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China:Chongqing New Urbanization Pilot Public Disclosure Authorized And Demonstration Project ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Executive Summary Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Chongqing Municipal PMO CCTEG Chongqing Engineering May 2018 Public Disclosure Authorized I Content 1 PROJECT BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................................... 1 2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................ 3 3 REGULATORY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK ...................................................................................... 8 4 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL BASELINES .................................................................................... 13 4.1 Physical Environment ..................................................................................................................... 13 4.2 Ecological environment .................................................................................................................. 14 4.3 Socio-Economics ............................................................................................................................ 16 4.4 Physical Cultural Resources ........................................................................................................... 17 4.5 Ambient Environmental Quality ..................................................................................................... 18 5 ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES .............................................................................................................. 20 5.1 "with project" and "without project" .............................................................................................. 20 5.2 Road design .................................................................................................................................... 20 6 ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES ............................................................ 22 6.1 Impacts during Construction Stage ............................................................................................ 22 6.1.1 Impacts of Land Acquisition and Resettlement ................................................................. 22 6.1.2 Impact on the traffic and communities .............................................................................. 22 6.1.3 Analysis of travel safety of teachers and students in the school ........................................ 23 6.1.4 The impact analysis of noise ............................................................................................. 23 6.1.5 The impact analysis of ambient air.................................................................................... 24 6.1.6 The impact analysis on the water environment ................................................................. 25 6.1.7 Solid waste management ................................................................................................... 25 6.1.8 Impact on Physical Cultural Resources ............................................................................. 26 6.1.9 Impact on the ecological environment .............................................................................. 26 6.2 Impacts during Operation Stage ..................................................................................................... 26 6.2.1 Noise Impact ..................................................................................................................... 26 6.2.2 Impact on Air Quality........................................................................................................ 27 6.2.3 Impacts on Water Environment ......................................................................................... 27 6.2.4 Waste Management ........................................................................................................... 27 6.2.5 Analysis of impacts on safety of teachers and students in the schoolError! Bookmark not defined. 6.3 Prediction and assessment of environmental impacts on sensitive points ...................................... 28 7 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK ................................... 32 8 PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ......................................................... 33 9 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (EMP) .............................................................................. 35 9.1 Roles and Responsibilities .............................................................................................................. 35 9.2 Environmental mitigation measures ............................................................................................... 37 9.3 Management of Contractors ........................................................................................................... 37 9.4 Environmental Monitoring Plan ..................................................................................................... 38 9.5 Environment monitoring report ...................................................................................................... 39 9.6 Environmental Training Plan .......................................................................................................... 39 9.7 EMP Budget ................................................................................................................................... 39 II 1 PROJECT BACKGROUND Chongqing new urbanization pilot and demonstration project is located in Nan’an and Jiulongpo District (Figure 1-1). Figure 1-1 The geographic location of the project As a main urban district of Chongqing, Nan’an District is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Chongqing, with its west and north areas bordering on the Yangtze River, its east and south areas on Banan District, and Jiulongpo District, Yuzhong District, Jiangbei District, and Yubei District separated by river. The entire district covers a total area of 265km2. It has jurisdiction over eight sub-districts and nine villages and towns, with a total permanent population of 873,900. As a main urban district of Chongqing, Jiulongpo District is located on the west of the main urban area. Covering a total area of 432 km2, and with jurisdiction over 8 sub-districts and 11 towns, and a total permanent population of 1,186,900, such district has Yuzhong District and Nan’an District on the east, Dadukou District on the south, Bishan District and Jiangjin District on the west and Shapingba District on the north. The project is assigned as Category A as per OP4.01 primarily due to diverse impacts associated with the various activities to be implemented in densely populated urban core areas. Full environmental assessment was conducted during the project preparation. The following World Bank safeguards policies are triggered: (1) OP4.01 Environmental Assessment; (2) OP4.04 Natural Habitats; (3)OP4.11 Physical Cultural Resources; and OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) reports have been prepared for Nan’an subproject and Jiulongpo subproject respectively, based on which two stand-alone Environmental Management Plans (EMP) have been developed. An environmental and social management framework (ESMF) has been prepared for urban regeneration technical assistance of the Component 1.The preparation of EIAs and EMPs followed the relevant laws and regulations of China, World Bank safeguards policies, as well as World Bank Group EHS guidelines, with comments and guidance from the World Bank task team. Besides these environmental safeguards 1 documents, social safeguards documents have also been prepared following the requirement of OP4.12 respectively. These documents were submitted to the Bank, and found in conformity with World Bank safeguards policies. They have been locally disclosed in local website, Project Management Offices,local communities, and are also disclosed in the World Bank’s external website. This document summarizes the potential environmental and social impacts of the proposed Project based on above-mentioned safeguards documents. It highlights the key environmental and social safeguards issues related to the project construction and operation, describes the main findings and conclusion of impact assessment, and summarizes main mitigation measures and implementation management plans. In summary, the proposed project will have significant positive impacts by old community regeneration, public space regeneration, slow-traffic system regeneration and quality improvement of public space. The direct environmental and social impacts are mostly site-specific, not significant and are well identified. Thorough environmental and social management plans have been developed that can adequately avoid, minimize, mitigate and compensate the adverse impacts to an acceptable level. 2 2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION The project development objective is to improve use of public space and increase pedestrian mobility in select districts of Chongqing’s Central City. The project interventions under this project development objective consist of four overall activities and components in the proposal should clearly fall in one of the four categories: (1) neighborhood public space improvements (2) parks and green public space improvements (3) pedestrian walkway improvements (4) urban regeneration technical assistance The project will include the following components: