E4617 V4 REV Certification No：No.2834 EIA Certification Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental Impact Assessment Report Public Disclosure Authorized Poverty Alleviation and Agriculture Development Demonstration in Poor Areas Project (Gansu) Public Disclosure Authorized Prepared by: Guangzhou EP Environmental Engineering Ltd In May, 2014 Public Disclosure Authorized Table of Content 1 GENERAL .............................................................................................................................................................- 1 - 1.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................................... - 1 - 1.2 COMPLIANCE ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................... - 2 - 1.3 SUPPORTING EVIDENCE AND STANDARDS FOR ASSESSMENT ............................................................................... - 1 - 1.4 ASSESSMENT GATEGORY, CLASS, SCOPE AND TIME........................................................................................... - 12 - 1.5 ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION OBJECTIVES .......................................................................................................... - 16 - 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................... 18 2.1 PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND COST ........................................................................................................................... 18 2.2 PROJECT COMPONENTS AND PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ..................................................................... 18 2.3 TECHNICAL STANDARDS OF PROJECT CONSTRUCTIONS ........................................................................................ - 35 - 2.4 DUE DILIGENCY INVESTIGATION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ - 38 - 3 THE BASELINE SITUATION OF ENVIRONMENT QUALITY AND SOCIAL STATUS ......................- 41 - 3.1 NATURAL CONDITION OF PROJECT SITES .............................................................................................................. - 41 - 3.2 THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS IN PROJECT AREA ....................................................................................... - 45 - 3.3 NATURAL RESERVES, CULTURAL RELICS AND WATER SOURCE PROTECTION AREAS IN PROJECT AREAS ............ 47 3.4 SURVEY AND EVALUATION ON THE STATUS OF ENVIRONMENT QUALITY ............................................................. 48 4 ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION .......................... 57 5 IMPACT ANALYSIS ON AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................... 58 5.1 PLANTING ACTIVITY ................................................................................................................................................. 58 5．2 ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION ON LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT PROJECT .............................. 74 5.3 PRODUCT PROCESSING .......................................................................................................................................... 86 5.4 RESOURCES CARRYING CAPACITY ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................ 87 5.5 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSIMILATIVE CAPACITY ANALYSIS ........................................................................................ 95 6 ALTERNATIVE SCHEME ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................ 101 6.1 PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMPARISON ANALYSIS .......................................................................................... 101 6.2 ZERO SCHEME ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................................................... 101 6.3 COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MANURE TREATMENTS OF SMALL-SCALE HUSBANDRY ........................................ 104 6.4 COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MANURE TREATMENTS OF LARGE SCALE ANIMAL FARM ......................................... 108 6.5 COMPARISON OF RESIDUE FROM FARMLAND AND ORCHARD ......................................................................... 112 7 PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND DISCLOSURE ............................................................................................ 114 7.1 DISCLOSURE ........................................................................................................................................................ 114 7.2 PUBLIC CONSULTATION ...................................................................................................................................... 114 7.3 RESULTS.............................................................................................................................................................. 117 8. ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PLAN（EMP） ................................................ 132 8.1 INSTITUTE AND DUTY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT........................................................................... 132 8.2 MITIGATION MEASURES ...................................................................................................................................... 134 8.3 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING PLAN ................................................................................................... 166 8.4 ENVIRONMENT MONITORING PLAN ........................................................................................................................ 169 9 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................................... - 174 - Environment Impact Assessment Report of Poverty Alleviation and Agricultural Demonstration in Poor Areas Project 1 General 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Project Location and It’s Characteristics Poverty Alleviation and Agriculture Development Demonstration in Poor Areas Project covers 16 counties or districts of Dingxi, Qingyang, Tianshui, Pingliang, Linxia and Wuwei cities including Longxi, Weiyuan, Tongwei, Lintao, An’ding, Huachi, Zhengning, Heshui, Huanxian, Zhang Jiachuan, Zhuanglang, Jinning, Yongjing, Dongxiang and Gulang counties or districts totalling 56 townships and 241 villages with comparative advantages for developing industries with special local features and for income increasing industries in the Liupan Mountains of Gansu. Gansu Province is an inland province located at the northwest and on the conjection of Losses Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau and Qinghai and Tibetan Plateau with the crossing of inland river, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. It is one of the poorest provinces in China. The total land area of Gansu is 454 thousand km2. Gansu has 14 cities or prefectures governing 86 counties or cities, districts. By the end of 2012, the total population was 26570 thousand including 17830 thousand of rural population making up 67% of total provincial population. Gansu is a province where many different Chinese ethnic groups lived. Population of 54 minority groups making up 9.3% of total provincial population. Among which, Dongxiang, Yugu and Baoan are the minorities which only live in Gansu. In 2011, the GDP was CNY502 billion growing 12.5%. The fiscal revenue was CNY45.04 billion growing 27.4%. The per capita disposable income of urban resident was CNY14988 increasing 13.6%. The per capita net income of rural resident was CNY3909 increasing 14.2%. The province has abundant human resources with 12770 thousand labors including 5 million of surplus workforces (see more details in Annex 1), which is favorable for developing labor-intensive industries. Moreover, the province has large areas of land and diversified ecologies and climates, and is rich in light and heat resources. The temperature ranges differently between day and night. And the province has little environment pollutions. It is favorable for agriculture with local features and processing of green foods. And Gansu is the biggest provice for potato production, the important areas for the production of apple, herbal medicine and plateau summer vegetables, and is one of the biggest pastural provinces. Besides those, Gansu has poor natural condition, small economic outputs with low per capita GDP and high proportion of poverty. Those are the important factors for constraining the development. - 1 - Environment Impact Assessment Report of Poverty Alleviation and Agricultural Demonstration in Poor Areas Project 1.1.2 Project Justifications Chinese government will spend the World Bank loans to support 27 national designated poverty stricken counties of three western provinces namely Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu to implement poverty alleviation and agriculture development demonstration in poor areas project. And in accordance with relevant environment protection policies of Chinese government and the safeguard policies of the World Bank, the environment assessment report and environment management plan are required. In order to take full consideration of environment impacts during project implementation and mitigating negative impacts at project design, construction and operation stages, and in accordance with Environment Protection Law of China, Environment Assessment