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Chapter 4 Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures E875 World Bank Financed Highway Project Volume 3 ShiMan Expressway in Hubei *P.R.China No. SME- 29 Public Disclosure Authorized Shi-Man Expressway Rural Road Upgrading Project Baozhu Rural Road Environment Impact Assessment and Environment Management Plan Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized FILE COPY The World Bank Financed Project Office of HPCD Oct 2003 A~ S CONTENT CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ........................ 1 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND .1 1.2 PROGRESS OF EA .1 1.3 PURPOSE OF EA .2 1.4 BASIS OF ASSESSMENT .2 1.5 SCOPE OF THE EA .4 1.6 EA FACTORS .4 1.7 CONTENTS OF EA .4 1.8 ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION TARGETS .5 1.9 APPLICABLE STANDARD FOR EA ...................... 14 1.10 METHODOLOGY FOR EA .16 CHAPTER 2 OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT .......................................................... 17 2.1 GEOGRAPHICALLocATiON .17 2.2 FUNCTION OF THE PROPOSED ROAD .17 2.3 CURRENT CONDITIONS OF THE EXISTING ROAD .18 2.4 ROAD ALIGNMENT.19 2.5 EXISTING ROAD UTILIZATION .19 2.6 MAJOR TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS .20 2.7 TRAFFIC VOLUME PROJECTION .21 2.8 BORROWING AND DEPOSIT BALANCE .21 2.9 SOURCE AND TRANSPORTATION OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL .22 2.10 COST ESTIMATE AND FINANCING PLAN .22 2.11 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN .22 2.12 ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES .22 CHAPTER 3 BASELINE ENVIRONMENT ................................. 24 3.1 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT .24 3.2 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT .24 3.3 ECO-ENVIRONMENT .26 3.4 NATURAL RESOURCE 28 3.J BASELINE OF ENVIRONMENT QUALITY .28 CHAPTER 4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND MITIGATION MEASURES ..................................... 32 4.1 IMPACT ON ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT AND MITIGATION MEASURES .32 4.2 IMPACT ON ACoUSTIc ENVIRONMENT AND MITIGATION MEASURES .34 4.3 IMPACT ON SURFACE WATER ENVIRONMENTAND MITIGATION MEASURES .38 4.4 IMPACT ON AMBIENT AIR AND MITIGATION MEASURES .39 4.5 IMPACT OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT AND MITIGATION MEASURE .41 4.6 SOCIAL IMPACT .41 4.7 IMPACT ON EXISTING TRAFFIC CONDITION AND MITIGATION .42 4.8 MANAGEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CAMPS .42 4.9 ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT .................. ........................................................ 43 4.10 SAFEGUARDS ASSURANCE AND COMPLIANCE ....................................................................... 43 CHAPTER 5 PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ............. ............... 45 5.1 METHODOLOGY .......................................................................... 45 5.2 RESULTS .......................................................................... 45 5.3 RESPONSE TO PUBLIC CONCERNS .......................................................................... 51 5.4 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ..................... ..................................................... 52 CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................ 54 CHAPTER 7 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN ............................................................ 56 7.1 CONTENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN .56 7.2 MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS .56 7.3 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN .58 7.4 PERSONNELTRAINING .62 7.5 COST ESTIMATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION .64 List of Maps Mapl Location of Proposed Road in Poverty Area of Hubei Province Map2: Location of Proposed Road in Shiyan City and its Service Function Map3: The Alignment of Proposed Road and Location of Sensitive Spots Map4 Location of Monitoring Spots of Proposed Road Map5: Location of Public Consultation Activities List of Tables Table 1-5-1 Scopes of Environmental Assessment Table 1-8-1 Sensitive Receptors to Acoustic Environment and Ambient Air Table 1-8-2 Roadside Sensitive Receptors to Surface Water Environment Table 1-8-3 Protection Targets for Ecological and Social Environment Table 1-8.4 Major Protective Socio-economic Targets Table 1-9-1 Applied Surface Water Quality Standard Table 1-9-2 Applied Integrated Wastewater discharge Standard Table 1-9-3 Applied Noise Limit for Construction Site Boundary Table 1-9-4 Applied Noise Limits for Construction Site Table 1-9-5 Applied Ambient Air Quality Standard Table 1-9-6 Applied Soil Corrosion Intensity Classification Table 2-3-1 Technical Parameters of the Existing Road Table 2-5-1 Summary of the Realigned Section Table 2-5-2 Work Quantity Table 2-6-1 Major Technical Specifications Table 2-7-1 Projected Traffic Volume Table 3-2-1 Recent Major Economic Indicators for Affected Area in Year 2001 Table 3-3-1 Vegetation Coverage Rate of Roadside Towns Table 3-3-2 Current Status of Soil Erosion in the Major Roadside Towns Table 3-3-3 Ancient Trees within the Project Area Table 3-5-1 Monitoring result of acoustic environment Table 3-5-2 Water Quality in the Beixing Bridge and Assessment Result Table 3-5-3 Ambient Air Quality and Assessment Result Table 4-2-1 Mitigation Measures in Construction Phase Table 4-2-2 Mitigation Measures against Noise Table 5-1-1 Number of People Surveyed Table 5-1-2 Statistics of the People Surveyed Table 5-1-3 Public Consultation Results Table 5-1-4 Summary of Questionnaire Results Table 5-4-1 Timing, Location and Means of Information Disclosure. Table 7-2-1 Responsibilities for Environmental Management Organizations Table 7-2-2 Main Responsibilities for Supervision Organizations Table 7-3-1 Impact Mitigation Measures Table 7-3-2 Environmental Supervision Plan Table 7-3-3 Environmental Monitoring Plan Table 7-4-1 Personnel Training Program Table 7-5-1 Cost Estimation of Environmental Protection Measures Baoxia-Zhushan Rural Road EIA and EMP SSSRI Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Project Background The proposed Baoxia to Zhushan road (Baozhu road) is one of the rural road upgrading components in the Shiyan to Manchuanguan (Shiman) expressway. The HPCD includes this component in the Shiman project with the consideration of the maximizing the benefits of the expressway to the local areas as well as the priority roads in the Shiyan's 2003-2005 road network plan. The rural road upgrading in the Shiman project will be implemented in phases. The first phase includes Baoxia to Zhushan road (this project) and the Jiangjunhe Hanjiang River Bridge. The proposed Baoxia-Zhushan road is located within Yun County and Zhushan County, which are under the jurisdiction of Shiyan municipality of Hubei Province, P. R. China (shown in mapi). In the northwest of Hubei Province in border with Shaanxi, Henan, and Chongqing provinces, this area is characterized by high mountains and rolling terrain. The difficult terrain and geographical features create enormous barrier to road transportation in the area, impeding the reginal economic development of this area and resulting in severe poverty. Both Yun and Zhushan Counties are classified as national-level poverty counties of China, thus the focus for poverty alleviation effort in Hubei Province. Map 1 shows the location of the proposed road in the poverty area of Hubei Province. The existing Baoxia-Zhushan road was constructed in 1979 to the Class 4 standard for highly mountainous regions and has since been in operation for over 20 years. With several upgrading project in the past, some sections of the road have reached the Class 3 standard for highly mountainous region. However poor road conditions still remain in some sections, such as steep slope, narrow surface and zigzag route as well as the dusty dry days and muddy wet days. The Baoxia-Zhushan road is the vital transportation link connecting the north and south of Hanjiang River, as well as the only road transportation to Baozhu and Shuangtai townships. The existing transportation conditions are far from what is needed to support, sustain and promote the regional economic development and in fact have become a limit to even the current regional transportation needs. Clearly, upgrading of the existing Baoxia-Zhushan road is imminent. With considerations of poverty alleviation in the rural area and the World Bank project selection guides, Hubei Provincial Communication Department (HPCD) has applied for a loan from the World Bank to partially finance the rural road upgrading works. Hubei Provincial Transportation Planning and Design Institute was contracted to carry out the feasibility study for the proposed works in November 2002, which was completed in May 2003. 1.2 Progress of EA In March 2003, Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute (SSSRI) was retained by HPCD to undertake Environmental Assessment (EA) for this project. An EA team was formed .' ,, C;1 iy.sArichilEngL n ipresWav I Legend *Yunx !- i County <% | Proposed Road Proposed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shi-Man Fxpressway IPrposed Baoxia-Zhushan Roadg *Yu County roposed Road Baoxa Town ijiadian Provincial Boundry ShI yan';C i ty , .F .Danjiangk9W,ounty County Boundry - *1'r : Laohekou Counl'i ' W'_." 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