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E2646 V1 1. Introduction Public Disclosure Authorized 1.1. Project Background The proposed Harbin-Jiamusi (HaJia Line hereafter) Railway Project is a new 342 km double track railway line starting from the city of Harbin, running through Bing County, Fangzheng County, Yilan County, and ending at the city of Jiasmusi. The Project is located in Heilongjiang Province, and the south of the Songhua River, in the northeast China (See Figure 1-1). The total investment of the Project is RMB 38.66 Billion Yuan, including a World Bank loan of USD 300 million. The construction period is expected to last 4 years, commencing in July 2010. Commissioning of the line is proposed by June 2014. Public Disclosure Authorized HaJia Line, as a Dedicated Passenger Line (DPL) for inter-city communications and an important part of the fast passenger transportation network in northeast of China will extend the Harbin-Dalian dedicated passenger Line to the the northeastern area of Heilongjiang Province, and will be the key line for the transportation system in Heilongjiang Province to go beyond. The project will bring together more closely than before Harbin , Jiamusi and Tongjiang, Shuangyashan, Hegang, Yinchun among which there exists a busy mobility of people potentially demanding high on passenger transportation. The completion of the project will make it possible for the passenger line and cargo train line between Harbin and Jiamusi to be separated, and will extend the the Public Disclosure Authorized line Harbin-Dalian passenger line to the northeast of Heilongjiang Province,It willl also strengthen the skeleton of the railway network of the northeastern part of China and optimize the express passenger transportation network of the northeast. As another express railway to divert the passenger train and cago train, the pjoject will relieve the pressure of the transportation between Harbin and Jiamusi and will play an important role in the smooth execution of the snational strategy of “revitalize the old industrial bas of Northeastern Provinces” . In addition, the execution of the project will also play an important role in ensuring the good transportation as a rear-area for the trading ports between China an Russia , in accelerating the development of the relevant trading ports, in developing the economic division and cooperation between China and Russia and the economic win-win and promoting the regional economic development and flourishing the Public Disclosure Authorized frontiers of the northeast of China. 1.2. Environmental Asessment (EA) Preparation According to World Bank OP4.01 Environmental Assessment, the proposed project is classified as Category A, dur to the scale of potential environmental and social impacts. As a result, the Bank required a full environmental impact assessment report. Chinese environmental impact assessment laws and regulations also required preparation of a full enviornmental impact assessment report. MOR retained China Railway Third Survey and Desing Institute (TSDI) Co., Ltd. for EIA preparation. The TSDI has Class A environmental impact assessment accreditation from Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). The EIA report was prepared in accordance with relevant provisions specified in China EIA laws / regulations and technical guidelines, as well as consideration of World Bank Figure 1-1 Harbin-Jiamusi Dedicated Passenger Line (HaJia Line) safeguard policies. The final English EA documents submitted to the World Bank inlcude: • Enviornmental Impact Assessment Report (EIA) • Environmental Management Plan (EMP) • EA Executive Summary This report is the English version of the Environmental Impact Assessment, which includes a sumary of the main text and the following Annexes: • Annex 1 List of Main Applicable Laws and Regulations • Annex 2 Screening of Environmental Objects • Annex 3 Ecological Baseline Survey • Annex 4 Baseline Noise Monitoring • Annex 5 Noise Impact Prediction Table • Annex 6 Mitigation Measure for Noise Control • Annex 7 Baseline Vibration Monitoring • Annex 8 Vibration Impact Predication Table • Annex 9 Mitigation Measures for Vibration Control The Chinse EIA report was approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Nov XX, 2010. 2. Legal and Regulatory Framewok 2.1 Environmental Assessment Purpose and Principles The purpose of the environmental impact assessment is as follows. 1. Through the survey and supervision of the existing conditions of the environment sensitive items and environment, it is expected to have an understanding of the existing environmental conditions of the region. And with strategy of sustainable development as the guide line to carry out the policy “Prevention as a major concern and protection as the priority” , “Development and protection as equally important aspect” and with environmental evaluation as a guide in designing , construction and environmental protection and to forecast the impact of the project on the environment during its construction and operation. And based on the forecast results, the controlling measures presented in the design document can be proved, which is imperative. n the light of the principle characterized by “letting the new measures to substitute the old, it aimed to forward corresponding measures and proposals in order to reduce and control the emission of pollutants and to reach the target of keeping total amount of emission of pollutants within the controlled limit of the region and to proved a scientific ground for the local environment protection department to control and plan the environment. 2. To carry out the principle of “people oriented” by involving the public in the project and residents in the proving of the project, so that the decision of the project will be more democratic , scientific, to avoid the potential dangers created by the impact of the project on the environment in the future. To guide the public to the management and supervision of the environment protection during the construction and operation of the project. And at the same time to publicize the national laws, statutes and policies on environmental protection. 3. To provide a ground for environmental protection and engineering design and environmental management of the project from the perspective of environmental protection, together with the analysis of the economic benefits and too prove the feasibility of the project. The principle of the environmental assessment - The assessment is based on the national laws, statutes, and relevant documents and with the environmental evaluation guiding principle and the technological criteria for railway environment as the guiding principle. The assessment is done in the light of the characteristics of the planned railway and with sensitive problems involved in ecological damage, noise ,and vibration as the evaluating principle. During the assessment full use is made of the existing data with the necessary supplementary elements such as survey, monitoring, and analogical monitoring of the existing conditions.The assessment is done in the light of the engineering design and with full consideration of different assessment elements for different section of the planned line. And finally based on the assessment results a control measures and suggestions not only feasible in technology but also rational in economy are put forward. 2.2 National Laws and Regulations The preparation of the EIA for the proposed project fully complies wit hthe provision of relevant Chinese natonal laws and regulations for construction projects. A list of relevent laws, regulations, technical guidelines and relvant document is presented in Annex 1. Table 2-1 summarizes some key provisions of applicable laws and regulations and project compliance relative to the preparation of environmental impact assessment and project design. Table 2-1 Key Environmental Laws and Regulations and Project Compliance Laws and Regulations Key Applicable Provisions Project Compliance Environmental Protection Law “Construction projects that would cause environmental pollution must follow the provisions of • EIA is prepared according to relevant relevant environmental protection rules and regulations. The environmental impact assessment laws/regulations and technical document must assess the pollution the project is likely to produce and its impact on the guidelines. environment, and stipulate the preventive and mitigation measures. The EA documents shall, • Mitigation measures are developed in after initial examination by the authorities in charge of the construction project, be submitted to an EMP, incorporated into project the environmental protection administration authorities for approval following specified design, and are to be implemented procedure.” and supervised during construction. • Final acceptance inspection will be “Pollution mitigation measures of a construction project must be designed, built and carried out before commissioning. commissioned at the same time with the main part of the project. No permission shall be given for a construction project to be commissioned or used, until its installations for the prevention and control of pollution are examined and considered up to the standard by the relevant environmental protection authority which had originally reviewed and approved the environmental impact assessment documents. Environmental Impact “The State adopts a categorized management approach for environmental impact assessment of • A full EIA report is prepared, and Assessment Law construction projects according to the extent of