I. GENERAL INFORMATION I.1. INFORMATION ON THE PROPONENT INSTITUTION A) FIRM NAME Sociedad Operadora del Tren Rápido Interurbano de Guanajuato, S.A. de C.V. B) NAME AND POSITION OF THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT Architect Javier Hernández Soriano – Attorney and Director General C) NATIONALITY Mexican D) MAIN ACTIVITY OF THE FIRM OR INSTITUTION Promotion, construction, operation, and administration of systems, works, infrastructures, systems and services for Urban and Interurban Passenger Transport. E) SERVICE ADDRESS State: Guanajuato City: Guanajuato Campo Nieto Piña No. 1 Postal code: 36080 Telephone/Fax: (473) 2-40-06 F) CHAMBER OR ASSOCIATION Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Promotion (SECOFI, in Spanish) File 50398 and Record 2730 EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 1 G) FEDERAL TAXPAYERS’ CODE OTR950513S63 H) PERSON IN CHARGE OF PERFORMING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Name: Biologist Héctor Lesser Hiriart Business name: ICF Kaiser Servicios Ambientales, S.A. de C.V. INE, SEMARNAP Record: PSIA-I58/95 IEG Record: Federal Taxpayers’ Code: IKS 940207 MF7 Service Address: Cascada #108 Colonia Jardines del Pedregal Delegación Álvaro Obregón México, D.F. C.P. 01900 Tel./Fax: 568-01-04 Chamber or Association: National Chamber of Consultants (CNEC, in Spanish). Active member No. 1887 EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 2 1.2 GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT A) NAME OF THE PROJECT Guanajuato Interurban Fast Train B) NATURE OF THE PROJECT The project consists of building and installing a two-way interurban fast train in Guanajuato (TRIG, in Spanish). This train will communicate the major cities of the Industrial Corridor in the state: León, Silao, Guanajuato, Irapuato, Salamanca, Villagrán, Cortazar, and Celaya. The train line shall have an extension of 151,560 km, including 18 stations. Eight stations will be located next to bus terminals in order to create a communication network. The other 10 stations will be located in strategic points of the corridor: Guanajuato’s International Airport, the General Motors plant in Silao, Guanajuato’s downtown, the industrial parks of Irapuato, Salamanca, and Celaya, as well as the León Convention Center and other increasingly growing urban areas. The train will have two lines: Line 1 will communicate the cities from León to Celaya and Line 2, the cities from Silao to Guanajuato (Exhibit 1). On May 13th, 1995, the “Sociedad Operadora del Tren Rápido Interurbano de Guanajuato” was incorporated at Public Notary No. 26 of Guanajuato City, Gto., by public deed 258 before Mr. José Santiago Juárez Sánchez (Exhibit 2). C) PHYSICAL LOCATION OF THE PROJECT The project will be executed in the state of Guanajuato, including the following municipalities: León, Silao, Guanajuato, Irapuato, Salamanca, Villagrán, Cortazar, and Celaya. The train line will be 151,560 km in length and will communicate the major cities of the state’s Industrial Corridor (Exhibit 1). EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 3 The following is a table showing the geographic coordinates of the cities to be communicated by the light train. CITY NORTH LATITUDE WEST LONGITUDE DEGREES MINUTES DEGREES MINUTES León 21 07 101 41 Silao 20 56 101 26 Guanajuato 21 01 101 15 Irapuato 20 40 101 21 Salamanca 20 34 101 12 Villagrán 20 31 101 00 Cortazar 20 29 100 58 Celaya 20 31 100 49 D) REQUIRED SURFACE For the development of the present project a surface of 3’783,981.50 m2 will be required. Surface distribution is shown in the following table: LOCATION LINE SURFACE m2 León 1 325,283.90 Stretch León – Silao 1 583,738.00 Silao 1 110,055.40 Stretch Silao – Irapuato 1 810,437.30 Irapuato 1 115,356.00 Stretch Irapuato – Salamanca 1 401,675.20 Salamanca 1 37,586.50 Stretch Salamanca – Celaya 1 922,138.60 Celaya 1 103,901.50 Stretch Celaya – Guanajuato 2 373,809.10 TOTAL 3’783,981.50 EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 4 E) LAND TENURE AND LEGAL SITUATION The train line crosses urban, rural, commercial, and industrial areas (Exhibit 3). The following table shows the list of ejidos being affected by the project. Their location is found in Exhibit 4. Ref. No. NAME OF THE EJIDO P. D.P.A. D.P.I. N.P. 1 San Nicolás de González X X 2 San Juan de Otates X X 3 San Carlos X X 4 Loza de los Padres X X 5 Los Sauces X X 6 San Isidro de los Sauces X X 7 Nápoles X X 8 El Refugio, Farm with no name, or X X San Isidro 9 El Mezquite X X 10 San Miguel del Arenal X X 11 Silao (Colonias Nuevo México X included) 12 Silao (Emiliano Zapata included) X 13 Silao (Noria de Sopeña included) X 14 Paso de Perules X 15 Cerritos X X 16 El Capulín X X 17 San Marcos X 18 Cervera X X 19 Santa Teresa X 20 Los Rodríguez X 21 San Isidro X 22 Silao (La Calaverna included) X 23 La Asunción X 24 El Espejo X X EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 5 Ref. No. NAME OF THE EJIDO P. D.P.A. D.P.I. N.P. 25 San Miguel de Villalobos X 26 El Llanito X 27 San Antonio el Rico X 28 La Calera X 29 Copal y Marquez X 30 La Hierbabuena X 31 Lo de Juárez X X 32 Irapuato X X 33 Loma Pelada X 34 La Capilla X 35 Cerro Blanco X X 36 Palo Blanco X X 37 La Cal X 38 Hacienda a Manga X 39 Las Adjuntas X X 40 El Nacimiento X 41 Sarabia X 42 Villagrán X 43 San Nicolás de Parra X 44 Crespo (First section) X X 45 Cd. Celaya (Crespo, Second section) X P. Ejido incorporated into PROCEDE (already having Individual Partial Certificate) D.P.A. Full Approved Possession (already small agrarian private tenure parcels, negotiation identical to PROCEDE) D.P.I. Full Established Possession (titling under consideration, negotiation identical to PROCEDE) N.P. Ejido NON incorporated into PROCEDE DEFINITIVE INFORMATION VALIDATED BY THE RAN ON AUGUST 25, 1998 F) ACCESS WAYS The municipalities of León, Guanajuato, Silao, Guanajuato, Irapuato, Salamanca, Villagrán, Cortazar, and Celaya, which are the ones involved in the project, are communicated by the divided toll highway 45 and divided free road. EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 6 León City communicates to Silao by the divided free road 45. This road includes Los Sauces and Aeropuerto stations, being this their only access way. General Motors and Santa Teresa stations are found in the stretch Silao-Guanajuato. The access ways to these are one stretch of the divided toll highway 110 and one stretch of the undivided free road 110, in addition to the paved one connecting the locality of Marfil to Carboneras. Between General Motors and Santa Teresa stations, the line forks and arrives to Irapuato City. This stretch would have as access ways the divided free road 45, the railroad connecting Silao to Irapuato, and the pave road connecting the locality of Trejo to San Antonio el Rico. From Irapuato to Salamanca, the line has as main access way the divided free road 45, in addition to crossing the undivided free road 43. This stretch includes Irapuato Industrial and Salamanca la Luz stations. The last stretch, from Salamanca to Celaya, comprising Valtierrilla, Villagrán, and Cortazar stations, has as its main access way the undivided free road 45. At León City, the main access ways to the project site are Blvd. Juan José Torres Landa, Blvd. Francisco del Rincón, Blvd. López Mateos, and Blvd. Villa Sur. EIA TRIG 157-01 817tren.doc Page 7 II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANNED ACTIVITY OR WORK II.1 PROJECT PURPOSE AND RATIONALE As far as we know, the Guanajuato Interurban Fast Train (TRIG, in Spanish) project, which will communicate the towns located in the Celaya-San Francisco del Rincón corridor, has been promoted by the State Government of Guanajuato as one of the most innovative and high-priority projects, since it will doubtless provide various direct and indirect benefits for the nine municipalities which will be communicated by such a communication way, as well as for the state of Guanajuato in general, in terms of the harmonious and sustainable development sought by the government’s plans and actions. Furthermore, we are also aware that, as a fundamental part of this project, the environmental issues are considered to be a very important topic in order to protect the environment where the inhabitants of Guanajuato perform their productive activities. Regarding the environmental policy, in the narrow sense and according to the Environmental Program 1995-2000 from the Secretariat of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries (SEMARNAP, in Spanish), the ecological arrangement is a planning process aiming to assess and schedule the land use and handling of natural resources in the country and areas under the jurisdiction of the country, in order to preserve and restore the ecological balance and protect the environment. Likewise, according to the SEMARNAP, the ecological arrangement allows to guide the geographical location of productive activities, as well as the uses of resources and environmental services, which is the foundation of the ecological policy. In this sense, the SEMARNAP considers that the arrangement must be the basis to determine the density and land uses, as well as the areas to be preserved and restored. Ecological arrangement, whether regarding the whole country, one region, state, municipality, or a particular area, must be considered to be the main instrument of the environmental policy, whether it is referred to as a first-level instrument or basic regulatory instrument.