Resettlement Plan July 2015 PRC: Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project Resettlement Plan for the Feidong County Chao Lake Basin (Cuozhen Town Region) Water Environment Integrated Improvement Project Prepared by the Project Working Group of the Feidong County Government for the Asian Development Bank. This is an updated version of the draft originally posted in June 2012 available on http://www.adb.org/projects/documents/anhui-chao-lake-environmental- rehabilitation-project-feidong-county-chao-lake-bas. This resettlement plan 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 “terms of use” section of this 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. ADB-financed Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Updated Resettlement Plan for the Feidong County Chao Lake Basin (Cuozhen Town Region) Water Environment Integrated Improvement Project ADB-financed Project Working Group of the Feidong County Government November 2014 Letter of Commitment Through the Ministry of Finance, Anhui Provincial Government has applied for a loan from ADB to finance Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project. And the Feidong County Chao Lake Basin (Cuozhen Town Region) Water Environment Integrated Improvement Project is one of its subprojects. Therefore, it must be implemented in compliance with the guidelines and policies of ADB on social security. This Resettlement Plan is in line with a key requirement of ADB and will constitute the basis for land acquisition, house demolition and resettlement of this subproject. The Plan also complies with the laws of the People’s Republic of China and local regulations, as well as with some additional measures and the arrangements for implementation and monitoring for the purpose of achieving better resettlement results. At the preparation stage, the Feidong County Government prepared the first draft RP based on the feasibility study report, which was approved by ADB. As agreed with ADB, the Feidong County Government has updated the RP based on the DMS. It has been confirmed that the Resettlement Plan (RP) for the ADB-financed Feidong County Chao Lake Basin (Cuozhen Town Region) Water Environment Integrated Improvement Project (hereinafter, the “Subproject”) has been formulated based on ADB’s social safeguard policies, and the applicable laws and regulations of the Chinese government. The resettlement work during the implementation of the Subproject will be conducted in strict accordance with the updated RP. Executive Deputy Head of the Feidong County Government November 2014 Note on this Update As required by ADB, the RP should be updated based on the detailed design, and the updated RP will be the basis for resettlement implementation. According to the detailed design, HCCI, and the relevant township government and village committees conducted a DMS on Xianfeng Community and Xuguang Village, Cuozhen Town during March-October 2014. On this basis, the RP was updated. A summary of this update is as follows: Summary of RP Update Item Former RP Updated RP Remarks Acquiring 106.05 mu of land, Acquiring 116.758 mu of land, Acquiring 10.708 mu more of including 105.33 mu of cultivated including 116.518 mu of land, including 11.188 mu more Permanent land and 0.72 mu of housing cultivated land and 0.24 mu of of cultivated land and 0.48 mu LA land, affecting 84 households housing land, affecting 151 less of housing land, affecting with 335 persons households with 568 persons 67 more households with 233 persons Temporary Occupying 90 mu of land, Occupying 55.66 mu, all being Occupying 34.34 mu less of land including 80 mu of wasteland and collective non-cultivated land land occupation 10 mu of collective pond Affecting two entities, with a total Affecting no entity One entity is no longer affected, demolition area of 340.4 m2, and the other’s lease contract including 60 m2 in masonry expired in April 2013 Affected concrete structure, 160 m2 in entities masonry timber structure, a landscaping pavilion (steel timber) of 50 m2, and a fitness space of 70.4 m2 Demolishing rural residential Demolishing rural residential Reducing HD area by 390 m2 houses of 550 m2, affecting 3 houses of 160 m2, affecting two and affected population by one Rural HD households with 16 persons, in households with 8 persons, in household with 8 persons which two households with 12 which one household with 4 persons are also affected by LA persons is also affected by LA Vulnerable 8 vulnerable households with 23 5 vulnerable households with 9 Affecting 3 less vulnerable groups persons persons households with 14 persons LA compensation includes land LA compensation includes land The compensation rate for compensation, resettlement compensation, resettlement farmland is increased by 3,520 LA subsidy and young crop subsidy and young crop yuan/mu, and that fro compensati compensation. In Cuozhen Town, compensation. In Cuozhen construction and unused land on policies the compensation rate for Town, the compensation rate for increased by 1,760 yuan/mu and rates farmland is 32,120 yuan/mu, and farmland is 35,640 yuan/mu, that for construction and unused and that for construction and land 16,060 yuan/mu. unused land 17,820 yuan/mu. Compensation rates are based Compensation rates are based The compensation rates for on replacement cost, being 807 on replacement cost, being 810 frame, masonry concrete, yuan/m2 for frame structure, 520 yuan/m2 for frame structure, 570 masonry timber, masonry tile yuan/m2 for masonry concrete yuan/m2 for masonry concrete and simple structures have HD structure, 340 yuan/m2 for structure, 370 yuan/m2 for been increased, moving subsidy compensati masonry timber structure, and masonry tile or timber structure is increased by 30 yuan per on policies 180 yuan/m2 for simple structure, (Grade 1), 340 yuan/m2 for time, and monthly transition and rates moving subsidy 300 yuan per Grade 2 and 310 yuan/m2 for subsidy increased by 1 yuan/m2 time, and monthly transition Grade 3, and 200 yuan/m2 for subsidy 3 yuan/m2 simple structure, moving subsidy 330 yuan per time, and monthly Item Former RP Updated RP Remarks transition subsidy 4 yuan/m2 Choosing cash compensation or Choosing property swap or cash Changing from housing site allocation of housing site for compensation; through allocation to housing purchase Resettleme house reconstruction cash consultation, the resettlement at the resettlement community nt compensation community for property swap is Harmonious Garden in Cuozhen Town Combination of cash Combination of cash No change Livelihood compensation, industry compensation, industry restoration restructuring and skills training restructuring and skills training due to minor LA impacts due to minor LA impacts 9.498 million yuan 11.0828 million yuan Increased by 1.5848 million Budget yuan LA beginning in mid 2013 and LA beginning at the end of 2014 Schedule ending in 2014 and ending in 2015 Abbreviations AAOV - Average Annual Output Value ADB - Asian Development Bank AH - Affected Household AP - Affected Person DMS - Detailed Measurement Survey FGD - Focus Group Discussion CLMA Chao Lake Management Authority Hefei Cuocheng Construction & Investment HCCI - Co., Ltd. Hefei Engineering Consulting Service Co., HECS - Ltd. LEF - Land-expropriated Farmer M&E - Monitoring and Evaluation MLS - Minimum Living Security NRCR - National Research Center for Resettlement PMO - Project Management Office PRC - People’s Republic of China RIB - Resettlement Information Booklet RP - Resettlement Plan Units Currency unit = Yuan (CNY) 1.00 yuan = $0.15 1 hectare = 15 mu Executive Summary 1. Resettlement planning The Subproject is one of the subprojects of the ADB-financed Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project. The Subproject will play a significant role in benefiting residents living and working beside Chao Lake in health, welfare and economy, and promoting the improvement of the water quality of the Chao Lake basin through sustainable engineering and non-engineering measures, and be an integral part of the process of realizing the Five-year Environmental Protection Plan of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Land acquisition and resettlement under the Subproject will involve Xianfeng Community and Xuguang Village, Cuozhen Town, Feidong County. 116.758 mu of land will be acquired for the Subproject, including 35.788 mu in Xianfeng Community (35.538 mu of irrigated land and 0.24 mu of housing land) and 80.97 mu in Xuguang Village. Total demolition area is 160 m2. The range of house demolition is on both sides of the Zhennan River, which is located in the old urban area of Cuozhen Town. The Subproject will break ground in 2014 and be completed in 2015, and land acquisition, house demolition, compensation and resettlement will be started at the end of 2014 and end in 2015. The estimated resettlement costs of the Subproject are 11.0828 million yuan (based on prices in 2011), including basic land acquisition (occupation) costs, taxes and contingencies, accounting for 9.80% of the Subproject’s budget. 2. Land occupation and house demolition The main resettlement impacts of the Subproject are permanent and temporary land occupation, and the demolition of rural residential houses involving one village and one community in Cuozhen Town, Feidong County. 116.758 mu of collective land will be acquired for the Subproject, including 116.518 mu of cultivated land (99.79%) and 0.24 mu of housing land (0.21%); another 55.66 mu of land will be occupied temporarily; total demolition area is 160 m2, including 2 residential houses of 160 m2.