Public Disclosure Authorized Restructuring of the Urban Component Under World Bank Loaned Lushan Earthquake Reconstruction and Risk Reduction Project Public Disclosure Authorized Environment Impact Assessment Report Public Disclosure Authorized April 2020 Public Disclosure Authorized Contents CHAPTER 1 GENERAL ............................................................................................... 1 1.1 ORIGIN OF PROJECT AND NECESSITY OF CONSTRUCTION ......................................... 1 1.1.1 Origin of project ............................................................................................. 1 1.1.2 Necessity of construction ............................................................................... 2 1.2 PREPARATION BASIS ................................................................................................... 2 1.2.1 Laws on environmental protection ................................................................. 2 1.2.2 Regulations on environmental protection ...................................................... 3 1.2.3 World Bank policies ....................................................................................... 3 1.2.4 Main technical guidelines............................................................................... 7 1.2.5 Related technical documents .......................................................................... 7 1.3 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT .................................................................................. 8 1.3.1 Category of project EIA ................................................................................. 8 1.3.2 Overview of preparation of subproject EIA reports ....................................... 8 1.3.3 Main scope of assessment ............................................................................ 10 1.3.4 Assessment standards and objectives of environmental protection .............. 11 CHAPTER 2 PROJECT OVERVIEW ...................................................................... 17 2.1 PROJECT LOCATION ................................................................................................. 17 2.2 CONSTRUCTION CONTENT, SCALE AND INVESTMENT .............................................. 18 2.3 PLAN COMPATIBILITY............................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER 3 OVERVIEW OF REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT ............................. 23 3.1 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ......................................................................................... 23 3.1.1 Overview of natural environment ................................................................ 23 3.1.2 Overview on the ecological environment..................................................... 26 3.2.1 Overview of social environment .................................................................. 29 3.2.2 Traffic conditions ......................................................................................... 30 3.3 CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ..................................................................... 31 I 3.3.2 Investigation and assessment of current water environment quality ...... 31 3.3.3 Investigation and assessment of current atmospheric environment quality . 33 CHAPTER 4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES36 4.1 ANALYSIS OF IMPACTS ON SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT .................................................. 36 4.1.1 Analysis on positive social benefit ............................................................... 36 4.1.2 Negative impact on social environment and mitigation measures ............... 39 4.2 MAIN IMPACT ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION MEASURES ............................................ 44 4.2.1 Impacts on ecological environment and mitigation measures ..................... 44 4.2.2 Impact on water environment and mitigation measures............................... 49 4.2.3 Impact on atmospheric environment and mitigation measures .................... 52 4.2.4 Impact on acoustic environment and mitigation measures .......................... 57 4.3 HEALTH AND SAFETY MITIGATION MEASURES (ESPECIALLY FOR COVID-19) ...... 64 CHAPTER 5 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................. 71 5.1 PURPOSE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ........................................................................ 71 5.2 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION METHODS ........................................................................... 71 5.3 PUBLIC NOTIFICATION ............................................................................................. 72 5.4 NOTICE POSTING ...................................................................................................... 72 5.5 PUBLIC CONVERSAZIONE ......................................................................................... 73 5.6 QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY ......................................................................................... 74 CHAPTER 6 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PLAN ........................................................................................................................................ 78 6.1 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION ................................................... 78 6.1.1 Environmental management system and procedures ................................... 78 6.1.3 Supervision organization .............................................................................. 79 6.2 CONTENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ....................................................... 82 6.3 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS TRAINING ................... 83 6.4 EXECUTION PLAN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MEASURES ........................ 89 6.4.1 Environmental protection measures and cost estimates ............................... 89 II 6.4.2 Execution plan for environmental protection measures ............................... 95 6.5.1 Purpose of environmental monitoring ........................................................ 100 6.5.2 Environmental monitoring plan ................................................................. 100 6.5.3 Supervisory control and monitoring report procedures.............................. 103 6.5.4 Implementation suggestions on public participation during construction period ............................................................................................................................ 103 CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................. 105 ATTACHED FIGURES ............................................................................................. 106 SCHEDULES ............................................................................................................... 111 SCHEDULE 1: SUMMARY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION PUBLICITY IN THE PROJECT ................................................ 111 III Chapter 1 General 1.1 Origin of project and necessity of construction 1.1.1 Origin of project At 8:02, April 20, 2013, a Magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Lushan, Sichuan, causing severe damages to people’s life and properties in the disaster area. Lushan earthquake affected around 2,184,000 people in 32 counties (cities or districts) including Ya’an, Chengdu, Leshan, Meishan, Ganzi, Liangshan and Deyang in Sichuan. For Ya’an City, 4.20 Lushan Earthquake damaged the urban infrastructures in “2 districts and 6 counties” in Ya’an City to a certain degree, seriously affecting local residents’ production and life and causing heavy losses to local economy. In order to improve the city’s ability to avoid disasters, restore the daily life and work of local residents, ensure the safety of people's lives and property and implement the urban sustainable development strategy, World Bank loans will be used according to the State Council’s Comments on Supporting Policies and Measures for Post-Lushan Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction, to improve the resilience of disaster-resistant infrastructures in disaster-stricken areas, strengthen risk prevention and improve disaster response capability. In accordance with the requirements and work arrangements of the National Development and Reform Commission and taking into account the needs of post-disaster reconstruction, urbanization and industrialization of the disaster area in Sichuan, the WB loans of 270 million US dollars are intended for the development of urban infrastructures in 7 counties (districts) in Ya’an City, i.e. Lushan, Yucheng, Tianquan, Mingshan, Yingjing, Baoxing and Shimian determined in the Mater Plan for Post-Lushan Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction, so as to improve the local disaster-relief and risk-avoidance 1 capabilities. At present, seven districts and counties in Ya'an City have actively invested the World Bank loan funds into the construction of the city's disaster-resistant infrastructure. After the procurement of civil works contracts, there are still some funds left. Four districts and counties in Ya'an City, namely Yucheng, Tianquan, Yingjing and Lushan, will use the remaining funds to enhance the urban drainage function, perfect the urban flood control and emergency rescue system and improve their respective comprehensive disaster prevention capability. 1.1.2 Necessity of construction The Restructuring Project includes embankment construction, flood discharge channel construction, emergency shelter construction, and road construction. Its implementation will help to improve the resilience of disaster-resistant infrastructure in the project area,