Guangdong Province Social Security Integration and Migrant Training Project
Environmental Codes of Practice
Guangdong Province Social Security Integration and
Migrant Training Project Management Office
Guangzhou Environmental Management System Appraisal Consultancy
October 2012
Index
1 General Provisions ··············································································3
1.1 Project Background ·········································································3
1.2 Purpose of the Environmental Codes of Practice ·······································4
1.3 Principles of the Environmental Codes of Practice ····································5
1.4 Applicable Scope ···········································································5
2 Relevant Laws and Regulations and World Bank Safeguard Policies ···············6
2.1 Relevant Chinese Laws and Regulations ················································6
2.2 World Bank Safeguard Policies ···························································7
3 Management System ···········································································8
3.1 Setup of the Management System ························································8
3.2 Responsibilities of All Institutions in Preparation Phase ······························8
3.3 Environmental Management Missions in All Phases ···································11
3.4 Work Flow for Institutions in Construction Period ·····································12
3.5 Documentation Management ······························································13
4 General Requirements ········································································14
4.1 Environmental Protection Measures in Drawing Design and Bidding ··············14
4.2 Preparation before Construction ··························································15
4.3 Environmental Management of Construction Site ······································15
5 Environmental Protection Measures and Management during Construction ········17
5.1 Management in Construction Area ·······················································17
5.2 Environment Quality Management ·······················································18
Appendix 1 Environmental Protection Inspection Check-list ······························23
Appendix 2 Contractor Environment Management Plan Index ···························28
Appendix 3 Environmental Protection Rectification Notice ································29
Appendix 4 Emergency Work Flow for Cultural Relics Discovery ·······················30
1 General Provisions
1.1 Project Background
On October 28,2005, the State Council issued “Decision of the State Council on Vigorously Developing the Vocational Education” , which specifies the guidelines, targets and policy measures on the reform and development of vocational training in the coming period of time, and regards the Development of Vocational Education as an important basis for the economic and social development as well as a strategic focus in the work of education. The Decision demands to vigorously develop the vocational training with Chinese characteristics and to accelerate the development of high-skilled talents and high-quality labors.
Over the past 30 years of reform and open-up, Guangdong Province has witnessed a rapid economic growth. The Pearl River Delta has become the world’s manufacturer and the high-skilled labor force has become a kind of scarce resource. According to the statistics, in the future 10 years, Guangdong will face a shortage of 1.3million high-skilled workers. Most workers of junior, intermediate and advanced levels get employed after being trained in vocational school. Meanwhile, millions of excessive rural workers will go to the vocational training school and get jobs after being trained. There is a prosperous demand for vocational education and technical training.
The Training Project for Guangdong Rural Labor includes two sub-projects: World Bank’s Loan Project for Guangdong Advanced Technical School of Light Industry on Rural Worker Training; and the World Bank’s Loan Project on Yunfu Technical School on Rural Worker Training. Those two sub-projects are briefed as below,
(1) Sub-project : World Bank’s loan project for Guangdong Advanced Technical School of Light Industry on Rural Worker Training;
This project is located at Technical Education Demo Base in Guangdong , Shitan Town, Zengcheng city. This project consists of 7 parts, namely, education infrastructure facilities, experiments instruments, cooperation between school and enterprises, buildup of teachers and administrative teams, buildup of majors and curriculum, teachers’ quality management assessment and network information management. The total construction area is 57,656 m², in which one teaching building and one training buliding cover a construction area of 32,136 m², one library covers a construction area of 21,400 m², and two student dormitory buildings cover 4,120 m². The total project investment is 205.254 million RMB, of which 94.50 million RMB is intended to lend from World Bank and the remaining 110.754 million RMB to be collected by the project owner. 116.512 million RMB is spent on construction, the remaining 99.5212 million RMB on installation, equipments and others.
(2) Sub-project: World Bank’s loan project for Yunfu Technical School on Rural Worker Training
This project is located at Yunfu Technical School, Huanshi Xi Lu, Yucheng District, Yunfu City. The World Bank’s loan is spent on training rural workers and the buildup of the Vocational Education & Practice Base, including infrastructure construction, developing integrated training courses, training on education and management capability, setting up the mechanism of “bi-systems of school and enterprises, integration of work and training”, improving information service capability, project assessment and summary, promotion on project experience and achievement and etc. The total construction area takes 33,231 m², which is composed of one gymnasium of 3,846 m², one building for automobile’s practical training of 11,833 m², one teaching building of 5,674 m², one comprehensive building of 6,344 m², one students dormitory building of 5,534 m². The construction also includes affiliated landscape projects. The total project investment is 126 million RMB, of which 10 million USD (equivalent to 63 million RMB) is borrowed from World Bank and the remaining 63 million RMB is collected by the provincial and municipal financial agencies and the project owner. RMB 85.43 million RMB is spent on construction and interior decoration, the rest on equipments and other supporting facilities.
As per requirements on this project’s Environmental Assessment (EA) by the World Bank, and based on the respective EAs carried out by each sub-project’s construction units according to the domestic EA requirements, This Environmental Codes of Practice is promulgated to fulfill the requirements in OP4.01 World Bank Safeguard Policies.
The Environmental Codes of Practice majorly includes project introduction, set-up of environmental management institutions, implementation plan of environmental protection measures, monitoring plan on environment, reporting mechanism and documentation management.
1.2 Purpose of the Environmental Codes of Practice
According to the EA requirement on infrastructure projects by the State, each sub-project has conducted Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) during project feasibility study. Based on OP4.01 World Bank Safeguard Policies and domestic EA classification requirements, this project is classified into category C, which requests to specially raise prevention measures on potentially adverse environment impact in construction period, so as to ensure people’s health in the construction area and to prevent disturbance during the construction.
The purposes of the Environmental Codes of Practice are:
(1) to ensure to distinguish potential environmental impact, and to propose measures to reduce environmental impact during construction;
(2) to specify the responsibilities and duties of all relevant institutions during project implementation;
(3) to propose measures to avoid or reduce the potentially adverse environmental impact during construction, to serve as an action guidelines on environment management, and to guide project contractors to make and carry out all the measures to reduce adverse environmental impact.
This Environmental Codes of Practice is regarded as an independent appendix to the bidding documents and contract. It demands the designated on-site engineers and construction supervisors to carry out the responsibilities in This Environmental Codes of Practice. Contractors shall fully realize the environmental measures they should purchase and promise to include it in their construction charges.
1.3 Principles of the Environmental Codes of Practice
(1) Scientific, objective and just principle: This Environmental Codes of Practice shall be scientific, objective and just, and it shall be consider in a comprehensive way the affect which the implementation may bring to the environmental factors and its ecological system. It offers scientific basis for decision-making.
(2) Integration principle: This Environmental Codes of Practice shall integrate relevant policies, plans, blueprints, and corresponding projects, taking care of the concerns in an all-round way.
(3) Public participation principle: During the implementation process of This Environmental Codes of Practice, encourage and support the public participation, and fully consider social interests and propositions in every aspect.
(4) Conformity principle: The work under This Environmental Codes of Practice shall be in conformity, with regards of the implementation progress and details extent.
(5) Practical principle: simple, practical and feasible ways shall be taken. This Environmental Codes of Practice shall be operational.
1.4 Applicable Scope
This Environmental Codes of Practice applies to relevant environmental behavior requirements in the process of Guangdong Province Social Security Integration System and Rural Worker Training Project. In Guangdong Advanced Technical School of Light Industry and Yunfu Technical School, according to the domestic EIA requirements on project construction, This Environmental Codes of Practice is formed as the guidelines for the relevant contractors, environmental supervisory bodies, owners to effectively adopt all kinds of mitigation measures for environment and to ensure a proper monitoring system.
2 Relevant Laws and Regulations and World Bank Safeguard Policies
2.1 Relevant Chinese Laws and Regulations
2.1.1 Relevant laws by Chinese Central Government
(1) Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (December 1989);
(2) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (June 2008);
(3) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution (September 2000);
(4) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution by Solid Waste (April 2005);
(5) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise (March 1996);
(6) Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation (December 2010);
(7) Law of The People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment (October 2002)
2.1.2 Relevant National Regulations
(1) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection of The People’s Republic of China (November 1998);
(2) Classified Directory for Environmental Management of Construction Projects (January 1, 2003);
(3) Regulations For The Implementation of the Land Administration Law of The People’s Republic of China (August 28, 2004);
(4) Measures on Prevention and Control of Pollution from Disused Hazardous Chemicals (October 2005);
(5) Enforcement Regulations for Law on Prevention of Air Pollution of the People's Republic of China (May 1991);
(6) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection (Decree No. 253 by the State Council, November 29, 1998);
(7) National Hazardous Waste Inventory (revised August 2008);
2.1.3 Relevant Regulations in Guangdong Province
(1) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection of Guangdong Province (2nd amendment, July 29, 2004);
(2) Guangdong Province Inventory of Controlled Waste (September 1, 2004, updated in 2009)
(3) Regulations of Guangdong Province on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste (from May 1, 2004);
(4) Regulations on the Water Quality Protection in Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province (Guangdong Provincial Government Doc [2005] 16)
2.2 World Bank Safeguard Policies
In accordance with the EA policy OP4.01 of World Bank Safeguard Policies, this Environmental Codes of Practices shall be formulated for this project, in order to avoid and mitigate the possible adverse environmental impact during the construction.
Though this Project does not offend other Safeguard Policies of the World Bank, according to the requirements of World Bank, This Environmental Codes of Practice also proposes protection measures for “cultural relics discovery” during construction and demands the contractors to take relevant actions.
3 Management System
3.1 Setup of the Management System
In accordance with relevant regulations and project’s actual need, aiming at better achieving the project’s demo effect, on top of the law-binded supervisory function by the environmental protection bureaus, This Environmental Codes of Practice shall have designated personnel in the project management offices at all different levels, to be in charge of environmental management work, and to set up an environmental management system in which the major supervision is done by environmental protection bureaus and the supplementary supervision by the project management offices.
3.2 Responsibilities of All Institutions in Preparation Phase
In This Management System, there are some project’s internal institutions, some hired consultancy institutions, and some external institutions. All these institutions constitute an integrated environmental management system where each institution plays a different role with different scopes of responsibilities. Here below is the table of responsibilities of all the different institutions.
Table 3- 1 Relevant Responsibilities of all institution in This Management System
Name / Function / Responsibilities①Local Environmental Protection Management Bureau / Supervisory Institutions / In charge of the supervision and management on This Project in line with laws, including approval on sub-projects EIA report, Environmental Protection Supervision and Management during Construction.
②Guangdong Province Rural Worker Training Project Management Office / Administrative Institutions / 1. Supervise on the formulation of The Environmental Codes of Practice；
2. Coordinate and carry out World Bank and domestic Environmental Protection management requirements.；
3. Submit relevant Reports to World Bank every half year；
4. Inspect on the schools’ environmental management work of each sub-project; in charge of environmental protection trainings to all the contractors and project management office staffs.
5. Coordinate with other relevant bureaus to solve critical environmental problems
③Leadership Teams of Yunfu sub-project and Province Light Industry sub-project / Administrative Institutions / 1.Entrust to formulate and supervise on the implementation of The Environmental Codes of Practice
2. Entrust formulate domestic EA documents for approval procedures
3. Ensure the engineering design sto fulfill the EA requirements
4. Ensure that the environmental protection measures are included in the project construction contracts
5. Hire, supervise, coordinate project supervisors (qualifications, responsibilities, management)
6.Record and compile complaints raised during construction and operation; Answer to the public about the solutions; Solve public complaints
7. Check reports of environmental supervisors and environmental consultancy
8. submit reports (forms) to Province Project Office each quarter；
9. Sign and Collect the site inspection forms submitted by construction unit and supervisory units, verify environmentally sensitive problems; filing.
10. Receive the environmental work inspection (including World Bank projects inspection)
④Project management offices for Yunfu sub-project and Province Light Industry sub-project (office staffs includes personnel of the school and construction supervisor) / Administrative Institutions / 1. in charge of environmental supervision, supervising on domestic sewage treatment in construction area, production waste water treatment, prevention on water and soil conservation, polluted air, dust, noise control measures, domestic and production waste treatment, health and epidemic prevention.
2. inspect construction site every two weeks base on Environmental Protection Inspection Check-list and examine if the fill-up Check-list done by construction unit weekly meets the requirement; store all the Check-lists.
3. propose rectification solutions on environmental problems for construction units and follow up to carry out, incl. issue rectification notice, rectification check forms, filing of inspection documents.;
4. ensure construction units to compile and submit regularly project implementation status reports to school project Management Office
⑤institutions with qualification licence Grade II and above on project EIA / EA institutions / 1. Investigate each project in field and assess on its environmental impact
2. in charge of compiling EIA reports
⑥environmental management consultancy institution / Consultancy institutions / 1. in charge of compiling The Environmental Codes of Practice and providing field management consulting service
2. in charge of training on construction units and project Management Office staff
⑦ Construction units / Enforcemnet institutions / 1. formulate environmental protection measures during construction;
2. receive the inspection and supervision from environmental protection bureaus at all levels
3. set up a feedback mechanism. Rectification shall be completed within 3 working days after receiving the rectification notice (10 workings days for those which need coordinations by management institutions)
4. engage in compiling Environmental Management Plan for Construction Site before construction and report to sub-project Management Office;
5. assign 1-2 coordinators and ensure to conduct environmental protection measures during the entire construction, inspect construction site base on Environmental Protection Inspection Check-list and store the list.
3.3 Environmental Management Missions in All Phases
In different phases of project implementation, This Environmental Codes of Practice is featured by different works, as referred to Program 3-1.
PhasesManagement Missions
The most important mission of This Environmental Codes of Practice is to ensure that every environmental protection measure be carried out in a pragmatic and effective way, including:
(1) To engage the environmental protection measures of This Environmental Codes of Practice into project design and construction contract.
(2) The Project Management Offices supervise on the implementation of the environmental protection measures by the construction units during project construction.
(3)The mechanisms of inspection, reporting and filing under This Environmental Codes of Practice. Daily inspection work and work time effectiveness.
3.4 Work Flow for Institutions in Construction Period
Program 3-2 shows the work flow for institutions in Construction Period
3.5 Documentation Management
Documentation Management related to This Environmental Codes of Practice. Each institution shall be responsible for its own duties and make sure that the documents not be lost nor damaged but be easily accessible.
All documents shall be managed as below:
(1) Each Sub-project Management Office be responsible for every documentation related to this Project, including:
① Original copies of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports and Official Reply Documents
② Original copies of Environmental Protection Inspection Check-list after field inspection by management office every two weeks and construction units every week；
③Original copies of Environmental Protection Rectification Notice submitted by the Construction unit;
④ Original copies of The Environmental Codes of Practice and Environmental Management Plan for Construction Site submitted by the Construction unit;
⑤ Original copies of all agreements, contracts and requirements related to environmental protection signed with contractors;
⑥ Original copies of records of environmental training and other relevant documents
(2) Construction units assign responsible personnel to take care of the Project documentation in designated corner in the offices of construction field. Documents include: