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Environmental Monitoring Report Project Number: 50301-002 /003 Loan Numbers: Tranche 1 – 3579 /3580 /3851 Annual Report December 2020 SRI: Second Integrated Road Investment Program – Tranches 1 and 2 PIC 06 – Uva Province Prepared by the Road Development Authority, Ministry of Highways for the Asian Development Bank. This environmental monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section on ADB’s website.'. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area Annual Environmental Compliance Monitoring Report - 2020 DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA MINISTRY OF HIGHWAYS ROAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY LOAN No. 3579 / 3580 - SRI: SECOND INTEGRATED ROAD INVESTMENT PROGRAMME Consulting Services for Project Implementation including Construction Supervision, Contract Management and other Implementation activities in Uva Province (PIC06) Annual Environmental Compliance Monitoring Report January to December – 2020 Prepared by: Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants Ltd in Joint Venture with Consulting Engineers and Architects Associated (Pvt) Ltd Submitted to: Road Development Authority MINISTRY OF HIGHWAYS LOAN No. 3579 / 3580 - SRI: SECOND INTEGRATED ROAD INVESTMENT PROGRAMME Page i Consulting Services for Project Implementation including Construction Supervision, Contract Management and other implementation activities in Uva Province (PIC06) Annual Environmental Compliance Monitoring Report - 2020 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Scope of the Report ................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Background of the Project ...................................................................................................... 1 Second Integrated Road Investment Programme (iRoad 2) ........................................... 1 1.3 iRoad Programme 2 – Uva Province ....................................................................................... 1 Objectives and Outline of the Project in Uva Province ................................................... 3 1.4 Project implementation arrangements in Uva Province ........................................................ 3 1.5 Scope of the Project - iRoad 2 Uva .......................................................................................... 4 1.6 Appointment of Civil Works Contractors ................................................................................ 5 1.7 Project Implementation Unit (PIU) ......................................................................................... 7 1.8 Project Implementation Consultant (PIC06) ........................................................................... 7 1.9 Roles and Responsibilities of PIU, PIC06, and Contractors ..................................................... 7 1.10 Summary of Submissions & Approvals and Environmental Activities .................................... 8 2.0 Civil Works Progress .................................................................................................................... 9 2.1 Status of Civil Work Progress in Uva province ........................................................................ 9 3.0 Compliance with Environment Safeguard Requirements ......................................................... 11 3.1 Environmental Safeguard Compliances ................................................................................ 11 4.0 Monitoring of Environmental Compliance at Field Level ......................................................... 14 4.1 PIU and PIC06 Actions to Comply Environmental Safeguards .............................................. 14 4.2 Staffing of Environment and Safety Officers ......................................................................... 15 4.3 Review and Approval of SSEMAP .......................................................................................... 17 4.4 Preparing of Environmental Monitoring Checklist (EMC) ..................................................... 17 4.5 Pre-crack survey (Conducted by the Contractor) ................................................................. 17 4.6 Site safety and accidents ...................................................................................................... 17 4.7 COVID 19 Pandemic .............................................................................................................. 19 4.8 Summary of License and approvals for materials ................................................................. 38 4.9 Context Sensitive Design (CSD) Applications and EWCD Friendly Designs ........................... 56 4.10 Standard Environmental Monitoring Plan ............................................................................ 62 Ambient air quality........................................................................................................ 62 Water Quality ................................................................................................................ 62 Noise Level .................................................................................................................... 62 4.11 Establishment of Public Awareness Mechanism and GRM .................................................. 63 Public awareness ........................................................................................................... 63 Channels of receiving public Grievances ....................................................................... 64 LOAN No. 3579 / 3580 - SRI: SECOND INTEGRATED ROAD INVESTMENT PROGRAMME Page ii Consulting Services for Project Implementation including Construction Supervision, Contract Management and other implementation activities in Uva Province (PIC06) Annual Environmental Compliance Monitoring Report - 2020 Complaints & suggestion .............................................................................................. 65 Office of the Divisional Secretary .................................................................................. 66 Office of Grama Niladari (GN) ....................................................................................... 66 4.12 Consultation, Information Disclosure and Grievance Redress Mechanism .......................... 66 Grievance Redress Mechanism ..................................................................................... 66 4.13 Maintenance of Records for Public Grievances .................................................................... 68 4.14 Environmental Monitoring Structure and Site Inspections ................................................... 70 4.15 Environment safeguard Compliance at Road handing over ................................................. 70 5.0 Issues Observed and Status of Compliance .............................................................................. 71 6.0 Programmes and Activities to Enhance Environment .............................................................. 93 6.1 Tree Planting Programmes .................................................................................................... 93 6.2 Training and Awareness ........................................................................................................ 95 6.3 In-house training ................................................................................................................... 97 6.4 Environmental and Road Safety Awareness Programmes ................................................. 101 6.5 Cooperate Social Responsibilities (CSR) .............................................................................. 103 7.0 Conclusion and recommendations ......................................................................................... 104 Annexures ........................................................................................................................................... 106 List of Figures Figure 1 - Project Implementation Arrangements of Uva Province........................................................ 3 Figure 2 - Project Location Map .............................................................................................................. 4 Figure 3 - Location of Civil Works Contracts Badulla District .................................................................. 5 Figure 4 - Location of Civil Works Contracts Monaragala District .......................................................... 6 Figure 5 - Monthly Progress Review Meeting through Zoom software ............................................... 20 Figure 6– COVID 19 field inspection conducted by Team Leader – MO04 package ............................. 20 Figure 7- PHI of the area conducting a COVID 19 Prevention Awareness programme – BA01 ........... 21 Figure 8- Disinfection, office premises – MO01 package ..................................................................... 21 Figure 9 - Measuring body temperature – MO06 package ..................................................................