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Environmental Impact Assessment Report for Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan Public Disclosure Authorized E2868 V1 Environmental Impact Assessment Report for Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan (FINAL VERSION TO WORLD BANK) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Construction unit: Xiangyang Construction Investment & Operation Co., Ltd. Assessment unit: China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd. Class A: G.H.P.Z.J.Zi No.2605 Public Disclosure Authorized September 2011 1.0 General description 1.1 General situation of the project 1.1.1 Name of the project Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with Loan of World Bank 1.1.2 Composition of the project Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with Loan of World Bank, according to the different administration and implementation organizations, is divided into 4 sub- projects of public traffic preferential corridor improvement, traffic safety and control, road perfection as well as the organization development & capacity construction. 1.1.3 Location of the project All contents of the project are distributed within the scope of Xiangyang urban area, the newly built roads of the road perfection sub-project in civil works are located at Pangdong new zone of Xiangcheng District of Xiangyang; The sub-project of public traffic preferential corridor improvement-the dedicated public traffic road and railway public traffic hub reconstruction works of Changhong Road section is located within Fancheng district, newly built Xianshan parking and service yard is located within Panggong new zone of Xiangcheng district, newly built Xiangyang Economic Development Zone parking and service yard is inside Shenzhen Industrial Park of Xiangzhou district. Details refer to the diagram of its geographic location. 1.1.4 Construction unit Xiangyang Urban Investment & Operation Co., Ltd. 1.1.5 Background of the project Along with the drawing up of the national strategy of “the growing up of Central China”, Xiangyang as a sub-central city in Hubei, the most important metropolis in northwest of Hubei has met with unprecedented development opportunities. Resort to its unique geographical location and convenient traffic conditions, Xiangyang shall enjoy with the stronger external radiation and industrial cohesion. At present, the traffic construction of Xiangyang is faced with austere challenges, the location advantage shall be changed into the economic advantage only by taking the traffic or communication as a bridge, and embodying the urban fascination and enhancing the urban comprehensive competitive power needs to construct a modernized urban traffic system. In order to improve the urban traffic and urban functions, boost the construction of the experiment zone reform test of state level of Xiangyang urban circle, at the same time, it’s necessary to further increase the force or the traffic construction and meet the traffic demand of continuous development. In July 2009, at the loan project meeting jointly held by National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance, World Bank agreed to the draft resolution of USD 100,000,000 loan to Xiangfan urban traffic project. At the meeting, each party planned to submit the project to be built to the board of director of World Bank for approval, in order to be included into World Bank 2012 financial loan program. From Nov. 5~6, 2009, World Bank dispatched the first delegation to Xiangfan for conducting the preliminary communication for this project. In May 2010, the Proposal for Utilizing World Bank Loan by Xiangfan Urban Project Construction by Xiangfan city, Hubei Province was completed. In Dec. 2010, World Bank further promoted conducting the feasibility study on Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with loan of World Bank by Xiangyang, perfecting the road network system of Panggong area, boosting the construction on the parking lots and public traffic stations. Greatly implement the strategy of “public traffic preference”, enhance the public traffic service level. Strengthen the traffic control and get done with the traffic jam removal and smooth traffic protection work. 1.2 Objective of environmental impact assessment The construction and operation of the project shall have certain impact on the environment of the area for building the project, on basis of investigation on the current situation of the project area, through analysis on its pollution, the assessment intends to predict the impact of the project construction on the environment, put forward the feasible measures for controlling the pollution and alleviating the impact, in order to provide reference to the decision making for the project, guide the design for its environment protection and the environment management for its construction period and operation period, enable the construction of the project to reach the unification of economic benefit, social benefit and environment benefit. 1.3 Guiding ideology The guiding ideology of the assessment is based on the detailed project analysis, in accordance with the requirement of Technical Guidance Rules for Environmental Impact Assessment (HJ/T2.1-93, HJ/T2.3-93, HJ/T2.2-2008, HJ/T2.4-1995, HJ19- 2011) and Environmental Impact Assessment Codes for Highway Construction Works(trial) (JTJ 005-96), fully utilized the current basic information and use for reference the related highway construction works assessment results, reasonably determined the assessment scope, monitoring items. And according to the characteristics of the project, selected the most representative monitoring locations, monitoring factors and predictive models. The conclusion would be maximally scientific, objective, just, clear and reliable. 1.4 Assessment basis 1.4.1 Laws, rules and regulations and policies of the country (1) Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China, implemented on Dev. 26, 1989; (2) Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment , implemented on Sept 1, 2003; (3) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution , implemented on Sept 1, 2000; (4) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution from Environmental Noise , implemented on March 1, 1997; (5) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution , revised on Feb. 28, 2008; (6) Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution , implemented on April 1, 2005; (7) Urban and Rural Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China , implemented on Jan. 1, 2008; (8) Law of the People's Republic of China on Land Management , implemented on August 28, 2004; (9) Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation , implemented on June 29, 1991; (10) The People's Republic of China- State Council (1998) No. 253 order for Regulations for Environmental Protection Management for the Construction Works , implemented on Dec. 12, 1998; (11) Document of State Environmental Protection Administrative Bureau H.F.[2003] No.94: Notification Relating to Environmental Noise in the Environmental Impact Assessment for highway, railway (include light railway) and other construction works ; (12) State Environmental Protection Administrative Bureau H.F. 2006[No. 28] Tentative Procedure for the Public Participating the Environmental Impact Assessment ; implemented on March 18, 2006. 1.4.2 Local rules, policies and documents (1) Environmental Protection Regulations of Hubei revised), Hubei Provincial People’s Standing Commission , implemented on Jan.1, 1998; (2) Regulations for Atmosphere Pollution Control in Hubei, Hubei Provincial People’s Congress Standing Commission , implemented on Dec. 3, 1997; (3) Regulations for Hubei Urban Environmental Noise Control, Hubei Provincial People’s Congress Standing Commission , implemented on April 1, 1987; (4) Procedure for Hubei to Implement the People’s Republic of China Water Pollution Control Law , implemented on Jan. 1, 2001; (5) Implementation Procedures for Xiangfan Urban Construction Wastes Control , X.F.Z.F[2005] No.36; (6) Procedure for Controlling Xiangyang Urban Hightime Construction , Xiangyang People’s Government ordinance No. 16. 1.4.3 Relevant documents of World Bank (1) World Bank OP/BP4.01 and appendixes (environmental assessment), Jan. 1999; (2) World Bank OP/ (environmental assessment), Jan. 1999; (3) Documents assembly of World Bank environmental impact assessment. 1.4.4 Documents related to the planning and environmental function division (1) Xiangfan Urban Master Plan (2008—2020); (2) Xiangfan Overall Planning of Land Uses (1997—2010); (3) Xiangfan Comprehensive Urban Traffic Planning (2007); (4) Xiangfan Urban Public Traffic Planning (2007 2020); (5) Xiangcheng district Planning for Ancient City Protection (2007); (6) Panggong New Zone Planning (2010); (7) Xiangfan environmental function division; (8) Xiangfan statistical yearbook and related statistics bulletin in past years. 1.4.5 The project design information (1) The Feasibility Study Report on Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan (general report) 2011.8; (2) The Feasibility Study Report on Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan (sub-project of the road perfection) 2011.8; (3) The Feasibility Study Report on Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan (sub-project of the urban public traffic) 2011.8; (4) The Feasibility Study Report on Xiangyang Urban Transportation Project with World Bank Loan (sub-project of the traffic safety and control) 2011.8. 1.4.6 Technical
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