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World Bank Loan for China Guangdong Technical and Vocational Education Training Project Public Disclosure Authorized
Environmental Management Framework (EMF)
Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized
Word Bank Loan Project Management Office, Department of Labour and Social Security of Guangdong Province
July 2008 Public Disclosure Authorized
1 Table of Contents
1. Foreword ...... 4 2. General Rules ...... 6 2.1 Purpose of Framework Establishment...... 6 2.2 Content of the Framework...... 6 2.3 General Principles ...... 6 3. Legal Framework ...... 8 3.1 Relevant Policies and Laws of China...... 8 3.1.1 Relevant laws of national government ...... 8 3.1.2 Relevant regulations of national government...... 8 3.1.3 Relevant laws and regulations of provincial government ...... 8 3.1.4 Important documents of State Environmental Protection Administration...... 9 3.2 Safeguard Policies of the World Bank...... 9 3.2.1 Relevant safeguard policies of the World Bank related to the Project ...... 9 3.2.2 Safeguard policies of the World Bank not related to this Project...... 9 3.3 Relevant Policies of Environmental Protection of China...... 10 3.3.1 Implementation of environmental impact assessment system of construction projects 10 3.3.2 Pollution prevention and other Nuisance ...... 10 3.3.3 Management system of “3-Synchronies” ...... 10 4. Objectives and Main Contents of this Project ...... 12 4.1 General ...... 12 4.2 Features of Project...... 12 4.3 Components of this Project ...... 12 4.3.1 Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry ...... 12 4.3.2 Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School...... 13 4.3.3 Yangjiang Technical School ...... 13 4.3.4 Project management, monitoring, and evaluation ...... 13 4.4 Project Implementation Locations...... 14 4.5 Site Selection and Sensitivity ...... 14 5. Major Environmental Impacts...... 15 5.1 Major Environmental Impacts of this Project...... 15 5.2 Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-Projects...... 15 5.3 Environmental Responsibility of the Contractors...... 18 6. Public Participation and Disclosure of Information ...... 19 6.1 Regulations of Chinese Government...... 19 6.2 Requirements of the World Bank ...... 19 6.3 Public Participation and Information Disclosure...... 19 6.3.1 Procedures of information disclosure...... 19 6.3.2 Methods of information disclosure...... 21 6.3.3 Public participation ...... 21 6.3.4 Information feedback ...... 22 7. Environmental Safeguard System ...... 23
2 7.1 Organization arrangement ...... 23 7.2 Allocation of Tasks...... 23 7.3 Training ...... 23 7.4 Fund Arrangements ...... 23 7.5 Mechanism of Complain ...... 24 7.6 Public Participation ...... 24 7.7 Environmental Monitoring and Environmental Management System ...... 24 7.7.1 Environmental monitoring plan...... 26 7.7.2 Environmental management reporting system ...... 26 Annex 1 ...... 27
3 Foreword
The World Bank Loan financed China Guangdong Technical and Vocational Education Training Project is the first project in Guangdong Province, which utilizes the fund of vocational education of the World Bank Loan to develop technical education. It is one of the important channels to invest in technical education in Guangdong with multiple sources of funds. This Project will play important roles to demonstrate and disseminate the experience on attracting international financial funds to develop technical education in Guangdong Province and in China.
During the past 20 years of opening and reform, especially after China joined WTO, Guangdong has achieved a rapid economic growth. Pearl River Delta area has become a global processing factory, with the concern of shortage of skilled talents. It is estimated that the shortage of skilled talents will be about 4.59 million in Guangdong by 2010. Although the number of students in technical schools in Guangdong has been doubled in the past five years, it still cannot meet the needs of rapid social and economic development. Technical education as the main way of skilled worker training in Guangdong, increasing the investment, speeding up the development, and strengthening the training ability of skilled worker education will provide sufficient intelligence support and professional guarantee for industrial optimization and upgrade and continuous promotion of industrial competition ability.
With the rapid development of science and technology, enterprises pose more requirements on different types and levels of skilled talents. Under such circumstance, branded specialties in connection with Guangdong’s new hi-tech and traditional superior industries must be positively created for skilled worker education, as well as innovation of educational module, improvement of education quality, to assume the historic responsibilities of training large number of high quality skilled talents.
Implementation of this Project will play a significant role in the reform and development of technical education in Guangdong.
The objective of this Project is to support technical education by strengthening the training ability, improving the quality and correlation, and increasing the management efficiency, thereby to provide a basis for establishment of planning and policy development mechanism. The total investment of this Project will be about RMB280 million, 50% of which in amount of USD20 million (RMB140 million) is loan of the World Bank. Domestic counterpart fund of RMB140 million will be financed by schools and government finance.
4 According to the new requirements of environmental safeguards of the World Bank, a safeguard framework needs to be prepared by the Borrower with the assistance of the World Bank if a project has multiple sub-projects and the size and implementation location of sub-projects are still uncertain during appraisal. It is also confirmed that all planned constructions of the Project will be carried out on the existing lands or lands which have obtained Land Utilization Permit during the pre-appraisal. Therefore, resettlement will not be a concern. Moreover, in order to minimize and avoid the negative environment impacts from project activities, ensure smooth implementation of reform on quality and correlation of the Project, and improve sustainable economic and social development, with the assistance of the World Bank team, provincial Project Management Office (PMO) under Department of Labour and Social Security of Guangdong Province, together with PMOs of different schools, prepared the Environmental Management Framework (EMF). This Framework is in accordance with national and local laws and in accordance with safeguard policies of the World Bank as well.
By analyzing the potential environmental impacts of sub-projects, mitigation measures are proposed, as well as the environmental management framework. The Framework clearly identifies activities may be supported or may not, and avoids the locations where are not suitable for some activities in order to reduce the negative impacts on environment. The Framework also establishes the mechanism to meet safeguard requirements of the World Bank (including organization structure, evaluation system, monitoring system and capacity building, etc.).
5 General Rules
2.1 Purpose of Framework Establishment
Constitution of the Framework should be in compliance with the safeguard policies of the World Bank and apply to respective sub-projects of this Project. The purpose of this Framework is to ensure that all activities of the projects will meet the following requirements:
¾ Increase positive and sustainable environment and society outputs; ¾ Integrate the content of environmental protection of individual sub-project into the process of policy making; ¾ Minimize environmental deterioration resulting from impacts of individual sub- project or accumulated impacts.
2.2 Content of the Framework
Environmental Safeguard Framework includes the following contents: ¾ Introduction of relevant national, local authorities’ and the World Bank policy frameworks; ¾ Discussion of the type, possible scale and impact of sub-projects; ¾ Identify environmental impacts of this Project, plans to eliminate the impacts, and arrangement for implementation of the monitoring system; ¾ System to meet the World Bank safeguard requirements (including preparation of environmental assessment and environmental management plan); ¾ Capability of project implementation agencies to carry out the activities and suggested capacity building measures; ¾ Monitoring and reporting system, including regular inspection and adjustment mechanism of implementation.
2.3 General Principles
While recognizing the necessity of the implementation of this Project, potential negative impacts on environment must be identified, and sufficient abilities are needed to deal with these impacts. This Project must meet both national and local requirements and the relevant operation policies of the World Bank.
The following principles proposed in the Framework apply to all sub-projects.
6 (1) There are three sub-projects included in this Project. In order to ensure effective implementation of the World Bank safeguard policies, this Framework will provide guidance on the selected methods for the engineering constructions of this Project. (2) This Project is classified as Category C environmental project, as well as all sub- projects. (3) The general development objective of proposed activities is to support the skilled worker education in terms of extension of training capacity, improvement of quality and correlation, and improvement of management effectiveness, and consequently to provide basis for system establishment of planning and policy development. (4) According to relevant requirements, information of this Project will be disclosed to the public. Relevant investigations must be carried out with the main participants, including local communities, environmental groups and/or national research units, etc. Among which, women, minorities and other vulnerable groups should also be involved. It is required to record the comments of participants and the adopted measures. This Framework will be disclosed in relevant provincial government departments, public areas and websites, and the infoshop of the World Bank.
7 Legal Framework
3.1 Relevant Policies and Laws of China
3.1.1 Relevant laws of national government
(1) Law of Environmental Impact Assessment of PRC (2003.9) (2) Law of Environmental Protection of PRC (1989.12) (3) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (Revised in March 2008) (4) Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Revised in 2000) (5) Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution (Revised in Dec 2004) (6) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Noise Pollution (1996)
3.1.2 Relevant regulations of national government (1) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection (1998.11) (2) Classified Catalogue of Environmental Protection Management in Construction Projects (2003.01.01) (3) Regulations for the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (2004.08.28)
3.1.3 Relevant laws and regulations of provincial government
(1) Regulations of Environmental Protection of Guangdong Province (2004.09.24) (2) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection of Guangdong (Revised in Nov 2004) (3) Eleventh Five Year Plan of Environmental Protection of Guangdong (2005) (4) Outline of Environmental Protection Planning of Guangdong (2006-2020) (5) Outline of Surface Water Environment Function Zoning of Guangdong
8 (8) Implementation Opinions of Public Participation on Construction Project Environmental Protection of Guangdong (Guangdong Environment (2007) No. 99)
3.1.4 Important documents of State Environmental Protection Administration Notice on Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (State Environmental Protection Administration, 2006.03)
3.2 Safeguard Policies of the World Bank
3.2.1 Relevant safeguard policies of the World Bank related to the Project
(1) Environmental Assessment OP4.01 (2) Disclosure of Safeguard Documentation OP17.50
The main contents and requirements of the World Bank safeguard policies related to this Project are shown in Table 1. Table 1 World Bank Safeguard Policies Safeguard Policies Abstract of the Policy The assessment process of potential environmental risk, impact, extension, depth, and analysis type depends on the nature, scale and potential environmental impacts of the project. In the mean OP 4.01 time, the environmental assessment will check substitute projects Environmental to minimize, alleviate and compensate negative environmental Assessment impacts and reinforce positive impacts by prevention. The measures involve alleviation and control of the negative environmental impacts to determine the methods of project identification, site selection, planning, design and implementation. OP17.50 Key information of all projects must be disclosed in the host Disclosure of countries and the infoshop of the World Bank Safeguard Documents
3.2.2 Safeguard policies of the World Bank not related to this Project
OP4.04 Natural habitats. This Project does not involve natural habitats, different levels of natural reserves or any construction in natural reserves.
OP4.09 Pest Management. This Project does not involve the purchase of pesticide.
OP4.10 Indigenous Peoples. This Project does not involve ethnic minority groups.
OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. This Project does not involve resettlement.
9 OP4.11 Physical Cultural Resources. This Project does not involve physical cultural resources, will not carry out any activity on the site with archaeology, paleontology, historical value.
OP4.36 Forests. This Project does not involve business behavior of tree logging or natural forests.
OP4.37 Dam Safety. This Project does not involve any construction and renovation of dams and will not base on any existing dams or the ones under construction.
OP7.50 Projects on International Waterways. This Project, as well as sub-projects, does not involve international waterways.
OP7.60 Projects in Disputed Areas. This Project does not involve any disputed areas..
3.3 Relevant Policies of Environmental Protection of China
3.3.1 Implementation of environmental impact assessment system of construction projects
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be conducted during the Feasibility Study Phase for the construction projects, to evaluate pollution and ecological impacts of construction project. Prevention measures should be proposed. Environmental impact report must be approved according to defined procedures.
3.3.2 Pollution prevention and other Nuisance
Any units that generate pollution and other nuisance must incorporate environmental protection into the plan, establish responsibility system of environmental protection, take effective measures to prevent and control the pollutions and harms of waste gas, wastewater, waste residue, dust and odor, radioactive substances as well as noise, vibration, electromagnet. Production enterprises should carry out technological renovations, and utilize equipment and technologies with high efficiency of resource utilization and low pollution discharge, as well as the economical and sound technologies of waste comprehensive utilization and pollution treatment.
3.3.3 Management system of “3-Synchronies” For any construction project with environmental impacts, the design, construction and operation of environmental protection facilities should be synchronous with the design, construction and operation of the main civil works according to law.
10 11 Objectives and Main Contents of this Project
4.1 General
This Project includes the following two aspects. One is to carry out reform and innovation activities at school level; the other is to carry out policy development and capacity building at province level. The preliminary preparatory work of this Project will be finished by 2008. Construction will start in 2009 with 4 year construction period and be finished by 2012.
In accordance with the loan requirements of the World Bank, under the decision by Guangdong Province Development and Reform Commission, Department of Finance and Department of Labor and Social Security, the Department of Labor and Social Security is responsible for implementation of this Project. Three implementing agencies are Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry (GDSTSLI), Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School (GDCCSTS) and Yangjiang Technical School (YTS) respectively. The total investment cost is about RMB280 million (Ratio of the World Bank loan and domestic counterpart fund is 1:1). It is planned to apply for a loan of USD20 million dollars from the World Bank, including USD7 million for GDSTSLI, USD6.5 million for GDCCSTS, and USD6.5 million for YTS.
4.2 Features of Project
1. Site selection, construction land planning permission and environmental impact assessment of each sub-project have been approved by relevant authorities. No relocation is involved. The environmental impacts of this Project are relatively simple. 2. The main objectives of this Project are to provide financial support, improve school’s hardware environment, promote innovations for institutional mechanisms of technical education, and train high-level teachers.
4.3 Components of this Project
4.3.1 Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry
The objectives of the sub-project in this school are to set up the concept of “Quality, Management, Feature and Brand” based on market orientation, to upgrade school level and realize a breakthrough transformation of training highly skilled personnel; to highlight the development of specialty characteristics, to improve the quality of teaching and management, to promote integrated capacity of the school, to train to high quality talents with practical skills who can meet the market demand. During the
12 implementation period of the sub-project, the number of in-school students will be increased from 11,130 to 15,000. Upgrade, renovate and add the lab training equipment for characteristic specialties like Paper Making, Food, refinery Chemical Engineering, Costume, Decoration, and Cartoon, as well as for traditional specialties like Automobile, Mold, Digital Control, Electrical, Mechanical and Electrical, and Computer. Add the lab training equipment for new specialties like Logistics, Business. Construct a new building for teaching and training to centralize high-skill training and socialization identification programs, to further improve the training facility for the training of highly skilled personnel.
4.3.2 Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School
The objectives of sub-project in this school are to adapt to the social development and marketing demand by upgrading the school scale and level, improving the capability of management, enhancing the cooperation with enterprises and deepening the reform of teaching. The number of in-school students will reach 10,000 in the next 4 years with graduation rate of 97% and employment rate of above 98%. Perfect the special and main specialities. Establish academic leading person system. Expand the ratio of students in senior classes. Enhance cooperation with enterprises. Improve quality of teaching. Implementation of the sub-project will make the school become a demonstrative school in Guangdong province and a famous school with national influence.
4.3.3 Yangjiang Technical School This school has been passed the assessment of provincial key technical schools and it is striving for passing the assessment of national key technical schools in 2008. The number of in-school students will reach 7,000 by 2010. The objectives of this school are to improve the conditions of the school, comprehensively enhance the standard of teaching and management capacity; exert fully the guidance function of school- enterprise cooperation on teaching, and further facilitate school-enterprise cooperation to a deeper level.
4.3.4 Project management, monitoring, and evaluation All sub-projects will include the support on general management and implementation of this Project, design and utilization of comprehensive project Management Information System (MIS). Sub-projects will also support the design of project participation method. The method of participation will penetrate into all sub-projects, mainly including the monitoring and evaluation with participation of project activities.
13 4.4 Project Implementation Locations
This Project has completed the procedures of site selection and obtained construction land planning permit. No relocation will incur. The implementation sites are as follow:
Sub-project of Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry is located at Qi Xing Gang, Shi Liu Gang Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong;
Sub-project of Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School is located in Lian He, Luo Gang Town, Guangzhou Economic and Technology Development Zone, Guangdong;
Sub-project of Yangjiang City Technical School is located in Wang Niu Gang, Baisha Street Office, Jiangcheng District, Yangjiang City, Guangdong.
4.5 Site Selection and Sensitivity
The sites of this Project are low-sensitive areas, not involving with natural reserve, geological parks, national forest parks, scenic tourist areas, the water resource protection areas and water conservation areas, cultural relics, historical sites or relocation, etc.
14 Major Environmental Impacts According to the nature of three sub-projects, 50% of the investment will be used for school infrastructure (mainly civil works) construction. In the course of construction, some environmental impacts will incur.
5.1 Major Environmental Impacts of this Project
The implementation of this Project is carried out on the lands acquired for school use, not involving the issues of ethnic minority groups and relocation.
However, implementation of this Project will have some negative environmental impacts on ecological and environmental quality.
(1) Ecological Impacts: earthwork for project foundation will damage soil and vegetation likely to cause soil erosion. (2) Impacts on environmental quality: noise, air pollution and water pollution may occur during construction. Wastewater, waste gas, noise and solid waste generated during operation (such as students, teachers, laboratory and other day-to-day teaching) may cause impacts on ambient environment. (3) Impacts of land occupation: construction will involve the issue of long-term land occupation. Planed construction of each sub-project will be carried out on existing lands or lands which have obtained land utilization permit. No relocation will occur.
5.2 Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-Projects
The environmental impacts of sub-projects and the mitigation measures are shown in Table 2.
Table 2 Main Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-Projects Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measures (1) Water Pollution Wastewater (1) Water Pollution Prevention during construction is mainly from and Control During the construction runoff of heavy rain, underground water, wastewater of construction and period, the contractor must strictly Construction sewage from construction staff. follow the guideline of Interim Period Wastewater of construction consists of Regulations on Construction Site and muddy water of excavation and Environmental Management ; drilling, cooling water and washing orderly organize the discharges of water of operating equipment. Sewage consists of water from construction surface water; prohibit disorder discharge d i l flows 15 Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measures workers washing and cleaning, discharge and irregular flows to wastewater from canteen and toilet pollute roads and environment or flushing water. Ground water is mainly submerge of municipal facilities. related to the drainage water of Muddy water produced during excavated stratigraphic section. Storm runoff washes soil, construction sand construction and slurry produced and gravel, garbage and waste soil, from drilling and punching can not which carries lots of silt, oils, be discharged randomly without chemicals and other pollutants. The treatment, and can not pollute the site sediment produced during drainage and ambient environment. Construct process will cause water pollution and temporary settling tanks at piling block river course and water body if yards of backfill soil and the the sediment is discharged into surface water without treatment. locations where may generate slurry. The storm water containing sand and (2) Air Pollution The main sources of muddy water should be treated by air pollution during the construction are: the flying dust caused by settling tanks before discharge. Fecal excavation and transportations sewerage from the construction site vehicles and machinery; loading and will be treated by the three-stage unloading, transportation and piling up septic tanks. Wastewater from of construction materials (cement, canteens at construction sites should lime, aggregate), transportation and be treated by oil and residual piling up of the spoil; exhaust gas from separator before discharge. various construction machinery and transportation vehicles. (2) Air Pollution Prevention and (3) Noise Noise values of Control Management on construction machinery construction sites should be (Excavators, bulldozers, loaders, strengthened. All wastes are not trucks, cranes, blenders, etc.) allowed to be burned on construction range from 85 105 dB(A), sites. flying dust control should be which cause impacts on taken when carry out earth work. surrounding environment. Measures should be taken to keep vehicle clean at the entry and exit of (4) Solid Waste The construction construction sites. Remove the mud will produce large amount of adhere to surface of the vehicles. mud, spoil (including demolish Cover the vehicles by canvas. Sites debris), mud from excavation, for storage of material and mould spare construction materials etc. boards should be flat and solid. Failure to dispose properly the Cement, other dusty particles and solid wastes will incur obstruction construction materials should be of traffic and pollution of the confined to store or to take measures environment. Moreover, if the of coverage, watering and cleaning. transportation vehicles are not properly cleaned, the littered soil (3) Noise Pollution Prevention and will pollute the streets or roads, Control Acoustic elimination and affecting the city appearance and acoustic insulation measures should traffic in urban area. be equipped for equipment with high noise. Operation can only be allowed (5) Ecological Impact and Soil from 7:00 to 12:00, from 14:00 to Erosion The earthworks of 22:00. project development and
16 Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measures construction, such as land (4) Solid Waste Prevention and leveling and elimination of Control Pile-up, collection and surface vegetation, will have clean-up of garbage; constructors impacts on local ecological must abide by the local regulations environment; rainfall, surface on solid waste disposal by applying excavation and spoil landfill will for approval of disposal. The solid easily cause soil erosion. Besides, wastes should be transported to damage of soil structure by designated locations approved by the construction, weakened soil local authority. erosion resistance will result in serious soil erosion during heavy (5) Ecological Impact and Soil rain. Erosion Prevention and Control In the premise of quality guarantee, the constructor should shorten the period of land occupation. Upon construction completion, the vegetation or reclamation must be restored immediately; protect the forests within the range of site; upon completion of construction, the temporary lands should be cleaned, stirred, leveled to restore original vegetation. The drainage interception ditch should be built on the sites. Construct flooding channel for damaged surface runoff. Construct the ditches along the slope to divert flood and avoid the erosion of surface runoff. (1) Water Pollution Sewage (1) Water Pollution Prevention and from students and wastewater Control Wastewater from laboratory from laboratories will have should be disinfected and chemically impacts on water environment. neutralized and be treated together (2) Air Pollution Laboratory with sewage by wastewater treatment emissions and oil smokes from plant in school. canteens will have impacts on (2) Air Pollution Prevention and atmospheric environment. Control Laboratories must be (3) Solid Waste Inappropriate installed with ventilation equipment Operation disposal of domestic garbage and and as well as exhaust fans with Period waste liquid from laboratories appropriate numbers; canteen must will have impacts on be installed with oil smoke purifier. environment. (3) Solid Waste Prevention and (4) Noise The noise, ring tones Control Domestic garbage will be from machinery in light industrial collected and disposed by training rooms, and the noise environment and sanitation from fans in kitchen and department; waste liquid from equipment room will cause laboratories will be stored in special impacts on the environment. containers or temporary tanks, then treated by qualified units.
17 Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measures (4) Noise Prevention and Control Low noise machinery and fans should be selected and acoustic elimination and vibration treatment should be taken; control the use of bells.
5.3 Environmental Responsibility of the Contractors
During construction, the contractor will play a key role in environmental management, pollution control and implementation of prevention and mitigation measures etc. Therefore, the contractor is required to meet the following requirements:
(1) Contractors should be capable of making sure that the environmental mitigation
measures be carried out effectively.
(2) Contractors and CSE are required to be trained on environmental protection and
management before construction.
(3) The environmental impact mitigation measures mentioned above should be included in
the bidding documents submitted by contractor and finally included in the contract as
the requirements for contractor.
(4) Contractor should designate at least one full-time staff, who should be trained according
to training plan so that they are able to do their work.
(5) During construction, contractors must communicate and negotiate with local residents in
project area, and establish a board on each construction site, inform people of the
specific activities and time of construction, while providing contractor’s name and
telephone, so that affected people can complain or give suggestion conveniently.
18 Public Participation and Disclosure of Information Public Participation and Disclosure of Information should be in accordance with the regulations or requirements of both Chinese Government and the World Bank.
6.1 Regulations of Chinese Government
According to the Notice on Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (March 2006 Version) issued by State Environmental Protection Administration and Implementation Opinion of Public Participation on Environmental Management for Guangdong Construction Projects (2007, No.99) , this Project does not need to carry out public participation and survey.
6.2 Requirements of the World Bank
For the future activities on environmental investments of Category A and B, implementing agency should conduct public surveys on environmental and social issues with the affected populations and local NGOs. The opinions of the affected populations and NGOs should be taken into consideration. Besides, the implementing agency should carry out public participation as soon as possible and provide relevant materials to the public with understandable language and method before public participants in order to ensure that the public participation makes sense.
For Projects of Category A and B, implementing agency should provide the participants a copy of outline of conclusion of Environmental Impact Assessment Report . Additionally, implementing agency should disclose the draft report for the affected populations and local NGO to understand.
According to the classification of the World Bank, this Project is Category C.
6.3 Public Participation and Information Disclosure
This Project is the first project in Guangdong utilizing the loan of the World Bank for technical and vocational education and training. In order to avoid or minimize the negative environmental impacts from the Project, and ensure the success of reform on quality and correlation of this Project, promote economic and social sustainable development, public participation will be carried out for this Project and related information will be disclosed with the consent of the World Bank Working Group.
6.3.1 Procedures of information disclosure
19 Information of construction project will be disclosed twice. The first disclosure will be within 7 days after the environmental impact assessment agency is selected; the second disclosure will be in the course of preparation of environmental impact assessment report, and prior to submission for the approval of environmental protection administrative department or before re-approval. The contents and methods of disclosure are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Time, Contents and Method of Information Disclosure Specified by the State Environmental Protection Administration
Information Contents Methods of Time Disclosure Disclosure (1) Name and introduction of (1) Publicized on the proposed construction main local public project; media (2) Name of implementing (2) Freely agency and contact distribute brochure In 7 days after information; with information the (3) Name and contact of the project; environmental 1st information of environmental (3) Other channels impact Disclosure impact assessment institute; convenient for assessment (4) Procedures and main public to institute is works of environmental understand the selected impact assessment; project. (5) Major items of public consultation; (6) Major channels for public to make comments. (1) Brief introduction of the (1) Provide project; environmental (2) Summary of possible impact assessment environmental impacts of the report (simplified project; copy) at specific Prior to (3) Solutions and measures locations; submission of on prevention or mitigation (2) Produce environmental of negative environmental special webpage assessment report impacts and the key points; containing for (4) Key conclusions of simplified 2nd environmental environmental impact environmental Disclosure protection assessment report; impact assessment administration s (5) The manner and duration report examination and for public to review (3) Establish link approval. simplified environmental to simplified impact assessment report; environmental (6) The scope and major impact assessment items of public consultation; report on public (7) Specific form of public websites or the consultation; special webpage; (8) Schedule for submission (4) Other channels
20 of public opinions. for public to obtain simplified environmental impact assessment report.
Implementing agency or the environmental impact assessment agency should conduct public consultation in terms of investigation of public comments, consultation with experts, forum and hearings after disclosing the information advertisement and publicizing simplified copy of environmental impact assessment report.
6.3.2 Methods of information disclosure
There are following methods to disclose information: ¾ Publish on local newspaper; ¾ Introduce the progress of this Project, conclusion of environmental impact assessment on internet; ¾ Distribute brochures to NGOs and the public in project areas; ¾ Invite local NGOs and public to attend information releasing meeting; ¾ Display documents related to environmental assessment of the projects in local cultural centers, libraries and the project management office; ¾ Disclose to public by local broadcast, TV and other media.
The information of environmental impact assessment of the three sub-projects will be disclosed on local newspaper, websites and other public media. The information of this Framework will be disclosed on relevant domestic websites and the World Bank website.
6.3.3 Public participation Based on the World Bank safeguard policies, there are following methods for public participation: ¾ Questionnaire. According to different implementation contents in different cities, prepare public survey questionnaires, which include the proposed major activities, potential environmental impacts and mitigation measures. The questionnaires will be distributed to project affected people with no less than 100 copies. Comments from all parties will be collected and summarized. ¾ Consultation with experts. Invite experts on environmental protection, ecological protection, and cultural relic protection, to conduct the technical consultation and discussion on potential environmental impacts. Understand the potential impacts of this Project and the issues need to be paid attention to, and propose mitigation measures. ¾ Consultation with NGOs. Consult with NGOs in Guangdong and project cities including environmental protection organizations and other social communities in terms of meeting, telephone interview and correspondence.
21 6.3.4 Information feedback
Provincial PMO and sub-project PMOs will take full consideration of public opinions, accept reasonable suggestions, make explanation to the public and NGOs that why some comments are not accepted till they are satisfied.
22 Environmental Safeguard System
7.1 Organization arrangement
Sub-project PMOs are responsible for the implementation of environmental safeguard framework. Provincial PMO and different levels of environmental protection departments, the planning departments have responsibilities to supervise, manage, and assist the implementation of environmental management plan.
7.2 Allocation of Tasks
To ensure the implementation of this Project to be in line with government environmental regulations and avoid or mitigate negative environmental impacts, sub- project PMOs will be in charge of further review of the environmental impacts, while provincial PMO will be responsible for inspection and supervision. Details are as follow: (1) Conduct environmental impact assessment before construction, and disclose the scale, purpose, potential pollutions and measures of prevention to public. (For details, please refer to Information Disclosure Procedures for public participation and information disclosure) (2) Collect and record public comments and opinions on this Project. (3) Prepare an analysis report of public consultation and submit to provincial PMO within two weeks.
7.3 Training
Environmental safeguard system of this Project will be covered in the project training program. Provincial PMO should train the persons in charge of each sub-project on relevant issues and give guidance to sub-project PMOs on carrying out environmental management plan.
7.4 Fund Arrangements
Allocate budget within the item of project management, monitoring and evaluation for project environmental safeguard system. The budget will be spent on implementation of the environmental safeguard plan, which includes expenditures for planning, training and monitoring.
23 7.5 Mechanism of Complain
As the affected populations participate in this Project at the very beginning, it is predicted that they may not make complains or raise different opinions on environmental impacts. However, in order to protect the interests of the affected population, unobstructed channels for complaints still need to be kept. The purposes for establishing mechanism of complaint are to effectively response to the complaints and resolve the issues not by complicated official channels.
Procedure of appeal is as follow: Any person affected by this Project can make oral or written complains to sub-project PMOs. Sub-project PMOs should resolve the problem within two weeks upon receiving the complaints. In case of disagreement of the complainer, he/she can appeal to local administrative department. The local environmental protection department will make a judgment. If the complainer still disagrees with the judgment of the 2nd phase, he/she can resort the case to the court by civil litigation procedures.
7.6 Public Participation
Through disclosing project activities and managing project funds, promote development of project implementation, management, and capability of monitoring to ensure the transparency of projects and fair and just allocation of the resources.
7.7 Environmental Monitoring and Environmental Management System
The monitoring of environmental impacts will be defined as internal and external monitoring. Internal monitoring, as a part of the project implementation plan will be implemented by sub-project PMOs. Internal monitoring includes: evaluation on environmental impacts and the mitigation measures during the process of entire project implementation and post assessment phase, making necessary revise on original plans. Internal monitoring report will be submitted to the World Bank regularly.
During implementation of project, PMO will authorize an independent and just third party to find out implementation of each plan and public satisfaction degree and propose improvement measures accordingly. External monitoring will be carried out once a year and the report will be submitted to sub-project PMOs, provincial PMO and the World Bank regularly.
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Table 4 Environmental Supervision Plan of this Project
Phase Units Tasks a. Provincial 1. Review EA Report and Environmental Management PMO Plan; b. Sub-project 2. Review preliminary design, including site selection, Design PMOs; construction design, environmental protection investment, c. Planning Dept; borrow sites and spoil disposal sites, etc. d. Environmental
25 Phase Units Tasks Protection Dept 1. Inspect borrow sites and spoil disposal sites, the balance of earthwork excavation and filling; a. Provincial 2. Inspect and monitor the implementation of mitigation PMO measures for noise and dust, referred to EA report; Constructiob. Sub-project 3. Inspect and monitor the discharges of wastewater and n PMOs; solid waste at construction camp; c. Environmental 4. Inspect and monitor the implementation of Protection Dept environmental monitoring plan during construction period; 5. Investigate and resolve the environmental issues during construction and adopt relevant measures accordingly. a. Provincial 1. Inspect and monitor the implementation of PMO environmental monitoring plan; b. Sub-project 2. Inspect the implementation of pollution treatment Operation PMOs; facilities and other pollution prevention and control c. Environmental measures. Protection Dept
7.7.1 Environmental monitoring plan
This Project is in the category of education. The implementation of project will have certain impacts on environmental elements in the project area. Therefore, monitoring is necessary during the periods of design, construction and operation to provide a basis for environmental supervision and management for every phase.
The parameters, frequency, location and plan of environmental monitoring are shown in Annex 1.
7.7.2 Environmental management reporting system
Environmental Monitoring Report will be submitted by commissioned qualified agencies once a year. The content of the report mainly includes the time, sites, indicators, frequencies, monitoring conditions and analysis result of environment monitoring. Provincial PMO will be responsible for summarizing the annual report of environmental management during the period of project implementation, and submit it to the World Bank supervision mission.
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1. Environmental Monitoring Items (1) Water Environmental Monitoring Items
Surface water monitoring (pH value, Dissolved Oxygen, CODCr, BOD5, SS, NH3-N, total coliforms) (2) Atmospheric Monitoring Items
Atmospheric monitoring items (SO2, NO2, TSP, PM10) (3) Noise Monitoring Items Acoustic monitoring items (set one monitoring point at one meter from each boundary (east, west, south and north) ) of construction site.
2. Environmental Monitoring Plan See following Table 1 for main environmental monitoring items.
Table 1 Environmental Monitoring Plan of Construction and Operation Period Environmental Monitoring Project Phase Parameters Frequency Elements Location 20m away from the Once/Y, each GDSTSLI Air downwind of TSP time for 3 days construction continuously area Nearest Four Construction residential Serial times/Y each Noise area from Sound time for day & construction Level A night sites Four times/Y, Water Sewage outfall SS Oil each time for 1 Environment day pH value, Dissolved Oxygen, Twice a year, Water COD , each time for 3 Operation Sewage outfall Cr Environment BOD5, SS, days ,NH3-N continuously total coliforms
27 Environmental Monitoring Project Phase Parameters Frequency Elements Location 20m away from the downwind of Twice a year, Atmospheric automobile TSP each time for 3 Environment comprehensive days function test room 20m away from the Once/Y, for 3 Air downwind of TSP days construction continuously area Nearest Four Construction residential Serial times/Y each Noise area from Sound time for day & construction Level A night sites Four times a Water Sewage outfall SS, Oil year, each time GDCCSTS Environment for 1 day pH value, Dissolved Oxygen, Twice a year, Water COD , each time for 3 Sewage outfall Cr Environment BOD5, SS, days Operation NH3-N, continuously total coliforms Oil smokes Twice a year, Atmospheric outfall of the Oil smokes each time for 1 Environment kitchen day 20m away from the Once/Y, each YTS Air downwind of TSP time for 3 days construction continuously area Nearest Four Construction residential Serial times/Y each Noise area from Sound time for day & construction Level A night sites Four times a Water Sewage outfall SS, Oil year, each time Environment for 1 day
28 Environmental Monitoring Project Phase Parameters Frequency Elements Location pH value, Dissolved Oxygen, Twice a year, Water COD , each time for 3 Sewage outfall Cr Environment BOD5, SS, days NH3-N, continuously total coliforms Operation Twice a year, Tail gas of SO , NOx, each time for 3 power 2 Blackness days generator Atmospheric continuously Environment Twice a year, Exhaust gas of SO , NOx, each time for 3 boilers 2 Blackness days
continuously
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