Environmental Impact Assessment Project Number: 52220-001 September 2020 Draft Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility Republic of the Philippines: South Commuter Railway Project Volume 2 Annexes (Part 5) Prepared by the Department of Transportation for the Asian Development Bank. This is an updated version of the draft originally posted in July 2020 available on https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/phi-52220-001-eia NOTES This environmental impact assessment 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 ANNEX 3-6 Proceeding on the meeting with the officials of the National Museum Minutes of the Meeting - Consultation Meeting with National Museum (March 4, 2020) Meeting attendees: National Museum: • Jeremy R. Barns (Director General) • Sheldon Clyde B. Jago-on, MSc (Museum Curator I) • Atty. Maria Cecilia U. Tirol (OIC – Office of the Deputy Director-General (Administration) • Raquel DC. Flores (OIC – Cultural Properties Regulation Division) Prepared by: Joanne Ochoa and KC Dumat-ol 1 Unexploded ordnance • Between Lawton West St and FTI St, there are no records/ no information from National Museum in the past but strongly suspects the presence of UXO from World War 2 around the vicinity • Director Barns recommends to look for related studies/past information from the development projects within the vicinity (NAIA, NAIAx, Mega World, Sky Way). This could be used as best predictor/ support documents for the presence of UXO within the vicinity. • There is a possibility of the presence of UXOs in former military camps in Manila such as in Fort Bonifacio Sites/ Fort McKinley area, Nichols, Intramuros, etc. • Recommended guideline for accidental discoveries of UXOs: i.stop work and safety procedures. Call Philippine National Police (PNP) for safe extraction of the device and proper handling. ii.Protocol / Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to report to PNP Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and National Museum in case of finding • No specific archaeological site along the alignment. Recorded sites were within the Fort Bonifacio area when it was still Fort McKinley. They found fossils of megafauna (elephants, rhino, etc.) from the Pleistocene period, but no specific place. Other areas we had are in the Taguig area. But not within the alignment. 2 Guidelines on Heritage Accidental Finds handed to AECOM Team by NATIONAL MUSEUM (see attached file) 3 Buffer Zone for identified heritage/cultural sites – minimum of 5m; for suspected- none 5 Highest Concern - National Nutrition Council • Property is under DepEd; not consulted • For strong protection under the law • Recommends meeting with DepEd USec Alain Pascua (09178024668) together with National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and NATIONAL MUSEUM; • Any initiative that would impact heritage site is strongly opposed (Dir. Barns) • Suggests re-alignment -- Military Property, Golf Course, SLEX, New Senate Bldg. • Declared churches around Teachers village should also be identified. 6 National Museum Clearance • If needed, we need to write a request letter to National Museum to put into paper that there are no UXO and archaelogical sites within the alignment 7 National Museum Request • Shapefiles of the alignment 8 Other concerns • The office wanted to be consulted for the whole alignment and not only between Lawton West to FTI. They emphasized that areas in Novaliches up to Tandang Sora are considered as highly sensitive areas. • The office conduct orientation for fossil identification 1/7 Attachment: • National Museum Business Cards • Cultural Heritage Finds 2/7 3/7 4/7 5/7 6/7 7/7 ANNEX 3-7 Proceeding on the meeting for the Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) Minutes of the Meeting - Consultation Meeting with the Philippine National Police (February 28, 2020) Meeting attendees: PNP EOD/ K9 Group Office: • PBGen Jonathan M. Ureta (Director of PNP-EOD/K9 Group) • Mr. Ronnel E. Geneblan (EOD/K9 NCR) • Mr. Dexter Castor (PNP EOD/K9) Prepared by: Rory S. Caguimbal • The meeting was conducted on February 28, 2020 at the PNP EOD/K-9 Group Office • According to them, there is currently no available data on the possible location of UXOs within Metro Manila. The UXO data that they have is based on the report of developers who encountered the bombs during their construction; • The PNP is only dependent on the information that civilians report to them. There is no scanning activity being done for the whole of Metro Manila. One reason is the lack of equipment and capacity to do so; • They also mentioned that they sometimes do a scanning, but it can only detect those with depth of about 1 meter. They cannot detect deeper than that; • In terms of depth, the deepest that they recovered is 2 to 3 meters. Meanwhile, the range of weight that they recovered so far are 100 lbs, 125 lbs and the heaviest is 2000 lbs; • According to them, it is fine to proceed with the construction/tunneling even without the scanning/removal done first. Should there be an identified metal object, the SOP that they follow is as follows: • When a metal object is found, do not mine/remove it, put a cordon within the area for safety; • Call the nearest PNP Office in the area. They will immediately report this to the PNP EOD Unit; • PNP will identify the metal object. If found to be a UXO, they will conduct removal; • Recovered UXOs are temporarily put in an explosive magazine in an undisclosed area. Once full, they will transfer it to Crow Valley for disposal • The difference of the AFP EOD to the PNP EOD is, the PNP is responsible to the civilian-related UXOs while AFP is responsible for the removal of UXOs that will affect the military operation. 1/1 ANNEX 3-8 Guidelines on Heritage Accidental Finds ANNEX 7-1 Draft GRM Guideline for the Project This section presents the Guidelines for the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) for the environmental and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) concerns of DOTR's North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project (NSCR EX). The GRM Guideline, although titled "DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM FOR THE NORTH-SOUTH COMMUTER EXTENSION RAIL- WAY PROJECT (NSCR-EX) – NORTH 2 SEGMENT (MANILA TO CLARK)", shall apply to both phases of NSCR Ex, referred to in the updated EIS as the NSCR Clark Extension (also known as the Malolos- Clark Railway Project, MCRP), and the NSCR Calamba Extension (also known as the South Commuter Railway Project, SCRP). Correspondingly, the SCRP covers the underground section in the Senate-FTI- Bicutan segment, referred to as the “Interconnecting Line” connecting the NSCR Ex with the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP). DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM FOR THE NORTH-SOUTH COMMUTER EXTENSION RAILWAY PROJECT (NSCR-EX) – NORTH 2 SEGMENT (MANILA TO CLARK)1 INTRODUCTION The NSCR – North 2 Project is a 53-km railway project to be implemented by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and jointly financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Tranche 1 of the project runs from Malolos to Clark International Airport and will include one depot site in Malolos and a section of the North South Commuter Railway in Blumentritt, Manila. The MCRP has identified large numbers of people that will be affected – including private landowners and informal settlers that will be displaced along the project’s right-of-way. Results of the initial census show about 1,416 households, 310 businesses, and 1,089 structures that might be affected due to right-of-way clearance and land acquisition. Of the 1,416 households, about 83% were identified as informal settlers. Social safeguards documents and the final draft of the Environmental Impact Assessment are now being prepared by DOTr together with JICA’s technical assistance team. In preparation for the land acquisition and resettlement activities including the dissemination of environmental- related information (EIA, environmental safeguards documents, the grievance redress mechanism), ADB will prepare a Communication Strategy that is founded on a mapping and analysis of project stakeholders’ communication needs and their levels of interest in, and influence over, the design, implementation and management of the railway project. The Communication Strategy is therefore envisioned as a cross-cutting workstream for the project to aid the application of social and environmental safeguards that were put in place for the project, and as a wider strategy that fosters meaningful stakeholder engagement. At the operational level – i.e., the project being implemented in “communities” – this broader strategy may translate to a combination of existing governance structures and/or participation mechanisms (such as local interagency committees or LIACs, barangay assemblies, as well as systems for feedback, engagement, and grievance redress), as well as informal local structures mobilized by grassroots communities (e.g., homeowners’ associations or “mothers’ groups”) – all executed via different channels (interpersonal, group, or mass) and driven by different communication objectives (information dissemination, dialogue and problem-solving, etc.). A grievance redress mechanism (GRM) as a platform for engaging stakeholders in the development process, therefore, operates within the framework of Communication for Development (C4D), and will be most effective if leveraged cohesively with other participatory communication strategies and approaches. 1 Prepared by Cynthia Arce, Communication and Stakeholder Engagement Consultant for the Asian Development Bank. As a platform for stakeholder engagement, Resource Documents mechanisms for grievance redress are different 1.