E-174 VOL. 5 The People's Republic of China .National Highway Project Henan Section Public Disclosure Authorized Upgrading Class I Xinxiang--Zhengzhou highway to the Expressway Standard Environmental Impact - Assessment (Third Revised Version) Public Disclosure Authorized SCANNEDFLE Public Disclosure Authorized HIE4CAPm r #wICr GOMESWC4hR AdIS c C"- Ln-si Henan Provincial Environmental Protection Institute October, 1998 Public Disclosure Authorized Table of Content Chapter 1 General 1.1 Origin of EIA Assignm,ent 1.2 Project location, size and Magnitude 1.3 EIA purpose 1.4 EIA Basis 1.5 EIA Class and Highlight 1.6 Scope of EIA and Environmental Protection Target 1.7 EIA standard and Base year Chapter 2 General Description of Project and Analysis of Environmental Impact 2.1 Description of Works 2.2 Identification of Project Environmental Impact Chapter 3 Local Physical Environment 3.1 Physical Environmental Description 3.2 Present Status for Environmental Noise 3.3 Evaluation of Air Environmental Quality Situation 3.4 Lead content in the layer of farming land at adjacent area of both side of the highway 3.5 Present situation of water quality at Guanxin section of the Yellow River Chapter 4 Environmental Impact Assessment 4.1 Environmental Impact Analysis at Construction Stage 4.2 Environmental Impact Assessment at Operation stage 4.3 Social Impact analysis of the upgrading project Chapter 5 Analysis of the alternative scheme 5.1 Brief Description of Alternative scheme 5.2 Environmental-Status of Alternative Alignment Area 5.3 Comparative of seheme Chapter 6- Envi.ronmentalMeasures to be taken 6.1 Environmental Measure at design phase 6.2 Environmental Measure at construction phase 6.3 Environmental Measure at operation phase 6.4 Environmental Management Plan 6.5 Environmental Monitoring Plan 6.6 Staff Training plan Chapter 7 Brief Economic Analysis 7.1 Economic analysis for Xinxiang-Zhengzhouclass I highway 7.2 cost estimate for environmental protection Chapter 8 Public Participation 8.1 consulting activity 8.2 questionnaires investigation and analysis of the results Chapter 9 Conclusions 2 .F. - Chapter 1 General 1.1 Origin of EIA Assignment Starting from north at Beijing , capital city of.China , and ending to south at Zhuhai , window of openning to ourside , National trunk road Beijing--Zhuhai passes through Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Hubei , Guangdong provinces , which plays an important role in north-to-south transportation in China . It also one of "two south-to-north and two east-to-west" trunk roads proposed by the Ministry of Communications to be basically completed by the year of 2000 . By the end of 1997, Beiing--Xinxiang will be built up access-controled expressway while Zhengzhou--Xuchang expressway was completed for openning to the traffic in 1996 ; currently , Xuchang--Luhe expressway is under construction and expected to be put into used around 1998 , also, some preparation for initial stage are being done for Luhe--zhumadian section which is expected to be completed around 2002 . At that time, there would be only left Xinxiang--Zhengzhou section which have to share one road of National 107 , of which is north to Zhumadian on the Beijing--zhuhai national trunk road . In the requirement of MOC's planning, both Beiing--Zhuhai national trunk road and national highway 107 will parallely exist which will undertake different transportation task. Based upon this principle, the status of "sharing one road "at Xinxiang--Zhengzhou section is only temporary solution . Xinxiang--Zhengzhou is a class I highway and was completed in December 1989 also is the first high-grad highway in Henan which play a very active role in exchange communication between both bank of the Yellow River and in improving develpement of economy along the alingment . This section, however, is mixed traffic due to adopting intersection with the other road which produce a serious crossing interruption . In addition, With the city's development , the said section become street degree ,which restrict the benefit of highway and can not meet the demand of fast growth of traffic volume In order to ensure the said section to be smoothly driving prior to completion of Xinxiang--Zhengzhou expressway and the second Yellow River bridge , Henen Provincial Traffic Survey & Planning Design Institute, through comprehensive analysis, proposed to upgrade the highway section into expressway standard ,and the total investment for upgrading works amounts to RMB532.11 million yuan and it is proposed to take use of the savings from the Bank loan under National Highway Project Henan Section and of force account from Henan itself ,in which the savings from the World Bank loan under National Highway Project (Henan section) amount to US$19 million (RMB157.70 million) . As required by relevant environmental management provisions for construction project of the Government and Henan Province 3 as well as EIA provisions for World Bank-financed projects ,a full-scale EIA is required to be completed for this section, for Xinkxiang--Zhengzhou bel-ongsto project class A%. As entrusted by Henan Provincial Highway Administration Bureau-, Henan Provincial Environmental Protection Institute is held responsible for EIA of this section road 1.2 Project Location, Size and Alignment Henan province is located in the center part of China ,and in the middle reaches of the Yellow River (see Map 1-1). The existing class I highway zhenghou--Xinxiang section is situated in the north part of the province, on the both bank of the Yellow River (please see Map 1-2 for the project location of this section). According to the recommended scheme in the Feasibility study Report of the project ,the alignment of the proposed upgrading works specifically is : starting from north at connecting location between Anyang--Xinxiang expressway and national 107 i.e Xinchang interchange ,and it passes through west of Langgongmiao , west of Jinlou, Maotan in Yuanyang county , east of Ciguti , Songlou, east of Xinzhang , then going across the Yellow River ,east of Shaoyuan,east of sangyuan , west of Shilipu , center part of Bai village and Wang village , ending at Longhai railway station(K686+803.5) , with the total length of 69.773km . In accordance with the alternative proposed by the Design Institute , scale and technical standard to be adopted for the upgrading works on XZH is as follows : a : upgrading class I highway in length of 69.773km in which 39.326km is between Xinchang interchange and north bank of Yellow River, 30.447km is between north bank of Yellow River and Longhai railway interchange . b. 39.326km long highway to the north of the Yellow River will be upgraded into the fully-access controlled expressway standard with provision of service road for local vehicle access. The section to south of the Yellow River will upgraded into class I highway with partially *Lccess controlled and with motorized and non-motorized separated and overpass bridge built for pedestrian . c. the section to the north bank of YR will build 1 simple. interchange, 24 separations, reconstruct 9 passageways, 43.5km for local road and 30km for service road and overpass bridge. The section to the south of YR will newly build 9 pedestrian overpass bridges, 2 interchanges at two crossing location and reconstruct 5 intersections. d. to upgrade the section from Xinchang interchang to north bridge bend cap of YR in length of 43.776km to class I highway, rehabilitate 1 service area and toll station at Jinlou and YR of south section 4 ,Apart from above tecommended scheme, the Feasibility Study 7Report.also proposed a alternative scheme which can be seen in the Chapter 2 of this, report. .- Through comparative analysis, the EIA agree the recomSnded scheme raised in the FSR and please see comparative alternatives in Chapter 5 for detail 1.3 EIA Purpose The purpose of EIA for tpgrading of Xinxiang--.Zhengzhou Class I highway includes the following aspects: a. looking into physical eco-environment, agricultural eco-environment and socioeconomic background ,assessing environment quality status of environmental noise, air, ground water at this area and lead content in the farming layer of the soil adjacent area of both side of highway so that environmental status information could be provided for highway upgrading works ; b. analyzing and predicting environmental impacts to be posed to environmental noise, air, lead content in farming layer of soil of adjacent area in both construction and operation periods of this road ; c. proposing all kind of mitigating measures for envirometal protection ; d.proposing environmental management, environmental monitoring program in construction and operation stage; e. carrying out economic evaluation and analysis; f.looking into suggestion or recommendation regarding upgrading works and environmental question put forward by non-government organization and public people ; g. proposing environmental feasibilty for the upgrading works on XZH 1.4 EIA Basis 1.4.1 "Rules for Environmental Protection of Construction Projects" issued by NEPA in Document No.003 (86) 1.4.2 "Rules for Environmental Management of Communications Projects" issued by the Minister of Communications in his Decree No.90(17) 1.4.3 "Regulation for Environmental Protection of Construction Projects, Henan Province" 1.4.4 "Notice on Enhancing EIA Management of International Financing Organization-financed Construction Projects"issued by NEPA, SPC; MOF and People's Bank of China in Document HJ 324(1993); 1.4.5 "Feasibility Study Report of the Upgrading work on National Highway 107 Xinxiang--Zhengzhou section " prepared by Henan Provincial Transport Survey & Planning Design Institute; 5 1.4.6 "Entrust letter on EIA for the upgrading works on XZH' by Henan Provincial-.Highway Administration Bureau 1.5 EIA Class and Highlight -- Based on environment impact features of highway construction- projects and according to the "Specification for EIA of highway Construction Project ," this proposed upgrading work is identified as a Class 1.