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Initial Environmental Examination August 2019 KAZ: Irrigation Rehabilitation Project Karaghandy Province Subprojects Project No. 50387-001 Prepared by the Republican State Enterprise “KazvodKhoz”, Republic of Kazakhstan, for the Asian Development Bank. This initial environmental examination 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 of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation or, or reference to a particular territory or geographic are 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. TA-9317 KAZ: Irrigation Rehabilitation Sector Project Initial Environmental Examination of Subprojects in Karaghandy Province Table of Contents A. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 A.I. Purpose of the report ............................................................................ 1 A.2 Category of Project ................................................................................ 2 A.3 Project proponent .................................................................................. 2 A.4 IEE Boundaries ...................................................................................... 3 A.5 Methodology applied ............................................................................. 3 A.6 Constraints and limitations................................................................... 4 A.7 Structure of the report ........................................................................... 4 B. Legal, policy and administrative framework ................................................... 5 B.1 General ................................................................................................... 5 B.2 Country policies and administrative framework ................................. 5 B.2.1. Overall legal framework .................................................................................................. 5 B.2.2. Administrative Framework ............................................................................................ 6 B.3 Air, Water, Land and Noise Legislation ............................................... 7 B.3.1. Air Quality Legislation ..................................................................................................... 7 B.3.2. Water Quality Legislation and Standards ....................................................... 8 B.3.5. Health and Safety ........................................................................................................ 11 B.3.6 Physical Cultural Heritage ..................................................................................... 11 B.3.7 Waste .................................................................................................................................. 12 B.3.8 International Conventions and Treaties ........................................................ 14 B.4 Environmental Quality Standards ...................................................... 16 B.4.2. Water Quality Standards ......................................................................................... 17 B.4.3. Land Quality Legislation and Standards ....................................................... 19 B.4.4. Noise Standards ........................................................................................................... 20 B.5 ADB Safeguard Policy Statement (2009) ........................................... 21 C Project Description .......................................................................................... 24 C.1 Irrigation Rehabilitation Project ......................................................... 24 C.2 Need for the subprojects..................................................................... 27 C.3 Location and scope ............................................................................. 27 C.4. Associated facility ............................................................................... 34 C.5 Alternatives .......................................................................................... 34 ii TA-9317 KAZ: Irrigation Rehabilitation Sector Project Initial Environmental Examination of Subprojects in Karaghandy Province D. Description of the Environment ..................................................................... 41 D.1. Physical Resources .............................................................................. 41 D.1.5. Monitoring of soil ........................................................................................................ 60 D.1.6. Natural Hazards ............................................................................................................ 61 D.2. Socio-Economic Development ............................................................. 65 D.2.1. Industries ............................................................................................................................... 65 D.2.2. Current Status of Irrigation and Drainage Infrastructure ......................... 65 D.2.4. Current Crop Yields ........................................................................................................ 67 D.2.5. Noncrop Agricultural Production ........................................................................... 68 D.3. Infrastructure and Transportation facilities ..................................................... 68 D.4 Social and Cultural Resources ........................................................... 68 D.4.1 Population and communities ............................................................................... 68 D.4.2 Health & Education facilities ................................................................................ 69 D.4.3. Ethnic Groups ..................................................................................................................... 70 D.4.4. Languages ............................................................................................................................ 70 D.5 Public cultural resources .................................................................... 70 E. Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures ......................................... 71 F. Environmental Management Plan .................................................................. 97 G. Public Consultation, Information Disclosure & Grievance Mechanism ...... 93 H. Conclusions and Recommendations ............................................................. 95 APPENDIXES .......................................................................................................... 96 List of Figures Figure 1. Core subproject locations in the scale of country ......................................................... 28 Figure 2. Project districts in Karaghandy Province (red stars) ................................................. 29 Figure 3. Topography of Kazakhstan and Karaghandy province .............................................. 42 Figure 4. Soil formation in Kazakhstan and Karaghandy province .......................................... 43 Figure 5. Main River Basins of Kazakhstan ........................................................................................ 48 Figure 6. Map of hydrologic monitoring points on Nura River basin ...................................... 49 Figure 7. Seismic Hazard Map ................................................................................................................. 61 Figure 8. Meteorological stations monitoring radiation in Karaghandy province ............. 62 iii TA-9317 KAZ: Irrigation Rehabilitation Sector Project Initial Environmental Examination of Subprojects in Karaghandy Province List of Tables Table 1: Summary of Final Project Area ................................................................................................. x Table 2. Air quality legislation .................................................................................................................. 8 Table 3. Water Quality Legislation in Kazakhstan .......................................................................... 10 Table 4. International Conventions and Treaties ............................................................................ 15 Table 5. Air quality standards in Kazakhstan .................................................................................. 16 Table 6. List of Pollutants and Maximum Permissible Concentrations (MPC) Polluting the Surface Waters of the Republic of Kazakhstan ....................................................................... 17 Table 7 FAO’S recommended Maximum Concentrations of Trace Elements in Irrigation Water ....................................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 8. Soil quality standards in Kazakhstan ................................................................................. 20 Table 9. IFC Noise Level Guidelines ...................................................................................................... 21 Table 10. IFC Work Environment Noise limits ................................................................................. 21 Table 11. Project