.2 Evaluation Period

The evaluation includes evaluation on current condition and forecast evaluation. The forecast year of road construction projects takes the 10th and 20th year after completion and operation, based on which the forecast evaluation period is confirmed as below:

Construction Period: 2009-2010;

Forecast evaluation period during the operation period: 2020, 2030.

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2 Project Introduction 2.1 Basic Project Construction The traffic projects of Anhui medium-sized cities involve Lu’an, Wuhu, Huaibei and Anqing and the construction sites refer to Fig. 2-1-1. 2.1.1 Lu’an City The project construction contents refer to Table 2-1-1; the position and route of all public transit depots refer to Fig. 2-1-2. Table 2-1-1 Road Project Works List of Lu’an

Type Construction Content and Nature Newly built trunk road Bagongshan Road (Renmin Road – Huashan Road) with a total length of 2.28km; three newly-built sub-trunk roads: (1) Longhe Middle Road (Dongcheng Road – Meishan South Road Road) with a total length of 6.5km; (2) Pihe South Road (Yunlu Project Bridge – Xihuan Road) with a total length of 3.46km; (3) Xicheng Road (Pihe South Road – Huoshan Road) with a total length of 3.3km. For Fenghuang Bridge, the span is 16+16+1648m, the width Bridge everywhere is 25m, the building area is 1200 m2; for Ping Bridge, Infrastructure Project the span is 20m, the width everywhere is 25m and the building area 2 Project is 500 m . Drainage The rainwater pipes with a total length of 15.00km and sewage pipes with a total length of 12.97km. The pipe diameter is Project d300d2000mm, 11 intercepting wells. Road The newly-built road lightening project to support four roads and two bridges, 13 road lamp box transformers and 492 road lamps in Lightening total. Greening The area of greening zone and non-motorized isolation zone of four roads such as Longhe Middle Road and Bagongshan Road is Project 2 55171.1 m . Road channeling and other improvement measures for two trunk roads, Jiefang Road and Meishan Road. Re-design the crossings that will install new traffic signal lamps and renew traffic signal lamps Transportation to ensure its channelization function by full consideration of Management pedestrian and bicycle flowrate. Set proper isolation zones at relevant crossings and their surrounding regions, build proper safety island at such zones with dense pedestrian and bicycle flowrate. One newly-built bus parking station and its main construction works as follows: 1) parking facilities: parking floor, car-washing room, test track, yard; 2) auxiliary production facilities: maintenance workshop, repair workshop, material warehouse, painting room, Public Transportation drying room, power distribution room, compressor room, one automatic inspection line, one automatic car-washing station; 3) comprehensive bus building: operation dispatching room and drivers and attendants’ rest room at 1F; road administrative room and administrative room of maintenance workshop at 2F; the

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administrative management, technical management, safety quality service management and employee training room at 3F; 4) life service facilities: single employee apartment, amusement activity room, guard room, firefighting and logistics room; 5) one gasoline station and one gas-filling station. Land Requisition and This project requisitions land of 853.0 Mu and remove houses of 2 Movement 84830.54m in total

2.1.2 Wuhu City The project construction contents refer to Table 2-1-2. The route of all roads refers to Table 2- 1-3. Table 2-1-2 Road Project Works List of Wuhu City

Construction Content and Nature Type Wuhu One newly-built trunk road the 3rd Ring road in Wuhu city (Limin Road – Wunan Road) with a total length of 7.34m, the total area of road surface is 355990m2, including 231210m2 motor vehicle lane, 66060 m2 non-motor vehicle lane (including walkside) and 124780 m2 greening zone. The improvement works of transportation facilities for newly- Road built project and Jiuhua Road and Yijiang Road include road (bridge) Project works and auxiliary works of roads (water supply, drainage, greening, road lamp and station board). Expand the inlet and outlet vehicle lanes at circular crossings of Limin West Road – Jiuhua South Road. Set current common bus lanes in two vehicle lanes near isolation zones of both sides of Yijiang Road. Infrastructure Bridge Two big bridges, one crossover and thirteen medium and small bridges Project Project and culverts. Drainage The total length of rainwater pipelines is 14573m and the diameter of Project these pipelines is DN600DN1200mm. In this project, set road lights at both sides of the trunk road symmetrically, where the gap between road lights is 35m, the light is Road 10m away to the road surface and adopts the lighting source of 400W Lightening high pressure sodium lamps; Set pole-lamps in single side of the circuit, where the gap between lamps is 22m, the lamp is 8m away to the road surface and adopts 140W high-color rendering light source. Greening The area of the newly-built greening zone and non-motor isolation zone rd Project in the 3 Ring Road is 124780m2. Re-construct two trunk roads Jiuhua Road and Yijiang Road. Set central road divider in full section of Jiuhua Road to prohibit random left-turn Transportation and crossing road. Expand the inlet and outlet vehicle lanes at circular Management crossings of Limin West Road – Jiuhua South Road. Improve the electronic policemen and electronic monitoring system at 16 crossing in whole road section. Set current common bus lanes in two vehicle lanes

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near isolation dividers of both sides of Yijiang Road; retain the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lane in two lanes near the central isolation zone. Set bus lanes, synchronously install traffic signal lights, and signal lights for walkside, electronic policemen and electronic monitoring system at 12 crossings in the full section. Land Requisition & The project requires a land of 1182.46 Mu in total and removes houses 2 Removal of 11550m (owned by enterprises).

2.1.3 Huaibei City The project construction contents refer to Table 2-1-3. The route of all roads and position of bus maintenance yards refer to Table 2-1-4. Table 2-1-3 Road Project Works List of Huaibei City Type Construction Content and Nature Three new and expanded main roads: reconstructed Huaihai Road, Suixi Road and newly-built Tuohe Road with total lengths respectively 2.35km, 4.46km and 5.89km; one newly-built sub- Road road Cuifeng South Road with total length 1.2km; one re- constructed branch road Liyuan Middle Road with total length Project 0.86km. as for these five roads, the total length is 14.75km, and total area is 595582 m2, among which the motor vehicle lane covers 266795 m2, non-motor vehicle lane covers 98216 m2, the sidewalk covers 96093 m2 and the greening area is 134478 m2 Four bridges in total, among which Xiliu River Bridge with span diameter 3x2060m, width of 45m and area of 2700 m2; Longdai Bridge River Bridge with span diameter 5x25=125m, width of 45m and construction area of 5625 m2; Zhaqiao Bridge with span diameter Project 2 Infrastructure 4x30=120m, width of 45m and construction area of 5400 m ; Suihe Bridge with span diameter of 20+4x20+20=120m, width of Project 35m, and construction area of 4200 m2; The total length of rainwater pipe is 15.00km, and the total length of the sewage pipe is 12.97km. The pipe diameter is Drainage d300~d2000mm. 11 intercepting wells. Thereinto, rainwater Project pipelines along Liyuan Road, Cuifeng South Road and Tuohe Road; lay sewage pipelines in Suixi Road, Cuifeng South Road and Tuohe Road and in the west of Xiangshan Road. Road The newly-built road lightening project to support five roads and Lightening four bridges The area for greening zone and non-motorized isolation zone of Greening five newly-built and expanded roads (Tuohe Road, Cuifeng South Project Road, Suixi Road, Huaihai Road and Liyuan Middle Road) is 134478 m2. Re-construct 164 bus-stop stations in this city to bus bays and one Transportation bay-like bus stop station is set every 500-800m; signal lights for Management vehicles are set in six main road junctions along Huaihai Road; except for annular island to be kept at Renmin Road junction 28

along Suixi Road, the signal lights for vehicle and sidewalk are set at the remaining road junctions and expand inlet road at the junction. Besides, set signal lights for sidewalk at Suixi Road Primary School, etc.; make channelization design and add signal lights at the junction of Liyuan Middle Road-Xiangshan Road and Xiangyang road-Cuifeng Road. Newly build one public maintenance yard and four first-terminal public transit depots, among which: 1) The public maintenance yard locates in the southwest of Xiangshan Road and Tuohe Road (under planning) with area about 50 Mu, including the parking lot, maintenance yard and repair yard. The construction field is divided into three parts, parking lot, repair area and office area. The parking lot is 14000m2, comprehensive office building is 850m2, repair Public Transportation workshop is 900m2, dispatching room is 100m2, power distribution room is 45m2, material warehouse is 600m2, gasoline/gas station is 580m2 and car-washing platform is 117m2; can hold six bus lines and 150 buses in total; 2) Four first-terminal public transit depots are respectively those of Huize Park with area of 1.65 Mu, Xishan Road with area of 15 Mu, Cuifeng South Road with area of 10 Mu and Nanhu North Road with area of 10 Mu. This project plans to requisition 593 Mu land in total, including 588 Mu collective land permanently, 5 Mu state-owned land permanently; 31571m2 houses to be removed, among which the Land Requisition and rural houses to be removed are 26845 m2, urban residence houses Movement to be removed are 2864 m2 and enterprises and units to be removed are 1862m2; 567 households, totally 3002 people are influenced. This project plans to set the soil-taken field in Zhuzai village, which locates in the coal-mining subsidence, east of Huaibei city Soil-taken field and belongs to a subsiding block, so the surrounding residents have moved out and the total area is about 150 hectares.

2.1.4 Anqing City The project construction contents refer to Table 2-1-4. The route of all roads and position of bus maintenance yards refer to Table 2-1-5. Table 2-1-4 Road Project Works List of Anqing City Type Construction Content and Nature

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Two reconstructed trunk roads, Huxin Road with a total length of 5.4km and Shuguang Road with a total length of Road 0.64km; one newly built sub-trunk road Yanjiang East Road with a total length of 0.9km. For the road, the total length is Project 6.94km and total area is 477521.9 m2; Newly built pedestrian underpass in Wanjiang Park (Shimin Square). Bridge Infrastructure Five current bridges along Huxin Middle Road involved Project along this project. Project Drainage The total length of rainwater pipe is 15.00km, and the total length of the sewage pipe is 12.97km. The pipe diameter is Project d300~d2000mm. 11 intercepting wells. Road Auxiliary construction of road lightening project of Huxin Lightening Road, Shuguang Road and Yanjiang East Road. Greening Newly-built greening zone in Yanjiang East Road with area Project of 1800 m2. Improve traffic management facilities including cross-street signal lamps, networking traffic signal lamps at crossing, Transportation electronic policemen, traffic signs and lines along Huxin Road, Yanjiang East Road, Shuguang Road, Dekuan Road Management and Yanjiang West Road; Add road maintenance and management equipment, and improve road maintenance and treatment abilities. Newly build two comprehensive parking & maintenance yard integrating with parking, transfer, dispatching, repair, gasoline and gas filling. Hongguang bus parking field locates in north side of No.206 National Highway in Hongguang Community, Yixiu District, Anqing city with functions of first and terminal Public Transportation station, parking field and maintenance yard; can hold 15 bus lines and 150 buses in total; Lion Mountain bus parking field locates in north side of Huancheng West Road, Anqing city, in Yuanbai Community, Shilipu Town, Daguan District, Anqing city with functions of first and terminal station, parking field and maintenance yard; can hold 8 bus lines and 79 buses in total. Land Requisition and This project requisitions 20 Mu land, transfers 58.2 Mu state-owned lands and removes houses 9945.05m2, among Movement which resident houses are 4096.3 m2.

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Fig.2-1-1 Construction Location Diagram of Traffic Projects of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities

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33 Fig. 2-1-2Road Route and Public transit depot Location Diagram of Lu’an Urban Road Projects

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Fig. 2-1-3 Road Route Diagram of Wuhu Urban Road Projects

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Fig. 2-1-5 Road Route Diagram of Anqing Urban Road Projects

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3.1 Natural Environment 3.1.1 Landform and land feature For the geographic locations of all medium-sized cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, please refer to Fig. 2-1-1, and for the introduction of their geographic location and landforms, please see Table 3-1-1. 3.1.2 Feature of water system in the area For the features of urban water system of all medium-sized cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, please see Table 3-1-2. Table 3-1-2 Feature of Water System in the Area Project River Water System Area Pi River, composed of two riverheads, East Pi River and West Pi River, originates from the root of Dabie Mountain and flows into Huai River via the Zhengyang Pass in Shou County, with a total length of 246km including a section 4km in urban area, a width of 80~300m and a thickness of sand sediment on riverbed at 3~22m. Pi River owns abundant water resources and, however, becomes a seasonal river mainly for flood discharge and pollution Pi River assimilation after the establishment of the Pi River Trunk Canal Project and the Pivotal Project at its head. Nowadays, as a recipient of urban sewage, Pi River receives most domestic sewage and industrial wastewater from Lu’an City. Pi river has a normal water level at 35.3m and lowest water level at 34.5m. Its designed flood level is at 39.5m for once every 20 years and 40.50m for once every 50 years. As one of the Seven World Manmade Water Conservancy Projects, Pi River Trunk Canal was finally completed in July 1959. It flows northeastwards from the Hengpaitou Channel through Lu’an urban area, Luoguan Gate and Qinglong Dam into Feixi County, then northwards through Xiaolin Hill and southwards through Laomiaoji, Lu’an Saogujing, Guangou and Zhongtangping to Xinmin Dam, with a total length of 104.5km including a section 56.8km within Lu’an City and a section 47.7km within Feixi County, Hefei City. One of its sections between Hengpaitou Channel and Luoguan Gate is 43.4km totally within Lu’an City including a part of 10.5km in urban area. The Eastern Development Zone of Lu’an is located in the lower reach of the foresaid section, east towards the Pi River Jiuligou and the access to Pi-Hang Trunk Canal. The section between Hengpaitou Channel and Jiuligou has a Trunk bottom width of 60m. The Qieling Section has a bottom width at 45m, an elevation at 47.50-45.72m and a water Canal level at 52.50 (below gate)-55.72m. The section between Jiuligou and Luoguan Gate has a bottom width at 45- 40m, an elevation at 47.72-45.55m and a water level at 52.72-50.12m while the left bank of it is almost filled. The upper reach of Pi River Trunk Canal contains three reservoirs, Fozi Hill Reservoir, Mozitan Reservoir and Xianghongdian Reservoir, with a total catchment area of 4,410km2 and a total storage capacity of 3,464.4 million m3. The designed diversion flow of the Trunk Canal is 300m3/s, for it controls the irrigation of the 5,333 million m2 farmland within the Pi-Shi-Hang irrigation area and relates to the transportation and quality safety of the domestic water for 13 million people in Lu’an, Hefei, Huainan and Bengbu. Longdai River flows through Lieshan District and Xiangshan District, with a total length of 15km and an average Longdai width of 55m. It is a main pollution recipient wholly for the domestic and industrial sewage from the urban area River and functions well both in environment and scenery. Zha River has a trunk of 45km and an average width of 30m. It is the river of best water quality within Huaibei City area, especially the part upstream Beishan Gate. The completed Zha-Hua Diversion Projects guides the water Zha Huaibei from the upper reach of Zha River to the Huajia Lake Reservoir, continuously replenishing the middle & deep- River seated Karst water over-exploited and conserving the underground water meaningfully. The river section downstream Beishan Gate is mainly for irrigation along. Old Sui River is 10.6km long and 50m wide on average, flows through Xiangshan District and Suixi county seat, Sui receives both domestic and industrial sewages from the urban area and functions well both in environment and River scenery. Wuhu Section With straight and stable banks, the Wuhu Section of Yangtze River serves as the major water resource for Wuhu Wuhu of City in living, industry, livestock, fishing, shipping tourism and ecological adjustment. According to the hydrologic Yangtze data, it has an average flow of 28,300m3/s, max flow of 26,00m3/s and lowest flow of 4,620m3/s. River 40

It was once named Qing River, Jing River or Cold River in old time. It originates from the southwest of Yellow Mountain Range and is one of the major water systems on the right bank of Yangtze River. Its upper reach, Shuxi Qingyi River, comes from the northwest of Qian County, taking waterhead at north Fangjia Hill as original source and River Qingxi River as trunk, meets Hui River northeastward in Jing County composing of the Qingyi River, and finally flows into Yangtze River at Zhongjiang Pagoda, Wuhu City, with a total length of 275km and a drainage area of 7,105km2. Anqing The Anqing Section of Yangtze River is 40km long, with straight banks and spacious water spread. Its average Section width in level period is about 2,000m and its average depth of full section is 14m. The river has an average flow for Anqing of years at 28,000m3/s, flow speed at 0.7/s, maximal flow at 90,000m3/s, average water level for years at 10.16m, Yangtze highest level at 18.94m, lowest level at 3.56m, highest water temperature at 35.1 and lowest water temperature at River 1.1 . Yangtze River is the major domestic and industrial water source of favorable water quality for Anqing City.

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Table 3-1-1 Geographic Location and Landform of Project Area Project Geographic Location Landform Soil Characteristics Area Lu’an City is located in the middle west of Anhui Province and at the north root of Dabie Mountain, with convenient Located at the north root of Dabie Mountain, Lu’an City inclines water and land transportations. It is the politic, economic, the higher southeast to the lower northwest due to the spread of cultural and even traffic center in West Anhui. It is 74km branch ranges. The east and south of the city belong to wind The soils of the area mainly include away from Hefei, the provincial capital of Anhui, borders eroded hills, with highest altitude at 104.3m (Yellow Sea the yellow brown loam, paddy soil, Lu’an on westwards the Henan Province in the wide Central Elevation System, similarly hereinafter) and lowest altitude at Chao soil, Shajiang black soil, Plains, southwards Anqing City and the two counties, 35.0m. The west and north of the city belong to the alluvial plain mountain meadow soil, etc. Yingshan and Luotian, of Hubei Province and northwards due to the water erosion of Pi River, with flat landform. The Huainan City, and is apart from Fuyang City by the Huai average altitude of the urban area is at 40~60m. River. It is called the Access of Dabie Mountain. Huaibei City is located in the north of Anhui Province, the inner land of East China and the juncture of Jiangsu, The soils in Huaibei City mainly Shandong, Henan and Anhui, and connects northwards the Huaibei City is a part of the Huaibei Plain, with hills composed of include the Shajiang black soil, Chao Xuzhou City cycle, southwards the city colony along the Cambrian and Ordovician stratums spreading along its east and soil, brown soil, rendzina and terra Huai River, eastwards Suzhou forming the Huaibei- east suburbs and plains covering the other areas. The average Huaibei rossa, covering 5 kinds, 9 subsets, 17 Suzhou town group and westwards Woyang and the altitude of the Plain is at 22.5~32.5m. The land inclines from the genera and 47 species, complicated in Yongcheng County of Henan Province. It is one of the northwest to southeast, with a 1/10,000 slope. The mountain soil types and distinctive in regional most important energy source bases as well as commodity elevation in urban area is generally about 220m. distribution. grain production bases in East China and even the whole China, with remarkable geographic status. Wuhu City belongs to the alluvial plain in the middle and lower Wuhu City is located in the southeast of Anhui Province reaches of Yangtze River and consists mainly of hirst and terrace and is an important harbor on the Yangtze River. The city together with mesa and hills. The land inclines from the northeast spans 72km from east to west and 100km from north to to southwest like a band, with average altitude at 104.3m (Yellow Wuhu is located in the connecting belt south. The silhouette of the city looks like a butterfly Sea Elevation System, similarly hereinafter). The urban area is of subtropics and mid-subtropics, with touching Xuancheng City in east, apart from Chaohu City composed of 95.5% plains and 4.5% hills. The landform units complicated soil types, like the natural Wuhu by the Yangtze River in west, connecting Tongling City in within the area are mainly grade I Yangtze River terrace and soils such as yellow soil, brown soil, southwest, South Anhui mountain area in south and higher bottomland, with ditches, channels and ponds distributing etc. and the cultivatable soils such as Ma’anshan City in north. Its urban area is located at the far and wide. Flood embankments extend along the Yangtze River. paddy soil and Chao soil. juncture of Yangtze River and Qingyi River, 119km away Eroded residual hills and island hills scatter thereof. The Mount from Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. Sihe is the highest peak in the area, with a altitude of 133.9m and while Little Ma On Mountain is the second highest. The stratum of Anqing City belongs to the Anqing stratum The low hillocks in northwest of Anqing is a historic city on the northern bank of middle sunzone of Yangtze stratum group. The substrate of the stratum Anqing are almost red soil and yellow and lower reaches of Yangtze River, owning advantageous belongs to the Mesozoic cretaceous sandy conglomerate of Pukou red soil, with pH value displaying Anqing location and obvious water, air and land transportations stratum. The Nine Miles Eighteen Bays in the north and northwest acidity or slight acidity and seldom due to dwelling at the juncture of Anhui, Hubei and is the branch of Mount Wanshan of Dabie Mountain, belonging to yellow brown clay loam and Jiangxi. It is the Southwest Access of Anhui Province. the Anqing group stratum of post-Cainozoic renovating layer and hydromorphic paddy soil, with pH 42 its lithology is the continental alluvial gravel layer and sand layer. value displaying neutrality. Part of bog soils interferes in the northeast and most parts of the southwest and southeast are loamy clay Chao soil.

43 3.1.3 Climate conditions For the climate conditions of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-1-3. Table 3-1-3 Regional Climate Features Project Climate Features Area Annual average rainfall 1103.3mm, max rainfall per hour 63.2mm, max 24-hour rainfall 250.22mm, annual average temperature 15.4 , lowest absolute temperature -18.9 , annual average relative humidity 79, max humidity 100, minimum humidity 10, dominant natural wind direction ESE, wind frequency 13, max wind speed 20m/s, Lu’an average wind speed 2.7m/s, sunlight hours 225.6h, max snow cover 30cm, snow cover days 13d, ice period 35~141d, frostless period 220d, annual evaporation capacity 146.25cm; rainy season from June to August, with little change in rainfall from year to year but uneven distribution within a year; the windless season is autumn and winter and the windy season is spring and summer. Annual average atmospheric pressure 1023hpa, annual average temperature 14.5 , extreme highest temperature 41.1 , extreme lowest temperature -21.3 , annual average relative humidity 70, annual average rainfall 847.2 Huaibei mm, average storm 78.6 mm, super storm every 40 years 249.7 mm, annual evaporation capacity 1748.7 mm, annual wind speed 1.89 m/s; dominant wind direction around the year NNE (12.2%), dominant wind direction in summer S (9.8%) and dominant wind direction in winter NNE (15.3%); rainy season from June to August; the windless season is winter and spring and the windy season is summer and autumn. Annual average temperature 16.2 , highest temperature in July and August at 34.5 on average, lowest temperature in January and February at 2 on average, annual average relative humidity 78, annual average Wuhu rainfall 1195.9mm, annual average atmospheric pressure 1014.2hpa; dominant wind direction around the area E, annual wind speed 2.83m/s; rainy season from June to September; the windless season is spring and the windy season is winter. Annual average rainfall 1368mm, annual evaporation capacity 1609.4mm, a little higher than the rainfall; annual average temperature 16.5 , extreme highest temperature 44.7 , extreme lowest temperature -12.5 , deepest Anqing frozen earth 13cm, annual average relative humidity 77, frostless period 245d, sunlight hours 2030h; dominant wind direction around the area NE (52%), then SW (24%) and calm wind (15%); annual wind speed 3.2m/s, max wind speed 20m/s; rainy season from July to September; the windless season is winter and the windy season is spring.

3.1.4 Animal and plant resources

For the animal and plant resources of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-1-4.

Table 3-1-4 Schedule of Animal and Plant Resources in the Cities City Biological Resources Conclusion In the project area, the vegetation mainly concerns the herbaceous plants, especially the local weeds and wormwoods. There are some phoenix trees and There are no special wide Lu’an cherry bays along the right bank of Pi River Trunk Canal. The animals mainly animals or plants to be include sparrow, turtledove, rat, insects, fishes, shrimps, etc., with unobvious protected. biological diversity. The project area belongs to the southern tip of northern subtropical zone. The There are no special wide plants mainly include the broadleaves such as yellow sandalwood and dyetree as Huaibei animals or plants to be well as the conifers such as masson pine and juniper. The animals mainly include protected. sparrow, swallow, squirrel, snake, thrush, insects, fishes, shrimps, etc. In the project area, the vegetation mainly concerns the deciduous broadleaved forests of warm temperate zone, with broadleaved forests mainly on remnant hills There are no special wide and meadow vegetation on plains. The remnant vegetation are phoenix trees, Wuhu animals or plants to be cherry bays, silver chains and black pines planted thereof. The animals mainly protected. include sparrow, swallow, turtledove, rat, insects, fishes, shrimps, etc., with unobvious biological diversity. In the northwest hillock area of Anqing, there grow the secondary planted There are frequent human Anqing conifers and broad-leaved forests, such as the black pine, masson pine, fir, maple, activities in the project area elm, silver chain, tung tree, etc. The greening coverage in Anqing urban area is while there no special wide

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about 10%. The animals in the project area mainly include rat, sparrow, insects, animals or plants to be fishes, shrimps, etc. protected.

3.2 Social Environment 3.2.1 Introduction to social economy For the social economy of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3- 2-1. Table 3-2-1 Schedule of Social Economy

City Lu’an Wuhu Huaibei Anqing

GDP (RMB 100 million) 534 749.65 259.2 704.72

Primary industry (%) 24.2 5.3 11.2 19.1

Second industry (%) 38.6 60.6 54 42.4

Tertiary industry (%) 37.2 34.1 34.8 38.5

Population of Existent 32 105.58 71.96 68 urban area (10,000) 2020 planning 60 195 94 140

Size of urban Existent 30 126.3 57.57 70 area (km2) 2020 planning 60 195 96.2 142 Population density of Existent 10667 8359 12500 10294 urban area (person/km2) 2020 planning 10000 10000 9771 10142

3.2.2 Relevant civil facilities

For the civil facilities of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-

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Table 3-2-2 Situation and Problems Concerning the Drainages of the Cities City Sewage Drainage System Storm Water Drainage System Main Problems Planning of Sewage Drainage Planning of Storm Water Drainage According to the Special Plan for Storm Water in Lu’an, in respect of the A sewage plant of 80,000m3/d is built storm water division, South Pihe Road According to the Special Plan for Sewage in up in the north of Lu’an in June 2004. According to the research, the belongs to the South Urban District 1. Disordered drainage Lu’an, Lu’an is divided into three areas in According to the field survey, the effluent box culvert for rain and old urban district, Xicheng Road system and unreasonable respect of the sewage disposal, i.e., East Area project range covers the d300~d400 water could only found belongs to the South Urban District, arrangement of partial pipes; (east to the Trunk Canal), West Area (west to waste pipes laid under Hezhong Road, constructed in South Pihe Road Bagongshan Road belongs to the 2. Insufficient pipe network the Trunk Canal) and North Area (between the Lu’an Jiefang Road and Meishan Road as within the project range, with Middle Urban District and old urban configuration; Pi River Trunk Canal and Pi River East Trunk well as other unsystematic waste pipes sectional dimension district and Middle Longhe Road 3. Lack of maintenance Canal). In the project, except the Middle within other sectors. The rain water 2500x2500mm. No organized belongs to the Xinhe District and capability of drainage Longhe Road belongs to the East Area, the and waste waters of all blocks are drainage is found in other Anfeng District. In compliance with establishments. other roads belong the West Area. The waste directly discharged into the adjacent sectors. the principle “outlets dispersed and water finally goes to the North Sewage Plant. ditches. discharge nearby”, the storm water flows into the adjacent rivers or open ditches through self-discharge. Pipe culverts have been laid 1. Disordered drainage In order to dispose of the river According to the planning for drainage under the Huaihai Road. The system and arrangement of pollution, Huaibei built up in 2005 the based on the catchment areas of the channel 0# is located at the partial pipes, with some Dinglou Sewage Disposal Plant of According to the Special Plan for Drainage rivers of Huaibei City, the rain water west side of Suixi Road to forming of ring network 80,000m3/d in Xiangcheng District, Project of Huaibei, Huaibei divided into four system is divided into five rain water collect the water from asking to be adjusted and which is, by means of the sewage areas in respect of the sewage collection, i.e., zones, i.e., Old Sui River Zone, mountains in the north of reconstructed; intercepting pipes under the north bank Fenghuang Industrial Park, Xiangshan Xiaosui New River Zone, Liu River Xiangshan District and waste 2. Insufficient drainage Huaibei of Old Sui River, to intercept the waste District, Lieshan District and Mining Area. Zone, Longdai River Zone, Dai River water form the urban area along establishment, with many water flowing through the channels The five roads of this project all belong to the Zone and Zha River Zone. In the thereof. There’s no rain water blocked and jammed 0~9northwards from the old urban Xiangshan District Sewage System project, the Suixi Road, Huaihai Road, pipe laid under the Liyuan discharge outlets; area. The water treated to standard in transporting the waste water to Dinglou Cuiwei Road and Liyuan Road belong Road and Cuiwei Road. The 3. Some drainage pumping the Dinglou Sewage Plant can be Sewage Disposal Plant. to the Old Sui River Zone while the Tuohe Road area is farmland station is aged, with directly discharged into the Old Sui newly built Tuohe Road belongs to the belong to subsidence area of apparently insufficient River. Longdai River Zone. low topography. drainage capability. There is no any drainage pipe network along the Third Ring According to the feasibility study There is no any rain water pipe Road project area. The report of the project, the rain water There is no any sewage pipe network Construction of sewage pipeline is temporarily network along the Third Ring Yijiang Road and Jiuhua pipe network for the Third Ring Road Wuhu along the Third Ring Road (East Limin denied in accordance with the feasibility study Road (East Limin Road are civil roads built up project shall be constructed in the same Road~Wunan Road). report of the project. Road~Wunan Road). and equipped with rain water progress with the Third Ring Road pipe network and sewage pipe project. network. Sewage pipe network is laid under the Rain water pipe network is laid According to the Planning for Drainage Out of the flood season, rain water in There is no any drainage pipe Anqing Huxin Road (Yingbin under the Huxin Road (Yingbin Project of Anqing, the drainage arrangement Anqing City discharge through the network. Avenue~Yanjiang Road) and accepted Avenue~Yanjiang Road) and of Anqing consists of the confluence system adjacent channels, culverts and gates

46 into respective systems in accordance accepted into respective and diffluence system respectively for the old into the Yangtze River, Shitang Lake, with the flow direction and caliber of systems in accordance with the urban area and new urban area and economic Pozheng Lake, Shimen Lake, etc. the pipes. Other roads have no sewage flow direction and caliber of development zones. In the project, the During the flood season, the gates are drainage establishment. The First the pipes. Other roads have no diffluence system mainly relates to the Huxin shut off and the rain water, after Stage of East (Weijiazui) Sewage rain water drainage Road (Yingbin Avenue~North Linghu Road), regulation and accumulation, are Disposal Plant of 120,000m3/d is built establishment. Shuguang Road (Huazhong Road~Yanjiang discharged into the Yangtze River by up and put into service now, which Road), Yanjiang Road (Shuangguang the pumping station. In the project, the would be expanded to 240,000m3/d in Road~Dujiang Road) and Hongguang Public rain water is discharged locally into the 2010 and finally to 360,000m3/d. Transportation Station, while the Huxin Road Dazhai Ditch, Dahu Lake, New River (North Linghu Road~Yanjiang Road) belongs and Guqiao Ditch. to the confluence system since it’s a road in old urban area. According to the planning, the project area belongs to the service range of the East (Weijiazui) Sewage Disposal Plant.

47 3.3 Relativity of Overall Planning of Project Cities 3.3.1 Lu’an In accordance with road system planning in Overall Planning of Lu’an City (2006~2020), Huaibei will establish urban road network with primary and secondary artery as framework as well as sound branch, i.e., artery layout of “six rows, three lines, associated with two rings”. (six rows refer to Jinzhai Road, Mozitai Road, North Jiefang Road-South Jiefang Road, North Meishan Road-South Meishan Road, North Piwang Road-South Piwang Road and North Jingshan Road-South Jingshan Road; three lines refer to Shouchun Road, West Gaocheng Road-Middle Gaocheng Road-East Gaocheng Road and Dabieshan Road- West Wanxi Road-East Wanxi Road; two rings refer to North Anfeng Road-South Anfeng

Road-Foziling Road-West Foziling Road, North Chang’an Road-South Chang’an Road)

Complying with the urban traffic planning, the urban road network consists of one primary artery (Bagongshan Road) and 3 secondary arteries (Middle Longhe Road, South

Pihe Road and Xicheng Road) constructed in the project and the artery layout of “six rows, three lines, associated with two rings” consists of Meishan Road and Jiefang Road reformed in the project.

Therefore, this project complies with and is pursuant to the overall urban planning.

3.3.2 Wuhu

The overall urban road network layout of Wuhu is “three rings + grid” specified in

Comprehensive Traffic Planning of Wuhu City. Relying on “clover” shaped land-use layout that longitudinally develops in the central urban area, three circles of semi-ring expressway form in the planning. The Comprehensive Traffic Planning of Wuhu City in respect of road traffic policy for all blocks proposes the traffic communication between the old urban area and north urban block, which relies on the arteries such as Changjiang Road, Yinhu Road, Jiuhua Road-Fengminghu Road and expressway such as North Jiuhua Road-Gejiang Road. The traffic communication of old urban area, south urban block and Sanshan block improve the communication between the old urban area and south higher education park. According to the above, to implement the Comprehensive Traffic Planning of Wuhu City, the project complies with and is in favor to the target of planning. Therefore, complying with the 48 requirement of overall urban planning and comprehensive traffic planning, the project affirmatively follows up Comprehensive Traffic Planning of Wuhu City. Furthermore, in accordance with the division adjustment of Wuhu City that extends to Qingshui Town, Huolonggang Town and Jingshan Town of former Wuhu County and Sanshan Town and E’qiao Town of Fanchang County, after which the urban area increases from

231km2 to 720 km2 and population increases from 707,800 to 1.005 million. As a longitudinal expressway from north to south of Wuhu, Sanhuan Road connects the east urban area with the south, middle and north urban area. With a total length of 7.34km, Limin Road-Wunan Road section of Sanhuan Road newly constructed in this project accelerates the strategy of “eastward and southward extension” and infrastructural construction of east and south urban area, communicates the south and north transportation, develops the scale of city, as well as plays an important role to improve the economic development of Wuhu.

3.3.3 Huaibei

In accordance with the comprehensive traffic planning of main urban area in Overall

Planning of Huaibei City (2006~2020), Huaibei will establish urban road network with primary and secondary artery as framework as well as sound branch. Based on the existent road network, the artery framework of “seven lines, eight rows, one ring” and road layout of square network forms between and inside the block. (seven lines refer to Qingnian Road,

Donghu Road, Huaihai Road, Renmin Road, Nanli Road, Tuohe Road and Qianlonghu Road from north to south; eight rows refer to old Provincial Road 202, Suixi Road, Xiangyang

Road, Changshan Road, Dongshan Road, Nanhu Road, Longshan Road and Xinhu Road from west to east; one ring refer to city outer ring that consists of new Provincial Road 202, North

Outer Ring, East Outer Ring and Wusong Road) Complying with the urban traffic planning, the artery layout of “seven lines, eight rows, one ring” consists of Huaihai Road and Suixi Road reformed in the project and the urban road network consists of one primary artery (Tuohe Road) and one secondary artery (South Cuifeng Road) constructed in the project. Therefore, this project complies with and is pursuant to the overall urban planning.

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3.3.4 Anqing In accordance with Overall Planning of Anqing City (2003~2020), the target of traffic planning of Anqing is to meet the requirement of modern city construction, establish road network system with rational layout and rapid access and perfect transportation facility, optimize the structure of urban road network, improve the availability of road access, establish passenger transportation system focusing on public traffic associated with other traffic, as well realize modern urban traffic on consideration of the increase of private car. The road traffic planning of Anqing mainly consists of: 1. The urban road network is divided into expressway, primary artery, secondary artery and branch. The expressway has width of urban streets of 40m; the primary artery has distance

700-1200m and width of urban streets of 40-60m; the secondary artery has distance of 350-

500m and width of urban streets of 25-35m; the branch has distance of 150-250m and width of urban streets of 15-20m.

2. The urban artery network applies chessboard urban road system with primary and secondary artery as framework and expressway.

As the important part of the chessboard urban road system layout complying with urban traffic planning, the urban artery network consists of two trunk roads (Huxin Road and

Shuguang Road) reformed and one sub-road (East Yanjiang Road) constructed in the project.

Therefore, this project complies with and is pursuant to the overall urban planning of Anqing

City. This project is to implement Urban Road Traffic Planning of Anqing City, so as to realize the target of planning. 3.4 Evaluation and Management of the Atmospheric Environment For the evaluation and management of the atmospheric environment of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-4-1.

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Table 3-4-1 Evaluation and Management of the Atmospheric Environment Project Control of the Air Pollution Atmospheric Environment Quality Results of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring Area Caused by Transportation In 2007, the air quality of Lu’an is generally favorable, with annual mean concentration of sulphur dioxide at The hour concentration of NO and CO and the 0.010mg/m3, annual mean concentration of nitrogen dioxide at 0.008g/m3, annual mean concentration of 2 daily concentration of NO , TSP, PM and CO do inhalable particles at 0.090mg/m3, all meeting the level II standard of Environmental Air Quality Standard 2 10 not exceed the standard value, however, PM Lu’an (GB3095-1996). The air quality around the year generally reaches level I and II and seldom over II, including 10 occupies a relatively higher proportion, with max level I for 33 days, level II for 329 days and level III1 for 3 days. The major pollutants are inhalable particles. The single factor index at 0.767, which is attributable to days of good air quality increased than ever in 2006, though level III rose up very rarely. Generally speaking, the the local higher background concentration of PM . air quality of Lu’an changes little. 10 In 2007, in respect of the environmental air of Huaibei City, the annual mean concentration of sulphur dioxide is Major control measures: at 0.012mg/m3 and its instantaneous concentration and daily mean concentration all meet the level II standard of Carry out the compellent Environmental Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996) at all monitoring spots. The annual daily mean annual inspection to every concentration of nitrogen dioxide is at 0.033g/m3 and its instantaneous concentration and daily mean Pollutants such as the PM10, CO and NO2 all satisfy vehicle, forbid the vehicles that concentration all meet the level II standard of Environmental Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996) at all the level II limit values specified in the of over-standard tail gas from Huaibei monitoring spots. However, the total number of suspended particle and the dustfall pollution rather bad, with Environmental Air Quality Standard. The project driving, conduct the on-road annual daily mean concentration and annual monthly dustfall amount at 0.285mg/m3 and 12.42t/km2 · month area is of favorable environmental air quality. inspection to vehicles at regular respectively, exceeding the standard by 39.2% and 44.5%. The air quality around the year generally reaches level intervals and implement II, with light pollution featured with smoke pollution dominated by major pollutants such as suspended particles. sampling inspection to vehicles Around the year, light pollution happens in winter and spring and while it is clear in summer and autumn. from time to time. In 2007, the days of good air quality around the year are 345 days in Wuhu, with excellence rate at 94.5%. The monthly average value of air pollution index is 67.5 and the major pollutant is inhalable particles (PM10). The Existing problems: daily mean concentration of sulphur dioxide is at 0.001~0.091mg/m3 while the annual average value is at The project area is of favorable environmental air It is relatively good in respect 0.020mg/m3. The daily mean concentration of nitrogen dioxide is at 0.002~0.087mg/m3 while the annual average quality while the pollutants all satisfy the level II of the compellent annual Wuhu value is at 0.026mg/m3. The daily mean concentration of inhalable particles is at 0.0230.342mg/m3 while the standard specified in the Environmental Air Quality inspection and routine on-road annual average value is at 0.086mg/m3. The annual average value of dustfall is 8.43t/km2 · month. The average Standard (GB30951996). inspection. However, the pH value of rainfall is at 5.54~7.18 while the annual average value is at 6.16, with acid rain rate at 1.7%. The air sampling inspection shall be quality of the whole city meets the national standard level II in 2007. ameliorated. In 2007, the air pollution index of Anqing urban area is 4~161, with favorable air quality. The major pollutants are inhalable particles and then dustfall. The whole degree of pollution varies along with the seasons, poorest in In the evaluated area, the daily mean concentration Cause; st nd rd 1 quarter, better in 2 quarter and best in 3 quarter. In respect of the air quality around the year, 52 days belong of NO2 of all monitoring spots satisfies the standard The indefinite assignment of to excellence, 299days favorable and 15 days of slight pollution. requirement. The daily mean concentration of PM10 the responsibilities and rights Around the year in Anqing urban area, the sulphur dioxide is at low level, with quarterly and annual average in Yingjiang Temple Spot exceed the standard, viz., of all authorities result in the values of all monitoring spots below the limit value of level II of the national environmental air quality standard. 1.82 times the standard value, which is caused by weak and disperse The quarterly and annual average values of nitrogen dioxide is below the limit value of level II and even that of the construction around thereof. The daily mean management. Anqing level I of the national environmental air quality standard. However, the annual average value of nitrogen dioxide concentration of CO in the Yingjiang Temple Spot increased by 22.7% than that in last year. The amount of nitrogen dioxide varies much in different areas due to the and the Diesel Engine Manufactory Spot all exceed 3 traffic flow. The annual average value of PM10 of the whole city is 0.107mg/m , 6.1% lower than that in 2005, the standard, viz., 1.12 times and 1.35 times the with daily over-standard rate at 46.3%, 5.2%, 0% and 2.2% from the 1st quarter to the 4th quarter, fluctuating on standard value at maximum. Generally, some areas the basis of last year. The daily average value of all monitoring spots of the whole city has an over-standard rate are prevented by the traffic or construction from at 13.3%. The annual average value of dustfall is 9.36t/km2 · month, increasing by 0.40t/km2 · month, i.e., 4.5%, satisfying the environmental quality functions. than last year. The acid rain rate is 11.6%.

51 3.5 Evaluation on Noise Environment For the evaluations on the noise environments of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-5-1. Table 3-5-1 Evaluation on Noise Environment Project Evaluation on Noise Environment Area Newly built roads: over-standard situations are found both in daytime and at night around Fenghuang Bridge Primary School, No.16, West Dabieshan Road, with superscale at 3.7dB(A) and 2.1dB(A) in daytime and 3.2dB(A) and 1.5dB(A) at night. The daytime superscale of noise value around Dongyuan Residential, No.8, Yanhe Road is about 0.1dB(A). The above two places are influenced by traffic noise thereof. The daytime and Lu’an night noise values at other monitoring spots all meet the relevant requirements. Reconstructed roads: the level 4a standard specified in Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008) is not complied with in the areas such as the front of Kuixing Pavilion on Jiefang Road, the place opposite to the Central Station, the Sales Center of Shunming Capital Uptowns and the Wanxi Fire Brigade Center on MEishan Road, because the traffic flow is rather large in such locations. Over-standard situations are found both in daytime and at night at some monitoring situations, likely the sensitive locations around Huaihe Road Primary Shool, Huaibei No.1 Middle School, Huaibei Bluesky Kindergarten, Huaibei Zaohui Kindergarten and Huaibei Occupational and Technical College, mainly located along the two Huaibei sides of the two urban trunks, Huaihai Road and Suixi Road, especially Huaihai Road which is in CBD area with large traffic flow that causes the over-standard noise problem. The daytime and night noise values at other monitoring spots within other road sections all meet the relevant requirements. In 2007, the noise-equivalent sound level of the traffic arteries in urban area was controlled between 64.0~70.8dB(A), with mean value at 67.3dB(A). 2.4% total length of the roads monitored has a traffic noise sound level over 70dB(A). The noise-equivalent sound level of urban regional environment is between 52.1~58.0dB(A), with mean value at 54.3dB(A). The noise Wuhu levels of all functional regions all meet the relevant national standards. The daytime sound level of the monitoring spots this time is between 41.5~46.4dB(A), with over-standard rate 0; the night sound level is between 40.6~44.8dB(A), with over-standard rate 0. It indicates that the sound environment is of good quality prior to the construction of the project. The weighted mean of the traffic arteries in urban area is 70.6dB(A), with 0.6dB(A) over the standard value; the mean value of noise of urban regional environment is 55.2 dB(A), 4.8dB(A) below the standard value. 81.5% of the functional areas (residential and commercial mixing area) at level II concerning sound environment quality Anqing do not go beyond the 60dB(A) requirement. The daytime and night noise values of the monitoring spots all meet the relevant requirements. The project area has good sound environment.

3.6 All Conservation Zones, Scenic Areas and Cultural Relics For the conservation zones, scenic areas and cultural relics in the project area, see Table 3-6- 1. Table 3-6-1 Environmental Evaluation on the Conservation Zones and Scenic Areas Involved in the Project

Conservation Zone and City Environmental Evaluation Scenic Area The measured value of noise in South Lake Wetland Park is respectively 52.3dB(A) and 49.4dB(A) in daytime and at night, meeting the requirement of level II functional area on sound environment. For the atmospheric environment, Huaibei South Lake Wetland Park the measured values of concentrations of TSP, PM10, NO2 and CO all meeting the level II standard specified in the Environmental Air Quality Standard, with favorable air quality. According to the present environmental quality monitoring, the sound Anqing Yingjiang Temple environment of Yingjiang Temple is merely good, meeting the requirement of 52

level II functional area on sound environment. The daily mean concentration of NO2 meets the standard requirement on environmental air quality, with single index of daily mean concentration between 0.40-0.51. The daily mean concentration of PM10 is over standard, with single index of daily mean concentration between 1.51-1.82, 1.82 times the max standard value, which is caused by the constructions near the Yingjiang Temple. The daily mean concentration of CO is over standard at Yingjiang Temple Spot and Diesel Engine Manufactory Spot, with single index of daily mean concentration between 0.92-1.12, 1.12 times the max standard value, which is due to the prosperous visits to and overwhelming burning of joss sticks in Yingjiang Temple.

3.7 Quality and Management of Surface Water Environment For the evaluations on the surface water environment of the cities in the traffic project of Anhui Province, see Table 3-7-1. Table 3-7-1 Evaluations on Surface Water Environment

Project Area Evaluations on Surface Water Environment

(1) Pi River Trunk Canal: during 2005-2007, the water quality of Pi River Trunk Canal suffered light pollution and was dominated by level II and III water quality, with upper reach better than the lower reach within the urban area and occasional over-standard fecal coliform colony value in some sections. (2) Pi River: during 2005-2007, the water quality of Pi River suffered light pollution. The sectional water quality at Yaogangzui was merely common and dominated by level III and IV Regular water. The water quality at Guanghua Factory Ferry suffered medium pollution was dominated monitoring by level IV and V water, with major pollution factors including ammonia nitrogen. The sectional water quality at Xin’an Ferry and Dadian Hillock suffered light pollution, with major pollutive factors including ammonia nitrogen. Lu’an (3) Pi River East Trunk Canal: during 2005-2007, the sectional water quality of Jiuligou Ferry suffered medium pollution was dominated by level IV and V water, with major pollutive factors including ammonia nitrogen and fecal coliform colony. The sectional water quality of Zhongxing Bridge was merely common and dominated by level III and IV water. During the monitoring period, the water quality of Fenghuang Bridge River turns out good, with all monitoring factors satisfying the level IV requirement in Surface Water Environment

The Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). For the water quality of Ping Bridge River, except the present petroleum factor meets the level IV requirement, all other monitoring factors fail to comply, with monitoring single factor index of ammonia nitrogen at 4.15 and that of COD at 3.1, which is due to the reason that Ping Bridge River receives much domestic sewage but flows relatively slow, accumulating pollutants thereof.

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In 2007, the surface water in some parts of Huaibei suffered serious pollution. The sectional water quality of both Sui River and Longdai River fails to meet the level V requirement in Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). The annual mean concentration indices of Tuo River only meet the level IV requirement in Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). Sui River suffered both organic and inorganic pollution seriously,

with major pollute factors including COD, BOD5, volatile phenols, non-ion ammonia and Regular monitoring petroleum. The over-standard items of Tuo River mainly cover pH, non-ion ammonia, COD and

BOD5. The annual mean values of all indices of Hui River meet the level IV water quality. Huaibei Generally, Hui River has bad water quality in low flow period and good quality in level period and high flow period. The Yangzhuang settling area has good water quality, with all monitoring items meeting the level III requirement in Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). Longdai River and Zha River all meet the level IV water quality requirement for water

The functional area. For the Old Sui River, the NH3-N index of its lower reach 500m from the project present section planned does not meet the level V water quality requirement while other indices are monitoring compliant, which is due to that Sui River is the recipient of the wastes from the city (according to the water function arrangement of Huaibei) and hence collects too many pollutants. According to the Wuhu Environmental Quality Report (2007), the water quality of Wuhu Section of Yangtze River meets the national standard on the level II surface water, with its ten major indices as follows: dissolved oxygen concentration 6.92~11.09mg/L, annual mean concentration 8.39mg/L; permanganate 2.75~3.18mg/L, annual mean concentration 3.10mg/L; ammonia nitrogen concentration 0.0460.278mg/L, annual mean concentration 0.204mg/L; the Regular monitoring concentrations of the volatile phenol and the six toxicants, i.e., cyanide, total hydrargyrum, arsenide, hexavalent chromium, lead and cadmium all meet the national standard on the level II Wuhu surface water. The water quality of Wuhu Section of Qingyi River meets the national standard on the level III surface water. The water quality of the Zhang Pond meets the requirement on irrigative water while that of the Lian Pond meets the requirement on fishery water. The water quality of the Ting Pond and Mirror Lake meets the requirement on scenic water.

The The evaluating index values of water environment at the monitoring sections in Guangou present are all below 1, indicating that the surface water quality of Guangou meets the requirement on monitoring environmental functional area. The water quality of Anqing Section of Yangtze River meets the level III requirement in Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). The water quality of potable Regular monitoring water source from Anqing No.1, No.2, No.3 and Shihua Water Works meets the requirement on level III centralized potable water source specified in the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002), with up-to-standard ratio of water quality at 100%. Anqing Null. The industrial sewage and domestic sewage of the project are covered in the sewage

The collection plan for the Anqing civil sewage pipeline. The sewage is to be collected and present commonly treated before discharged into Yangtze River, causing little influence to the regional monitoring surface water. Therefore, the present environmental evaluation employs the monitoring data of water quality of the Anqing Section of Yangtze River in 2008.

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3.8 Solid Waste Management Table 3-8-1 Solid Waste Management Project Solid Waste Management Area Domestic garbage is to be buried in the landfill for municipal wastes. The Lu’an Landfill is located on the Poshan Range, Lu’an. Its stage No.1 project occupies 151,985m2 and is designed for a service life of 15 years Lu’an with its total capacity of 3.8 million m3. It can dispose of domestic wastes 330t per day, 75% of which undergo harmless disposal. The harmless disposal rate of domestic waste is usually low due to the simple disposal way. The wastes at bus stops shall be collected and disposed of by the Municipal Appearance Department. Domestic garbage is to be buried in the landfill for municipal wastes. The Huaibei Landfill is located in the Beishan Cove in Dahuang Mountain, Hualou Village, Lieshan Town. The Landfill is planned to be put into Huaibei service in 2008, with designed initial working capacity at 500t/day (2008). It is designed for a service life of 15 years, dealing with 60% wastes through harmless disposal. The harmless disposal rate of domestic waste is usually low due to the simple disposal way. There are two domestic waste treatment plants in Wuhu, the Matoushan Waste Treatment Plant and the Waste Incineration Thermal Power Plant located in southern part and northern part of the city respectively, while the former one is a landfill and the latter one is an incineration plant. Wuhu deals with the domestic wastes mainly Wuhu by incineration and then landfill. It is the only city in Anhui Province having tow waste treatment plants. The total amount of the municipal domestic wastes is about 600t per day, however, 95% of which undergo harmless disposal, making it advanced in China. The total amount of the municipal domestic wastes of Anqing produced is about 620t per day, 40% of which undergo harmless disposal. The harmless disposal rate of domestic waste is usually low due to the large production amount but simple disposal way, easy to result in secondary pollution. Anqing has 14 waste forwarding stations occupying 3806m2 with total daily forwarding capacity of 786t, which is only small-sized. The domestic wastes are collected and transported to the South Mountain Thrust of Xiaowangjia Thrust for simple stacking and treatment. The simple stack yard has a total capacity of 1.6 million Anqing m3, is designed for a service life of 9 years and was put into service in 1997, running for 10 years till now. In 2008, Anqing People’s Government decided to initiate the project of power generation by the incineration of municipal domestic wastes, which is invested and constructed by Beijing China Sciences General Energy & Environment Co., Ltd. The project, 25km from Anqing urban area, is located in the North Liansheng Village, north to Shishi Highway, Shankou Township, west suburb, Anqing. After the completion of this project, the disposal rate of the municipal domestic wastes of Anqing would reach 100%. The project is now under construction.

3.9 Soil

This project concerns the whole relocation of enterprises in Lu’an, so that survey and test is carried out to the site soil.

The new Bagongshan Road is constructed across Lu’an Textile Mill, Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory and Lu’an Paper Mill. In accordance with the survey of academic group, Lu’an Textile Mill has relocated to Lu’an Economic and Technical Development Zone in 2002, after which it recombined and renamed as Lu’an Huayuan Textile Co., Ltd; Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory has relocated to Lu’an Economic and Technical Development Zone in 2002, after which it recombined and renamed as Anhui Changjiang Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd; the existent plot of Lu’an Textile Mill and Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory is used for real estate development.

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Established in 1958, Lu’an Paper Mill reformed, recombined and renamed as Anhui Lu’an Kangle Paper Industry Co., Ltd in June, 2003. With 5 production lines and 35,000 tons of production capability, the company’s main products includes cup raw paper, disposable bowl raw paper, paint raw paper, mid & top-grade packing paper, white cardboard, wood-free paper, book cover paper, drawing paper and printing paper. In accordance with Overall Planning of Lu’an City, the plot of Lu’an Paper Mill has changed as residential land and will be removed for overall development by inviting business and attracting investment. According to relevant research, the paper mill will produce dioxin pollution during chlorine bleaching of paper pulp. However, the domestic control of dioxin pollution is restricted to the gas emission in waste incineration project for power generation, while no relative provision is specified to control the dioxin pollution during chlorine bleaching of paper mill. It is difficult to control dioxin because of less domestic detection authority and higher detection expense.

During this assessment, the site soil of Lu’an Paper Mill and former Lu’an Hand Tractor

Factory will be detected to analyze whether it is polluted. In accordance with Environment

Detecting and Analyzing Method issued by State Environmental Protection Administration of

PRC and Recent Analysis Methods of Soil Elements compiled by the Chief Station of China

Environment Detection, to make sampling and analysis in two soil detection points set in

Lu’an Paper Mill and former Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory and choose 6 indexes such as PH, cadmium, lead, chromium, arsenic and mercury for soil environment status detection.

Table 3-9-1 Soil Detection Results Sampling Detection Cadmium Lead Chromium Arsenic Mercury part and pH date (mg/Kg) (mg/Kg) (mg/Kg) (mg/Kg) mg/Kg S.N. 1#, 5M to the west side of Bagongshan 08.12.6 5.50 0.20 35 62.7 6.10 0.08 Road (Planned), Lu’an Paper Mill 2#, 5M to the west 08.12.6 5.62 0.21 29 81.3 9.07 0.11 side of 56

Bagongshan Road (Planned), former hand tractor factory Executive standard 0.30 250 150 4 0 0.30 level II

According to the result (table above) of Lu’an Monitoring Station, the quality of soil in Lu’an Paper Mill and former Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory is favorable and pursuant to level II of Soil Environment Quality Standard (GB15618-1995), with all detecting indexes standard.

Therefore, the soil of Lu’an Paper Mill and former Lu’an Hand Tractor Factory has not polluted.

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4.Evaluation on Environmental Impacts

Due to urban roads and transportation reform project, the projects in such four cities nearly have the same environmental impacts during the construction period. The environmental impacts brought about by transportation projects of Anhui medium-sized cities during construction period are mainly composed of the below aspects.

4.1 Analysis on Environmental Impacts during Construction Period 4.1.1 Analysis on Impacts on Ambient Air Quality during Construction Period The road reconstruction projects of such four cities will cause atmospheric pollution during construction period mainly for: flying dust caused by excavation and transportation vehicles; flying and falling dust during loading, unloading, transportation and stacking of construction materials (cement, lime and sandstone) and during piling and transportation of excavated soil; waste gas emitted by various construction machineries and vehicles.

Ambient air will be mainly influenced by the flying dust during construction period. As for flying dust generated by excavation and drilling of dry earth surface, one part floats in the air and another part falls on the surrounding ground and surface of buildings; dust will flow up during piling of excavated soil when it is big windy; some dust will flow up and fall during loading/unloading and transportation; the rain-water carries soil on the road surface, then after being dry, the soil will flow up again by the vehicle moving or wind; a great deal of dust will be caused when backfill the excavated hole; the dust will fall and flow up during loading/unloading, transportation and stacking of building materials.

It cannot be neglected for hazardness of flying dust pollution during construction period. The dust in the air is inbreathed by constructors and ambient residents, which will cause various respiratory tract diseases and materially influence the health of constructors and ambient residents due to large amounts of pathogen and infectious diseases in the dust. Besides, the flying dust can greatly reduce the visibility and easily cause traffic accidents. The dust fallen on the buildings and trees and leaves will influence the scenery. Therefore, the construction 58 unit should strictly enhance management, adopt proper measures and strictly control the flying dust generated during construction period. 4.1.2Analysis on Noise Impacts during Construction Period (1) Noise Source and Influence Scope during Construction Period The noise during the construction period of the four cities mainly comes from construction machineries and transportation vehicles. Based on actual investigation and analogical analysis, what has great influences on the environment is bulldozer, loader, road roller, excavator, tipping truck, spreading machine and other construction machineries. The maximum test value of the above construction equipment refers to Table 5-1 (Noise Value at 5m). The noise influence scope during construction period is as shown in Table 4-1-1.

Table 4-1-1 Noise Influence Scope of Construction Machineries

Sound Level Standard Value Standard Distance Distance (m) dB(A) dB(A) (m) Construction 5m 10m 20m 40m 60m 100m 150m Day Night Day Night Machinery Wheel loader 90 84.0 78.0 72.0 68.4 64.0 60.5 75 55 28 281 Land leveler 90 84.0 78.0 72.0 68.4 64.0 60.5 75 55 28 281 Vibrivating road roller 86 80.0 74.0 68.0 64.4 60.0 56.5 70 55 32 177 Double-wheel machine 81 75.0 69.0 63.0 59.4 55.0 51.5 70 55 18 100 Three-wheel road 81 75.0 69.0 63.0 59.4 55.0 51.5 70 55 18 100 roller Tyre roller 76 70.0 64.0 58.0 54.4 50.0 46.5 70 55 10 56 Bulldozer 86 80.0 74.0 68.0 64.4 60.0 56.5 75 55 18 177 Hydraulic excavator 84 78.0 72.0 66.0 62.4 58.0 54.5 75 55 14 141 Spreading machine 87 81.0 75.0 69.0 65.4 61.0 57.5 70 55 35 199

(2) Environmental Impact Analysis of Construction Noise If a single construction machinery is applied, the noise at 35m away to the construction site can meet GB12523-90 Noise Limits for Construction Sites during daytime and that at 218m away can meet standard limits in the evening; But during actual construction, several machines are applied at the same time, the noise will have a wider influence range.

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When the noise sensitive point of the project is about 5-30m (averagely) away to the construction site, the construction noise has more influences on the ambient sound environment. Due to the protection targets of sound environment along this project in 30m to the redline, the first row of resident building and school and hospital at both sides of road will be influenced to different extents during daytime; especially the residents’ rest is influenced in the evening, so measures must be strictly taken to reduce the influence of construction noise on environmental protection targets to a minimum extent. With the completion of the project, the construction noise impacts will not exist, so the unfavorable impacts of the construction noise on the environment are temporary.

4.1.3 Analysis of Impacts on Water Environment during Construction Period

The wastewater during the construction period of the four cities mainly refers to construction wastewater and domestic sewage of constructors. The main pollutant of construction wastewater is SS and the wastewater is discharged into municipal sewage pipelines after deposition or flows out with the earth’s surface for discharging; the main pollutants of domestic sewage are SS, COD, grease and so on and the sewage is discharged into urban underground pipeline network after being pre-treated in deposition tank or septic tank or flows out with the earth’s surface for discharge. Domestic sewage during construction period is not allowed to be directly discharged to surrounding waters without treatment. Due to short construction period and little discharge capacity, it has little environmental impacts on surface water. 4.1.4 Analysis on Environmental Impacts of Solid Waste during Construction Period There will be large amounts of mud, muck (including that by removing old buildings), mud by excavation of the earth’s surface, remaining waste materials, etc. at the construction site during construction period. If such solid wastes are not properly treated, it will block the transportation and pollute the environment. During transportation, unclean transportation and soil falling from the vehicle shall pollute the street and road and influence the appearance and traffic of the city.

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The earthwork balance and greening area balance and the situation of borrow and waste bank of all cities where the projects locate refer to Table 4-1-2. If the waste soil is not properly treated during piling and transportation, it shall block the transportation and pollute the environment. The vehicle transporting excavated waste soil running in the road in the city will increase the vehicle flowrate along the line and cause traffic jam and the fallen soil will damage the urban environmental hygiene. The unorganized piling and damping of excavated soil will cause soil erosion by being flushed in rainstorm. At the construction site in the city, the rainwater runoff will enter the municipal drainage ditch in the form of yellow mud-water and block the drainage ditch after deposition. At the same time, the slurry with the cement, grease and other pollutants enters the water and cause water pollution.

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Table 4-1-2 Balance Sheet of Earthwork and Greening Area of Projects Earthwork Balance (m3) Greening Area Balance (m2) Soil Compens Variation Excavati Taken(- Covered City Roads Filling Analysis of Soil-Taken/Dumping Field ation of of on )/Dumpin Greening Amount Greening Greening Amount g+) Area Area Area Amount Bagongshan 94500.0 44077.0 50423.0 15964.9 +15964.9 Road 0 Pihe South The general balance result is: about 140,000m3 35449.8 86077.1 -50627.3 26006.2 +26006.2 Road waste soil. Due to different actual conditions 0 Lu’a Xicheng of all sections, few earthwork required by the 62870.9 16385.0 46485.9 0 0 n Road project is purchased outside; the soil-dumping 0 field is at the side along rover of Pihe South Longhe Road (Jiangjun Road – Junhe Road section) 138400. Middle 236210.4 97810.4 13200 +13200 0 0 Road Tuohe Road 54610 1388506 -1333896 The general balance result is: need to take / 94240 +94240 Cuifeng about 100,000m3 soils. 19384 22115 -2731 / 7800 +7800 South Road This project plans to set the soil-taken field in Liyuan Zhuzai village, which locates in the coal- Middle 35432 10206 25226 mining subsidence, east of Huaibei city and / 12026 +12026 Road belongs to a subsiding block, so the Huaihai surrounding residents have moved out and the 77114 0 77114 2348 / -2348 Road total area is about 150 hectares. This soil- taken field has a good location with convenient transportation, being about 4.8km Huai (straight distance) to Tuohe Road – loan bei project of the World Bank, being about 5.5km (straight distance) to Cuifeng South Road and first-terminal station in Cuifeng South Road Suixi Road 15125 0 15125 and being about 4.9km (straight distance) to 127 / -127 Liyuan Middle Road. This region is in the coal-mining subsidence and belongs to subsidence lake in urban planning. The soil taken here shall not influence ambient environment and nature of land use in the future. Wuh The 3rd Ring The general balance result is: need to take about 400,000m3 waste soils. Not confirmed 1584056 223966 1360090 0 132120 +132120 u Road temporarily.

62 Huxin Road 0 0 3600 0 -3600 Yanjiang 9087 12116 -3029 The balance result of earthwork of this project is: need to take about 196682m3 soils. The 0 1800 +1800 East Road planned soil-taken field is within Industrial Park, Daguan District, Anqing City and the Shuguang 6278 8371 -2093 specific position shall be confirmed at construction site. 0 670 +670 Road The Industrial Park of Daguan District, Anqing City locates in north of Anqing city and Anq Hongguang 0 covers a land of 114.14 hectares including 81.65 hectares industrial land. The Industrial Park Public ing 11560 -11560 takes development of modern textile, machinery and light industry as orientation, and there 0 1335.92 +1335.92 transit the roads, power supply and “Seven Connections One Leveling” projects have been fully depot completed and auxiliary electrical projects have been established. Lion 0 180000 -180000 Due to the soil-taken field of this project being the industrial land under urban planning, the Mountain soil taking shall not influence ambient environment and nature of land use. 0 500 +500 Public transit depot

63 4.1.5 Analysis on Ecological Environmental Impacts during Construction Period The vegetation is damaged during the construction period of projects of the four cities mainly by ecological impacts of farmland & green land and waste soil, construction rubbishes and transportation vehicles. Thereinto, the projects of Lu’an and Wuhu shall not occupy urban greening zones; and the projects of Huaibei and Anqing shall occupy few urban greening zones, but has made detailed virescence compensation and recovery plan. After construction, the vegetation can be recovered in 2-3 years by virescence at both sides of roads. The project construction shall not cause loss of greening area of the whole city. Generally speaking, main possible ecological environmental impacts during construction period are as follows: (1) The waster soil of the project, if not being properly treated, shall occupy arable area to make the arable area per person being decreased to different extents. Besides, due to the continuous increase of the population and consumption level per person, it further intensifies pressure on remaining arable area and cause human-land conflicts and more serious ecological environment problems. The soil borrow pit and waste tank should be made of ecological recovery immediately after being filled, such as planting trees and grasses, etc., after which the waste soil of the project shall have little influence on the land use;

(2) The main works of this project locate in downtown area of the city, with flat topography, high filling and less deep excavation, no soil erosion basically, but it will bring certain influences on urban ecology during temporary piling of construction materials such as earthwork, sandstone, cement and clay, waste soil and waste materials during construction period, especially the waste soil, if not being piled or protected, is easy to block drainage pipelines of roads and influence the traffic and appearance of the city when being flushed by rainwater; (3) During the construction period, a great deal of flying dust will appear if there is no proper prevention and protection measures when the vehicles transport the earthwork, sandstone, cement and other building materials, so as to have dust impacts on the road surface, greening zone and residents at both sides of the street and have certain impacts on urban hygiene environment. 4.1.6 Analysis on Social Environmental Impacts during Construction Period 64

4.1.6.1 Analysis on Impacts of Urban Transportation (1) For the construction of roads and bridges will influence current transportation, the project construction can be conducted on the condition of un-breaking current traffic transportation and finish construction plan of road networks smoothly. However, during construction period, part of the road section shall have traffic congestion and blocking at busy hours. So the Traffic Control Department shall enhance management and apply neighboring road network to organize transportation for division to ensure the normal life of residents not being interfered. The traffic condition with possible traffic congestion during construction period of all cities refers to Table 4-1-3. (2) During the project construction period, many construction machines and transportation vehicles will be applied, which will increase the vehicle flowrate along the areas and have certain interference on urban transportation.

Table 4-1-3 Roads with Possible Traffic Congestion during Project Construction Period

City Roads with Possible Traffic Congestion

Huaihai Road, Suixi Road; especially few sections of Mengshan Road-Xiangshan Road and Xiangshan Road- Huaibei Changshan Road in Huaihai Road

Anqing Huxin Road

Wuhu Jiuhua South Road, Yijiang Road

Lu’an Few sections at east of Renmin Road and Xida Street

4.1.6.2 Analysis of Impacts on Urban Resident Life

(1) Through the analysis of impacts on urban transportation, the project construction may interfere urban transportation, cause traffic congestion and jam in urban roads, so temporary measures should be adopted such as division and detouring and the bus line should be re- designed, which will bring influences and inconvenience on residents’ traveling, work and life; (2) During the project construction period, the noise generated by construction machineries and flying dust generated by transportation vehicles will have certain influence on normal life of residents at sensitive points near the road. All-night construction required by engineering technology will also influence residents’ rest.

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(3) The construction will unavoidably influence the ground and underground pipelines and pipes of the municipal projects, such as drainage pipes, gas pipes, thermal pipes, communication and electrical pipes. Removal and movement of part of pipelines and pipes will also bring about certain influence and inconvenience to residents’ normal life.

4.2 Analysis on Environmental Impacts during Operation Period 4.2.1 Analysis on Ambient Air Quality Impact during Operation Period 4.2.1.1 Forecast Contents During the operation period, the ambient air is influenced mainly by tail gas emitted by motor vehicles. This evaluation adopts MOBILE5 mode of American EPA. The forecast factors are

HC, CO and NOX; the forecast time is the year of 2020 and 2030; the forecast scope is the concentration of pollutants within 200m of wind direction under road shoulder; select the average wind speed throughout the entire year and small static wind as forecast meteorological conditions; because the construction of public transit depots of Lu’an city involves the painting workshop, make additional forecast on the impacts of the painting workshop of public transit depots on ambient air during operation period. The forecast factors are toluene and xylene. The forecast contents of the four cities refer to Table 4-2-1.

Table 4-2-1 Specific Forecast Contents of Four Cities

City Forecast Contents

For the sections with the largest discharge of pollutants in Tuohe Road, Liyuan Road, Cuifeng Road, Huaihai

Huaibei Road and Suixi Road, forecast the distribution of concentration of pollutants within 200m of wind direction under

road shoulders at busy hours

For the sections with the largest discharge of pollutants in Huxin Road, Shuguang Road and Yanjiang Road,

Anqing forecast the distribution of concentration of pollutants within 200m of wind direction under road shoulders at busy

hours

Distribution of concentration of pollutants within 200m of wind direction under road shoulders in different Wuhu sections of the 3rd Ring Road at busy hours

1. For the sections with the largest discharge of pollutants in Bagongshan Road, Pihe South Road, Xicheng Road

and Longhe Middle Road, forecast the distribution of concentration of pollutants within 200m of wind direction Lu’an under road shoulders at busy hours;

2. Painting and drying, and discharge of waste gas in public transit depots.

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4.2.1.2 Forecast Result The forecast result of ambient air quality of roads in the four cities refers to Table 4-2-2. Known from the forecast of painting and drying, and discharge of waste gas in Lu’an public transit depots, the xylene and toluene emitted in public transit depots have little influence on the environment and will have no any unfavorable influence on ambient air environment.

4.2.2 Analysis on Noise Impact during Operation Period After the completion and operation of this project, the environment is influenced mainly by traffic noise. This evaluation is mainly to forecast the first row of resident buildings at both sides of the project and sensitive points within 200m such as school and hospital, get know the noise level, influence range and danger degree possibly formed after completion and during operation of the project so as to make effective prevention and treatment measures.

4.2.2.1 Forecast Parameters

Forecast period: the year of 2020 and 2030; forecast type: with project, without project; forecast flowrate and speed: the flowrate and speed at busy hours in daytime and at off-peak hours at night.

4.2.2.2 Forecast Mode

The forecast mode adopts the recommended mode in Specifications for Environmental Impacts of Road Construction Projects (JTJ005-96). When forecast, all vehicles are divided into large-sized vehicle, medium-sized vehicle and small-sized vehicle in terms of noise, specifically forecast the equivalent sound degree of some vehicle, then add the equivalent sound degree of three vehicles to gain the general sound degree.

4.2.2.3 Forecast Result and Analysis

The environmental protection target of the four cities during operation period and the forecast result and impact analysis of traffic noise refer to Table 4-2-2.

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Table 4-2-2 Forecast and Analysis of Ambient Air Quality of Four Cities

City Analysis of Forecast Results

The concentration of pollutants at leeward of Tuohe Road is gradually decreased from 20m to 200m in 2020 and 2030, the concentration of HC and CO at leeward can all meet

standards, and that in 2020 has less influence than that in 2030; the concentration of pollutants after reconstruction of Liyuan Road, Cuifeng Road, Huaihai Road and Suixi Road is

Huaibei higher than current concentration, but the concentration of HC and CO at leeward can meet standards, and that in 2020 has less influence than that in 2030; the tail gas at all road

sections can meet the standard through forecast of concentration of HC and CO at leeward, and the influence concentration of environmental protection target in all road sections

can satisfy the standard requirements.

The concentration of pollutants at leeward of Huxin Road, Shuguang Road and Yanjiang Road is gradually decreased from 20m to 200m in 2020 and 2030; among three newly-

reconstructed roads, the trunk road Huxin Road has more influence on ambient air environment. The tail gas at all road sections can meet the standard through forecast of Anqing concentration of THC and CO at leeward, and the influence concentration of environmental protection target at 20-200m of all road sections can satisfy the standard requirements.

Influenced by increase of traffic volume, the pollution in 2030 is more serious than that in 2020.

The concentration of pollutants at leeward of the 3rd Ring Road is gradually decreased from 20m to 200m in 2020 and 2030; the influence within 40m away to redline boundary

when calm wind is more serious than that throughout the entire year at average wind speed; the influence over 40m away to redline throughout the entire year at average wind

speed is more serious than that at calm wind. The tail gas at all road sections can meet the standard through forecast of concentration of THC and CO at leeward; at the road

Wuhu section of Limin Road – Weiwu Road, the influence in 2030 is more serious than that in 2020 due to increase of vehicle flowrate; at the road section of Weiwu Road – Eshan Road

and Eshan Road – Wunan Road, the vehicle flowrate in 2030 is less than that in 2020, so the influence of these two road sections in 2030 is less than that in 2020. The maximum

influence values of atmospheric environmental protection target at both sides of all road sections are within the above influence range, so from the forecast result, the influence of

tail gas on sensitive points at both sides of the 3rd Ring Road is controlled within the scope in the Standard.

68 The concentration of pollutants at leeward of Bagongshan Road, Pihe South Road, Xicheng Road and Longhe Middle Road is gradually decreased from 20m to 200m in 2020 and

2030; the influence within 40m away to redline boundary when calm wind is more serious than that throughout the entire year at average wind speed; the influence over 40m away

Lu’an to redline throughout the entire year at average wind speed is more serious than that at calm wind. Among four newly-reconstructed roads, the trunk road Bagongshan Road has

more influence on ambient air environment. The tail gas at all road sections can meet the standard through forecast of concentration of THC and CO at leeward, and the influence

in 2020 has less influence than that in 2030; the influence concentration of environmental protection targets at 5-200n of all road sections can satisfy the standard requirements.

69 Table 4-2-3 Analysis on Noise Impacts of Four Cities during Operation Period

City Type Analysis on Forecast Results After this project is implemented, except the forecast value of Huaibai People’s Hospital in daytime and evening and Xiangshan Hotel in daytime, the forecast Environmental values of noise at monitoring points along such sensitive points as school, hospital and resident district exceed 60dB(A) in daytime and 50dB(A) in the evening, the Protection excessive range in 2020 is 4.055~12.01 dB(A) in day and 0.14~20.37 dB(A) in the evening; compared to current values at most of sensitive points to be built, the Target forecast values will increase greatly, especially for newly-built Tuohe Road and Cuifeng Road. The amplitude in day is 0.02~17.63dB(A) in 2020 and that in the evening is 0.04~16.7dB(A). The noise influence on sensitive points in 2030 is more serious than that in 2020. Huaibei After construction, the noise value within certain range of both sides of roads to be built cannot meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A). The forecast noise value of Tuohe Road in 2020 and 2030 can meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A) when being about 150m away to the road. The Traffic Noise forecast noise value of Suixi Road in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A) when being about 100m away to the road. The forecast noise value of Huaihai Road in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A) when being about 50m away to the road. After completion of the project, the noise in 2030 will have more influence than that in 2020.

Environmental After this project is implemented, the forecast values of noise at monitoring points along such sensitive points as school, hospital and resident district exceed Protection Grade-II Standard of 60dB(A) in daytime and 50dB(A) in the evening; compared to current values at most of sensitive points to be built, the forecast values will Target increase greatly. Anqing After the completion of this project, the forecast noise of the first row of resident district along Shuguang Road and Yanjiang East Road can basically meet requirements of Type-4 Standard, but in the evening, the noise will exceed the standard to a different extent; due to large traffic volume in Huxin Road, the noise Traffic Noise will exceed the standard in different extents in daytime and in the evening. The excessive range in 2020 is 3.3 dB(A) in daytime and 18.3dB(A) in the evening at maximum; the excessive range in 2030 is 4.6 dB(A) in daytime and 19.6 dB(A) in the evening at maximum. After this project is implemented, the forecast values of noise at monitoring points along sound sensitive points exceed the standard requirement of 60dB(A) in Environmental daytime and 50dB(A) in the evening; The excessive range in 2020 is 4.78~10.24 dB(A) in daytime and 7.49~13.98 dB(A) in the evening; the excessive range in Wuhu Protection 2030 is 3.74~11.49 dB(A) in daytime and 6.56~13.11 dB(A) in the evening; Target Compared to current values at most of sensitive points along the road to be built, the forecast values will increase greatly; the amplitude is 21.69~27.07dB(A) in daytime in 2020 and that in 2030 is 21.44~28.39dB(A); the amplitude in the evening respectively reaches 14.19~21.66dB(A) and 15.36~20.61dB(A).

70 After implementation of roads to be built, the noise within 30m at both sides of the road basically cannot meet the standard requirement of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A). The forecast noise values of the 3rd Ring Road in daytime in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) when being about over 100m Traffic Noise away to the redline of the road. The forecast noise values of the 3rd Ring Road in the evening in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 55 dB(A) when being about over 500m away to the redline of the road. After this project is implemented, except the forecast value of Dingjiazhuang, Changzhuangzi and Zhangzhuangzi in daytime, the forecast values of noise at monitoring points along such sensitive points as school, hospital and resident district exceed 60dB(A) in daytime and 50dB(A) in the evening; the excessive range Environmental in 2020 is 2.35~12.48 dB(A) in day and 0.78~11.22 dB(A) in the evening; the excessive range in 2030 is 5.13~13.75 dB(A) in day and 0.85~12.81 dB(A) in the Protection evening; the noise impact on sensitive points in 2030 is more serious than that in 2020; compared to current values at most of sensitive points to be built, the Target forecast values will increase greatly; The amplitude in day is 5.92~23.2dB(A) in 2020 and 8.44~25.25dB(A) in 2030 and that in the evening is 2.74~16.82dB(A) in Lu’an 2020 and 4.85~18.41dB(A) in 2030. After the implementation of roads to be built, the noise within 30m at both sides of the redline basically cannot meet the standard requirement of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A). The forecast noise values of Bagongshan Road, Longhe Road and Xicheng Road in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 70 Traffic Noise dB(A) and 55 dB(A) when being about over 100m away to the redline of the road. The forecast noise values of Pihe South Road in 2020 and 2030 can basically meet the standard requirements of 70 dB(A) and 55 dB(A) when being about over 50m away to the redline of the road. After completion of the project, the noise in 2030 will have more serious influence than that in 2020.

71 4.2.3 Analysis on Water Environmental Impacts during Operation Period In this project, due to construction of public transit depots, there will be impacts on water environment during operation period of the project in Anqing, Huaibei and Lu’an and no related impacts in Wuhu city. The sewage emitted during operation period of public transit depots of Anqing, Huaibei and Lu’an mainly refers to waster water for car washing and domestic sewage. Domestic sewage is directly discharged to municipal sewage pipelines after being pretreatment in septic tank; the waste water for car washing is recycled after being oil isolation and deposition to wash cars and less is discharged to the municipal sewage pipelines. All pollutants meet Grade-III Standard in Table 4 of Integrated Discharge Standard of Sewage (GB8978-1996) and then are discharged to the sewage treatment factory through municipal sewage pipelines for treatment, which have little influence on the waters with pollutants. Therefore, the public transit depots during operation period shall not have unfavorable impacts on the surface water. The condition of sewage being discharged to the sewage treatment factory in such three cities refers to Table 4-2-4.

Table 4-2-4 Operation Condition of Sewage Treatment Factory

City Sewage Treatment Factory Operation Condition

The first-stage construction 120000m3/d has been established and operated, its Chengdong (Weijiazui) Sewage 3 3 Anqing treatment scale is 240000m /d till 2010 and finally will reach about 360000m /d; the Treatment Factory current treatment capability is far from the designed scale.

Dinglou Sewage Treatment The first-stage construction 80000m3/d has been operated; the current treatment Huaibei Factory capability is far from the designed scale.

Lu’an Chengbei Sewage The first-stage construction 80000m3/d has been operated; the current treatment Lu’an Treatment Factory capability is far from the designed scale.

4.2.4 Analysis on Solid Wastes Impact during Operation Period The solid wastes generated in the project are mainly domestic garbage, sewage disposed sludge, greasy filth and parts being replaced for repair of vehicles, etc. The vehicle repair wastes include dismantled old components and parts, which will be collected and reclaimed periodically; The sludge generated by the circulation treatment system of the waste engine oil, battery fluid, storage battery and waste water by repair and waste gloves generated in the course of repair of vehicles are dangerous solid wastes, which are collectively sent to the

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4.2.5 Analysis on Impacts on Ecological Scene during Operation Period After the completion of the project, enhance greening ratio and make reasonable deployment for newly-built roads, which can protect the road surface, reduce soil erosion, decrease traffic dust and noise, regulate and improve climate in the road and other comprehensive environmental benefits; so as to further improve scenic environment along the road and beautify road appearance. Generally speaking, the project shall generate positive benefits on urban ecological scenery after the completion of construction; the reasonable deployment of greening shall add the beauty and beautify the appearance of the city, making people relaxed.

Specifically, it contains the below points:

(1) The appearance of the city is firstly the feeling acquired by people through activities along the road. Because most contents of the project are urban trunk roads, so the quality of road greening has great influence on the appearance and image of the city, and most of new construction, reconstruction and expanded construction of roads locate in the built district in the city, more buildings at both sides, so the street looks very narrow. The barrier function of the greening area weakens the sense of oppression of the building on people. From the aspect of color, the blue sky and green tree are calm-color and can make people clamed down. (2) The plant is one of elements to create beautiful urban space. Apply the line, modal color, seasonal variation and other aesthetic factors, use different trees, ornamental period and deployment methods, match road lamps, parterres, so as to form colorful street scenery, fruit- rind boxes, etc. and satisfy the thirsty of residents in high-rise buildings along the street on green lands.

4.3 Analysis of Impacts of Projects on Cultural Relics and Scenic Spots

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This project involves two cultural relic or scenic spots, Yingjiang Temple in Anqing and Nanhu Wetland Park in Huaibei. The analysis on specific impacts of the project on the cultural relics and scenic spots refers to Table 4-3-1. Table 4-3-1 Impacts of the Project on Cultural Relics and Scenic Spots Name Yingjiang Temple Huaibei Nanhu Wetland Park City Anqing Huaibei Provincial Key Cultural Relics Protection Degree State-Level City Wetland Park Protection Unit The protection and management of the cultural relic protection unit should be concluded into general construction planning of urban and town. The protection range and construction control zone should be planned at surrounding of the protection units of County-above level People’s Government where cultural relics by the same-level national urban wetland park is approved to establish cultural and administrative should organize such management departments of management departments and the gardens, planning and national land resources to mark urban and town construction the boundary, set the boundary tablet and board and department (what’s specific location in monitor resources; county-above level People’s Anqing County?), which should be Government where national urban wetland park is reported to the same level People’s approved to establish should set professional Government for approval and management institute for protection, application and publicity. And set boundary posts, management of national urban wetland park; within which cannot be moved or damaged by the important section of national urban wetland park any unit and individual without and protection belt, any development zone or holiday permission. resort should not be established; the land shall not be Within the protection range of the Protection Requirements transferred, and the wetland resource is not allowed to cultural relic protection unit, it is lease out or transfer; it is forbidden to construct any prohibited to store flammable, project and facility that can pollute the environment explosive and corrosive articles and and damage ecology; the urban wetland park take soil, excavate the mountain, management institute and related departments should damage forests & open up wasteland, adopt powerful measures to prevent damaging waters dig any channel and any other and protect the growth conditions and living activities endangering safety of environment of animals and plants; any unit or cultural relic. Within the protection individual is forbidden to engage any activities that range of the cultural relic protection many change the landforms and damage the unit, any other construction project environment and scenery such as excavating lake & cannot be conducted. taking sands, creating farmland by shielding, open up As for the cultural relic protection unit to take soil. that is approved by the State to

organize religious activities, its protection and repair should be conducted by the religious organization under the guidance of the leader of the department of religious affairs and cultural administrative management department. Its direct competent department is Urban and Town Construction Bureau of Lieshan District, Huaibei Anqing Religious Affairs Bureau has City; the superior guidance unit is Huaibei Bureau of issued the instruction document for Gardens. Urban and Town Construction Bureau of Administrative Department agreement of construction of Huxin Lieshan District, Huaibei City has issued the Road. For details, refer to the attached instruction document for agreement of construction of document. Tuohe Road. For details, refer to the attached document. Huxin South Road to be reconstructed The south side of Tuohe Road to be built by Huaibei by Anqing City locates in east side of City is adjacent on Huaibei Nanhu Wetland Park, and Relationship with this project Yingjiang Temple, is adjacent on the the boundary line of the road to be built is over 200m fencing wall of Yingjiang Temple and to the nearest point at the boundary of Nanhu Wetland is about 10m to the nearest point of the Park. The project construction shall not have any

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building within the temple. The unfavorable impacts on Nanhu Wetland Park. reconstruction of Huxin Road shall be conducted within former redline range of the road, so the project construction shall not damage culture relic in Yingjiang Temple. The construction of Tuohe Road shall influence the During the construction period of the plants and animals in the wetland park mainly for project, Huxin Road shall adopt half- noise generated by construction machineries, but the side section construction so it has few influence is temporary or a short-time. The impacts on the traffic in Yingjiang construction site is very far away to the wetland park, Temple but may influence residents at so the construction shall not cause serious disturbance around going to Yingjiang Temple, in on animals if the construction time is arranged consideration of which, the Impact Analysis properly; the construction will generate air pollutants construction unit should control the including dust, flying dust and asphalt smoke, which construction schedule and shorten the may have certain unfavorable influence on the construction period as much as ambient air quality in the wetland park, but the possible (about 2-3 months); besides, influence range is small and the influence time is the flying dust and noise during the short; the wastewater during the construction period construction period shall have certain shall have great influence on waters in the wetland Construction influences on Yingjiang Temple. park if not being treated properly. Period The construction unit shall adopt such measures as setting temporary material stacking field and construction Take such prevention and protection measures as machinery being far away to one side often watering and properly confirming the position of of Yingjiang Temple, making timely mixing yard to control short-term influence on the air Prevention and enclosed cleaning and transportation of quality of the wetland park; during project Control construction waste soil, increasing construction, the construction unit should organize Countermeasures water spreading frequency, adopting and design the discharge of waste water and any for Pollution temporary sound-isolation shielding disorder discharge and flow is prohibited to pollute structure and prohibiting night environment. It is forbidden to directly discharge construction to effectively reduce waste water to the wetland park waters. unfavorable impacts of the construction on surrounding environment of Yingjiang Temple. Known from atmospheric prediction, the pollutants of Known from atmospheric prediction, HC, CO, NO , etc. in tail gas will be a bit more the pollutants of HC, CO, NOX, etc. in X concentrated during the construction period of Tuohe tail gas will be a bit more concentrated Road to be built, but the pollution factors can meet the during the construction period of all standard at 20m away, so the tail gas of vehicles shall roads, but the pollution factors can have little influence on the ambient air quality in the Impact Analysis meet the standard at 20m away, so the scenic spot. The prediction result of noise shows that tail gas of vehicles shall have little the noise at boundary of Nanhu Wetland Park exceeds Operation influence on the ambient air quality in the standard and cannot satisfy the requirements in Period the scenic spot. The prediction result of Type-II standard area. The noise respectively exceeds noise also shows that the traffic noise the standard 6dB and 3dB in daytime and at night, has little influence on the temple. which have little influence on the wetland park. The construction should take full Prevention and It is suggested to set noise barriers at both sides of consideration of possible influences of Control Tuohe Road near Nanhu Wetland Park; and this mechanical vibration on ancient Countermeasures section adopt low-noise road surface (sound buildings, so should select proper for Pollution absorption road surface) construction machinery. 4.4 Analysis of Impacts of Project on Removal and Settlement The removal and settlement of Traffic Projects of Anhui Medium-Sized Cities refers to Table 4-4-1.

Table 4-4-1 Statistics of Removal and Settlement Removal Solution & Removal Solution & Removed Removed City Settlement Environment Settlement Environment Households Enterprises Management Management Lu’an (four newly-built 607 The residents in Longhe Lu’an Textile Lu’an Textile Factory was roads involved) households Middle Road removed should Factory, Lu’an moved to Lu’an Economic

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be settled in Youyi Nanyuan, Tractor Factory & Techological Youyi Beiyuan and Shilipu and Lu’an Development Zone in 2002 District; the residents in Paper-Making and then reorganized and Bagongshan Road removed Factory renamed as Lu’an Huayuan should be settled in Youyi Textile Co., Ltd.; Lu’an Nanyuan, Youyi Beiyuan and Tractor Factory was also Jiefanglu Community; the moved to Lu’an Economic residents in Xicheng Road and & Techological Pihe South Road removed Development Zone in 2002 should be settled in Yong’An and then reorganized and Community; all the settlement renamed as Anhui communities have sewage Changjiang Agricultural pipelines and rubbish Machinery Co., Ltd.; collection. according to General Urban Planning of Lu’an City, the land block of Lu’an Paper-Making Factory is planned as residential land, and Lu’an municipal government is making efforts to invite outside investment to develop this land. There are sewage pipelines and rubbish-collection system in the development zone. Nanfang Road Select another address for Wuhu: the 3rd Ring Road None / Engineering construction Co., Ltd. 126 Take monetary compensation None Tuohe Road households or property swap for Cuifeng 45 settlement. The houses for None South Road households such residents who select property swap are in Renhe Liyuan 25 Community (under None Middle Road households construction), which covers Huaibei First-Terminal about 554Mu and plans to None Station of 24 settle over 4000 households. Nanhu North households The sewage in this community Road is collected to urban sewage pipelines and life rubbish is Renjing 3rd First-Terminal collected and sent to urban Fire-resisting Station of None Had been bankrupt rubbish treatment factory Materials Xishan through waste transfer station. Factory The settlement point for removal is “ShuiAn HuaDu” community (under Remove construction. There is good 4096.25 m² living environment, perfect residential municipal infrastructure, houses, The broadening of public facilities such as influence 98 Influence four Shuguang Road only school, hospital and kinderten households enterprises and requires to remove part of and complete property Shuguang and 274 units and 47 fencing wall and factory Anqing management in this Road people; people, remove houses of the enterprises, community. The domestic Remove five 2562.75m² having little influence on sewage in the community is shops, houses production of such four collectively sent by urban influence 22 enterprises; sewage pipelines to people and Chengdong Sewage Factory remove 520 for treatment and the life m². rubbish is uniformly treated and buried by the public sanitary department.

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None Influence two Remove the in enterprises and requisition land and local units and 15 marine bureau of people, remove Yingjiang District. As 2766m² houses investigated, there is a Yanjiang East Require 37.2 Mu of national great open ground near the Road land, no person to be removed. original address of the two enterprises removed, so select a proper place near their original address for reconstruction. Lion None None Mountain Require 20 Mu collective land, Public transit no person to be removed. depot

4.5 Analysis on Environmental Risks 4.5.1 Analysis on Road Risks 4.5.1.1 Identification of Environmental Risk Factors The risk evaluation is to assess the risks of the construction project on human health and ecological system. The environmental risk of the construction project aims at the evaluation on risks caused by the construction project itself. Possible environmental risks caused by the construction project of infrastructure – road, bridge and pipelines are generally natural risks and ecological risks during the construction period and traffic accidents and pollution during the operation period.

Environmental risks of road construction project are mostly natural risks and traffic accident risks. (1) Natural risks Rainstorm, earthquake, ice-snow and other natural disasters, which influence driving safety, abnormal operation of roads and pipelines, even closure. (2) Traffic accident risks The transportation of traffic accidents and dangerous goods is the key for risk evaluation. According to relevant information, the traffic accident in high-grade roads is 25% less than that in common roads, but there would be more traffic accidents in high-grade roads than those in common roads due to large traffic volume in high-grade roads.

Due to the construction site of the project is in the city, it is nearly impossible that natural risks take place during the construction and operation periods. But after the road being established and put into operation, the pollution risk may be caused by traffic accidents, so it

77 should be given enough attention and effective measures to prevent traffic accident to minimum extent. 4.5.1.2 Analysis of Environmental Risks Traffic accidents in the transportation of general articles shall not cause serious pollution to surrounding environment. But if the vehicles transporting petroleum, chemical goods and other combustible, explosive and noxious goods turn over or explode or have any other sudden accidents, the pollution thereof is even a disaster sometimes. Although it rarely takes place, it cannot be eliminated completely. Therefore, high alarming is necessary to prevent such accidents. Any accident site shall cause the below pollution to ambient environment: (1) Any explosion and burning caused by vehicle accidents will pollute the atmospheric environment around, and possibly cause harms to safety of surrounding residents; (2) When the vehicle turns over or leaks, it will cause pollution on the surface water environment, ambient air and ecological environment at surrounding. The influence range and degree of environmental risks caused by the above two conditions depend on the size, transported quantity, nature of transported articles, leakage volume of the accident vehicles and the environmental sensitivity, diffusivity and other factors of the accident site, and the specific condition is hard to predict accurately. But as the construction site of the project locates in urban planning area with dense population, the pollution caused by accidents shall have serious results and be given high attention. Prevent such accidents at all aspects. 4.5.1.3 Prevention Measures of Traffic Accidents (1) Enhance management, forbid various leakages and bulk-load-carrying vehicles on the road; avoid fallen goods, discharge of pollutants and traffic accidents; (2) Should strictly execute relevant regulations on transportation of dangerous goods; apply Approval Certificate for Transportation of Dangerous Goods and the vehicle for transportation of dangerous vehicles should be obviously marked; (3) Have a trained team for accident treatment, firefighting and environmental protection; (4) Enhance management of the driving of vehicles for transportation of dangerous goods, avoid accidents. If any accident takes place, immediately notice the public security department and environmental protection department, adopt emergency treatment measures and prevent diffusion of pollution. 4.5.1.4 Preventive Measures of Risks during Construction Period (1) Prohibit construction in ranstorm season; (2) Reasonably treat the excavation and filling during construction;

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(3) Strengthen the fireproof safety ideology and labor discipline education of the constructors; (4) Strengthen the environmental management of temporary material stacking yard and prevent any unfavorable influence on ambient environment (especially water environment).

4.5.1.5 Preventive Measures of Risks during Operation Period The risks in the operation period mainly refer to traffic accidents and the leakage of dangerous goods caused thereof. Therefore, certain preventive and emergency measures shall be adopted to remove and reduce the negative impact of the leakage of dangerous goods on environment. (1) To avoid and stop the serious accidents during the transportation of dangerous goods, strictly comply with the related regulations on the transportation of dangerous goods and handle related approval documents for dangerous goods; the transporting vehicle shall have obvious label; (2) To avoid any casualties during the accident during the transportation of dangerous goods, point special transportation line for the combustible, explosive and noxious goods and avoid densely populated area and sensitive protective targets, especially densely populated area and the Qingyijiang Bridge on Qingyi River of Wuhu, the newly-built Tuohe Road, Longdaihe Bridge, Suihe Bridge and Zhahe Bridge among Cuifeng South Road of Huaibei, Bagongshan Road and Longhe Middle Road of Lu’an and Huxin Road of Anqing, where the vehicles transporting dangerous goods are forbidden; (3) Set obvious speed and weight limit label by both sides of Longfenghuang Bridge and Ping Bridge of Lu’an and Longdaihe Bridge, Suihe Bridge and Zhahe Bridge of Huaibei, to remind the vehicles to reduce speed; and meanwhile, set emergency channels by both sides of the involved bridges to prevent the dangerous goods upon the vehicle comes across an accident away from polluting surface water along surface runoffs; (4) During the transportation of dangerous goods, the driver and passenger shall not smoke and shall not stop the vehicle near such places with fire and high temperature; the driver shall fix attention on driving and observe the road labels, especially when passing the residential points and bridges; (5) The vehicles transporting dangerous chemicals shall not stop near the environmental sensitive points and set a alarming board to stop other vehicles getting near, so as to prevent shock accident; (6) When there is fire, explosion, pollution or poisoning accidents during transportation, the driver shall adopt corresponding emergency measures according to the nature of the goods

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4.5.2 Analysis of Risks in Pipeline Engineering 4.5.2.1 Identification of Environmental Risk Factors After the pipelines of the project being put into production, under normal operation, they will not cause negative impacts on environment, but when they are under abnormal situation (i.e., accident situation), it will have certain impacts on external environment, especially the water and air environment. The abnormal situation mainly refers to the crack or rupture of pipelines. There are mainly two aspects of causes: first is the natural factors, such as earthquake and change of weather; second is the artificial factors, i.e., the selection of material, construction, anti- corrosion, inspection & repair, operation and the backfilled soil of pipe pit are not in accordance with the requirements of specification as well as the pipeline is pressed. The accidents caused by natural factors can not be avoided and can only be remedied as soon as possible after the accident taking place; the accidents caused by artificial factors can be avoided; through above analysis, the selection of materials for all pipelines is reasonable and safety, therefore, the key attention shall be focused on the strict management during construction and operation periods: comply with related rules, make periodical inspection and regularize operation, then the rate of accident caused by artificial factors will be greatly decreased. 4.5.2.2 Risk Analysis of Pipeline Environment When the pipeline is under abnormal running situation, i.e., crack or rupture, etc., sewage will escape from the pipeline and cause pollution to the surface water and underground water environment. Generally speaking, if the pipeline is damaged seriously and causes sewage leaking, which then causes pollution to surface water, it is easy for us to find out and adopt measures to reduce pollution scope and degree. But if the pipeline leaks and causes pollution to underground water, it is difficult to find and usually we can only find it through periodical inspection. After comparison survey, under usual situation, if the sewage from damaged pipeline can leak into underground and gradually pollute the underground water, its rule is that the nearer to the damaged place of pipeline, the longer the leaking time is, then the more

80 serious the pollution will be. Therefore, early find-out and early taking measures is the key to prevent environmental risk. 4.5.2.3 Preventive Measures (1) The artificial factor is always the main cause of accident, so strict management is a key point to prevent accidents; the main contents include: enhancing education of personnel to improve their sense of responsibility and go-aheadism; the operators shall participate in position system training to get familiar with working procedure and rules to enhance the system of position responsibility; except for timely inspection of position worker, set safety patrol inspector for the parts that may cause accidents to periodically check and repair and make timely remediation when find any problem; (2) Suggest the construction unit to take careful review during the design stage and exam the facilities referring to safety, health and environment in accordance with related rules and standards; implement strict management and inspection during construction period to ensure the quality of project; (3) Once there is an accident, timely report it to the related departments and adopt effective measures to reduce its damage to surrounding environment and human life and property to the largest extent.

4.5.2.4 Emergency Plan The project locates in the urban planning area and each city of the project involves many bridges, especially that the newly-built Tuohe Road Project of Huaibei City spans two bridges and is near Nanhu Wetland Park, once an accident takes place in nearby place, it will cause very serious consequence. Therefore, it is very necessary to prepare corresponding emergency plan, which shall include the responsibilities and tasks of the guiding institute and related assist units, selection of emergency technology and steps, setting and arrangement of equipment and instrument, assurance and adjustment of personnel and materials, the dynamic monitoring system of accident and the report system after accident, etc. (1) Emergency rescue organization The construction unit shall establish a leading team to guide the emergency rescue, prepare emergency plan and check and promote the preparation of preventive measures and emergency rescue of accidents; (2) Emergent measures The construction unit shall prepare detailed emergency plan, uniform emergency actions, clarify the responsible person and the responsibilities of related departments so as to ensure

81 the accident be controlled in the shortest time and reduce the damage to environment. Once an accident that may cause pollution to air or surface water takes place in densely populated area or nearby waters, after an emergency call is made to the emergency center or the monitoring center knows the situation through monitoring equipment and immediately notify the emergency center, the personnel on duty of the emergency center will immediately notify the guider, who then will immediately notify the accident dealing team to send related personnel to the site and adopt emergency plan to prevent the expanding of pollution and danger. (3) Emergency training of accident The related emergency personnel shall participate in the emergency training so as to have related environmental protection knowledge and ability to handle emergent accidents. 4.5.3 Analysis of Risks in Public Transit Depot 4.5.3.1 Identification of the Fatalness of Main Materials In the project, Huaibei and Lu’an involve the construction of public transit depot, in which, a gas station and a gasoline station will be built. The toxic, combustible and explosive substances involved in application process of the depot include gasoline and natural gas, which belong to combustible and explosive substances and may cause such environmental risks as explosion, leakage and fire. (1) Gasoline Gasoline is a sort of colorless or light yellow transparent liquid, easy to volatilize, has special smell, water-fast, with a relative density of 0.8, lighter than that of water, with a boiling point of 37.8 , explosive limit 1.47.6% and poisonous. Its steam performance can form explosive compound with the air and will cause fire when there is spark, high temperature or oxidant. It belongs to the combustible substances listed in Table 3 of Appendix A.1 of HJ/T169-2004. (2) Natural Gas The main ingredient of natural gas is firedamp and some ethane, butane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. It is difficult to dissolve in water but can dissolve in alcohol and aether; flash point: -188 ; melting point: -182.5 ; boiling point: -161.5 . According to the classification of combustible substances in Fire Prevention Code of Petro chemical Enterprise Design (GB50160-92), the natural gas belongs to Grade-I-A. 4.5.3.2 Identification of Major Hazard Sources According to Identification of Major Hazard Sources GB18218-2000 and the Appendix A of the Technical Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment on Projects (HJ/T169-

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2004) the gasoline and natural gas used in the public transit depot belongs to combustible dangerous substance. Table 4-5-1 shows the critical amount of dangerous substance as the reference for judge major hazard sources. Table 4-5-1Critical Amount of Dangerous Materials

Critical Amount (t) Serial No. Name of Material Production Place Store Place 1 Gasoline 2 20 2 Natural gas 1 10

As the largest store amount of the gasoline and natural gas tank in the public transit depot of the project is less than the critical amount, according to the classification principle of risk evaluation grade in Technical Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment on Projects (HJ/T169-2004), the gasoline and natural gas tank of the public transit depot does not constitute major hazard sources, therefore, the environmental risk of the public transit depot is identified as Grade II. This evaluation makes risk identification and a simple analysis on accident risk according to standard, and proposes preventive, reductive and emergent measures as well as analysis the impact scope and degree of accidents.

4.5.3.3 Impact of Accident to Environment The environmental risk accident mainly refers to emergent disasters and accidents, which have the features of large harm and influential scope. The potential risk accidents of the project to be planed include leakage poisoning accident and explosion accident. Through analyzing the environmental accidents caused by chemicals and dangerous wastes of brother enterprises, the environmental accidents mainly include leakage, fire source, vibration of operation rules and external factors, etc. The amount of the gasoline and natural gas tank of the project is smaller than the critical amount of dangerous materials; therefore, we only make qualitative analysis on the possible risks. The impact of leakage or fire accident of oil tank or natural gas tank to environment refers to Table 4-5-2. Table 4-5-2 Impact of Risk Accidents to Environment Risk Type Simple Analysis of Causes Harm The tank and pump is pressed, pipe is Pollute the damaged, the buried part of tank and pipe is underground water, Leakage (escape, corrupted; the gas or oil suddenly boils in pollute surface water leakage) tank; the fire dike has no enough capacity; and cause fire or leakage of tank; wrong operation explosion

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Property loss, Leakage of stored material, existing such fire casualties, Fire and Explosion sources as machinery, high temperature, environmental electrical and chemical sources pollution

4.5.3.4 Accident Preventive Measures and Emergency Plan 4.5.3.4.1 Requirements on Risk Management (1) Make plain arrangement strictly according to fire-proof rules and choose different electrical equipments and instruments according to different grades of explosion-proof. (2) Make thunder-proof and static-proof earthing for all equipments and pipelines of gasoline tank and natural gas tank. (3) Install testing instrument of fire equipment and fire-proof self-control facility. (4) According to the requirements of SH3063-94 Specifications for Design of Combustible Gas and Toxic Gas Detection and Alarm Systems in Petrochemical Industry, set alarming device that can continuously detect combustible gas in places that may have natural gas leakage or accumulation. (5) For natural gas pipe entering public transport depot, set emergency cutting valve,; periodically check the safety protection system (such as stop valve and safety valve, etc), and take direct cutting for obvious failures; (6) Before the official operation of project, establish the operation and maintenance plan for normal, abnormal and emergency status, and make pre-position training to operation and maintenance personnel to avoid any factitious accident caused by material operation mistake; (7) Set obvious alarming mark and build strict watching and safeguard system to avoid intended factitious damage; establish emergency operation rule, specify the operation steps to be adopted upon accident, regularize repair schedule and limit the influence of accident; for important instrument and equipment, set perfect inspection and maintenance records; for operators, make periodical fire-proof safety education or emergency practice to improve their safety consciousness and the ability to identify abnormal status.

4.5.3.4.2 Accident Preventive Measures (1) Establish and improve the emergency preparation and corresponding procedure under environmental and safety accident or emergency situation, to prevent and reduce the following environmental impacts and diseases and hurts caused thereof; organize the personnel to participate in the corresponding training and drilling procedure; specify the related responsible department to periodically organize related units to approve the

84 adaptability and efficiency of their emergency plan; if necessary, especially after the emergency drilling or happening of accident, timely approve the related emergency preparation and corresponding plan and give necessary amendment; for the equipped emergency materials, each unit shall be responsible to make daily inspection and maintenance and related functional departments will check once per month to ensure the efficiency of emergency materials. (2) Establish the identification procedure for hazard sources and environmental factors, manage and control the environmental factors and hazard sources that can be controlled and influenced in product, activity and service, and adopt active and effective preventive, control and improvement measures to the major environmental factors and hazard sources that have been identified and determined. (3) Effectively develop analysis on potential invalid mode and consequence, adopt effective and timely preventive and corrective measures to identify and help to reduce the potential hazards to the utmost. (4) Establish and strictly execute the complete fire-proof and safety regulations, including safety responsibility system, fire approval system, safety check system, operation specification of safety technology, safety production education system, equipment safety management system, system for the entrance of external personnel and vehicle, system of temporary wiring, system of night patrol, system of fire alarm and safety reward and punishing system, etc. (5) Fire-proof facilities equipped according to the requirements of the fire-proof department As if the project suffers a fire and exploding accident of gasoline tank, the fire-proof waste water may contain oil and other pollutants, and its drainage will cause pollution, then the project sets a collecting and treatment system for fire-proof waste water. 4.5.3.4.3 Emergency Plan (1) Establish a guide center for emergency plan of accident Establish a guide center for emergency plan of accident organized by many departments to be responsible to guide, harmonize and handle rescue upon occurring of any accident; (2) Establish an emergency notification network of accident The joints of network include fire-proof department, public sanitary department, sanitary department and public security department; once there is any accident, notice the above departments to cooperate with each other and take emergency preventive measures; (3) Emergency Policy

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Once there is any accident, the site operator shall immediately take emergency measures, execute the corresponding emergency procedures such as Instructions of Emergency Works and Emergency Plan for Fire Alarm and take temporary measures such as closing power supply, cutting fire source, closing valve and evacuating personnel so as to avoid or reduce to the utmost any bad impact on environment. The public sanitary department will organize the site monitoring and environmental monitoring to determine the dangerous area of the accident and predict the harmful degree of the accident so as to implement the measures to control pollution. The fire-proof department shall get to the site immediately after receiving the notice to ensure timely saving lives and properties once there is a fire.

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5. Plan Comparison and Selection

For this evaluation, a comparison and analysis is made to the with/without project, project line direction, project contents and road surface material of different plans so as to identify the plan which has the least negative impact on environment and provides reference for the decision-making department to optimize policies.

5.1With/Without Project Comparison The strong points and defects of the with/without projects of each city refer to Table 5-1- 1. Table 5-1-1 Comparison of Strong Points and Defects of With/Without Projects City With Project Without Project Lu’an Strong points: the project includes the newly Strong points: compared with With construction of one trunk road, three sub-roads, Project, the vehicle flow is one public transit depot, two bridges and auxiliary relatively less and the tail gas drainage and lighting projects; besides, it also pollution is relatively lighter; includes traffic management and public traffic, Defects: (1) the match of road etc.; after the implementation of the project, it can network is not reasonable enough effectively reduce the pressure and load of current and the function of traffic road is traffic trunk road and solve the problem of traffic not clear; congestion as well as thoroughly change the mass (2) the section of some road is not and congestion situation in central urban area, so reasonable and the passing capacity as to provide excellent and modernized urban of road is not sufficient; traffic environment for the development of city (3) The side traffic of the sides of and economic and the improvement of people’s Yi River and Yihe Trunk Canal is living quality; besides, the construction of the not smooth; branch road network in the northwest and east of (4) The road traffic facility is not the city will greatly promote the city expanding perfect and has hidden traffic and land development of the area and improve the hazards; traveling condition and living level of the

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residence, therefore the project has obvious significance. Defects: (1) Increase traffic volume and pollutants to air; (2) Involve removal problems; Wuhu Strong points: this project, through the newly Strong points: compared with With construction of the 3rd Ring Road (Limin Road- Project, the vehicle flow is Wunan Road) and the re-construction of Jiuhua relatively less and the tail gas Road and Yijiang Road, enhancing traffic pollution is relatively lighter; management and opening special lane for bus, can Defects: (1) the arrangement of road effectively improve the capacity of road network network is not reasonable, the north and remove blind traffic points. And meanwhile, and south traffic is not well- the project further averages the vehicle flow of the connected; has serious traffic urban area in space distribution, increases driving congestion; speed (reduce idle driving) and effectively solve (2) the grading system of road is the problems of traffic congestion in central area. blurry and unreasonable; Defects: (1) Increase traffic quantity and pollutants (3) sectional and point congestion to air; caused by the internal and entrance (2) Involve removal problems; and exit of oil city area, and the reaction from passing the old city area from south to north and north to south cause the sectional and point congestion within the old city area to the south of Zheshan Road and the north of Limin Road; (4) the passing road passes urban area: Yijiang Road in the city bears the function of passing channel, which causes mixing situation of internal and external traffic and has obvious conflict; Huaibei Strong points: the current traffic of Huaibei has Strong points: compared with With appeared a situation of bottle-neck; through traffic Project, the vehicle flow is prediction, from 2012 to 2020, due to the relatively less and the tail gas increasing of traffic volume, the service level of pollution is relatively lighter; current road network will greatly decrease and Defects: (1) the road system is not restrict the development of economy; this project, perfect, some road-railway flyover through the newly construction and re-construction is not formed, central urban area has of five roads, the maintenance of some sections, T-crossing, all of which cause there enhancing traffic management and increasing bus- is no complete system for the trunk bay stop station, can effectively improve the road network; large traffic flow can capacity of road network and remove blind traffic only gather in such several limited points. And meanwhile, the project further trunk roads as Huainan Road and averages the vehicle flow of the urban area in Xiangshan Road and will cause the space distribution, increases driving speed (reduce mixing of motor and non-motor idle driving) and effectively solve the problems of vehicles as well as passerby and traffic congestion in central area, therefore, the traffic congestion; project has obvious significance. (2) The road situation of the old Defects: (1) Increase traffic volume and pollutants urban area in northwest is relatively to air; bad; due to lack of repair and

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(2) Involve removal problems; maintenance, the road suffers bad drainage of water and has many damaged parts; and meanwhile, the motor and non-motor vehicles mix together seriously, which not only influence driving speed, but cause inconvenience for the citizens; (3) there is small connecting roads and it is difficult for the area to connect with the outside; Anqing Strong points: this project, through the newly Strong points: compared with With building and re- construction of three roads, the Project, the vehicle flow is maintenance of some sections, enhancing traffic relatively less and the tail gas management and opening special lane for bus, can pollution is relatively lighter; effectively improve the capacity of road network. Defects: (1) The road system is not After re-construction, the passing capacity of perfect, the road traffic capacity in Huxin Road is greatly improved; and Shuguang north-south direction is not Road connects with Longmianshan Road, can sufficient; Huxin Road, as the main effectively distributes traffic flow to the east area channel in north-south direction, of Anqing through Shuguang Road-Longmianshan has a limited traffic capacity and Road; avoid most vehicles traveling out gather in can not meet the increasing traffic Huxin Road. demands; Defects: (1) Increase traffic volume quantity and (2) The volume of motor vehicles pollutants to air; keeps increasing, which reduces the (2) Involve removal problems; service level of the road and traffic and breaching accidents of vehicles are also increased; (3) Due to lack of capital, the municipal maintenance falls far behind the practical demand and requirements; the maintenance circle far exceeds the normal use life; except for some important sections, the situation of urban roads is gradually decreased year by year. In a whole, after the implementation of the project, it can effectively improve the traffic capacity of road network and remove the reconstruction process of traffic blind points; and meanwhile, the project can effectively reduce the pressure and load of current traffic trunk road and solve the problem of traffic congestion as well as thoroughly change the mass and congestion situation in central urban area, so as to provide excellent and modernized urban traffic environment for the development of city and economic and the improvement of people’s living quality. The project averages the vehicle flow in space distribution, increase vehicle speed (reduce idle driving), and will greatly promote the space expanding and land

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5.2 Comparison of Road Lines 5.2.1 Lu’an One newly-built trunk road (Bagongshan Road) and three sub-roads (Longhe Middle Road, Pihe South Road and Xicheng Road) are the sole road line of urban planning, so there is no any other line for comparison. 5.2.2 Wuhu The feasibility report of the project gives two plans. Plan I:

Plan I sets two horizontal curves respectively with a radius of 2700m and 3000m, the road is relatively straight, but has a relatively small cross angle with urban railway (21°), which causes the bridge span of urban railway near to 70m, not only requiring high expense and difficulty in design and construction, but the net height under the bridge beam is unable to meet the requirements of the 3rd Ring Road; the 3rd Ring Road has to span the urban railway, which greatly increases the length of bridge connecting the main line and Wunan Road in the

West.

Plan II:

Through setting a turning point, increase the cross angle between the 3rd Ring Road and urban railway to 35°, so as to reduce the bridge span of urban railway to 42m, which can ensure the net height under bridge beam can meet the requirements of the 3rd Ring Road. Table 5-2-1 Comparison of Strong Points and Defects of Two Plans Project Name Comparison Plan I Plan II Content The road line is a little curved, but is kept away from village and Removal degree Plain and straight road line residential points, so as to reduce removal quantity of the project Main environmental Surrounding residential house Surrounding residential house protective target Project quantity, Has small cross angle with urban Through setting a turning point to

90 construction railway, so the span of the bridge increase the cross angle between the difficulty of urban railway is near 70m, 3rd Ring Road and urban railway, which causes high expense and which reduces expenses and difficulty in design and difficulty in construction as well as construction. the impact on high-voltage cable. Do not reduce the greening area in Do not reduce the greening area project area, and the construction of in project area, and the road greening belt increases the construction of road greening greening area by both sides and the Change of belt increases the greening area isolation belt of the road; in a whole, greening area by both sides and the isolation the regional greening area is belt of the road; in a whole, the increased and compared with Plan I, regional greening area is as the line is longer, the greening increased. area is larger. Analysis on The tail gas and noise during The tail gas and noise during environmental operation period has certain operation period has certain impact impacts impact on surrounding residence. on surrounding residence. Conclusion Recommend plan

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Fig. 5-2-1 Line Trend of Two Plans

5.2.3 Huaibei

One newly-built urban trunk road, one urban sub-road, two re-built urban trunk roads and one urban branch road are within the plan of the city, meet the urban traffic planning and is the only line, so there is no any other line for comparison.

5.2.4 Anqing

The construction has the sole line, so there is no any other line for comparison.

5.3 Comparison and Selection of Project Works 5.3.1 Huaibei For the layout of re-construction and expansion of Huaihai Road, there are two comparison plans. The comparison of the strong points and defects between concrete plans refers to Table 5-3-1 and Table 5-3-2. In a whole, in the aspect of traffic safety, avoid losing green area and in the aspect of environmental impact, this evaluation selects the second plan as the recommended plan.

Table 5-3-1 Comparison of the Strong Points and Defects of Two Plans for the Re- construction and Expanding of Huaihai Road, Huaibei

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Project Name Plan I Plan II Comparison Content The change of plain arrangement The change of plain arrangement of Removal degree of road surface is not big road surface is not big Main environmental Surrounding residential house Surrounding residential house protective target Set central isolation fence to Change current situation of mix- effectively separate the motor and running of motor and non-motor non-motor vehicles and the non- vehicles, but move the non- Analysis on motor vehicle way does not occupy motor vehicles to share the side- traffic and safety the side-walk; start the special lane walk with pedestrian, which for bus upon rush hour; reasonably increases the risk of accident; and effectively applied the current add special lane for bus resources Loss of greening 2m2 (greening area)/m (road) 1m2 (greening area)/m (road) area The planed road has been The planed road has been formed; Analysis on formed; during operation period, during operation period, the tail gas environmental the tail gas and noise has certain and noise has certain impact on impact impact on surrounding residence surrounding residence Conclusion Recommend

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Table 5-3-2 Comparison of Huaihai Road of Huaibei Plan Nature Project Contents

Current situation        

 Re-       construction  Plan I and Expanding

Remain the central line of road; do not expand the width of current vehicle lane; change the current non-motor vehicle lane to special lane for bus; move the non-motor vehicle lane to the side-walk to share a lane with pedestrian, re-build the current parking station as bus bay; the street trees need to be re- planted.

Re-             construction Plan II   and   Expanding

Remain the central line of road; remain current section arrangement; set central isolation fence; according to land condition, set five pairs of bus-bay bus stop stations; change the internal lane into special lane for bus upon rush hour; set clear traffic labels, lines and monitoring equipment.

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There are two plans for the road surface layout of the re-construction of the 3rd Ring Road. The concrete plan contents and comparison of plans refer to Table 5-3-3 and Table 5-3- 4. Table 5-3-3 Comparison of Strong Points and Defects of Two Plans for the 3rd Ring Road of Wuhu Project Name

Plan I Plan II Comparison Content Impact on environment The construction quantity of Plan II is less than that of Plan I, as Plan II during has less influence to environment, so Plan II is preferred. construction period Impact on The width of red line is 80m, permanently covering an area of zoological 587200m2; the width of accumulated red line is 53.5m. permanently environment covering an area of 392690m2; considering the influence on zoological environment, Plan II has less impact on environment, so Plan II is preferred Impact on sound Plan I is bidirectional 8-lane road and Plan II is bidirectional 6-lane environment road; Plan II has a relatively less vehicle flow prediction; according to during operation the pre-testing of impact of sound environment, Plan II has relatively period less impact on the sensitive points of the sound environment by both sides of the 3rd Ring Road, so we recommend Plan II in the aspect of environmental protection. Impact on air Plan I is bidirectional 8-lane road and Plan II is bidirectional 6-lane environment road; Plan II has a relatively less vehicle flow prediction; according to during operation the pre-testing of impact of sound environment, Plan II has relatively period less impact on the sensitive points of the sound environment by both sides of the 3rd Ring Road, so we recommend Plan II in the aspect of environmental protection. Conclusion Recommend

Table 5-3-4 Comparison of Plan for the 3rd Ring Road of Wuhu Plan Scale Project Content

Motor vehicle lane: among the single directional 4-lane, the width of outside three lanes is 3.75m, the width of the internal lane is 3.50m, including the road edge belt; the total width of single directional vehicle lane is 15.75m; for pedestrian Bidirectional Plan I and non-motor vehicle, adopt joint-board, the width of one side is 4.5m; in 8-lane consideration of the long-term plan of railway traffic of the project and the connection with the built section of the 3rd Ring Road, the central isolation belt will be 8m wide.

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Motor vehicle lane: the width of single directional 3-lane is 3.75m, the width of the internal lane is 3.50m, including the road edge belt; the total width of single directional vehicle lane is 12.25m; for pedestrian and non-motor vehicle, adopt joint-board, the width of one side is 5.5m; in consideration of the long-term plan of railway traffic of the project and the connection with the built section of the 3rd Ring Road, the central isolation belt will be 8m wide. Plan II Bidirectional (recommended) 6-lane

In a whole, the evaluation chooses plan II as the recommended plan.

5.3.3 Anqing

Considering the difficulty of implementing removal works, the design unit shall propose

two new plans for the section and details are as follows: (it is better to be uniformed with

other cities, expressed in the following table)

Table 5-3-4 Comparison of Strong Points and Defects of Re-Construction of Huxin Road, Anqing Project Name Plan I Plan II Comparison Content Change the isolation belt for motor and non-motor vehicles of Huxin South Road into to Remain the current section of Huxin flexible fence (width 0.5m), Road width South Road, only re-build the narrow the non-motor vehicle surface way to 3.5m in the sections with building limit, and narrow the road width to about 37m, so as to

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avoid building removal Removal degree Low No Remain the expanding plan of motor vehicle way and special way for public bus of Huxin South Road, which will have Remain the current four-vehicle Analysis on certain effect to traffic diversion section, to avoid the moving of traffic and safety and shorten running period of pipelines in current isolation belt public bus upon rush hour; narrow non-motor vehicle lane, expand motor vehicle lane, so as to improve traffic speed Loss of green Reduce greening area No loss area Narrowing the non-motor vehicle lane, for the traffic congestion of Huxin South Analysis of Avoid various moving of pipelines, Road, will cause non-motor environmental remain original greening, has no vehicles entering motor vehicle impact negative impact on environment way upon rush hour, which will influence traffic and even cause accident Conclusion Not recommend Recommend 5.3.4 Lu’an

For Lu’an road project, there is no content for comparison. According to the understanding on the theme team, related comparison and selection analysis shall be made to the re-construction of Jiefang Road. The comparison and selection result refers to Table 5-3-

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Table 5-3-5 Analysis of Comparison and Selection Plan for the Re-Construction of Jiefang

Road, Lu’an Project Name

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Comparison Content Do not broaden width, nor remove current greening zone; maintain running speed of vehicle, only re- Broaden width, remove the design all the crossings installed Road width current greening belt, so as to with new traffic signal lights; set increase driving speed reasonable isolation zone at related crossings and surrounding area; for zone with dense passerby and

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bicycle, build proper safety island Removal, the greening area Greening zone No change reduces Setting of Set isolation zone to avoid random Not set isolation zone running of vehicles Traffic Improve management and re-design management Keep current situation all the crossings installed or replaced measures with new traffic signal lights Increase the width of road, running speed of vehicles and vehicle flow; reduce greening After improving traffic management area, with the increasing of measures, the vehicles run in order; vehicle speed, the impact of the vehicle flow increases as Plan I; Environmental noise increases; the removal of it is more convenient for passing of impact degree greening zone will influence the passerby and bicycle; reduce the passing of passerby and bicycle; hidden safety troubles caused by and the increasing of vehicle high speed speed will cause certain hidden safety troubles Conclusion Recommend

5.4 Selection of Road Surface Material At present, the domestic urban roads usually adopt modified bitumen road surface, cement road surface and noise-reducing road surface. Through the comparison and analysis of several materials, select the plan to be applied for the project. The comparison of materials for road surface refers to Table 5-4-1.

Table 5-4-1 Comparison of Road Surface Material Material

Modified bitumen Noise-reducing road Cement road surface Comparison road surface. surface of Strong Points and Defects Compared with common bitumen High maintenance Normal running requires road surface, the Impact on frequency, will seldom maintenance and maintenance circle environment cause secondary rarely cause secondary will be longer and pollution pollution to environment rarely cause secondary pollution Pavement process Produce waste water and the Pavement process will cause construction is relatively will cause bitumen Impact of bitumen smoke, difficult and needs relatively smoke, which will construction period which will pollute long circle, which will pollute the the environment influence the normal life of environment

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residents The road surface is paved with noise- Due to its good absorbing material, Strong noise stability, cars can Stable, but with relatively which can reduce source (noise- run stably and large noise noise by 2-3dB reducing effect) comfortably with compared with low noise common bitumen road surface Compressive strength and Relatively good Relatively bad Relatively good flexural and tensile strength Wearable, but will cause A half thinner than crack and dry-shrinked Road surface common bitumen Common crack, and the road surface quality road surface, but with will have abrasion and cause twice longer use life small pits on surface Characteristics of The road surface will skid-proof and Relatively good Relatively bad be iced up in winter water-proof The investment is the Common, but Once-off investment is largest due to adding Investment scale requires frequent relatively large and there is special noise- maintenance relatively less maintenance absorbing material In a whole, the three plans have respective benefits and defects, and considering such economic factors as demands, investment and maintenance fee of different sections, the evaluation suggests considering noise-reducing road surface for the sections with relatively large residential communities at both sides and other sections can apply modified bitumen surface.

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6 Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan

6.1 Target Clarify the responsibilities and functions of related units: clarify the responsibilities and functions of the related functional departments and management institutes and propose the communication channel and method of all departments. For details, refer to Table 6-1-1. Table 6-1-1 Schedule for the Supervision and Management of Environment Supervision Requirements on Stage Environmental Supervision Responsibility Institute Personnel

Environmental management of sub-project: Audit and ensure to bring the implementation of EMP into the concrete The program At least one requirements on environment management in bidding documents and contract offices of each city, professional as well as the implementation of supervision; the environmental management Primary Huaibei environmental during the processes of bidding and tendering, construction organization, stage Construction management person contract management and quality control; according to the related national Commission for each construction management regulations and operation rules, together with the (Owner) pollution preventive measures of EMP, make EMP training to the contractor and project supervisor and prepare environmental protective construction handbook.

Anhui Provincial 1. ensure the environmental evaluation be complete, the theme Environmental setting be reasonable and the key be highlighted; Design stage Protection Bureau 2. ensure the reflection of the potential key problems that may and The Environmental happen to the project; preparation Protection Bureau 3. ensure there is concrete practical plan for the measures reducing of each city the environmental influences;

Environmental supervise and check the treatment of production and life sewage in supervision is in the construction field, control measures of waste gas, dust and noise, and charge of project Project and mitigative measures of EMP in settlement area of moved residence; supervision unit and Construction Environment observe and make sure if the contractor needs to adopt additional each sub-project shall Supervisor mitigative and protective measures; be set with at least one project/environmental propose solutions for related problems and prepare monthly report of supervision engineer environmental supervision.

Organize construction according to the contract and various national and Set one full-time or local laws and regulations on environmental protection, and be responsible to part-time implement the environmental protective measures of EMP; Construction Contractor environmental Environmental protection personnel on construction site: be responsible protection person for for the site control and management of various pollution sources, especially each construction site the strict control of shaking equipment with high noise.

According to the environmental monitoring plan, monitor the indexes in Entrust the Monitoring unit of water, air and sound environment of construction area and influenced area; Environmental Construction external propose solutions for any non-standard problems and prepare and submit Monitoring Station of environment environmental monitoring report to the Program environmental management each city office of each city.

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1. make periodical check on construction site, supervise the execution of EMP by the construction unit, and timely stop and correct any construction action not in accordance with EMP;

Construction 2. survey and treat the problems of public-disturbing and pollution in Environmental construction; stage Protection Bureau of each city 3. ensure environmental protection investment and “Three Simultaneity”;

4. ensure the normal operation of environmental protection facility;

Public Traffic Relevant safety and Operation Company, Traffic 1. the maintenance and repair of vehicles; environmental period Management protection personnel 2. road maintenance and periodical inspection of vehicles; Department, etc

Within the project period (i.e., the contract period), continue to take External monitoring according to the requirements on operation period of the Monitoring Unit environmental monitoring plan.

Anhui Provincial 1. check and carry through monitoring plan; Environmental 2. check if it is necessary to take further environmental protective measures Operation Protection Bureau (there may be any problem not predicted); period The Environmental Protection Bureau 3. check if the environmental quality in environmental sensitive area meet the of each city relevant quality standard;

6.2 Environmental Management and Supervision 6.2.1Environmental Management Institute

According to related regulations and practical demands of project, the public

transportation sub-project shall be set with special environmental management institute,

which will be responsible for the environmental management, monitoring and supervision,

etc. The frame of the environmental management and supervision institute of public

transportation sub-project refers to Fig.6-2-1.

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Table 6-3-1 Environmental Impacts & Mitigative Measures List Possible Negative Stage Activities Mitigative Measures Impacts

Damages to surrounding Make special design for the Virescence of public transit and maintenance depot; scene The Virescence rate shall not be less than 25; For the design of gas and petrol station, make such special designs of safe distance, fire-proof, thunder-proof and static-proof Design of Exploding risk of Petrol according to related specifications; depot Station Make anti-leakage and anti-overflow design to oil tank; (Huaibei, The gas and patrol station of the public maintenance depot of Tuohe Road of Huaibei and Lu’an; Lu’an and Anqing) Recycling design to the waste water used for washing in depot; 3 Sewage polluting The scale of the treatment of life sewage from depot is designed 200m /d; surface water The treatment life sewage of Huaibei and Lu’an will be designed to a standard with the grade-3 standard of the treatment of septic Design tank process; Stage Impact on residents’ As for the road crossings and in front of school and hospital, design cross-street signal control points or erect an overpass for the going out and crossing convenience of crossing street the street Impact of traffic noise Make special design for the Virescence belt by both sides of road; to near residential life Road Design ventilation and sound insulation window for the sensitive points by both sides of road; engineering Suggest the Planning Department not to add sensitive points within 50m at both sides of road; ÃDesign the sensitive points of ambient air quality within this range to be gradually moved or reconstructed to mall, office building, Impact on air quality warehouse and other enclosure buildings; Design the first row of buildings along the newly-built road should be retreated as much as possible à Make road dredging, division and temporary pass-way plans, set enough traffic indicator boards and give notices in advance by broadcasting, TV, newspaper and magazine; à For construction of bridges, should enhance management, especially the construction management of structures. The construction Road engineering should be coordinated with relevant departments, arrange construction time and pass-by time of vehicles, set obvious warning Construction and Impact on surrounding lights in the pier and structures to remind vehicles of safety; period construction traffic of public à If any relics are found during construction, must stop earthwork excavation immediately and report to local relic protection transit depot department, and shall not restart excavation before the Administrative Department finishes relics identification and takes necessary protection measures; à Set warning lamps in the construction section in the evening to lead vehicles.

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à Make preliminary works before construction, such as investigating and knowing detailed information about the road, power supply, communication, etc., confirming the removal and movement plans with relevant departments in advance, making all emergency works and ensuring normal social life; à The equipment with loud noise should not work during rest time as much as possible and be commanded by a person for construction, try to finish work in the shortest time and reduce the impact of construction noise on residents; à Adopt advanced low-noise equipment as much as possible and abandon seriously damaged equipment. The construction equipment used near sensitive points should be maintained and protected periodically, reduce the influence extent on ambient Impact on surrounding residential life environment; à There will be more vehicles in roads during construction period so to set warning lamps and board with remarkable words and concrete content to attract the driver’s attention; à Make preparation for connection of temporary pipelines during construction period; for those sections with insufficient local content, firstly reconstruct the water and power supply pipelines to prevent temporary water or power stop and influence normal water and power supply of residents and mining companies, enterprises and units along the line; à The hanging height and direction of illumination lamps should be considered not to influence residents’ rest at night. à Make transplanting protection for flowers, grasses and trees in the middle and side of the road for it is unnecessary to destroy and re-plant all of them, just transplant and supplement them as designed. Protect the trees, green lands, etc. surrounding during construction period; The road should be constructed within redline range during construction period, the soil and materials should not be stacked in near farmlands; During construction, “ruins” may be formed due to removal; make orderly construction one by one section, set guard boards Impact on Ecological (wood, glass, iron sheet, etc.) as barrier to isolate and protect scene along the road and reduce pollution on scenery; Scenic Spots Make reasonable coordination and dispatching of excavation and filling of soil and avoid excavating and filling soil in rainy days to prevent water-soil loss, water pollution and blocking of drainage pipelines; Under the premise of satisfying requirements of project construction, save occupied land as much as possible and arrange construction schedule reasonably. After completion of construction, immediately clear up the site, retreat from the occupied land and recover original roads and greening; Arrange construction period reasonably, avoid construction in rain season and reduce water-soil loss to a minimum extent.

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à The high-vibration equipment with high noise should be avoided to work during rest time at noon or night, and the construction unit should choose low-noise mechanical equipment or such equipment with sound isolation or elimination; à Arrange well the construction time. Generally, the noise will have stronger impact on residents’ living at night than that in day, so as to avoid construction during residents’ rest at night; à Arrange the construction places reasonably; high-noise operation area should be far away to sensitive points of sound. The construction site with very serious impacts on a sensitive point should adopt temporary sound-insulation shielding structure, or build temporary workers’ dormitory building near one side of the sensitive point to replace the sound-isolation wall; multiple Impact of Noise During machines should be arranged at the same time for earthwork to shorten the influence time. Relatively concentrate fixed vibration Construction Period sources at the construction site to reduce disturbance range of vibration. Adopt temporary sound barriers or other noise-reduction measures before construction of surrounding sensitive points, such as school, hospital and park; à The transportation vehicle for construction should be arranged to be far away from one side of resident district, school and other sensitive points when enter and go out of the site; à According to Regulations on Noise Pollution, Prevention and Treatment of the People’s Republic of China, the noise still cannot reach the regulated limits after noise reduction measures are taken, and then the construction unit should apologize to and compensate such influenced organization or individual.

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(1) The ground in the construction site must go through hardening treatment and takes concrete ground conditionally; (2) During excavation, drilling and removal course, spray water to keep operation at a certain humidity; as for loose and dry surface soil in the construction site, often spray water to prevent dust; when backfilling, properly spray water when the surface soil is dry so as to prevent dust flying; prohibit construction in big windy day and confirm the construction place properly; (3) Strengthen management of stacking field of backfilling soil, take measures such as tamping earthwork surface, periodically spraying water and covering; the unnecessary soil and slag of building materials should be transported right away and not properly to be stacked for a long time; Impact on Ambient Air (4) During construction period, take full-enclosure construction way to prevent dust pollution. The truck or vehicle for soil and building materials should be with tarpaulin, cover or others as regulated to prevent falling and the loading is improper to be full to ensure no falling during conveying course; plan the transportation route and time of transportation vehicles, which are prevented driving in the prosperity district, traffic concentration district, resident district or other sensitive points; for such section with high environmental requirement, make transportation at night based on actual condition to reduce dust’s impact on the environment. The soil fallen from the vehicle during transportation should be cleaned immediately to reduce flying dust during transportation; (5) The removal and road construction site should be enclosed by colored steel boards.

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(1) The construction waste water shall not be directly drained into water pipeline or municipal pipeline and can be drained into municipal sewage pipeline or local surface runoff after deposition; the life sewage can be drained into urban sewer pipeline or local surface runoff after deposition or being treated in septic tank; the construction life sewage shall not be directly drained into nearby waters without treatment; (2) During the construction period of Pihe South road and Longhe Middle Road, the draff shall not be directly poured into the Pi River, Fenghuangqiao River, Ping River and Pi River trunk canal so as to reduce the pollution to rivers; (3) The construction unit of the project shall make simple treatment such as filter and deposition to the slurry water and shall not directly drain it so as to keep civilized construction; (4) For the re- construction of Huaihai Road, Suixi Road and Liyuan Middle Road already having draining pipeline, first we suggest the construction personnel to make use of nearby sanitary and living facilities and try best to reduce the production of life sewage; Impact on surface water second, the produced life sewage and washing waste water shall be collected and then be drained into municipal pipeline after being pre-treated in deposition pool and final be drained out after being treated to standard by urban sewage treatment factory; (5) For the newly-built Tuohe Road and Cuifeng South Road, the produced life sewage and washing waste water shall be collected and drained into nearby waters with surface runoff after being treated in deposition pool and septic tank before finishing the lay of drainage pipeline network; after finishing the lay of drainage pipeline network, the collected waste water will be drained into the newly-built pipeline after being treated in deposition pool and finally be drained into municipal pipeline; (6) For life rubbish, construction rubbish and maintenance rubbish, which may pollute the waters, so they should be recycled, classified, stored and treated; the applicable materials shall be used or submitted for selling, such as paper, wooden, metal or glass rubbish, which can be recycled by waste purchasing station; those that can not be used shall be submitted to public sanitary department for harmless treatment or to fire, bury or pile; (1) Reasonably arrange construction time; (2) Enhance the education and management of construction personnel and forbid factitious disturbance of the animals and plants in

Construction the Wetland Park, such as random hunting of construction personnel, etc.; of Tuohe Impact on Nanhu (3) Take such measures as frequent watering and reasonably determine the mixing position during the construction period; Road of Wetland Park Huaibei (4) Forbid to directly drain construction waste water into the Wetland Park waters and the waste water shall be collected; (5) Build a deposition pool by the section of Tuohe Road near to Nanhu Wetland Park; the waste water shall be collected and treated in the deposition pool; random drainage is forbidden here.

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(1) Reasonable planning and application arrangement of the side lands of road; (2) Take protective measures to sensitive targets of sound environment, and we suggest to install ventilated sound-isolation window for residence at sensitive points of high-rise buildings in central area of the city, for sensitive point of low buildings located in suburb, such as village residence, install noise barrier; Influence from traffic (3) Gradually improve the noise discharge standard of motor vehicles, implement the system of periodically checking the noise of noise motor vehicles and take compulsive maintenance to vehicles exceeding standard till the noise reaches standard; (4) Strictly limit the speed of driving at sensitive section, especially the over-speed driving at night; (5) Enhance the management of syringes of vehicles and forbid syringes at the sections with many environmental protective targets; (6) Periodically maintain noise-isolation equipment and road surface, and timely repair any damaged road surface. (1) The life sewage will be directly drained into municipal sewer pipeline after being treated in septic tank; (2) The waste water for washing vehicles and from vehicle maintenance will be re-used for washing vehicle after oil separation and Public transit sedimentation and seldom can be drained into municipal sewer pipeline; depot Influence on rivers of (Huaibei and sewage (3) For maintenance workshop, vehicle washing workshop and vehicle recycling pool, S-6 water-proof and seepage-proof concrete Lu’an) will be adopted; (4) Ensure standard drainage of sewage; Strictly control key noise sources, propose requirements on noise control to equipment manufacturing factory and take relevant noise-isolation measures; Impact of operation Strictly control the in-out time of vehicles and forbid any vehicle to enter or exit the station between 22:00 6:00 to ensure not to noise on nearby residence disturb the residence at night; Make necessary monitoring on noises at the boundary of factory;

(1) The usual solid life rubbish will be cleaned and transported by the public sanitary department; Influence of solid waste (2) The dangerous solid waste will be collected and then treated by the qualified unit.

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In the project, only Lu’an public transit depot refers to paint spraying and baking. The pollution to atmosphere is mainly from the organic waste gas from paint spraying and baking. The related mitigative measures are as follows:

(1) The waste gas from paint spraying and baking room will be collected and then filtered with cotton screen and absorbed by active carbon, and finally be discharged through funnel with a height of 15n;

Influence of waste gas (2) The active carbon shall be changed frequently, about once per quarter;

(3) After adopting preventive measures for the paint spraying and baking of public transit depot, the paint fog is completely eliminated, the eliminating rate of toluene and dimethylbenzene is 90%; the discharging concentration of toluene and dimethylbenzene is 4.6 mg/m3, and the discharging speed is 0.0091kg/h; the discharging of organic waste gas meets the requirements specified in Integrated Emission Standard of Air Pollutants (GB16297-1996);

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(1) Make plain arrangement strictly according to fire-proof regulation and choose different electrical device and instruments according to different explosion-proof grades; (2) The gasoline tank and natural gas tank as well as other equipment and pipe lines shall be prevented from lightning strike and be grounded for static-proof; (3) Install inspection instrument of fire control apparatus and self-controlled fire-proof facilities; (4) According to the requirements in SH3063-94 Specification for the Design of Combustible Gas and Toxic gas Detection and Alarm for Petrochemical Enterprises, set alarm device for continuous inspection of flammable gas at places that may have leakage or gathering of natural gas; (5) For natural gas pipe entering public transport depot, set emergency cutting valve; periodically check the safety protection system

Accident Risk (such as stop valve and safety valve, etc), and take direct cutting for obvious failures; (6) Before the official operation of project, establish the operation and maintenance plan for normal, abnormal and emergency status, and make pre-position training to operation and maintenance personnel to avoid any factitious accident caused by material operation mistake; (7) Set obvious alarming mark and build strict watching and safeguard system to avoid intended factitious damage; establish emergency operation rule, specify the operation steps to be adopted upon accident, regularize repair schedule and limit the influence of accident; for important instrument and equipment, set perfect inspection and maintenance record; for operators, make periodical fire-proof safety education or emergency practice to improve their safety consciousness and the ability to identify abnormal status; (8) Enhance safety management and forbid to smoke or use cell phone in fuel or gas station.

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6.4 Environmental Monitoring Plan

6.4.1 Target and Principle

The environmental monitoring plan is made to monitor the implementation of all measures, timely adjust environmental protection plan according to monitoring results and provide reference for the implementing time and plan of environmental protective measures. The principle is to take consideration of the predicted main environmental influence in different periods (construction period or operation period).

6.4.2 Monitoring Institute

The environmental monitoring in the construction period and operation period will be borne by National Environmental Quality Monitoring Certification Unit. The bearing unit shall be certified by national environmental quality monitoring, has complete equipment, strong technical strength and can finish the accepted monitoring task.

6.4.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan

According to the features of the project, the environmental monitoring plan will be made according to the construction and operation periods, refer to Table 6-4-1.

Table 6-4-1 Schedule for Monitoring Plan in the Construction and Operation Period of Public

Transportation Sub-project Stage Monitoring Plan Type Items Construction Period Operation Period Ambient Contamination source Construction fugitive dust Tail gas air Monitoring factors TSP, PM10 CO, NOx, PM10 Quality Ambient Air Quality Ambient Air Quality standard Standard (GB3095-1996 Standard (GB3095-1996 GB18352.1-2001 Limits Executive and Measurement standard Discharge — Methods for Emissions standard from Light-duty Vehicles, etc. Lu’an 8th Middle School, Monitoring Lu’an 8th Middle School, Lu’an Dongyuan Community point site Dongyuan Community and Public Transit Depot

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Huaibei First Middle School, Huaihailu Huaibei First Middle Primary School, Huaibei School, Huaihailu Primary Professional and School, Huaibei Huaibei Technical College, Professional and Technical Dadinglou Village, Nanhu College, Dadinglou Village Wetland Park, and Tuohe and Nanhu Wetland Park Road Public Bus Maintenance Field Yingjiang Temple, Dahu Yingjiang Temple, Dahu Anqing Lake Scenery Spot Lake Scenery Spot Sensitive points around Shanyang Village, Zha mixing station, borrow pit Village, Chentang and waste bank and part Village, Fengwuji, Wuhu construction road: Liangfu Village, Dawang Shanyang Village, Village, Wangjia Village Fengwuji and Liangfu and Damao Village Village Construction tension Once per quarter, 1-2 days period 2d/month, once per Monitoring frequency per time (24h continuous respectively forenoon and monitoring) afternoon everyday Local Environmental Local Environmental Monitoring Station or Implementing institute Monitoring Station Self-built Monitoring Station Supervision institute Local Project Office Local Project Office Ambient Contamination source Machinery noise Traffic noise noise Monitoring factors LAeq(dB) LAeq(dB) Environmental Quality Environmental Quality Quality Standard for Noise Standard for Noise standard (GB3096-2008) (GB3096-2008) Noise Limits for Executive Discharge Construction Site — standard standard (GB12523-90) Environmental Quality Environmental Quality Measuring Standard for Noise Standard for Noise standard (GB3096-2008) (GB3096-2008) Lu’an 6th Middle School, Lu’an 6th Middle School, Dongyuan Community, Dongyuan Community, Monitoring Lu’an Lu’an Xiwai Primary Lu’an Xiwai Primary point site School and Fenghuang School and Fenghuang Bridge Primary School Bridge Primary School

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Huaibei First Middle Huaibei First Middle School, Huaihailu School, Huaihailu Primary Primary School, Huaibei School, Huaibei Power Professional and Factory, Jindianyuan Huaibei Technical College, Community, Huaibei Dadinglou Village, Nanhu Professional and Technical Wetland Park, and Tuohe College, Dadinglou Village Road Public Bus and Nanhu Wetland Park Maintenance Field Yingjiang Temple, Ninth Yingjiang Temple, Ninth Middle School and the Middle School and the Anqing Municipal Electronic Municipal Electronic School School Shanyang Village, Zha Village, Chentang Shanyang Village, Village, Fengwuji, Wuhu Fengwuji and Liangfu Liangfu Village, Dawang Village Village, Wangjia Village and Damao Village Twice/year, two One day/month, twice per days/time, once Monitoring frequency day (daytime and night) respectively every daytime and every night Local Environmental Local Environmental Monitoring Station or Implementing institute Monitoring Station Self-built Monitoring Station Responsible institute Local Project Office Local Project Office Local environmental Local environmental Monitoring institute protection bureau and protection bureau and project office project office Surface Waste water with oil and Contamination source / water life sewage, etc. Monitoring factors COD, SS, grease, etc. / Environmental Quality Quality Standards for Surface / standard Executive Water GB3838-2002 standard Integrated Wastewater Discharge Discharge Standard / standard GB8978-1996 Monitoring Lu’an Pi River and its trunk canal / point site Cross of Newly-built Tuohe Road and Cuifeng South Road with Huaibei corresponding rivers (Sui / River, Zha River and Longdai River), Nanhu Wetland Park

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Linghu Park, Lianhu Park, Dahu Park and the entrance Anqing to Yangtze River of the / Chengdong Sewage Treatment Factory Section from 500m upper reach to 500m lower reach Wuhu / of Kuaguangou of 3rd Ring Road Once every two months, and once respectively Monitoring frequency / every forenoon and afternoon Local Environmental Implementing institute / Monitoring Station Responsible institute Local Project Office / Local environmental Monitoring institute protection bureau and / project office Except for above monitoring plan with legal effort, the construction unit shall appoint trained personnel to make daily monitoring so as to timely find and solve problems.

6.4.4 Environmental Report

(1) Environmental Report in Project Period (including Construction and Operation

Periods)

The whole implementation period of the sub-project is about 3 years. According to the national regulations related to the environmental management of construction project and industrial business policies, The debtor (the owner unit in the sub-project) shall be responsible to prepare the Evaluation and Monitoring Report on the Implementation of Environmental Management Plan (usually twice per year), so as to ensure the implementation of the related requirements and measures of all approved environmental management plan, to timely find out problem and analyze and make conclusion, so then to control the bad environmental influence in following works of the project. The evaluation and monitoring of environmental management plan mainly include: 1 The implementation situation of environmental management plan: any change in environmental management system, main contents of construction in this

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stage, problems existed in the implementation of EMP and causes, and the next improving measures; 2 Environmental monitoring result: make simple notes on data, explain the existed problem, non-standard phenomenon and the causes, suggest improving measures; the complaints from residence and solutions shall be included when necessary; 3 General conclusion on the environmental monitoring and evaluation of this stage and the suggestions and plan on the works of the late half year; Beside of the above monitoring report, the construction unit shall prepare daily and month reports and submit them to upper competent department and local public sanitary department. (2) Environmental Report after the Completion of the Project

After the planed project being put into operation, the environmental monitoring unit shall prepare periodically usual Environmental Monitoring Report, mainly including setting of environmental management institute and the operation of project, the implementation of the approval opinions of public sanitary department on prior reports, monitoring system

(including time, frequency, point site, applied instrument and equipment and applicable standard, etc.), statistic analysis on monitoring data and planed preventive measures for further pollution, etc. The Environmental Monitoring Report prepared by the environmental monitoring department shall be submitted to the Environmental Management Project Office of each city, and will be submitted to the World Bank, Anhui Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau and the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau of each city by the Immigration & Environmental Evaluation Department of the Loan Program Leader Team of the World Bank of each city to report the implementation of environmental protective measures

6.4.5 Operation Costs for Environmental Monitoring The 1st year (2010) monitoring expenses of the project during construction and operation periods refer to Table 6-4-2. Table 6-4-2 Monitoring Expenses of Project during Construction and Operation Periods Unit: RMB Ten-thousand/year City Monitoring Project Ambient Air Noise Surface Water Total

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Construction period 8 5 3 16 Lu’an Operation period 15 5 / 20 Construction period 5 3 5 13 Huaibei Operation period 5 3 / 8

Construction period 10 6 3 1 Anqing Operation period 15.5 9 4.5 2 Construction period 5 5 2 12 Wuhu Operation period 5 5 / 10 Total 106

6.5 Training of Environmental Protection Personnel To ensure the smooth and effective implementation of the environmental management plan of the project, all personnel, especially the construction personnel shall be trained with knowledge and skills related to environmental protection. Besides the importance and significance of the project to be built, trainings with different focuses shall be made to personnel in different positions. The training will be conducted by combination of domestic and foreign training methods according to different management levels and environmental protection positions. The concrete training plan refers to Table 6-5-1.

Table 6-5-1 Training Plan for Environmental Protection Technician Expense (RMB Ten- Person Time Personnel Personnel thousand yuan) Number (d) Huaibei Anqing Wuhu Lu’an Two persons Environmental basic theory and monitoring method, preparation per 2 of monitoring report and post construction Environmental training stage protection 12 10 12 10 personnel Two persons The implementation of per environmental protective 2 measures during construction construction stage

Environmental Environmental protection protection regulations, 1-2 persons per monitoring construction plan, construction stage, engineer, and 3 4 5 4 8 1-2 persons of the management environmental construction party personnel of monitoring and control construction party rules and specifications

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Environmental air monitoring and control technology, noise 4 4 monitoring and control technology Environmental management

personnel of Maintenance of environmental 6 8 6 5 4 4 the protective measures construction party Total 22 20 20 22

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7. Public Consultation and Public Notification of Information

7.1 Target and Significance For road construction, as it refers to such problems relating to the benefits of farmers as land occupation and residential house removing and it is an important part of Environmental Influence Report, the public participation is very important for the improvement of policies, which will directly reflect the opinions of the public on project,, help the decision-making department to timely find and solve problems, improve design plan and solve the problems proposed by the public, and meanwhile will improve the construction plan of the project to reach the harmony of economic, environmental and social benefits. And meanwhile, let the public understand the construction project and show their opinion on it, the construction will not only get the understanding and support from public, but will also enable the public to improve the environmental consciousness during their participation, supervise environmental protection and protect zoological environment so as to ensure the sustainable development strategy.

7.2 Survey Scope and Method 7.2.1 Survey Scope

According to the requirements of national environmental protection laws and regulations, based on the principle of fair, public, true and objective, each city of the Anhui Provincial Middle-sized City Traffic Project made wide public opinion survey for the important road sections, sensitive points, enterprises and non-profit enterprises, businessmen, schools, kindergarten and residential community by the both sides of construction roads and the public participation and survey results refer to Table 7-2-1. Table 7-2-1 Schedule of Public Participation and Survey Surveyed Cities Survey object Wuhu Lu’an Huaibei Anqing Take key visit to the Take key visit to the sensitive points of the sensitive points of the Farmers directly Farmers directly planed project, mainly planed project, mainly influenced by the project influenced by the project Farmer including the sensitive including the sensitive or indirectly influenced or indirectly influenced points by both sides of points by both sides of due to living nearby due to living nearby the 3rd Ring Road Xicheng Road 119

Textile factory, paper- Personnel of Nanfang Road making factory and Personnel of public Worker Waterworks and public Engineering Co., Ltd. passenger automobile transit company, etc. transit company, etc. factory Leaders of related Enterprises & non- Enterprises & non- Organ leaders and Enterprises & non-profit enterprises profit enterprises, profit enterprises, technicians of municipal enterprises, project and non- project office by both project office project office office profit sides of the road enterprises People Experts of Experts of environmental environmental Experts of of Experts of environmental Related protection bureau, protection bureau, environmental other protection bureau and experts public transit road bureau and protection bureau and walks public transit company company and Deliver public transit traffic bureau police detachment company Teachers and students of Anhui Normal Teachers and students of Teachers and students Organ leader, Social University, Huaibei Coal Industry inside school, technician and public and Technicians and Teachers College and technicians and teachers and staff of students personnel of other personnel of other social personnel of other social Wanxi College social economic economic organizations economic organizations organizations Number 114 97 120 100 December of 2008- Feb. December of 2008- April Time December of 2008 December of 2008 of 2009 of 2009

7.2.2 Survey Method

The main public survey methods adopted by all Anhui Medium-sized Cities for Traffic

Projects include notification through newspaper and website, notice, village meeting, collective discussion, symposia and paper survey as well as individual consultation.

The photos of the first and second notification of Lu’an on website refer to Fig. 7-2-1 and 7-2-3.

The photos of the first and second notification on website and symposia of Huaibei refer to Fig. 7-2-4 and 7-2-6; the photo of notification on newspaper of Huaibei refers to Fig. 7-2-7 and 7-2-8. The photos of the first and second notification of Wuhu on website refer to Fig. 7-2-9 and 7-2-10. The photos of the first and second notification of Anqing on website refer to Fig. 7-2-11 and 7-2-12. The feedback opinions during notification refer to Table 7-2-2.

Table 7-2-2 Feedback on Public Survey of Project Feedback Opinions City First Notification Second Notification Huaibei (1) The construction of project can promote the 1) Concern about if the environmental 120

economic development of areas along the protective measures improved in project, enhance the window connecting the construction period can be executed to city with the outside, improve investment the right position; environment and increase the chances for employment; 2) Concern about if the land requisition (2) Some residence said that no matter land and removing can be compensated requisition or removing, it should be fair and according to removing policies of the reasonable and shall take in consideration of State and World Bank; the benefits of the public; (3) The removed residences agree the 3) Concern about the influence on Nanhu construction of road, but also concern about Wetland Park during the construction of if the removing of residential place will Tuohe Road; influence normal life and how the compensation will be made; Lu’an 1) The public show their dissatisfaction on 1) Some public think that no matter land current traffic situation and think it is requisition or removing, it should be fair necessary to construct the project; and reasonable and shall take in 2) The residences near Bagongshan Road show consideration of the benefits of the their focuses on house removing and wish to public; receive reasonable economic compensation; 3) The public think the influence of road 2) The disadvantaged minority in village construction is mainly from land requisition, influenced by removing along Pihe South removing and daily life; Road and Chengxi Road concern about 4) The public think it is necessary to give their re-employment and if there is reasonable economic compensation to the corresponding opportunity after land land occupied for road construction; requisition 5) Most people think it will be more noise for the increasing of vehicles after road construction; Wuhu (1) wish the road network construction can be 1) Most people surveyed wish the finished as early as soon so as to improve construction unit to plant various road condition; Virescences within the construction scope (2) The public suffered directly influence from to reduce the ambient noise and land requisition are mainly farmers; after atmosphere pollution caused by the land requisition, the compensation fee for construction; and some wish the land requisition shall be timely handed over; construction unit do well the environmental management measures. Anqing (1) The disadvantaged minority in village 1) wish the construction unit pay influenced by removing concern about their attention to the protection of Yanjiang re-employment and if there is corresponding Temple during construction period; opportunity after land requisition; (2) If the construction of project influence the travel of residence and enterprises; (3) The project shall avoid construction at night; for fugitive dust in construction process, proper preventive measures shall be adopted and various affiliate facilities such as water supply and drainage pipeline and underground cable shall be constructed as one time, so as to avoid repeated repair and

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Fig. 7-2-1 First Notification of Information of Lu’an Road Project on Website

Fig. 7-2-2 Notice for Public Participation of Lu’an Road Project 123

Fig. 7-2-3 Second Notification of Information of Lu’an Road Project on Website 124

Fig. 7-2-4 First Notification of Information of Huaibei Road Project on Website

Fig. 7-2-5 Second Notification of Information of Huaibei Road Project on Website

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Fig. 7-2-6 Huaibei Symposia

Fig. 7-2-7 First Notification of Information of Huaibei Road Project on Newspaper

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Fig. 7-2-8 Second Notification of Information of Huaibei Road Project on Newspaper

Fig. 7-2-9 Second Notification of Information of Wuhu Road Project on Website

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Fig. 7-2-10 First Notification of Information of Wuhu Road Project on Website

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Fig. 7-2-11 First Notification of Information of Anqing Road Project on Website

Fig. 7-2-12 Second Notification of Information of Anqing Road Project on Website

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7.3 Survey Statistic Results Survey results of Lu’an Project in Anhui Provincial Middle-sized City Traffic Project refer to Table 7-3-1. Table 7-3-1 Public Survey Statistics of Lu’an Project

Survey Questions Opinions Land compulsory Influencing daily What is the main influence of road Remove Others requisition life construction on you 5.15% 32.99% 39.18% 22.68% Satisfaction degree on current road Satisfied OK Dissatisfied situation of working and residential 2.06% 17.53% 80.41% area The influence of current tail gas on Serious Not serious Just so so you 36.08% 23.71% 40.21% The influence of current road noise Serious Not serious Just so so on you 47.42% 19.59% 32.99% Road line Understand Understand Not understand direction of some project 17.53% 57.73% 35.05% Do you understand If you Partial not the project Reasonable No idea understand reasonable the road line 17.53% 35.05% 47.42% direction Do you understand the policies on the Understand Understand Not understand compensation and settlement of land some requisition and removal of house? 10.31% 53.61% 36.08% Disagree if the Reasonable Follow arrangement requirements are Other Attitude to removal compensation not met 29.90% 60.82% 5.15% 4.12% Reasonable Disagree with Use other land to For land occupied by road, you wish compensation land requisition replace 94.85% 1.03% 4.12% Can not be Build other houses to Give me another away from Wish removal For house removal, you wish replace house the current place 12.37% 35.05% 34.02% 18.56% Convenient A little help No help Meaning of project to travel out 92.78% 6.19% 1.03%

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Pollution to Pollution to Pollution to surface underground Noise air water water environment Do you think what the main 31.96% 13.40% 91.75% 80.41% environmental problem is during the Pollution to Other construction period of the project? Pollution from solid waste zoological polluting environment problems 64.95% 22.68% 9.28% A little Very noisy Not noisy at all After the road starts operation, will noisy you feel noisy due to the increasing 17.53% 61.86% 20.62% of vehicles? It doesn’t Agree Disagree What’s your attitude to the project? matter 96.91% 3.09% 0.00%

Survey results of Wuhu Project in Anhui Provincial Middle-sized City Traffic Project refer to Table 7-3-2.

Table 7-3-2 Public Survey Statistics of Wuhu Project Serial Number of Percentage Survey Contents No. Person (%) Land compulsory requisition 82 71.93 What is the main influence of road Remove 18 15.79 1 construction on you Influence daily life 12 10.53 Other 2 1.75 Do you understand the newly construction Not understand 5 4.39 project of the 3rd Ring Road and the re- Know a little 102 89.47 2 built project of Jiuhua Road and Yijinag Very clear 7 6.14 Road of Wuhu? Satisfied 2 1.75 Are you satisfied to the local traffic OK 11 9.65 3 situation? Dissatisfied 67 58.77 Very Dissatisfied 34 29.82 Do you know the policies on the Understand 10 8.77 compensation and settlement for land Understand a little 88 77.19 4 requisition, house removal of the road Not Understand 16 14.04 construction project? Reasonable compensation 25 21.93 For land requisition of road project, you 5 Disagree with land requisition 2 1.75 wish Give other land to replace 87 76.32 6 During road construction, which of the Machinery noise 73 64.04 following problems do you think will Fugitive dust 64 56.14

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influence your life? Safety problem during construction 23 20.18 Soil and water loss 36 31.58 Land occupied by construction 48 42.11 The construction vehicle causes the 54 47.37 congestion of current roads Increasing of outer construction 37 32.46 personnel Increase working opportunity 16 14.04 Other 11 9.65 Very noisy 13 11.40 After the road starts operation, will you A little noisy 82 71.93 7 feel noisy due to the increasing of Not noisy at all 19 16.67 vehicles? What measures do you wish to adopt to Virescence 84 73.68 8 solve the environmental pollution (for Management measures 25 21.93 operation period)? Other 5 4.39 The line is far away from school or 79 69.30 hospital If the road is near to school or hospital, 9 Move the school or hospital away 8 7.02 you wish Take measures to protect the school 27 23.68 and hospital Definitely support 33 28.95 In the aspect of environmental protection, Conditional support 77 67.54 10 what is your attitude to project, please give It doesn’t matter 4 3.51 a simple reason. Disagree 0 0

Survey results of Huaibei Project in Anhui Provincial Middle-sized City Traffic Project refer to Table 7-3-3.

Table 7-3-3 Public Survey Statistics of Huaibei Project

Land compulsory What is the main influence of road construction Remove Influencing daily life Others requisition on you 15% 35% 40% 10% First-row building by Those who often The relation between you and the construction Removal households Other the side of street pass the road project 35% 40% 10% 15% Satisfaction degree on current road situation of Satisfied OK Dissatisfied working and residential area 15% 40% 45% Serious Not serious Just so What is the influence of current tail gas on you? 30% 50% 20% What is the influence of current road noise on Serious Not serious Just so you? 42% 24% 34% Do you understand Project road line Understand Understand a little Not Understand the project direction 32% 59% 9% 132

Is the direction Reasonable Partial not reasonable No idea reasonable? 81% 11% 8% Disagree if the Reasonable Follow arrangement requirements are Other Attitude to move compensation not met 30% 56% 7% 5% Convenient Understand some Not understand Meaning of project to traveling out 96% 4% 0 What is Forgivable but there should Forgivable Complaint your be mitigative measures attitude Noise 65% 25% 10% to the Dust 60% 35% 5% impact Dirty water 63% 35% 2% of the Inconvenience for traveling 55% 40% 5% project during construct Traffic congestion 64% 30% 6% ion period? What is Serious Not serious Acceptable your Tail gas 9% 25% 66% attitude Noise 20% 18% 62% to the Vibration 11% 18% 71% impact of the project during Other 6% 30% 64% operatio n period? Do you think if the project can promote traffic and the development of Yes No other industries after its completion? 95% 5% Agree It doesn’t matter Disagree What’s your attitude to the project? 95% 5% 0

Survey results of Anqing Project in Anhui Provincial Middle-sized City Traffic Project refer to Table 7-3-4. Table 7-3-4 Public Survey Statistics of Anqing Project

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Serial Results Question Answer No. 1 2 3 4 5 Do you know the construction (1) clear (2) not so clear (3) not clear at all 1 of the project? 94% 6%

2 Do you agree with the project? (1) agree (2) disagree (3)it doesn’t matter 93% 7%

Who do you think will be a) State (1) yea (2) no 91%

3 beneficial from the project b) Public (1) yea (2) no 85%

(multiple choice) c) Individual (1) yea (2) no 81% How does the urban traffic (1) Not at all (2) Not serious 4 influence your work and life? (3) Serious (4) Very serious 8% 15% 65% 12% (1) Improving residential environment What are the benefits brought (2) The traveling-out is more convenient 5 to you by the project? (3) Increase economic income 68% 22% 10% (4) other (1) no bad influence (2) The construction impacts traffic What is the bad influence do (3) The house removal will cause economic you think the project will loss 6 bring to you? 28% 17% 55% (4) The land requisition will cause the

reduction of economic income (5) Other negative impacts Do you know the compensation and settlement (1) Understand (2) Understand a little 7 policies for land requisition (3) Not understand 92% 8% and house removal? During land requisition and house removal, do you know (1) Know (2) Don’t know 8 whether to appeal when your 86% 14% legal rights are infringed? (1) Self-removal, and self-building at planned residential place If your house is removed, (2) Purchase commodity house with monetary which settlement method will 9 compensation 15% 85% you choose? (3) Exchange of property right (4) Other 7.4Analysis on Results of Public Survey According to the statistics on public survey, the local public has sufficient recognition on the construction of the middle urban traffic project in Anhui province and most public think that the construction project will promote the social economic development. On the other hand, the public also pay much attention on the environmental pollution problem. According to the public survey, the public basically support the project and no body in the four cities shows any rejection attitude. The supporting rate of Lu’an Project is 96.91%, and 3.09% think it doesn’t matter; for Wuhu Project, 96.49% show their agreement and 3.51% think it doesn’t

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8. Conclusion

After the implementation of the traffic project in Anhui Provincial middle-sized cities, it can effectively reduce the pressure on traffic trunk road, reduce traffic load, solve traffic congestion, and thoroughly change the mass situation of the traffic in central area of city so as to promote the development of the city and economic construction and provide good and modernized urban traffic environment for improving the living quality of citizens. And meanwhile the construction of urban road will greatly promote the expanding of urban space and land development of the area and improve the traffic condition and living level of the citizens in the area. Through the public participating process, most citizens show their supporting attitudes to the construction of the project and no rejection is received, which just show the wish of the citizens to improve the current traffic situation. And meanwhile the citizens also have sufficient recognition on the environmental problems that may cause during the construction and operation periods. In a whole, if effective measures are adopted to treat pollution during the construction and operation periods of the project, the influence on environment will be acceptable. Therefore, in the aspect of environmental protection, the construction of the project is reasonable and feasible.

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