Environmental Monitoring Report Project Number: 47273-004 /005 /006 Loan Numbers: Tranche 2 – 3221 /3222 Tranche 3 – 3325 /3326 Tranche 4 – 3610 Annual Report December 2018 SRI: Integrated Road Investment Program – Tranches 2, 3 & 4 PIC 02 – North Western and North Central Provinces Prepared by the Road Development Authority, Ministry of Highways and Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development for the Asian Development Bank. This environmental management and monitoring report 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 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 ADB FUNDED INTEGRATED ROAD INVESTMENT PROGRAM ANNUAL ENVIRONMENT COMPLIANCE MONITORING REPORT NORTH CENTRAL & NORTH WESTERN PROVINCES REPORT PREPARED BY PYUNGHWA ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS In Association with RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS On behalf of ROAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MINISTRY OF HIGHWAYS, ROAD DEVELOPMENT AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Submitted to ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Content No. Content Page Content 1 Abbreviation 6 1.0 Introduction 9 1.1 Contract Package Summary 11 Staffing Setup (PIU/PIC/Contractor) with respect to 1.2 18 environmental safeguards 1.2.1 PIU Staff 19 1.2.2 PIC Staff 20 1.2.3 Contractor’s Staff 21 1.3 Purpose and Structure of the Project 23 2.0 Progress of civil works during the reporting period 23 2.1 Contract KU1 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 23 2.2 Contract KU2 – Contractor KDAW-BMG Joint Venture 25 Contract KU3 – Contractor Ranken Railway Construction Co. 2.3 27 Ltd. 2.4 Contract KU4 – Contractor VV Karunarathne & Company 28 Contract KU5 – Contractor Ranken Railway Construction Co. 2.5 29 Ltd. Contract PU1 – Contractor Ranken Railway Construction Co. 2.6 30 Ltd. 2.7 Contract PU2 – Contractor VV Karunarathne & Company 31 2.8 Contract PU3 – Contractor VV Karunarathne & Company 32 2.9 Contract AP1 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 34 2.10 Contract AP2– Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 35 2.11 Contract AP3 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 36 2.12 Contract AP4 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 38 2.13 Contract PO1 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 39 2.14 Contract PO2 – Contractor Maga Engineering PLC 40 2.15 Contract PO3 – Contractor TISSA-AMSK JV 41 1 No. Content Page Compliance with environmental safeguards requirements in the 3.0 42 loan document 3.1 Compliance with Tranche 2 and 3 42 3.2 Safeguards Monitoring and Reporting 44 3.3 Compliance with FAM 45 3.4 Compliance with respect to EARF 46 4.0 Monitoring of environmental compliance at field level 47 4.1 Main Environmental Safeguards activities conducted 47 4.2 The documents that Contractor should submit 48 4.3 Implementation of GRM 52 4.4 Licenses 55 4.5 HIV/AIDS Awareness Programs Conducted 55 Field Environmental monitoring carried out by PIC, PIU and 4.6 58 ESSD in brief 5.0 Issues observed (environment related) and status of compliance 71 5.1 Issues and mitigation measures applied 71 6.0 Public consultation and information dissemination 82 7.0 Programs and activities to enhance environment 84 8.0 Conclusions and recommendations 101 8.1 Conclusions 101 8.2 Recommendations 103 Tables 1 Table 01: CRCs in Kurunegala District 11 2 Table 02: CRCs in Puttalam District 13 3 Table 03: CRCs in Anuradhapura District 15 4 Table 04: CRCs in Polonnaruwa District 17 5 Table 5: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – KU1 24 6 Table 6: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – KU2 26 2 No. Content Page 7 Table 7: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – KU3 27 8 Table 8: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – KU4 28 9 Table 9: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – KU5 29 10 Table 10: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – PU1 30 11 Table 11: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – PU2 32 12 Table 12 - Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – PU3 33 13 Table 13: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – AP1 34 14 Table 14: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – AP2 36 15 Table 15: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – AP3 37 16 Table 16: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – AP4 38 17 Table 17: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – PO2 18 Table 18: Progress of Culvert construction/rehabilitation – PO3 40 Table 19: Summary of SSEMAPs submission and approvals as at 19 42 end December 2018 20 Table – 20: EMC approval as at end of year 2018 51 21 Table 21: Progress of GRC formation by 31st December 2018 53 Table 22: Package wise Complaints/Requests/Suggestions 22 54 during the year 2018 23 Table 23: HIV/AIDS Awareness programs conducted during 2018 56 Table 24: Site visits conducted jointly with PIC, PIU and 24 58 Contractor Table 25: Site visits conducted jointly with PIC, PIU and 25 66 CSD/ESSD 26 Table 26: Site visits conducted by ADB Missions 68 Table 27: Weather condition from January to December 2018 27 72 according to Contractor’s information 28 Table 28: Tree re-planting in numbers 80 Table 29 Environmental related capacity programs conducted 29 86 during the year 2018 30 Table 30: School Environmental Awareness/Training Programs 98 3 No. Content Page Figures 01 Figure 1: Provincial Locations 10 02 Figure 2: Project Roads in Kurunegala District 12 03 Figure 3: Project Roads in Puttalam District 14 04 Figure 4: Project Roads in Anuradhapura District 16 05 Figure 5: Project Roads in Polonnaruwa District 18 Charts Chart 1: PIU Staff (Environmental Related) as per the project 01 20 requirement 02 Chart 2: PIC Staff (Environmental Related) 21 03 Chart 3: Contractor’s Staff (Environmental Related) 22 04 Chart 4: Road construction activities – KU1 25 05 Chart 5: Road Construction Activities – KU2 26 06 Chart 6: Road construction activities – KU3 27 07 Chart 7: Road construction activities – KU4 28 08 Chart 8: Road construction activities – KU5 30 09 Chart 9: Road construction activities – PU1 31 10 Chart 10: Road construction activities – PU2 32 11 Chart 11: Road construction activities – PU3 33 12 Chart 12: Road construction activities – AP1 35 13 Chart 13: Road construction activities – AP2 36 14 Chart 14: Road construction activities – AP3 37 15 Chart 15: Road construction activities – AP4 39 16 Chart 17: Road construction activities – PO2 41 4 No. Content Page Case studies 01 Case study - 1 02 Case study - 2 03 Case study - 3 04 Case study - 4 Annexures 01 Annexure I - ESO Recruitment Details of Contract Packages Annexure II - Integrated Road Investment Program 02 Environmental Safeguards Capacity Building Programs Conducted through iRoad/PIC – 02 Annexure III - Attention paid for complains, requests and 03 suggestions made at Transect Walks and GRC meetings 04 Annexure IV - Licenses Annexure V - Environmental Issues as Contract Package 05 wise 06 Annexure VI - Tree Planting Progress 5 Abbreviation ADB = Asian Development Bank ARE = Assistant Resident Engineer AP = Anuradhapura BOQ = Bid of Quantity CE = Construction Engineer CEA = Central Environmental Authority CRC = Conventional Road Contracts CP = Contract Package CSD = Context Sensitive Design DO = Divisional Officer EARF = Environmental Assessment Review Framework DPM = Deputy Project manager DS = Divisional Secretary/Secretariat DSESA= District Social and Environmental Safeguards Assistant DSO = Divisional Secretariat Office DWLC = Department of Wildlife Conservation EMC = Environmental Monitoring Checklist EMP = Environmental Management Plan EMoP = Environmental Monitoring Plan ES = Environmental Specialist ESA = Environmental Safeguards Assistant ESDD = Environmental & Social Development Division ESO = Environment and Social Officer ESSO = Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer FAM = Facility Administrative Manual FD = Forest Conservation Deapartment GIS = Geographical Information System GN = Grama Niladhari GND = Grama Niladhari Division GR = Grievance Redress GRC = Grievance Redress Committee GRM = Grievance Redress Mechanism 6 IEE = Initial Environmental Examination IML = Industrial Mining License IR = Involuntary Resettlement iRoad = Integrated Road Investment Program KU = Kurunegala LKR = Sri Lankan Rupees MFF = Multi-Tranche Financing Facility NCD = Not Communicable Diseases NCP = North Central Province NWP = North Western Province PC = Provincial Council PD = Project Director PE = Project Engineer PEC = Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants Ltd. PIC = Project Implementation Consultant PIU = Project Implementation Unit PM = Project Manager PO = Polonnaruwa PRDA = Provincial Road Development Authority PRDD = Provincial Road Development Department PS = Pradeshiya Sabha PU = Puttalam RD = Road RDA = Road Development Authority RDC = Resources Development Consultants RE = Resident Engineer RF = Resettlement Framework RMC = Road Management Contract SE = Site Engineer SGRS = Social, Gender & Resettlement Specialist SLRM = Sri Lanka Resident Mission SPS = Safeguards Policy Statement SSA = Social Safeguards Assistance SSEMAP = Site Specific Environmental Management Action Plan 7 SSO = Social Safeguards Officer STD = Sexual Transmitted Diseases TA = Technical Assistance TL = Trade License TO = Technical Officer VC = Vice Chairman 8 ADB Funded