Initial Environmental Examination

<a href="/goto?url=http://www.adb.org/Documents/RRPs/?id=49423-005-3" target="_blank">Bangladesh Power System Enhancement and Efficiency Improvement Project (RRP BAN 49423) </a>Initial Environmental Examination March 2017 Bangladesh: Bangladesh Power System Enhancement and Efficiency Improvement Project Prepared by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCBL) and Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB), Government of Bangladesh for the Asian Development Bank. This initial environmental examination is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the <a href="/goto?url=http://www.adb.org/terms-use" target="_blank">“terms of use” </a>section on ADB’s website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.: Initial Environmental Examination Bangladesh: Bangladesh Power System Enhancement and Efficiency Improvement Project (Component 1: Transmission System Development in Southern Bangladesh) Prepared by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCBL), Government of Bangladesh for the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 22 September 2016) Currency unit Tk.1.00 –== Taka (Tk) USD0.01276 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Tk. 78.325 </li><li style="flex:1">USD1.00 </li></ul>This initial environmental examination is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the <a href="/goto?url=http://www.adb.org/terms-use" target="_blank">“terms of use” </a>section on ADB’s website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Abbreviations ADB AEZ AIS Asian Development Bank Agro-ecological Zone Air Insulated Switchgear BBS BEZ BMD BOD BREB BWDB CEGIS CITES COD DAE DC Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Bio-ecological Zone Bangladesh Meteorological Department Biochemical Oxygen Demand Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board Bangladesh Water Development Board Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services Convention on International Trade in endangered species Chemical Oxygen Demand Department of Agricultural Extension Deputy Commissioner DEPC DESCO DG Department of Environmental Pollution Control Dhaka Electric Supply Company Director General <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DIA </li><li style="flex:1">Direct Impact Area </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DO </li><li style="flex:1">Dissolved Oxygen </li></ul>DoE DoF Department of Environment Department of Fisheries <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DoL </li><li style="flex:1">Department of Livestock </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">EA </li><li style="flex:1">Executing Agency </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">EC </li><li style="flex:1">Electrical Conductivity </li></ul>ECA ECR Environment Conservation Act Environment Conservation Rules i<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">EIA </li><li style="flex:1">Environmental Impact Assessment </li></ul>Environmental Management Plan Environment Quality Standards Food and Agriculture Organization Forest Department EMP EQS FAO FD FGD FIDC FRSS GIA Focused Group Discussion Forest Industries Development Corporation Fisheries Resources Survey System General Impact Area <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">GIS </li><li style="flex:1">Geographic Information Systems </li></ul>Grievance Redress Committee Grievance Redress Mechanism Grid Substation GRC GRM GS GoB HES HH/HHs HYV IA Government of Bangladesh Health Environment and Safety Households High Yielding Variety Implementing Agency <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">IEE </li><li style="flex:1">Initial Environmental Examination </li></ul>Important Environmental and Social Component Implementing NGO Agency IESC INGO IUCN LGRC JICA MDG MoEF MoU International Union for Conservation for Nature Local Level Grievous Redress Committee Japan International Cooperation Agency Millennium Development Goal Ministry of Environment and Forest Memorandum of Understanding ii MPEMR NCA NCS NEMAP NG3 Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Net Cultivated Area National Conservation Strategy National Environment Management Action Plan National Grid 3 NGO NoC Non-Governmental Organization No Objection Certificate OMS PAPs PBS Operation Management System Project Affected People (s) Palli Bidyut Samiti PCM PMU PGCB PGRC PPE People’s Consultation Meeting Project Management Unit Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. Project Level Grievous Redress Committee Personal Protection Equipment <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Public Works Department </li><li style="flex:1">PWD </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">RP </li><li style="flex:1">Resettlement Plan </li></ul>RCC RoW RRA RS Reinforced Cement Concrete Right of Way Rapid Rural Appraisal Remote Sensing SCADA SPM SPS Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Suspended Particulate Matter Safeguard Policy Statement Soil Resources Development Institute Shallow Tube Well SRDI STW <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">ToR </li><li style="flex:1">Terms of Reference </li></ul>iii <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">TL </li><li style="flex:1">Transmission Line </li></ul>TSP UP Triple Super Phosphate Union Prishad <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">UNCED </li><li style="flex:1">United Nations Conference on Environment and Development </li></ul>UNDP WB United Nations Development Programme World Bank iv Weights and Measures <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">oC </li><li style="flex:1">-</li><li style="flex:1">degree Celsius </li></ul>decibel acoustic hectare dB(A) - <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">ha </li><li style="flex:1">-</li></ul>--km km/h kg kilometer kilometer per hour kilogram kV mkilo Volt --meter m3 cubic meter <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">m3/hr - </li><li style="flex:1">cubic meters per hour </li></ul>milligrams per liter milimeter mg/l mm m/s MT -<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">-</li><li style="flex:1">meters per second </li></ul>metric ton MW ppm ppt ---megawatt parts per million parts per thousand Square kilometer Taka sq/km - <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Tk </li><li style="flex:1">-</li></ul>μg/m3 - microgram per cubic meter vGlossary Adverse Impact: An impact that is considered undesirable. Ambient Air: Surrounding air. Aquatic: Growing or living in or near water. Bangla: Bengali language. Baseline (or existing) Conditions: The ‘baseline’ essentially comprises the factual understanding and interpretation of existing environmental, social and health conditions of where the business activity is proposed. Understanding the baseline shall also include those trends present within it, and especially how changes could occur regardless of the presence of the Project, i.e. the ‘No-development Option’. Bazar: Market. Beel: A ‘back swamp’ or depression can be either perennial or seasonal. Beneficial Impacts: Impacts, which are considered to be desirable and useful. Biological Diversity: The variety of life forms, the different plants, animals and micro organisms, genes they contain and the ecosystems they form. It is usually considered at three levels: genetic diversity, species diversity and ecological diversity. Char: Newly accreted land: Land, sometimes islands, within main river channels and nearby mainland or in the estuary, subject to erosion and accretion. Ecosystem: A dynamic complex of plant, animal, fungal and microorganism communities and associated non-living environment interacting as an ecological unit. vi Emission: The total amount of solid, liquid or gaseous pollutant emitted into the atmosphere from a given source within a given time, as indicated, for e.g., in grams per cubic meter of gas or by a relative measure, upon discharge from the source. Endangered Species: Species in danger of extinction and whose survival is unlikely if the existing conditions continue to operate. Included among those are species whose numbers have been reduced to a critical level or whose habitats have been so drastically reduced that they are deemed to suffer from immediate danger of extinction. Environmental Effects: The measurable changes, in the natural system of productivity and environmental quality, resulting from a development activity Environmental Impact: An estimate or judgment of the significance and value of environmental effects for natural, socio-economic and human receptors. Environment Management Plan (EMP): A plan to undertake an array of follow-up activities which provide for the sound environmental management of a project/ intervention so that adverse environmental impacts are minimized and mitigated; beneficial environmental effects are maximized; and sustainable development is ensured. Environmental Management: Managing the productive use of natural resources without reducing their productivity and quality. Erosion: Process in which wind and water removes materials from their original place; for instance, soil washed away from an agricultural field. Evaluation: The process of looking back at what has been really done or accomplished. Fauna: A collective term denoting the animals occurring in a particular region or period. Field Reconnaissance: A field activity that confirms the information gathered through secondary sources. This field study is essentially a rapid appraisal. Flora: All of the plants found in a given area. vii Habitat: The natural home or environment for a plant or animal. Household: A household is identified as a dwelling unit where one or more persons live and eat together with common cooking arrangement. Persons living in the same dwelling unit having separate cooking arrangements constitute separate households. Important Environmental Component (IEC): These are environmental components of biophysical or socio-economic importance to one or more interested parties. The use of important environmental components helps to focus the environmental assessment. Khal: Small channel, canal. Land Use: Types include agriculture, horticulture, settlement, pisciculture and industries Mauza: A Bangla word for the smallest government administrative area corresponding to village revenue unit. Mitigation: An action, which may prevent or minimize adverse impacts and enhance beneficial impacts. Negative Impact: Negative change from the existing situation due to the Project. Project: The Project includes all work related to; (i) construction of 174 km long AminbazarMaowa-Mongla 400 kV double circuit transmission line, and (ii) augmentation of the Aminbazaar grid substation with 3 x 520 MVA transformers to receive power from the Aminbazar-Maowa-Mongla transmission line. Public Involvement / Public Consultation: A range of techniques that can be used to inform, consult or interact with stakeholders affected / to be affected by a proposal. Reversible Impact: An environmental impact that recovers either through natural process or with human assistance (e.g. cutting off fish migration by an embankment might be reversible at a later stage if a proper regulator is built). viii Stakeholders: Those who may be potentially affected by a proposal, e.g. local people, the proponent, government agencies, NGOs, donors and others, all parties who may be affected by the Project or to take an interest in it. Taka: Unit of Bangladeshi currency. Terrestrial: Living on land. Thana: Sub-district level of government administration, comprising several unions under district. Union: Smallest unit of local self government comprising several villages. Upazila: Sub-district name. Upozila introduced in 1982. Zila: Bengali word for district. NOTE <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">(i) </li><li style="flex:1">In this report, "USD" refers to US dollars. </li></ul>ix Table of Contents Weights and Measures ................................................................................. v Glossary..................................................................................................... vi Table of Contents ........................................................................................ x List of Tables ............................................................................................ xv List of Figures .......................................................................................... xvi List of Maps............................................................................................. xvii List of Appendix ..................................................................................... xviii Executive Summary .................................................................................. xix Chapter 1 Introduction and Methodology...................................................... 1 <a href="#26_1">1.1 Background</a><a href="#26_1"> </a><a href="#26_1">of the Study .....................................................................................1 </a><a href="#27_0">1.2 Project</a><a href="#27_0"> </a><a href="#27_0">Activitie</a><a href="#27_0">s</a><a href="#27_0">.</a><a href="#27_0">.................................................................................................2 </a><a href="#29_0">1.3 Objectives</a><a href="#29_0"> </a><a href="#29_0">of the Project......................................................................................4 </a><a href="#30_0">1.4 Scope</a><a href="#30_0"> </a><a href="#30_0">of Work.....................................................................................................5 </a><a href="#30_1">1.5 Objectives</a><a href="#30_1"> </a><a href="#30_1">of the IEE study .................................................................................5 </a><a href="#0_0">1.6 Study</a><a href="#0_0"> </a><a href="#0_0">Area ..........................................................................................................6 </a><a href="#0_1">1.7 Methodology........................................................................................................8 </a><a href="#0_2">1.8 Structure</a><a href="#0_2"> </a><a href="#0_2">of the Report ........................................................................................9 </a>Chapter 2 Policy and Legislations .............................................................. 11 <a href="#0_4">2.1 Overview</a><a href="#0_4"> </a><a href="#0_4">...........................................................................................................11 </a><a href="#0_5">2.2 Organization</a><a href="#0_5"> </a><a href="#0_5">Related with Enforcement of Environmental Standard</a><a href="#0_5">s</a><a href="#0_5">.</a><a href="#0_5">...............14 </a> <a href="#0_6">2.2.1 Ministry</a><a href="#0_6"> </a><a href="#0_6">of Environment and Forest (MoEF</a><a href="#0_6">)</a><a href="#0_6">.</a><a href="#0_6">............................................14 </a><a href="#0_7">2.2.2 Department</a><a href="#0_7"> </a><a href="#0_7">of Environment (DoE</a><a href="#0_7">)</a><a href="#0_7">.</a><a href="#0_7">..........................................................14 </a><a href="#0_5">2.2.3 Forest</a><a href="#0_5"> </a><a href="#0_5">Departmen</a><a href="#0_5">t</a><a href="#0_5">.</a><a href="#0_5">..................................................................................15 </a><a href="#0_8">2.2.4 Related</a><a href="#0_8"> </a><a href="#0_8">Other Organizations....................................................................15 </a><a href="#0_9">2.3 National</a><a href="#0_9"> </a><a href="#0_9">Policies and Legislation Relevant to Environment ...................................15 </a><a href="#0_10">2.4 Other</a><a href="#0_10"> </a><a href="#0_10">Relevant Acts Related to Environmen</a><a href="#0_10">t</a><a href="#0_10">.</a><a href="#0_10">.....................................................15 </a>x<a href="#0_11">2.4.1 The</a><a href="#0_11"> </a><a href="#0_11">Bangladesh Wildlife Preservation Order (1973; amended to Act in 1974) </a> <a href="#0_11">................................................................................................................15 </a> <a href="#0_12">2.4.2 The</a><a href="#0_12"> </a><a href="#0_12">National Forest Policy (1994</a><a href="#0_12">)</a><a href="#0_12">.</a><a href="#0_12">...........................................................15 </a><a href="#0_5">2.5 Policy</a><a href="#0_5"> </a><a href="#0_5">Related with Energy Development.............................................................16 </a> <a href="#0_13">2.5.1 The</a><a href="#0_13"> </a><a href="#0_13">Electricity Act, 1910 and Electricity Rules 1937.................................16 </a><a href="#0_14">2.5.2 The</a><a href="#0_14"> </a><a href="#0_14">Telegraph Act (1885) ........................................................................16 </a><a href="#0_15">2.5.3 The</a><a href="#0_15"> </a><a href="#0_15">Power Policy, 1995 ...........................................................................16 </a><a href="#0_16">2.5.4 The Energy Policy (1996 updated 2004)...................................................16 </a><a href="#0_17">2.5.5 The Industrial Policy (1999) ......................................................................17 </a><a href="#0_18">2.6 Compliance</a><a href="#0_18"> </a><a href="#0_18">with International Requirements.....................................................17 </a> <a href="#0_19">2.6.1 Rio</a><a href="#0_19"> </a><a href="#0_19">Declaration ........................................................................................17 </a><a href="#0_20">2.6.2 Convention</a><a href="#0_20"> </a><a href="#0_20">on Biological Diversity, (1992</a><a href="#0_20">)</a><a href="#0_20">.</a><a href="#0_20">..............................................17 </a><a href="#0_21">2.6.3 Wetlands</a><a href="#0_21"> </a><a href="#0_21">of International Importance as Waterfowl Habitat, (1971</a><a href="#0_21">)</a><a href="#0_21">.</a><a href="#0_21">........17 </a><a href="#0_22">2.6.4 United</a><a href="#0_22"> </a><a href="#0_22">Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ..18 </a><a href="#0_23">2.6.5 UN</a><a href="#0_23"> </a><a href="#0_23">Convention on the Law of the Sea, Montego Bay, (1982) ..................18 </a><a href="#0_24">2.6.6 Others</a><a href="#0_24"> </a><a href="#0_24">(Conventions and Agreements</a><a href="#0_24">)</a><a href="#0_24">.</a><a href="#0_24">...................................................18 </a><a href="#0_5">2.7 Compliance</a><a href="#0_5"> </a><a href="#0_5">with ADB Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 .................................19 </a><a href="#0_25">2.8 </a><a href="#0_25">ADB’s Environment Safeguard Requirements</a><a href="#0_25">- Policy Principles .......................19 </a><a href="#0_26">2.9 Compliance</a><a href="#0_26"> </a><a href="#0_26">with PGCB Health Environment and Safety (HES) Requirements..20 </a><a href="#0_27">2.10 Building Construction (Amendment) Act, 1990 & Rules 1996 ............................21 </a><a href="#0_22">2.11 Rules and Policies in Related Fields..................................................................22 </a>Chapter 3 Description of the Project .......................................................... 24 <a href="#0_4">3.1 Background</a><a href="#0_4"> </a><a href="#0_4">of the Project .................................................................................24 </a><a href="#0_28">3.2 Project</a><a href="#0_28"> </a><a href="#0_28">Category................................................................................................24 </a><a href="#0_8">3.3 Project</a><a href="#0_8"> </a><a href="#0_8">Location.................................................................................................25 </a><a href="#0_29">3.4 Physical</a><a href="#0_29"> </a><a href="#0_29">Features of the Transmission Line and Tower</a><a href="#0_29">s</a><a href="#0_29">.</a><a href="#0_29">..................................25 </a><a href="#0_30">3.5 The</a><a href="#0_30"> </a><a href="#0_30">Aminbazar Grid Substation.........................................................................28 </a><a href="#0_31">3.6 Components</a><a href="#0_31"> </a><a href="#0_31">of Construction Works ..................................................................30 </a><a href="#0_32">3.7 Construction</a><a href="#0_32"> </a><a href="#0_32">Equipment ....................................................................................31 </a><a href="#0_33">3.8 Civil</a><a href="#0_33"> </a><a href="#0_33">Construction Works ...................................................................................31 </a> <a href="#0_34">3.8.1 Back-filling</a><a href="#0_34"> </a><a href="#0_34">of Grid Substation Sites .........................................................31 </a><a href="#0_35">3.8.2 Earth</a><a href="#0_35"> </a><a href="#0_35">Work in Foundations.......................................................................31 </a><a href="#0_36">3.8.3 Foundation</a><a href="#0_36"> </a><a href="#0_36">Treatment..............................................................................31 </a><a href="#0_5">3.8.4 Back</a><a href="#0_5"> </a><a href="#0_5">Filling with Local Sand ....................................................................32 </a><a href="#0_37">3.8.5 RCC</a><a href="#0_37"> </a><a href="#0_37">Work................................................................................................32 </a><a href="#0_38">3.8.6 Brick</a><a href="#0_38"> </a><a href="#0_38">Work up to Plinth Level and Superstructure ....................................32 </a><a href="#0_39">3.8.7 Plastering</a><a href="#0_39"> </a><a href="#0_39">and Finishing...........................................................................32 </a><a href="#0_40">3.8.8 Wood</a><a href="#0_40"> </a><a href="#0_40">Works/Aluminum, Windows and Glass Fitting</a><a href="#0_40">s</a><a href="#0_40">.</a><a href="#0_40">.............................32 </a>

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