World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project Environment Impact Assessment Report

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Public Disclosure Authorized World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project Environment Impact Assessment Report

Public Disclosure Authorized

Sept. 2008 Hangzhou

Responsibility Table

Assessment organization: East China Investigation and Design Institute under CHECC Certificate No.：GHPZA-2001 Chief engineer of responsibility： Cheng Fengliang (Professor-level senior engineer, environment appraisal engineer registration No.: A20010071200) Director of Environment Science Office: Liao Qichen (Senior engineer, environment appraisal engineer registration No.:A20010060900) Project leader: Xu Gaojin (Engineer, environment appraisal engineer registration No.:A20010101000)

Participants Of The Project Environment appraisal Name Responsibility Rank Signature engineer registration No.

Professor-level Ding Minmin Approval No.A20010003 senior engineer

Yang Jing Review Engineer No.A200100021

Yu Lan Verification Engineer No.A20010005

Xu Gaojin compilation Engineer No.A20010020

Wu Wangyan Chapters 6, 7, 8 Master degree No.A20010039

Wang Xuhang Section 6.3 Master degree No.A20010038

Table of Content

1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION...... 1 1.1 BACKGROUND OF PROJECT ...... 1 1.2 PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT ...... 2 1.3 BASIS FOR PREPARATION...... 2 1.4 IDEA ON ASSESSMENT...... 4 1.5 ASSESSMENT GRADE ...... 5 1.6 ASSESSMENT RANGE ...... 5 1.7 CLASSIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONAL AREA...... 6 1.8 ASSESSMENT STANDARD ...... 6 1.9 ASSESSMENT TIME SECTION ...... 11 1.10 TARGETS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION...... 12 1.11 KEY POINTS OF ASSESSMENT...... 20 1.12 SAFETY AND SECURITY POLICIES OF WORLD BANK...... 20 2 DESCRIPTIONS OF PROJECT AND POLLUTION ANALYSIS...... 23 2.1 PROJECT NAME...... 23 2.2 NAME AND LOCATION OF SUB-PROJECT...... 23 2.3 RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION ...... 23 2.4 IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION ...... 23 2.6 ROAD NETWORK IMPLOVEMENT SUB-PROJECT...... 23 2.7 TAIYUAN PUBLIC TRAFFIC SUB-PROJECTS ...... 44 2.8 LAND ACQUISITION, RELOCATION ...... 65 2.9ANALYSIS OF POLLUTION SOURCE ...... 66 3 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTS...... 73 3.1 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ...... 73 3.2 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT...... 74 3.3 ENVIRONMENT QUALITY SITUATION ...... 74 3.4 REGIONAL PLAN ...... 79 4 ALTERNATIVE COMPARISION...... 83 4.1 COMPARISONS WITH AND WITHOUT PROJECT ...... 83 4.2 COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES...... 84 5. ENVIRONMENT IMPACT FORECAST AND PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 106 5.1 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION & CONTROL MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 106 5.2 CITY ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE IMPACT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION & CONTROL MEASURES..108 5.3 NOISE ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION & CONTROL MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 110 5.4 ENVIRONMENT AIR IMPACT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION & CONTROL MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 113 5.5 WATER ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION & CONTROL MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 114 5.6 SOLID WASTE IMPACT ANALYSIS AND MEASURES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...... 115

5.7 ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS BY RELOCATION OF RESIDENTS...... 116 6. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FORCAST AND PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES DURING OPERATION PERIOD...... 141 6.1 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND PROVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES..141 6.2 ANALYSIS ON IMPACT TO URBAN ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING AND COMPENSATION MEASURES...... 142 6.3 AMBIENT AIR IMPACT FORECAST ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES ...143 6.4 NOISE IMPACT FORECAST ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES ...... 158 6.5 FORECAST AND ASSESSMENT OF WATER ENVIRONMENT IMPACT AND PREENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES ...... 168 6.6 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF SOLID WASTE IMPACT ...... 169 6.7 RISK ASSESSMENT ...... 170 6.8 SUMMARY OF POLLUTANT PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES ...... 173 7. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION...... 179 7.1 THE OBJECTIVE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ...... 179 7.2 PRINCIPLE AND METHODS OF SURVEY...... 179 7.3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE FIRST SURVEY ...... 179 7.4 THE SECOND SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ...... 184 7.5 PUBLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT...... 191 8 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PLANS...... 193 8.1 PURPOSE...... 193 8.2 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM...... 193 8.3 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN ...... 199 8.4 ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION ...... 203 8.5 COMPLETION ACCEPTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FACILITY ...... 203 8.6 TRAINING OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ...... 203 8.7 INVESTMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ...... 205 TABLE 8.7-2 INVESTMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT COMPONENT .207 9 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS OF ASSESSMENT ...... 208 9.1 OUTLINE OF PROJECT ...... 208 9.2 ANALYSIS OF CONFORMITY WITH INDUSTRY POLICIES AND RELATED PLANNING ...... 208 9.3 ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT SITUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ...... 208 9.4 PREDICTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DURING CONSTRUCTION PERIOD PREVENTIVE AND CONTROL MEASURES ...... 209 9.5 PREDICTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DURING OPERATION PERIOD AND PREVENTIVE AND CONTROL MEASURES ...... 212 9.6 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION...... 213 9.7 OVERALL CONCLUSION...... 214 Appendix 1 Document of Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission,JFGWZF [2007] 1078 Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Reply to Proposal of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project. Appendix 2 Taiyuan Environmental Protection Bureau,BHCS[2007]042

Reply to Applicable Standards for Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project (Northern Middle Ring Road street and Taihang Road) APPENDIX TABLE：Registration form of examination and approval of construction project environmental protection.

1 General Description 1.1 Background of project Taiyuan City is at middle of Shanxi Province and it is the central city of Shanxi Province and also the political center, economic center, traffic center, cultural center and information center of entire province and enjoys obvious regional superiority. However, currently Taiyuan urban traffics are suffered from many problems, such as lack of south-north skeleton road guide and east-west transportation network support. The capacity of downtown transportation network is impossible to adapt the fast development trend of motorization, the central and peripheral transportation networks are imperfect and the cross-Fen River traffic is increasingly blocked In order to promote development of Taiyuan urban traffics, meet requirement of urban expansion, further eliminate restrictions on urban goods transport, release traffic pressure of downtown, improve transportation network traffic and safety measures, intensify mechanism organization, and upgrade capacity of urban planning and decision-making, Taiyuan Development and Reform Committee decides to build Taiyuan urban traffics with World Bank Loan. In March 2005, Taiyuan Municipal Government established Taiyuan City World Bank Loan Project Leading Group Office. Through several times of consultation with World Bank Working Group, the frame contents are determined, which include 4 components (road infrastructure, public transport, traffic safety and management, and intensifying of mechanism). The total investment of the project is controlled within 2.96 billion RMB, including World Bank Loan ca. 150 million USD. As per decision of Taiyuan Municipal Government, Taiyuan City World Bank Loan Project Leading Group Office shall be integrally responsible for liaison of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project. In January 2006, Taiyuan City World Bank Loan Project Leading Group Office engaged Shanghai Engineering Design General Institute for feasibility study. On 22 November 2007 Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission replied the Proposal of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project, as shown in Appendix 1. In May 2008, Shanghai Engineering Design General Institute finished “Feasibility Study Report of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project (Approving draft)”. In May 2008 Shanghai City Composite Transportation Planning Institute finished “Feasibility Study of Taiyuan Public Traffic Improvement Sub-project”. In accordance with “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection”, “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment”, “Management Regulations on Environmental Protection of Construction Project”, “List of Classified Management on Environmental Protection of Construction Project” and requirements of international financial organization of environmental protection loan construction project, in the feasibility study stage of this project, an environmental impact report shall be worked out. In September 2006, Taiyuan City World Bank Loan Project Leading Group Office engaged East China Investigation and Design Institute under CHECC (Hereafter called as our institute) for environmental impact assessment of this project. After receiving engagement of the owner, our institute primarily investigated the surrounding environment and collected related materials. In December 2006, we finished primary draft of “Terms of Reference (TOR) of Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project”, which was approved by the World Bank Experts in January 2007. In accordance with TOR and opinions of World Bank Experts, our institute made detailed survey of environmental status along road routes within the assessment range. In March 2007 upon our engagement, Taiyuan Environmental Monitor Station measured the environmental status along route of this project and submitted a monitor report. In May 2008 our institute finished “Environment Impact Assessment Report of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban 1

Traffic Project”. We thank leaders, competent authorities and units for their helps and supports during preparation of this report. 1.2 Purpose of assessment Construction of Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project will have deep influence on society and regional economy of Taiyuan City. Its construction and further operation will certainly somewhat directly impact the regional natural environment and social environment and hence the relationship between project implementation and environmental protection shall be well treated. In this project environmental impact assessment, (1) We shall survey the current situation of natural environment and social environment along project route, collect related data and in combination with monitor analyze the current environmental situation. (2) We shall on basis of the assessment of current situation, quantitatively and qualitatively analyze, predict and assess the future social, economical and environmental impact range and degree on the along-route region, and verify the feasibility of the scheme and construction of the project from viewpoint of environmental protection. (3) We shall propose optimized and practicable environmental protection measures and countermeasures and feed-back them to the engineering design and construction so as to minimize or mitigate the negative environmental impact resulted from project construction. (4) We shall put forwards implementation plan of environmental management during construction period and operation period of this project and provide auxiliary information and scientific basis to along-route bodies in economical development, urban-rural construction and environmental planning and management. 1.3 Basis for preparation 1.3.1 Laws and regulations (1) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection”, 26 December 1989. (2) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment”, 1 September 2003. (3) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection from Contamination by Solid Wastes”, 1 April 2005. (4) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection from Water Contamination”, 28 February 2008. (5) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection from Noise Contamination”, 1 March 1997. (6) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Protection from Atmospheric Contamination”, 1 September 2000. (7) “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Land Management”, 28 August 2004. (8) “The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Soil and Water Conservation”, 29 June 1991. (9) “The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Forestry”, 29 April 1998. (10) “Program of National Ecological and Environmental Protection”, 20 December 2000. (11) “Management Regulations on Environmental Protection of Construction Project”, 253# [1998] Decree of the State Council. (12) “List of Classified Management on Environmental Protection of Construction Project”, implemented from 1 January 2003. (13) “Environmental Protection Regulation (Modified) of Shanxi Province”, 30 July 1997. (14) “Protection and Control Regulation for Water Contamination of Fen River Basin of Shanxi Province”, implemented from 1 May 2005.

(15) “Protection and Control Regulation for Atmospheric Contamination of Shanxi Province”, 3 December 1996. (16) “Management Method of Protection and Control Facilities for Environmental Contamination of Shanxi Province”, 25 October 1997. (17) “Management Method of Forest Garden of Shanxi Province”, 25 May 2000. (18) “Regulation of Urban Greening of Taiyuan City”, 20 December 2001. (19) “Regulation of Soil and Water Conservation of Taiyuan City”, 29 September 1998. (20) “Protection and Management Method of Cultural Relic of Taiyuan City”, 5 August 2003 (21) “Management Regulation of Urban Road of Taiyuan City”, 30 January 2006. (22) “Protection and Control Method of Contamination of Motorized Vehicle Emission of Taiyuan City”, 30 November 1999. (23) “Management Method of Urban Appearance and Environment of Taiyuan City”, 1 April1 2004. 1.3.2 Technical guideliens and specifications (1) “Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment (Generals, Atmospheric Environmental and Surface Water Environment)” HJ/T2.1～2.3-93. (2) “Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment (Acoustic Environmental)”HJ/T2.4-1995. (3) “Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment- Non-contamination ecological Impact” HJ/T 19-1997. (4) “Specification of Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway Construction Project Environmental Impact Assessment (Provisional)” JTJ005-96, Ministry of Transport. (5) “Notice on Environmental Noise in Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Highway and Railway (including light rail)”, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, HF [2003]94. (6) “Temporary Method of Public Participating in Environmental Impact Assessment”, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, HF 2006[38], 14 February 2006. (7) “Technical Specification of Soil and Water Conservation Scheme of Development Construction Project” (SL204-98). (8) “Management Method of Environmental Protection of Traffic Construction Project”, 2003, 5# Decree of Minister of Transport. (9) “Specifications on Soil and Water Conservation of Highway Construction Project” ,The Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Transport, SB [2001］12. 1.3.3 Related documents of the world bank (1) “World Bank OP/BP4.01 and Appendix (environmental assessment)”, January 1999. (2) “World Bank OP/ (Environmental Assessment)”, January 1999. (3) “World Bank GP4.01 (Environmental Assessment)”, January 1999. (4) “Collection of Data on Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank”. (5) “World Bank OP/ BP 4.12 (Non-voluntary Re-settler), June 1990. (6) “World Bank GP14.70 (Participation of Non-governmental Organizations in Financing Activities of World Bank)”. (7) Safety and security Policies of World Bank. 1.3.4 Engineering Design Documents (1) “Feasibility Study Report (Approving Draft) of Taiyuan Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road Sub-project under World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project”, Shanghai Engineering Design General Institute, May 2008. (2) “Feasibility Study Taiyuan Public Transport Component”, Shanghai City Composite Transportation Planning Institute, May 2008.

1.3.5 Examination And Approval Documents (1) Approval of Proposal of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project proposal by Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, JFGWZF [2007]1087, Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, 22 November 2007, refer to Appendix 1. 1.4 Idea on Assessment 1.4.1 Overall Idea This environmental impact assessment shall be made in accordance with the law on environmental impact assessment, management regulation on environmental protection for construction project and the technical guidelines of environmental impact assessment, on basis of the related approved state, provincial or municipal environmental planning and overall urban plan and in combination with the nature and location of the project and then as per the environmental impact assessment the measures for prevention and control of contamination and for environmental protection of this construction project are raised to provide scientific basis for project construction and management. 1.4.2 Idea on Environmental Impact Assessment (1)This project belongs to project of perfection of urban environmental infrastructure and improvement of traffic safety and management , utilizes World Bank Loan and consists of components such as road infrastructure and public transport. This project environmental assessment mainly focuses on impact of the construction process of traffic infrastructure on regional environment and it will analyze and describe the environmental impact of the project and measures to mitigate the impact. It shall analyze and assess the environmental impact of each component and integrally assess the environmental impact and efficiency of the package project so as minimize disadvantageous impact and maintain regional environment quality. (2)The project is mostly in the built urban area and partially in urban suburbs margin and many enterprises, institutions, cultural areas and residential areas are arranged along the construction project route and they have high requirements on environmental quality. Hence, in the environmental impact assessment cares shall be taken to the impact of change of intensity of contamination source during project implementation on regional environment impact and surrounding natural ecological environment. (3)The project implementation will occupy partial land and involve resettlement of some habitants and thus in this project the land acquisition, removal and resettlement shall be paid great attention to during the environmental impact assessment. (4) From view point of environmental protection, practicable environmental control measures and requirements on management mechanism shall be raised in order to fully play the efficiency of the project, perfect the urban infrastructure and improve urban environment. The assessment shall focus on analysis of positive environmental impact of project implementation. (5)The assessment shall focus on the environmental impact during construction period and operation period as well as required mitigation measures and environmental management so as to minimize disadvantageous disturbance to people’s health and natural ecological environment. (6) We shall adopt public participation to eliminate possible oversight or mission in environmental impact assessment, which will make the planning, design and environmental management perfect and rational and provide scientific basis for environmental management of Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project. 1.4.3 Assessment Method This project is an urban traffic development and construction project and is characterized by many environmental sensitive points and wide impacted range. The along-route 4

reconnaissance shows that the main along-route sensitive points are residential areas, schools and hospitals and they have similar sensitive targets and nature. We shall conduct the assessment mainly with points and representative sections in combination with point-section to fully reflect the entire route. (1) Assessment of road sections We shall in accordance with the predicted traffic volume, and the landform and climate of each road section in the “World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project feasibility study report” make analysis and assessment in combination with distribution of sensitive points. (2) For assessment of acoustic environment and environmental air during the operation period we shall make calculation and analysis mainly with mode prediction method, simply analyze the impact on ecological environment and water environment and utilize the survey analysis method for impact on social environment impact and public participation. 1.5 Assessment Grade Classified with the method specified in World Bank business manual-environmental impact assessment (OP4.01) on basis of contamination features, intensity of contamination source and environmental status of the project region, the environmental impact assessment of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project is Type-A and it shall be overall made. 1.6 Assessment Range In accordance features of environmental impact assessment for urban road project, as well as the characteristics of the along-route sensitive points and natural environment, the range of this environmental impact assessment is shown in Table 1.6-1.

TABLE 1.6-1 List of environmental impact assessment range Environmental Component Assessment range factor Acoustic Within 200m from both sides of central line of road. environment Environmental air Within 200m from both sides of central line of road. Water within 300m from both sides of central line of road Water Road and water from upstream 200m to downstream 1000m of environment infrastructure the cross-river bridge. Ecological Within 300m from both sides of central line of road environment Social Within 200m from both sides of central line of highway environment and direct-impacted areas in “project feasibility report” Assessment range for special public traffic lane and harbor-shaped bus stop: Within 200m from both sides of Acoustic central line of road. Assessment range for the bus terminals environment and parking and bus depots assessment range: 200m round the bus depots or stop Special public traffic lane and harbor-shaped bus stop assessment range: Within 200m from both sides of central Environmental air Public transport line of road. Initial and terminal stop and bus depots assessment range: 200m round the bus depots or stop Water Merely analysis of qualified discharge environment Ecological Project land-occupied region and construction environment possible-involved region Social Project direct-impacted area environment 1.7 Classification of Environmental Functional Area 1.7.1 Environmental Air As per “Study report of classification of functional areas of Taiyuan environmental air quality” approved by Taiyuan Municipal Government, the project regional environment air quality is planned as Type-II region. 1.7.2 Surface water In accordance with “Management region scheme of surface water environment of Shanxi Province” of Environmental Protection Bureau of Shanxi Province, Northern Middle Ring Road-cross Fen River section, Jian River section and Taihang Road-cross Beisha River section are applicable to criteria type-IV of “Standard of surface water environment quality” (GB3838-2002). 1.7.2 Noise In accordance with adjustment diagram of “Classification of environmental noise applicable regions of Taiyuan urban region” (Fig. 3), the region of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road passes through is applicable to type-1, type-2 or type-3 of “Standard of urban regional environment noise” (GB3096-93). 1.8 Assessment Standard The assessment standard will be decided based on the environmental function-area division where the project is located. Agreed by Taiyuan municipal EPA, the following standards will be adopted in this environmental assessment. (refer to Appendix 2).

In accordance with requirements of planning of environmental function of project-involved region, in this assessment the following standards are used. 1.8.1 Environmental Quality Standard (1) Environmental air The environmental air quality shall be applicable to criteria grade-II of “Environmental air quality standard” (GB3095-1996), shown in Table 1.8-1. Table 1.8-1 Environmental air quality standard (Abstract) Unit: mg/m3

Contaminant PM10 TSP NO2 Limit value of concentration of criteria Daily mean 0.15 0.30 0.12 grade-II of GB3095-1996 “Environmental air quality standard” Hourly mean - - 0.24 (2) Acoustic environment The acoustic environment standard of road infrastructure component during the operation period shall be applicable to “Notice on Environmental Noise in Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Highway and Railway (including light rail)” (HF [2003]94) of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with environmental assessment standard shown in Table 1.8-2.

Table 1.8-2 Acoustic environment standard of road infrastructure component during the operation period Classific Applicable ation of Night Day Requirement Remark region standard Outside 50-m interval from the Region of Type-1 55 45 first row of building to the red mainly line of road Northern Middle Ring residence, Within 50-m interval from the Road K0+000～K5+000 schools and Type-4 70 55 first row of building to the red cultural body line of road Outside 35-m interval from the Northern Middle Ring Region mixed Type-2 60 50 first row of building to the red Road K7+000 ～ K9+95, with line of road Taihang Road residence, Within 35-m interval from the K1+000～K11+985 commerce and Type-4 70 55 first row of building to the red industry line of road Outside 25-m interval from the Type-3 65 55 first row of building to the red Industry line of road Northern Middle Ring region Within 25-m interval from the Road K5+000~K7+000 Type-4 70 55 first row of building to the red line of road Outside 50-m and within 35-m School, and 25-m interval from the first Type-2 60 50 hospital row of building to the red line of road

In accordance with the “Classification of environmental noise applicable regions of Taiyuan urban region”, the acoustic environment quality for the public transport component shall be applicable to criteria type-1 or type-2 of “Urban regional environment noise standard” (GB3096-93), shown in Table 1.8-3. Table 1.8-3 Acoustic environment standard of road infrastructure component during the operation period Unit: dB Type Day Night Remark Nanhan bus depots, Nanxinjie initial-terminal stop, 1 55 45 Helaowan initial-terminal stop, Beiyan initial-terminal stop 2 60 50 Beiying Bus Depot , Zoo initial-terminal stop (3) Water environment Northern Middle Ring Road-cross Fen River section, Jian River section and Taihang Road-cross Nansha River and Beisha River section shall be applicable to criteria type-IV of “Surface water environment quality standard” (GB3838-2002). And more, the

assessment range of public transport component involves with no surface water. The main indexes of surface water environment quality standard are shown in Table 1.8-4. Table 1.8-4 Surface water environment assessment standard Name and code of standard Main index Criteria type-IV pH 6～9 DO (mg/L) 3

Surface water environment quality BOD5 (mg/L) 6

standard (GB3838-2002) CODCr (mg/L) 30 Oil (mg/L) 0.5 TN (mg/L) 1.5 TP (mg/L) 0.3 (4) Quality of soil environment The survey shows that Northern Middle Ring Road passes through Shanxi Chemical Plant and the criteria for grade-III specified in “Standard of quality of soil environment” (GB15618-1995) shall be applicable to the soil environment in the said plant area, as shown in Table 1.8－5. Table 1.8-5 Standard of quality of soil environment Grade Grade -I Grade -II Grade -III Natural <6.5 6.5～7.5 >7.5 >6.5 pH of soil background item Cd ≤ 0.20 0.30 0.30 0.60 1.0 Hg ≤ 0.15 0.30 0.50 1.0 1.5 As paddy field ≤ 15 30 25 20 30 arid land ≤ 15 40 30 25 40 Cu, farm land ≤ 35 50 100 100 400 orchard ≤ — 150 200 200 400 Pb ≤ 35 250 300 350 500 Cr paddy field ≤ 90 250 300 350 400 arid land ≤ 90 150 200 250 300 Zn ≤ 100 200 250 300 500 Ni ≤ 40 40 50 60 200

1.8.2 Discharge Standard of Contaminants (1) Discharge standard of atmospheric contaminants During the construction period, the uncoordinated discharge monitor limit concentration value of “Comprehensive discharge standard of atmospheric contaminants” (GB16297-1996) shall be applicable to asphalt fume. During the operation period, the boiler fume discharged from the bus terminals and the bus depots shall be applicable to gas-fired boiler standard of “Boiler atmospheric contaminants discharge standard” (GB13271-2002), the fume from dinning room applicable to “Fume discharge standard of meal industry” (GB18483-2001), and waste gas discharged from filling station applicable

to “Atmospheric contaminants discharge standard of filling station” (GB20952-2007), with standard values shown in Table 1.8-6 to Table 1.8-9. Table 1.8-6 Discharge standard of asphalt fume (New contamination source) (Abstract) Unit: mg/m3 Maximum allowable Monitor limit concentration for Contaminant Production process discharge uncoordinated discharge Melting and mixing Free of obvious uncoordinated Asphalt fume 40～75 of asphalt discharge

Table 1.8-7 Discharge standard of atmospheric contaminants from gas-fired boiler

Fume discharge SO2 discharge Ringelman Type of Chimney height concentration concentration Blackness contaminant (m) (mg/m3) (mg/m3) (Grade) Standard value 50 100 I Not below 8m Table 1.8-8 Discharge standard of contaminants discharge from filling station Oily gas contaminants discharge Distance between discharge Type of contaminant concentration (g/m3) port and ground (m) Standard value 25 Not below 4m Table 1.8-9 Discharge standard of fume from meal industry Scale Small-sized Middle-sized Large-sized Maximum allowable discharge 2.0 concentration (mg/m3) Minimum removal efficiency of 60 75 85 purifying facilities (%)

(2) Wastewater discharge standard By investigation, there is a completed waste-piping net near by Nanhan bus depot, Beiyan bus terminal and Yingxin Street bus terminal, the wastewater will be drained into the waste-piping net according to the class III standard requirement of “Comprehensive discharge standard for sewage ”(GB8978-1996). Presently, there is no waste-piping net for Baiying depot, Helao Bay bus terminal and Zoo bus terminal, the wastewater will be drained into the drainage canal according to class I standard of “Comprehensive discharge standard for sewage”, with standard values shown in Table 1.8-10.

Table 1.8-10Comprehensive discharge standard for sewage Unit：mg/L

Contamination pH COD BOD5 NH3-N SS Oil Remark The wastewater of Nanhan bus depot will be drained into Xikuang Street waste-piping net; The wastewater of Beiyan bus terminal Class III standard 6～9 500 300 35* 400 20 will be drained into Jiujinci Road waste-piping net; the wastewater of Yingxi Street bus terminal will be drained into Datong Road sewage network. The drainage canal near by Beiying Class I standard 6～9 100 20 15 70 20 bus depot, Helao Bay bus terminal and Zoo bus terminal Note: * means that the related requirement of “Water quality standard for sewage drained into urban sewer ”（CJ3082-1999）will be executed as the emission standard of ammonia nitrogen. (3) Noise standard The boundary noise of public traffic bus depots and initial-terminal stop shall be applicable to criteria Type-II of “Boundary noise standard of industry enterprises” (GB12348-90), shown in Table 1.8-11. Table 1.8-11 Boundary noise standard of industry enterprises Region Type Day(dB) Night(dB) Region mixed with residence, II 60 50 commerce and industry During construction period, the noise shall be controlled in accordance with “Limit value of noise of building construction boundaries” (GB12523-90), shown in Table 1.8-12. Table 1.8-12 Limit value of noise of building construction boundaries Unit: dB

Construction stage Main noise source Limit value of noise Day Night Earth-rock Dozer, excavator and loader 75 55 cutting Piling Piling machine 85 No construction Structure Concrete mixer, vibrator and electric saw 70 55 Decoration Crane and lift 65 55 1.9 Assessment Time Section The assessment time section of this project includes the construction period and the operation period and in accordance with “Specification of Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway Construction Project Environmental Impact Assessment (Provisional)” the assessment time section of operation period is re-divided into operation initial-period (the first year after commissioning, i.e. 2011), operation intermediate-period (the 7th year after commissioning, i.e. 2017) and operation

future-period (the 15th year after commissioning, i.e. 2025). 1.10 Targets of Environmental Protection 1.10.1 Targets of Water Environment Protection Targets Targets of water environment protection targets mainly include Northern Middle Ring Road-cross Fen River section, Jian River section, Taihang Road-cross Nanshahe River and Beishahe River and their quality conforms to criteria type-IV of “Surface water environment quality standard” (GB3838-2002), shown in Table 1.10-1. And more, public traffic components involve with no surface water environment protection target. Table 1.10-1 List of protection targets of water environment of road infrastructure component Width of the Name of Function of crossing No Stake No. Bridge name Bridge length (m) water water location (m) I. Northern Middle Ring Road 1 Fen River K3+650 Fen Bridge 1047.36 Ⅳ 450 2 Jian River K6+001 Jianhe Bridge 60 Ⅳ 30 II. Taihang Road 3 Nansha River K6+618.5 Nanshahe River 430 Ⅳ 8 4 Beisha River K10+056 桥Beishahe River 490 Ⅳ 15 1.10.2 Main Protection Targets桥 of Environmental Air And Acoustic Environment (1) Road improvement component The site survey shows that the main protection targets of environmental air and acoustic environment are the sensitive points such as residential areas, schools and hospitals within 200m from both sides of central line of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, with the locations shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2and Table 1.10-2. (2) Public transport component The site survey shows that the main protection targets of environmental air and acoustic environment of public transport component are the residential areas 200m within Helaowan bus terminal. There is no sensitive point such as residential area, school and hospital within 200m of Nanhan and Beiying Bus Depot and Yinxin Street, Zoo and Beiyan Bus Terminal. The environmental protection targets of Helaowan bus terminal are shown in Table 1.10-3.

Table 1.10-2 Villages and schools along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road & protection requirements Shortest Elevation Requirement distance Particulars of first row of houses Total households Name of sensitive Type of difference on No. Stake No. from central (after removal) within the point subgrade of subgrade environmental line /red line (Flats/type/households) assessment range (m) function (m) I. Northern Middle Ring Road Main road: Main road: Bridge Taiyuan Fruit Tree 9.0 1 flat/1-story house/ca. 6 1 K0+500~K0+550 Auxiliary south 32/1 ca. 20 N1,A2 Farm Hostel Auxiliary households road: road: 0.2 Embankment Main road: Main road: Embankment Anguang 0.8 3 flats/6-story house/ca. 48 ca. 10 flats, 220 2 K0+800~K0+950 Auxiliary south 60/32 N1,A2 Residential Area Auxiliary households households road: road: 0.5 Embankment Main road: Main road: Embankment 0.4 3 flats/5 stories, 2 flats/6-story ca. 31 flats, 325 3 Jinji Hostel K1+300~K1+650 south 40/7 N1,A2 Auxiliary Auxiliary house/ca. 140 households households road: Cut road: -0.2 Main road: Road-north: 19 flats/2-story/ 19 Main road: Embankment households Xiaodongliu 1.2 south 40/7 ca. 800 4 K1+900~K2+250 Auxiliary Road-south: 16 flats/2-story/ 16 N1,A2 village Auxiliary north 35/2 households road: households,3 flats/5-story/ 3 road: 0.4 Embankment households Main road: Main road: Embankment Xinxing 0.8 1 flat/6-story house/ca. 12 3 flats, ca. 48 5 K2+748~K2+800 Auxiliary north 80/46 N1,A2 Residential Area Auxiliary households households road: road: 0.9 Embankment

Shortest Elevation Requirement distance Particulars of first row of houses Total households Name of sensitive Type of difference on No. Stake No. from central (after removal) within the point subgrade of subgrade environmental line /red line (Flats/type/households) assessment range (m) function (m) Main road: Main road: Bridge 8.6 6 flats/1-story house/ca. 20 6 Chengjia village K5+050~K5+200 south 73/48 N2,A2 Aux. road: Auxiliary households Embankment road: 0.7 Main road: Main road: Bridge 8.1 4 flats/2-story house/ca. 30 7 Taigang Hostel K5+200~K5+350 south 80/54 N2,A2 Aux. road: Auxiliary households Embankment road: 0.7 Main road: Main road: Bridge 4.0 south 4 flats/5～7-story house/ca. 60 8 Kuangji Hostel K5+400~K5+650 N2,A2 Aux. road: Auxiliary 136/107 households Embankment road: 0.4 Main road: Main road: Locomotive Bridge 10.0 9 K7+050~K7+100 north 81/56 1 flat, 6-story house 119 beds N2,A2 Hospital Aux. road: Auxiliary Embankment road: 0.9 Main road: Main road: Locomotive Plant Bridge 10.0 4 flats/5～7-story house/ca. 60 10 K7+150~K7+400 north 27/2 N2,A2 Hostel Aux. road: Auxiliary households Embankment road: 0.6 Main road: Main road: Jin’an Residential Bridge 10.0 4 flats/5～7-story house/ca. 60 11 K7+800~K8+200 north 40/8 N2,A2 Area Aux. road: Auxiliary households Embankment road: 0.3 Main road: Main road: Xiangtang Primary Bridge 10.0 12 K7+880~K8+950 south 56/24 1 flat, 2-story teaching building N2,A2 School Aux. road: Auxiliary Embankment road: 0.3

Shortest Elevation Requirement distance Particulars of first row of houses Total households Name of sensitive Type of difference on No. Stake No. from central (after removal) within the point subgrade of subgrade environmental line /red line (Flats/type/households) assessment range (m) function (m) Main road: Main road: Bridge 10.0 6 flats/5～7-story house/ca. 80 13 Jin’anxin village K7+800~K8+200 south 72/32 N2,A2 Aux. road: Auxiliary households Embankment road: 0.3 Main road: Main road: Shanxi Sanfei Bridge 10.0 14 K8+500~K8+550 south 47/15 1 flat/5-story teaching building N2,A2 Technical School Aux. road: Auxiliary Embankment road: 1.1 Main road: Main road: Machine Tool Bridge 5.6 5 flats/6-story house/ca. 140 15 flats/ca. 360 15 K8+552~K8+750 south 35/3 N2,A2 Plant Hostel Auxi. road: Auxiliary households households Embankment road: 0.9 II. Taihang Road West 70/44 10 flats/1 ～ 2-story house/10 47 flats/47 16 Xiaozaogou village K11+236~K11+518 moat -7.4 N2,A2 East 30/3 households households Zhaoyuan 4 flats/6-story house/24 20 flats/37 17 K11+324~K11+461 moat -7.4 East 77/52 N2,A2 Residential Area households households Xingyuan 7 flats/2-story house/7 33 flats/70 18 K10+730~K10+906 Embankment 4.2 East 87/62 N2,A2 Residential Area households households Daochanggou 12 flats/2-story farmer house/12 ca. 45 flats/45 19 K10+517~K10+730 Embankment 0.2 East 27/2 N2,A2 village households households Taiyuan Leather 9 flats/1-story farmer house/9 20 K10+381~K10+485 moat -0.1 East 38/13 N2,A2 Factory Hostel households Shanxi Machine 7 flats/1-story farmer house/7 21 Building Company K10+381~K10+485 moat -0.1 West 56/31 N2,A2 households Hostel Taiyuan First Wool 6 flats/1-story farmer house/6 22 Textile Factory K10+258~K10+380 moat -0.8 East 50/25 N2,A2 households Hostel

Shortest Elevation Requirement distance Particulars of first row of houses Total households Name of sensitive Type of difference on No. Stake No. from central (after removal) within the point subgrade of subgrade environmental line /red line (Flats/type/households) assessment range (m) function (m) 13 flats/1-story farmer house/13 23 Zhigongxin village K10+070~K10+235 moat -3.5 West 48/20 N2,A2 households Taiyuan Cereals 8 flats/1-story farmer house/8 24 K10+070~K10+235 moat -3.5 East 52/24 N2,A2 Bureau hostel households 3 flats/6-story house/18 Jianziwan East 30/5 households ca. 7 flats/43 25 K9+926~K10+030 Bridge 7.0 N2,A2 Residential Area West 30/5 4 flats/5 ～ 6-story house/21 households households Xinyuanli Primary 2-story teaching building/300 26 K9+650 Bridge 5.5 West 90/69 N2,A2 School students, 18 employees Xinyuanli 27 K9+650 Bridge 5.5 West 68/47 50～60 children and 9 teachers N2,A2 Kindergarten 490# Warehouse 3 flats/1-story house/3 28 K9+610~ K9+670 Bridge 5.5 East 57/35 N2,A2 hostel households 4 flats/5-storey house/20 12 flats/ca. 250 29 Taitie Hostel K9+332~ K9+500 moat -7.0 West 108/83 N2,A2 households households Dongchangsheng West 1 flat/24 30 K9+280~ K9+332 moat -6.5 1 flat/6-story house/6 households N2,A2 Residential Area 187/162 households 3 flats/2-story house/3 households,1 flat/4-story/ office ca. 20 flats/30 31 Daba’ergou village K9+040~ K9+100 Bridge 5.5 West 56/31 N2,A2 building (People’s defense households office) Bridge 9 flats/2-story farmer house/9 ca. 75 flats/80 32 Shan’ershu village K8+468~ K8+710 3.4 East 32/8.0 N2,A2 Embankment households households Broadcasting, East: Three 5-story employee 4000 students, Movie and TV East 65/40 hostels 33 K8+050~ K8+200 moat -0.3 300 teachers and N2,A2 Management West 26/1 West: Three 3～5 story teaching employees Cadre College buildings

Shortest Elevation Requirement distance Particulars of first row of houses Total households Name of sensitive Type of difference on No. Stake No. from central (after removal) within the point subgrade of subgrade environmental line /red line (Flats/type/households) assessment range (m) function (m) East : ca. 15 flats/2-story farmer East 32/9 house/15 households ca. 150 flats/150 34 Haojiagou village K7+190~ K7+430 moat -0.1 N2,A2 West 27/4 West : ca. 10 flats/2 ～ 3-story households farmer house/10 households Archives Bureau : 3 flats (2～ Shanxi Provincial 8stotries) office building ca. 20 households 35 Archives Bureau K7+030~ K7+068 Bridge 8.6 West 28/0 N2,A2 habitants and its hostel hostel : 1 flat/5-storey house/ca. 5 households 30 flats/1 ～ 3-story farmer Wangjiafeng East 30/5 house/30 households ca. 450 36 K5+370~ K5+556 moat -0.7 N2,A2 village West 28/3 11 flat/1 ～ 3-story farmer households house/11 households Taiyuan Spirit Care East 41/16 Grade-III A hospital, 400doctors, 37 K4+519~ K4+605 Embankment 1.8 N2,A2 Hospital West 44/19 525 beds 3 flats/1-story farmer house/3 ca. 12 flats/25 38 Yanjiafeng village K4+270~ K4+372 Embankment 0.3 East 27/2 N2,A2 households households 10 flats/2-story farmer house/10 ca. 130 flats/130 39 Longbao village K1+831~ K1+959 moat -0.8 East 28/3 N2,A2 households households Note: “Distance from central line”, “Latest house type” and “Numbers of households and numbers of teachers and students within the assessment range” exclude the to-be-removed houses. A2-environmental air reaches criteria grade-II of “environmental air quality standard” (GB3095-1996). N1～2-nosie environment reaches the criteria Type 1-2 of “Standard of urban regional environment noise” (GB3096-93).

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Table 1.10-3 Targets of environmental protection for Helao Bay bus terminal Requirement of Public transport Sensitive From boundary Orientation environmental component point （m） protection Helaowan Helao Bay bus terminal E、N 30 A2、N1 Village Note: A2—the environmental air reached the class II standard of “Quality standard of environmental air”(GB3095-1996); N1—the acoustic environment reached the class I standard of “Noise standard of environment for urban area”(GB3096-93). 1.10.3 Main ecological environmental protection target The main ecological environmental protection target is Northern Middle Ring Road section (K4+150~ K4+450) involved Taiyuan City Forest Garden, shown in Table 1.10-4. Table 1.10-4 Main ecological environmental protection targets Environmenta Protection target Stake No. or location Protection requirement l factor Taiyuan City Minimizing vegetation area of forest garden Northern Middle Ring Road Ecological Forest Garden occupied by Northern Middle Ring Road and middle-section, east side of Fen environment (urban ecological protecting the vegetation within the impacted River (K4+150~ K4+450) type) region.

1.10.4 Protection Targets of Social Environment The protection targets of social environment are mainly habitants involved with or impacted by resettlement and after resettlement their life quality shall not be inferior to that before construction. 1.11 Key Points of Assessment In combination with the project scale, characteristics and environmental features of project-impacted region, the road infrastructure component is determined as the key point of this assessment and the environmental impact of the public transport component is merely simply analyzed. The key points of assessment are as follows: (1) Acoustic environment: Mainly after operation of highway the acoustic environment impact of traffic noise on road along-route residential areas, hospitals and schools (2) Environmental air: Mainly after operation of highway impact of car tail gas to environmental air of the along-route residential areas, hospitals and schools (3) Social environment: Mainly the impact of land-occupation, removal, resettlement and road construction to the along-route habitants and units 1.12 Safety And Security Policies of World Bank As per stipulations of the World Bank, during the project implementation process the public interests shall be focused on. In this assessment, on basis of provisions of World Bank Environmental Documents, the safety and security policies are individually checked and confirmed, with the results shown in Table 1.12-1.

Table 1.12-1 Selection of Safety and security Policies No. Contents Yes/No Confirmed result Environmental 1 impact √ Environmental impact assessment is under progress. assessment Natural home The project is entirely in Taiyuan urban area and involves with 2 × range no natural home range. Removal and 3 √ Refer to 5.7 hereof resettlement 4 Aborigines × The project construction involves with no aborigines. Confirmed through site reconnaissance of Taiyuan City Cultural 5 Cultural Relics × Relic Archaeology Research Institute, this project involves with no Cultural Relics. 6 Disputed area × No disputed international area

7 Dam safety × With the project assessment range there is no large-sized dam. International 8 × No international water water Northern Middle Ring Road assessment range involves with 9 Forest × Taiyuan City Forest Garden (K4+150~K4+450). Taihang Road and public transport component involve with no forest. Management of During construction and operation period of this project no 10 × pesticides pesticide or herbicide will be used. Note: √ denotes that the item is available and × denotes that the item is unavailable.

2 Descriptions of Project and Pollution Analysis 2.1 Project Name World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project. 2.2 Name and Location Of Sub-Project World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project includes sub-project for road network improvement and public traffic works. The road network improvement sub-project: including construction of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road. The public traffic sub-project: including construction of one bus rapid transit, construction of bay type bus-stop of main roads, 2 bus depots, 4 bus terminals and bus intelligent dispatching system. The geographical location is shown in Fig.3. 2.3 Responsible Department and Implementation Organization Responsible department: Taiyuan Development and Reform Committee Implementation organization: Leading Team Office, Taiyuan WB financed project 2.4 Implementation Organization The legal person of project is Taiyuan Urban Construction Management Committee, in which Taiyuan Urban Construction Management Committee is also the owner unit of Northern Middle Ring Road, Taiyuan Urban Construction Management Center is the owner unit of Taihang Road for road network improvement sub-project, and Taiyuan Bus Company is the owner unit of bus sub-project. 2.6 Road Network Implovement Sub-Project 2.6.1 General Of Road Network Implovement Sub-Project The road network improvement sub-project includes Northern Middle Ring Road, Taihang Road as well as drainage and illumination works, Northern Middle Ring Road located at the north of main town of Taiyuan city, the south of Taiyuan Steel Group, by the east-west direction, from the north end of Waliu Road at the west to the cross of Taihang Road at the east, which is a fast road from the east to the west in the northern part of city. Taihang Road is located at the east of Taiyuan city, between Jianse Road and Dongshan speedway at the south and north direction, starting from Xutandong Street and ended at Northern Middle Ring Road,which is only trunk through the south to north in east area. The construction items are shown in Table 2.6-1.

Table 2.6-1 Construction items Investment Project name Construction content and features （×108 Yuan） Speedway, pitch concrete pavement, double direction 6 lanes for main raod, double direction 4 lanes for auxiliary raod. Using “ground speedway ＋auxiliary Road project road”, “overhead road ＋ auxiliary road”mode, to build bus-stop, passerby street-cross and barrier-free facilities, etc. Total length 9.95km，a new project Set 3 interchanges, 5 diamond overpass, 5 ground river-crossing bridge, 1 valley-cross bridge along the line. The bridges are viaduct,ramp bridge, ground Northern river-crossing bridge， set large overpass as Binghexi Middle road overpass, Binghedong road overpass and Jianhe 7.24 Ring Road road overpass, and simple overpass as Waliu road Bridge overpass, Heping road overpass, Datong road overpass works and Taihang Road overpass （line-cross bridge），setting Fen huge bridge, Xiangtang viaduct（including Jiefang road simple overpass）； 5 grond river-crossing bridge （Xiganqu, Fen, Wushuiqu, Dongganqu, Jianhe），and 1 valley-cross bridge Traffic safety and management facility, traffic Auxiliary supervision, lighting and power supply, road greening, works drainage, etc. Trunk road, pitch concrete pavement, using ground road type, to build bus-stop, passerby street-cross and Road project barrier-free facilities, etc. Total length 10.985km, a new project Set 11 overpasses, including Changfendongjie line-cross bridge, Yanjiafeng bridge, Wangjiafeng Taihang bridge, Haozhuang bridge, Nanshahe bridge, 6.47 Road Bridgeworks Chaoyang street bridge, Haojiagou line-cross bridge, Shanershu bridge, Paergou bridge,Beishahe bridge and Daochanggou bridge. Traffic safety and management facility, traffic Auxiliary supervision, lighting and power supply, road greening, works drainage, etc. Note: Binghexi road overpass, Fen river bridge and Binghedong road overpass（K2+900~K4+400, 1.5km long are financed by Taiyuan city, not listed into the WB financed items.

The geographical location of road network sub-project is shown in Fig.3.

Fig.3 Geographical location of road network sub-project financed by the World Bank

2.6.2 General of Northern Middle Ring Road Works 2.6.2.1 Northern Middle Ring Road Line Route Northern Middle Ring Road line route is at the EW direction, starting from Waliu Road，along existing Shenglixi Street toward to the east, through Xiaodongliu Village, over Fen River, passing along the south of Forest Park and Taiyuan Steel Group, Shanxi Chemical Plant, Mineral Machinery Works, Fireproofing Mill, Xiangtangxi Street, Locomotive plant,Xiangtang Village，and then toward to the east of Jinandong Street， linked finally with with Taihang Road(planned) at the north of Xiaozhaogou Village, 9.95km long in total. 2.6.2.2 General Scheme of Northern Middle Ring Road （1）Road layout It is a urban speedway, using double direction 6 lanes for main road, double direction 4 lanes for auxiliary road, combined by“ground speedway ＋ auxiliary road” and “overhead road ＋ auxiliary road”mode, in which Waliu Road ～Fen River, Fen River ～Jiefang Road, Jianhe Road ～Taihang Road use “ground speedway ＋ auxiliary road”, and Jiefang Road ～Jianhe Road use “overhead road ＋ auxiliary road”，and build bus-stop, passerby street-cross and barrier-free facilities, etc. （2）Layout of overpass According to the grade of lateral road standard set different overpass or up-link and down-link ramp, as： ① When it is crossed with speedway（quasi-fast road） or trunk road with heavy traffic capacity, set interchange; ② When it is crossed with trunk road, set overpass; when it is crossed with secondary trunk, set line-cross bridge; ③ When it is crossed with other lateral road, use the form of right-hand turning into auxiliary road to link with main line by outlet/inlet or ramp. The detail layout of road and overpass is shown in Fig.4.

Fig.4 General layout of Northern Middle Ring Road works

2.6.2.3 Construction scale and technical standard Northern Middle Ring Road is 9.95km long in total，double directions with 6 lanes for main road,a full closed urban fast road, roadbed 24.5m wide，running speed 60km/h; double directions with 4 lanes for auxiliary road urban trunk road standard, roadbed 14m wide，running speed 40km/h, running speed of ramp 30～40km/h. Main engineering quantity is shown in Table 2.6-2， and main technical index shown in 2.6-3. Table 2.6-2 Engineering quantity No. Description Unit Quantity Remarks 1 Project name Northern Middle Ring Road 2 Project features New project Taiyuan Uban Construction Management 3 Construction unit Commission 4 Road 4.1 Line length km 9.95 5 Bridge 5.1 Viaduct － 1 Xiangtang viaduct

River-cross, 5.2 － 5 valley-cross bridge 6 Interchange 6.1 Interchange － 3 6.2 Diamont overpass － 4 7 Bus-stop, crosswalk 7.1 Bus-stop － 8

7.2 Plane crosswalk － 10

7.3 Sectional crosswalk － 3 7.4 Pedestrian bridge － 6 7.5 Under bridge passage － 8 8 Investment 8.1 Investment ×108Yuan 7.24

Table 2.6-3 Technical index No. Description Unit Main road Auxiliary Remarks road Full closed 1 Road class - Urban trunk urban trunk 2 Total length km 9.95 9.95

Designed running 3 km/h 60 40 Ramp, 30～40 speed

4 Lane width m 2-3×3.5 2-2×3.25 5 Roadbed width m 24 14 Bitumen Bitumen 6 Pavement structure - concrete concrete If longitudinal Max. longitudinal 7 ％ 4 0.3 slope is hard for slope hilly area, use 5 8 Bridge design load Urban －A class 9 Road design load BZZ－100 standard car Anti-earthquake 10 Basic intensity 8，peak acceleration 0.20g standard 11 Road headroom m ≥5.0 Main drainage Rainstorm recurrance ： normal road P=1 year ， 12 standard overpass P=3 year Flow factor：normal road ψ0.9

2.6.2.4 Road Pavement Works The pavement is of bitumen concrete, 74cm thick for speedway， 68cm thick for auxiliary road， 47cm thick for non-motor road and 34cm thick for sideway. 2.6.2.5 Roadbed Works Northern Middle Ring Road main line set double direction with 6 lanes, double direction with 4 lanes for auxiliary road, and the main road and auxiliary road be constructed at same time to meet different traffic requirement. When adopts the mode by“ground fast road ＋auxiliary road”, the top width of roadbed is 55m，its cross section is：central isolation belt 2.0 + main road lane 2×3×3.5 + main road curb zone 2×2×0.5 + main, auxiliary road separation frusta 0.5×2 + auxiliary road lane 2×2×3.5 + auxiliary road curb zone 2×2×0.25 + auxiliary road, motor separation zone 2×1.5 + bicycle way 2×3.0 + sidewalk 2×3.0 ＝ 55m. When adopts the mode by“viadust ＋auxiliary road ”, the top width of roadbed is 50m， the auxiliary road is under the viaduct, no additional roadbed is needed, its cross section is：central isolation belt 0.5 + main road lane 2×3×3.5 + main road curb zone 2×2×0.5 + main road external curb zone 2 x 0.5 + auxiliary road curb zone 2x0.25 + auxiliary road, motor separation zone 2×5.0 + bicycle way 2×3.0 + motor, sidewalk separation zone 2 x 1.5 + sidewalk 2×3.0 ＝ 50m. When adopts the mode by overhead ramp, the top width of roadbed is 50m，its cross section is：central isolation belt 2.0 + external lane 2×2×3.5 + external lane curb zone 2× 0.5 + internal lane 2×2×3.25 + internal lane curb zone 2× 0.5 + auxiliary road and motor

separation zone 2×1.5 + bicycle way 2×3.5 + mortor and sidewalk separation zone 2×1.5 + sidewalk 2×3.0＝50m. The typical cross section of each road is shown in Fig. 5～Fig.7.

Fig.5 Cross section of ground section for Northern Middle Ring Road

Fig. 6 Cross section of viaduct section of Northern Middle Ring Road

Fig.7 Cross section of ramp of Northern Middle Ring Road

2.6.2.6 Bridge Works The bridge works includes viaduct, ground river-crossing bridge and overpass，covering 1 viaduct, 4 ground river-crossing bridges, 1 valley-crossing bridge. By the layout, there are 3 large interchanges， 4 diamond overpass（line-crossing bridge），all of which shall be newly constructed. (1)Viaduct Set 1 viaduct(Xiangtang) at Jiefang Road ～Jianhe Road section, about 2.37km long. (2)Ground river-crossing bridge Totally, set 5 river-crossing bridges along the line, including Fen huge bridge, Xiganqu bridge, Wushuiqu bridge,Dongganqu bridge and Jianhe bridge. Five Rivers in the project area are notmal river channel for drainage and flooding no navigation requirement except Fen River, which is the class-I tributary of Yellow River and the largest river in Shanxi boundary. (3)Interchange（intercross works） Based on the general layout, set 3 large interchanges including Binghexi Road interchange,Binghedong Road interchange, Jianhe Road interchange, and set also 4 diamond overpass including Waliu Road overpass,Heping Road overpass, Datong Road overpass, Taihang Road overpass. Considering all factors for construction, cost and landscape, recommend to use equal altitude or altitude-change prestressing concrete continuous box-beam structure in main crosses, and use simple small box-beam for other places. 2.6.2.7 Bus-Stop In order to guarantee smooth running of auxiliary road along the line,the bus-stop is mainly of bay-type, try the best to set bus-stop downstream the cross considering the distance and traffic requirement of residents along the line. The arrangement of bus-stop of Northern Middle Ring Road is indicated in Table 2.6-3. Table 2.6-3 Setup of bus-stop of Northern Middle Ring Road No. Name Location Station Service object Sangei Guoshuchang （ Sangei K0+580(up-link)/ road,Wanbailin 1 Sangei road road） KO+580(donw-link) road,Guoshuchang, Anguang zone Heping road, Jinji Xiaodongliu （ Heping K1+600(up-link)/ 2 Heping road （west,east） dormitory, ） K1+900(donw-link) road Xiaodongliu Xiqu 3 Xiganqu（Xiqu road） Xiqu road（east） K2+850(up-link,donw-link) road,hengyuan road, Binghexi Forest Taiyuan Steel Group K4+950(up-link)/ 4 Datong road （east） Park,Datong （Datong road ） K5+150(donw-link) road,Taiyuan Steel Fireproffing Plant（Jiefang Jiefang road K6+250(up-link)/ Jiefang road, 5 road ）（west,east） K6+550(donw-link) Fireproffing Plent Locomotive Locomotive plant Xiangtang road K7+250(up-link)/ 6 plant,Xiangtang （Xiangtang road）（west,east） K7+450(donw-link) Village Xiantang Xiangtangjie-nanxiang K8+150 Jianse 7 road,Xiangtang （Xiangtangjie）（west,east） (上,donw-link) village Jin-an Chemical Plant Dunhuanbei road Jin-an Chemical 8 K8+950 (上,donw-link) （Dunhuanbei road ）（planned）（east） Plant 2.6.2.8 Passerby street-cross facility and barrier-free facility

（1）Passerby street-cross facility Northern Middle Ring Road is by fast road standard, the design shall consider the need of foot passerger to cross the street and arrange reasonably crossing facilities, if it is necessary, set pedestrian bridges in order to facilitate the residents at two sides of road. The detail design is indicated in Table 2.6-4. Table 2.6-4 Street cross facilities of Northern Middle Ring Road Np. Station Location Service object Cross way 1 K0+000 Waliu Road Waliu Road A Dongjing branch 2 K0+370 Industrial zone D railway 3 K0+490 Wanbailin Road Guoshuchang dormitory D 4 K0+850 Sangei Road Xinyuan, Anguang resident zone C 5 K1+250 Shenglixi Street Guoshuchang dormitory,Jinji C dormitory 6 K1+700/K1+800 Heping Road Heping Road A 7 K2+260 Shenglixi Street Xiaodongliu Village C 8 K2+750 Xiqu Road Huifeng, Xinxing resident zone C （planned） 9 K3+250 Binghexi Road Binghexi Road D 10 K3+400 West of Fen River Fen River landscape D 11 K3+900 East of Fen River Fen River landscape D 12 K4+000 Binghedong Road Binghedong Road D 13 K4+450 Senyuannan Street Forest Park C 14 K5+000/K5+050 Datong Road Datong Road A 15 K5+400 Chenjiangcundong Taiyuan Steel Group,dormitory A 16 K6+370/K6+450 Jiefang Road Jiefang Road A 17 K7+000 Naihuoxiang Locomotive plant B 18 K7+300 Xiangtangxijie Locomotive plant B Xiangtang Road Locomotive plant,Xiangtang 19 K7+410 A （W） Village Xiangtang Road Locomotive plant,Xiangtang 20 K7+570 A （east） Village 21 K7+970 Xiangtangjienan Xiangtang Village B 22 K8+200 Jianhe Road Jianhe Road A 23 K8+340 Beitongpu railway Dunhuanbeierxiang A 24 K8+450 Jinandong Street Jin-an Chemical Plant, Locomotive D plant dormitory 25 K8+650 Jinandong Street Jin-an Chemical Plant, Locomotive D plant dormitory 26 K9+125 Jin-an Chemical Jin-an Chemical Plant C plant 27 K9+850 Taihang Road Taihang Road A Note：A. Grade crossing crosswalk B. Sectional croswalk C.Pedestrian bridge D.Under brgdge passage

（2）Barrier-free facility In order to ensure trouble-free environment of city and facilitate to use safely the urban road and each facility by inconvenient personnel, set barrier-free facilities such as blind-way and curb slope at all footway, cross, pedestrian bridge and bus-stops. 2.6.2.9 Drainage Works Northern Middle Ring Road is as a fast road pass through two banks of Fen River at north of Taiyuan from the west to the east, starting from Waliu Road at the west to Taihang Road at the east. The rainwater at the west bank of Fen River belongs to Dahehe, Fen River system; The rainwater at the east bank of Fen River belongs to Fen River, flood control channel of sourth line of Taiyuan Steel Group and Beijian River system. The sewage at the west bank of Fen River belongs to Middle sewage handling system; The sewage at the east bank of Fen River belongs to Yangjiabu sewage handling system. The drainage of rainwater is divided into 11 sections, and drainage of sewage into 7 sections. The piping of rainwater is about 13.93km long，and sewage pipe about 8.07km long. 2.6.3 General of Taihang Road 2.6.3.1 Taihang Road Route It is by SN direction, starting from Xutandong Street，through the nursery of Provincial agriculture science institute, Longbao Village, driving school of urban vehicle management station, Taiyuan psychosis hospital, Wangjiafeng Village, Haozhuang Village, Chaoyang Street commernce zone, broadcasting and telecine college, Daoyangyou Village,Xiaozhaogou Village, ended with Northern Middle Ring Road, 10.985km long in total. The general layout of Taihang Road is shown in Fig. 8. 2.6.3.2 General Layout of Taihang Road （1）Road layout It is a urban trunk, using double direction 8 lanes and ground road, and build bus-stop, passerby street-cross and barrier-free facilities, etc. （2）Layout of overpass Taihang Road set 1 interchange （Changfengjie），1 simple overpass （Chaoyang Street）， 1 separated overpass（Haojiagou），and other 3 roads with separated overpass as Xingye Road, Xinzheng Street and Madaopo Street with river-crossing bridge. 2.6.3.3 Construction Scale and Technical Standard Taihang Road is 10.985km long in total，double directions with 8 lanes for main road, roadbed for ground road 50m wide，roadbed for bridge section 45m wide, roadbed for overhead ramp 60m wide, running speed 60km/h, running speed of ramp 30～40km/h. Main engineering quantity is shown in Table 2.6-5， and main technical index shown in 2.6-6.

Fig.8 General layout of Taihang Road

Table 2.6-5 Engineering quantity No. Description Unit Quantity Remarks 1 Project name Taihang Road 2 Project features New project Taiyuan Uban Construction Management 3 Construction unit Commission 4 Road 4.1 Line length km 10985 5 Bridge River-cross, 5.1 - 10 valley-cross bridge 6 Interchange 6.1 Interchange - 1 6.2 Diamont overpass - 1 6.3 Separated overpass - 3 7 Bus-stop, crosswalk 7.1 Bus-stop - 12

7.2 Plane crosswalk - 22

7.3 Sectional crosswalk - 5 8 Investment 8.1 Investment ×108Yuan 6.47

Table 2.6-6 Technical index No. Description Unit Index Remarks 1 Road class Urban trunk road 2 Total length km 9.95 Designed running 3 km/h 60 Ramp, 30～40 speed 4 Lane width m 2×（2×3.5+2×3.5） Roadbed width 50 Ground Pavement structure 5 m 45 Bridge Max. longitudinal slope 60 Ramp 6 Bridge design load Bitumen concrete

If longitudinal slope is hard 7 Roadbed width ％ 4 for hilly area, use 5

8 Pavement structure Urban －A class 9 Road design load BZZ－100 standard car

Anti-earthquake 10 Basic intensity 8，peak acceleration 0.20g standard

11 Road headroom m ≥5.0 Rainstorm recurrance：normal road P=1 year， Main drainage 12 ：， standard overpass P=3 year Flow factor overpassψ=0.6 normal road ψ0.9

2.6.3.4 Road Pavement Works The pavement is of bitumen concrete, 74cm thick for motor road， 47cm thick for non-motor road and 34cm thick for sideway. 2.6.3.5 Roadbed Works Taihang Road set double direction with 8 lanes, and the roadbed of ground section, bridge section and ramp section is 50m, 45m and 60m wide respectively. When adopts the mode by“ground road”, the top width of roadbed is 50m，its cross section is： central isolation belt 2.0 + running lane 2×(2×3.5+2×3.25) + curb zone 2×2×0.5 + main road, bicycle separation zone 2×1.5 + bicycle way 2×3.5 + bicycle way, sidewalk separation zone 2×1.5 + sidewalk 2×3.0＝50m. When adopts the mode by“bridge”, the top width of roadbed is 45m， its cross section is： central isolation belt 1.0 + main road lane 2×(2×3.5+2×3.25) + curb zone 2×2×0.5+ bicycle way 2×3.5 + sidewalk 2×3.0＝45m. When adopts the mode by overhead ramp, the top width of roadbed is 50m，its cross section is：central isolation belt 0.5 + external lane 2×3.5 + external lane curb zone 2× 0.5 + internal lane 2×2×3.25 + lower auxiliary road of viaduct 2×(3.5+2×3.25) + auxiliary road and bicycle way separation zone 2×1.5 + bicycle way 2×3.5 + bicycle way and sidewalk separation zone 2×0.5 + sidewalk 2×3.0＝60m. The typical cross section of each road is shown in Fig. 9～Fig.11.

Fig.9 Cross section of ground road of Taihang Road

Fig.10 Cross section of bridge section of Taihang Road

Fig.11 Cross section of ramp section of Taihang Road 2.6.3.6 Bridge Works The bridge works includes line-cross bridge, ground river-crossing bridge and valley-cross bridge. Set 10 river-crossing bridges as Yanjiafeng bridge, Wangjiafeng bridge, Haozhuang bridge, Nanshahe bridge, Chaoyang Street bridge, Haojiagou bridge, Shanershu bridge, Paergou bridge, Beishahe bridge and Daochanggou bridge. By the layout, there are 1 large interchange,1 diamond overpass（line-crossing bridge），and 3 separated overpass, all of which shall be newly constructed. 2.6.3.7 Bus-stop In order to facilitate the trip of passerby, Taihang Road sets 12 pairs of bus-stop, the bus-stop is mainly of bay-type with integral design after road widening and channelization, and try the best to set bus-stop downstream the cross considering the distance and traffic requirement of residents along the line.

The arrangement of bus-stop of Taihang Road is indicated in Table 2.6-5. Table 2.6-5 Setup of bus-stop of Taihang Road No. Name Location Station Service object

K1+100 （up-link）/ K1+200 Xutandong Street, Gardening 1 Xutandong Street Xutandong Street （down-link） research station Longbao Village, Xuefu Street, K1+600 （ up-link ） Longbao Village, Gardening 2 （Xuefu Street,） (South）(North) /K1+850(down-link) research station, Xuefu Street Longbao Wuchengdong Village,new zone Wuchengdong 3 K2+400（up-link,down-link） Street,,Longbao Village, new (Wuchengdong Street, (North) zone Street,) Driver training center, vehicle Xitaibao Xitaibao Street, K3+450 （up-link）/ K3+650 inspection station, Xufeng 4 (Xitaibao Street,) (South)(North) （down-link） cloth mill,Xinhongda carpentry mill Taiyuan psychosis Taiyuan psychosis hospital, Nansifang Street K4+550(up-link)/4+850(down-l 5 hospital Nansifang (South),(North) ink) (Nansifang Street,Wangjiafeng Village Street) Wangjiafeng Nannei Ring K5+150 （up-link）/ K5+550 Wangjiafeng Village,Nannei 6 Village (Nannei Street （） Ring Ring Street) (South),(North) down-link Haozhuang Haozhuang K6+380 （up-link）/ K6+480 Salvation station, Haozhuang 7 (Haozhuang Street, （） Village Street,) (South),(North) down-link Provincial file Chaoyang Street,Provincial bureau Chaoyang Street K7+000 （up-link）/ K7+150 8 file bureau, Jinyang (Chaoyang (South),(North) （down-link） commodity city Street) Wulongkou, Wulongkou Wulongkou, Broadcast, K8+020 （up-link）/ K8+320 9 (Wulongkou Street, telecine college,dormitory, （down-link） Street,) (South),(North) Shanershu Village Paergou Village, Fudong Street K8+830 （up-link）/ K9+170 Fudong Street,Paergou 10 (Fudong Street ) (South),(North) （down-link） Village, Daoyangyou Village,Kaixuan Street, Leather mill Daoyangyou Kaixuan Street dormitory, Provincial 11 Village K10+400(up-link, down-link) (South) mechaniary plant dormitory, (Kaixuan Street） Grain bureau dormitory, Hingcun Street Shenglidong Shenglidong K11+380（up-link）/K11+730 Xiaozhaoergou Village, 12 Street Street （down-link） Shenglidong Street (South),(North)

2.6.3.8 Passerby street-cross facility Two sides of Taihang Road has 9.5m wide, including 3.5m wide non-mortor lane, 3m wide sidewalk and 3m wide greening separation zone, with 1.5m wide greening separation zone between sidewalk and non-mortor lane. To incarnate the idea of “people foremost, try to avoid to set flyway or passage on Taihang Road, only set passerby crossing line at each cross. Aside, in order to facilitate the residents at two sides of road for passerby concentrated area, set touch-type self-control street-pass signal lamp to increase safety of passerby. The design scheme is shown in Table 2.6-6. Table 2.6-6 Street cross facilities of Taihang Road No. Station Location Service object Cross 1 K1+025.848 Xutandong Street Xutandong Street A Flower study center, Huayu material shipping 2 K1+400 Flower study center B company 3 K1+733.67 Xuefu Street, Xuefu Street, A 4 K2+096.561 Longbao Street Longbao Street A 5 K2+594.341 Mazhuanggou Changfengdong Street A Xufeng cloth plant, mortor inspection station, 6 K3+562.217 Xitaibao Street, A Tiancile healthy center 7 K4+626.134 Nansifang Street Taiyuan psychosis hospital A 8 K4+763.415 Nansifang Street Wangjiafeng Village A 9 K5+344.748 Nannei Ring Street Nannei Ringdong Street,Wangjiafeng Village A 10 K5+600 Wangjiafeng Village Wangjiafeng Village B 11 K5+986.694 Zhaobeifeng Street Zhaobeifeng Street A 12 K6+402.361 Haozhuang Salvation management station, Haozhuang gas A 13 K7+089.404 Chaoyang Street liProvincial f i file ibureau, Yinyang commodities city, A 14 K7+700 Haojiagou Village PiilShanjin medicine company, id Taihua oil chemical A 15 K8+179.741 Wulongkou Street, bhWulongkou, Broadcasting, movie college A di Xiaogoupodong Dongshan heating plant, Chuangxin ornament 16 K8+338.942 A Street company, Shanershu Village 17 K8+717.835 Honggouzhong Honggouzhong Street,Shanershu Village A 18 K9+005.882 FudongS Street Paergou Village, Fudong Street A 19 K9+650 Paergou Village, Xinyuanli primary school, No.409 warehouse B dormitory Paergou Village 20 K9+911.886 Xiangtang Road Locomotive plant,Xiangtang Village A （east） 21 K10+088.98 Hingcun Street Hingcun Street,Jianziwan Village, Dongshan coal A 2 id i K10+253.56 Xinnanjie(No.2 Grain bureau dormitory,employee resident zone, 22 A 8 lane) Provincial survey design institute dormitory K10+496.05 Leather plant dormitory, Shanxi machinery 23 Kaixuan Street A 4 fabrication company dormitory,Daoyangyou Vill 24 K10+700 Daoyangyou Village Daoyangyou Village,Yangjiayu police station B 25 K11+300 Xiaozhaogou Xiaozhaogou Village B Vill 26 K11+552.18 Shenglidong Street Shenglidong Street,Xiaozhaogou Village A 2 27 K12+055.19 Northern Middle Northern Middle Ring Road A Note：A. Grade crossing crosswalk B. Sectional croswalk

2.6.3.9 Drainage Works Taihang Road starts from Xutandong Street at the south and to Nanzhong Ring Street at the

north. The rainwater along the road belongs to drainage system of Beijianhe, Beishahe, Honggou hidden culvert （Wulongkouv-Yingzhedajie-Cheng-nan diversion channel）, Nansha River（including Haojiagou hidden culvert）, Gejiafenggou and Yaochanggou upstream of Dichun channel, Mazhuanggou upstream of Xudan channel. The sewage along the road belongs to Yangjiabu sewage handling system and Chengnan sewage handling system that is planned. The drainage of rainwater is divided into 12 sections, and drainage of sewage into 11 sections. The piping of rainwater is about 14.37km long，and sewage pipe about 12.75km long. 2.6.4 Traffic Flow Forecast and Vehicle Type Proportion of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road By the feasibility study of sub-project of road network, the traffic flow of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road in 2011, 2017 and 2025 is shown in Table 2.6-7～ 2.6-9. Table 2.6 - 7 Traffic flow forecast at fast speed section of Northern Middle Ring Road(Waliu road ～ Taihang Road) PCU/H Section Direction 2011 2017 2025 Waliu road East→West 1976 2792 3290 ～ West→East 2114 2798 3305 Heping road Subtotal 4090 5590 6595 Heping road East→West 2579 3293 3765 ～ West→East 2415 3045 3670 Binghexi road Subtotal 4994 6338 7435 Binghexi road East→West 2135 2705 3070 ～ West→East 2165 2615 3165 Binghedong road Subtotal 4300 5320 6235 Binghedong road East→West 2711 3557 4060 ～ West→East 2857 3619 4095 Datong road Subtotal 5568 7176 8155 Datong road East→West 2711 3557 4060 ～ West→East 2857 3619 4095 Jiefang road Subtotal 5568 7176 8155 Jiefang road East→West 2253 3231 3840 ～ West→East 2205 3075 3860 Jianhe road Subtotal 4458 6306 7700 Jianhe road East→West 1742 1994 2195 ～ West→East 1923 2001 2290 Dunhuanbei road Subtotal 3665 3995 4485 Dunhuanbei road East→West 1742 1994 2195 ～ West→East 1923 2001 2290 Taihang Road Subtotal 3665 3995 4485

Table 2.6-8 Traffic flow forecast at auxiliary road section of Northern Middle Ring Road （Waliu road ～Taihang Road ） PCU/H Section Direction 2011 2017 2025 Waliu road East→West 267 549 710 ～ West→East 209 503 665 Heping road Subtotal 476 1052 1375 Heping road East→West 207 249 270 ～ West→East 296 332 355 Binghexi road Subtotal 503 581 625 Binghexi road East→West 1405 1435 1485 ～ West→East 1405 1435 1490 Binghedong road Subtotal 2810 2870 2975 Binghedong road East→West 203 221 245 ～ West→East 176 212 250 Datong road Subtotal 379 433 495 Datong road East→West 231 237 280 ～ West→East 213 231 280 Jiefang road Subtotal 444 468 560 Jiefang road East→West 113 251 350 ～ West→East 130 310 430 Jianhe road Subtotal 243 561 780 Jianhe road East→West 462 594 695 ～ West→East 271 337 475 Dunhuanbei road Subtotal 733 931 1170 Dunhuanbei road East→West 21 27 35 ～ West→East 21 27 35 Taihang Road Subtotal 42 54 70

Table 2.6-9 Traffic flow forecast at Taihang Road （Northern Middle Ring Road～ Xutandong street） PCU/H Section Direction 2011 2017 2025 Northern Middle East→West 1493 1751 1910 Ring Road West→East 1530 1770 1915 ～ Shenglidong street Subtotal 3023 3521 3825 Shenglidong street East→West 1668 2136 2465 ～ West→East 1691 2177 2455 Kaixuan road Subtotal 3359 4313 4920 Kaixuan road East→West 1543 2101 2445 ～ West→East 1554 2178 2545 Hingcun street Subtotal 3097 4279 4990 Hingcun street East→West 1904 2768 3135 ～ West→East 1813 2311 2700 Fudong street Subtotal 3717 5079 5835 Fudong street East→West 1784 2048 2355 ～ West→East 1738 2266 2680 Honggouzhong Subtotal 3522 4314 5035 street Honggouzhong East→West 1825 2215 2595 street～ West→East 1901 2387 2710 Wulongkou street, Subtotal 3726 4602 5305 Wulongkou street, East→West 1568 2036 2525 ～ West→East 1711 2077 2505 Chaoyang street Subtotal 3279 4113 5030 Chaoyang street East→West 1569 2163 2540 ～ West→East 1706 1922 2165 Nanneihuanstreet Subtotal 3275 4085 4705 Nanneihuanstreet East→West 1427 1589 1775 ～ West→East 1533 1611 1755 Xitaibao street Subtotal 2960 3200 3530 Xitaibao street East→West 1499 2033 2450 ～ West→East 1580 2120 2585 Changfeng street Subtotal 3079 4153 5035 Changfeng street East→West 2036 2612 2910 ～ West→East 2133 2391 2675 Longbao street Subtotal 4169 5003 5585 Longbao street East→West 2162 2114 2330 ～ West→East 2225 2075 2150 Xuefu street, Subtotal 4387 4189 4480 Xuefu street, East→West 2072 2384 2815 ～ West→East 2219 2453 2735 Xutandong street Subtotal 4291 4837 5550

The vehicle flow proportion between Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road is shown in Table 2.6-10. Table 2.6-10 Vehicle flow proportion between Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road Road Vehicle type Proportion Small bus 48.5% Northern Middle Ring Large bus 1.1% Road（main line） Small wagon 18.1% Large wagon 32.3% Total 100.0% Small bus 60.3% Northern Middle Ring Large bus 0.8% Road（auxiliary line） Small wagon 21.1% Large wagon 17.8% Total 100.0% Small bus 73.6% Large bus 0.9% Taihang Road Small wagon 15.2% Large wagon 10.2% Total 100.0% 2.6.5 Construction material and shipping condition for Northern Middle Ring Road,Taihang Road （1）Earth excavation It is mainly used for embankment of roadbed and greening. The earth source in Dongshan, Xishan is rich and met the requirement for embankment and greening. The earth balance condition is shown in Table 2.6-11. Table 2.6-11 Earth balance condition for Northern Middle Ring Road,Taihang Road Project Quantity Origine Embankment volume Purchase, mainly from Dongshan, 104.71 Northern Middle （x 104m3） Xishan earth borrow area Ring Road Excavation volume From Taiyuan construction spoil filling 67.57 （x 104m3） yard Embankment volume Purchase, mainly from Dongshan earth 38.17 （x 104m3） borrow area Taihang Road Excavation volume From Taiyuan construction spoil filling 88.55 （x 104m3） yard Note: According to the survey, Taiyuan construction spoil filling yard includes mainly Zhaoyuan construction spoil dumping yard, Shuiyu construction spoil dumping yard, Shanzhuangtou construction spoil dumping yard, and Tuqiaogou construction spoil dumping yard, about 5km to the project area. （2）Sands, gravels Dongshan and Xishan quarry is rich of different size of limestone material,the project can procure all stone material from Dongshan and Xishan quarry for road pavement, retaining wall and culvert, etc, mean shipping distance about 10 km. Taiyuan city has developed construction industry and can meet the requirement of main construction material. The sand for concrete and mortar can be procured from Beigu sand deposit, Chaicun sand deposit, Xialan Village sand deposit at north suburb of city. （3）Other materials 43

The material of steel, timber, cement, pitch, petrol, diesel oil etc. can be purchased from Taiyuan market, and the transportation is convenient. （4）Water supply and power supply The water supply can use urban water supply system. The road is inside Taiyuan city. The transmission line slong the road is concentrated, and can meet the requirement for power supply. 2.6.7 Project Progress and Investment （1）Project progress Initial construction progress for Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road is as follows： 2007.05～2008.05 Project establishment, feasibility study 2007.05～2008.06 WB assessment and intermediate review 2008.07～2008.08 Domestic assessment and approval of feasibility study, approval of land use, approval of EIA 2008.08～2008.09 WB normal assessment（including all sub-projects） 2008.09～2008.11 Submit the foreign fund use plan to State Development and Reform Commission, approval of the foreign fund use plan 2008.10～2008.12 Evaluation and approval of preliminary design 2008.12～2009.01 Invitation for negotiation, submit the negotiation recommendation 2009.02～2009.03 Approval of negotiation result, submit to Director Meeting for approval 2008.12～2009.01 Procurement plan, pre-qualification check, tender document 2008.12 ～ 2009.02 Design of construction drawings, pre-stage land acquisition and relocation 2009.03～2011.03 Construction period （）2 Investment estimation The investment estimation for sub-project of Northern Middle Ring Road,Taihang Road is shown in Table 2.6－12. Table 2.6－12 Investment estimation Sub-project of road network improvement project Investment （x108 Yuan） Northern Middle Ring Road 7.24 Taihang Road 6.47 Total 13.71 2.7 Taiyuan Public Traffic Sub-projects The sub-project of public traffic project includes 1 special bus lane, bay-type bus-stops on main road, 2 bus depots, 4 bus terminals and bus intelligent dispatching system. New bus rapid ttransit is 11.45km long，starting from Sorthern Middle Ring Road at the south to Shengli Street at the north, set with 14 bus-stops, of which there are 6 exchanging stations. Build Nanhan bus depot, Beiying bus depot with capacity for 330 buses and 325 buses；Build bus terminals on Yingxinjie, Zoo, Helaowan and Beiyan, realizing GPS/GPRS dispatching system. The specific location is shown in Fig. 3. 2.7.1 Bus Rapid Transit （1）Construction contents To implement the policy of “bus-priority” and according to the existing road condition and bus flow of Taiyuan city，set 1 bus rapid transit, i.e. Xinjian Road～Xinjiannan Road～ Pingyang Road（Shengli Street S～Zhonghuan Street）. It is 3.5 m wide，using 18m long top 44

grade luxury bus, speed 22km/h. It uses “central special bus lane &color road surface”. The detail profile is indicated in Fig.12. Table 2.7－1 Detail of special bus lane Description Unit Scheme Line length km 11.45 Bus-stop pair 14 Mean bus-stop distance m 849

Fig. 12 Xinjian road（Nannei Ring－Nanzhong Ring street）profile

（2）Set-up of bus-stop Based on the principle for easy of traffic-exchange of pedestrian and convenient for street-pass, Xinjian road special fast lane （Shengli street－Nanzhong Ring street） set 14 pairs bus-stop, mean distance 850m；of which there are 6 exchanging station, mean distance 2200m，see Fig.13 for details. Table 2.7-2 Xinjian road BRT bus-stop(planned) No. Bus-stop Distance (m) Bus exchange station 1 Shengli street 577 Transfer 2 Beida street 900 Transfer 3 Hanxiguan street 668 4 Fuxi street 991 5 Shuixiguan street 633 6 Yingzheda street 814 Transfer 7 Kangle street 691 8 Shuangtaxi street 784 9 Nannei Ringstreet 896 Transfer 10 Wancunnan street 797 11 Qinxianbei street 644 12 Changfeng street 1094 Transfer 13 Xuefu street, 1551 14 Nanzhong Ring street 0 Transfer Mean distance 849

Fig.13 Plan of bus-stop for special bus fast road

2.7.2 bay-type bus-stop In view of good road condition and passenger flow condition of Xinjian road, set bay-type bus-stop at the locatio with large quantity of bus berthing and people flow in peak hours, specific location shown in Table 2.7-3，the sketch map of bay-type bus-stop shown in Fig.14. Table 2.7-3 Set-up of bay-type bus-stop Quantity of Bus flow in peak hour People flow in peak hour No. Name bus lines （hour）（hour） 1 Xinjianbeikou 5 45 832 2 Huxixikou 6 57 969 Municipal 3 5 55 613 government 4 Xiyangshikou 5 55 560 Provincial forest 5 7 75 832 station 6 Caidabeixiao 9 91 988 7 Laojunyin 7 62 733 Huayu-Pingyang 8 7 61 551 market 9 Yangjiabu 7 64 958 10 Tiansen supermarket 8 61 616

Fig. 14 Sketch map of bay-type bus-stop 2.7.3 Bus Depot （1）Project composition The sub-project of Taiyuan traffic project includes two new bus depots, i.e. Nanhan bus depot and Beiying bus depot. The geographical location is shown in Fig.6, Fig.15 and Fig.16. The details of bus depot are shown in Table 2.7-4.

Table 2.7-4 Details of bus depot Land area Service bus No. Depots Location Service bus line （hm2） quantity It is planned for operation of 16 bus lines to Duerping, Xiepo, Guandi,Railway station, Beiying, At the southeast area Nanhan Shengliqiaodong, Qiyi Machine at cross of Yingzhe 1 bus 8.14 Works, Luocheng, Caicun, Yingxin 330 Street and Xikuang depot Street, Finance and Economic Street University, Jiannan bus station, Liuxiang, Gymnasium, Songzhuang, East passerger station It is planned for operation of 17 bus Area at the east of lines to Xiayuan, Railway station, Taiyu Road, the Xiaodian, Shengliqiaodong, south of Jichang Economic development Road, the west of Beiying zone,Xiwenzhuang, Educational Minhang Road and 2 bus 6.84 zone, Xiayuan, Huayu shopping 325 the north of depot center, No.16 middel school, Nanhuan highway, Jiannan automobile,station,Jinci, about 3400m to Yucilaocheng, East passenger Beiying railway station,Beiyinghuanxian, station Jianchaoping

Fig.15 Location of Nanhan bus depot

Fig.16 Location of Beiying bus depot

（2）Construction items The bus depots set with front zone, parking yard, operation zone, living and office area and auxiliary building, the specific content as: ① Front zone: a passenger waiting corridor to hold 17 buses berthing at same time, with toilet, electronic card sale-window of and service guiding window, dispatching station; ②Parking yard: it is able to park 330 buses，with rainwater, sewage discharge system and hot water supply system in winter; ③ Operation zone: repair workshop（3000m2） and auxiliary house （battery, material storeroom, rest room）, power distribution room （630kVA）；④Living and office area: ⑤ Auxiliary building: with oil and gas filling station （3 oil guns, 6 gas guns）, car washing room, boiler room（4t/h）, pumping room, water tank for fire control（200m3）. （3）General layout The general layout of Nanhan bus depot and Beiying bus depot is shown in Fig.17 and Fig.18.

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2.7.4 Bus bus terminals （1）Project composition The sub-project of Taiyuan traffic project has 4 new bus terminals, i.e. Yingxin bus terminal, Zoo station, Helaowan station and Beiyan station. The geographical location is shown in Fig.3, Fig.19～Fig.22, and details are indicated in Table 2.7-5. Table 2.7-5 Details of bus bus terminalss Land area Deploy of No. Name Location Service line （hm2） bus It is planned for operation of 6 bus Area at the northeast of cross Deployin11o lines, as Yingxin bus of Yingxinbeiyixiang, and buses, 62 1 0.6 Shengliqiaodong No1. terminal Datong road,about 700m to buses for and No.2 line, Railway center area of Yingxin stree night station, Qifujie, Zoo, Xiayuan It is planned for operation of 4 bus Area at the southwest of lines, as Gymnasium, Zoo bus cross of Dongshan road and 2 1.4 Xiayuan, Changfeng 87 buses terminal Zhangzitou overpass linking parking yard, line High-tech development zone It is planned for Area at the south of Duerping operation of 4 bus Helaowan street, the west of Geological lines,as Railway 3 0.71 71 buses bus terminal survey team of Xishan mineral station, bureau Shengliqiaodong, Yeyu, Jiufeng road It is planned for operation of 4 bus Area at the west of old Jingci lines, as Railway Beiyan bus road, the east of Heping road, 4 1.05 station No.1 line and 87 buses terminal the north of Nanzhong Ring No.2 line, East street passenger station, Jiufeng road

Fig.19 Geographical location of Yingxin bus terminal

Fig.20 Geographical location of Zoo bus terminal

Fig.21 Geographical location of Helaowan bus terminal

Fig.22 Geographical location of Beiyan bus terminal

（2）Construction items The bus terminalss set with front zone, parking yard, operation zone, living and office area and auxiliary building, the specific content as: ① Front zone: a passenger waiting corridor to hold 4-5 buses berthing at same time, with toilet, electronic card sale-window of and service guiding window, dispatching station; ②Parking yard: it is able to park 50-90 buses，with rainwater, sewage discharge system and hot water supply system in winter; ③ Operation zone: repair workshop（800m2） and auxiliary house（battery, tyre, rest room）, power distribution room （250kVA）；④Living and office area: （for education, culture, recreation, meeting, healthy）,employee dining room, bathhouse, bike shed, dormitory for shift-change staff, toilet, fence, front door, gatehouse, piping and wire system （water, heating, gas, power, communication） ⑤ Auxiliary building: with oil and gas filling station （2 oil guns, 4 gas guns）, car washing room, boiler room （0.5t/h）. （3）General layout The general layout of Yingxin bus terminal, Zoo station, Helaowan station and Beiyan station is shown in Fig.23～Fig.26.

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2.7.5 Bus Dispatching Center （1）Construction scale Taiyuan Bus Company is scheduled to implement GPS/GPRS dispatching system by 3 stages. Stage-I：Complete the civil construction of 1500m2 for the dispatching station. Stage-II： set general dispatching center, equipment installation of partial line, and test, and complete within one year; Stage-III：Complete rest items of the system, mainly refitting of bus, construction of electronic bus-stop nameboard, and complete within one year; （2）Main construction contents The main construction contents are: ① Dispatching center application system：database server, bus-stop displaying server, dispatching workstation, communication server ② Bus-mounted GPS/GPRS teminal：GPS/GPRS controller, IC card charger, person-time counter, bus-stop announcer ③ Bus-stop displaying controller group：Bus-stop displaying controller, LED display screen ④Dispatching display controller group: Dispatching display controller, LED display screen 2.7.6 Vnvestment Estimation of Sub-project Total is 362.812 million Yuan, and see Table 2.7-6 for details. Table 2.7-6 Investment estimation for sub-project Description Investment （x 104 Yuan） Special bus lane 8257.9 Bay-type bus-stop 3332.5 Bus terminals 7126.8 Bus depot 12450.0 Bus intelligent dispatching system 5114.0 Total 36281.2 2.8 Land Acquisition, Relocation 2.8.1 Land Acquisition The project occupies 2124.77mu land, including collective land 795.47mu and state-owned land1320mu. The collective land includes farmland 93.74mu and non-farmland 701.73mu， and the state-owned land includes construction land 1376 mu and wood land 144 mu. Northern Middle Ring Road project is concerned with collective land of 2 districts(Jianchaoping and Xinhuanling), 4 villages( Dadongliu, Xiaodongliu, Xiliu and Xiangtang Village）, 104.41mu in total，in which farmland is 35.1mu and non-farmland 69.31mu；The land acquisition is mainly in Jianchaoping district, 82.71mu in total, accounting for 81.56%. Taihang Road is concerned with collective land of 3 districts(Xinhuanling, Yingzhe and Xiaodian), 10 villages, 508.56 mu in total，in which farmland is 29.44mu accounting for 5.79% and non-farmland 69.31mu accounting for 94.21%. Among the sub-projects, Helaowan bus terminals uses non-farmland 10.8mu；Nanhan bus depot uses non-farmland 121.5mu；Beiying bus depot uses woodland 90mu，which belongs to the test nursery base of provincial forest department；Beiyan bus terminals uses farmland 15.7mu ； Yingxin bus terminals uses non-farmland 13.5mu ， Zoo bus terminals uses non-farmland 21mu. Whole sub-project uses farmland 29.2 mu. 2.8.2 Relocation Total area for relocation is 423508.92m2，impacting on2193 households and 7752 persons, in which rural household is 606 with 2518 persons；urban household is 1587 with 5234 persons. The relocation of private housing is for 1208 households with 4407 persons，in which the

rural household is 602 with 2518 persons; urban household is 602 with 1889 persons. The relocation area is 154784.82m2. The effected enterprise and units are 112 with relocation area of 266563.4m2. The effected shops are 114 with employee 572 and relocation area of 19351.2m2，of which 16285m2 belongs to enterprise and collective unit and 2160.7m2 to individuals. Thereinto, Northern Middle Ring Road sub-project relocates private house 89953.19m2， Taihang Road relocates private house 63656.63 m2；the bus sub-project relocates private house 3335m2. The resettlement mode for relocatio of this project considers to use exchange of property right and cash compensation, which way shall be dicided by the affected household；This project will fully respect the option of affected household while arrange inventory resettlement to offer cash compensation. If the affected households like to get cash compensation and solve living house by themselves, pay directly the compensation to them based on the compensation price opened. See Chapter 5.7 for detail of relocation and resettlement. 2.9Analysis of Pollution Source 2.9.1 Analysis of Pollution Source During Construction Period The pollution source of road netwok and bus sub-project during construction period is mainly by noise of mechanical operation and transportation vehicle, dust, construction wastewater, living sewage, construction spoils and living rubish by construction personnel. (1)Mechanical noise source The construction needs to use a lot of construction equipment and transportation vehicles and they can made strong noise that impacts on normal living of residents nearby. In which, the construction machinery has bulldozer, exavator, loader, piling machine and roller, etc. the transportation vehicle has truck and dump-truck, etc. The noise level of these equipment is shown in Table 2.9-1. Table 2.9-1 Noise level of construction device Measuring spot Max. noise level No. Description Type to machine LAeq（dB(A)）（m） ZL40 5 90 1 Wheel loader ZL50 5 90 2 Grader PY160A 5 90 3 Vibration roller Y2J10B 5 86 Double wheel double 4 CC2 5 81 vibration roller 5 3-whell roller 5 81 6 Tyre roller ZL16 5 76 7 Bulldozer T140 5 86 Typer hydraulic 8 W4-60C 5 84 excavator Fifond311ABGco 5 82 9 Spreader VoGELE 5 87 10 Generator group FKL75 1 98 11 Impulse driller 22 1 87 12 Bitumen concrete Parker LB1000 （UK） 2 88 mixer LB30 2 90 LB2.5 2 84

Measuring spot Max. noise level No. Description Type to machine LAeq（dB(A)）（m） MARINI（Italy） 2 90 13 Truck 7.5 89 14 Dumper 5 82 By the survey, the noise level at 5m away to noise source is mostly by 84-90dB（A），if it is 50m away, the noise level can be lower to 64-70dB（A）. (2)Analysis of water pollution The construction wastewater is mainly from base excavation of bridge, pile drilling, concrete pouring, oil wastwater from construction device and living sewage from construction people. ① Wastewater from bridge construction The bridge has piers in water, and needs for drilling and concrete pouring operation during construction. Generally, the bridge construction divides into base and pier construction, as well as upper structure (the base and pier construction is concerned with underwater operation), the possible contaminant is suspended material and greasy dirt mainly. If the bridge adopts on-the-spot pouring method, the concrete construction can have partial concrete drop, and made some curing wastewater while do necessary curing work on bridge surface. The bridge construction may use driller, may produce oil leakage during the operation and produce greasy dirt probably during maintenance. ② Living sewage discharge The road is built by section, about 200 persons at construction spot, resulting living sewage per day about 60L/person. The main pollution element of living sewage is CODcr, oil,SS,NH3-N, etc,see Table 2.9-2 for living sewage discharge during construction period. Table 2.9-2 Living sewage discharge during construction period Discha CODCr SS NH3-N Thickne Item pH rge Discharge Thickness Discharge Thickness Discharge ss （t/d）（kg/d） (mg/L) （kg/d） (mg/L) （kg/d） (mg/L) Living 7.8 12 180 1.94 80 0.86 10 0.11 sewage Standard 6-9 － 500 － 400 － 35 － (3)Analysis of waste gas The earth material and rock material is purchased from commercial quarry and borrow area around, bitumen from the market, few use of bitume at site can meet the grade-II requirement normall by “Atmosphere pollution discharge standard”（GB16297－96）， therefore, the waste gas during the construction period is mainly for dust from material loading and unloading, house relocation, truck tail-gas. (4)Solid waste The solid waste during construction period includes two parts, one from earth and rock spoil by roadbed construction along two sides of road, speciall for high embankment and deep excavation sections; other from rubbish in construction area including house relocation, waste construction material, pakage material and living rubbish of construction persons.

2.9.2 Analisis of pollution source during operation period 2.9.2.1 Analisis Of Pollution Source Of Road Sub-Project The pollution source in operation period is mainly from traffic noise of all vehicles, water pollution by rain flow on road surface and mortor tail-gas. (1)Analisis on noise intensity The pollution source in operation period is mainly from traffic noise of all vehicles, including noise of engine, gas discharge noise, vehicle vibration noise, driving and braking noise, in which the engine noise is main pollution source and regarded with its size, engine revolution and running speed. The traffic noise level is regarded with running speed, vehicle type, road structure, road pavement material, buildings at two sides of road and landform, etc. The travel noise level A of various motor vehicle against running speed is shown in Table 2.9-3，Li -value in Table 2.9-4. Table 2.9-3 Travel noise level A of various motor vehicle against running speed Type Noise equivalent A Li（dB） Small vehicle（under 3.5t ） Ls＝59.3＋0.23V

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Table 2.9-4 Li –value of various motor vehicle Unit:dB(A) Type Li(40Km/h) Li(60Km/h) Small vehicle 68.5 73.1 Middle vehicle 71.8 76.4 Large vehicle 84.4 88 Note：Noise source height：large, middle vehicle taking 1.0m，small vehicle 0.6m When Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road are completed, various vehicles run jointly, so the noise level is affected by many factors, the computed result of each road section refer to section about the noise environment assessment on operation period. (1)Analysis on water pollution source The water pollution source of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road during operation period is mainly by road surface rain flow. The road surface runoff contaminant is suspended material, petroleum and organic material mainly, its contaminant density is affected by rainfall strength, wagon flow, vehicle type, dust settling amount and previous arid time etc. According to relevant information, the density of suspended material, petroleum in rain runoff on road surface is relatively high within 30min before forming rain flow on the road surface, the content of SS and petroleum can reach to 158.5 ~ 231.4 mg/L, 19.74~22.30 mg/L; After raining for 30 minutes, its density drops rapid comparatively along with extension of rainfall; After raining for 40 minutes, road surface had been washed and cleaned basically, the contaminant content is lower, see Table 2.9-5 for details.

Table 2.9-5 Contaminant density in road surface runoff Contaminant 0～20min 20～40min 40～60min Mean pH 7.8 7.6 7.4 7.4 SS（mg/L） 231.42～158.22 158.22～90.36 90.36～18.71 100.0 COD（mg/L） 170 110 97 107 Oil （mg/L） 22.30～19.74 19.74～3.12 3.12～0.21 11.25 (2)Analysis on waste gas The waste gas of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road during operation period is mainly from vehicle tail-gas. The vehicle tail-gas is formed by three parts, one is through automobile exhaust tube discharges from internal-combustion engine combustion waste gas with contaminant CO,HC,NOx accounting for 60%； second is from crankcase with CO,CO2 accounting for 20%；third is from oil tank, gasifier with HC gas accounting for 20%. Though the mortor tail-gas is complicated, but mainly is CO,HC,NOx, etc. These pollutive sources belong to linear floating pollutive source, for the urban road, automobile tail-gas is affected within 20 -50 m, and be reduced along with increase of distance gradually. Additionnally, the tyre of car run on the road resulting dust flying as secondary dust pollution. And when transport aggregates material with dust, it will result dust pollution due to drop and wind reason. Based on the guideline, single mortor car discharge factor in typical year is computed, refer to Table 6.3-8～ Table 6.3-9，and see Section 6.3.1 for details. 2.9.2.2 Analysis On Pollution Source Of Bus Sub-Project The pollution source of bus sub-project during operation period is mainly from contaminant in bus terminals and bus depot. The bus terminals and bus depot shall park, maintenance and oil filling of bus, its main contaminant is of noise from vehicle incomming and outgoing the yard, boiler noise, oil-water wastewater, living sewage, boiler room smoke, dining room smoke and gas, staff living rubbish, etc. (1)Technology process and analysis of pollution-making links The Technology process and analysis of pollution-making links of bus terminals and bus depot is shown in Fig.27.

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（2）Analysis on noise source Based on the composition of service facility of bus terminals and bus depot，the noise source during operation period is mainly from boiler room, air compressor and vehicle incomming and outgoing the yard. The traffic noise of vehicle incomming and outgoing the yard is same as the noise of vehicle incomming and outgoing the yard for Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road in operation period. The noise level of boiler room and air compressor is usually 85～93dB（A），low noise leve equipment will be chosen, at the same time, adopt close sound insulation, sound absorption and silencer for different equipment；Set vibration-proof base for vibrating equipment to reduce noise. Main noise source is shown in Table 2.9-6. Table 2.9-6 Main noise source Description Noise level [dB(A)] Layout mode Boiler room 85 Indoor Air compressor 93 Indoor （3）Wastewater Based on the composition of service facility of bus depot and bus terninal，the main pollution is from wastewater in repair and maintenance workshop, living sewage from living area and toilet at front zone, car washing water, etc. The wastewater of bus terninal includes car washing water, maintenance water and living sewage. The contaminant density in wastewater is normally of SS 300 mg/L, petroleum 25 mg/L. In view of the fact that now the sewage discharge direction of bus terninal and depot is not yet cleared, and by the survey of similar items, after handling with oil-separation pool and silling pool, the contaminant density in wastewater can be reduced as SS to 60 mg/L，and petroleum to 4 mg/L，so it can be re-used, and living sewage can meet discharge standard after treatment. Among them, the sewage piping system near Nanhan depot, Beiyan terminal and Yingxing terminal is perfect relatively, discharging into urban sewage piping system after treatment with the class-III discharge requirement of “Sewage integral discharge standard” （GB8978-1996）; there is no sewage piping system near Beiying depot,Helaowan terminal and Zoo bus terminal, discharging into drainage channel nearby after treatment with the class-I discharge requirement of “Sewage integral discharge standard”（GB8978-1996）; therefore, after septic tank treatment by class-III discharge requirement of “Sewage integral discharge standard”（GB8978-1996） for Nanhan depot, Beiyan terminal and Yingxing terminal, the contaminant density in wastewater is as CODCr500 mg/L, SS 400 mg/L， NH3-N35mg/L;After handling with septic tank and “anoxic + aerobic” secondary biochemical treatment, the contaminant density in wastewater for Beiying depot,Helaowan terminal and Zoo bus terminal is as CODCr70 mg/L， SS 60 mg/L， NH3-N10 mg/L，see Table 2.9-7 for wastewater discharge standard.

Table 2.9-7 Wastewater discharge of bus depot/bus terninal Wastewat CODCr NH3-N SS Oil er Bus depot/bus terninal Remarks discharge mg/L kg/d mg/L kg/d mg/L kg/d mg/L kg/d （m3/d） Into Xikuang street Living sewage 100 500 50 35 3.5 400 40 / / sewage networks Nanhan bus 1 Car washing, terninal maintenance 200 / / / / 60 12 4 0.8 All re-used wastewater Living sewage 100 70 7 10 1 60 6 / / Into drainage nearby Beiying bus 2 Car washing, terninal maintenance 200 / / / / 60 12 4 0.8 All re-used wastewater Into Datong road Living sewage 50 500 25 35 1.75 400 20 / / Yingxin sewage networks 3 street bus Car washing, depot maintenance 100 / / / / 60 6 4 0.4 All re-used wastewater Living sewage 50 70 3.5 10 0.5 60 3 / / Into drainage nearby Zoo bus 4 Car washing, depot maintenance 100 / / / / 60 6 4 0.4 All re-used wastewater Living sewage 50 70 3.5 10 0.5 60 3 / / Into drainage nearby Helaowan 5 Car washing, bus depot maintenance 100 / / / / 60 6 4 0.4 All re-used wastewater Into Jiujinsi road Living sewage 50 500 25 35 1.75 400 20 / / sewage networks Beiyan bus 6 Car washing, depot maintenance 100 / / / / 60 6 4 0.4 All re-used wastewater Total （excluding car washing, Living sewage 400 107 8.0 92 / maintenance wastewater）

（4）Waste gas Based on the composition of service facilities of bus depot and bus terminals, the waste gas during operation period is mainly from boiler room and dining room. Based on the feasibility study, the bus depot and bus terminals shall equip with boiler room, 4t/h gas-fired boiler for bus depot and 0.5t/h gas-fired boiler for bus terminals. The natural gas is fuel, its contamination is few SO2 and smoke dust. The staff dining room is also to use natural gas as fuel, its contamination is mainly with SO2,Nox and PM10，the pollution discharge is very small; The smoke density from dining room is about 6mg/m3，after handling with oil-smoke clarifier, its density is 1.5mg/m3 （purifying efficiency not less than 75%），all of which can meet the discharge standard. （5）Solid spoil Based on the composition of service facilities of bus depot and bus terminals, the solid spoil during operation period is mainly from few grease and staff living rubbishes.

3 Regional Environments 3.1 Natural Environment 3.1.1 Climate Conditions Taiyuan City belongs to continental warm temperate zone with semi-dry monsoon climate. In spring the temperature difference is big and wind sand is developed for semi-dry climate. In summer it is hot and the rain water is concentrated. In fall it is sunny and the sight distance is big and the climate is steady. In winter it is cold and sunny. According to the data of Taiyuan City Climate Station, In Taiyuan City the annual average temperature is 10.8℃, the highest temperature is 37.4℃, and the lowest temperature is -22.1 ℃, the annual average air pressure is 925.2hPa；The annual average wind speed is 2.0m/s. In winter the wind is mainly to the north wind or to the northwest wind; in summer the wind is mainly to the south or the southeast wind. The leading wind in the all year is to the north wind and the northwest win. The annual average rain water is 409.9mm. 3.1.2 River and Hydrology The rivers related to Northern Middle Ring Road is Fenhe River and Jianhe River. Those related to Taihang Road is Nansha River and Beisha River. For the basic conditions of these rivers in the project area see table 3.1-1. Table 3.1-1 the Basic Conditions of the Rivers in the Project Area Are there Average current River any rare Names of the rivers in Function amount width plants and Remark the area requirement （m3/s）（m） animals in the rivers Water for River sections Fen River 17.24 520 No sightseeing overpasses by Water for Northern Middle Ring Jian River 0.145 40 No sightseeing Road Discharging Nansha River 0.034 8 No River sections flood over passed by Taihang Discharging Beisha River 0.087 15 No Road flood 3.1.3 Topography The area along the proposed Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road is composed of flat field and smooth hill. The topography is mainly composed of the residents’ houses, factories, mines and land for traffic, cultivated fields and a little of forest field. 4 bus terminals including Nanhan Bus Depot and Zoo Bus Depot etc have flat terrain. The field for Beiying Bus Depot is flat; it is inclining from the southeast to the northwest. 3.1.4 Vegetation （1）Vegetation of the project area The vegetation impacted by Northern Middle Ring Road, Taihang Road and Yingxin Street Bus Terminals is mainly composed of seedings, grapes and vegetables etc agricultural plants and economical plants, there is not any rare protected plants. （2）Taiyuan City Forest Garden In Taiyuan City Forest Garden high broadleaf trees are mainly planted, it is a city-level ecologic garden with functions of ecology, tourism and scientific kownledge popularization. It is located in the northwest corner of Taiyuan City, facing Datong Road in the east, Binhedong Road in the west and connecting Shengliqiao Bridge in the south and Zhaozhuang in the north. The Forest Garden has a total land area of 2390mu containing a greening land area of 2200mu. The trees in the Garden are small leaf poplars, locust, Huashan pine, and white skin pine and willow etc conifer broad leaf trees. Northern Middle Ring Road passes through the southern edge of the Forest Garden, 73

occupying 1.14mu of greening land, about 0.05% of the greening land area in the southern corner in the garden. According to the site investigation, Northern Middle Ring Road mainly impacts about 126 pines, 863 willows, 25 green peach, and 26 purple leaf plums. There are not any rare trees in the occupied field.

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Figure 28 Northern Middle Ring Road and forest garden locations 3.2 social environment 3.2.1 Social environment situation The social environment of the project impacts 6 districts of Taiyuan city, namely the resettlement and land acquisition of Wanboling district, Jiancaoping district, Xinhualing district, Yingzhe district, ciaodian district and Jinyuan district. The directly impacted number of families is totally 2193 and 7752 persons, of which agricultural village residents are 606 families, 2518 persons, municipal residents 1587 families, 5234 persons. The directly impacted enterprise number is 112, mainly distributing，Wanboling district, Jiancaoping district, Xinhualing district, Yingzhe district, ciaodian district . 3.2.2 Land usility state Taiyuan city traffic project is located in Taiyuan downtown range, the impacted land usility state is mainly residents’ houses, cultivated land, forest land, but the basic agriculture land is not impacted. The project impacts cultivated land 93.74mu, forest land 144mu. The construction land is 1376mu and the no-cultivated land is 711.03mu. 3.2.3 Landscapes and historical relic The sub-projects of the proposed project are located in the downtown of Taiyuan city, there is not any landscape sensitive points to be specially protected. In addition, according to “Taihang Road and Northern Middle Ring Road Historical relic environment assessment report of Taiyuan City Traffic project invested by the world bank” , Taiyuan City historical relic archaeology research institute investigated the project site, finding no building on the ground with historical, art and scientific values in the land range of the road network improvement sub-project and public traffic sub-project. 3.3 Environment Quality Situation 3.3.1 Water Environment Quality In order to understand the water quality of Fenhe River related to the project, Taiyuan City Environment Monitor State set a monitor section to take samples to monitor in March 2006

near the overpassing bridge of Northern Middle Ring Road（Senyuannanjiexi）, at the same time monitor data in normal section located in Yingze Bridge were collected. For monitor results see table 3.3-1. Table 3.3-1 Water quality state monitor result analysis unit：except pH，mg/L Monitor Section name pH SS CODCr BOD5 Oil TP TN time 2007-3-9 7.05 18 15.7 2.58 0.1 0.051 0.388 Senyuannanjiexi 2007-3-10 7.11 24 16.7 2.78 0.1 0.03 0.284 2006-3-7 8.03 32 30 6.43 0.05 0.026 1.02 2006-5-8 8.63 51 31.2 7.06 0.127 0.392 1.1 Yingzheqiao 2006-7-5 8.43 64 37.5 5.18 0.05 0.084 1.67 bridge 2006-9-4 8.42 21 42.3 5.66 0.127 2.68 1.33 2006-11-6 8.46 23 30.3 7.99 0.05 0.053 0.668 2006-3-7 8.03 32 30 6.43 0.05 0.026 1.02 Class Ⅳ standard 6～9 30 6 0.5 0.3 1.5 Note：The blackened figures mean exceeding standard. From table3.3-1, the project-related index in the west section of Fenhe River Senyuannan Street（pH、SS、CODCr、BOD5、Oil、TP and TN）all meet the requirement of class Ⅳ water specified in ” Ground Water Environment Quality Standard” （GB3838-2002） and requirement of environment function. The water quality of Yingzeqiao section including pH, Oil and TN meet the requirements, the rest index（CODCr、BOD5、TP） exceed the requirements. 3.3.2 Sound Environment Quality （1）Road network improvement project In order to understand the acoustic environment state along the proposed roads, Taiyuan City Environment Monitor Station monitored 11 acoustic sensitive points including 5 points distributed in Northern Middle Ring Road and 6 points in Taihang Road in Jan. 2007. The monitor time is 2 days. Jiche Hospital Point and Jianzi Village Point were monitored for noise for 24 hours continuously. For monitor point locations see figure 1 and figure 2, and the monitor results see table 3.3-2～ table 3.3-4.

Table 3.3-2 Noise monitor results of Taiyuan city traffic project （Northern Middle Ring Road） Leq Traffic Monitor Noise L10 Time period surroundings dB volumes location sources dB（A）（A）（vehicles/h） March 6th daytime Traffic Life area 60.5 58.2 380 1# March 7th daytime Traffic Life area 66.3 64.5 520 Jinji March 6th night traffic Life area 60.5 58.7 240 dormitory March 7th night traffic Life area 61.4 60.8 210 Life area March 6th daytime traffic 62.4 61.8 30 construction 2# Life area Xiaoliudon March 7th daytime Traffic 63.0 62.2 18 construction g village March 6th night traffic Life area 65.6 64.9 15 March 7th night traffic Life area 48.8 55.9 5 3# March 6th daytime traffic traffic 62.5 62.5 520 Tongbowe March 7th daytime traffic traffic 60.4 59.0 160 n training March 6th night traffic traffic 67.9 65.1 230 school March 7th night traffic traffic 64.5 62.3 180 4# March 6th daytime traffic traffic 71.8 69.5 2680 Front of March 7th daytime traffic traffic 71.1 72.6 2580 Huayu March 7th night traffic traffic 67.1 64.4 530 shop gate March 7-8th night traffic traffic 64.8 62.4 560 Table 3.3-3 Noise monitor results of Taiyuan city traffic project（Taihang Road） Traffic Monitor Noise L10 Leq volumes Time period surroundings location sources dB（A） dB（A）（ vehicle s/h） March 6th daytime traffic Life area 61.1 58.5 6 5# Xinyuanli March 7th daytime traffic Life area 51.8 50.3 9 preliminary school March 7th night traffic Life area 58.3 60.9 3 March 8th night traffic Life area 62.6 60.9 3 6# March 8th daytime traffic traffic 68.6 65.5 1160 Haojiagou March 9th daytime traffic traffic 72.0 68.8 1120 village(village March 8th night traffic traffic 64.3 62.8 180 commission) March 9th night traffic traffic 65.5 61.9 160 Life area March 8th daytime traffic 63.5 62.4 200 construction 7# Life area March 9th daytime traffic 65.0 62.4 200 Longbao village construction March 8th night traffic Life area 61.8 59.5 60 March 9th night traffic Life area 63.3 59.8 60 8# March 8th daytime traffic Life area 61.9 60.0 25 Wangjiafeng March 9th daytime traffic Life area 58.4 54.1 30 village（village March 8th night traffic Life area 61.9 56.8 10 commission） March 9th night traffic Life area 54.2 50.5 6 9# March 8th daytime traffic Life area 61.2 56.8 60 Taiyuan March 9th daytime traffic Life area 64.1 55.7 45 psychiatric March 8th night traffic Life area 56.6 51.9 15 hospital March 9th night traffic Life area 54.4 50.1 15

Table 3.3-4 24 hours traffic noise monitor results Jiche hospital 11#ianziwan village Class 2 standard Monitor time Standard value dB L （）Leq （）L （）Leq （） 10 dB A dB A 10 dB A dB A （A） 7:00 54.5 53.5 68.5 66.3 8:00 57.3 55.7 71.5 68.2 9:00 60.7 58.9 71.0 67.9

10:00 55.4 54.5 72.9 69.7

11:00 55.2 53.3 71.5 68.1 12:00 56.3 54.3 71.8 68.8 60 13:00 55.5 52.9 68.1 64.9

14:00 56.2 54.7 70.9 72.5 daytime 15:00 58.7 57.8 70.7 68.2

16:00 57.6 56.1 69.6 67.5 17:00 56.3 56.1 70.5 65.7 18:00 58.1 56.5 72.6 71.0

19:00 60.8 60.6 70.1 67.5 20:00 57.1 55.2 69.0 66.4 21:00 58.2 55.9 68.9 65.2 22:00 57.6 55.3 66.2 64.8 23:00 57.7 59.6 66.2 65.7 0:00 58.4 56.3 64.6 73.1

1:00 58.6 56.2 63.8 65.7 night 2:00 55.8 53.7 62.7 67.6 50 3:00 58.8 56.2 63.2 65.9

4:00 55.0 52.9 53.2 64.7 5:00 56.9 54.8 48.6 56.9 6:00 53.1 51.2 60.9 57.8 From Table 3.3-2, it can be known that except Longbao village and Taiyuan Psychological Hospital, the noise environments of other monitor points along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road exceed the standard at different degrees in the day time and at night, the noise value in the day time is 58.5～68.8dB（A） and 50.1～68.8 dB（A） at night, exceeding 0.1～18.8 dB（A）. The main reason for exceeding the standard is traffic noise of the surrounding roads. （2）Public transportation component In order to understand the noise states of the proposed sites for the bus depots and bus terminals, the noise monitor was managed in May 2008. For the results see table 3.3－5.

Table 3.3-5 Public traffic sub-project（depots, bus terminals）sound environment quality state Monitor Leq Project surroundings period dB（A） daytime traffic 58.4 Nanhan bus depot night traffic 48.3 daytime Suburban 55.3 Beiying bus depot night Suburban 48.2 daytime traffic 58.3 Yingxin Street bus terminals night traffic 56.3 daytime traffic 69.1 Zoo bus terminals night traffic 58.4 daytime Suburban 53.1 Helaowan bus terminals night Suburban 48.3 daytime traffic 63.3 Beiyan bus terminals night traffic 51.8 From the above table 3.3-5, except that the night and day acoustic environment quality of the land where Nanhan bus depot, Beiying bus depot and Helaowan bus terminal shall be built conforms to criteria for class 2 of “Standard of Urban Regional Environment Noise” (GB3096-93), the monitored noise values of other regions else are rather high and fail to conform to criteria for class 2, which is mainly attributed to surrounding road traffic noise. 3.3.3 Environment Air Quality （1）Regular monitor According to “Taiyuan City Environment Air Quality Yearly Report（2006）” , from Jan. to Dec. 2006, the regular monitor results of PM10、SO2、NO2、CO in the air of Taiyuan City are listed in table 3.3-6。 Table 3.3-6 Regular Monitor Results of the Air Quality in Taiyuan City in 2006

Project PM10 SO2 NO2 CO Daily Range value 0.021～0.784 0.001～0.567 0.002～0.080 0.1～15.4 average Exceeding rate 37.12 11.74 0 4.66 concentration （％） Annual average concentration 0.142 0.080 0.025 1.60

From table 3.3-6 of regular monitor results, the daily average concentrations of PM10、 SO2、CO exceed standards at different degrees. The daily average concentration of NO2 can meet the requirement of class 2 standard specified in “Environment Air Quality Standard”(GB3095-1996). （2）Special monitor In order to understand the environment air quality of the areas of the proposed road, Taiyuan City Environment Monitor Station managed the monitor of the air quality along the roads in March 2007. The monitor points were arranged in Jinji dormitory, Jiche hospital, Broadcast TV Administration College and the intersection point between Taiyuan psychological hospital and Xinjian road and Nanneihuan Street, for the monitor point location arrangement see figure 1 and figure 2. For the monitor results see table 3.3-7.

Table 3.3-7 Analysis OF Environment Air Quality Monitor Result Unit:mg/m3 1# 2# 3# 4# 5#

Monitor Monitor Broadcasting, Taiyuan Intersection point Execution item time Jinji Locomotive Movie and TV Spirit of Xinjian road standard Hostel Hospital Management Care and Nanneihuan Cadre College Hospital l street March 0.226 0.236 0.256 0.247 0.318 7th~8th March 0.487 0.44 0.26 0.192 0.371 8th~9th Daily March PM10 0.347 0.259 0.178 0.225 0.422 average: 9th~10th 0.15mg/m3 March 0.101 0.084 0.076 0.091 0.122 10th~11st March 0.302 0.326 0.212 0.228 0.313 11st~12th March 0.106 0.124 0.103 0.055 0.052 7th~8th March 0.106 0.154 0.075 0.083 0.125 8th~9th Daily March NO2 0.042 0.081 0.051 0.045 0.047 average: 9th~10th 0.12mg/m3 March 0.064 0.062 0.06 0.045 0.105 10th~11st March 0.068 0.109 0.051 0.078 0.107 11st~12th From table 3.3-7, except for individual measurement points, NO2 index along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road conforms to criteria for class 2 “Standard of Environmental Air Quality” (GB3095-1996). However, except that merely the monitor results of PM10 on measurement points 10 and 11 in March conforms to criteria for class 2, that on other measurement points fails to conform to standards. 3.4 Regional Plan 3.4.1 General Plan of Taiyuan City Development According to “Taiyuan City Municipal Plan（1998－2010）” , the General Plan of Taiyuan City Development is as follows: （1）City chararteristics Taiyuan City Charateristics：Taiyuan city is the capital city of Shanxi Province and the industrybase with energy and heavy chemical industry being the main production; it is one of the important center cities in the north of China. （2）Population scale of the City The population of the City was controlled within 2.058 million persons and shall be within 2.226 million persons in 2010. （3）Construction land scale of the City According to the land standard for city construction of China, it was determined in 2005 that Taiyuan City construction land standard for every person was 95.1m2 in 2005. The total construction land for Taiyuan City was 195.8km2; in 2010 Taiyuan City construction land standard for every person will be 95.2m2，The total construction land for Taiyuan City will be 211.9km2.

（4）Road Traffic plan of the City ①Taiyuan City Municipal Transportation Development Strategy Target Taiyuan City Municipal Transportation Development Strategy Target includes improving and setting up a multi-level and network city transportation system, prior to develop public transportation system, developing car traffic and strictly controlling motors, controlling the total amount of taxi, speeding up static state traffic, strengthening multi-method and collection transportation, forming a comprehensive transportation system with perfect function, advanced administration, economy, suitability and harmony. ②Taiyuan City Municipal Road Network Frame The road network in the downtown will be composed of 10 roads from the south to the north and 10 roads from the east to the west (containing express roads) and three rings: inner ring, mid ring and outer ring, and some auxiliary roads and branch roads. （A）Express road The express roads are planned to be longitudinal Binghedong road and Binghexi road; and latitudinal Changfeng Street and Northern Middle Ring Road. （B）Arterial road 8 longitudinal roads and 8 latitudinal roads are planned. 8 longitudinal roads are Waliu road, Heping road, Xinjinsi road, Xinjian road, Jiefang road, Wuyi road, Jianshe road and Taihang Road. 8 latitudinal roads are Yingxinnansanxiang, Beida Street, Fuxi Street, Yingzeda Street, Nanneihuan Street, Xuefu Street, Nanwaihuan Street and Huoju Street. （C）Auxilary roads and branch roads The average space between the auxiliary roads is 1km. Parallel auxiliary roads and branch roads are planned on both sides of the arterial roads, especially in the old districts the auxiliary and branch roads shall be increased. （D）Rings The inner ring is composed of Beidajie Street, Jianshe road, Nanneihuan Street and Heping road. The mid ring is composed of Northern Middle Ring Road, Taihang Road, Changfeng Street and Waliu road. The outer ring is composed of Dongshan passing boundary expressway, northwest passing boundary expressway and southern passing boundary expressway. According to “General Plan of Taiyuan City” and the transportation plan, the proposed Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road in the project have been listed in the General Plan of Taiyuan City and the transportation plan. For details see figures 29 and 30. .

Figure 29 Taiyuan city municipal general plan

Figure 30 Taiyuan city comprehensive traffic plan

4 Alternative Comparision 4.1 Comparisons with and without project （1）Analysis without the project The regional traffic problems in Taiyuan City are mainly shown in the following aspects: The main roads along Northern Middle Ring Road are Shenglixi Street and Xiangtangxi Street etc., the road class is low and the pavement structure is bad. Currently there is not an arterial road and auxiliary road in this area. The area along Northern Middle Ring Road links the center district mainly by the south-north arterial road, Heping Road, Binghedong Road, Datong Road, Jiefang Road and Jianhe Road etc. The linkage from the west to the east in this area is not easy. The area along Taihang Road has not south-north arterial road. Currently there is not a south-north arterial road and auxiliary road in Dongshan. The area along Taihang Road links the center district mainly by the east-west arterial road, Yingchun Street, Wulongkou Street, Chaoyang Street, Xuefu Street and Xutandong Street etc.. The connection from the south to the north is not easy. The development of Dongshan area is limited by the traffic conditions. All above, the area where Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road belong to the outer surrounding areas of the city is islolated by large-scaled factories and railway, the area can not receive the radiation of the center district. In this area the land development lags behind, the road network is not complete, traffic is not convenient. To develop this areas shall be to construct roads In addition, currently the public transportation development degree of Taiyuan City is not high. The public transportation is on ground and belongs to regular public transportation. The functions of operation buses are general and adjusted by drivers. Only 11% of the citizens take public transportation. The passengers by public transportation are not satisfied for long waiting time, crowded situation, and slow operation speed and not in time. The passengers are always delayed in the bus stations. Yingze Avenue, Jiefang Street and Xinjian Road have more public transportation lines, and have been formed to be a traffic hub. During rush hour the public transportation speed is only 13km/h. The long waiting time and slow speed have seriously restricted the bus operation along the lines. The citizens hope to improve the traffic conditions to meet comfortable and in-time requirements. （2）Analysis with project The project, by constructing Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, 1 public transportation express lane, harbour-typed stops on the main road, 2 public transportation bus depots, 4 bus terminals and intelligent adjustment system of public transportation, can effectively increase the road network capacity, improve the traffic conditions in the east area and the north area, upgrade this region passability, execute “expanding the north and the east” stragety and promote the city’s economy development. At the same time, the execution of the project can balance the traffic volume in the inner ring and release the traffic pressure in the center area and the crowd problems of the city. Thus the vehicle pollution can be reduced and the air environment of the city can be improved. In addition, in the main passenger’s passage corridors of the City, the public transportation express bus lines will be opened to assure the independability and priority of the public transportation. The speed of the public transport will be increased. The tail gas from the vehicles can be reduced a lot. The social vehicles’s speed also can be increased for the public transportation improvement. So it is the key method to release the contradiction between transportation development and environment protection.

4.2 Comparison of Different Alternatives 4.2.1 Comparison of Different Alternatives of Northern Middle Ring In the course of studying Northern Middle Ring Road alternatives, according to the planned route of Northern Middle Ring Road, considering the road network plan, plan control, land impact, current impact, environment protection, immigrant’s resettlement and the project feasibility etc, the alternatives for Northern Middle Ring Road are compared, figure 31 shows the comparison alternatives.

Route C Church

Church Route B Forest Zoo Garden Hosptial Church

Route A Route A School

Route A――Recommended route Route B――Beipaihonggou Route C――Pass through Wohushan Zoo

Figure 31 Map of Northern Middle Ring Road comparison alternatives

4.2.1.1 Comparison of the West Section Routes of Northern Middle Ring Road The west section of the planned Northern Middle Ring Road is mainly along Shenglixi Street on the west side of Fenhe River, passing the southern gate of the Forest Garden after overpassing Fenhe River. The trendance of the route is mainly limited by the immigrant’s resettlement risk for demolishing some factories and residents’ housesof Xiaodongliu Village. 2 selection alternatives are provided for the west section of the planned Northern Middle Ring Road, the comparison results are shown in table 4.2-1 and figure 35. Table 4.2-1 Selection Alternatives for the West Section of the Planned Northern Middle Ring Road No. Items Route A――Shenglixi Street Route B――Beipaihonggou Having strong traffic function, high Having strong traffic function, high alignment elevation, not identical to the alignment elevation, identical to the Traffic planned road network. The route is in 1 planned road network. The traffic function the area waiting for development and benefit in near future is good after the near Beipaihonggou, the traffic benefit route is completed. in near future is general. By Waliu road-Xinghua street and Yuanjiazhuang interchange to link the Linkage of By Waliu road-Xinghua street and northwest ring expressway in near 2 road Yuanjiazhuang interchange to link the future; it can be extended to the west to network northwest ring expressway. link expressway, 2.0km away from Yuanjiazhuang interchange. Plan 3 Planned road Not planned road limitation Residents ’ houses of Xiaodongliu village, medium-small-sized Residents’ houses of Sangeicun village, enterprises in the northern side of high-voltage iron tower, Taiyuan Coal Limitation Shenglixi street, residents’ houses in 4 Selection Factory, Chengxi Heat factors the southern side of Shenglixi street, Resource Factory and the Forest ’ residents houses in the western side Garden. of Binghexi road and the Forest Garden. High risk with wide impact range Low risk with small impact range, the Impact from wide, a great number of enterprises and high-voltage iron tower and 1-2 story land 2-3 story residents ’ houses in residents’ houses of Sangeicun village, 5 acquisition and Xiaodongliucun village will be Taiyuan Coal Selection Factory will be resettlement impacted The land acquisition will be impacted. The land acquisition is not difficult. difficult. Impacting on the forest garden with The impact on the forest garden is big, area of about 762m2. The impact on especially interchange shall be set with the residents is big along the route impact area of 48000m2. The impact on Environment including the sensitive points of the the residents is small, there is only one 6 impact dormitory of Wanboling Fruit Tree sensitive point in Sangeicun village. Yard, Anguan District, Jinji Dormitory, Xiaodongliucun Village and Xinxing District. The route is set in the construction area The route is set in the area waiting for Regional with big regional impact, serious development with small regional impact 7 impact impact on the enterprises and residents on the enterprises and residents, the along the route. route can promote the area development It can be seen from table 4.2-1 that route A is identical to the planned road network and has good benefit of transportation in the near future, belonging to the planned road. It has smaller impact on the Forest Garden, but has shortcomings such as impact from land acquisition and resettlement. Route B is not identical to the road network plan and has a general benefit in the 86

near future, not belonging to the planned road. It has bigger impact on the Forest Garden and smaller impact for land acquisition and resettlement. All above, route A has smaller impact on the Forest Garden and meets the requirement of the General Plan of Taiyuan City in transportation, so route A is more suitable. 4.2.1.2 The East Section of Northern Middle Ring Road Route Comparison The east section of Northern Middle Ring Road is located in the north of Taiyuan City’s center district, along the route there are many factories, resident’s districts and gardens. For the comparison of route A and route C for the east section of Northern Middle Ring Road see the comparison result in table 4.2-2. Table 4.2-2 Alternative Comparison for the East Section of Northern Middle Ring Road Route A ―― Route C ―― No. Item Xiangtangxi street, Jinandong street Pass through Wohushan Zoo Strong traffic function, but the Strong traffic function, high alignment alignment standard of wohushan Traffic standard, big absorbing action for the section is low. The road junction 1 function traffic along the route and the road points are difficult to treat；the traffic function is strong. pressure in the front of Zoo will be increased. (1) Linking Dongshan passing boundary expressway. In the near future the route passing 1) It can be along Wohushan Road, Yingchun Street and Yangjiayu passing Zhangzitou Interchange and Interchange can be extanded to the connecting with Dongshan boundary expressway in the east. This interchange expressway. Linkage of is 3.3 km from Zhangzitou Interchange, (2) the route’s space with Beida 2 road network 2.0km from Yangjiayu Interchange. street is about 1.3km~3.0km, its (2) The route’s space with Beidajie diverging traffic volume from Street is about 1.3km, the space of the Beidajie street is not obvious and road network is suitable, its diverging will go by a roundabout route to traffic volume from Beidajie street is Taihang Road. obvious and will not go by a roundabout route. 3 Planlimitation Planned road Not planned road It will be limited by Taiyuan Steel and It will be limited by Taiyuan Steel Iron Group, Mine Mechnical Plant, and Iron Group, Shanxi Chemical Limitation Shanxi Chemical Factory, Fire Resistant 4 Factory, Whole-sale Market, factors Material Factory, Taiyuan Engine Xijianhe Village, Dongjianhe Village Factory, Xiangtangcun Village and Jinan and Zoo. Chemical Industry Factory. Xijianhe Catholic Church, Dongjiahe Regional 5 No Catholic Church, Taiyuan Area of impact Catholicism It will mainly impact the Mine Mainly impacting Shanxi chemical Mechnical Plant, Fire Resistant Material factory, whole sale market, Xijianhe Impact from Factory. Engine Factory and Xiangtang village, Zhongjianhe village and land Village. The land aquisition and Dongjianhe village, especially Zoo. 6 acquisition resettlement will include residents ’ The demolition will be factory area and 2 houses, enterprise area about 69512.4m and 1-2 story houses. There is resettlement 2 and living houses about 50298.93m . difficulty in land aquisitionin of There is difficulty in immigrant factories. resettlement. Environment 7 There is not special sensitive points It will have bigger impact on Zoo. impact 87

From table 4.2-2, it can be see that route A is to link Dongshan expressway and play an dominant role in diverging the traffic volume from Beidajie Street, it belongs to the planned road without impacting the religious regions. There is not special sensitive point along the route. Route A has such shortcomings as bigger impact for land acquisition and resettlement. Route C will increase the transportation pressure on the roads in front of Zoo and has weak ability to diverge the traffic volume from Beidajie Street. Route C is not belonging to the planned road. It will impact 3 religious regions and Zoo. All above, route A can avoid impact on Zoo and has condition to extend to link Dongshan expressway. Therefore route A is more reasonable to be selected. 4.2.2 Alternative Comparison for Taihang Road In the course of studying Taihang Road alternatives, according to the trendance of the planned route of Northern Middle Ring Road, considering network plan, plan control, land impact, current impact, environment protection, immigrant demolition and resettlement and the project feasibility etc, Taihang Road alternatives are compared, figure 35 shows the comparison alternatives. Analyzed from the road network, Taihang Road is possible to be removed to the west and can take use of the planned road on the west, route B is deserved to be considered. Route A is the planned route and is controlled by the plan with small amount of land acquisition and resettlement. The route will impact Taiyuan City Vehicle Administration Office and Longbaocun Village a little and the Nursery of Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute a lot. Route B will impact the surroundings more seriously than route A including Dongtaibao Village, Second Prison of Shanxi Province, Examination Yard of Taiyuan City Motor Driver, Liquefied Gas Storage Station, Motor Training Yard, Driver Training Center of Taiyuan City Traffic Police Branch Team, Shanxi Province New-type Construction Material Plant, the factory area in the north of Longbao Street, Xudong Village and Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute etc. Route C is based on route B at first and then goes round back to route A for avoiding impact on Xudong village. The comparison of three routes is listed in table 4.2-3.

Route A

Route B

Route C

Route A――Planned route Route B――In Changfeng street straight line is used. Route C――On the basis of route B, go round back to route A Figure 32 Taihang Road alternative comparison map

Table 4.2-3 Changfeng street section of Taihang Road alternative comparison Route B Route C Route A ――taking use of the ――based on route B at first No. Item ――planned route straight line near Changfeng and then going round back to street route A The route will pass through Taiyuan City Psychiatric The route will pass through Hospital and the hospital’s Taiyuan City Psychiatric dormitory, turn to the Hospital and the hospital’s southeast, going round dormitory to the south, pass Dongtaibao village, City the east of Dongtaibao On the basis of route B, it Motor Driver Examination village, Motor Administratin will pass Changfeng street mouth, go round back to the Route Yard, Motor Test Station, Office, go by the mouth of 1 original plan alternative at trendance City Motor Administration Changfeng road, the factory Offce Driver School etc, then area of the west side of the south of Xuefu street and pass through Changfeng Longbao village, the fruit avoid Xudong village. street, the west of Longbao tree yard of Shanxi Province village, the west of Shanxi Agriculture Science Province Agriculture Science Research Institute, Xudong Rresearch Institute, finally village and reach Xutan reach the end of the route, village. Xutandong street. Part of the route is planned Planned road, the road red 2 Plan control road section, the road red The same as route B line is controlled within 50m. line is controlled within 20m. Motor Vehicle Administratin Motor Vehicle Administratin Office, Factory Area on both Office, Factory Area on both Nursery of Shanxi Province side of Longbao Street, Big limitation side of Longbao Street and 3 Agriculture Science Nursery of Shanxi Province factor Nursery Of Shanxi Province Research Institute Agriculture Science Agriculture Science Research Institute and Research Institute Xudong Village. The impact range is big with Mainly impacting part of Motor Vehicle Administratin resident’s living houses of Office, the factory area on Longbao Village, the Nursery both side of Longbao Street, Land It is the same as Route B, but of Shanxi Province the Nursery of Shanxi 4 acquisition and avoid impact on Xudong Agriculture Science Province Agriculture Science resettlement Village. Research Institute. The Research Institute and difficulty for land acquisition Xudong Village. The is small. difficulty of land acquisition is big. Environment It will impact 10 families in It will impact 26 families in 5 impact Longbao village Xudong village Special 6 No Impact It will impact the prison It will impact the prison impact The deviation from the According to plan original planned route is big, It will impact Dongtaibao alternative, the regional it will impact Dongtaibao Regional Village, Motor Vehicle 7 impact is small and will Village, Motor Vehicle impact Administration Office and promote the regional Administration Office, Longbao factory area a lot. development. Longbao factory area and Xudong village a lot. It can be seen from table 4.2－3, route A is the planned road and identical to the road network plan with little impact on the area along the route. It can promote the development of the area along the route with little impact from land acquisition and resettlement. The main limitations to route A are the Nursery of Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute and the environment impact on Longbaocun Village. Part of route B is the planned road section with big line location deviation from the 90

original planned line location and big impact on Dongtaibao Village, Motor Vehicle Administration Office, Longbao factory area and Xudongcun Village. The main limitations to the route are Motor Vehicle Administration Office, Factory areas on Longbao Street, the Nursery of Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute and Xudong Village. Route B will have special impact on the prison and certain environment impaction on Xudong Village. Route C is on the basis of route B and goes round back to route A. Part of route C is the planned road section and will have bigger impact on Dongtaibao Village, Motor Administration Office and Longbao Factory Area. The main limitations to the route are Motor Administration Office, factory areas on both sides of Longbao Street and the Nursery of Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute. The route can avoid the impact on Xudong Village but will still have special impact on the prison. All above, route A is the planned road and identical to the road network plan with little impact on the surroundings and the Prison. Route A is more reasonable for Taihang Road. 4.2.3 Alternative Comparison of the PublicTransportation Component 4.2.3.1 Site Comparison for Bus Depots In the site comparison of the bus depots, the land state, surrounding land plan, surrounding environment impact on the proposed selection site, disturbance on the surrounding traffic, bus depots’ impact on the surrounding environment, the sensitive points of surrounding environment, land acquisition and resettlement impact on environment and identification to the city’s plan are mainly considered （1）Nanhan bus depot The environment protection comparison for Nanhan bus depot is shown in table 4.2-4 and figure 33. Table 4.2-4 Vironment protection comparison for nanhan bus depots Item Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 The land mainly is The land currently Wanboling motor is Jiuzhou bus repair plant yard, to parking yard, near Xikuang street there Xikuang street and The land is empty, mainly The land is empty, coal yards, a few of 1 story mainly agriculture are distributed motor Xida street there are land state houses. In the north there is land, a few of 1 story repair service shops, several vehicle repair a small tomb. temporary building. including Jinhong shops; in addition entertainment city, there is land for Mingzhu building, waste metal and some living land. company. The proposed land is The site is for public The proposed land is The proposed land is planned municipal service and planned greening land, the planned greening facilities land, the large-scaled resident surrounding land north side is the planned land, the west side is east side is living living area. The site plan Nanneihuanxi street and the industry land, the land and the west side is near Xikuang street south side is Jiuyuanshahe south side is planned is Lingxikuang street, and is for the planned river. Yumen road. the south side is municipal facilities. Xinzhexida street. surrounding The terrain is flat and open, The terrain is flat and There are lot of The terrain is flat and environment having good geological open, having good buildings with big suitable for impact on the conditions and not any geological conditions demolition amount. constructing bus 91

proposed adverse impact. and not any adverse The geological depot selection sit impact. condition is good.

The traffic is The traffic is The traffic is The traffic is convenient, convenient, but the convenient, but the convenient, but the disturbance on but the public public transportation public transportation public transportation surrounding transportation and and intersection and intersection and intersection traffic intersection traffic will traffic will happen traffic will happen traffic will happen happen mutual disturbance. mutual disturbance. mutual disturbance. mutual disturbance. Waste water, tail gas Waste water, tail gas Waste water, tail gas Waste water, tail gas and impact on the and noise will impact and noise will impact and noise will impact noise will impact the surrounding the surrounding the surrounding the surrounding surrounding environment at environment environment at environment at environment at certain degree. certain degree. certain degree. certain degree. The west side is the dormitory of Jiaomei Group, and in The east side is There is not any In the north side about 90m the south side of Shanxi medical sensitive points sensitive point is Xihuayuan living area 110m is Xishan Mine university 3rd around administration bureau hospital machine repair plant dormitory area The land demolition it is Jiuzhou bus land acquisition The land demolition The land demolition area is area is 2300m2, it has parking yard, and has and resettlement area is 1500m2, it has 300m2, it is small impact certain impact on large empty field impact on certain impact on the on the social environment. the social with a little land environment social environment. environment. acquisition. The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the Environment residental area to the gas residental area to the residental area to the residental area to the safety station meets the gas station meets the gas station meets the gas station meets the requirement of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m The proposed site is The proposed site is It is planned to be greening It is planned to be identification to planned to be planned to be land, not identical to the greening land, not the plan municipal facilities, municipal facilities, plan identical to the plan identical to the plan. identical to the plan.

From table 4.2-4, the advantages of site 4 can be seen that the proposed land for site 4 is the land of Jiuzhou Parking Lot currently and is the planned land for the municipal facilities, identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. There is not any sensitive point arround. The environment impact from the land acquisition and resettlement is small. The shortcoming of site 4 is that it will have certain disturbance to the traffic in Xikuang Street The disadvantages of site 1 are that the proposed land for site 1 is a planned greening land currently and not identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. In the place 90m from the northern side of site 1 there are environment sensitive points. The advantage of site 1 is that the proposed land for site 1 is empty currently with flat and wide terrain and good geological conditions. The disadvantages of site 2 are that the proposed land for site 2 is a planned greening land currently and not identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. In the place 110m from the southern side of site 2 is the dormitory of the Machine Repair Plant of Xishan Mine Administration Bureau. The advantage of site 2 is that the proposed land for site 2 is empty currently with flat and wide terrain and good geological conditions. The disadvantage of site 3 is that the proposed land for site 3 is the land for Wanboling Vehicle Repair Plant currently. On the proposed land there are a lot of buildings to be demolished. On the east side of site 3 is No.3 Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. The advantage of site 3 is that the proposed land for site 3 is the 92

planned land for the municipal facilities and identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. All above, the proposed land for site 4 is the planned land for the municipal facilities without any sensitive points around, it is identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. Site 4 is more suitable for Nanhan depot. .

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Figure 33 map of locatrion of the sites for selection for Nanhan bus depots （2）Beiying bus depots The following table 4.2-5 and figure 34 is the site environment protection comparison of Beiying bus depots. .

Table 4.2-5 Site environment protection comparison of Beiying bus depots Item Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Test field of Shanxi The municipal facilities land Agriculture land of Province Agriculture land state leased by Material Return Xifeng village (the Fruit Science Research Company. Garden and Nursery) Institute. The east side is planned The proposed site is planned to Beiying Railway Station, be living land. The east side is The proposed site is the south side is the planned to be Zhenzhi Road, planned to be living front plaza of Beiying surrounding land the north side is Rongjunnan land.The east and north Railway Station, the plan Street, the west and south sides sides are planned roads. north side is Shanxi are planned roads. The The east 75m is Xifeng Province Agriculture northeast side 140m is Shanxi Village. Science Research Province Rongjun Hospital. Institute and research area. surrounding The site is inclining from the The terrain is flat and the environment north to the south with little The site is inclining from geological condition is impact on the height difference. The the north to the south good without any proposed geological condition is good without adverse impact. adverse impact. selection sit and no adverse impact. After the planned After the planned surrounding surrounding roads are roads are completed, the traffic completed, the traffic disturbance on around the site will be around the site will be surrounding convienent and fast, combining convienent and fast, but Little disturbance traffic Beiying railway station, the the public transportation site will be Beiying Service and straightly running Area. traffic will happen mutual disturbance. Waste water, tail gas and Waste water, tail gas and impact on the Waste water, tail gas and noise noise will impact the noise will impact the surrounding will impact the surrounding surrounding surrounding environment environment at certain degree. environment at certain environment at certain degree. degree. In the place of 140m from the In the place of 75 from northeast side of the site is There is not any sensitive points the east side of the site is Rongjun Hospital, the traffic sensitive point Xifeng Village. will affect the Hospital. land acquisition The land demolition area is Without demolition and and resettlement 650m2 with a little impact on impact on the social A little of demolition. impact on the social environment environment. environment The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the Environment residental area to the gas residental area to the gas residental area to the gas safety station meets the requirement station meets the station meets the of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m It is the planned land for It is the planned land for It is planned land for Identification to residental houses and not residental houses and not municipal facilities and the plan identical to the plan. identical to the plan. identical to the plan.

Figure 34 Site comparison map of Beiying bus depots From table 4.2－5, the main advantages of site 3 can be seen that the proposed land for site 3 has flat and wide terrain and good geological condition with little adverse impact, little disturbance to the surrounding, no sensitive environment points and little land acquisition and resettlement, it is the planned land for the municipal facilities and identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. The disadvantage of site 3 is that the proposed land will occupy part of the test field of Shanxi Province Agriculture Science Research Institute. The disadvantage of site 1 is that the proposed land for site 1 is a planned land for residental area and not identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City; in the place 140m from the northeast side of the proposed land is Rongjun Hospital, the vehicles will have big impact on Rongjun Hospital. The advantage of site 1 is that the proposed land has good geological condition. The disadvantage of site 2 is that the proposed land for site 2 is a planned land for residental area and not identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City; in the place 75m from the east side of the proposed land is Xifengcun Village with certain environment impact. The advantage of site 2 is that there is not any land acquisition and resettlement on the proposed land with wide terrain. All above, there is not any environment sensitive point in the surroundings of site 3, the proposed land for site 3 is the planned land for the municipal facilities, identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. Therefore site 3 is more suitable for Beiying bus depot. 4.2.3.2 Site Comparison Of Public Traffic Starting And Endingstations （1）Public transportation bus terminals of Yingxin Street The environment protection comparison for Yingxin Street public transportation bus terminals is shown in table 4.2－6 and figure 35.

Table 4.2-6 Yingxin street public traffic bus terminals site environment impact comparison Item Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 It is within the land of It is agriculture land It is agriculture land（grape Xinchengcun Village, of Nanguyan Village Land state garden）of Nanguyan now it is rubbish yard （grape garden）and is village with serious in the south side of site environment pollution. 1. The proposed site is the The proposed site is planned land for residental planned to be living houses. The west side is The proposed site is life land. The west side is Surrounding land Datong road, the south side rubbish filling yard. The Datong road, the south plan is Dongfeng gas station west side is Lanxin road. side is Dongfeng gas and Beiyixiang of Yingxin station and Beiyixiang street. of Yingxin street. The site is 1~2m higher Surrounding than the surrounding The terrain is flat and The terrain is flat and open environment with good geological open with good with good geological impact on condition. The current geological condition and condition and without any proposed rubbish filling yard has without any adverse adverse impact. selection sit certain impact on the impact. surrounding. Waste water, tail gas and Waste water, tail gas and Waste water, tail gas and Impact on the noise will impact the noise will impact the noise will impact the surrounding surrounding surrounding surrounding environment environment environment at certain environment at certain at certain degree. degree. degree. Land area 6000m2 11237 m2 8996 hm2 There is not a sensitive There is not a sensitive The south side is near Sensitive points point within 200m range point within 200m range the living area and has and impact around and small impact around and small impact certain impact. on the environment. on the environment. Land acquisition The land demolition area is No land demolition, no No land demolition, no and resettlement 535m2 and has small impact on the social impact on the social impact on impact on the social environement environement environment environment The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the Environment residental area to the gas residental area to the gas residental area to the gas safety station meets the station meets the station meets the requirement of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m Land acquisition The local people in the The local people in the The local people in the requirement villages agree villages do not agree villages do not agree

Figure 35 site comparison location map of Yingxin street public traffic bus terminals From table 4.2－6 the main advantages of site 1 can be known that the proposed land for site 1 has flat and wide terrain with good geological condition, the local people in the villages agree the land aquisition and resettlement and there is not any sensitive point in the range of 200m. The disadvantages of site 1 are that the proposed land is grape garden currently and there is a little of land acquisition and resettlement. The main disadvantages of site 2 are that the proposed land is a life rubbish filling yard currently, the bad smell from the rubbish filling yard will have big impact on the proposed bus depot, and the local people in the villages do not agree the land acquisition and resettlement. The advantages of site 2 are that the proposed land has good geological condition and there is not any sensitive environment point. The disadvantages of site 3 is that the proposed land for site 3 is a grape garden currently and its southern side is near a residental area, which will have certain environment impact, and the local people in the villages do not agree the land acquisition and resettlement. The advantages are that the proposed land for site 3 has flat and wide terrain and good geological condition. All above, there is not any sensitive point in the range of 200m around the proposed land for site 1 of Yingxin Street Bus Terminal and the local people in the villages agree the land acquisition, therefore site 1 is more suitable for Yingxin Street Bus Terminal. （2）Public traffic bus terminals of the Zoo Site environment protection comparison of Public traffic bus terminals of the Zoo is shown in table 4.2－7 and figure 39.

Table 4.2-7 Environment impact comparison table of Public traffic bus terminals of the Zoo Item Site 1 Site 2 land state Residental Land Fire-Resistant Brick Plant The proposed land for site 2 is the planned land for public transportation, the west side The south side is the Office Building of of the proposed land is planned to be surrounding land plan Zoo, the est side is the land of Zoo, the residental land and currently it is plant west side is Jianhenan road. houses. The east side of the proposed land for site 2 is near to Dongshan road. The terrain is flat and open, geological surrounding environment geological condition is good without any condition is good without any adverse impact on the proposed site adverse impact. impact. Waste water, tail gas and noise will impact Waste water, tail gas and noise will impact Impact on the surrounding the surrounding environment at certain the surrounding environment at certain environment degree. degree. Occupying land area 1.4hm2 1.4hm2 The south side is the Office Building of The west sideof the proposed land is a Zoo, the east and south sides will impact Sensitive points and impact planned residental land area and has certain the animals in Zoo, the environment impact on the environment at certain degree. impact is big. Land acquisition and The land demolition area reaching The land demolition area reaching 2500m2, resettlement impact on 8500m2, this has big impact on the social this has big impact on the social environment environment environment impact. impact. The local people in the villages do not The local people in the villages agree the Land acquisition requirement agree the land acquisition and resettlement land acquisition and resettlement Condition for land acquisition The local people in the villages do not The local people in the villages agree land and resettlement agree land acquisition and resettlement acquisition and resettlement The distance from the residental area to The distance from the residental area to the Environment safety the gas station meets the requirement of gas station meets the requirement of 50m 50m It is planned to be garden land, not It is planned to be public transportation land, Identification to the plan identical to the plan. identical to the plan.

Figure 36 Site comparison location map of the Zoo public traffic bus terminals 98

From table 4.2-7 the advantages of site 2 can be seen that the proposed land for site 2 is the planned land for public transportation and identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City, it has good geological condition, and its land acquisition and resettlement has been agreed by the local people in the related area and the amount of demolition is small. The disadvantage of site 2 is that the west side of the proposed land is a planned residental land. The disadvantage of site 1 is that the southern side of the proposed land is near the Office Building of Zoo, the east and southern sides will impact the animals with big environment impact, the quantities for the land acquisition and resettlement of the proposed are big and it is the planned land for garden and not identical the General Plan of Taiyuan City. The local people do not agree the land acquisition and resettlement. The advantage of site 1 is that the proposed land has flat and wide terrain and good geological condition. All above, there is less sensitive points around site 2 of the Bus Terminal of Zoo and smaller environment impact from land acquisition and resettlement, and identical to the General Plan of Taiyuan City. Therefore site 2 is more suitable. （3）site comparison of helaowan public traffic bus terminals For site comparison of helaowan public traffic bus terminals see table 4.2－8 and figure 37.

Table 4.2-8 Environment impact comparison table of Helaowan bus terminals Item Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 It is the west side land of Land state geological team of Xishan It is the land for coal yard It is agriculture field Mine Administration Bureau Currently the north side is a gas station and vehicle shopping center, The north side is Duerping the south side is the residental area street, the south side is of Jiuyuan district’s 1st phase The north side is the west surrounding agriculture field currently, the project for the resettlement of outer ring road, the proposed environment land west side is plannedresidental resident in the depression area for area is located outside the plan land and the east side is the coal excavation area of Wanboling planned area. residental land of Helaowan district, the west side is a coal yard, village. the east is railway land. The west side of the proposed site is the planned west outer ring road. surrounding The terrain is flat and open, The terrain is flat and open, environment impact The terrain is flat and open, soil is geological condition is good, geological condition is good, on proposed selection loose and soft. without any adverse impact. without any adverse impact. sit Waste water, tail gas and noise will Waste water, tail gas and impact on the Waste water, tail gas and noise impact the surrounding environment noise will impact the surrounding will impact the surrounding at certain degree. surrounding environment at environment environment at certain degree. certain degree. Accupying land area 0.71hm2 0.6hm2 0.6hm2 In the east side 30m is In the south 70m is a living area sensitive points and Helaowan village and has under construction, and has impact Within 200m range there is impact impact on the environment at on the environment at certain not a sensitive point. certain degree. degree. land acquisition and The demolition area is There is not demolition and no There is not demolition and resettlement impact 4300m2，it has certain impact impact. no impact. on environment on the social environment. Condition for land The local people in the villages The local people in the villages do The local people in the acquisition and agree land acquisition and not agree land acquisition and villages do not agree land resettlement resettlement resettlement acquisition and resettlement The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the residental residental area to the gas residental area to the gas Environment safety area to the gas station meets the station meets the requirement station meets the requirement requirement of 50m of 50m of 50m The local people in the The local people in the villages The local people in the villages do Land acquisition villages do not agree the agree the land acquisition and not agree the land acquisition and requirement land acquisition and resettlement resettlement resettlement

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Figure 37 Location map for site comparison of Helaowan public traffic bus terminals From table 4.2－8 the advantages of site 1 can be seen that the proposed land has flat and wide terrain and good geological condition, the local people in the villages have agreed the land acquisition and resettlement. The disadvantages are that the place 30 m from the east side of the proposed land is helaowan Village. The disadvantages of site 2 are that the local people in the villages have not agreed the land acquisition and resettlement and the place 70m from the southern side of the proposed land is a residental district. The advantage of site 2 is that the proposed land has flat and wide terrain without any requirement for demolition. The disadvantages of site 3 are that the current state of the proposed land is agricuotural field and the local people in the villages have not agreed the land acquisition and resettlement. The advantages of site 3 are that the proposed land has flat and wide terrain and good geological condition; there is any sensitive point in the range of 200m around the proposed land without any demolition requirement. All above, site 1 for Helaowen bus terminals has flat and wide terrain and goodgeological condition; the local people in the villages have agreed the land acquisition and resettlement. Therefore site 1 is more suitable. （4）Beiyan public traffic bus terminals For Beiyan bus terminals site environment protection comparison see table 4.2－9 and figure 38.

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Table 4.2-9 Beiyan bus terminals site environment impact comparison Item Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 It is agriculture field of It is the army farm land, It is the domitory of It is the land of Huaerjian land state Yijing village to the now it is abandanded Taiyuan Chemical Group Co., Ltd. north of Xiyu street land. Industry Plant The north side is The north side is the land Taihuaxinguang No.1 of Army Farm（now it is The north side is a district, the northeast The north side is near ） discharge channel for a rubbish filling yard , the side is the domitory of Xiyu Street, the south chemical industry, the west side is the Taiyuan Medcine Plant, side is a discharge surrounding west side is Huanghe residental land for Nanyan the east side is No.4 channel for chemical environment Chemical Industry Village, the east side is a Preliminary School of industry, the west land plan Construction Material second hand market and Taiyuan Foreign side is No.8 Area of Plant, the east side and Chemical Institute of Language University, Taiguangxin south side are abandanded Shanxi Technology and the south side is Company land College, the south side is Beiyan Comprehensiv residental land for people Market of Wujiazhuang Village. surrounding The terrain is flat and The terrain is flat and open The terrain is flat and environment open with good It has good with good geological open with good geological impact on geological conditions geological conditions and The conditions and without proposed and without any adverse conditions. demolition quantities are any adverse impact selection sit impact small. Waste water, tail gas impact on Tail gas and noise will Waste water, tail gas and Waste water, tail gas and and noise will impact the impact the surrounding noise will impact the noise will impact the the surrounding surrounding environment at certain surrounding environment surrounding environment environment at environment degree. at certain degree. at certain degree. certain degree. Occupying 6708m2 7959m2 6708m2 10500 m2 land area In the place 130m from the east side is a In the place 70m from the The west side is near The north side is near the sensitive preliminary school, the west side is Beiyan residental district, it planned middle school, it points and north side is a planned Village, it will impact the will impact the will impact the impact middle school, it will surrounding at certain surrounding at big surrounding at certain impact the surrounding degree. degree. degree. at big degree. land There is large amount acquisition There is not any land There is not any land There is small amount of of land acquisition and acquisition and acquisition and land acquisition and and resettlement, and resettlement resettlement without resettlement without resettlement, and will be will be big impact on environment impact environment impact small environment impact environment impact environment The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the The distance from the Environment residental area to the gas residental area to the gas residental area to the residental area to the gas safety station meets the station meets the gas station meets the station meets the requirement of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m requirement of 50m The local people in The local people in the The local people in the The local people in the Land the villages do not villages do not agree the villages do not agree the villages agree the land acquisition agree the land land acquisition and land acquisition and acquisition and requirement acquisition and resettlement resettlement resettlement resettlement

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Figure 38 Location map of Beiyan Bus terminals sites From table 4.2－9 the advantages of site 4 can be seen that the proposed land for site 4 has flat terrain and good geological condition with small amount of land acquisition and resettlement, and the local peoples in the villages have agreed the land acquisition. The main shortcoming of site 4 is that the northern side of the proposed land is near a planned middle school whichl will have certain impact. The shortcoming of site 1 is that in the place of 130m from the east side of the proposed land is a preliminary school and the northern side of the proposed land is a planned middle school, and the local peoples in the villages do not agree the land acquisition. The advantages of site 1 is that the proposed land for site 1 has flat terrain and good geological condition without land acquisition and resettlement The shortcoming of site 2 is that in the place of 70m from the west side of the proposed land is Beiyan Village with large amount of land acquisition and resettlement, and the local peoples in the villages do not agree the land acquisition. The advantage of site 2 is that the proposed land for site 2 has good geological condition. The shortcoming of site 3 is that the west side of the proposed land is near a residental area with large amount of land acquisition and resettlement, and the local peoples in the villages do not agree the land acquisition. The advantage of site 3 is that the proposed land for site 3 has good geological condition. All above, site 4 for Beiyan Bus Terminal has not sensitive point around with small amount of land acquisition and resettlement, and the local people in the villages have agreed the land acquisition and resettlement. Therefore site 4 is more suitable.

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4.2.3.3 Special Route Comparison Of Speed Public Traffic For the special route comparison of public traffic see table 4.2-10 and figure 42. Table 4.2-10 The special route comparison of public traffic Speed（km/h）at Amount of Rapid bus lanes of Time for the rush hour land public Road conditions whole of the line acquisition transportation （minutes） and resettlement Now Yingze Avenue has over 6 bus lanes with the widest space Yingze Avenue between building lines of 130m, （Nanhan-Railway the smallest of 45m and the 30.6 22.0 635m2 Station） average of 82m, it is the best road to set dedicated lanes for public transportation. Xinjian Road Now Xinjian Road has the （Shengli widest space between building 37.2 21.5 1378m2 Street-Nanzhonghua lines of 75m, the smallest of 44m Street） and the average of 51-63m. Jiefang Road Now Jiefang road has the （Shengli Street- widest space between building 35.0 22.0 19388m2 Nanzhonghua lines of 60m, the smallest of 33m Street） and the average of 43-53m. Considering the road conditions, the quantities of land acquisition and resettlement of the existing 3 roads, Yingze Avenue is suitable for setting up the rapid bus lanes of the public transportation. But Yingze Avenue has just been reconstructed, so it is not suitable to enforce public transportation favorable policies. The difficulties and reconstruction works quantities for executing public transportation favorable policies in Jiefang Road will be bigger than those in Xinjian Road, but the rapid bus lanes of public transportation to be executed in Xinjian Road can diverge the passengers on Jiefang Road by adjusting the bus line network and reach the same passenger flow benefit as Jiefang road. So Xinjian Road is the recommended public transportation priority passage in the near future.

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Figure 39 Location map of bus rapid transit comparison

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5. Environment Impact Forecast and Prevention And Control

Measures during Construction 5.1 Social Environment Impact Analysis and Prevention & Control Measures during Construction The urban transport project mainly includes newly-built Northern Middle Ring Road , Taihang Road, overpass, special bus lane, newly-built public transport bus depots and terminals etc. including pipeline relocation, house relocation, site leveling etc. and it takes a long time for preparation work. During construction, some of existing urban roads will be occupied so that the urban transport will be interfered, which will bring inconvenience or trouble to the trip and work of urban residents. 5.1.1 Analysis of impact on existing urban transport During construction of newly-built Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, lots of construction machinery and transportation vehicles will be used, so the traffic volume on the existing roads along will be increased so as to interfere the urban transport. Especially, during construction, the transportation on surrounding roads will be impacted somehow, such as Sangei Road, Heping Road, Binhe Xi Road, Binhe Dong Road, Datong Road, Jiefang Bei Road, Jianshe Road, Shengli Dong Street, Nan Nei Ring Street, Xi Taibao Street, Changfeng Street, Xinjian Road. During construction of Northern Middle Ring Road , Taihang Road and appropriate express public transport pass, the transportation on above-mentioned surrounding roads will be impacted. Moreover, in rush hour, part of roads will be too much crowded or jammed. Especially, there are many enterprises, public institutions and schools near Xinjian Road, Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, and there is much heavy traffic in morning rush hour and evening rush hour. At that time, the traffic management department shall strengthen their management and organize to make diversion of traffic by using of neighboring road network so as not to interfere normal life of the residents. Northern Middle Ring Road is crossed with the railway twice, Dongjin railway branch and Tongpu railway (in parallel with Shitai railway under construction) respectively. At two crossings, Northern Middle Ring Road is crossed overhead, and the operation of railway will not be affected basically. 5.1.2 Analysis of impact on residents’ life Many residential blocks, enterprises and public institutions are located around Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, and the impact and inconvenience will be brought to the trip, work and life of the residents during construction of roads. During construction of Northern Middle Ring Road , various ground and underground pipelines and pipeline of municipal utility will be impacted, such as water supply & drainage pipeline, coal gas pipeline, thermal pipeline, communication and electrical pipeline etc., which will be removed and relocated.

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During construction, first build and then remove so as not to interrupt operation, and the urban residents can use them normally. Furthermore, according to existing condition investigation, Northern Middle Ring Road goes across Shanxi Chemical Factory, which mainly produces chemical agents like caustic soda, chlorine, chloroacetic acid, and plannedNorthern Middle Ring Road will occupy partial land of Shanxi Chemical Factory, mainly in the area of sewage treatment station, furfural alcohol workshop, packing workshop, steam system and water drainage system, without dangerous chemicals and dangerous waste. Jin’an Chemical Factory was military explosive manufacturer and abandoned in 2000, and the factory site was cleaned in 2001 by central government financial fund. no any hazardous goods. So, no any dangerous chemicals or dangerous waste will be involved in the road portion in Shanxi Chemical Factory and Jin ’ an Chemical Factory during construction, and no adverse impact will be produced onto construction people and surrounding residents. 5.1.3 Prevention & Control Measures of Social Environment Impact During Construction (1) Make enough various preparations before construction: carry out concrete investigation on items related to the project, such as roads, power supply, communication, coordinate with the departments concerned to determine relocation scheme beforehand. First set up and then remove so as to ensure normal social life. (2) In order to minimize the impact on the urban residents’ lives and urban traffic condition from the construction, make the plan of road channelization and traffic diversion and temporary lane and set enough quanitities of traffic diversion signs and markers. And inform the residents in advance by means of radio, TV and newspapers. (3) The announcement board will be set at the construction site, showing main contents and construction time of project, contact person and complaint hotline as well as asking for public’s understanding of inconvenience incurred by construction. (4) During construction, there is much electricity consumption and water consumption, so the construction company shall contact with departments concerned (such as power supply bureau and tap water company etc.) in advance to determine the pipeline connecting and guiding scheme and make preparation of temporary pipeline connecting and guiding. For the area without enough local capacity, the water and electricity pipelines shall be modified in advance to avoid temporary water shortage and power failure thus to impact normal power supply and water supply of residents and industrial and mine enterprises and other public institutions nearby. (5) During construction, if any cultural relics are found, it shall immediately stop earthwork excavation and report the related information to local cultural relics protection department. Unless the department in charge completes the cultural relics authentication and necessary protection measures are taken, the excavation is not allowed to continue again.

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(6) The safety barrier shall be set at the construction site. When construction is carried out in the vicinity of school, kindergarten, village, residential area or commercial building, temporary overpass shall be set up temporarily at those area students or residents in and out. Dense mesh enclosure shall be adopted outside of the scaffold to ensure the safety of the pedestrians. (7) The height and direction of the construction lighting lamps shall not affect residents’ rest at night. 5.2 City Ecological Landscape Impact Analysis and Prevention & Control Measures 5.2.1 Ecological Impact Analysis During Construction The permanent expropriated land for the project is 2324.77 Mu, including 93.74 Mu cultivated land (all are common agricultural crops) and 144 Mu agricultural forestry land (nursery). There is no any valuable and rare plant, ancient or famous tree, or ecologically sensitive kinds within the range of project occupied land. And the project will not have great impact on plant diversity in Taiyuan city. Moreover, Northern Middle Ring Road goes by south edge of the forest park and will occupy vegetation area of 762m2 in the forest park, mainly about 126 pine trees, 863 willow trees, 25 flowering peach trees and 26 purple leaf plum trees, only about 0.036% of total occupied land of the forest park. And the trees occupied by Northern Middle Ring Road are artificial plantation trees, which has little effect on the ecological condition of the forest park. The main part of the project is located in the city, with flat terrain. Some area will be filled with earth or soil, and there is little deep excavation, almost no soil erosion. However, during construction, temporary stock piling of building materials, such as earthwork, sand, stone, cement, clay as well as waste soil and waste materials will have certain effect on city ecology. Especially if waste soil stock piling is not properly guarded, the waste soil will block water drainage pipeline of the road and impact transport and city aesthetics when it is flushed by rain. During construction, if no proper protection measures are taken when transporting the building materials such as earthwork, sand, stone, cement, clay by vehicle, a big quantity of dust will be produced, so that the street, landscaping along and the residents at both sides will be effected by dust, so does sanitary environment in the city. 5.2.2 Analysis of impact on city scene during construction During project construction, impact on surrounding view is mainly as follows: (1)In the course of project demolishing and pipeline removing and modifying, a certain bad impact will be brought to the local city aesthetics, scene as well as environment; however, this impact is only temporary and will disappear upon completion of construction. Additionally, the city scene will be finally beautified through road afforestation and modification of residential communities near the road. (2)During construction, foundation excavation and stock piling of earthwork and building materials, especially temporary stock piling of waste soil and refuse of construction will impact sanitary environment and scene of the city.

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(2)During construction, some temporary building structures or temporary disorderly parking of some machinery will bring disharmonious factors and impact to the surrounding scene. (3)During construction, noise, flying dust, waste gas, project refuse produced by or from construction machinery and temporary sheds as well as construction water drainage will contaminate surrounding environment, at the same time the city scene will be impacted certainly as well. 5.2.3 Protection measures for ecological scene during construction During construction, existing ecological scene and environment will be instantaneously impacted. Construction shall be carried out step by step and part by part, and the ecological scene and environment along shall be properly protected during construction. Much attention shall be paid to following points during construction: (1)Before construction, related formalities of transplanting pine trees and willow trees in the forest park shall be handled in Taiyuan Forestry Bureau. When the trees are approved to be transplanted, special professional personnel designated by the forest park shall instruct in the field so as to protect transplantation. If it is necessary to cut down one tree, 15 trees with breast diameter not less than 8cm shall be planted in the place designated by Urban Greening Administration Department. Otherwise, the fund can be given to the Urban Greening Administration Department, who will designate the professional personnel to supplement planting. (2)Before construction, related formalities of transplanting the impacted trees in the middle and on both sides of the roads shall be handled at Urban Greening Administration Department, and the Urban Greening Administration Department shall designate professional personnel to guide in the field to protect transplantation. It’s better to transplant in the same community of the project and try to make it survive so that the damaged trees due to permanently occupied land by the project can be compensated. During construction, attention shall be paid to protecting neighboring trees, green land or other plantation. (3)During construction, the road construction shall be carried out within the red line, and the soil piles and material piles shall not inrush the field or land nearby. (4)Construction shall be carried out part by part orderly to avoid the scene along in great disorder. The barriers or other guard boards (wood, glass, iron sheet etc.) can be used as enclosure to reduce the contamination to the scene environment. (5)The excavated earthwork shall be properly allotted, and protection measures shall be taken for temporary waste earth stockpiling places. It is to avoid excavating and filling earthwork during rain precipitation to avoid rain flushing to cause soil erosion, water body pollution and water drainage pipeline blockage. (6)Under the precondition of meeting project construction requirement, try to save the occupied land and properly arrange the construction progress. After the project is completed, clean the construction site in time, and restore the original roads and replant after evacuating the occupied site.

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5.3 Noise Environment Impact Analysis and Prevention & Control Measures during Construction 5.3.1 Noise environment impact analysis during construction (1) Noise source During road construction, main noise comes from construction machinery and transportation vehicle under construction, with characteristics of high sound and irregularity. The impact on environment from that is only temporary and will disappear upon completion of construction. However, the noise level from the adopted machinery during construction is very high. If no any control measure, the environment sensitive points like villages and schools nearby will be greatly affected. The road construction is different from common building construction, and the produced noise mainly has following characteristics: ①There is a big variety of construction machinery. There are different construction machines at different construction stages, and more or less machines are put into operation at the same construction stage, so noise of the road construction has the characteristics of haphazard. ②The noise source characteristics of different equipment are different. The noise of some equipment is vibrating, sudden and pulse, which has great impact on the human being; and the noise frequency of some equipment (such as stirrer) is low and deep, not easy to reduce, which makes human feel annoyed. The noise of all those equipment is big, and the noise grade between each other is also too much different. The operation noise of some equipment can reach over 90dB. ③The construction noise source is different from normal fixing noise source. It includes fixing noise source and flowing noise source. The construction machines are generally exposed outdoors, and they are flowing within a small range in a certain time, which increases noise pollution range within this period compared with fixing source, but the construction noise pollution is within a certain range compared with flowing source. ④The noise of construction equipment is small compared with the range impacted by construction equipment, so the noise of construction equipment is generally considered as point source. ⑤For a certain road portion, the construction noise pollution only happens in a certain period. The construction machines used in the project are mostly flowing noise sources, flowing and discontinuous. The flowing range of transportation vehicle is big, however, the flowing range of bulldozer and excavator is smaller, which are different from flowing vehicle source and have obvious characteristic of time limit. (2) Noise impact forecast analysis In view of complicated characteristics of the construction noise and local and stage characteristics of construction noise impact, this assessment calculates impact range of different construction equipment as for different construction stages as per GB12523-90 (Noise Limits for Construction Site) so that the construction company can take proper noise pollution Prevention & Control Measures by considering

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actual situations together. The noise source of construction equipment is calculated as per point noise source, and the noise forecast mode is:

In the formula: Li and L0 are equipment noise grade from equipment Ri and R0 respectively; ΔL is subsidiary attenuation value produced by barrier, plantation and air. For the case which multi construction machines impact a certain point, the noise grade shall be superposed: L = 101gΣ100.1× Li (3) Calculation and analysis of construction noise impact range According to afore-mentioned forecast method and forecast mode, under the condition without considering noise attenuation value by woods and buildings, the noise forecast values of various construction machines at different distance (not superposed) are seen table 5.3－1.

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Table 5.3-1 Noise forecast values of various construction machines at different distance Unit：dB(A) Noise forecast value No. Machinery name 5m 10m 20m 40m 50m 80m 100m 200m 1 Wheel loader 90 84.0 78.0 72.0 70.0 67.5 65.5 59.5 2 Grader 90 84.0 78.0 72.0 70.0 67.5 65.5 59.5 Vibrating road 3 86 80.0 74.0 68.0 66.0 63.5 61.5 55.5 roller Double-wheel 4 double-vibrating 81 75.0 69.0 63.0 61.0 58.5 56.5 50.5 road roller Three-wheel 5 81 75.0 69.0 63.0 61.0 58.5 56.5 50.5 road roller 6 Tire road roller 76 70.0 64.0 58.0 56.0 53.5 51.5 45.5 7 Bulldozer 86 80.0 74.0 68.0 66.0 63.5 61.5 55.5 Hydraulic 8 84 78.0 72.0 66.0 64.0 61.5 59.5 53.5 excavator Spreading 9 87 81.0 75.0 69.0 67.0 64.5 62.5 56.5 machine 10 Generator 98 92.0 86.0 80.0 78.0 75.5 73.5 67.5 11 Truck 92 86.0 80.0 74.0 72.0 69.5 67.5 61.5 12 Concrete mixer 91 85.0 79.0 73.0 71.0 68.5 66.5 60.5 13 Concrete pump 85 79.0 73.0 67.0 65.0 62.5 60.5 54.5 Due to high noise pressure grade of construction machinery, the construction machinery will have a certain effect on the construction site and surrounding environment during construction, which not only has effect on the residents nearby at different degrees but also has serious effect on construction machinery operators and site construction personnel. The environment noise forecast value exceeds the standard for the environment within 50m away from 90dB (A) noise source; at night, the environment noise forecast value exceeds the standard for the environment within 200m away from 55dB (A) noise source. From this, we can see that the road construction noise has big effect on the environment within 50m from construction site, and also has a certain effect on environment 50～100m away, especially more seriously during night construction. However, the noise impact characteristics are short-termed and temporary. Once the construction is completed, the construction noise will disappear. Generally, the impact is understood and accepted by the residents. But, the construction company shall still take necessary noise control and management measures to reduce construction noise impact on environment so as to protect normal life and rest of the residents along. 5.3.2 Prevention & Control Measures and Suggestions of Noise Impact On Environment During Construction During construction, the following noise treatment measures shall be taken to reduce 112

noise impact: (1)It is forbidden for high noise and high vibrating equipment to operate during noon break or during night-time rest. The construction company shall select low noise equipment and machinery or equipment with sound insulation and silencer. The diesel oil generator unit is forbidden. (2)Properly arrange construction time and construction site. The high noise operation area shall be far away from the sound sensitive points. For individual construction sites which have serious effect, temporary enclosing or surrounding sound insulation structure shall be adopted, or it is considered to set up temporary workers’ rooms or sheds at the side near sound sensitive points to replace the sound insulation wall. (3)The places where the construction and transportation vehicles come inside and go outside are arranged at the sides far away from the residential area, villages and schools. (4)In case of special process requirements, continuous operation is required and night operation noise will be produced, it is required to report to Taiyuan environment perservation bureau for approval and records, and put on public board in the environment sensitive points like surrounding residents and hospitals in advance. During night-time construction, the noise reduction measures like sound insulation enclosure shall be taken to reduce the noise impact on environment at night. 5.4 Environment Air Impact Analysis and Prevention & Control Measures during Construction 5.4.1Environment air impact analysis during construction The main sources to cause air pollution during construction are: flying dust by construction excavation as well as transportation vehicles and construction machinery coming and going; loading, unloading, transportation and stockpiling of construction building materials (cement, lime, sand and stone) as well as flying and dropping during stockpiling and transporting of excavated soil; waste gas exhausted from various construction machines and transportation vehicles. During construction, the environment air impact factor is mainly dust. The excavating and drilling of dry ground surface will produce dust, part of which will float in the air and other part of which will fly and drop on nearby ground surface and building surface with wind; during stockpiling of excavated soil, dust will fly in case of heavy wind, and part dust will fly or drop during loading and transportation; the soil or mud flushed by rain will spread on the road surface, and will fly again because of vehicle moving or wind after the soil or mud is dry; a big quantity of dust will fly during excavation and backfilling; the building materials will drop and fly during loading, unloading, transportation and stockpiling.

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5.4.2 Environment air pollution prevention & control measures during construction In order to minimize the project impact on the surrounding environment during construction, it is suggested to adopt following prevention & control measures: (1)The construction site ground shall be hardened. The concrete floor is suggested to adopt if condition is allowed. (2)During excavation, drilling and removing, spray water to operate in a certain humid environment; for loose and dry surface soil in construction site, it is required to spray water to prevent dust from flying; when backfilling earthwork, spray a certain quantity of water when the surface soil is dry to prevent dust flying. And spray water on the construction transportation road to reduce road flying dust impact on the surrounding environment. (3)Strengthen management of backfilling earthwork stockpiling area and prepare measures of earthwork surface compaction, regular water spraying and cover; in time move soil, mud and building materials residue not required, and it is not proper to stockpile in a long time. (4)During construction period, full-enclosed construction method shall be adopted to avoid dust pollution. Soil transportation truck and building materials transportation vehicles shall be covered with tent, tarpaulin or other measures shall be taken to avoid dropping down of these materials. The loading amount shall not be too full and make sure that there is no dropping down on the way of transportation. Plan the transportation route and time, try best not to drive in sensitive points such as business center, traffic concentrated area or residential area; for those routes near school and hospital, e.g. locomotive hospital, Xiangtang Primary School, Shanxi Sanfei Technical School, as well as the Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinyuanli Kindergarten, Professional Training Academy of Radio, Film & TV and Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital, the transportation shall be carried out at night to avoid the impact of dust to the environment. The soil dropping down on the road shall be cleaned in time to avoid dust-arising. (5)During construction, it is forbidden to use the waste building materials as fuel. The construction site canteen shall use LPG or electrical cooker, and not use oil-fired cooker. After completion of the project, the occupied road and vegetation shall be restored. 5.5 Water Environment Impact Analysis and Prevention & Control Measures during Construction 5.5.1 Water environment impact analysis The construction production waste water mainly comes from the waste water produced during the bridge foundation excavation, bore drilling and concrete casting, oil contained waste water produced from construction machinery as well as living sewage produced by construction personnel. The construction waste water includes the bridge construction waste water, mud slurry water by excavation and drilling, cooling water required by machinery operation and cleaning water, oil waste water produced during construction machinery operation or oil contained waste water produced during construction machinery maintenance. The main pollution factors

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are CODcr, petrol, SS, NH3-N and others. The involved bridge in this project is Fen River bridge and involved water functional area belongs to category IV water body and shall be in accordance with category IV standard in national standard GB3838-2002 “Surface Water Environment Quality Standard”. Foundation of Fen River bridge adopts bored pile. During construction, each pile foundation shall be constructed in protective barrel of no water leakage. Drill hole first, then fill concrete. The slurry produced by drilling is still in the protective barrel, and will be transported to the sedimentation pool and slurry pool on the shore through slurry channel. Part of the slurry can be reused while what can not be reused will be discharged after being treated in the sedimentation pool. Therefore, the construction of bridge foundation has no impact on the water quality. However, during construction, short-termed disturbance may be caused to the river water quality. 5.5.2 Water pollution prevention and treatment measures during construction During project construction, the construction company shall organize and design the drainage of surface water. It is forbidden to drain or flow randomly to cause environment pollution. The concrete measures are as follows: (1) The construction waste water contains big quantity of mud, sand and oil, and shall be drained after sedimentation and treatment to meet the standard. It is forbidden to directly drain to the ground surface water body. Before excavation, drilling and concrete casting, cover four sides of the bridge foundation with cement-rubble. The produced waste water shall be treated in the sedimentation pool. The clean liquid can be discharged after reaching grade A as specified in national standard GB8978-1996 “Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard”. 5.6 Solid Waste Impact Analysis and Measures during Construction 5.6.1 Solid waste impact analysis During construction, a big quantity of mud, soil residue (including dust residue after removing old buildings), mud from ground surface excavation, residual construction waste materials and construction personnel living rubbish etc. will be produced at the site. The dredged spoil of the project is preliminarily estimated as about 1.56 million m3. After the construction company handles building refuse reporting and registration as per relevant regulation, most dredged spoil and removing residue soil can be transported to Taiyuan city building refuse landfill site (near project area, Zaoyuan building muck backfilling site, Shuiyu building refuse backfilling site, Shanzhuangtou building refuse backfilling site and Tuqiaogou building refuse backfilling site etc. about 5km away from the project area. Refer to the drawing 3 for geographical location.) designated by Taiyuan Municipal Environmental Sanitation Management office. After investigation, the above-mentioned refuse backfilling sites are ready and in charge by Taiyuan Municipal Environmental Sanitation Management office. And special equipment is furnished for landfilling. Make afforestation after filling the spoil concentrated and covering with soil, such as plant tree and grass etc. So the project spoil has little effect on the surrounding environment.

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5.6.2 Solid waste prevention & control measures during construction To reduce the spoil impact on environment during stockpiling and transportation, it is suggested to take following measures: (1)The construction company shall handle formality of mud and residue discharging as per stipulation, and can treat in designated building refuse backfilling site after obtaining approval. (2)The goods and materials transportation of construction vehicle shall avoid rush hour. When the vehicle transports bulk materials and waste, the vehicle shall be loaded properly and be covered. It shall be cleaned outside before going out of the site so as not to drop mud and soil or fly dust. 5.7 Environment Impact Analysis by Relocation of Residents 5.7.1 Relocation Description (1) Land acquisition and relocation The land occupied by the project will be related to six districts, i.e. Wanbailin District, Jiancaoping District, Xinghualing District, Yingze District, Xiaodian District and Jinyuan District, totally 15 offices (towns) and 37 villages (communities). Total removing area is 423508.92m2, and there are 2193 families and 7752 people impacted by removing, among which 606 families and 2518people are from rural area and 1587 families and 5324 people are from urban area. There are totally 1208 private houses to be removed and 4407 people concerned, among which there are 606 rural families and 2518 rural residents, and 602 urban families and 1889 urban residents concerned. The relocation area is 154784.82m2. There are 112 enterprises (with removing area of 266563.4 m2), 114 shops, 1 smallware market and 572 working people to be affected. The removing area is 19351.2m2, in which there is 17190.5m2 shop area of enterprises and collective units and 2160.7m2 private area. (2)Land category Northern Middle Ring Road is related to collective rural land acquisition of two districts (Jiancaoping and Xinghualing) and four villages (Da Dongliu, Xiao Dongliu, Xiliu and Xiangtang). The expropriation land is totally 104.41mu, including 35.1mu cultivated land and 69.31mu non-cultivated land; the land acquisition mainly concentrates in Jiancaoping District, totally 82.71mu land, which occupies 81.56% expropriation land by Northern Middle Ring Road . Taihang Road is related to collective rural land acquisition of three districts (Xinghualing District, Yingze District and Xiaodian District) and 10 villages. Total expropriation land is 508.56mu, including 29.44mu cultivated land, which occupies 5.79% collective expropriation land by Taihang Road, and 479.12 mu non-cultivated land, which occupies 94.21% collective expropriation land by Taihang Road. In public transport component, the bus terminal of Helaowan occupies 10.8mu land, which is all non-cultivated land; Nanhan Bus depots occupies 121.5mu land, which is all non-cultivated land; Beiying Bus depots occupies 90 mu, which is experiment nursery base woodland of the provincial forestry office; Beiyan bus terminal occupies 15.7mu cultivated land, relating to two contractors; Yingxin Street bus

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terminal occupies 13.5mu, which is orchard of two contractors; the bus terminal of the zoo occupies 21mu, which is all non-cultivated land. The expropriation cultivated land by the whole public transport component is 29.2mu. (3)Impacted residential houses As per the investigation information statistics, total removed private house area required by Taiyuan urban public transport project is 154784.82m2. In which, total area of the private houses required to be removed in Northern Middle Ring Road component is 89953.19m2, total area of the private houses required to be removed in Taihang Road component is 63656.63 m2, and total area of the private houses required to be removed in the public transport component is 3335m2. (4)Buildings of enterprises and public institutions to be removed As per the investigation information statistics of resettlement of affected residents, in Taiyuan urban public transport project, 112 enterprises and public institutions are required to be removed, with building area of 266563.4m2. From the point of view of distribution of these enterprises and public institutions, Northern Middle Ring Road component impacts 55, Taihang Road component impacts 53, and the public transport component impacts 4; from the point of view of district distribution, 24 in Wanbailin District, 29 in Jiancaoping District, 30 in Yingze District, 27 in Xinghualing District and 2 in Xiaodian District. (5)Other various buildings to be affected The area of various other types of buildings required to be removed in Taiyuan urban transport component is 50619.61m2, in which, various private buildings are 5697.85m2, and various buildings of enterprise and public institutions are 44921.76m2. 5.7.2 Policy and regulations of removing and resettlement of affected residents Resettlement of residents affected in Taiyuan urban transport component will strictly abide by related laws, regulations and policies of P.R.C., Shanxi province and Taiyuan city, and planning and implementation of resettlement of residents affected will fully abide by related involuntary relocation policies of the World Bank. Land acquisition, removing and resettlement in the project are mainly based on following policies, laws and regulations: (1) “The Law of Land Administration of the People’s Republic of China”, implemented from Jan. 1999, revised on Aug.28, 2004. (2) “The Law of the People's Republic of China on Urban Real Estate”, implemented from Jan.1, 1995. (3) “Management Regulations on Civil Building Removal”, implemented from Nov.1, 2001. (4) “Opinions on Appraisals in Urban Building Demolition and Relocation”, implemented from Jan.1, 2004. (5) “The Law of the People's Republic of China on Urban Real Estate”, implemented from Jan.1, 1995. (6) “Decision on Deepening Reform and Strengthening Land Management”, issued on Oct.21, 2004. (7) “Notice on the Relevant Issues on Strengthening the Land Control”, issued on

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Aug.31, 2006 by State Council. (8) “Real Right Law of the People's Republic of China ”, implemented from Oct.1, 2007. (9) “Method of Implementing ’The Law of Land Administration of the People’s Republic of China’ by Shanxi Province”, promulgated and implemented on Sept.26, 1999. (10) “Ordinance of Urban House Removal of Shanxi Province”, passed on Sept.27, 2003 and implemented from Jan.1, 2004. (11) “Method of Management of State-owned Land from “Village in City” Collective Land in Shanxi Province”, implemented on Aug.28, 2003. (12) “Appraisal Approach to Shanxi Province Urban House Removal Price”, promulgated on Dec.11, 2004. (13) “Temporary Method of Shanxi Province Urban House Removal Subsidiary and Compensation Standard”, promulgated on Dec.11, 2004. (14) “Measures of Taiyuan Municipality on the Administration of House Removal”, implemented from Nov.1, 2002. (15) “Opinions on Accelerating “Village in City” Modification by People’s Government of Taiyuan City”, promulgated on Apr.1, 2004. (16) “Measures of Taiyuan Municipality on House Ownership Registration”, passed on Apr.2, 2003. (17) “Notice on Issues Related to Temporary Settlement Subsidiary and Relocation Subsidiary of Urban House Demolishing”, implemented from May 1, 2001. (18) “Implementation Opinion on Taiyuan Urban Stock Residence Dealing Reference Price”, implemented from Oct.1, 2006. (19) Business policy OP4.12 of the World Bank “Involuntary Relocation” and its attachments, implemented from Jan.1, 2002. (20) Business procedure BP4.12 of the World Bank “Involuntary Relocation” and its attachments, implemented from Jan.1, 2002. 5.7.3 Aim of resettlement and restoration According to the World Bank policy on involuntary relocation resettlement and related national laws and regulations, the general aim of resettlement of Taiyuan urban transport project loaned by the World Bank is to make the life and production of affected people and enterprises and public institution restore as soon as possible and improve as possible. The concrete aim is as follows: z Compensate the affected relocation household as per the resettlement cost standard and ensure that the re-built house area and structure and living environment at least reach the standard before demolishing and are improved somehow. z Various affected land accessories will be compensated as per resettlement cost price. z The labors affected by land acquisition will be properly arranged, and their income will be guaranteed and even improved somehow through production condition improvement. No any farmer will lose work permanently due to land acquisition.

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z The public buildings and special facilities will be compensated at resettlement price and can be restored as per previous standard. z After re-construction, the production scale, production capacity and staff employment of the enterprises will not be impacted. No any affected worker will permanently lose job due to their affected companies. z The public facilities and community environment of affected social communities will be restored to the previous standard before demolishing and tried to be improved as possible. 5.7.4 Methods of resettlement and restoration The affected population will be resettled and restored from resettlement and restoration of living and production both. Resettlement and restoration of living mainly means re-building of houses or buildings and restoration of associated living facilities, mainly including: z Residence of affected household. z Living buildings of production companies or enterprises. z The facilities such as water supply, power supply and heating supply of residents. z The resettlement and restoration of production mainly means workers’ employment arrangement and re-building and restoration of production facilities, including: z Agricultural arrangement of affected agricultural population. z Restoration of production facilities of companies. The production facilities of the companies will be compensated at the resettlement price, so the production scale and capacity will not be less than previously, and the original staff will be re-employed in re-built company. z Resettlement and restoration will be made through financial compensation, labor arrangement and restoration of production and living conditions as well. 5.7.5 Principles of resettlement and restoration z The affected population will participate in the whole process of resettlement. The house and facility compensation standard, resettlement location selection, demolishing time arrangement, restoration time arrangement, fund transfer and worker arrangement measures will be participated in by affected people or representatives and reached agreement through negotiation. Negotiation with affected people will be carried out through calling representatives’ symposia and villagers’ conference etc. z All the compensation will be directly given to the property owners fully. No any company or individual (including district, town (sub-district) and village committee (community) of different levels) can represent others to use property compensation fee. z The houses, special facilities and accessories will be compensated at resettlement price. The compensation quantity will not be detained, depreciated or borne taxes, and the compensation obtained by the property owner shall be calculated as per public compensation standard. All the property of original building will be owned by the original owner, and no any company or individual

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has possession or disposal right. The calculation of compensation price shall not deduct demolishing material residual value and depreciation of original property. z Proper use of land Because the project affects many buildings, re-construction land use shall be planned to properly use land through negotiating with affected people. z Help and consideration of weak group The weak group families shall be considered with priority in the aspects of resettlement location selection, providing of resettlement house source information and getting chance to purchase affordable housing etc. The weak families have priority right to select the provided employment chances and assignment of resettlement service network points during implementation of project. 5.7.6 Plan of resettlement and restoration (1) Resettlement of house demolishing household The house demolishing household shall be properly resettled, and the affected families can freely select the property right exchange method or the money resettlement method. Taiyuan Urban Planning Design Institute decides construction plan of 5 resettlement points, total 11237. 14 villages of Da Dongliu Village, Xiliu Village, Xiao Dongliu Village, Xiangtang Village, Xiaozaogou Village, Daochanggou Village, Ba’ergou Village, San’ershu Village, Haojiagou Village, Haozhuang Village, Wangjiafeng Village, Dianpo Village, Longbao Village and Dongtaibao Village concerned in the land acquisition and relocation of the project as well as Xudong Village and Dongshe Village of associated project are all put into Taiyuan city “Village in City” modification plan. And 9 villages like Da Dongliu Village, Xiliu Village, Xiao Dongliu Village, Xiangtang Village, Xiaozaogou Village, Daochanggou Village, Haojiagou Village, Dianpo Village and Longbao Village have been put into “Village in City” modification name list of 2008. So, the project resettlement office combines demolishing household resettlement of these villages and the resettlement point construction into the resettlement point construction plan. The “Village in City” modification of these villages will also be combined with the resettlement point construction. The project arranges the substance resettlement plan as well as fully respects the willing of demolishing household to provide money compensation scheme. If the demolishing household selects the money compensation to solve the housing by themselves, directly give them compensation money as per the promulgated compensation price. (2)Restoration of farmers affected by land acquisition According to investigation, the project totally expropriated 93.74mu collective cultivated land. Northern Middle Ring Road occupies 35.1mu land, Taihang Road occupies 29.44mu land, bus terminal of Yingxin Street occupies 13.5mu land, and bus terminal of Beiyan occupies 15.7 Mu land. These occupied cultivated lands are all orchard and plastic tent land, contracted by 11 farmer households. These 11 families are 2 families in Da Dongliu Village and 2 families in Nangunian Village in

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Jiancaoping District, 2 families in Xiaozaogou Village in Xinghualing District, 1 family in Longbao Village in Xiaodian District, 2 families in Dianpo Village in Yingze District and 2 families in Yijing Village in Jinyuan District. There are 42 people in 11 families and 23 workers. According to learning 11 families’ resettlement willing by resettlement investigation, by referring to the land acquisition resettlement method of similar projects in Taiyuan city presently as well as asking for the opinions of their villages, the resettlement methods are finalized as follows: z The compensation for the accessories of expropriated land like young crops is owned by affected families. z 70% of expropriated land compensation will be directly sent to the affected families. z The land compensation fund owned by the village collectively will be used through decision by the villager representative congress, mainly used for village collective public undertaking. (3)Restoration of affected enterprises and public institutions Taiyuan urban transport project loaned by the World Bank totally impacts 112 enterprises and public institutions, in which Northern Middle Ring Road impacts 55, Taihang Road impacts 53 and the public transport component impacts 4. Among 112 units, the production and operation field of some units needs to be relocated, only non-production field like boundary wall or offices of some units will be affected, and only dormitory of some units needs to be relocated. For these complicated conditions, the resettlement offices of different levels shall learn the situation through investigation: communicate one by one, learn about the restoration willing of the units, discuss method of resettlement and restoration so as to preliminarily form the plan of resettlement and restoration of enterprises and public institutions. (4)Compensation and restoration of enterprises whose production and operation is affected Among affected enterprises and public institutions, the production and operation of 18 enterprises will be directly impacted. According to the preliminary resettlement agreement between the resettlement office and these enterprises, except one enterprise, these enterprises can change production arrangement on original site, and the production and operation can normally continue. Because the project office has informed the project linear orientation in advance, the enterprises have enough time to adjust the production arrangement and minimize the operation loss. These enterprises shall be compensated for various affected materials as per the standard, and professional evaluation institution or agency shall be employed to finally evaluate the loss during production and operation stopping for future implementation. In order to completely ensure that resettlement and restoration of the weak group reaches expected aim, the project resettlement office is also planning to set up a weak group aid fund of 2 million RMB. The fund is controlled by the project resettlement office, and they will help the cases of weak families who really need special help during resettlement.

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5.7.7 Demolishing and resettlement environment impact analysis (1) Resettlement impact of house demolishing household The project house demolishing and resettlement is based on the property right exchange method and the money resettlement method voluntarily selected by the resettlement household. During demolishing, the normal life of the users of the demolished houses will be interfered and inconvenience will be brought; however, the impact is only short-termed and temporary, and the impact will be very limited if measures are taken for the proper resettlement according to related relocation policies and demolishing compensation principles of the country, People’s Government of Taiyuan City and the World Bank. In addition, Taiyuan City Planning Design Institute determined the construction plan of five resettlement points. It is estimated to provide 11247 sets of resettlement houses. In addition to meeting the resettlement requirement of the project, it can also provide the resettlement houses for other key projects so as to promote the improvement of residents’ living conditions. The construction conditions of the resettlement points are seen in the table 5.7-1. Table 5.7-1 Resettlement Point Construction Plan of Taiyuan Urban Transport Project Name of Floor Occupied Land Area Resettlement Area Resettlement No. Resettlement Area （hm2）（m2） Household Point Ratio Expressway 1 plot I across 17 1.2 204000 2040 Xinghualing Expressway 2 plot II across 11 2.8 308000 3080 Xinghualing Shengli Dong 3 12.71 1.8 228700 2287 Street Chengjia 4 2.4 5 120000 1200 Village Wohu 5 16.5 1.6 264000 2640 Mountain Total 59.61 1124700 11247 According to “PRC Environmental Impact Assessment Law”, before construction of the resettlement points, the environmental impact assessment and reporting for approval shall be carried out as per related national laws and regulations of environmental assessment. Through orderly construction management, no disadvantageous effect will be produced on the surrounding environment during resettlement point construction, and after construction, the living sewage will be drained after reaching the standard after treatment, the living rubbish will be disposed by the Environmental Sanitation Department after collecting, so no environmental pollution will occur.

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In addition, the project involved demolished houses are all old shabby simple single-storey building, and the living environment is much bad. The newly purchased houses by relocating residents or the resettlement houses of different districts of the project are resettlement houses built as per the city construction planning. The associated public facilities and sewage treatment facilities of houses built as per the planning are generally very complete, and the government department has built or will build corresponding roads and public transport routes as per the planning. Equipment of these facilities will improve the living environment of the relocating residents and little impact the surrounding environment. (2) Resettlement impact of affectd enterprises and institutions Among 112 affected enterprises and institutions, for some, the production and operation sites need to be relocated; for some, non-production sites, such as boundary wall or offices, will be affected; for some, only dormitory is required to be relocated. Consideration is given to the environmental impact possibly existing during relocation or resettlement of enterprise, so the resettlement impact of the project involved main enterprises and institutions is analyzed. See table 5.7-2.

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Table 5.7-2 Condition Description and Environmental Impact Identification of Main Affected Enterprises & Institutions Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact To consider changing Taiyuan City Duxiaozi Lubricant Two oil tanks in the oil storage to be affected. Gate arrangementof Lubricant No Processing Factory room and boundary wall to be affected. production. No effect on normal production. Spray Taiyuan Fengquan Spray Irrigation Plant Office building and one workshop to be affected, with Resettlement of irrigation No Co.,Ltd. brick&bar mixed structure of 1200m2. workshops nearby. equipment Boundary wall, gate room and one workshop to be To rebuild boundary Shanxi Chengruida Iron Tower Iron tower affected, with brick&bar mixed structure of 25m2, wall. Resettlement of No Manufacturing Co., Ltd. brick & wood mixed structure of 467.6m2. workshops nearby. One workshop to be affected, with brick&bar mixed Resettlement of Shanxi Guangjuye Industry Co.,Ltd. Molding steel No structure of 492m2. workshops nearby. To occupy idle Brick&bar mixed structure of 4041m2 and simple Jinxi Petroleum Drilling Tools Co., Ltd Drilling tool buildings and office No structure of 3275m2 building. Taiyuan Jinbao New Building Materials Building Two workshops to be affected, with brick&bar mixed To rebuild workshop No Co.,Ltd. materials structure of 719m2. nearby. To move the Spot area to be affected, 3100m2 steel mixture and production workshop Taiyuan Xinhua Machinery Factory Machinery No 1500 m2 brick&bar mixed structure to be removed. to the neighboring building.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Sino-German joint venture just in July, 2006. Two Maybe available. Shanxi LWB-Tai Steel Refractory Co., Refractory main workshops and one under-construction To wholly move. Requiring further Ltd. workshop to be demolished. identification To change Warehouse of Taiyuan City Third One warehouse to be affected, with brick&bar mixed / arrangement of No Building Company structure of 186m2 production. Xinglong Automobile Maintenance To adjust arrangement / Brick&bar mixed structure of 3200m2 No Factory of production. One workshop to be affected, with brick&bar mixed To adjust arrangement Modeling Material Factory / No structure of 77m2 of production. Parking lot and part of training field to be affected, Jingdong Driving School / To adjust arrangement No with brick&bar mixed structure of 498m2 One transformer and small part of workshop to be To shift transformer affected, with brick&bar mixed structure of 560m2 and adjust Shanxi Huaqi Machinery Co., Ltd. Machinery No and brick & wood mixed structure of 210m2. No real arrangement of effect on production. production. Xinhui Forging and Pressing Machinery To adjust arrangement Machinery Brick&bar mixed structure of 1524.62m2 No Factory of production. Part of workshop building to be demolished，with brick&bar mixed structure of 24m2 and brick & wood To adjust arrangement Wangjiafeng Village 2nd Brick Factory Brick No mixed structure of 248.6m2 as well as simple of production. structure of 24m2

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Part of production site to be affected, with brick&bar To adjust arrangement Taiyuan Air Pipe Factory Gas pipe No mixed structure of 1326.5m2 of production. One workshop to be affected, with brick&bar mixed Taiyuan Mining Machinery Group Co., Mining structure of 12948m2 and brick&wood mixed To adjust arrangement No Ltd. machinery structure of 826.4m2 as well as simple structure of of production. 892m2 Dianpo Village Modeling Material One workshop to be affected, with brick&bar mixed To adjust arrangement Material No Factory structure of 77m2 of production. To remove temporary Beichen Development Co., Ltd. / Part of temporary building to be affected No building. Caustic soda, Furfural alcohol workshop and sewage water Maybe available. chlorine, treatment system, and boiler house will be Shanxi Chemical Factory A certain effect Requiring further chloroacetic demolished. identification acid Beijian River riverway drainage facility to be fully To restore and Beijian River Administration Station / No demolished re-build nearby. The idle houses to be leased to Xinhua School, and Bolang Shirt Factory Shirt To be demolished. No 1/3 will be demolished. To remove temporary Linzhou 9th Construction Corporation / The front row of shops to be demolished. No building. Taiyuan Iron and Steel Works (main Two gates, water tower and gate rooms to be little To be rebuilt at the Stainless steel No factory) affected. spot.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Taiyuan Botong Education Training To rebuild boundary / Almost to go by the school No School wall. Gate rooms and boundary wall to be affected. No To rebuild gate room Dashun Industry Co., Ltd. / No effect on production. and boundary wall. To rebuild office Galiaogou Long’ao / Office building to be affected and to be relocated. No building. Some old scattered houses to be affected. No real Huifeng Community / To be relocated. No effect. Sanwei Steel Structure Engineering Co., Office building to be affected and to be relocated. No To select office Steel structure No Ltd. effect on production. building again. To rebuild gate room Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm / Some old buildings. No real effect. No and boundary wall. Only gate rooms, boundary wall and one row of To rebuild gate room Taiyuan Shitou Group Concrete Factory concrete leasing shops at the gate to be affected. No effect on No and boundary wall. production. Taiyuan 2nd Sprinkler Machinery Spray irritation Gate room and boundary wall to be affected. To rebuild gate room No Factory equipment and boundary wall. Aluminium Gate room and boundary wall to be affected. To rebuild gate room Yinhe Aluminum Profile Factory No product and boundary wall. One three-storey building, with second & third floors Huifeng Sub-district office / as the community activity center and the first floor as To be relocated. No building sales office of civil administration bureau.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Very few simple buildings. No real effect on the Penghong Real Estate Co., Ltd. / To be relocated. No company. Shanxi Frozen Poultry Semen Breeding To rebuild gate room / Only gate room and boundary wall to be affected. No Center and boundary wall. New heat Shanxi Yuanli Scien-tech Development insulation To rebuild office Half of main office building to be affected. No Co., Ltd. energy-saving building nearby. material honeycomb-sh Almost go beside. Boundary wall and simple shed to To rebuild boundary Shangqin Briquette Factory No aped briquet be affected. wall. Taiyuan Jianchaoping District Fruit Tree To rebuild a little / Some old leasing houses to be affected. No Center behind. Xiliu Village Committee / Two two-storey buildings to be affected. To be relocated. No Village police station to be affected and to be wholly Xiaodongliu Village Committee / To be relocated. No relocated. Anguang Residential Area Property To rebuild gate room / Only gate room and boundary wall to be affected. No Service Co., Ltd. and boundary wall. Haodong Logistics Co., Ltd. / One bicycle shed to be affected. To be relocated. No To rebuild gate room Jinji New Friendship Residential Area / Boundary wall to be affected. No and boundary wall. Shanxi National Defense Industry Auto To rebuild gate room / Gate room, gate and transformer to be affected. No Transportation Company and move

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact transformer.

Several temporary living rooms of the construction Wansha Real Estate Development Co., personnel of the construction unit to be affected, and / To be relocated. No Ltd. to be possibly removed voluntarily by themselves before commencement of the project. Dongshe Waste Material Recycling To rebuild boundary / Only boundary wall to be affected. No Market wall. Jinxi Machinery Repairing and One boiler and houses around the boundary wall to be To rebuild boiler / No Manufacturing Factory affected. house. Rubber plastic State-owned land. Only building like gate room to be Jinxi Rubber Products Factory To rebuild gate room. No product affected. Pre-fabricated Some non-production buildings to be affected. No Jinxi Prefabricated Frame Factory To be relocated. No steel structre real effect. The field crosses Wanbo Forest and Jian Lawn Area. Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm / To be relocated. No Part of unused pigsty to be affected. Taiyuan Maoxinsheng Material Trading To rebuild gate room / Only gate room and boundary wall to be affected. No Center and boundary wall. Within the range of overpass. Almost all to be Taiyuan Ruigang Installation Co., Ltd. / To wholly move. No demolished. Some old scattered houses. Some are collapsed, and Taiyuan Wanbailin Fruit Tree Farm / To be relocated. No some are obsolete. No real effect.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Xijie Primary School traffic safety prolem of the students to and from the school may exist in the future. Wanbailin Fruit Tree Farm / Very old unused houses. To be relocated. No Nitro cotton, Maybe available. In the state of stop and half-production. Very little Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory medicine box To be relocated. Requiring further effect. etc. identification Taiyuan Xinghualing Environmental Almost half of all the houses to be affected. Very big / To be rebuilt nearby. No Sanitation Group effect on the unit. Bailong Garden Chuangxing Decoration / No production is witnessed. Obsolete houses. To be relocated. No Co., Ltd. To rebuild gate and Dongshan Heating Plant / Gate and gate rooms to be affected. No gate room. Yada Enterprise / Leased to others. To be relocated. No

Shanxi Provincial Civil Air Defense 838 / People’s air defense engineering office To be relocated. No One workshop room to be affected, which is leased to Taiyuan Zipper Factory Slide fastener To be relocated. No another one by the owner. Xinghualing District Yangjiayu / Shops and temporary buildings at the gate of village. To be relocated. No Sub-district Daochanggou Village Private-owned. Leasing collective-owned land. One Hongchao Co., Ltd. / small two-storey building to be affected. No real To be relocated. No effect on production.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Private-owned. Leasing land of a mental health hospital. Three flower sheds, one warehouse, gate Baiyun Garden Flower To be relocated. No rooms and houses to be affected. Almost half flower gardern will be occupied. Only gate rooms and bicycle sheds to be affected. No effect on the hospital building. At the opposite of the To rebuild water Shanxi Provincial Mental Health Center / hospital, one big water pool, one 300m deep well and No supply system some houses to be affected. And the water supply system needs to be rebuilt. Belonging to the warehouse of the shop. One corner Taiyuan Binfeng Shopping Center Cold / of the shop and the toilet, and simple houses to be To be relocated. No Storage affected. Taiyuan Jianyuan Industrial & Trade Only boundary wall and two small houses to be To rebuild gate room / No Co., Ltd. affecte. No real effect on the production. and boundary wall. No real effect on the buildings like teaching buildings, with brick&bar mixed structure of 800m2 Professional Training Academy of / and simple structure of 79.52m2. Normal lesson To be relocated. No Radio, Film & TV teaching may be affected during construction. After construction, the college is divided into two parts. The water supply in the village will be affected after Haojiagou Village (2# well room) / the well room is demolished. The well room shall be To be rebuilt nearby. No re-constructed after selecting new location.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact Only gate room, boundary wall and garage to be To rebuild gate room Shanxi Sanjin Pharmacy Co., Ltd. Medicine No affected. No real effect. and boundary wall. Small part of workshop, warehouse and garage to be Shanxi Power Company Switches affected. No obvious effect on production. However, / To be rebuilt nearby. No Factory one water tower and water reservoir need relocating, and the domestic water of the staff will be affected. Very few non-production buildings. No real effect on Petrochemistry Branch Factory Lubricant To demolish. No production. Maybe available. Smallware Market / 180 small shops to be relocated. To wholly move. Requiring further identification State-owned land. office building and dormitory to be Shanxi Provincial Archives Bureau To be rebuilt nearby. No affected. Provincial Overseas Friendship Co., Ltd. / State-owned. Few simple buildings. No real effect. To be relocated. No warehouse office building to be affected. Half office building is Taiyuan Asbestos Factory (Jierui Asbestos within the red line. The office building to be relocated To be rebuilt nearby. No Building Materials Co., Ltd.) and re-built. Carbon Taiyuan Chaoyang Carbon Factory Non-production buildings. Very little effect. To be relocated. No product State-owned. Several farms or simple factories for Taiyuan Salvation Station / employment of aided people will be affected and To be rebuilt nearby. No need adjusting and arranging.

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Resettlement Impact Potential Company Product Impact Description Identification Environmental Impact State-owned. Half office building to be affected. Real Taiyuan Railway Watch House / To be rebuilt nearby. No effect exists. Wangjiafeng Village 1st Brick Factory Brick No real effect. To be relocated. No 1/3 office buildings to be affected. The hall to be Wangjiafeng Village Committee / To be rebuilt nearby. No wholly demolished. Maybe available. To be wholly demolished. To be relocated and Wangjiafeng Primary School / To wholly move. Requiring further re-built. identification Chinese Academy of Agricultural Several warm sheds, flower rooms and test fields to / To be relocated. No Sciences, Garden Research Institute be affected. Collective water pool and collective-owned houses of Longbao Village collective / To be relocated. No the village

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From the analysis result of table 5.7-2, demolishing, removing, relocation or resettlement of most enterprises, factories or institutions will not result in potential environment problem. Potential environmental problems will occur in the following enterprises, mainly Shanxi LWB-Tai Steel Refractory Co., Ltd., Shanxi Chemical Factory and Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory. The further investigation and analysis on the above-mentioned three enterprises involved in Northern Middle Ring Road are as follows: ① Shanxi LWB-Tai Steel Refractory Co., Ltd. Shanxi LWB-Tai Steel Refractory Co., Ltd. is a large enterprise. The refractory materials produced by the enterprise are mainly supplied to Tai Steel Group, mainly magnesium-calcium brick and magnesium-chromium brick. Northern Middle Ring Road component crosses the enterprise, which will be moved wholly. The main process is: use main raw material of magnesium-calcium sand to mix with paraffin wax for melting, then press to shape with briquet press for finished product. So the soil and environmental quality in the factory is hardly polluted during production. The enterprise produces the refractory bricks for the steel company. The raw materials and products are not involved with dangerous chemicals. The enterprise is planned to be moved to the existing Taiyuan Stainless Steel Ecological Industry Garden; however the moving date is not determined yet. Normal environmental assessment and reporting for approval shall be carried out for moving the enterprise as per related national laws and regulations of environmental assessment. From site investigation, the enterprise is a joint venture, initially a German enterprise, afterwards sold to a British company, recently re-sold to a Brazilian company. From first re-selling in 2006, as per re-selling requirement, three environmental assessments were made by international environmental consultation company (latest one just two months ago). Taiyuan Stainless Steel Ecological Industry Garden is located in Yingxiang Industry Group in the north of Taiyuan city. Tai Steel Group utilizes advantages of concentrated smelting and concentrated semi finished metal supply to become raw materials supply center in the garden. The industry garden has developed mature, and the associated facilities are complete. Moreover, normal environmental assessment and reporting for approval shall be carried out as per related national laws and regulations of environmental assessment before the enterprise is moved. Corresponding environmental preservation countermeasures shall be taken to reduce effect on surrounding environment. So, Shanxi LWB-Tai Steel Refractory Co., Ltd. will have little effect on environment around Taiyuan Stainless Steel Ecological Industry Garden after environment impact assessment. ② Shanxi Chemical Factory Shanxi Chemical Factory crossed by Northern Middle Ring Road mainly produces chemicals such as caustic soda, chlorine and chloroactic acid and stopped production on May 31, 2007, and all the equipment and pipelines were cleaned. As per the

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industry adjustment plan made by the municipal government several years ago, the factory would be moved out of the urban area (the relocation plan has nothing to do with planned Northern Middle Ring Road ). The area has been planned to the residential area, and the land will be auctioned to the developer. The factory will be responsible for all the work for demolishing and dismantling before handing the land over to the government. The planned Northern Middle Ring Road will occupy partial land of Shanxi Chemical Factory, mainly in the area of sewage treatment station, furfural alcohol workshop, boiler house and cooling tower. Refer to the Fig. 40 for details. In addition, vermiculite was used as heat preservation material，there was no toxic material such as asbestos in the occupied workshop and equipments. The characteristic contaminants in the sewage treatment station mainly include mud, salt (NaCl), acid and alkali, in which the mud produced in sewage treatment station is transported out for landfilling. The waste water is neutralized and aerated, and then discharged after reaching standard. Now, the sewage treatment station is stopped, and the waste water and mud have been cleaned in the station. No effect on surrounding environment. The main production process of furfural alcohol workshop: furfural is reacted with hydrogen with the help of catalyst and under the condition of high temperature and high pressure to produce furfural alcohol. The main pollutant produced during production is waste catalyst. The waste catalyst is collected together and sold to the waste recovery company, so it has little effect on the environment around. In order to further learn about the environment quality condition of soil in the area of Shanxi Chemical Factory involved in Northern Middle Ring Road , sampling and analysis was made as per the relevant requirement in HJ/T166－2004 “Technical Specification for Soil Environment Monitoring”. Each soil monitoring point was sampled from the topsoil and subsoil, and the location of monitoring points is referred to the Fig.41. Shanxi Chemical Factory was an inorganic chemical plant, there was no toxic substances, and the production process involved the main catalyst for acid Chrome copper, there maybe have some chromium and copper pollution in the soil. With combination of soil pollution on the country's standard of the indicator, monitoring indicators indices are pH, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, copper, plumbum, chromium, zinc and nickel. The partial workshops in the lot of Shanxi Chemical Factory to be occupied by planned Northern Middle Ring Road is seen the Fig. 40.

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Furfural Alcohol Workshop Sewage Treatment Station

Cooling Tower Boiler House Fig.40 Partial Workshops in Shanxi Chemical Factory to be Occupied by NMRR

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The monitoring results are referred to table 5.7-3. Table 5.7-3 Summary of Soil Environment Quality Condition Monitoring Result of Shanxi Chemical Factory Unit：mg/kg Monitoring indices PH Cadmium Mercury Arsenic Copper Plumbum Chromium Zinc Nickel Monitoring point Topsoil 9.48 0.160 0.21 10.5 48.4 74.2 68.4 81.6 32.7 S1 Subsoil 9.24 0.142 0.15 9.3 34.1 43.8 96.0 69.6 30.4 S2 Topsoil 8.72 0.174 0.21 9.2 33.8 55.8 91.6 88.8 29.2 Subsoil 8.92 0.153 0.40 8.4 30.8 252 74.2 87.4 27.0 S3 Topsoil 8.24 0.118 0.13 9.1 32.0 46.8 143 94.5 30.2 Subsoil 8.36 0.129 0.10 8.8 29.8 40.1 76.8 71.9 24.9 S4 Topsoil 8.96 0.158 0.20 10.0 30.8 30.4 60.5 70.6 27.2 Subsoil 8.72 0.140 0.29 9.9 24.2 30.2 72.4 66.2 25.2 Class III standard ＞6.5 1.0 1.5 40 400 500 300 500 200 From the monitoring result of table 5.7-3, all the monitoring indices (PH, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, copper, lead, chromium, zinc and nickel) of the soil in the lot of Shanxi Chemical Factory involved in Northern Middle Ring Road meet Class III standard, GB15618-1995 “Soil Environmental Quality Standard”, so the lot has no soil pollution. ③ Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory was military explosive manufacturer, abandoned in 2000, and cleaned the site to eliminate hidden trouble in 2001 by central government financial fund. The factory was sensitive unit, so the workshops werelocated in the deep mountain (cave). The Northern Middle Ring Road will occupy partial land of Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory, mainly carpentry room, fire fighting building and medicine box workshop. See the drawing 42 for details. From site investigation, except that the carpentry workshop (leased to others for living) is kept, other buildings were demolished and cleaned. Considering the factory history and the existing condition, there is little possibility of the soil pollution and of harm for the human health as well as of risk for road construction safety.

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Fig.42 Location Correlation Drawing of Planned North Middle Ring Road and Shanxi Jin’an Chemical Factory

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(3) Resettlement impact of affected schools Only Wangjiafeng Primary School will be wholly moved involved in the project. It is considered to select the proper location within Wangjiafeng Village to rebuild. Now, the location is not finalized; however, considertation will be made to avoid disadvantageous factors such as main urban roads, commodity market and high noise enterprise, and to select a lot with high environmental quality to rebuild. Moreover, before rebuilding of Wangjiafeng Primary School, the environmental impact assessment and reporting for approval shall be carried out as per related national laws and regulations of environmental assessment. Through orderly construction management, no disadvantageous effect will be produced on the surrounding environment during rebuilding, and after rebuilding, the living sewage will be drained after reaching the standard after treatment, the living rubbish will be disposed by the Environmental Sanitation Department after collecting, so no environmental pollution will occur. (4) Resettlement impact of affected smallware market One smallware market will be demolished in Taihang Road in the project. The smallware market is located in Haojiagou Village, Haozhuang Town, Yingze District. The market is divided into two rows, Yiwu Street and Baigou Street respectively, with building area of 4500m2, totally 180 shops and 360 people employment. The market mainly sells household commodity. In order to properly resettle affected shops in Yiwu Street and Baigou Street, Haojiagou Village in Haozhuang Town in Yingze District has built several new smallware markets in the neighborhood, such as Jinyang Smallware Market and Meiji Market. At that time, after demolishing, the smallware market will move to newly-built smallware markets in the neighborbhood, which is beneficial for improvement of the environment around.

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6. Environmental impact Forcast and Prevention and Control Measures during operation period 6.1 Social Environmental Impact Assessment and Provention and Control Measures (1) Improving present traffic condition in urban area, sounding urban traffic system View from the development form of Taiyuan City, Northern Middle Ring Road is located at the boundary area of different land using performances. On its north is Caichun New Zone and Chengbei Steel Industrial Zone; on its south is Hexibei Mechanical Industrial Zone, Hexizhong Living Complex, Traditional Center and Dongshan Private Economic Zone. It is the linkage of different land using areas. Taihang Road penetrates Dongshan Private Economic Zone and Beiying Transport Logistics Zone from south to the north, which is the important outlet of the two areas. With the implementation of the “Rising Strategy in Central Region” and putting forward of Shanxi New Energy and Industrial Base Strategy, with the unique geological advantages of connecting east and west, facing at new turn of economic development, new vigor has been injected to the social and economic development of Shanxi Province and Taiyuan City. Facing at this unprecedented opportunity, all types of construction will develop quickly. “The development of a city relies on the traffic development”. Therefore, traffic development is the precondition of city development and prosperity. In addition, the building of special bus lane in Public Transport Component ensures the speed and on-schedule rate of public bus, increases public transportation efficiency, avoids lowering of general public transportation service level which may be caused due to traffic jam, and meets the priority requirements of the majority of the peoples; the building of harbour-shaped bus stop can not only occupy less urban road space, but also lessen the influence caused by crowded road or traffic jam occurred nearby; the building of the bus depots and terminals can meet the demand of bus network expansion of Taiyuan City, improve the overall service level of bus network, promote the development of bus and upgrade route operation capability; the estabilshment of the intelligent bus coordination system will improve the public transportation coordination technology, upgrade the administration efficiency and on-schedule rate, effectively improve overall service level of Taiyuan public transportation system. Therefore, the construction of Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project is the urgent demand for guiding urban form development and perfect urban land using layout. It can upgrade the regional urban function, strengthen the communication and contact between groups in land area, and improve the traffic condition of the city. (2) Beautifying the city environment While undergoing the urban road construction project, thorough consideration should be given to the greening and landscaping along the road, i.e. two green separators (with total width of 3m) and 30m green belt on both sides of the curb side strip are considered for Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road. Ever-green trees, shrubs and flowers with high appreciative value are planted in central separator, laterally separator, interchange district, intersection district and empty space within road area. Street trees are planted on sidewalk; lawn is arranged at gentle slope of the ramp area. Such arrangement can not only beautify city, but also protect the ecological environment. (3) Improving living condition, upgrading the quality of life Due to the impact of distinct district character, i.e. in a narrow area from south to north, blockage of railway and Fen River, layout of traditional industrial park, the land development and road construction of eastern and northern area is relatively slow. Northern Middle Ring Road mainly passes through Chengbei Steel Industrial Zone and Hexibei Mechanical Industrial Zone, and is an east-west express way to gather and disperse the urban traffic flow in the north of the city, with a function of releasing the pressure of the center area. Its construction will achieve the east-west rapid traffic in northern area of the city, and upgrade the resident trip efficiency. As the only planned 141

north-south arterial road between eastern area, railway and Dongshan transit expressway, the Taihang Road will solve the problem of resident trip difficulty in eastern area. Besides, in the design of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, Pedestrian Crossing Facilities, such as pedestrian overcrosses, traffic lights, zebra crossing, are installed at those areas where people lived concentrated or those areas closely linked with the people's life, to meet the trip demand of the residents, lessen the inconvenience caused to the community life. Therefore, Taihang Road and Northern Middle Ring Road are the key for solving the trip difficulty of eastern and northern area of Taiyuan City. The implementation of the public traffic Component will obviously improve the resident trip condition, increase the smoothness of the road network, and the quality of life will be upgraded accordingly. 6.1.3 Measures for social environmental impact The impact of the construction project to local residents is as follows: some communities may be separated, resident trip and street-crossing will be inconvenient. In addition, the building of new road will result in increasing of traffic flow. In order to lessen the impact to local residents, following measures have been taken in the design: (1) Pedestrian Crossing Facilities, such as pedestrian overcrosses, traffic lights, zebra crossing, are installed at those areas where people lived concentrated or those areas closely linked with the people's life, e.g. communities (Xiaodongliu Village, Jin’an Residential Community, Daochanggou Village, Wangjiafeng Village, etc.) and schools (Xiangtang Primary School, Shanxi Sanfei Technical School, Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinyuanli Kindergarten and Professional Training Academy of Radio, Film & TV), hospitals (Locomotive Hospital, Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital) to meet the trip demand of the residents. Please find details in table 2.6-4 and 2.6-6. (2) Plan the sidewalk, its width and blind road according to actual condition of urban traffic. In the course of concrete design and construction, the concept of "Human-oriented" is really reflected, e.g. the sidewalk, blind road and crossing-street passage are designed on the basis of actual demand of weak people, i.e. the pedestrian, the aged, the sick, the blind and the disabled need wheel chair. The design of crossing-street passage will be barrier-free. 6.2 Analysis on Impact to Urban Ecological Environment and Ecological Landscaping and Compensation Measures 6.2.1 Analysis on impact to urban ecological environment and ecological landscaping After completion of this project, the greening ratio of the newly-built road will be strengthened. In which, Northern Middle Ring Road greening area: 37040m2, Taihang Road greening area: 191320m2. Reasonable configuration of greening area can protect the road surface, lessen the water and soil loss, decrease traffic dust and noise, regulate and improve the road climate, further improve the landscaping environment along the road and beautify the city road. 6.2.2 Measures for ecological compensation and landscaping 6.2.2.1 Road Improvement Component The building of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road will occupy certain vegetation area of Taiyuan City. In order to compensate the occupied greening area, beautify the city environment while building road, landscaping measures have been taken in the design of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, which are detailed as follows: （1）Greening of central separator and lateral of sidewalk 30m greening belt shall be installed for central separator of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, separator for vehicle and non-vehicle lane, separator for main road and auxiliary road, and external side of the sidewalk. The greening belt for central separator shall ensure good sight distance required for main road. It should be wide enough and have good 142

sight line, mainly consisting of shrubs and vegetation like lawn. Greening belt for other separator and external side of sidewalk shall be planted with ever-green arbors and shrubs with high appreciative value. In which, the greening area of Northern Middle Ring Road reaches 37040m2, and that of Taihang Road reaches 191320m2. The greening engineering can compensate the reduced greening area occupied by the project. （2）Greening of interchange, speed-change lane and ramp Greening of interchange can be arranged according to the respective functions of different parts. Trees can be planted along the speed-change lane and ramp to induce the sight line, increase greening area and ensure sight distance. In addition, lawn can be arranged at gentle slope of the ramp area. Ever-green trees, shrubs and flowers with high appreciative value can be interspersed to beautify city environment. （3）Greening of separator under fly-over expressway Northern Middle Ring Road has fly-over expressway. The wider space and separator under the fly-over expressway can be set as green belt, which mainly consists of ever-green trees. By interspersing of deciduous trees, shrubs and flowers, a pleasant landscape of multi-form, multi-layer and multi-color is formed. 6.2.2.2 Public Transport Component Greening measures are not considered in areas near bus depots and bus terminals in the design of Public Transport Component. According to the related regulations specified in “Regulations on Taiyuan Urban Greening”, the greening area of the project shall be 25% of the project occupied land area. Therefore, greening engineering shall be done during construction of bus depots and terminals. Overall greening arrangement shall be made to the ambient environment nearby to increase the greening area of bus depots and terminals and beautify city environment. 6.3 Ambient Air Impact Forecast Assessment and Prevention and Control Measures 6.3.1 Ambient Air Impact Forecast for Roads Network Component During operation period of the road, the main impact to ambient air is vehicle exhaust gas pollution. This project has new-built road. According to the pollution analysis result, forecast shall be carried out as per the mode recommended in Guideline. （1） Forecast mode Forecast adopts the mode recommended in “Technical Code for Environment Impact Assessment of Highway” (trial implementation) (JTJ005-96), the forecast parameters are measured as below: ① Average emmision height of pollutant（h） Source emission height: average roadbed height provided by feasibility report of the project plus 0.5m ② Average wind velocity at emission height (U) According to the wind velocity, wind direction in 2006 (as detailed in Table 6.3-1) measured in Jianchaoping climate station near project area, calculated by power index method.

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Table 6.3-1 List of wind velocity and wind direction in 2006 measured in Jianchaoping Prevailing Average annual wind Prevailing wind Average annual Area wind velocity of prevailing direction frequency wind velocity (m/s) direction wind direction Jianchaoping NW 14 2.0 1.6 ③Atmospheric Diffusion Parameter Atmospheric Diffusion Parameter will be calculated as per the mode recommended in “Technical Code for Environment Impact Assessment of Highway” (trial implementation) (JTJ005-96), and make time correction. ④Forecast factor and forecast period According to project analysis, this forecast will assess the characteristic pollutant NO2. According to Technical Code for Environment Impact Assessment of Highway” (trial implementation), the forecast period is beginning period of operation, mid-term period of operation and long-term period of operation, i.e. on 1st year, 7th year and 15th year after putting into operation of the road, namely, in 2011, 2017 and 2025. The traffic flow of each forecast year is shown in table 2.6-7 ~2.6-9 in the second chapter. ⑤Forecast on air pollutant emission source intensity of each road area. According to the mode recommended in “Technical Code for Environment Impact Assessment of Highway”, calculate and forecast the emission factor of each vehicle under different speed in characteristic year. Please find details in table 6.3-2 ~ table 6.3-3. Table 6.3-2 Emission value at all sections of Northern Middle Ring Road NOx concentration mg/(s·m) Section In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 Waliu Road~Heping 2.8652 3.918 4.623 Road Heping Road ~Binhe 3.4983 4.4407 5.2062 West Road Binhe West Road 3.0086 3.7242 4.3656 ~Binhe East Road Binhe East Road 3.8965 5.0218 5.7105 ~Datong Road Datong Road ~Jiefang 3.8965 5.0218 5.7105 Road. Jiefang Rd. ~Jianhe 3.1163 4.415 5.3927 Road Jianhe Road ~Dunhua 2.5658 2.799 3.1442 North Road Dunhua North Road 2.5658 2.799 3.1442 ~Taihang Road

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Table 6.3-3 Emission value at all sections of Taihang Road NOx concentration mg/(s·m) Section In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 Northern Middle Ring Road ~Shengli East 1.7081 1.991 2.1643 Street Shengli East Street 1.9035 2.4412 2.7845 ~Kaixuan Road Kaixuan Road 1.7514 2.4217 2.8248 ~Yingchun Street Yingchun Street 2.0997 2.872 3.3006 ~Fudong Street Fudong Street ~Honggou Zhong 1.9948 2.4434 2.8503 Street Honggou Middle Street ~Wulongkou 2.1125 2.6044 3.0011 Street Wulongkou Street 1.858 2.327 2.8461 ~Chaoyang Street Chaoyang Street ~South Inner Ring 1.8525 2.3138 2.6655 Street South Inner Ring Street ~West Taibao 1.6754 1.813 2.0007 Street West Taibao Street 1.7446 2.3486 2.8503 ~Changfeng Street Changfeng Street 2.3597 2.8312 3.1604 ~Longbao Street Longbao Street 2.4829 2.3682 2.5317 ~Xuefu Street Xuefu Street ~Xutan 2.4298 2.7356 3.1392 East Street （4）Forecast result According to the average wind velocity of project area, when the inclination between wind direction and road is within 0° ~90°, under D stability degree, the ground peak hourly concentration of NO2 within assessment range on both sides of the road centerline will be calculated. ①Northern Middle Ring Road According to the statistics of the peak hourly concentration, select the inclination between wind direction and road under most unfavorable condition, forecast the peak hourly and daily average concentration of NO2 on both sides of the road under D stability degree. The forecast results are shown in table 6.3-4 and table 6.3-5.

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Table 6.3-4 Peak hourly NO2 concentration at different distance area along Northern Middle Ring Road Unit:mg/m3 Forecast Distance from center line（m） Area year 15 20 30 40 50 70 100 150 200 In 2011 0.171 ~0.270 0.126 ~0.251 0.000 ~0.140 0.000 ~0.079 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.018 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Waliu Road In 2017 0.248 ~0.378 0.184 ~0.351 0.000 ~0.201 0.000 ~0.115 0.000 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.047 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.013 0.000 ~0.007 ~Heping Road In 2025 0.298 ~0.445 0.222 ~0.413 0.000 ~0.240 0.000 ~0.139 0.000 ~0.100 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.010

Heping Road In 2011 0.207 ~0.321 0.153 ~0.298 0.000 ~0.168 0.000 ~0.095 0.000 ~0.066 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.006 ~Binhe West In 2017 0.261 ~0.396 0.194 ~0.368 0.000 ~0.211 0.000 ~0.121 0.000 ~0.084 0.000 ~0.050 0.000 ~0.029 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.008 Road In 2025 0.305 ~0.454 0.227 ~0.422 0.000 ~0.245 0.000 ~0.142 0.000 ~0.099 0.000 ~0.059 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.010 In 2011 0.257 ~0.391 0.191 ~0.363 0.000 ~0.208 0.000 ~0.120 0.000 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.049 0.000 ~0.028 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.008 Binhe West Road In 2017 0.299 ~0.446 0.222 ~0.414 0.000 ~0.240 0.000 ~0.139 0.000 ~0.097 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.010 ~Binhe East Road In 2025 0.338 ~0.497 0.252 ~0.462 0.000 ~0.270 0.000 ~0.158 0.000 ~0.111 0.000 ~0.067 0.000 ~0.038 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 In 2011 0.225 ~0.346 0.167 ~0.321 0.000 ~0.182 0.000 ~0.104 0.000 ~0.072 0.000 ~0.042 0.000 ~0.024 0.000 ~0.012 0.000 ~0.007 Binhe East Road In 2017 0.288 ~0.432 0.214 ~0.401 0.000 ~0.237 0.000 ~0.134 0.000 ~0.094 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.009 ~Datong Road In 2025 0.328 ~0.485 0.245 ~0.450 0.000 ~0.263 0.000 ~0.154 0.000 ~0.108 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.037 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 In 2011 0.227 ~0.349 0.168 ~0.324 0.000 ~0.184 0.000 ~0.105 0.000 ~0.073 0.000 ~0.043 0.000 ~0.024 0.000 ~0.012 0.000 ~0.007 Datong Road In 2017 0.289 ~0.434 0.215 ~0.403 0.000 ~0.233 0.000 ~0.0135 0.000 ~0.094 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.009 ~Jiefang Rd. In 2025 0.330 ~0.488 0.247 ~0.453 0.000 ~0.264 0.000 ~0.155 0.000 ~0.108 0.000 ~0.065 0.000 ~0.037 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 In 2011 0.270 ~0.270 0.126 ~0.251 0.000 ~0.140 0.000 ~0.079 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.018 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Jiefang Rd. In 2017 ~Jianhe Road 0.248 ~0.378 0.184 ~0.351 0.000 ~0.201 0.000 ~0.115 0.000 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.047 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.013 0.000 ~0.008 In 2025 0.298 ~0.445 0.222 ~0.413 0.000 ~0.239 0.000 ~0.139 0.000 ~0.097 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.010

In 2011 0.163 ~0.259 0.120 ~0.240 0.000 ~0.133 0.000 ~0.075 0.000 ~0.051 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 Jianhe Road ~Dunhua North In 2017 0.183 ~0.287 0.135 ~0.267 0.000 ~0.149 0.000 ~0.084 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Road In 2025 0.210 ~0.325 0.155 ~0.302 0.000 ~0.170 0.000 ~0.097 0.000 ~0.067 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.006 In 2011 0.141 ~0.225 0.103 ~0.210 0.000 ~0.115 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.025 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Dunhua North Road ~Taihang In 2017 0.154 ~0.245 0.113 ~0.228 0.000 ~0.126 0.000 ~0.070 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.028 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 Road In 2025 0.173 ~0.273 0.128 ~0.253 0.000 ~0.141 0.000 ~0.079 0.000 ~0.055 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.018 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Notes: the inclination range between road and wind direction is 0° ~90°. Table 6.3-5 Daily average NO2 concentration at different distance area along Northern Middle Ring Road 146

Unit：mg/m3 Forecast Distance from center line（m） Area year 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Waliu Road In 2011 0.174 0.022 0.010 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 ~ In 2017 0.250 0.035 0.016 0.010 0.006 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.002 0.002 Heping Road In 2025 0.298 0.043 0.020 0.012 0.008 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.003 0.002 Heping Road In 2011 0.209 0.028 0.013 0.008 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 ~ In 2017 0.263 0.037 0.017 0.010 0.007 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 Binhe West Road In 2025 0.305 0.044 0.021 0.013 0.009 0.006 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.002 Binhe West In 2011 0.166 0.021 0.010 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 Road In 2017 0.205 0.027 0.013 0.008 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 ~ Binhe East In 2025 0.240 0.033 0.015 0.009 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 Road Binhe East In 2011 0.214 0.029 0.013 0.008 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 Road In 2017 0.275 0.039 0.018 0.011 0.007 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 ~ Datong Road In 2025 0.312 0.045 0.022 0.013 0.009 0.006 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.002 Datong Road In 2011 0.214 0.029 0.013 0.008 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 ~ In 2017 0.275 0.039 0.018 0.011 0.007 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 Jiefang Rd. In 2025 0.312 0.045 0.022 0.013 0.009 0.006 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.002 Jiefang Rd. In 2011 0.172 0.022 0.010 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 ~ In 2017 0.242 0.033 0.016 0.009 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.002 Jianhe Road In 2025 0.295 0.042 0.020 0.012 0.008 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.003 0.002 Jianhe Road In 2011 0.142 0.018 0.008 0.005 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 ~ In 2017 0.155 0.019 0.009 0.005 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 Dunhua North Road In 2025 0.174 0.022 0.010 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 Dunhua North In 2011 0.142 0.018 0.008 0.005 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 Road In 2017 0.155 0.019 0.009 0.005 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 ~ Taihang Road In 2025 0.174 0.022 0.010 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001

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The forecast result shows that the hourly concentration and daily average concentration of NO2 in area 20m away from the center line of Northern Middle Ring Road is lower than the second grade requirements specified in national standard “Ambient air quality standard”(GB 3095-1996). Down wind concentration of pollutant is decreased gradually from 20m to 200m; from year 2011 to year 2025, with the increasing of traffic flow, the concentration of NO2 pollutant is also increased, but can meet the second grade requirements specified in national standard “Ambient air quality standard”(GB 3095-1996). ②Taihang Road Peak hourly and daily average concentration of NO2 in Taihang Road is shown in table 6.3-6 and table 6.3-7.

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Table 6.3-6 Peak hourly NO2 concentration at different distance area along Taihang Road Unit:mg/m3 Forecast Distance from center line（m） Area year 15 20 30 40 50 70 100 150 200 Northern In 2011 Middle Ring 0.063 ~0.076 0.050 ~0.074 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.005 0.000 ~0.003 Road In 2017 0.068 ~0.079 0.054 ~0.077 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.043 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.013 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 ~Shengli East Street In 2025 0.070 ~0.080 0.057 ~0.079 0.000 ~0.061 0.000 ~0.046 0.000 ~0.036 0.000 ~0.024 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Shengli East In 2011 0.066 ~0.078 0.053 ~0.076 0.000 ~0.057 0.000 ~0.042 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.021 0.000 ~0.012 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street ~Kaixuan In 2017 0.073 ~0.082 0.060 ~0.081 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.049 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 Road In 2025 0.075 ~0.084 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.053 0.000 ~0.043 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.018 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Kaixuan In 2011 0.064 ~0.077 0.050 ~0.075 0.000 ~0.055 0.000 ~0.040 0.000 ~0.031 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.005 0.000 ~0.003 Road In 2017 0.072 ~0.082 0.060 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.049 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.026 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 ~Yingchun In 2025 Street 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Yingchun In 2011 0.069 ~0.080 0.056 ~0.078 0.000 ~0.060 0.000 ~0.045 0.000 ~0.035 0.000 ~0.023 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 ~Fudong 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.031 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Street In 2025 0.079 ~0.087 0.068 ~0.085 0.000 ~0.072 0.000 ~0.059 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.006 Fudong In 2011 0.068 ~0.079 0.054 ~0.077 0.000 ~0.058 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.013 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 ~Honggou 0.073 ~0.082 0.060 ~0.081 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.050 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 Zhong Street In 2025 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Honggou In 2011 Middle 0.069 ~0.080 0.056 ~0.078 0.000 ~0.060 0.000 ~0.045 0.000 ~0.035 0.000 ~0.023 0.000 ~0.014 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 0.074 ~0.083 0.062 ~0.082 0.000 ~0.066 0.000 ~0.051 0.000 ~0.041 0.000 ~0.028 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.005 ~Wulongkou Street In 2025 0.077 ~0.086 0.066 ~0.084 0.000 ~0.070 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.045 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.020 0.000 ~0.010 0.000 ~0.005 Wulongkou In 2011 0.066 ~0.078 0.052 ~0.076 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.041 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.021 0.000 ~0.012 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 ~Chaoyang 0.071 ~0.082 0.059 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.063 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.038 0.000 ~0.025 0.000 ~0.015 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Street In 2025 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Chaoyang In 2011 0.066 ~0.078 0.052 ~0.076 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.041 0.000 ~0.032 0.000 ~0.021 0.000 ~0.012 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 ~South Inner 0.071 ~0.082 0.058 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.063 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.038 0.000 ~0.025 0.000 ~0.015 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Ring Street In 2025 0.074 ~0.084 0.062 ~0.082 0.000 ~0.066 0.000 ~0.052 0.000 ~0.042 0.000 ~0.029 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005

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South Inner In 2011 0.063 ~0.076 0.049 ~0.074 0.000 ~0.053 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.029 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.005 0.000 ~0.003 Ring Street In 2017 ~West 0.065 ~0.077 0.051 ~0.075 0.000 ~0.056 0.000 ~0.041 0.000 ~0.031 0.000 ~0.020 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.005 0.000 ~0.003 Taibao Street In 2025 0.068 ~0.079 0.054 ~0.077 0.000 ~0.059 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.034 0.000 ~0.022 0.000 ~0.013 0.000 ~0.006 0.000 ~0.003 West Taibao In 2011 0.064 ~0.077 0.050 ~0.074 0.000 ~0.055 0.000 ~0.040 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.005 0.000 ~0.003 Street In 2017 ~Changfeng 0.072 ~0.082 0.059 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.063 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.038 0.000 ~0.026 0.000 ~0.015 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Street In 2025 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Changfeng In 2011 0.072 ~0.082 0.059 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.063 0.000 ~0.048 0.000 ~0.038 0.000 ~0.026 0.000 ~0.015 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Street In 2017 ~Longbao 0.076 ~0.085 0.064 ~0.083 0.000 ~0.068 0.000 ~0.054 0.000 ~0.044 0.000 ~0.030 0.000 ~0.019 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Street In 2025 0.078 ~0.087 0.067 ~0.085 0.000 ~0.071 0.000 ~0.057 0.000 ~0.047 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.021 0.000 ~0.011 0.000 ~0.006 Longbao In 2011 0.073 ~0.083 0.060 ~0.081 0.000 ~0.065 0.000 ~0.050 0.000 ~0.040 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 Street In 2017 ~Xuefu 0.072 ~0.082 0.059 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.063 0.000 ~0.049 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.026 0.000 ~0.015 0.000 ~0.007 0.000 ~0.004 Street In 2025 0.073 ~0.083 0.061 ~0.081 0.000 ~0.065 0.000 ~0.051 0.000 ~0.040 0.000 ~0.027 0.000 ~0.017 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 In 2011 Xuefu Street 0.072 ~0.082 0.060 ~0.080 0.000 ~0.064 0.000 ~0.049 0.000 ~0.039 0.000 ~0.026 0.000 ~0.016 0.000 ~0.008 0.000 ~0.004 ~Xutan East In 2017 0.075 ~0.084 0.063 ~0.082 0.000 ~0.067 0.000 ~0.053 0.000 ~0.043 0.000 ~0.029 0.000 ~0.018 0.000 ~0.009 0.000 ~0.005 Street In 2025 0.078 ~0.086 0.067 ~0.085 0.000 ~0.071 0.000 ~0.057 0.000 ~0.047 0.000 ~0.033 0.000 ~0.021 0.000 ~0.010 0.000 ~0.006 Notes: the inclination range between road and wind direction is 0° ~90°.

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Table 6.3-7 Daily average NO2 concentration at different distance area along Taihang Road Unit:mg/m3 Distance from center line（m） Forecast Area year 15 20 30 40 50 70 100 150 200 In 2011 0.0700 0.0626 0.0237 0.0148 0.0103 0.0057 0.0029 0.0012 0.0005 Northern Middle Ring Road ~Shengli East Street In 2017 0.0735 0.0665 0.0265 0.0170 0.0120 0.0068 0.0035 0.0014 0.0007 In 2025 0.0753 0.0685 0.0281 0.0183 0.0131 0.0075 0.0039 0.0016 0.0007 In 2011 0.0725 0.0654 0.0256 0.0163 0.0115 0.0065 0.0033 0.0013 0.0006 Shengli East Street ~Kaixuan Road In 2017 0.0777 0.0714 0.0304 0.0202 0.0147 0.0086 0.0045 0.0019 0.0009 In 2025 0.0801 0.0743 0.0331 0.0225 0.0166 0.0100 0.0053 0.0023 0.0011 In 2011 0.0706 0.0632 0.0241 0.0151 0.0106 0.0059 0.0030 0.0012 0.0005 Kaixuan Road ~Yingchun Street In 2017 0.0775 0.0712 0.0303 0.0201 0.0146 0.0086 0.0045 0.0019 0.0009 In 2025 0.0804 0.0746 0.0334 0.0228 0.0169 0.0102 0.0054 0.0023 0.0011 In 2011 0.0746 0.0678 0.0275 0.0178 0.0127 0.0073 0.0037 0.0015 0.0007 Yingchun Street ~Fudong Street In 2017 0.0807 0.0749 0.0337 0.0231 0.0171 0.0104 0.0056 0.0024 0.0011 In 2025 0.0832 0.0778 0.0366 0.0258 0.0194 0.0121 0.0066 0.0029 0.0014 In 2011 0.0735 0.0665 0.0265 0.0170 0.0120 0.0069 0.0035 0.0014 0.0007 Fudong Street ~Honggou Zhong Street In 2017 0.0777 0.0714 0.0305 0.0203 0.0147 0.0087 0.0045 0.0019 0.0009 In 2025 0.0806 0.0748 0.0336 0.0230 0.0170 0.0103 0.0055 0.0023 0.0011 In 2011 0.0748 0.0680 0.0276 0.0179 0.0128 0.0073 0.0038 0.0015 0.0007 Honggou Middle Street ~Wulongkou Street In 2017 0.0789 0.0728 0.0317 0.0214 0.0156 0.0093 0.0049 0.0021 0.0010 In 2025 0.0815 0.0759 0.0347 0.0239 0.0178 0.0109 0.0059 0.0025 0.0012 In 2011 0.0720 0.0648 0.0252 0.0160 0.0112 0.0063 0.0032 0.0013 0.0006 Wulongkou Street ~Chaoyang Street In 2017 0.0767 0.0703 0.0295 0.0194 0.0140 0.0082 0.0042 0.0018 0.0008 In 2025 0.0805 0.0747 0.0336 0.0229 0.0170 0.0103 0.0055 0.0023 0.0011 In 2011 0.0719 0.0647 0.0251 0.0159 0.0112 0.0063 0.0032 0.0013 0.0006 Chaoyang Street ~South Inner Ring Street In 2017 0.0766 0.0701 0.0294 0.0193 0.0140 0.0081 0.0042 0.0017 0.0008 In 2025 0.0793 0.0733 0.0322 0.0218 0.0160 0.0095 0.0051 0.0021 0.0010

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Distance from center line（m） Forecast Area year 15 20 30 40 50 70 100 150 200 In 2011 0.0695 0.0621 0.0234 0.0145 0.0101 0.0056 0.0028 0.0011 0.0005 South Inner Ring Street ~West Taibao Street In 2017 0.0714 0.0641 0.0248 0.0156 0.0109 0.0061 0.0031 0.0013 0.0006 In 2025 0.0736 0.0666 0.0266 0.0171 0.0121 0.0069 0.0035 0.0014 0.0007 In 2011 0.0705 0.0631 0.0241 0.0151 0.0105 0.0059 0.0029 0.0012 0.0005 West Taibao Street ~Changfeng Street In 2017 0.0769 0.0705 0.0297 0.0196 0.0142 0.0083 0.0043 0.0018 0.0008 In 2025 0.0806 0.0748 0.0336 0.0230 0.0170 0.0103 0.0055 0.0023 0.0011 In 2011 0.0770 0.0706 0.0298 0.0197 0.0142 0.0083 0.0043 0.0018 0.0008 Changfeng Street ~Longbao Street In 2017 0.0804 0.0746 0.0334 0.0228 0.0169 0.0102 0.0055 0.0023 0.0011 In 2025 0.0824 0.0769 0.0357 0.0249 0.0187 0.0115 0.0063 0.0027 0.0013 In 2011 0.0780 0.0717 0.0308 0.0205 0.0149 0.0088 0.0046 0.0019 0.0009 Longbao Street ~Xuefu Street In 2017 0.0771 0.0707 0.0298 0.0197 0.0143 0.0084 0.0043 0.0018 0.0008 In 2025 0.0784 0.0722 0.0312 0.0209 0.0152 0.0090 0.0047 0.0020 0.0009 In 2011 0.0776 0.0713 0.0303 0.0202 0.0146 0.0086 0.0045 0.0019 0.0009 Xuefu Street ~Xutan East Street In 2017 0.0798 0.0739 0.0327 0.0222 0.0164 0.0098 0.0052 0.0022 0.0011 In 2025 0.0823 0.0768 0.0356 0.0248 0.0186 0.0114 0.0062 0.0027 0.0013

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The forecast result shows that the hourly concentration and daily average concentration of NO2 in area 15m away from the center line of Taihang Road is lower than the second grade requirements specified in national standard “Ambient air quality standard”(GB 3095-1996). Down wind concentration of pollutant is decreased gradually from 20m to 200m; from year 2011 to year 2025, with the increasing of traffic flow, the concentration of NO2 pollutant is also increased, but can meet the second grade requirements specified in national standard “Ambient air quality standard”(GB 3095-1996). ③Forecast result of sensible points Table 6.3-8 and table 6.3-9 are the peak hourly concentration of NO2 in sensible points such as villages and schools along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road. Table 6.3-8 Hourly NO2 concentration in villages and schools along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road Hourly concentration（mg/m3） No. Sensible point In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 I. Northern Middle Ring Road Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm 1 0.0816 0.0872 0.0913 Hostel 2 Anguang Residential Area 0.0571 0.0658 0.0701 3 Jinji Hostel 0.0783 0.0838 0.0869 4 Xiaodongliu Village 0.0614 0.0681 0.0721 5 Xinxing Residential Area 0.0307 0.0374 0.0422 6 Chengjia Village 0.0544 0.0616 0.0651 7 Taigang Hostel 0.0544 0.0616 0.0651 8 Kuangji Hostel 0.0546 0.0618 0.0653 9 Locomotive Hospital 0.0375 0.0399 0.0433 10 Locomotive Plant Hostel 0.0754 0.0771 0.0792 11 Jin’an Residential Area 0.0498 0.0524 0.0559 12 Xiangtang Primary School 0.0576 0.0600 0.0633 13 Jin’anxin village 0.0467 0.0492 0.0525 Shanxi Sanfei Technical 14 0.0641 0.0665 0.0694 School 15 Machine Tool Plant Hostel 0.0783 0.0799 0.0820 II. Taihang Road 16 Xiaozaogou Village (West) 0.0210 0.0265 0.0297 17 Xiaozaogou Village (East) 0.0571 0.0641 0.0676 18 Xingyuan Residential Area 0.0183 0.0233 0.0263 Xinyuan Residential 19 0.0152 0.0196 0.0223 Community 20 Daochanggou village 0.0637 0.0700 0.0731 Shanxi Machine Building 21 0.0264 0.0345 0.0388 Company Hostel Taiyuan Leather Factory 22 0.0421 0.0516 0.0562 Hostel Taiyuan First Wool Textile 23 0.0305 0.0391 0.0436 Factory Hostel Taiyuan Cereals Bureau 24 0.0290 0.0375 0.0419 hostel 25 Zhigongxin village 0.0321 0.0409 0.0455

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Hourly concentration（mg/m3） No. Sensible point In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 26 Jianziwan Residential Area 0.0599 0.0684 0.0718 27 Xinyuanli Primary School 0.0160 0.0220 0.0251 28 490# Warehouse hostel 0.0295 0.0379 0.0419 29 Taitie Hostel 0.0072 0.0105 0.0124 Dongchangsheng Residential 30 0.0040 0.0059 0.0071 Area 31 Daba’ergou village 0.0662 0.0737 0.0766 32 Shan’ershu village 0.0564 0.0624 0.0663 Broadcasting, Movie and TV 33 Management Cadre College 0.0228 0.0278 0.0313 （dormitory） Broadcasting, Movie and TV 34 Management Cadre College 0.0681 0.0732 0.0761 (education building) 35 Haojiagou Village（East） 0.0527 0.0591 0.0631 36 Haojiagou Village（West） 0.0630 0.0687 0.0720 Shanxi Provincial Archives 37 0.0606 0.0666 0.0701 Bureau dormitory 38 Wangjiafeng Village（North） 0.0563 0.0626 0.0664 39 Wangjiafeng Village（south） 0.0578 0.0600 0.0627 40 Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital 0.0375 0.0396 0.0424 Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital 41 0.0345 0.0366 0.0394 dormitory 42 Yanjiafeng Village 0.0602 0.0624 0.0650 43 Longbao Village 0.0684 0.0672 0.0688

Table 6.3-9 Daily average NO2 concentration in villages and schools along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road Hourly concentration（mg/m3） No. Sensible point In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 一、Northern Middle Ring Road Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm 1 0.0765 0.0824 0.0857 Hostel Anguang Residential 2 0.0504 0.0592 0.0637 Area 3 Jinji Hostel 0.0727 0.0791 0.0822 4 Xiaodongliu Village 0.0222 0.0261 0.0288 5 Xinxing Residential Area 0.0087 0.0111 0.0130 6 Chengjia Village 0.0483 0.0555 0.0591 7 Taigang Hostel 0.0481 0.0553 0.0589 8 Kuangji Hostel 0.0478 0.0550 0.0586 9 Locomotive Hospital 0.0112 0.0121 0.0134 10 Locomotive Plant Hostel 0.0405 0.0424 0.0449 11 Jin’an Residential Area 0.0164 0.0175 0.0192 Xiangtang Primary 12 0.0508 0.0532 0.0565 School 13 Jin’anxin village 0.0399 0.0423 0.0455 154

Hourly concentration（mg/m3） No. Sensible point In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 Shanxi Sanfei Technical 14 0.0577 0.0601 0.0632 School Machine Tool Plant 15 0.0728 0.0747 0.0770 Hostel II. Taihang Road Xiaozaogou Village 16 0.0075 0.0098 0.0113 (West) Xiaozaogou Village 17 0.0276 0.0325 0.0352 (East) Xingyuan Residential 18 0.0063 0.0084 0.0097 Area Xinyuan Residential 19 0.0051 0.0068 0.0079 Community 20 Daochanggou village 0.0329 0.0379 0.0406 Shanxi Machine Building 21 0.0099 0.0137 0.0159 Company Hostel Taiyuan Leather Factory 22 0.0180 0.0234 0.0263 Hostel Taiyuan First Wool 23 0.0118 0.0161 0.0185 Textile Factory Hostel Taiyuan Cereals Bureau 24 0.0111 0.0152 0.0176 hostel 25 Zhigongxin village 0.0126 0.0171 0.0195 Jianziwan Residential 26 0.0295 0.0358 0.0387 Area Xinyuanli Primary 27 0.0054 0.0078 0.0091 School 28 490# Warehouse hostel 0.0113 0.0154 0.0175 29 Taitie Hostel 0.0022 0.0033 0.0039 Dongchangsheng 30 0.0011 0.0017 0.0021 Residential Area 31 Daba’ergou village 0.0349 0.0412 0.0440 32 Shan’ershu village 0.0269 0.0310 0.0339 Broadcasting, Movie and 33 TV Management Cadre 0.0082 0.0104 0.0121 College（dormitory） Broadcasting, Movie and TV Management Cadre 34 0.0381 0.0425 0.0454 College (education building) 35 Haojiagou Village（East） 0.0245 0.0286 0.0315 36 Haojiagou Village（West） 0.0324 0.0368 0.0397 Shanxi Provincial 37 Archives Bureau 0.0304 0.0348 0.0377 dormitory Wangjiafeng Village 38 0.0271 0.0314 0.0343 （North） Wangjiafeng Village 39 0.0284 0.0299 0.0319 （south）

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Hourly concentration（mg/m3） No. Sensible point In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 Taiyuan Spirit Care 40 0.0154 0.0165 0.0180 Hospital Taiyuan Spirit Care 41 0.0139 0.0149 0.0163 Hospital dormitory 42 Yanjiafeng Village 0.0304 0.0320 0.0339 43 Longbao Village 0.0362 0.0353 0.0366

The forecast result of table 6.3-8 and 6.3-9 shows that the hourly concentration and daily average concentration of NO2 in sensitive points along Beizohng Ring and Taihang Road meets the second grade requirements in national standard “Ambient air quality standard” (GB 3095-1996). 6.3.2 Forecast On Ambient Air Impact Of Public Transport Component （1）Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) special lane According to the atmospheric monitor result of Taiyuan environment monitor station, the daily average concentration of NO2 at the cross of new road for BRT special lane and South Inner Ring Street is 0.047 ~0.125mg/m3, the value exceeds the standard. The main reason is increasing of vehicle exhaust gas emission due to traffic jam. With the operation of the bus lane on the new road, the trip condition of the bus will be improved. The running speed of the bus will be increased to some extent, which may lessen the adverse impact to the ambient air caused due to idle speed of the bus. （2）Bus depots and terminals In bus depots and terminals, due to bus entry and exit, the traffic flows near those areas are relatively big, which may bring certain impact to ambient air. In addition, boiler room is equipped in bus depots and terminals, and natural gas (clean fuel) is adopted as fuel. During operation period, only small amount of SO2 and dust may be exhausted, so it has small impact to ambient air. 6.3.3 Prevention and Control measures and suggestions of Atmospheric Pollution to Roads Network Component （1）Prevention and Control measures of Atmospheric Pollution ① The construction unit shall make greening on both sides of the road as per greening requirements in the design of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road as well as related regulations of “Taiyuan City Urban Greening Rule” (the ratio between greening area of the main urban road and road shall not be less than 25%). Arbors, shrubs shall be planted near sensitive points along the road, so as to purify the pollutant contained in the exhausted gas and dust from the road. ② Strengthen the management to the vehicles which easily produce dust, e.g. vehicles carrying bulk materials such as coal and fly ash. Close transportation measures such as covering with tarpaulin shall be taken. ③ Strengthen the traffic management, do well the traffic dispersion work to ensure smooth traffic, lessen and avoid traffic jam. If the traffic flow is too big, measures such as limit the traffic flow can be taken in different road sections to reduce the exhaust gas emission concentration. （2）Suggestions The main pollutant sources of the atmosphere in this project are vehicles driving on the road. Vehicle belongs to flow source. The control of the vehicle exhaust gas is very difficult to be realized by taking measures in one or several roads and bridges. Therefore, the control measures of the vehicle exhaust gas emission on the roads of the project shall be combined 156

with the vehicle exhaust gas control policy of Taiyuan City. It is suggested that related departments of Taiyuan City make traffic pollutant treatment in following aspects: ① Forbidden trip of vehicle with over-standard emission Since April 16, 2001, our country has issued and implemented national standard “Limits and Measurement Methods for Emissions from Light-Duty Vehicles (I)” (GB18352.1-2001); on April 16, 2001, our country has issued national standard “Limits and Measurement Methods for Emissions from Light-Duty Vehicles (II)” (GB18352.2-2001), which is implemented from July 1, 2004, and substitute GB18352.1-2001; from Sept. 1, 2003, heavy-duty vehicle will implement second time period of GB17691-2001 and GB14762-2002. At present, Taiyuan City has started road inspection and annual inspection of vehicle exhaust gas emission. In order to decrease the vehicle exhaust gas emission, it is suggested to forbid the trip of vehicles with over-standard emission. The vehicle emission standard shall be implemented strictly; the pollutant emission of each vehicle shall be controlled. The vehicle pollutant will not be increased only when the vehicle pollutant emission of the whole city is controlled. This is also the trend of vehicle industry development at home and abroad. Experience at home and abroad shows that reducing the pollutant emission of each vehicle is the only way to maintain high ambient air quality under the situation of quick increase of vehicle population. ② Strengthen the inspection and maintenance of vehicles Practice shows that emission has big relationship with technical state of the engine. The main reason that the working vehicle also found over-standard is lower maintenance level and poor engine state. After using lead-free gasoline, and adopting exhaust gas purifier, the inspection and maintenance of vehicle becomes more important. Therefore, in order to control the vehicle exhaust gas emission, it is suggested that Taiyuan City shall strengthen the inspection and maintenance of the vehicle, so as to maintain good vehicle state and reduce pollutant emission. The vehicle working condition and emission inspection and fuel oil volatile emission inspection shall be listed in routine check schedule. ③ Strong recommendation the using of clean fuel At present, Taiyuan City has set up many gas filling stations. Part of the vehicle has adopted natural gas as fuel. If all the vehicles of Taiyuan city use this clean fuel, the pollutant emission will be reduced greatly. Therefore, Taiyuan government shall give great support and grant certain favorable policies to encourage the using of clean fuel; or in other way, make a law to designate natural gas as the only fuel so as to improve the present condition of vehicle exhaust gas emission. ④ All Departments shall actively cooperate with local government to do well vehicle exhaust gas emission control Vehicle waste gas emission is a systematic control engineering of a city or a region, which can not be fundamentally controlled by merely controlling waste gas pollutant on one or several roads. Therefore, the road administration sectors shall actively cooperate with local government and environmental protection authority department responsible for the project road to do well the vehicle waste gas control. ⑤ The new sensitive points shall be far away from this project road If the new sensitive points are away from the road, they will be less impacted by the exhaust gas pollutant. Research shows that the distance from the pollutant source to the acceptor will directly impact the pollutant concentration to the acceptor. The farther the distance, the smaller the pollutant concentration reached the acceptor. Therefore, if we increase the distance from the new road to the sensitive points, the free space between the vehicle and the sensitive points will be enlarged accordingly. This is benefit for the dilution of the pollutant in conveying process, and reducing the pollutant concentration. As such, it is suggested that when the Taiyuan Planning Department makes plan, no new 157

sensitive points will be built within 50m along the new road. At the same time, gradually shift the sensitive points in this area to other place or reconstructed to closed building such as shopping mall, commercial building or warehouse. The first row buildings shall be shifted backward whenever possible to keep certain distance from the road. This arrangement can ease the adverse impact brought by vehicle exhaust gas and road dust. 6.3.4 Prevention and Control measures and suggestions of Atmospheric Pollution to Public transport Component Main air pollutant sources in bus depots and terminals are of waste gas from canteen, boiler and vehicle, aiming at these features, following prevention and control measures will be taken: （1）Waste gas from canteen will be exhausted from the chimney after purifying treatment. （2）Gas-fuel boiler will be adopted instead of coal-fuelled boiler. 6.4 Noise Impact Forecast Assessment and Prevention and Control Measures 6.4.1 Noise Impact Forecast of Roads Network Component （1）Forecast of sensitive points of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road According to the traffic forecast mode recommended by the Guideline, calculate the noise impact value of Northern Middle Ring Road , Taihang Road and that of noise sensitive points respectively, and analyze their noise impact degree, i.e. whether reach the standard or not. Table 6.4-1 and 6.4-2 is the noise forecast result during daytime and night at sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road in different year.

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Table 6.4-1 List of noise forecast result at sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road Distance from Forecast value, sound environment, over-standard value unit: dB first row Standard Roadbed Roadbed Sensitive building to value In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 No. form height Time point centerline/red （dB） Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard line(m) value value value value value value main road: main Taiyuan Fruit daytime 70 65.8 - 67.7 - 68.8 - bridge road:9.00 1 Tree Farm S 32/1 side road: side Hostel night 55 58.8 3.8 60.7 5.7 61.1 6.1 embankment road:0.20 Anguang main road: main daytime 70 65.2 - 66.1 - 68.2 - 2 Residential S 60/32 embankment road:0.80 Area side road: side night 55 58.2 3.2 59.1 4.1 61.6 6.6 embankment road:0.50 main road: main daytime 70 69.4 - 70.3 0.3 72.5 2.5 embankment road:0.40 3 Jinji Hostel S 40/7 side road: side night 55 62.4 7.4 63.3 8.3 65.8 10.8 cutting road:-0.20 main road: main daytime 70 70.0 - 71.8 1.8 72.5 2.5 S 40/7 embankment road:1.20 side road: side night 55 63.4 8.4 64.8 9.8 65.7 10.7 embankment road:0.40 4 Xiaodongliu main road: main village daytime 70 71.9 1.9 72.8 2.8 73.5 3.5 embankment road:1.20 N 35/2 side road: side night 55 64.9 9.9 65.8 10.8 66.7 11.7 embankment road:0.40 main road: main daytime 70 63.8 - 64.8 - 65.4 - Xinxing embankment road:0.80 5 Residential N 80/46 side road: side Area night 55 56.8 1.8 57.8 2.8 58.7 3.7 embankment road:0.90 main road: main daytime 60 63.7 3.7 64.7 4.7 65.0 5.0 Chengjia bridge road:8.60 6 S 73/48 village side road: side night 50 56.7 6.7 57.7 5.7 58.3 8.3 embankment road:0.70

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Distance from Forecast value, sound environment, over-standard value unit: dB first row Standard Roadbed Roadbed Sensitive building to value In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 No. form height Time point centerline/red （dB） Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard line(m) value value value value value value main road: main daytime 60 63.8 3.8 64.8 4.8 65.0 5.0 Taigang bridge road:8.10 7 S 80/54 Hostel side road: side night 50 56.8 6.8 57.8 7.8 58.4 8.4 embankment road:0.70 main road: main daytime 60 63.1 3.1 64.1 4.1 64.7 4.7 Kuangji bridge road:4.00 8 S 136/107 Hostel side road: side night 50 56.1 6.1 57.1 7.1 57.7 7.7 embankment road:0.40 main road: main daytime 60 65.3 5.3 67.1 7.1 68.1 8.1 Locomotive bridge road:10.0 9 N 81/56 Hospital side road: side night 50 58.3 8.3 60.1 10.1 61.1 11.1 embankment road:0.90 main road: main daytime 70 59.6 - 61.1 - 62.6 - Locomotive bridge road:10.0 10 N 27/2 Plant Hostel side road: side night 55 52.6 - 54.1 - 55.0 - embankment road:0.60 main road: main daytime 70 63.4 - 65.0 - 65.8 - Jin’an bridge road:10.0 11 Residential N 40/8 side road: side Area night 55 56.4 1.4 58.0 3.0 58.9 3.9 embankment road:0.3

main road: main daytime 60 60.0 - 61.8 1.8 62.6 2.6 Xiangtang bridge road:10.0 12 Primary S 56/24 side road: side School night 50 53.3 3.3 54.8 4.8 55.7 5.7 embankment road:0.30

main road: main daytime 70 60.8 - 62.6 - 63.9 - Jin’anxin bridge road:10.0 13 S 72/32 village side road: side night 55 53.8 - 55.6 0.6 56.9 1.9 embankment road:0.30

14 Shanxi Sanfei S 47/15 main road: main daytime 60 67.8 7.8 68.2 8.2 68.7 8.7 Technical bridge road:10 0 160

night 50 60.8 10.8 61.2 11.2 61.7 11.7

main road: main daytime 70 71.5 1.5 71.9 1.9 72.4 2.4 Machine Tool bridge road:5.60 15 S 35/3 Plant Hostel side road: side night 55 64.5 9.5 64.9 9.9 65.4 10.4 embankment road:0.90

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Table 6.4-2 List of noise forecast result at sensitive points along Taihang Road

Distance from Forecast value, sound environment, over-standard value unit: dB Standard first row building Roadbed Roadbed value No. Sensitive point to centerline/red form height Time In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 （dB） line(m) Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard value value value value value value daytime 60 60.0 - 61.1 1.1 61.7 1.7 W 70/44 cutting -7.40 Xiaozaogou night 50 53.1 3.1 54.2 4.2 54.7 4.7 1 Village daytime 70 68.6 - 69.7 - 70.0 - E 30/3 cutting -7.40 night 55 61.6 6.6 62.7 7.7 63.3 8.3

Zhaoyuan daytime 60 54.5 - 55.6 - 58.8 - 2 E 77/52 cutting -7.40 Residential Area night 50 46.5 - 47.6 - 51.8 - Xingyuan daytime 60 57.3 - 58.3 - 58.8 - 3 E 87/62 embankment 4.20 Residential Area night 50 50.3 - 51.3 - 51.8 - Daochanggou daytime 70 71.7 1.7 72.8 2.8 73.3 3.3 4 E 27/2 embankment 0.20 Village night 55 64.7 9.7 65.8 10.8 66.4 11.4 Shanxi Machine daytime 70 62.0 - 63.5 - 64.2 - 5 Building W 56/31 cutting -0.10 Company Hostel night 55 55.0 - 56.5 1.5 57.2 2.2 Taiyuan Leather daytime 70 61.7 - 63.1 - 63.8 - 6 E 38/13 cutting -0.10 Factory Hostel night 55 54.7 - 56.1 1.1 56.8 1.8 Taiyuan First daytime 70 63.3 - 64.6 - 65.3 - 7 Wool Textile E 50/25 cutting -0.80 Factory Hostel night 55 56.3 1.3 57.6 2.6 58.3 3.3 Taiyuan Cereals daytime 70 62.9 - 64.2 - 64.8 - 8 E 52/24 cutting -3.50 Bureau hostel night 55 55.0 - 57.2 2.2 57.8 2.8 Zhigongxin cutting daytime 70 61.0 - 62.3 - 62.9 - 9 W 48/20 -3.50 village night 55 54.0 - 55.3 0.3 55.0 -

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Distance from Forecast value, sound environment, over-standard value unit: dB Standard first row building Roadbed Roadbed value No. Sensitive point to centerline/red form height Time In 2011 In 2017 In 2025 （dB） line(m) Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard Forecast Over-standard value value value value value value daytime 70 69.8 - 71.2 1.2 71.8 1.8 W 30/5 bridge 7.00 Jianziwan night 55 62.9 7.9 64.2 9.2 64.8 9.8 10 Residential Area daytime 70 69.8 - 71.2 1.2 71.8 1.8 E 30/5 bridge 7.00 night 55 62.9 7.9 64.2 9.2 64.8 9.8

Xinyuanli daytime 60 54.5 - 55.9 - 56.5 - 11 W 90/69 bridge 5.50 Primary School night 50 47.5 - 48.9 - 49.5 -

Xinyuanli daytime 60 61.4 1.4 62.7 2.7 63.3 3.3 12 W 68/47 bridge 5.50 Kindergarden night 50 54.4 4.4 55.7 5.7 56.3 6.3 490# Warehouse daytime 70 61.8 - 63.2 - 63.8 - 13 E 57/35 bridge 5.50 hostel night 55 54.8 - 56.2 1.2 56.9 1.9 daytime 60 57.3 - 58.7 - 59.3 - 14 Taitie Hostel W 108/83 cutting -7.00 night 50 50.0 - 51.7 1.7 52.3 2.3 Dongchangsheng daytime 60 52.8 - 54.1 - 54.7 - 15 W 187/162 cutting -6.50 Residential Area night 50 45.9 - 47.1 - 47.1 - Daba’ergou daytime 70 53.7 - 54.9 - 55.6 - 16 W 56/31 Bradge 5.50 village night 55 46.7 - 47.9 - 48.6 - San’ershu Bridge, daytime 70 68.2 - 69.1 - 69.7 - 17 E 32/8 3.40 Village embankment night 55 61.5 6.5 62.1 7.2 62.7 7.7 Broadcasting, E 65 daytime 60 60.0 - 61.6 1.6 62.4 2.4 18 Movie and TV cutting -0.30 （/40dormitory） Management night 50 53.0 3.0 54.6 4.6 55.5 5.5 Cadre College W 26/1 cutting -0.30 daytime 60 69.8 9.8 70.7 10.7 71.6 11.6 （education 163

E 32/9 daytime 70 67.7 - 68.7 - 69.5 - cutting -0.10 Haojiagou night 55 60.7 5.7 61.7 6.7 62.6 7.6 19 Village daytime 70 68.2 - 69.3 - 70.0 - W 27/4 cutting -0.10 night 55 61.3 6.3 62.3 7.3 63.0 8.0 Shanxi W 28/0 daytime 70 69.0 - 69.3 - 69.8 - 20 Provincial Bridge 8.60

Archives Bureau night 55 62.0 7.0 62.3 7.3 62.8 7.8 daytime 70 68.5 - 68.9 - 69.3 - E 30/5 cutting -0.70

Wangjiafeng night 55 61.5 6.5 61.9 6.9 62.3 7.3 21 Village daytime 70 68.2 - 68.5 - 69.0 - W 28/3 cutting -0.70 night 55 61.2 6.2 61.6 6.6 62.0 7.0

Taiyuan Spirit E 41/16 daytime 60 64.7 4.7 65.1 5.1 65.5 5.5 embankment 1.80 Care Hospital night 50 57.7 7.7 58.1 8.1 58.5 8.5 22 Taiyuan Spirit daytime 70 64.0 - 64.4 - 64.8 - Care Hospital W 44/19 land 1.80 dormitory night 55 57.0 2.5 57.4 2.4 57.8 2.8 Yanjiafeng daytime 70 71.0 1.0 71.3 1.3 71.7 1.7 23 E 27/2 embankment 0.30 Village night 55 64.0 9.0 64.3 9.3 64.7 9.7 daytime 70 70.0 - 70.0 - 70.0 - 24 Longbao Village E 28/3 cutting -0.80 night 55 63.4 8.4 63.0 8.0 63.5 8.5

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（2）Analysis on noise impact forecast ①Analysis on noise impact forecast of Northern Middle Ring Road There are total 15 noise sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road , in which 2 schools and 1 hospital. We can see from table 6.4-1: At beginning of the new road operation, i.e. in 2011, the noise in 2 sensitive points, i.e. Locomotive Plant Hostel and Jin’anxin village does not exceed the standard at daytime and night. Noise in Anguang Residential Area, Xiaodongliu Village, Xiangtang Primary school, etc. 7 sensitive points does not exceed standard at daytime but exceed standard at night (1.1 ~8.4dB (A) over the standard value). Noise in other sensitive points exceeds standard both at daytime and night, which is 1.5 ~10.8dB（A）over the standard value. In mid-term 2017 and long-term 2025, the noise in Dormitory of Locomotive Factory does not exceed the standard at daytime and night. Noise in Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm Hostel, Anguang Residential Area, Jin’anxin village, etc. 5 sensitive points does not exceed standard at daytime but exceed standard at night. Noise in other sensitive points exceeds standard both at daytime and night in different degree. ②Analysis on noise impact forecast of Taihang Road There are total 24 sensitive points along Taihang Road, in which 3 schools and 1 hospital. We can see from the table 6.4-2: At beginning of the new road operation, i.e. in 2011, the noise in 14 sensitive points, e.g. Zhaoyuan Residential Area, Zhigongxin village and Xinyuanli Primary School, etc. does not exceed the standard at daytime and night. Noise in Xiaozaogou Village, Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital etc. 9 sensitive points does not exceed standard at daytime but exceed standard at night (1.3 ~8.4dB (A) over the standard value). Noise in other sensitive points exceeds standard both at daytime and night, which is 1.0 ~9.0dB（A）over the standard value. In mid-term 2017 and long-term 2025, the noise in 5 sensitive points, i.e. Zhaoyuan Residential Area, Xingyuan Residential Area, Xinyuanli Primary School and Dapaergou Village does not exceed the standard at daytime and night, other sensitive points exceeds standard both at daytime and night in different degree. Therefore, effective noise prevention and control measures shall be taken aiming at above-mentioned over-standard phenomena in sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road to eliminate the impact to the residents near the project area. 6.4.2 Forecast Of Noise Impact Of Public Transport Component During operation of bus depots and terminals, the equipment which may produce high noise is boiler and air compressor. Aiming at the noise feature, corresponding noise isolation and elimination measures shall be taken. This assessment analogizes Taiyuan Jiuzhou bus depot. The noise analogue monitoring result is detailed in table 6.4-3. Table 6.4-3 Noise monitoring result at the boundary of Jiuzhou bus depot East side South side West side North side daytime（dB） 54.7 58.4 57.3 56.9 At night（dB） 46.3 47.5 48.3 45.9 We can see from table 6.4-3, the noise at daytime and night within boundary area can reach II grade standard as specified in (GB12348-90) “Standard of Noise at Boundary of Industrial Enterprises”. Therefore, the noise at daytime and night within boundary area at bus depots (Nanhan bus and Beiying) and terminals (Yingxin Street, He Lao Bay, Zoo, and Beiyan) can reach II grade standard as specified in (GB12348-90) “Standard of Noise at Boundary of Industrial Enterprises”. It has small impact to the ambient noise environment. In addition, few buses are in and out at the bus depots and terminals at night (22:00～6:00),

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so it will not disturb the residences nearby. . 6.4.3 Noise Prevention and Control Measures of Roads Network Component （1）Protective measures to the objects sensitive to noise Generally, following measures can be taken to protect the noise environment: reduce road surface noise, set up sound barrier, sound isolation window+intensive ventilation, etc. Table 6.4-4 List of normal noise-reducing measures noise-reducing No. measures cost applicable condition effect Hydrophobic asphalt is 1550 yuan/m2， Contact of tire and calculated on the basis road surface can of average thickness 1 reduce road surface noise urban road reduce noise 2 of 7cm, every 1m ~8dB hydrophobic asphalt road surface needs 108 yuan/ m2 sound isolation ① 8dB 2000 Yuan/ m2 distance from sensitive board points to road center less sound isolation than 80m, live concentrate Sound 2 2 board + sound 10dB 3200yuan/ m ② barrier closed road: roadbed absorbing board height in parallel with or cement sound 6~8dB 500yuan/m2 higher than apartment isolation board ground height wide application range, sound isolation 3 15 ~20dB 9000yuan/household especially suitable for high window+ventilation building Notes:① cost for sound barrier and sound isolation fence in the table is calculated on the basis of sound barrier and fence of 3m height. ② In item 5 of this table, increasing of the greening belt width will improve noise-reducing effect. According to the noise forecast to the sensitive objects along the project road, impact analysis result and environment features of this road, the environment protection measures the sound sensitive points should take is to adopt modified asphalt low noise road surface and sound barrier will be installed to those over-standard sensitive points. Please refer to table 6.4-5 for details. Table 6.4-5 Protective measures for object sensitive to sound environment over Noise-reducing No. Component sensitive points standard protective measures effect dB（A） Northern Taiyuan Fruit modified asphalt low noise 1 3 ~6 meet standard Middle Ring Tree Farm Hostel road surface Road Anguang modified asphalt low noise 2 3 ~7 meet standard Residential Area road surface modified asphalt low noise 3 Jinji Hostel 7 ~11 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard (L350m×H 3m） modified asphalt low noise Xiaodongliu 4 10 ~12 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Village (L350m×H 3m） Xinxing modified asphalt low noise 5 1 ~3 meet standard Residential Area road surface modified asphalt low noise 6 Chengjia Village 3 ~5 meet standard road surface

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over Noise-reducing No. Component sensitive points standard protective measures effect dB（A） modified asphalt low noise 7 Taigang Hostel 3 ~5 meet standard road surface modified asphalt low noise 8 Kuangji Hostel 3 ~5 meet standard road surface modified asphalt low noise Locomotive 9 8 ~12 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Hospital （L50m×H3m） modified asphalt low noise Jin’an 10 2 ~4 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Residential Area （L400m×H3m） Xiangtang modified asphalt low noise 11 3 ~6 meet standard Primary School road surface modified asphalt low noise 12 Jin’anxin village 1~2 meet standard road surface modified asphalt low noise Shanxi Sanfei 13 11~12 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Technical Schoo （L50m×H3m） modified asphalt low noise Machine Tool 14 10~11 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Plant Hostel (L200m×H 3m） Xiaozaogou modified asphalt low noise 15 Taihang Road 3 ~8 meet standard Village road surface modified asphalt low noise Daochanggou 16 10 ~12 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Village （L220m×H 3m） Taiyuan Leather modified asphalt low noise 17 1 ~2 meet standard Factory Hostel road surface Taiyuan First modified asphalt low noise 18 Wool Textile 1 ~4 meet standard road surface Factory Hostel Taiyuan Cereals modified asphalt low noise 19 1 ~3 meet standard Bureau hostel road surface modified asphalt low noise Jianziwan 20 8 ~10 road surface+ sound meet standard Residential Area (L200m×H 3m) modified asphalt low noise Xinyuanli 21 5 ~6 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Kindergarden (L100m×H3m) modified asphalt low noise 22 Taitie Hostel 3 ~5 meet standard road surface modified asphalt low noise 23 San’ershu Village 7 ~8 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard (L350m×H3m) Broadcasting, Movie and TV modified asphalt low noise 24 3 ~6 meet standard Management road surface Cadre College modified asphalt low noise Haojiagou 25 5 ~8 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Village (L240m×H 3m）

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over Noise-reducing No. Component sensitive points standard protective measures effect dB（A） and its hostel (L50m×H 3m） modified asphalt low noise Wangjiafeng 27 6 ~7 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard Village (L200m×H3m） Taiyuan Spirit modified asphalt low noise 28 2 ~3 meet standard Care Hospital road surface modified asphalt low noise 29 Yanjiafeng Village 9 ~10 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard (L100m×H3m） modified asphalt low noise 30 Longbao Village 8 ~9 road surface+ sound barrier meet standard (L120m×H 3m）（2）Suggestions Sensitive units such as school, hospital and kindergarten are not suitable to be built on the first row on both sides of the intersection of the new road. Units have low requirements to sound environment, such as commercial building or multi-layer parking lot, etc. can be arranged. This can not only make full use of the land, but also reduce the impact of noise to the sensitive object. While designing apartment, auxiliary room such as bathroom, kitchen and lift case can be arranged on the side towards road to lessen the impact of the noise. For the new building built on both sides of the road, which is sensitive to the sound environment, it is suggested that the building itself shall take sound isolation measures during design and construction, e.g. install sound isolation window to ease the impact of the traffic noise. 6.4.5 Noise Prevention and Control Measures of Public Transport Component Main noise of the bus depots and terminals comes from boiler and air compressor as well as vehicles, following noise prevention and control measures will be taken aiming at the noise pollutant features: （1）Strict control the key noise sources (e.g. boiler and air compressor), put forward noise control requirements to the equipment manufacturer. （2）High-noise equipment, e.g. boiler and air compressor shall be indoor arranged; corresponding noise-reducing measuring shall be taken. （3）Strictly control bus entry and exit times to avoid disturbance to the surrounding residents and sensitive locations. The bus is forbidden to enter and exit the bus depots and teminals between 22:00 and 6:00 to ensure quiet environment at night. 6.5 Forecast and Assessment of Water Environment Impact and Preention and Control Measures 6.5.1 Roads Network Component Rainwater of Northern Middle Ring Road will be drained by 11 sections, in which, total rainwater pipeline length is 13.93km, rainwater is drained into North flood discharge trench, Heping Road existing rainwater pipe, Heishui River, Taigang South Line flood discharge trench, Beijian River, Jiefang Road existing rainwater pipe and Jianhe Road rainwater culvert. Rainwater of Taihang Road will be drained by 12 sections and sewage water will be drained by 11 sections. Total length of rainwater pipeline is 14.37km, which will be drained to the Xutan East Street Planned rainwater pipe, Changfeng East Street existing rainwater pipe, South Inner Ring East Street rainwater pipe, Haojiagou Street rainwater pipe, Fudong Street Planned rainwater pipe, Beisha River, Daochanggou, and Shengli East Street rainwater pipe.

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As above, the rainwater along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road during operation will be drained after being collected by the rainwater pipeline, which will not affect the surface water nearby. 6.5.2 Public Transport Component （1）Waste water source and amount According to analysis, after completion of the project, main waste water will come be waste flushing water of vehicles and domestic sewage at bus depots terminals. According to comparison investigation, waste water for flushing of vehicle at bus depots and terminals and waste water for vehicle maintenance will be 100 ~200 m3/d，the pollutant concentration in such type of waste water is SS:300 mg/L, petroleum: 25 mg/L; after being treated in oil separation tank and sedimentation tank, the pollutant concentration SS:60 mg/L, petroleum: 4 mg/L, all can be recycle used. According to engineering analysis, sewage pipeline network near Nanhan bus depot, Beiyan bus terminal and Yingxin Street bus terminal is relatively sound and the domestic sewage water can be discharged into urban sewage pieline network after reaching III grade standard (being treated in septic tank) as specified in national standard GB8978-1996 “Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard”, i.e. CODcr: 500mg/L, SS 400 mg/L, NH3－N:35mg/L. There is no sewage pipeline network at Beiying bus depot, Helaowan bus terminal and the bus terminal of the zoo. The domestic sewage water can be discharged after being treated in septic tank and “Anoxic/Oxic system” two-stage biological process. （2）Waste water treatment process need to be adopted and estimated effect “Anoxic/Oxic system” (A/O) two-stage biological treatment process flow: Water inlet grit Sedimentation Tank regulating pond anoxic tank, Backflow of silt Blower contact oxidation tank Secondary Sedimentation Tank

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recycle This process is mature and the elimination ratio of COD, SS, NH3-N can reach 70%, 80%, 30% respectively. This process has been widely applied in medium and small-size waste water treatment facilities. Indices after treatment, COD≤70mg/L, SS≤60mg/L, NH3－N≤9mg/L， can meet the I grade requirements as specified in national standard “Integrated wastewater discharge standard" (GB8978-1996). （3）Analysis on water environment impact As has been said, after being treated in oil separation tank and sedimentation tank, the waste water for flushing of vehicles at bus depots and terminals can be recycle used; after being treated in septic tank, the waste water from Nanhan bus depot, Beiyan bus terminal and Yingxin Street bus terminal can be discharged into urban sewage pieline network after reaching III grade standard and will not affect the ambient surface water; after being treated by “septic tank” and two-stage biological process of “A/O”, domestic sewage quality from Beiying, He Lao Bay, Zoo bus terminals can meet the discharge standard and has small impact to nearby surface water. 6.6 Analysis and Assessment of Solid Waste Impact During operation period of the project, main solid waste is the domestic rubbish and waste oil produced from bus depots and terminals in public transport Component. Domestic rubbish will be buried in place designated by Urban Environmental Sanitation Department and has no impact to outer environment. Small amount of waste oil may produce

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in starting station, terminal and bus depot, which belongs to dangerous waste. After being collected, they will be disposed in Shanxi Hazardous Waste Disposal Centre, who has the Hazardous Waste Disposal qualification, so as not to bring adverse impact to ambient environment. 6.7 Risk Assessment 6.7.1 Risk Accident Analysis for Roads Network Component For the traffic accident of dangerous goods transportation vehicle, in case of accident and explosion, it will endanger personal safe and contaminate ambient air with toxic and hazardous gases; secondly, toxic and hazardous solid or liquid dangerous goods will be dissolved in the water due to traffic accident and contaminate nearby surface water. There are total 39 villages and concentrated residential area, 5 schools and 2 hospitals along the project route. The distance between the sensitive points and new road is not more than 100m. Therefore, in case of explosion of dangerous goods transportation vehicle, personal safety of the villagers in the houses along the road will be endangered directly. The toxic and hazardous gases may contaminate the ambient air. Fen River, Jian River, Beisha Riber exist on the way of the project route. In case that the dangerous goods transportation vehicle has traffic accident on the road, or bridge or place near the rivers, toxic and hazardous matter (e.g. dangerous goods, etc.) will contaminate the water. Necessary effective measures shall be taken to prevent and control such accident. Corresponding safety management shall be strengthened. 6.7.2 Risk Accident Analysis for Public Transport Component 6.7.2.1 Determination of Assessment Grade Max. storage capacity of combustible matter in bus depot is: gasoline: 10t, diesel oil: 10t. According to annex A of Technical Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment on Projects, the bus depot is classified as non major dangerous source. The basis for assessment grade classification is detailed in table 6.7-1. Table 6.7-1 Assessment Grade classification (I grade and II grade) highly toxic general toxic inflammable and Explosive matter dangerous matter dangerous matter combustible matter major dangerous I grade II grade I grade I grade source non major II grade II grade II grade II grade dangerous source environmental I grade I grade I grade I grade sensitive area We can see from table 6.7－1 that the risk assessment grade of this project is II grade. 6.7.2.2 Assessment Range According to the Technical Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment on Projects, the assessment range of II grade shall be at least 3km away from the risk source. Therefore, the assessment range of this project is the oil filling stations within 3km. 6.7.2.3 Impact of Risk Accident to Environment After completion of the project, 10t gasoline and 10t diesel oil will be stored. The loose of the oil storage tank valve, worn-out of flange washer for oil conveying pipeline and leakage of oil conveying pump may result in leakage of oil, which will bring serious impact to the ambient environment. The main impact is fire and explosion due to leakage of oil. Meanwhile, during flowing, agitating, settling and filling of oil, static electricity may occur. Normally, such static electricity can result in fire or explosion of combustible fluid and inflammable fluid. Compared with the safety report result of oil filling station of the similar scale, the dangerous factor of the oil filling station is fire, and explosion is the main danger. The exposion radius is 30m (exposion radius means that under fire and explosion condition, the facilities and equipment within this range will be destroyed during fire and explosion). According to “Code 170

for design and construction of automobile gasoline and gas filling station” (GB 50156-2002), the distance between embedded oil tank and significant public building shall be controlled over 50m. Therefore, there is no resident concentrated at area 50m out of the oil filling station and storage tank area, and the impact to people or buildings out the boundary of the station under accident state is small. In addition, compare to bus depot, the scale of He Lao Bay bus terminal is relative small. According to “Code for design and construction of automobile gasoline and gas filling station” (GB 50156-2002), the distance between gasoline and gas filling station in Helaowan bus terminal and the Helaowan Village can meet the 50m safety distance requirement. Therefore, the Helaowan bus terminal has small impact to Helaowan Village. 6.7.3 Prevention and Control Measures for Environmental Risk Accident 6.7.3.1 Roads Network Component Forecast the occurrence of environmental risk accident from view of management and engineering design （1）Management ① During operation period of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, strict control and inspect the transportation of dangerous goods according to related regulations of Taiyuan Traffic Department. Make safety propaganda, improve safety consciousness, and try to prevent accidents before they occur. Emergency response plan shall be prepared to realize quick response in case of emergency. ②Strengthen the inspection and maintenance of the vehicles, and keep the vehicles in good state; avoid leakage of oil and toxic and hazardous substances. ③ Once leakage occurs, materials and facilities such as clout, rubber stopper and oil fence shall be available. （2）Engineering design ①Set up safety traffic management facilities correctly, e.g. warn, forbidden, speed limit, indication and direction sign. ②Traffic signal facilities: set up signal facilities in some important cross. Signal facilities include signaling machine, signal light, signal light rod, etc. For those cross has traffic light for vehicles, traffic light for pedestrian shall also be installed. ③ Safety railing shall be installed to avoid the vehicle rushing into the opposite lane by acrossing the central separator. Meanwhile, it can enable the vehicles return back to normal driving direction, minimize the impact to the people on the vehicles, and induce the sight of the driver. Northern Middle Ring Road is the urban expressway and the designed vehicle speed is 60km/h. Therefore, wave shape beam anti-collision railings are installed on both sides of the main road. Concrete anti-collision railing shall be set up on both sides of the main road bridge and interchange to ensure driving safety. ④ In order to ensure safety crossing of the road and avoid crossing road without control, pedestrian railing shall be installed within 30~120m (arterial road takes the upper limit, branch road takes the lower limit and secondary trunk road takes the middle value) on both sides of the inlet and outlet along the road curb. Or alternatively, facilities such as shrubs with separation function can be adopted to separate the pedestrian and vehicle spatially. ⑤ Consolidate the two edges of the cross-river bridge with safety railing. Sump will be considered on both sides of the bridge. Special pipeline will be adopted to introduce the stream flow collected by the bridge surface to the sump installed on both sides of the bridge. The main function of the sump is to cut off accident stream flow and starting rainwater. It also has the function of sedimentation and oil separation. 6.7.3.2 Public Transport Component （1）Management measures to avoid oil leakage 171

During oil receiving and discharging of the oil filling station, each ring shall be taken care of by special person. Under the unified command and coordination of the site commander, the oil conveying worker, oil metering person and fire-fighting safety person will patrol check and observe as per the work division to maintain all the equipment under good operation state. No accident is allowed to happen. From the view of prevention, oil tank has over-flow prevention pool and accident standby tank. If there is trend of accident, effective measures shall be taken according to the emergency response plan; make sure that no oil will be diffused to other place. During routine management, persist in daily check, weekly leakage check, and monthly consumption inspection. Each ring has respective responsible person. Combustible gas explosion concentration automatic alarm device shall be installed in oil filling station to avoid occurrence of oil leakage. （2）Measures of anti-static electricity management Aiming at the problem of producing static electricity during storage and conveying of oil, a jumper shall be used to connect the the oil conveying pipelines in oil storage tank area. Earthing device shall be installed for those metal parts of the oil tank and those metal accessories nearby which may produce static electricity. When receiving and discharging oil, control the flow rate of the oil in the pipeline as per related regulations to decrease the amount of static electricity accumulated in the oil tank. At the same time, anti-static electric agent shall be added in the oil to improve the static electric eliminating effect. 6.7.4 Emergency Response Plan 6.7.4.1 Emergency Response Plan for Roads Network Component According to related regulations and requirements, Taiyuan Municipal Government has made Taiyuan Municipal dangerous chemical goods accident emergency response plan, and set up dangerous chemical goods accident emergency response command center, who is responsible for the organizing and implementation of the emergency response to the dangerous chemical goods accident. The center members include Government Office, Secure Production Supervision and Administration Bureau, Security Bureau, Traffic Bureau, Sanitation Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau and Development and Reform Commission. The dangerous chemical goods accident emergency response command center shall set up professional emergency response groups according to actual accident condition, including fire-fighting group, wounded rescue group, safety evacuation group, security guarding group, material supply group, environment monitoring group and expert consultation group, etc. In order to protect the financial and personal safety of urban residents and villagers along the project route, and water quality safety of Fen River, Beisha River, Jian River, after completion of the project, this project shall be included in the Taiyuan Municipal dangerous chemical goods accident emergency response plan. 6.7.4.2 Emergency Response Plan For Public Transport Component According to the requirements of Guideline, emergency response plan for public transport Component shall include following contents, as shown in table 6.7-2. Table 6.7-2 Emergency response plan for public transport Component No. Item Content and requirements danger object: device area, storage tank area and 1 emergency plan zone environmental protection object emergency response organization emergency response organization and personnel of the 2 and personnel factory and local departments decide the classification grade of the response plan and 3 multi-level response condition multi-level response procedure emergency response facilities, equipment and apparatus, 4 emergency rescue guarantee etc. contact method for alarm and decide the alarm and communication method, notification 5 communication method and traffic guarantee and restriction under 172

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professional team is responsible for the monitoring of the emergent environment monitoring, accident site, assess the accident feature, parameters and 6 rescue and control measures result, provide basis for decision-making of the command department emergent inspection and protection accident site, adjacent area, fire-fighting control area, 7 measures, leakage removing measures to control and remove contamination and measures and facilities configuration of related equipment regulation on toxic matter emergency dosage for the people people emergent excavation, and public in accident site, area adjacent to the factory and 8 dispersal, emergent dosage control, area affected by the accident area, excavation organization excavation organization and plan plan and first-aid, medical care and public health. decide emergency state close procedure, handle the emergency rescue close procedure 9 aftermath of the accident, restore measures, adjacent area and restore measures white alert and restore measures after making of emergency response plan, arrange people 10 emergency response training plan to take part in training and drill carry out public education, training and publize related 11 public education and information information to area adjacent to the factory Taiyuan Public Transport Company has made series effective management systems according to related national regulations and requirements, set up safety group, which comprising production safety, fire-fighting, joint defense, integrated treatment, flood prevention and disaster relief, law popularization and mediation groups, ensuring the using and storage safety of oil in oil filling station. In comparison with emergency response plan, existing organization of Taiyuan Public Transport Company can basically meet the emergency response plan requirements, bit shortage in emergency training plan, emergency environment monitoring, and people emergency evacuation. Therefore, we request: ① The construction unit shall strengthen the coordination with local government; jointly make emergency evacuation and dispersal plan so as to minimize the disaster impact. ② Make emergency training plan, arrange people to take part in training and drill. Make sure that the accident can be reported in time and compensation measures will be taken in case of fire and explosion. 6.8 Summary of pollutant prevention and control measures This project may promote the urban traffic development of Taiyuan City, meet the demand of city expansion, lessen the traffic pressure of urban center road network and improve present condition of public transport. Although certain environmental impact may arise during construction and operation period, the adverse impact of the project may be controlled effectively by taking corresponding protective measures. According to the environmental impact report, summarize the protective measures during design, construction and operation period. Pollutant prevention and control measures for Roads Network Component and public transport Component are summarized in table 6.8-1:

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Table 6.8-1 List of environmental impact and prevention and control measures Potential impacts Mitigation measures A. Engineering design and feasibility study stage Land requisition and ①further optimize route scheme and address selection, take a devious route to avoid social communities and residential area, reduce the land requisition area. resettlement ②the resettlement plan shall be negotiated with the residents of the impacted area thoroughly. ①special design for the greening belt on both sides of overpass bridge and roads; Landscaping ②the total designed greening area is 228360m2. ③The greening rate of bus depot/terminals shall not be less than 25％. B.Construction stage ①high noise and strong vibration equipment are forbidden to work at rest period, such as noon or night. The construction unit shall adopt low noise machinery or equip sound isolation and sound silencer. ②reasonably arrange construction period and construction area: high noise working area shall be arranged far away from the sensitive points. For those construction area has big impact, temporary sound isolation enclosure shall be adopted. Or alternatively, a temporary workshop may be built near the sensitive point to substitute the sound isolation wall. Construction noise ③entrance and exit for construction vehicles will be arranged far away from the residential area, villages and schools. ④proper noise monitoring equipment will be set up near sensitive points to monitoring of noise. Following measures shall be taken in case of construction at night: If the work has to be done continuously due to unique process requirements and may produce noise at night, the construction unit shall report such issue to Taiyuan Environmental protection Bureau and apply for permit and filing, and inform the residents and hospital nearby in advance. During construction at night, noise-reducing measures such as sound isolation enclosure shall be taken to minimize the noise impact to the ambient environment. ①Before construction, related formalities of transplanting pine trees and willow trees in the forest park shall be handled in Taiyuan Forestry Bureau. If it is necessary to cut down one tree, 15 trees with breast diameter not less than 8cm shall be planted in the place designated by Urban Greening Administration Department. Otherwise, Ecological the fund can be given to the Urban Greening Administration Department, who will designate the professional personnel to supplement planting. environment ②Before construction, related formalities of transplanting the impacted trees in the middle and on both sides of the roads shall be handled at Urban Greening Administration Department. During construction, attention shall be paid to protecting neighboring trees, green land or other plantation ③During construction, the road construction shall be carried out within the red line, and the soil piles and material piles shall not inrush the field or land nearby.

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Potential impacts Mitigation measures ④Construction shall be carried out part by part orderly to avoid the scene along in great disorder. The baffles or other guard boards (wood, glass, iron sheet etc.) can be used as enclosure to reduce the contamination to the scene environment. ⑤do well the reasonable arrangement of earthwork excavation. Protective measures shall be taken to the temporary waste soil disposal area. Not carry of excavation or filling of earth in rainy day to avoid soil loss, water contamination or pipeline blockage. ⑥ save the occupied land whenever possible, arrange the construction progress reasonably. After completion of the project, clean the construction site timely. Restore the existing road and greening belt before leaving the occupied area. ①the construction unit shall handle procedures related to disposal of excavated soil/debris according to regulations, and is allowed to dispose the building refuse in designated approved sites. Solid waste disposal ②the transportation of construction vehicle shall avoid the traffic rush hour. When transporting bulk material or waste, proper loading amount shall be controlled and the vehicle shall be covered with tarpaulin. Before leaving the construction site, the external surface of the vehicle shall be cleaned to ensure no leakage or duct on the road. ①A lot of silt and oil are contained in construction waste water. Therefore, the waste water shall be discharged into the municipal pipe network after being treated in sedimentation pool. It is forbidden to discharge the waste water directly into the surface water. Surface water ②Before excavation, drilling and concrete casting, cover the four sides of the bridge foundation with cement-rubble. The produced waste water shall be treated in the contamination sedimentation pool. The clean liquid can be discharged after reach A grade as specified in national standard GB8978-1996 “Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard”.

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Potential impacts Mitigation measures ①the floor of the construction site shall be hardened. Concrete floor can be adopted in possible. ②during excavation, drilling and demolition, spray water to maintain the working area with certain humidity: for the loose and dry top soil in the construction area, spray water to avoid rising of dust; during backfilling of the earth, spray water when the top soil is dry to avoid rising of dust. Spray water on the construction transportation road to reduce the impact of dust to the ambient environment. ③strengthen the management of the backfill earth pile yard, take measures such as earthwork surface compact, regular spraying water and coverage; unnecessary mud, soil, and construction waste shall be transported away in time, not piled on the construction site for long time. ④During construction period, full-closed construction method shall be adopted to avoid dust pollution. Soil transportation truck and building materials transportation Construction dust vehicles shall be covered with tent, tarpaulin or other measures shall be taken to avoid dropping down of these materials. The loading amount shall not be too full and make sure that there is no dropping down on the way of transportation. Plan the transportation route and time, try best not to drive in sensitive points such as business center, traffic concentrated area or residential area; for those route near school and hospital, e.g. locomotive hospital, Xiangtang Primary School, Shanxi Sanfei Technical School, as well as the Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinyuanli Kindergarten, Professional Training Academy of Radio, Film & TV and Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital, the transportation shall be carried out at night to avoid the impact of dust to the environment. The soil dropped down on the road shall be cleaned in time to avoid dust-arising. ⑤During construction, the construction waste is not allowed to be used as fuel. The canteen on site shall take LPG or electric cook utensils, no oil-fired cool facility could be used. After completion of the project, the occupied road and vegetation shall be restored.

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Potential impacts Mitigation measures ①in order to minimize the impact to the urban residents lives and urban traffic condition, the running of the urban traffic vehicles shall be arranged unified to avoid traffic jam; when necessary, cooperate with Security and Traffic Administration Department to ensure smooth and normal operation of the urban traffic. Inform the residents in advance by means of radio, TV and newspapers. ②The announcement board will be set at the construction site, showing main contents and construction time of project, contact person and complaint hotline as well as asking for public’s understanding of inconvenience incurred by construction. ③During construction, there is much electricity consumption and water consumption, so the construction company shall contact with departments concerned (such as power supply bureau and tap water company etc.) in advance to determine the pipeline connecting and guiding scheme and make preparation of temporary pipeline Social environment connecting and guiding. For the area without enough local capacity, the water and electricity pipelines shall be modified in advance to avoid temporary water shortage and power failure so as to impact normal power supply and water supply of residents and industrial and mine enterprises and other public institutions nearby. ④During construction, if any cultural relics are found, it shall immediately stop earthwork excavation and report the related information to local cultural relics protection department. Unless the department in charge completes the cultural relics authentication and necessary protection measures are taken, the excavation is not allowed to continue again. ⑤ When construction is carried out near school, kindergarten, village, residential area or commercial building, temporary overpass shall be set up at those area students or residents in and out for temporarily. Dense mesh enclosure shall be adopted outside of the scaffold to ensure the safety of the pedestrians. ⑥ The hanging height and direction of the construction lighting lamps shall not affect residents’ rest at night C. Operation stage ①modified asphalt low noise road surface is adopted. Sound isolation barrier is adopted at sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, to reduce the noise impact to the residential environment. ② combining with the road greening design, plant arbors and shrubs between roads and village and buildings, which can not only reduce noise, but also beautify the environment. Noise ③ In bus depot,bus terminals, the key noise source (e.g. boiler and air compressor) shall be strictly controlled. Put forward noise control requirements to the equipment manufacturer. High noise source such as boiler and air compressor are recommended to be installed indoor and corresponding sound isolation and noise-reducing measures shall be taken. The in and out time of the vehicles shall be strictly controlled, the vehicles are forbidden to be in and out at night (22：00 ~6：00) so as not to impact the residents. Air pollutant ①the owner shall make greening on both sides of the road according to the greening design of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, as well as related

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Potential impacts Mitigation measures regulations specified in “Regulations on Taiyuan Urban Greening” (the greening area of the main urban road shall not be 25% less than the road area). Arbors and shrubs shall be planted near sensitive points. The plants are made use of to purify the exhaust gas pollutants and road dust. ②strengthen the administration of vehicles easily producing dust, e.g. vehicles transporting coal and fly ash, closed transportation measures, such as covering with tarpaulin shall be taken. ③strengthen the traffic administration, do well the traffic diversion work, ensure smooth traffic, reduce and eliminate traffic jam. When the traffic flow is too big, limit traffic flow measures can be taken in different area to reduce the exhaust gas concentration. ④after being treated by the purifier, the oil-contained waste gas from bus depot, bus terminals will be exhausted from the chimney. Gas-fuelled boiler shall be adopted instead of coal-fired boiler. ①the waste water for flushing of bus depot, bus terminals can be recycle used after being treated in oil separation tank and sedimentation tank. ②Domestic sewage water from Nanhan bus depot, Beiyan bus terminal and Yingxin Street bus terminal can be discharged into urban sewage pieline network after reaching III grade standard (being treated in septic tank) as specified in national standard GB8978-1996 “Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard”; and the domestic Waste water sewage water from Beiying bus depot, Helaowan bus terminal and the bus terminal of the zoo can be discharged to nearby drainage trench when reaching A grade pollutant standard after being treated in septic tank and “Anoxic/Oxic system” two-stage biological process. .③two edges of the cross-river bridge shall be consolidated by safety railing. Sump shall be considered on both sides of the bridge. Special pipeline will be adopted to collect the stream flow on the bridge surface and introduce them to the sump. Main function of the sump is to cut off the accident stream flow and starting rainwater, and has the function of sedimentation and oil separation. ①30m greening belt shall be installed for central separator of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road, separator for vehicle and non-vehicle lane, separator for main road and auxiliary road, and external side of the sidewalk. The greening belt for central separator shall ensure good sight distance required for main road. It should be wide enough and have good sight line, mainly consisting of shrubs and vegetation like lawn. Greening belt for other separator and external side of sidewalk shall be planted with ever-green arbors and shrubs with high appreciative value. In which, the greening area of Northern Middle Ring Road reaches 37040m2, and that of Ecological Taihang Road reaches 191320m2. The greening engineering can compensate the reduced greening area occupied by the project. environment ②Trees can be planted along the speed-change lane and ramp to induce the sight line, increase greening area and ensure sight distance. In addition, lawn can be arranged at gentle slope of the ramp range. Ever-green trees, shrubs and flowers with high appreciative value can be interspersed to beautify city environment. ③Northern Middle Ring Road has fly-over expressway. The wider space and separator under the fly-over expressway can be set as green belt, which mainly consists of ever-green trees. By interspersing of deciduous trees, shrubs and flowers, a pleasant landscape of multi-form, multi-layer and multi-color is formed.

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7. Public Participation 7.1 The Objective And Significance Of Public Participation According to the regulations of‘The Assessment of Environmental Issues in PRC’and ‘The Provisional Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment in PRC’, Huanfa, 2006（No. 28）and World Bank （OP/BP4.01）, public participation should be involved in the activities of the project. The public participation in environmental assessment of the project facilitates the local people to know the project closely and timely, and its impacts both in positive and negative entailed on. It would collect their ideas and suggestions. It is helpful to find out the means based on the public interests, making the assessment sound and justice, assuring the project performance being carried out smoothly and unperturbedly, lessening the debate about pollution might be happened during the performance and running henceforth.. 7.2 Principle And Methods Of Survey Based on the rules and regulations in the‘The Environmental Protection in PRC’,,‘The Assessment of Environmental Issues in PRC’,‘The Provisional Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment in PRC’and the policy of World Bank OP/BP4.01 and its attachments, as well as in reference of the experiences from the similar projects in home, the assessment has been made by means of following means: holding symposium, collecting written information through questionnaire, and holding press to know their worries and explain to them the measures taken to alleviate the environmental troubles. 7.3 Public Participation In The First Survey 7.3.1 Contents And Measures Of Survey The first survey was held during the constituting of the outline of environmental assessment. It has been carried out through questionnaires in the location of project and areas impacted. The project and its major consequences upon environment and the protection measures would be employed were disclosed. According to the instructions from the memorandum of delegation of World Bank during 16 to 20, October, 2006, a preliminary public survey should be held in the course of making an outline of environmental assessment. The Institute has carried out a public survey among schools, hospitals and residents along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road during 24 to 27, November, 2006. Two forms were employed, investigating personally vis-à-vis and through questionnaire; there were 28 sheets for individuals and 6 sheets for groups were collected. The contents of the questionnaire are shown in Table 7.3-1. 7.3.2 Basic Results Of Survey The basic results of public survey are shown in Table 7.3-2.

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Table 7.3-1 （a）Public Participation in Survey of Environmental Assessment for Traffic in Taiyuan（groups） The entity investigated and its post address: Stamp of the entity Outline of project: The project of the urban traffic in Taiyuan consists of 3 components, the road infrastructure component, the public transport component and the traffic safety and management component. The road infrastructure component is to build two urban speedy ways, Northern Middle Ring Road （totaling 9.95 km） and Taihang Road（totaling 10.985 km）. The traffic safety and management component includes expansion of traffic signs, improvement of line sections and junctions, non-motor vehicles and pedestrian facilities, traffic guidance system, traffic law enforcement and road safety, technical support and training.The public transport component consists of one exclusive bus line （Jianshe Road）, from the south to the north, 10 bus bay stations, 2 bus depots and 4 terminals, and intelligent dispatching system. The project impacts the local environments in following aspects: （1）Social impact: Acquisition of land, change the use of original land and the living environment of resident through land acquisition and resettlement; improve the local traffic conditions as the lines ready and promote the economic development. （2）Noise impact: The noises made by the machines during construction and traffic running. （3）Air pollution: The exhaust emitted from traffic and the dusts entailed. （4）Waste water and solid wastes: The waste water and debris come forth from the project performance. （5）Ecological environment impact: It includes vegetation, soil spoiling and soil erosion. The companies contracted the project have proposed some measures, which including initial design to project performance and running to mitigate the impact against the local environment during construction. These measures are mainly preventive as well as prevention incorporating with treatment. Ask the individuals and groups answer the questions stated in the questionnaire. It would be facilitated us to take adequate measures to cope with the results obtained, reducing the negative effect along the line come forth from the building line to a minimum. A. Option （Please mark “√”in □） 1. Do you know the project will be carried out? □ yes □ no 2. How is the situation of the local traffic? □ good □ moderate □ poor 3.The impact brought about the project is: □ improvement of traffic conditions □ promotion of economic development □ air quality □ traffic noises □ water quality around □ to animals and plants □ navigation along the river and conservatory facilities 4. What is the effect brought about project for your life? □ positive □ negative □ none 5. What is your idea about the project? □ approval □ disapproval 6. Do you accept it, if your house would be moved? □ yes □ no B. Comments and remarks Your comments and remarks about the project

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Table 7.3-1 （b）Public Participation in Survey of Environmental Assessment for Traffic in Taiyuan（individuals） Name Age Sex Education Occupation Name of the company/factory/shop or other unit you are working for and its post address. （If you are the member of People’s Congress/Women’s Federation/People’s Political Consultative Conference, please mark） Outline of project: The project of the urban traffic in Taiyuan consists of 3 components, the road iinfrastructure component, the public transport component and the traffic safety and management component. The road infrastructure component is to build two urban speedy ways, Northern Middle Ring Road （totaling 9.95 km） and Taihang Road（totaling 10.985 km）. The traffic safety and management component includes expansion of traffic signs, improvement of line sections and junctions, non-motor vehicles and pedestrian facilities, traffic guidance system, traffic law enforcement and road safety, technical support and training.The public transport component consists of one exclusive bus line （Jianshe Road）, from the south to the north, 10 bus bay stations, 2 bus depots and 4 terminals, and intelligent dispatching system. The project impacts the local environments in following aspects: （1）Social impact: Acquisition of land, change the use of original land and living environment of resident through land acquisition and resettlement; improve the local traffic conditions as the lines ready and promote the economic development. （2）Noise impact: The noises made by the machines during construction and traffic running. （3）Air pollution: The exhaust emitted from traffic and the dusts entailed. （4）Waste water and solid wastes: The waste water and debris come forth from the project performance. （5）Ecological environment impact: It includes vegetation, soil spoiling and soil erosion. The companies contracted the project have proposed some measures, which including initial design to project performance and running to mitigate the impact against the local environment during construction. These measures are mainly preventive as well as prevention incorporating with treatment. Ask the individuals and groups answer the questions stated in the questionnaire. It would be facilitated us to take adequate measures to cope with the results obtained, reducing the negative effect along the line come forth from the building line to a minimum. A. Option （Please mark “√”in □） . Do you know the project will be carried out? □ yes □ no 2. How is the situation of the local traffic? □ good □ moderate □ poor 3.The impact brought about the project is: □ improvement of traffic conditions □ promotion of economic development □ air quality □ traffic noises □ water quality around □ to animals and plants □ navigation along the river and conservatory facilities 4. What is the effect brought about project for your life? □ positive □ negative □ none 5. What is your idea about the project? □ approval □ disapproval 6. Do you accept it, if your house would be moved? □ yes □ no B. Comments and remarks Your comments and remarks about the project

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Table 7.3-2（a）. Schedule of the People Participated in Survey（individuals） No. Name Age Sex Education Occupation Working site or add. 1 Luo Wen 39 M Junior Farmer Longbao Cun Li 2 49 M Junior Farmer Longbao Cun Yuesheng 3 Li Ping 43 F Senior Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School 4 Wei Lili 35 F College Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School 5 Bei Haiyan 42 F College Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School Liang 6 46 F College Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School Ruiyan 7 Shi Chunxi 47 M College Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School Wang 8 28 M College Teacher Wangjiafeng Primary School Yanbin Institute of Administrative Cadre for 9 Wang Fuxi 44 M University Accountant Broadcast, Film and TV Polytechnic 10 Li Jixi 53 F Teacher Xinyuanli Primary School school Wang Institute of Administrative Cadre for 11 55 M Senior Teacher Haichen Broadcast, Film and TV Polytechnic 12 Li Yizhong 60 M Teacher Xinyuanli Primary School school 13 Fu Yanqun 42 M Junior Farmer Haojiagou Cun Zhang Primary Village 14 59 M Haojiagou Cun Zhixi school cadre 15 Guo Ming 60 M Senior Farmer Wangjiafeng Cun Zhao 16 41 M Senior Farmer Wangjiafeng Cun Youde Zhang 17 52 M Junior Farmer Wangjiafeng Cun Maoyong Wang 18 32 M Senior Farmer Wangjiafeng Cun Xiaoqun Ye 19 43 M University Doctor Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital Fenghua Hospital 20 Yan Yu 30 F College Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital staff Hospital 21 Niu Li 32 F College Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital staff Yin 16, Shengli（w）Street（Anguang 22 61 F Junior Saleswoman Xianghua District） Liu 16, Shengli（w）Street（Anguang 23 66 M Junior Saleswoman Jiansheng District） 14, Shengli（w）Street（Guoshuchang 24 Xue Jimei 40 F District） 14, Shengli（w）Street（Guoshuchang 25 Ma Lili 26 F College Technician District） Chen 14, Shengli（w）Street（Guoshuchang 26 50 M Technician Quanke District） Zhao 27 71 M Xiaodongliu Cun（Fengyue District） Tiesheng Ma 28 44 M junior Xiaodongliu Cun（Fengyue District） Longhai

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Table 7.3-2（b）Schedule of Public Participation in Survey（groups） No. Name of group 1 Hospital of Taiyuan Locomotive Vehicle 2 Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinghualin District, Taiyuan 3 Institute of Administrative Cadre for Broadcast, Film & TV 4 Yangjiayu Police Station, Daochanggou Cun 5 Wangjafeng Primary School, Yingze Distrct 6 Taiyuan Psychiatric Hospital

7.3.3 Preliminary Analysis Of The Results Of First Survey （1）Statistic of results The statistic results of the first public participation in survey are shown in Table 7.3-3 Table 7.3-3 Schedule of the Statistic Results of First Public Participation in Survey Results Items （﹪）

1. Do you know the project will be Yes 93.5 carried out? No 6.5 Good 0 2. How is the situation of the local Moderate 12.9 traffic? Poor 87.1 Improvement of traffic conditions 96.8 Promotion of economic development 80.6 Air quality 25.8 3.The impact brought about the Traffic noises 35.5 project is: Water quality around 6.5 To animals and plants 3.2 Navigation along the river and conservatory 0 facilities 4. What is the effect brought about Positive 80.6 the project for your life? Negative 9.7 None 9.7 5. What is your idea about the Approval 100.0 project? Disapproval 0 6. Do you accept it, if your house Accept 93.5 would be moved? Disapproval 6.5 （2）Analysis of results From the results shown in Table 7.3-3, it shows: ① Of all the people surveyed, the project was known by 93.5﹪, only 6.5﹪ did not know it. ② Of all the people surveyed, no one considered that the local traffic conditions were good; 12.9﹪ as moderate and 87.1﹪ as poor. The traffic conditions being poor were impressed in a great part of the people surveyed. They were not being satisfied with such conditions. ③ The people surveyed, 96.8﹪ noted that the project would improve the traffic conditions, 80.6﹪ deemed it would promote local economic development. Those who deemed the project would affect the air quality and traffic noises were 25.8﹪ and 35.5﹪ separately. ④ A great part of people surveyed（80.6﹪）noted that the project would give them positive effect; only 9.7﹪ deemed a negative effect and no effect. ⑤ All the people surveyed approved the project being carried out, many of them expressed their ideas that the Taihang Road would have been built 10 years ago to facilitate the

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traffic for the locals. They were looking forward to performance coming forth as soon as possible. ⑥ As to the house moving and resettlement, 93.5﹪ of the people surveyed expressed their willingness to move and resettle, only 6.5﹪ showed out reluctance. Those, who were enthusiastic to move, expect to get a reasonable resettlement and a compensation . （3）Issues worried by public ① Noises, dusts and ecology affecting the environment were much concerned by the people surveyed. They asked the contracted companies to control the environment strictly during the performance and running henceforth, employ the concrete environmental protection measures and assure the environmental quality. ② Assure the pedestrians go across the line being constructed safely. ③ The government and relevant organizations have to get the people resettled adequately. The compensations for land acquisition have to be delivered on time. The public interests have to be kept. （4）Solutions ① The preventive measures were employed separately to treat the dusts, noises and ecological impacts entailed during the performance of the project. Much attention was paid specially to the areas near schools, residents and hospitals. Notices for performance were standing at site, promulgating the working items, person-in-charge and telephone number for complaining as well as the schedule in detail for environmental control and supervision. ② As to the safety for pedestrians crossing the lines being built, it has been considered comprehensively in the various designs of the project. ③ The resettlement, compensations and means of restoration of economy for residents and shops would be arranged in accordance with the rules stated by the Government of PRC, the Shanxi Provincial Government, the Taiyuan Municipality and the policy promulgated by the World Bank. It seems that the life quality of the residents moved would not be affected greatly.

7.4 The Second Survey Of Public Participation 7.4.1 Forms Of Survey The second survey of public participation was held during January 24th to 29th. It was carried out in the forms of symposium and questionnaire. In the symposiums, a good account of the conclusions was given, such as the major environmental impacts, the treatment employed, the results of the first survey and how to practice the suggestions and solve the problems public set in the first survey exhaustively. The comments and suggestions were collected in the symposium. The pictures of symposiums are shown in Fig.43. The questionnaires delivered in the second survey were 1280 sheets. 80 sheets were delivered to the public transportation branches, where were involved. The effective questionnaires collected were 1221 sheets, rate of recovery, 95.4﹪.

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Table 7.4-1 （a）The Public Participation in Survey of Environmental Assessment for Traffic in Taiyuan（individuals） Name Age Sex Education Occupation Name of the company/factory/shop or other unit you are working for and its post address. （If you are the member of People’s Congress/Women’s Federation/People’s Political Consultative Conference, please mark） Outline of project: The project of the urban traffic in Taiyuan consists of 3 components, the road infrastructure component, the public transport component and the traffic safety and management component. The road infrastructure component is to build two lines, the Northern Middle Ring Road （totaling 9.95 km） and Taihang Road （totaling 10.985 km）；the public transport component is to build 2 bus depots and 4 bus terminals. The NO2 hour-concentration and day average concentration in the initial tests carried out along the crucial points of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road were met the requirements of second class of ‘Norms of Ambient Air Quality’. But the tests for noises showed somewhat over limits, thus, the project would employ effective measures to control the noises entailed. During the running of public transportation, the depots and the terminals would make little impacts to the environment around. Option Items surveyed （√or×）

Noises Dusts This is the tremendous impact during performance Waste water Solid wastes Disturbing the running traffic I propose the mitigating measures are: To avoid working in night To employ provisional silencers or noise damping barriers Noises To arrange properly the lines and time for traffic To use low-noisy machineries, silencers and damping barriers for air-compressor etc. The demolishment would be carried out in a closed field with fence. The space between the fence and objects is over 20m to reduce the dusts flying. Water splashing is set as a rule. Special persons are appointed to do splashing and cleaning. During the Dusts The site for performance has to be hardened. The concrete floor is employed if perfor-ma nce of possible. project The washing devices are set up for cleaning vehicles at entrance and exit. Special persons are appointed to clean vehicles, making sure no earth is contaminated by wheels. Rubbish deposit points have to be set up in site. The collection and turning out have to

be done in time. The trucks running should avoid the residential area, schools and hospitals as much as Others possible. When the performance is being done on the current line, the half-way-operation will

be employed. What kind of resettlement do you prefer, if moving is A compensation happened? Collective resettlement Noises What is the major impact during running? Exhaust emitted by car What kind of mitigating measure do you propose？ Car Keep the speed specified to reduce the exhaust emitted emission Develop special lines for public transportation The entity, such as hospital, school and residential house, would not be

set up within 100 m far from the line. Running Flooring with noise-insulation materials To set up sound-insulation barrier or sound-insulation window in case

Noises of the noise is over limits. To utilize the isolated belt between the motor way and non-motor way

for plantation to compensate the land for greening If the protective measures above-mentioned employed, do you Yes approve the project? No Indifference

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Table 7.4-2 The Public Participation of Environmental Assessment for Traffic in Taiyuan （groups） Entity surveyed and its post address. Stamp of the entity Outline of project:The project of the urban traffic in Taiyuan consists of 3 components, the road infrastructure component, the public transport component and the traffic safety and management component. The road infrastructure component is to build two lines, the Northern Middle Ring Road （totaling 9.95 km） and Taihang Road （totaling 10.985 km）；the public transport component is to build 2 bus depots and 4 bus terminals.The NO2 hour-concentration and day average concentration in the initial tests carried out along the crucial points of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road were met the requirements of second class of ‘Norms of Ambient Air Quality’. But the tests for noises showed somewhat over limits, thus, the project would employ effective measures to control the noises entailed. During the running of public transportation, the depots and the terminals would make little impacts to the environment around. Items surveyed Option （√or×）

This is the tremendous impact during performance Noises Dusts Waste water Solid wastes Disturbing the running traffic We propose the mitigating measures are: To avoid working in night To employ provisional silencers or noise damping barriers Noises To arrange properly the lines and time for traffic To use low-noisy machineries, silencers and damping barriers for air-compressor etc. The demolishment would be carried out in a closed field with fence. The space between the fence and objects is over 20m to reduce the dusts flying. Water splashing is set as a rule. Special persons are appointed to do During the splashing and cleaning. performance of Dusts The site for performance has to be hardened. The concrete floor is employed project if possible. The washing devices are set up for cleaning vehicles at entrance and exit. Special persons are appointed to clean vehicles, making sure no earth is contaminated by wheels. Rubbish deposit points have to be set up in site. The collection and turning out have to be done in time. The trucks running should avoid the residential area, schools and hospitals as Others much as possible. When the performance is being done on the current line, the half-way-operation will be employed. What kind of resettlement do you prefer, if moving is A compensation happened? Collective resettlement What is the major impact during running? Noises Car emission What kind of mitigating measure do you propose？ Keep the speed specified to reduce the emission Develop special lines for public transportation Car emission The entity, such as hospital, school and residential house, would Running not be set up within 100 m far from the line. Flooring with noise-insulation materials To set up sound-insulation barrier or sound-insulation window in case of the noise is over limits. Noises To utilize the isolated belt between the motor way and non-motor way for plantation to compensate the land for greening If the protective measures above-mentioned employed, do you Yes approve the project? No Indifference

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Table 7.4-3 Brief of the Second Public Participation in Survey Sub-item Sub-item of traffic Sub-item of public transportation Item improvement

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the half-way-operation will be employed. What kind of resettlement do you prefer, if A compensation 35.4 moving is happened? Collective resettlement 68.2 Noises 63.5 What is the major impact during running? Car emission 28.5 What kind of mitigating measure do you propose？ Keep the speed specified to reduce the exhaust 41.1 emitted.

Car emission Develop special lines for public transportation. 53.8

The entity, such as hospital, school and residential house, would not be set up within 38.0 100 m far from the line. Running Flooring with noise-insulation materials. 30.7 To set up sound-insulation barrier or sound-insulation window in case of the noise is 37.9 over limits. Noises To utilize the isolated belt between the motor way and non-motor way for plantation to compensate the land for greening 56.3

If the protective measures Yes 95.3 above-mentioned employed, do you No 2.5 approve the project? Indifference 2.2 The Table 7.4-4 shows that the people surveyed, 86.2% was worrying about the noises made during the performance; 94.2%, the dusts; 18.2%, the waste water; 24.2%, the solid wastes and 34.8%, the current traffic being affected. A great many of people expressed that should the adequate measures be employed strictly in accordance with the requirements of environmental protection, the impacts were temporary and it was acceptable. During the performance, the people, 63.5%, were worrying about the noises; 28.5%, the car emission, the companies contracted would employ adequate measures to treat noises of over limit, ensuring the public life would not be affected by performance. Additionally, the companies contracted and the entities of environmental assessment had a good account of the measures to mitigate the impacts entailed in the second public participation survey. The people, 93.5%, showed their approval, when the mitigating measures promised come forth precisely. Though the people, 2.55%, showed disapproval, no reasons were seen. 7.4.4 The General Comments And Their Treatment In Public Participation In Survey To sum up the results of survey, it shows that the public is worrying about the environment with noises and others at the utmost. The most part of the people surveyed look forward to speeding the performance and employing noise preventive measures simultaneously. The design institute and the contracted company show that they accept the public comments sincerely. They would do their best in design, performance and running to carry out the environmental protection measures, reducing the environmental impacts to a minimum.

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7.5 Publication Of Environmental Assessment 7.5.1 Publication Of Environmental Information According to the rules and regulations of “The Regulations of Environmental Protection in Project Performance”（No.253 State Council）and ‘The Provisional Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment in PRC’, the companies contracted published the projects at Taiyuan in December 28, 2006. The projects published are shown in Fig. 44. No comments or proposals in connection with the environmental protection was received from public.

Fig.44 The Annoucement of Environmental Information of theProject. 7.5.2 Publication Of Environmental Assessment Of Project According to the‘The Provisional Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment in PRC ’ the companies contracted published the assessment on Taiyuan economic web site（http:∥www.tyeic.gov.cn）, the following items were published: the project, the environment could be affected by performance, the protective measures employed and the report of environmental assessment. The brief of the report was published at http:∥www.ecidi.com. In addition, the companies contracted published the assessment on Taiyuan Daily, Taiyuan Municipal Government web site（http:∥www.taiyuan.gov.cn） and Taiyuan TV station from 28~30 July 2008 for the second time to notice the related information to get the comments and remarks from the public about the environment assessment results and report of the project.

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Fig.45 The Annoucement of Environmental Information of theProject.

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8 Environmental Management And Monitoring Plans This project may bring a certain influence to the surrounding social ecological environment, natural environment, social economic environment and public living quality in construction period and operation period. It is required to establish a necessary environmental management and monitoring plans for construction period and operation period of road construction in order to take the effective environmental protection measures in time for reducing or eliminating the disadvantage influence. It is mainly for monitoring timely and accurately the real effect brought by the project on the environment, supervising the implementation of environmental protection measures for the project, as well as checking whether the forecast result and evaluating conclusion in the Environment Impact Assessment Report are correct or not. 8.1 Purpose The environmental management plan will state the content in the aspects of environmental mitigation measure, management, supervision and monitoring in details. It is a guidance document for implementing these activities, functions as following: (1) Determine the environmental mitigation measures for impacted object. The project construction office, the environmental impact assessment unit and the design unit should put forward the effective environmental mitigation measure and bring it into engineering design after detailedly checked and affirmed the field of the impacted object. (2) Provide the guidance document of environmental management and supervision. The environmental management plan will be provided to the construction supervision unit, the environmental supervision unit and other related units in construction and operation periods as the environmental protection text after reviewed by the World Bank. (3) Clarify the liability and function of the related function units and management organizations and establish the communicating path and method among departments. (4) Put forward the environmental monitoring plan in construction and operation periods. In order to ensure effective implementing of the environmental mitigation measure and deal with the unexpected or gusty environmental problem in time, the environmental monitoring plan is brought forward in the environment managing plan. 8.2 Environmental Management System 8.2.1 Establishing Environmental Management System The special environmental management organization, which takes charge in engineering environmental management, environmental monitoring, environmental supervision and etc., should be established for this project, according to the relative regulations and the needs of actual engineering. For the detail management system, see figure 43.

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Shanxi provincial EPA Taiyuan municipal Govt.

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Environmental management and execution organizations in design and construction periods Design unit unit Design supervision supervision Monitoring Station Construction contractor contractor Construction Taiyuan Environmental Environmental Taiyuan Engineering environmental environmental Engineering

Figure 43 Environmental management system The responsibility of each environmental management and execution organization for World Bank financed Taiyuan urban transport project: (1) Taiyuan World Bank Financed project Office and Immigrant Environmental Assessment Department Responsibility: the Office organizes the feasibility study on the construction for the Road Infrastructure (RI) Component and the Public Transport (PT) Component, establishes the immigrant environmental assessment department, at least two full-time environment managing persons shall be assigned, who are responsible for the environment management of the Road Infrastructure (RI) Component and the Public Transport (PT) Component respectively, review concrete requirements on environment management in tender documents and contract, presides over the environmental protection work of the project and constitutes environmental protection plan and environmental management system in design stage; (2) Taiyuan Construction & Management Committee and Taiyuan Public Transport Company Responsibility: Taiyuan Construction & Management Committee, Taiyuan Construction & Management Center and Taiyuan Public Transport Company shall assign one full-time environment managing person, who is in responsible for preliminary design, bidding, construction organization, contract management, quality control of the Road Infrastructure (RI) Component (Taiyuan Construction & Management Committee is responsible for the

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Northern Middle Ring Road, Taiyuan Construction & Management Center for Taihang Road) and the Public Tranport Componet (Taiyuan Public Transport Company) respectively, and the operation and management after the projects built up. Organizing management principle: the Taiyuan urban transport project will be carried out according strictly to the construction procedure of foreign-funded project, the relative domestic laws and code and the requirements of World Bank, standardizing management and ensuring smooth implement of the engineering. ① Being responsible for project construction and operation management after it built up. The execution unit should persist in project legal person responsibility system, project public bidding system and engineering supervision system, plan management, strengthen engineering quality, progress, investment control, increasing investment benefits. ② The design, supply, construction and supervision units will be choose through public bidding method. For individual small project and small quantity material purchase, the contract method will be adopted in choosing the construction and supply units. The necessary qualification examination should be carried out for the chosen units. ③ The design, supply, construction and supervision units should fulfill the necessary legal procedure with the project legal entity and bear the corresponding liability for breach of contract. (3) Construction contractor Responsibility: the construction contractor should organize the construction according to the national and local environmental protection codes, based on the requirements in project contract, carry out civilization construction and protect environment as the environmental protection measures and suggestions given in the environmental assessment report, and entrust Taiyuan Environmental Monitoring Station to monitor the environment during construction. The construction contractor should assign special (or pluralistic) environment managing personnel to control and manage various pollution sources in site. Especially, the working time of the high noise and vibration equipment should be controlled strictly. (4) Environmental supervision of engineering The environmental supervision of the engineering will be performed by the engineering supervision unit, at least one environmental supervision engineer should be assigned for each component, with the responsibility as following: ① Supervise and inspect the sewage disposal in production and living, the control measure for exhaust gas, dust and noise in the construction area, as well as the environmental protection works in the immigrant resettlement region; ② Observe the impact the construction activity brings to the public around the construction area and determine whether the additional protection measures should be taken by the construction contractor; ③ Put forward the solution for environmental protection related problem met by the contractor during construction, prepare monthly report of environmental supervision; (5) Taiyuan Environmental Monitoring Station Responsibility: The owner will assign Taiyuan Environmental monitoring station to monitor, periodically or aperiodically, the environmental monitoring index of water, air and noise in construction area, impacted area and during operation, put in the environmental monitoring report to the project environmental management office of Taiyuan City. 8.2.2 Environmental supervision organization The environmental supervision organization of World Bank financed Taiyuan urban tranxport project consists of the immigrant environmental assessment department under Taiyuan World Bank Financed Project Office, Shanxi Provincial and Taiyuan municipal Environmental

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Protection Agencies (EPAs) The supervision is carried out by stages: (1) Feasibility study and preliminary design stages ① The immigrant environmental assessment department under Taiyuan World Bank Financed Project Office is responsible for environmental protection work for road instratructure component and organizing the preparation of Environment Impact Report. ② Shanxi Provincial EPA is completely responsible for environmental management of the project, examines and approves Environmental Impact Report, instructs Taiyuan EPA to execute the related codes and is charge of the completion acceptance for the environmental protection facilities. Taiyuan municipal EPA supervises and manages the environmental protection work for the road instratructure component and public transport componet, organizes and coordinates the relative organizations to supply service for environmental protection works, supervises the implementation of the environment action plans for components and is responsible for the completion acceptance of the environmental protection facilities. (2) Construction stage: Under the charge of the immigrant environmental assessment department under the Office and the Shanxi provincial EPA. Taiyuan municipal EPA, under the instruction of Shanxi provincial EPA , supervises the construction unit to carry out environment action plan, executes the codes and standards related to environmental management; coordinates among departments to do well the environmental protection work; is responsible for construction, completion acceptance, operation inspection, supervision and management of the environmental protection facilities of the project. Responsibility: ① Based on the related national construction managing regulations and operating rules, together with actual construction plan and anti-pollution measures given in environmental assessment report, constitutes the focused management method and detailed management plan of environmental protection, especially for establishing and carrying out the training in environmental knowledge and monitoring for engineering contractor and environmental supervision engineer. ② Inspect the construction site regularly, supervise the status of the construction unit in implementing the environmental management method, deter and correct the constructing action that is inconsistent with the management method in time. ③ Investigate and deal with the resident-disturbed or pollution problems occurring during construction. (3) Operation stage It is under the supervision of Shanxi provincial and Taiyuan municipal EPAs and the department in charge of the project. The competent department of the project is responsible for carrying through and implementing the environmental protection codes and standards, the environmental protection measure in the operation period, which is given in environmental assessment report, and reports the implementing status to Shanxi provincial and Taiyuan municipal EPAs. 8.2.3 Procedure of Environment Management For the management procedure of environmental protection for Taiyuan urban trancport project, see Fig 44.

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Preparation Project proposal Preliminary analysis for environmental impact of project

Pre-assessment Feasibility study Outline of environmental impact assessment

Assessment Planning Environment Assessment Report

Formal assessment Preliminary design Implementing plan of mitigation measure (Primary)

Negotiation Bidding document Implementing plan of mitigation measure (final)

Approved by board Project construction plan Supervising implementing plan of of directors mitigation measure

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Fig.44 Management procedure of environmental protection for Taiyuan urban transport project

8.2.4 Contents of Environmental Management In order to efficiently control the environmental pollution during engineering construction, not only the construction quality and schedule of the engineering should be managed, but also the civilizing construction, the implementation of the mitigation measure for environmental impact and contract provisions regarding environmental protection must be supervised and inspected. (1) The environmental protection measure in construction period will be put into the contract text by the construction unit during project contracted out, the builder is required to execute it strictly. A rewards and punishment system will be implemented. (2) The builder should organize the construction based on the requirement of the engineering contract according to the environmental protection and environmental sanitation codes constituted by the state and local government. Furthermore, the builder should carry out the civilizing construction and protect environment according with the environmental protection measures and suggestions given in environmental assessment report. (3) Entrust the engineering supervision unit to assign the special supervision engineer of environmental protection to supervise the builder to take the environmental protection measures during construction. (4) The builder should assign special (or pluralistic) environment managers to control and manage various pollution sources in site. Especially, the working time of the high noise and

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vibration equipment should be controlled strictly. （5）Do well the propaganda works. The environment pollution caused by construction cannot be avoided even the corresponding control measures have been taken due to the limitation of the technical condition and construction surroundings, so the propaganda to the impact resident should be well done for increasing their psychological endurance on disadvantage influence, understanding, conquering the temporary difficult and assisting the builder to fulfill the engineering smoothly. (6) The resettling location selected for the removed resident in construction should be assessed environmentally in advance and planed scientifically. The supporting facilities should be completed for ensuring the living quality of the removed resident. (7) The competent department of construction and the builder should establish a “letters and calls office” and hot line to receive the complaint from the public. The problem and complaint of the citizen should be well settled by special personnel in specified time. 8.2.5 Environmental Enforcement Because of the biggish difference of the environmental management contents and different working time between the construction and operation periods of the project, the separate organization should be established for carrying out the environmental management for constructing project using in-stages method. Table 8.2-1 shows the management plan of environmental supervision during implementation of the project.

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Table 8.2-1 Responsibilities for Environmental Enforcemen Responsible Stage Responsibilities Purpose Agency 1.Ensure the environmental assessment contents completed, the special topic set properly and the emphases Shanxi outstanding provincial and 2.Ensure the reflection of the important Taiyuan 1.Audit environmental impact report potential problem that may occur in the municipal project EPAs 3.Ensure the mitigation measures for environmental impact with feasible

Feasibility study and study and Feasibility design preliminary implementation plan 1.Check whether the investment for 1.Ensure the environmental protection environmental protection fulfilled put into operation 2.Check the renewing of the land 2.Ensure the surface water not be occupied temporally, vegetation and polluted environment 3.Discharge of construction waste water 3. Check the treatment of the living meets the standard without polluting the Shanxi sewage and construction waste water surface water provincial and and whether the discharge reached 4.Ensure ecological environment and Taiyuan the standard land along road not be destroyed municipal 4.Check the pollution control of dust heavily and renewed already

Construction Construction EPAs and noise, determine the working 5.Reduce the construction influence on time surroundings, implement the related 5.Check environmental protection environmental protection codes and facilities “three simultaneousness”, standards ensure the finishing time limit 6.Ensure “three simultaneousness” 6. Check whether the environmental 7.Ensure normal operation of the protection facilities met the standard environmental protection facility 1.Inspect the implementation of 1.Fuifill the monitoring plan monitoring plan 2. Feasibly protect environment 2.Inspect whether the further 3.Strengthen environmental environmental protection measures management and feasibly protect public Shanxi should be taken (unexpected health provincial and environmental problems may occur) Taiyuan 3.Inspect whether the environment municipal Operation Operation quality in the environmental EPAs sensitive area meets the corresponding quality standard 4.Inspect the disposal condition of solid waster during construction 8.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan 8.3.1 Purpose and Principle Of Establishment Establishing the environmental monitoring plan is for the sake of supervising the fulfillment of measures, adjusting the environmental protection plan timely based on the monitored results, supplying the basis for implementing time and scheme of environmental protection measure. The establishment principle is based on the main environmental impacts expected in each period (construction or operation period). 8.3.2 Monitoring Organization Taiyuan Environmental Monitoring Station, which is a national qualification unit for environmental quality monitoring with complete equipments and strong techniques, will carry out the environmental monitoring during construction and operation. 8.3.3 Environmental Monitoring Scheme The environmental monitoring scheme is established based on the engineering features of the

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Table 8.3-1 Environmental monitoring plan of road infrastructure component Monitoring scheme Construction period Operation period Type Items Northern Northern Middle Middle Ring Taihang Road Taihang Road Ring Road Road Contamination source Fugitive dust during constructing Exhaust of vehicle

Monitoring factor TSP NO2、PM10 “Quality standard of environment “Quality standard of environment air” Quality air” （GB3095-1996）（GB3095-1996） standard Executive class II standard Class II standard standard “Emission limit and measuring method of Discharge － contamination for light vehicle” standard （GB18352.1-2001） Broadcasting, Movie Jiche Hospital, and TV Management Xiangtang School, Monitoring point At sensitive points on building road Cadre College, Sanfei Vestibule aiyuan Spirit Care School Hospital 2d/m, each in morning and Environment air Environment air Monitoring frequency afternoon during constructing One for completion acceptance fastigium Cost (ten thousand Yuan) 4.0 4.0 6.7 5.0 Taiyuan Environmental monitoring Execution organization Taiyuan Environmental monitoring Station Station Taiyuan Taiyuan Construction Construction Taiyuan Construction Taiyuan Construction Organization in charge and and and management and management management management Comission Center Comission Center Contamination source Noise of construction machine Traffic noise Monitoring factor LAeq(dB) LAeq(dB) Quality “Standard of environment noise for “tandard of environment noise for urban standard urban area”（GB3096-93） area”（GB3096-93） Emission “Noise limits at boundary of Executive — standard construction site” （GB12523-93） standard “Measuring method of environment Measuring “Measuring method of environment noise for noise for urban area” standard urban area” （GB/T14623-93）（GB/T14623-93） Broadcast, Movie Jiche Hospital , and TV Management Boundary of construction site and Xiangtang Primary Monitoring point Cadre College, surrounding sensitive points School, Sanfei Taiyuan Psychiatric Technical School Hospital Monitoring frequency 1 d/m, 2 times a day（day, night） One for completion acceptance Environment noise Environment noise Cost (ten thousand Yuan) 3.0 2.0 4.0 3.8 Taiyuanl Environment Monitoring Execution organization Taiyuan l Environment Monitoring Station Station Taityuan Taityuan Taityuan Taityuan Construction & Construction & Construction & Organization in charge Construction & Management Management Management Management Center Committee Center Committee Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Supervision organization Management Office Management Office

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Table 8.3-2 Environmental monitoring plan of public transport component Monitoring scheme Type Items Construction period Operation period Bus depot and Bus stop Bus depot and terminal terminal Contamination source Fugitive dust during constructing Boiler flue gas, oil smoke, gas station and etc.

Monitoring factor TSP NO2、oil and gas pollutant “Quality standard of environment air” “Quality standard of environment air” Quality （GB3095-1996）（GB3095-1996） Executive standard Class II standard Class II standard standard Emission “Emission standard of air pollution for boiler” － standard （GB13271－2002） Choosen based Helaowan Monitoring point on construction Boiler chimney exhaust and plant boundary Village course 2d/m, each in morning and afternoon Once every winter, Monitoring frequency during constructing fastigium 1 to 2 days each time Cost(ten thouand Yaun) 4.0 2.0 9.0 Taiyuan Environment Monitoring Execution organization Taiyuan Environment Monitoring station station Organization in charge Taiyuan Public Transport Company Taiyuan Public Transport Company Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project

Environment air Environment air Supervision organization Management Office Management Office Contamination source Noise of construction machine Equipment noise Monitoring factor LAeq(dB) LAeq(dB) Quality “Standard of environment noise for “Standard of environment noise for urban standard urban area” （GB3096-93） area” （GB3096-93） Emission “Noise limits at boundary of “Noise standard at boundary of industrial Executive standard construction site” （GB12523-93） corporation” （GB12348-90） standard “Measuring method of environment Measuring “Noise measuring method within boundary of noise for urban area” standard industrial corporation” （GB12349-90）（GB/T14623-93） Choosen based Helaowan Monitoring point on construction Around bus depots and terminals Village course Monitoring frequency 1 d/m, 2 times a day（day, night） One for completion acceptance Cost(ten thousand Yuan) 1.0 2.0 4.5 Taiyuan Environment Monitoring Execution organization Taiyuan Environment Monitoring Station Station Organization in charge Taiyuan Public Transport Company Taiyuan Public Transport Company Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project

Environment noise Environment noise Supervision organization Management Office Management Office Contamination source Construction waste water Living sewage

Monitoring factor - SS CODCr、ammonia nitrogen, petroleum Quality “Quality standard of surface water “Quality standard of surface water standard environment” （GB3838-2002） environment” （GB3838-2002） “Integrated discharge standard of “Integrated discharge standard of sewage” Discharge Executive sewage” （ GB8978-1996 ） Class I （GB8978-1996） standard standard standard Class I standard “Monitoring analysis method of Measuring “Monitoring analysis method of water and water and waste water (4th standard waste water (4th edition )” edition )” Discharge port of Monitoring point - construction Discharge port waste water Monitoring frequency 1 d/m, 2 times a day（day, night） 2 times/y，2 days/once，once in day and night Cost(ten thousand Yuan) - 1.0 2.0 Water environment environment Water

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Taiyuan Environment Monitoring Execution organization Taiyuan Environment Monitoring Station Station Organization in charge TaiyuanPublic Transport Company Taiyuan Public Transport Company Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Taiyuan municipal EPA and Project Supervision organization Manageement Office Management Office 8.3.4 Environmental Monitoring Report (1) Environmental monitoring report in construction period The construction of this road engineering will take about 3 years. It may be divided into several stages of housing removal, piping removal, piping transfer, drainage engineering construction, road engineering construction, traffic sign, marking construction/ acceptance and etc. based on the different engineering contents. The environmental monitoring department should compile”Stage report of environmental monitoring” (twice every year) according to the national environmental management codes of construction project and business requirement of World Bank, in order to make the environmental protection department be certain that the environmental protection measures are being taken as the related requirement given in the approved environmental monitoring plan, so that the disadvantage environmental impact in the project plan can be controlled. “Stage report of environment monitoring” should cover: Setup of environmental management organization, engineering progress, main constructing contents and methods, environment impact caused and measure of mitigating impact and the implementing status of the measures. The resident’s complaints and corresponding solutions should also be included as necessary. Except for the above monitoring report, the builder should compile daily and monthly reports, submitting it to superior department in charge and local environmental protection department. (2) Environmental monitoring report in operation period After this project put into operation, the environmental monitoring department will compile “Environmental monitoring report” regularly (once a year). It should mainly include: setup of environmental management organization and the project operation status, the fulfilled status of reviewing opinions put forward by the environmental protection department for last report, the monitoring system (including time, frequency, points and used instruments and devices, applicable standard), statistical analysis result of monitored data, and further prevention and control measures to be taken. The environmental monitoring report compiled by the environmental monitoring department should be submitted to Taiyuan Environmental Management Office for the Project , then to the environmental protection expert group of World Bank, Shanxi provincial and Taiyuan municipal EPAs by the Immigrant Environmental Assessment Department, reporting the fulfilled status of the environmental protection measures. 8.3.5 Operation Cost Of Environmental Monitoring Table 8.3-3 shows the monitoring cost of this project in construction and first year operation periods. Table 8.3-3 Monitoring cost of project in construction and operation periods Unit: ten thousands Yuan/year Monitoring Project Environment air Noise Waters Subtotal items Construction 8 5 / 13 Road Infrastructure period component Operation 11.7 7.8 / 19.5 period Construction 6 3 1 10 Public transport period component Operation 9 4.5 2 15.5 period Total 58.0

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8.4 Environmental Supervision Due to the environmental impacts caused by this project mainly occur in construction period, from the view of environmental management, the environmental supervision during construction period will be performed by engineering supervision unit. For the environmental supervision plan, see table 8.4-1. Table 8.4-1 Environmental supervision plan in construction period Item Requirements of environmental protection 1.Select high-efficiency and low- noise machines, pay attention to the correct operation and regular maintenance of the equipment during construction, reducing the noise to Acoustic minimum. environment 2.The construction encampment, material field and equipment should be far from the villages and residence. Generally, the distance should be larger than 200m. The high-noise sources should be stop to operate in night if the distance less than 200m. 1.The construction wastes and the cleanings of the ground surface must not be dumped near by the waters. It should be transported or disposed according to the requirements Water specified by the environmental protection department. environment 2.The washing water should be drained to a collecting basin for reusing. The oil-contained waste-water for cleaning the machines should be drained to a anti-seepage basin for natural evaporation. 1.Balance the earthwork in construction process. The engineering should be constructed step by step. Protect, as far as possible, the vegetation in the place that may not be disturbed. 2.Use the existed road to transport the material to construction site. The service road must Ecological not be built at will. environment 3.It is strictly prohibited to work in strong wind and heavy rain weathers, reducing water and oil losses. 4.The construction rubbish should be cleaned off in time and transported to the appointed backfill field by the qualified transportation company consigned. 1.The dust should be reduced through frequent watering in site during construction. It is strictly prohibited to work in strong wind weather. Environment 2.The construction material should be piled leeward and covered with tarpaulin. air 3.The transportation vehicle should be driven slowly, throwing and sprinkling is strictly prohibited. Cultural The digging must be stopped immediately if any cultural relic and historical site is relic and discovered, report the relative condition to the local cultural relic protection department. historical Before the competent department finishes appraisal and the necessary protection measure site is taken the digging must not be restarted.

8.5 Completion Acceptance Of Environmental Protection Facility The engineering design should aim to the project features. It should emphasize the control works in waste-water, exhaust gas, noise and solid wastes, ensuring the contamination discharge to reach the related standard after the built project put into operation. According to the requirements given in “Management regulation of completion acceptance for environmental protection facility of construction project” , the builder is required to apply for completion acceptance to the environmental protection department in charge and prepare acceptance monitoring plan. The completion acceptance monitoring will be carried out after the acceptance-monitoring plan approved. Before completion acceptance, the basic information should be prepared, including the environmental impact report, the completion acceptance monitoring report of environmental protection, execution report of environmental protection and etc.. 8.6 Training Of Environmental Management In order to carry out the project smoothly and efficiently, the whole staff must be trained, especially, the constructing staff should be trained in environmental protection knowledge and

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skill. Besides explaining the significance of the implementing project to the whole staff, the different training with different emphasis points should be carried out for staffs on different posts. The training mode will be based on the management level and the importance of the environmental protection post, combining the domestic and abroad trainings. The training plans are shown in Table 8.6-1 and Table 8.6-2. Table 8.6.1 Training program of environmental protection technician for road infrastructure component Duration Cost Personnel Training content Mode Number Date (day) (×104 Yuan) Basic theory of Construction 2 peoples environment and One month environmental every monitoring method, Domestic before 4 10 protection construction writing monitoring construction personnel section report, post training Environmental supervision engineer, 1-2 peoples environmental Environment-protection every management code, construction construction One month personnel of planning , section, Domestic before 3 10 construction environmental 2-4 peoples construction unit, monitoring rule and for management criterion construction personnel of unit project environment Senior Abroad advantage environmental experience in traffic One month management environmental Abroad 6 before 15 30 personnel , management and noise operation environment control method engineer Total 22 50

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Table 8.6.2 Training program of environmental protection technician for public transport component Duration Cost Personnel Training content Mode Number Date (day) (×104 Yuan) Basic theory of Environmental 2 peoples environment and One month protection every monitoring method, Domestic before 4 5 personnel in construction writing monitoring construction construction section report, post training Environmental supervision 1-2 peoples engineer, Environmental every environmental protection code, construction managers of One month construction planning , section, construction Domestic before 3 5 environmental 2-4 peoples unit, construction monitoring rule and for management criterion construction personnel of unit project environment Abroad advantage experience in traffic Senior environmental environmental management and noise One month managers control method, Abroad 6 before 5 20 environmental operation technique of operation engineer daily waste water treating and gas station safety operation training Total 12 30

8.7 Investment in Environmental Protection In order to reach the harmonious unity in economic construction and environmental protection, a series of efficient environmental protection measures will be taken in this project. By preliminary estimation, 27.7448 millions Yuan (27,744,800) will be invested in environmental protection for the road infrastructure component, 2.7623 millions Yuan (2,762,300) for the public transport component. The details are shown in Table 8,7-1 and Table 8.7-2.

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Table 8.7-1 Investment in environmental protectionfor road infrastructure component Investment (ten thousands Yuan) Period Content Estimating Remark Media, public notice 10 Billboard in construction Social 5 environment site Temporary bridge, net 15 enclosure Maintenance of stocked 5 soil Renewing of destroyed Urban 25 vegetation ecology Treatment of soft-coverage for stocked 5 material Hardening treatment of 20 construction site Construction Air period Watering 15 Monitoring 8 Temporary facilities for 15 Noise reducing noise Monitoring 5 Waste water Disposal of waste water 20 Disposal of engineering Transport to appointed backfill 50 Solid wastes spoil field Disposal of living rubbish 20 Environmental supervision in construction 100 100 period Unexpected items 15.9 Total 333.9 Accounted in engineering Greening of Taihang Road 1429.52 Ecological already compensation Greening of Northern Accounted in engineering 240.76 Middle Ring Road already Air Monitoring (Year 2011) 11.7 Operation Sound insulation barrier 447 period Noise Monitoring (Year 2011) 7.8 Risk Collecting basin at two 140 prevention sides of bridge Unexpected items 113.8 Total 2390.58 Training 50.0 Total 2774.48 Proportion in total investment (%) 2.02

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Table 8.7-2 Investment in environmental protection for public transport component Investment (ten thousands Yuan) Period Content Estimating Remark Media, public notice 3 Social Billboard in construction environment 2 site Maintenance of stocked 3 soil Renewing of destroyed Urban 10 vegetation ecology Treatment of soft-coverage for stocked 2 material Watering 2 Air Construction Monitoring 6 period Temporary facilities for 5 Noise reducing noise Monitoring 3 Waste water Disposal of waste water 1 Disposal of engineering Transport to appointed 5 Solid wastes spoil backfill field Disposal of living rubbish 5 Environmental supervision in 50 construction period Unexpected items 4.85 Total 101.85 Ecological Greening area is 25% of Greening 32 compensation occupied land Monitoring Air 9 (Year 2011) Noise treatment of boiler room and air 30 Noise compressor Operation Monitoring 4.5 period (Year 2011) Disposal of waste 60 water Waste water Monitoring 2 (Year 2011) Unexpected items 6.88 Total 144.38 Training 30 Total 276.23 Proportion in total investment (%) 0.76

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9 Conclusion and suggestions of assessment 9.1 Outline of Project World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project mainly includes components of road infrastructure and the public transport. 9.1.1 Road infrastructure component The road infrastructure component includes new building of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road as well as necessary accessory works such as drainage and lighting. Northern Middle Ring Road is urban asphalt concrete paved rapid road and its main route and auxiliary route has dual-direction 6 lanes and dual-direction 4 lanes respectively. It adopts the mode of “ground rapid road + auxiliary road” and “overhead road & auxiliary road” and builds public traffic stops, passenger subway and unobstructed facilities with total length 9.95km. Taihang Road is urban asphalt concrete paved urban trunk and adopts ground road mode. It builds public traffic stops, passenger subway and unobstructed facilities with total length 10.985km. 9.1.2 Public Traffic Sub-Project In the public transport component, it will newly build one bus rapid transit, harbor-shaped bus stops for main routes, 2 bus depots 4 bus terminals and bus intelligent dispatching system. It will new build 11.45km special rapid lane southwards from Nanzhong Ring and westwards to Shengli Street and along-route totally 14 intermediate bus stops are built, including transit stops. It will newly build Nanhan bus despot and Beiying bus despot with maintenance scale of 330 and 325 vehicles respectively and 4 bus terminals (Nanxin Street, Zoo, Helaowan and Beiyan) and conduct GPS/GPRS operation dispatch system. 9.2 Analysis of Conformity with Industry Policies and Related Planning This construction project basically meets requirements of “Overall urban plan of Taiyuan City (1998-2010)” and “Comprehensive urban traffic plan of Taiyuan City”, belongs to encouraged urban public traffic construction project in “Guide contents of adjustment of industrial structure (2005-edition)” and conforms to state industry policies. 9.3 Assessment of Current Situation of Environmental Quality (1) The indexes (pH, suspended substances, CODCr, BOD5, petroleum, total-P and total-N) of West section of Fen Senyuannan Street conform to criteria type-IV of “Surface water environment quality standard” (GB3838-2002) and meet requirements on environmental function. For the water quality of section of Yinzequao, except for conformity of pH, petroleum and total-N, other indexes else (CODCr, BOD5 and total-P) somewhat fail to conform to standards. (2) Except for measurement points of Longbaocun and Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital, the day and night acoustic environment quality along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road somewhat fails to conform to standards. The monitored noise value at day and at night is 58.5～68.8dB (A) and 50.1～68.8 dB (A) respectively, which is mainly attributed to surrounding road traffic noise. Except that the night and day acoustic environment quality of the land lot where Nanhan bus depot, Beiying bus despot and Helaowan bus terminals shall be built conforms to criteria for type-2 of “Standard of urban regional environment noised” (GB3096-93), the monitored noise value of other regions else is rather high and fails to conforms to criteria for type-2, which is mainly attributed to surrounding road traffic noise. (3) Except for individual measurement points, NO2 index along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road conforms to criteria for grade-2 of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996). However, except that merely the monitor results of measurements points of PM10 on 10 and 11 March conforms to criteria for grade-2, that of other measurement points

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fails to conform to standards. 9.4 Prediction of Environmental Impact during Construction Period Preventive and Control Measures 9.4.1 Social Environmental Impact during Construction Period and Preventive and Control Measures (1) Analysis of social environmental impact during construction period This urban traffic project main includes new building of Northern Middle Ring Road, Taihang Road and grade separation bridge, and building of special public traffic lane, and new building of public traffic bus despots and initial-terminal bus stops. It requires long time for fore-phase preparations, including removal of pipelines and houses and ground leveling. During the construction period, partial existing urban roads will be utilized, which impacts urban traffics and renders impact and inconveniences to urban habitants. This project will newly build Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road. During the construction period great amount of construction plants and transport cars will be used and this will increase the traffic volume on existing along-route roads and interfere with urban traffics. Especially during construction process it would impair traffics of surrounding roads, such as Sangei Road, Heping Road, Binhexi Road, Binhedong Road, Datong Road, Jiefangbei Road, Jianshe Road, Shenglidong Street, Nannei Ring Street, Xitaibao Street, Changfeng Street and Xinjian Road. During construction of Northern Middle Ring Road, Taihang Road and the fast special lane, the traffics of surrounding roads would be somewhat impacted. During construction process, the ground and underground ducts and pipelines such as water supply and drainage pipeline, gas pipeline, thermal power pipeline, telecom pipeline and power-supply would be removed and resettled. But they will neither be interrupted nor impact normal use of habitants. (2) Preventive and control measures for social impact during construction period Before construction, full preparations shall be made to ensure normal social life, such as detailed survey of roads, power supply and telecom, and coordination shall be in advance made with related authorities in determining the scheme of removal and resettlement under principle of removal-after-building. In order to minimize the impact of the project construction habitants’ life and urban traffics, during the construction period the traffic routes shall be under unified diversion to avoid jam. If necessary, one should coordinate with public security and traffic management departments to ensure free and normal urban traffics and in advance notify public through broad casting, TV and newspaper. In the construction site announcement boards shall be set up, which shall be indicated with main contents, construction period, contact person and complain hotline. Due to high water- and electricity-consumption during the construction period, the construction unit shall in advance contact with related authorities (such as electrical power supply bureau and water supply company ) to determine the pipelining scheme, connect temporary pipelines, and reform the water- and electricity-supply pipelines for the local sections of insufficient capacity so as to avoid temporary interruption and ensure normal water- and electricity-supply of along-route habitants, enterprises and institutions. If cultural relic is found during construction process, excavation shall be immediately stopped and the case shall be reported to local cultural relic protection departments. Before completion of certification of the cultural relic by the competent authorities and taking necessary protective measures, excavation shall not be resumed. During construction nearby school, kindergarten, villages, residential area and commercial house, in the access of students and habitant temporary simple bridges shall be set up and the scaffolds shall be enclosed with dense screen to ensure safety of walkers. The construction lamps shall be fixed at a height and orientation not impairing habitants’

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night rest. 9.4.2 Analysis of Impact of Urban Ecological Landscape (1) Analysis of impact of urban ecological landscape during construction period The project will permanently acquisition land 2324.77-mu, including farm land 93.74-mu (common crops), and agricultural-forestry land 144-mu (nursery). Within the land-occupation range there is no rare plant, famous tree, or ecological sensitive variety, and the project will not generate great impact on diversities of plants of Taiyuan City. In addition, Northern Middle Ring Road will pass southern margin of forest garden and occupy its 762m2 of vegetation (mainly about 126 pines, 863 willows, 25 flowering peaches, and 26 violet-leaf Japanese plums), which is merely 0.036% of the total area of the garden. The trees are man-planted ones and the ecological impact to the forest garden is very low. The main body of the project is in urban area, and the land is flat. It involves a few of high-filling and deep-cutting and there is basically no loss of water or soil. However, during construction process, temporary stacking of excavated earth-rock, sand, stone, cement, clay, spoil, and wastes would somewhat impair urban ecological environment. Especially, if the stacked spoil is scoured by rainwater due to improper protection, the roads or drainage pipelines would be blocked and traffic and appearance would be impaired During the construction period, if at transport of excavated earth-rock, sand, tone and cement improper protective measures would result in massive dusting, which would impair pavements, green belts and environmental and harm habitants. (2) Protective measures for ecological landscape during construction period Before construction the pines and willows of forest garden shall be subjected to re-planting formalities in Taiyuan Forestry Bureau. The re-planting shall be under technical guide of forest garden-appointed technicians and the re-planted trees shall be well protected. Every cutting of one tree due to construction requirement, 15 trees of chest diameter not below 8cm shall be replanted in competent urban greening authority-appointed place or pay the competent urban greening authority to engage technicians for re-planting. Before construction the impacted trees in middle or by both sides of road sections shall be subjected to re-planting formalities in Taiyuan Forestry Bureau. The re-planting shall be under technical guide of forest garden-appointed technicians and the re-planted trees shall be well protected. One should replant the trees in the previous community as far as possible and strive to make them survive. The trees destroyed by permanent occupation of land shall be compensated. During construction the trees and green belts of adjacent areas shall be protected. The construction roads shall be built within the red lines as far as possible and the earth and materials shall be prevented from introduction to nearby farmland. The construction shall be orderly made in sections to keep the along-route landscape and also protection boards shall be enclosed (wood board, glass or steel sheet) to minimize landscape contamination. The cutting and filling shall be rationally coordinated and protective measures shall be taken for temporary spoil stacking yard. Cutting or filling shall not be made during rainy period to avoid loss of coil, contamination of water or blocking of drainage pipeline. Under the prerequisite of meeting project construction requirements, the land shall be saved as far as possible and the construction rationally scheduled. After completion of the project, the construction site shall be cleared off and the recovered place, roads and vegetation shall be recovered to the original state. 9.4.3 Prediction of Noise and Atmospheric Environmental Impact During Construction Period and Preventive and Control Measures The road construction noise rather obviously impacts 50m around the construction site and also somewhat impacts within 50～100m, especially night construction. However the impact

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is temporary and short-term and it will disappear after completion of construction activity. Generally, the impact is understood and recognized by habitants. However, the development organization and the construction unit shall take necessary noise control and management measures to minimize the environmental impact of construction noise and ensure normal life and rest of along-route habitants. Cutting and filling of construction subgrade, land leveling, stacking and transport of building materials, and mixing of cement and concrete would generate dusting contamination and surrounding environmental impact may be reduced through hardening of site ground, sprinkling and setting of enclosure. For the road sections nearby schools and hospitals requiring high environmental quality, such as Locomotive Hospital, Xiangtang Primary School, Shanxi Sanfei Technical School in Northern Middle Ring Road and Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinyuanli Kindergarten, Broadcasting, Film and TV Management Cadre College and Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital in Taihang Road, transport shall be made at night to reduce environmental impact by dust and the earth dropped on road dropped during transport process shall be timely cleared off. 9.4.4 Prediction of Environmental Impact By Construction Wastewater and Solid Wastes During Construction Period and Preventive and Control Measures During the construction period the wastewater is mainly storm-resulted massive silt-carried surface run-off, construction wastewater and domestic sewage of construction personnel. The construction wastewater includes slurry water generated during cutting and boring, cooling water and washing water for equipment, and oily sewage generated during operation and maintenance of construction plants. If the sewage is directly discharged, the accommodated water body would be impaired. The construction wastewater contains massive silts and oils and shall be settled and treated before discharge to municipal network. Direct discharge to surface water shall be prohibited. During the construction period the sewage from site dinning room shall be separated from oil and slag and then together with domestic sewage discharged to municipal network. During the construction period, many residual soils and slag (including that from removal of old houses), spoil during surface cutting, residual materials and domestic refuses would be generated in the site. In this project, the estimated spoil is ca. 1.56 million m3 and most of spoil and the residual soil from removal is transported to Taiyuan Construction Refuse Refill Yard (Zhaoyuan Construction Refuse Refill Yard, Shuiyu Construction Refuse Refill Yard, Shanzhangtou Construction Refuse Refill Yard and Tuqiaogou Construction Refuse Refill Yardeach ca. 5km from the project area). The central-refilled spoil shall be timely and ecologically recovered through planting or grassing. Hence, the project spoil generates not high environmental impact. 9.4.5 Analysis of Impact of Resettlement For resettlement in this project, the ownership exchange mode or money resettlement mode is adopted at voluntary option of the removal households. During the removal period the normal life of the habitants of the removal houses would be impaired, but the impact is temporary and short-termed. After proper resettlement as per the resettlement policies and compensation of the state, Taiyuan Municipal People’s Government and the World Bank, the removal and resettlement merely generates limited impact In addition, the to-be-removed houses are simple and old houses and the residential environment is rather poor. In this project the resettlement houses are built in accordance with urban construction plan, completed with necessary public facilities and sewage treatment plant, and subsequently built with roads and public traffic routes, which will improve the life environment of the resettled habitants and generate low environmental impact.

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9.5 Prediction of environmental impact during operation period and preventive and control measures 9.5.1 Analysis of Social Environment Impact and Preventive and Control Measures 9.5.1.1 Analysis of Social Environment Impact Taihang Road and Northern Middle Ring Road are the key to solve the difficult traffic of habitants in eastern and northern area of Taiyuan East and implementation of the public transport component will obviously improve Taiyuan traffic conditions, road accessibility and habitants’ life quality. 9.5.1.2 Preventive and control measures for social environmental impact The main impact by the construction project to the along-route habitants is that some communities are separated by new-building roads, which makes habitants inconvenient in traffics and increase of traffic volume. In order to minimize the impact to along-route habitants, the following measures shall be taken: (1) In the densely-populated areas (Xiaodongliucun, Jin’an residential area, Daochanggoucun and Wangjiafengcun), schools (Xiangtang Primary School, Shanxi Sanfei Technical School, Xinyuanli Primary School, Xinyuanli Kindergarten and Broadcasting, Film and TV Management Cadre College), and hospitals (Locomotive hospital and Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital) overhead bridges, traffic lights, and zebra crossings shall be provided with. (2) In accordance with actual conditions of urban traffics, walkway and its width as well as blind way shall be designed. 9.5.2 Prediction and Analysis of Impact of Environmental Air and Preventive and Control Measures 9.5.2.1 Prediction and analysis of impact of environmental air during operation period (1) Outside 20m from central line of Northern Middle Ring Road, the NO2 hourly concentration and daily mean concentration value are lower than the value specified for criteria of Grade-II of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996) and the downwind contaminant concentration from 20m to 200m gradually decreases. During 2011 to 2025 with increase of traffic volume NO2 contaminant concentration gradually increases but it conforms to criteria of Grade-II of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996). (2) Outside 15m from central line of Taihang Road, the NO2 hourly concentration and daily mean concentration value are lower than the value specified for criteria of Grade-II of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996) and the downwind contaminant concentration from 20m to 200m gradually decreases. During 2011 to 2025 with increase of traffic volume NO2 contaminant concentration gradually increases but it conforms to criteria of Grade-II of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996). (3)The prediction shows that prediction at the sensitive points along Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road the NO2 hourly concentration and daily mean concentration conform to criteria of Grade-II of “Standard of environmental air quality” (GB3095-1996). (4) With operation of new-built special public traffic lanes, the conditions of public traffic roads will be improved and vehicle running speed will be somewhat increased, which will reduce the disadvantageous impact to atmospheric environment by idle of vehicle. After operation, the public traffic bus despots and the bus terminals would somewhat impact the surrounding environment. 9.5.2.2 Impact of environmental air during operation period and preventive and control measures The development organization shall green both sides of Northern Middle Ring Road and Taihang Road as per the requirements on greening design requirements and “Taiyuan Urban Greening Regulation” (the ratio of green belt over the trunk not below 25%) and especially plant arbors and shrubs at the along-route sensitive points so as to purify the road dust and the

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contaminants from car tail gas. The in-bulk transport vehicles, especially that transporting coal and fly ash and liable to dust shall be intensively managed and enclosed with cover. The traffic shall be intensively managed and controlled to keep unblocked. In case of excessive traffic volume, the traffic volume in some sections may be limited to reduce tail gas discharge concentration. 9.5.3 Prediction and Analysis of Noise Impact and Preventive and Control Measures 9.5.3.1 Prediction and Analysis of Noise Impact During Operation Period (1) In 2011 of operation initial-period, the noise value at both day and night of 2 sensitive points of Northern Middle Ring Road (Locomotive Plant Hostel and Jin’anxincun) conforms to standards and the noise of 7 sensitive points (such as Anguang Residential Area, Xiaodongliucun, Xiangtang Primary School) at day conforms to standards but that at night fails to conform to standards (1.1～8.4dB (A) higher than the standard value). The noise value of other sensitive points at both day and night exceeds the standard value by 1.5～10.8dB (A). In 2017 of operation middle-period and 2025 of operation late-period, the noise value of Northern Middle Ring Road Locomotive Plant Hostel at both day and night conforms to standards, and the noise value of 5 sensitive points (such as Taiyuan Fruit Tree Farm Hostel, Anguang Residential Area and Jin’anxincun) conforms to standards but that at night exceeds the exceeds the standard value. The noise value of other sensitive points else at both day and night somewhat exceeds the standard value. In 2011 of operation initial-period, the noise value at both day and night of 14 sensitive points (such as Taihang Road Zhaoyuan Residential Area, Zhigongxincun and Xinyuanli Primary School) conforms to standards and noise value of 9 sensitive points (such as Xiaozaogoucun and Taiyuan Spirit Care Hospital Hostel) at day conforms to standards but that at night exceed value by 1.3～8.4dB (A). The noise value of other sensitive points else at both day and night exceeds the standard value 1.0～9.0dB (A). In 2017 of operation middle-period and 2025 of operation late-period, the noise value at both day and night of 5 sensitive points (such as Zhaoyuan Residential Area, Xingyuan Residential Area, Xinyuanli Primary School and Daba’ergoucun) conforms to standards. The noise value of other sensitive points else at both day and night somewhat exceeds the standard value (2) The highly noisy devices in public traffic bus despots and initial-terminal bus stops mainly include boiler house and compressor and they shall be taken with measures to isolate or reduce noise. According to the survey results of common public traffic bus despots, their boundary noise at both day and night conforms to criteria of Type-II area of “Boundary noise standard of industry enterprises”. After completion of the project the surrounding acoustic environment will be less impacted. 9.5.3.2 Noise Impact During Operation Period and Preventive and Control Measures (1) On basis of the noise prediction and analysis results of impact of the along-route environmental sensitive targets and the environmental features of the roads, it is suggested to adopt improved asphalt low-noisy pavement and install noise barriers for the serious unqualified sensitive points. (2) The highly noisy devices in public traffic bus despots and initial-terminal bus stops mainly include boiler house and compressor and they shall be indoors arranged and taken with measures to isolate or reduce noise. 9.6 Public Participation This public participation is careful and feasible and all participants are voluntary. Twice public participation and wide-range medium disclosure provide to people an easy way to understand the project, to the impacted habitants a good communicating channel and makes people deeply recognize the project. In the second public participation, 95.3% of participants support this project, which reflects people’s urgent desire to improve current traffic situation

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and their full understanding on the environmental problems likely occurring during the project construction period and operation period. 9.7 Overall conclusion World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project will promote development of Taiyuan urban traffics, meet requirement of urban expansion, further eliminate restrictions on urban goods traffics, release traffic pressure of downtown, improve transportation network traffic and safety measures, intensify mechanism organization, and upgrade capacity of urban planning and decision-making. It basically meets requirements of “Overall urban plan of Taiyuan City (1998-2010)” and “Comprehensive urban traffic plan of Taiyuan City”, belongs to encouraged urban public traffic construction project in “Guide contents of adjustment of industrial structure (2005-edition)” and conforms to state industry policies. Through taking corresponding environmental protection measures, the disadvantageous impact will be effectively controlled. Hence, from view point of environmental protection this project is feasible.

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Appendix 1

Document of Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission JFGWZF [2007] 1078 Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission Reply to Proposal of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project Taiyuan Municipal Development and Reform Committee: Your document (BFGWZ [2007] 96) and attached project proposal are received. In order to promote development of Taiyuan urban traffics, meet requirement of urban expansion, further eliminate restrictions on urban goods traffics, release traffic pressure of downtown, improve transportation network traffic and safety measures, intensify mechanism organization, and upgrade capacity of urban planning and decision-making and in combination with “Comprehensive urban traffic plan of Taiyuan City” and “Taiyuan Urban Traffic Investment Plan of “11th Five-year Period”, through our careful discussion it is hereby reply as follows: I. Construction target: Building a simple, safe, fair, effective and sustainable urban traffic environment (including various traffic modes, such as public traffic, bicycle, walking and motorized vehicle), and putting a sound basis for creating a suitable residential city. II Construction contents The project consists of 4 sub-projects: improvement of transportation network, public traffics, traffic management and road safety, and intensification of mechanism. The transportation network improvement sub-project includes new building of Northern Middle Ring Road (fast road) and Taihang Road (trunk). In the public traffic sub-project, it will newly build one south-north and one east-west special public traffic lane, harbor-shaped bus stops for main routes, 1 public traffic park, 5 initial-terminal bus stops, and public traffic intelligent dispatch system. The sub-project of traffic management and road safety includes capacity expansion of traffic signal system, improvement of traffic organization of road section and inter=cross, regional non-motorized car and walkman facilities, traffic induction system, traffic law implementation and road safety instruction, technical research and training. The sub-project of intensification of mechanism consists of technical research, project technical management, technical training and investigation, guidance in lecture, consultation services, and purchase of related equipment and materials. III. Total estimated investment of project and sources of funds The total investment of the project is 2.96 billion RMB, including 2.33 billion RMB of sub-project improvement of transportation network, 78.8% of total investment, 380 million RMB of sub-project public traffics, 12.8% of total investment, 220 million RMB of sub-project traffic management and road safety, 7.4% of total investment, and 30 million RMB of sub-project intensification of mechanism, 1% of total investment. This project utilizes World Bank Loan 150 million USD, 40% of total investment, and domestic fund 1.76 billion RMB, 60% of total investment. The domestic fund shall be integrally arranged by Taiyuan Finance. Partial funds during the construction period shall be solved by loan of commercial banks, which shall be annually refunded by Taiyuan Finance. The budget income of Taiyuan Finance shall preferentially meet the requirements of utilization plan of the World Bank Loan project and its implementation schedule. IV Economical benefit and social efficiency The inner yield ratio of the project investment is 14.2%. After completion of the project, increase of the car running speed and shortening of travel will save transport cost and time. In addition, it will increase the running speed of nearby transport network and thus realize the

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effect of saving transport cost and time. After receiving this document, you are required to supervise further perfection of environmental impact assessment report and resettlement report, ply and implementation scheme of each sub-project, join the international and domestic examination and approval procedures, and timely report us the latest progress of project.

Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission (Seal) 12 November 2007

Key words: Foreign investment, loan, project, reply Submitted to: State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, Shanxi Provincial Government, Niu Renliang Deputy Governor Copied to: Department of Finance of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan Municipal Government Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission Office Printed and issued on 26 November 2007

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Appendix 2 Taiyuan Environmental Protection Bureau Reply to Applicable Standards for Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project (Northern Middle Ring Road street and Taihang Road) East China Investigation and Design Institute under CHECC: Your “Letter for Confirmation of Applicable Standards for Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project” was received. In accordance with “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment”, “Management Regulations on Environmental Protection of Construction Project” and “Management Method of Environmental Standards”, it is hereby to reply as follows: I. Standard of environmental quality 1. Environmental air: It shall be applicable to criteria grade-II of “Environmental air quality standard” (GB3095-1996). 2. Surface water: Northern Middle Ring Road-cross Fen River section, Jian River section and Taihang Road-cross Beishahe River section shall be applicable to criteria type-IV of “Surface water environment quality standard” (GB3838-2002). 3. Ground water: It shall be applicable to criteria for Type-III of “Standard of Ground water” (G/T14848-93). 4. Environmental noise: It shall be applicable to “Standard of urban regional environment noise” (GB3096-93). II. Standards of contaminant discharge 1. During the construction period, the criteria for Type-II of “Comprehensive discharge standard of atmospheric contaminants” (GB16297-1996) shall be applicable to asphalt fume. 2. Boundary noise: It shall be applicable “Boundary noise standard of industry enterprises” (GB12348-90) and “Notice on Environmental Noise in Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Project of Highway and Railway (including light rail)” of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, HF [2003]94. 3. Boundary noise of construction site: It shall be applicable to “Limit value of boundary noise of construction site” (GB12593-90). 4. Solid wastes: They shall be applicable to “Contamination Control Standard of Storage and Disposal Place of Common Industrial Solid Wastes” (GB18599-2001) Taiyuan Environmental Protection Bureau (Seal) 11 June 2007

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Registration form of examination and approval of construction project environmental protection Filling unit (Seal): East China Investigation and Design Institute under CHECC Filled out by (Signature): Project clerk (Signature): Construction project Project name World Bank Loan Taiyuan Urban Traffic Project Construction place Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province Newly building 2 roads ( Northern Middle Ring Roadn and Taihang Road) and 1special public traffic Construction lane, and building public traffic harbor-shaped bus stops for main routes, 2 public traffic bus despots ,4 Construction nature ■ New building □ Reform and expansion □ Technical reform contents and scale initial-terminal bus stops and public traffic intelligent dispatch system Type of environmental Trade type Urban traffic impact assessment ■ Preparing report □Preparing form □ Filling registration form management Investment in Total investment 173381 environmental protection 3051.03 Ratio (%) 1.76 (10000 RMB) (10000 RMB)

n organizatio t developmen the unit assessment East China Investigation and Design Institute under Unit name Tel Unit name Tel CHECC Add PC Add 22 Chaowang Road, Hangzhou PC 310014 Contact No. of Assessment Legal representative GHPZ A-2001 person certificate expenses

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