RP439 v 1 Shaaxi Ankang Road Development Project Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Action Plan For Ankang-Maoba Expressway Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized RECEIVED MAY 0 5 2006 EASTR I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A ~~~SCANNED Public Disclosure Authorized Shaanxi Provincial Transport Department In April 2006 ................ I OBJECTIVES OF THE RAP AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY 1 I GENERAL INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... I 1.1 Background .......................................................................... 2 1.2 G eneral description ........................................................................... 3 1.3 Significance ........................................................................... 6 1.4 Planned schedule .......................................................................... 6 1.5 Measures to reduce the impact of the project .......................................................................... 8 1.6 Project design ......................................................................... 8 1.7 Preparation of resettlement rules .......................................................................... 9 1.8 Preparation for RAP ........................................................................... ]0 1.9 Strategic objectives for com piling RA P ......................................................................... ....................... 11 2 GENERAL NATURAL SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION IN AFFECTED AREAS 11 2.1 Characteristics of physical geography 13 2.2 General socioeconomic situation of the affected areas .15 2.3 General socioeconomic situations of affected towns/townships and villages 2.4 General economic situation of the affected households .21 2.5 Modes of livelihood in the affected area .22 3 PROJECT IMPACT .25 3.1 Determining the scope of land acquisition and resettlement .26 3.2 Survey on entity indexes for land acquisition and relocation .26 3.3 Major indexes of affected properties .27 3.4 Analysis on project impact .37 4 FRAMEWORK OF RESETTLEMENT POLICIES .41 4.1 Policy basis.41 4.2 Relevant laws and regulations .41 4.3 Compensation standards .48 51 4.4 Table of PAPs' rights and interests .. 5 RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION PLAN .56 5.1 Objective and plan.56 5.2 Policy and principle of the immigration resettlement plan .56 5.3 Overall plan for immigration resettlement .57 5.4 Analysis of the immigration resettlement environmental potentiality .58 5.5 Plan for rural resettlement .59 .65 6 BUDGET OF COMPENSATION FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND REMOVAL 6.1 Basis of budget.66 6.2 Compensation principles .66 6.3 Budget of compensation .66 1 7 RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ... ..................................................................... 70 7.1 Implementation Procedures ......................................................................... 70 7.2 Schedule .............................................................................. 72 7.3 Fund flow and allocation plan ............................................................................. 73 8 ORGANIZATIONS ......................................................................... 76 8.1 Organization establishment ............................................................................... 8.2 Organizations' 76 composition and responsibility ....................................................................... 8.3 Staff .............................................................................. ....... 76 78 8.4 Connections between Organizations ........................... ................................................... 8.5 Measures 79 to strengthen the organizations' capacity ................................................... ...................... 80 9 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION ....................................................................... 81 9.1 Public participation ......................................................................... 81 9.2 Appealing procedures and channels .............................................................................. 85 9.3 Public Consultation ............................................................................... 85 10 MONITORING AND EVALUATION ......................... ................................................ 86 10.1 Internal monitoring ............................................................................... 10.2 External 86 independent monitoring and evaluation ............................................................................ 87 11 REPORT COMPILATION PLAN ......................................................................... 90 11. I Report on the RAP .............................................................................. 90 11.2 Report on resettlement progress .............................................................................. 11.3 Report on 90 independent monitoring and evaluation .......................................................................... 91 Appendix I Guide to resettlement investigation for Ankang-Maoba Highway Project ....................... Appendix II Forms 92 of social investigation in the affected areas ........................................................... 96 Appendix III Table of the project affected towns and villages ........................................................... Appendix IV 105 Statistic table of land acquisition in each village ....................... ................................... 106 Appendix V Statistic table of demolition and removal of private houses in each village ................... 10 Appendix VI Statistic Table of the project affected population in each village for Ankang-Maoba Highway Project ............................................................................ Appendix 12 VII Statistic table ofthe scattered adult trees to be felled and tombs to be removed in each village Appendix VIII ... 114 RAP and plan for land acquisition and house removal in the major villages affected by the project .......................................................................... 116 Appendix IX Affiche Replica of Project ..................................................................... 144 2 Objectives of the RAP and Definition of Resettlement Terminology The Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC, that of Shaanxi Province as well as a series of regulations in the Guidelines of the World Bank (Operational Directive for Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP4.12). Its purpose is to set out an action plan for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the project affected persons (PAPs) to ensure that they will benefit from the project and their standards of living will be improved or at least be restored after the project. On account of the implementation of the project, occupation of land and other properties will impose great negative effect on the people toiling in the fields and making a living by farming. "The Project Affected Persons refer to those whose production or life will be affected by land acquisition and house removal for the project. The following people will be involved: (1) Their land (including house sites, land occupation for public facilities, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sideline production), buildings (including private houses and auxiliaries, enterprises' buildings and public buildings, etc.), rights or other properties will be partially or wholly, temporarily or permanently acquisitioned and occupied (2) They own the above-mentioned land, buildings or properties, or their work, residential places and life style will be adversely affected. (3) Their living standard will be adversely affected because of land acquisition and house removal. Definition of "PAPs": "PAPs" refer to those: whose living standards have been adversely affected or will be adversely affected because of the project implementation; whose ownership of any house, rights or interest, land (including house sites, farmland and grassland) or other movable or immovable property will be temporarily or permanently acquisitioned or occupied; whose business, occupation, work or inhabitation and life will be adversely affected. PAPs may be individuals or legal persons of a company, or a public institution. Definition of PAPs is not limited to their legal status, life style or business in the affected location, or their title to property compensation. They include: (1) Those will be affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence when their property is acquisitioned. (2) Those have not got the residential permit to live in a specified place. Therefore all those to be affected will need to be considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal property, land or social position. If the land or property to be acquisitioned belongs to more than one person, or one household, they will be compensated and rehabilitated according to their loss, their rights, and the impact on their living standards. The definition of PAPs is linked directly to the adverse effect of the project, regardless of their legal rights title or interest. All PAPs are entitled to some compensation to improve or at least restore their living standards, and compensation for the property losses. Compensation for their property will be paid by the replacement cost. Deductions and discounts by the excuse of depreciation or other reasons will be strictly forbidden as far as their compensation amount is concerned. All PAPs