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RP439 v 2 Shaaxi Ankang Road Development Project Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Action Plan For Local Road Improvement Project Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized RECEIVED MAY 0 5 ?OO6 EASTR Public Disclosure Authorized Shaanxi Provincial Transport Department In April 2006 * ,.$ ~~SCANNED Preface Country Road Program of Ankang Highway Development Project, Shaanxi Province, is attached to the World Bank Loan Project-Ankang-Shaanxi-Sichuan Boundary Expressway. It covers three poor counties/district in Ankang City, i.e., Ziyang County, Langao County and Hanbin District, and consists of the rehabilitation and extension of 108 country roads (hereafter referred to as attached roads). There are 61 attached roads in Ziyang County, with a total mileage of 717. 39km, of which 74.5km is for provincial highways, 172.684km is for county roads, 113.11Okm is for township roads and 357.100km is for village roads; and whose total estimated investment is 214,285,500yuan. There are 18 attached roads in Langao County and their total mileage is 279km, of which county roads, township roads and village roads amount to 176km, 12km and 91km respectively; and whose total investment is estimated at 109,041,600 yuan. In Hlanbin district are 29 attached roads with a total length of 485km, of which county roads, township roads and village roads take up 115km, 88km and 304km respectively; and whose total investment is about 433,627,500 yuan. According to the implementation plan for Country Road Program of Ankang Highway Development Project, Shaanxi Province, and the requirements of the World Bank loan projects, Communications Bureau of Ankang City completed the first draft of feasibility study report of all the attached roads in June 2005, and supplemented and perfected the report in November 2005. In order that the project affected persons' living standards can be improved or at least maintain at the original standard while constructing the attached roads. On the basis of the characteristics of the project, relevant documents and the World Bank's requirements, the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for Country Road Program of Ankang Highway Development Project, Shaanxi Province, has been compiled herein. According to the implementation plan of the project, the rehabilitation and extension of 28, 24, 34, 26 and 12 country roads are to be completed in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively. According to the requirements of Memo of Ankang Highway Development Project, Shaanxi Province, signed by the World Bank's identification delegation, this RAP is only for the 28 county roads that are to be started in 2006, and among the roads, 15, 5 and 8 of them are in Ziyang County, Langao County and Hanbin District respectively. For the other roads, their RAP will be compiled before the construction begins according to the policy framework and schedule in this RAP. j i i i i i i CONTENT OBJECTIVES OF THE RAP AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY ..................... I 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. I 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND ............................................................................. 1 1.2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. I 1.3 PROGRESS SCHEDULE ............................................................................. 2 1.4 MAJOR IMPACT ............................................................................. 2 1.5 MEASURES TO REDUCE THE IMPACT ............................................................................ 3 1.6 DESIGN AND EXAMINATION OF THE PROJECT ............................................................................ 28 1.7 PREPARATION FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMEN T PLAN ................................................................ 28 1.8 PREPARATION FOR LAND ACQUISIT1ION AND RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN ................................................. 30 1.9 BASIS AND OBJECTIVES OF RAP ............................................................................ 30 2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ............................................................................ 31 2.1 TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURE ............................................................................ 3 1 2.2 RIVERS AND WATER SYSTEM ............................................................................ 3 1 2.3 CLIMATE ............................................................................. 3 1 2.4 VEGETATION RESOURCES ............................................................................ 32 2.5 WILD ANIMALS ............................................................................. 32 2.6 MAIN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE CONDITIONS ................................................ 32 2.7 BASIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITION ............................................................................ 32 2.8 TOURIST RESOURCES ............................................................................ 33 2.9 PRESENT TRANSPORTATION CONDITION ............................................................................ 33 2.10 MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD ............................................................................ 34 3. FRAMEWORK OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT POLICY ..................................... 36 3.1 PO LICY BASES ............................................................................. 36 3.2 RELEVANT LAWS AND REGULATIONS ............................................................................ 36 3.3 COMPENSATION STANDARDS ............................................................................ 42 4. RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION PLAN ............................................................................ 45 4. OBJECTIVE 1 ............................................................................ 45 4.2 POLICY AND PRINCIPLE OF THE LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT PLAN ............................................. 45 4.3 OVERALL PLAN FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ...................................................................... 46 4.4 LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT PLAN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE . .......................................................... 47 5. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ............................. 48 5.1 PROCEDURES ............................................................................ 48 5.2 SCHEDULE ............................................................................ 50 6. ORGANIZATIONS ............................................................................ 51 6.1 ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHMENT ............................................................................ 51 6.2 ORGANIZATIONS' COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY ............................................................................ 51 6.3 MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN THE ORGANIZATIONS' CAPACITY .................................................... 5.....4... 7. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION ............................................................................ 56 7.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................................................ 56 7.2 APPEALING PROCEDURES AND CHANNELS ............................................................................ 60 7.3 PUBLIC CONSULTATION ............................................................................ 61 8. LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN FOR THE PROJECT ......... ............. 62 Appenddix: Affiche Replica of Project II Objectives of the RAP and Definition of Resettlement Terminology The Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC, that of Shaanxi Province as well as a series of regulations in the Guidelines of the World Bank (Operational Directive for Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP4.12). Its purpose is to set out an action plan for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the project affected persons (PAPs) to ensure that they will benefit from the project and their standard of living will be improved or at least be restored after the project. On account of the implementation of the project, acquisition of land and other properties will impose great negative effect on the people working in the fields and making a living by farming. "The Project Affected Persons refer to those whose production or life will be affected by land acquisition and house removal for the project. Definition of the "PAPs": "PAPs" refer to those: whose living standards have been adversely affected or will be adversely affected because of the project implementation; whose ownership of any house, rights or interest, land (including house sites, farmland and grassland) or other movable or immovable property will be temporarily or permanently acquisitioned or occupied; whose business, occupation, work or inhabitation and life will be adversely affected. PAPs may be individuals or legal persons of a company, or a public institution. Definition of PAPs is not limited to their legal status, life style or business in the affected location, or their title to property compensation. They include: (1) Those will be affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence when their property is acquisitioned. (2) Those have not got the residential permit to live in a specified place. Therefore all those to be affected will need to be considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal property, land or social position. All PAPs are entitled