SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN RESETTLEMENT PLAN OF DUERBENXIN DYKE CORE SUBPROJECT ZALAITE BANNER, INNER MONGOLIA November 2001 THIS IS NOT A BOARD APPROVED DOCUMENT. SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN CONTENTS 1 GENERAL SITUATION OF THE PROJECT........................................1 1.1 Brief Description of the Project.......................................................... 1 1.2 Benefited and Affected Area............................................................... 1 1.3 Measures for Reducing Impacts of the Project ................................. 2 1.4 Design Process ................................................................................... 2 1.5 Ownership and Institutional Framework of the Project .................... 3 2 PROJECT IMPACTS .........................................................................4 2.1 Permanent Land Acquisition .............................................................. 4 2.2 Temporary Land Use ........................................................................... 4 2.3 Affected Households and Persons .................................................... 5 3 SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY.............................................................6 3.1 Socioeconomic Background Survey for Affected Area .................... 6 3.2 Sampling Survey of the Affected Households................................... 7 4 LEGAL FRAMEWORK .....................................................................10 4.1 Legal Rationale.................................................................................. 10 4.2 Acquisition Authority and Compensation Nature ........................... 11 4.3 Legal and Administrative Procedure................................................ 12 4.4 Regulations on Compensation......................................................... 12 4.5 Legal Liabilities of Institutions ......................................................... 13 4.6 ADB's Resettlement Policy............................................................... 14 5 COMPENSATION POLICIES, STANDARDS AND ENTITLEMENT....15 5.1 Compensation Standard ................................................................... 15 5.2 The Eligibilities and Entitlement of the APs .................................... 15 5.3 Entitlement Matrixes ......................................................................... 16 6 RESETTLEMENT MEASURES ........................................................17 6.1 Income Restoration for Permanent Land Acquisition..................... 17 6.2 Restoration of Temporary Land Use ................................................ 18 7 BUDGET .........................................................................................20 7.1 Cost.................................................................................................... 20 7.2 Plan of Investment by Year ............................................................... 20 7.3 Source of Funds................................................................................ 21 8 SCHEDULE OF RESETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES................................22 8.1 Linkage of Resettlement Schedule with Construction Schedule ........ 22 8.2 Principle of Schedule Establishment............................................... 23 8.3 Overall Schedule of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Activities23 SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN 9 INSTITUTION ..................................................................................25 9.1 Resettlement Institutions.................................................................. 25 9.2 Profile and Responsibilities of Institutions ..................................... 25 9.3 Institutional Framework Chart.......................................................... 27 9.4 Institutional Qualification, Experience and Personnel ................... 29 9.5 Measures for Improving the Institutional Capability....................... 30 10 PARTICIPATION, CONSULTATION AND DISCLOSURE..................32 10.1 Public Participation Strategy ............................................................ 32 10.2 Disclosure.......................................................................................... 33 10.3 Vulnerable Households..................................................................... 33 10.4 Survey of Public Opinions................................................................ 34 11 GRIEVANCE AND APPEAL PROCEDURE ......................................36 12 MONITORING .................................................................................37 12.1 Internal Monitoring and Examination............................................... 37 12.2 Independent Monitoring (IM) ............................................................ 38 APPENDIX 1. OUTLINE OF INDEPENDENT MONITORING AND EVALUATION . 41 SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN ABBREVIATION APs - Affected Persons DVC - Duerbenxin Villagers' Committee EVC - Erjiazi Villagers' Committee IM - Independent Monitoring IMA - Independent Monitoring Agency IMPLG - Inner Mongolia ADB Project Leading Group LAR - Land Acquisition and Resettlement M&E - Monitoring and Evaluation MWR - Ministry of Water Resources NIDRI - Northeast Investigation Design and Research Institute NRCR - National Research Center for Resettlement of Hohai University NTG - Nuwenmuren Township Government RP - Resettlement Plan RRS - Resettlement and Removal Section under the jurisdiction of HPO XLPLG - Xin'an League ADB Project Leading Group ZBLAB - Zalaite Banner Land Administration Bureau ZBPLG - Zalaite Banner ADB Project Leading Group ZBPMO - Zalaite Banner ADB Project Management Office SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT ANNEX B: DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN 1 GENERAL SITUATION OF THE PROJECT 1.1 Brief Description of the Project Duerbenxin Dyke is one of the important core subprojects of the Nen River flood control system. The dyke to be constructed will directly protect 14,000 population and 53,000 ha of farmland in Duerbenxin, Zalaite Banner, Inner Mongolia. The Duerbenxin is located in the junction among Yalu River, Zuoer River and Nen River, with the ground elevation of 139.5~ 144.5m, being threatened by floods all long time. Duerbenxin dyke has a total length of 19.975 km including 6.3 km of Sanjiazi section, 19.212 km of Erjiazi section and 4.463 km of Muye section. The flood control standard will be up to 35 year after the construction of Duerbenxin dyke including upgrade and strengthening. The main contents of the core subproject include earthwork, protective slop, sluices, and management facilities. The major work quantities include earth of 769,000m3, concrete of 39,000 m3 and rock of 1,200 m3. It is planned to start in 2002 and finish in 2004. At present, the existing Duerbenxin dyke is not closed with low flood control standard and weak flood control capacity, which had severely threatened the security of lives and properties of people and enterprises and restricted local economic development. The implementation of the dyke construction project will effectively solve the flood control problem in Duerbenxin. 1.2 Benefited and Affected Area Duerbenxin dyke is located on the right bank of the Nen River, the north bank of the Zuoer River, and the south bank of the Yalu River. The flood control standard will be increased to 35 year after completion of Duerbenxin dyke, and it is expected to further increased to 50 year after completion of the Nierji Reservoir in upper reaches of Nen River. so as to improve the stability development in this area. The directed protected area of this subproject includes Baojuyuan Village, Sanjiazi Village, Duerbenxin village in Inner Mongolia, and Suitian Village in Heilongjiang Province. The total amount of protected area is 118.3 m2 including 73.3 km2 in Inner Mongolia and 45 km2 in Heilongjiang Province. The construction of Duerbenxin dike will affected 2 villages including Erjiazi Village 1 SONGHUA RIVER FLOOD MANAGEMENT SECTOR PROJECT ANNEX B: DUERBENXIN DIKE RESETTLEMENT PLAN and Duerbenxin Village in Nuwenmuren Township. A total of 83.2 ha of village land will be acquired permanently including 58.8 ha of farmland and 24.4 ha of wasteland. Meanwhile, during construction, a total of 28.3 ha of land will be used temporarily including 6.3 ha of farmland and 22 ha of wasteland. However, no houses and attachments demolition will occur in the project. 1.3 Measures for Reducing Impacts of the Project In the feasible study and design of the Project, according to the Land Administration Law of PRC, the Regulations about Land Acquisition and Resettlement (LAR) for Large and Middle Hydraulic and Hydroelectric Engineering, Provincial Land Administration Regulations, and policies and regulations of local governments, some engineering measures are considered to reduce the resettlement impacts induced by the project described as follows. 1.3.1 Minimizing Land Acquisition by Optimized Design The dike will be upgraded and strengthened based on the original existing dike, the new dike will be constructed by using the local civil dike in order to minimize the land acquisition. 1.3.2 Optimization of Temporary Land Acquisition Layout The layout of the temporary land use will be taken consideration of avoiding large quantity of farmland acquisition. Base on the spot survey, the design institute formulate the specific location for temporary