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World Bank Document RP-39 The World Bank Loan Urumqi Urban Transport Improvement Project Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlemen- t.A-MtionPla, (the- six-th draift) Public Disclosure Authorized Ex Joflua~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Toruqi Lrban Tr,'s~r t,%royeniit,et i.mnu~ry. f~~ 9 Public Disclosure Authorized Content Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Objective of the Resettlement Chapter 3 Affected Dimension of the Resettlement Chapter 4 Legal Framework and Resettlement Compensation Policies Chapter 5 Costs and Budget of Various Affected Types Chapter 6 The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Project of various Affected Types Chapter 7 Institutional Arrangements Chapter 8 Consultations and Participation and Redress of Grievance Chapter 9 Internal and External Monitoring and Evaluation Annex Minority Issues in Resettlement for Urumqi Urban Transport Improvement Project Map Site Location of the Urumqi Outer Ring Road 1 s RAP for the Urumqi Urban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter I Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Brief Description of the Project Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. For a long time, because of the terrain limitation, the Urumqi urban transport is blocked from north to south and crowded from west to east; a large quantity of. long distance and quick transport is not available, and the across-boundary transport is difficult; the density of the traffic is uneven in which the south- west and the south-east part is comparatively denser and the north-east part is comparatively thinner so that it is hard to drive to the north-east district and quite a long way to make a detour; the trunk road network is low in technique and poor in transport capacity. The existing transport infrastructures can't accommodate the need for urban development. so improving the Urumqi urban transport constitute a task which brooks no delay. The proposed Urumqi Urban Transport Improvement Project will make the traffic smooth by extending the road network and improving the traffic management so as to increase road network transport ability. The Urumqi Urban Transport Improvement Project consists of five components: * Road Network Development * Traffic Management and Road Safety * Public Transport * Environment Protection and Improvement * Urban Transport System Management Among these components, only the Road Network Development Component will involve certain amount of land acquisition and resettlement. The Road Network Development Component is designed specially to link old CBD to 1 RAP for the Urumqi Urban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter 1 new development areas of the city, to protect the CBD from extraneous traffic, and to distribute regional traffic to the urban trunk road network. The Project will include the construction of a 30.66-km high-capacity urban ring road based of existing road structures, and improvements of a number of connecting roads in the central city of Urumqi. According to the new alternative (design option 4). The western ring (Western Transition Road), the southern ring (Xishan Road. Baoshan Road, Qiantangjiang Road), and the eastern ring (Tuanjie Road, Jinyin Street, Donghuan Road, Wuxing Road, Qidaowan Road) of the outer ring road will. be designed to use the standards of the urban expressway, and the design vehicle speed is 80 km/h. And the northern ring (the planned Xinvi Road, Nanhu Road, Suzhou Road, Altav Road) of the outer ring road will be designed to used the standards of the urban principal trunk. and the design vehicle speed is 60 km/h. The total length of the whole route will be about 30.66 km. in which about 8.55km for the overhead roads, about 0.373km for tunnel, about 10.169km for the surface expressway, about 10.568km for the urban principal trunk. The length of the built Qiantangjiang Road interchange and Suzhou Road interchange is about 1.0km. The techno-economic feasibility study for the Project was jointly prepared by the Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute and the Xinjiang Highway Prospecting Design Institute, and the report was submitted in April 1999. Since the Project involves the expansion of the existing right of way, certain amount of land acquisition and resettlement will be required. Following the World Bank requirements, a feasible Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) will be 2 RAP for the UrumqiUrban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter 1 needed for the Project before the World Bank decides whether or not to finance the Project.. The RAP of the Project is strictly prepared in accordance with both the requirement for the Involuntary Resettlement from the World Bank and the related requirements of all the Aide-memoire for the Project from the World Bank. 1.2 Methods taken in the RAP preparation 1. Collect all related documents of the Project include: 1) The World Bank Memorandums of the Project. 2) The documents of relevant administrative departments of the State and local Governments. 3) The Feasibilitv Study Report for the Project. 2. Collect local relevant laws and regulations on resettlement and land acquisition, 3. During the 'investigating the affected people and assets. a door-to-door 100% field survey on the affected households, villager groups and units has been conducted. The results of the survey have been put in the database. 4. Several options for resettlement and compensation have been worked out in accordance with data collected in the field survey on the affected households, villager groups and units. 5. Different approaches for alleviating the physical or economic losses have been explored with the affected people in order to minimize the negative impacts on PAPs. 6. Extensive consultation with PAPs and affected units has been conducted 3 RAP for the Urumqi Urban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter 1 through various forms of coordination meetings or visits in order to optimize the plan for resettlement and rehabilitation. 7. Based on these discussion, the resettlement policy and compensation standards for the project were determined after the Project Resettlement Leading Group (PRLG) had convened conferences to discuss the details of the plan, which was the basis for finalizing the cost estimate for the land acquisition and resettlement for the Project. 8. In accordance with the policies and guidelines of the Chinese Government and applicable World Bank Group policies, specifically OD 4.30 (on involuntary resettlement), the RAP was compiled. .4 RAP for the Urumqi Urban Transport Improvement Project Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Objective of the Resettlement 2.1 Avoidance and Minimization of Involuntary Resettlement The World Bank's policy requires that all viable alternative project designs has been explored to avoid the need for involuntary resettlement. Following the policy, the Project owner and the departments concerned have used all kind of methods in minimizing the land acquisition and resettlement and reducing the negative impacts on the cultivated land, housing and units. The measures are as follows: .1. Throughout the period of the project planning and project design, a great deal of efforts have been made by the Project authority and the design teams in order to minimize land requisition and building demolition. Such efforts even continue into the stage of detail project design and resettlement preparation. 2. During the project implementation, further efforts, such as adjustment of alignment, technological innovation and strengthening the management of construction, can be made to further reduce the negative impacts on the affected area. 3. For those impacts (land requisition and building demolition) cannot be avoided, following the RAP, a series of measures will be taken to ensure full rehabilitation or reconstruction for the affected residents, units, and infrastructure facilities. Take a four-story brick concrete building in the Altay Road Section of the Project for example. The building belongs to Huateng Company. According to the old design drawings, the side-line of the requisition land will occupy the 5 RAP for the UrumqiUrban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter 2 whole land area of this building. Even more, next to the building there are quite a few two or three story buildings which are also affected. However, for the principle of minimizing land acquisition and relocation, the design unit has made some adjustment on the alignment. On the other side of road. there are still some open ground. So the routine of this section has been moved to the opposite side about 10 meters so that the four-story brick concrete building and other neighboring buildings can be prevented from demolishment. 2.2 The Objective of the Resettlement Program The main objective of the resettlement program is to ensure that the production levels. income-earning capacity and the living standards. of the Project-affected persons (PAPs) are improved. or at least restored to the levels thev would have had without the Project. Therefore. a series of measures will be taken to safeguard the entitlements of the affected people: 1. Ensure that all PAPs, including those on urban state-owned land, receive compensation at replacement cost for lost assets due to the Project, and are well resettled and rehabilitated so that they can share the benefits of the Project: 2. Special care will be taken for the vulnerable groups (including the poor households, the households having the disabled members, the households headed by the women and the households where the aged live alone), such as assistance in building and moving into their new houses; 3. Provide full compensation at replacement cost for the land acquisition to 6 RAP for the Urumqi Urban Transport ImprovementProject Chapter 2 the collective. The compensation will be used to increase the productive capacity of the collective: 4. Help those whose houses are relocated select their new sites and build their new houses. and make them harmonize with the new environment as soon as possible; 5. Compensate the affected units and enterprises for their loss at replacement cost: Provide those which need to be relocated with suitable alternative locations to continue their business: 6.
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