World Bank Loan Funded Turpan Water Conservation Project
in Turpan Prefecture, Xinjiang, P. R. China
Resettlement Action Plan (RAP)
for Construction of Alagou Reservoir
Water Resources Bureau of Turpan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
September 2009
People’s Government of Tuokexun County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Tuokexun County Government Document No. (2009) 113
Re: Commitment Letter for Resettlement of the Alagou Reservoir
World Bank Beijing Office,
As a comprehensive project with multiple benefits and functions including irrigation, water supply to the industrial development district and the South Mountain Mining Area and flood control, Alagou reservoir is an important water conservancy project to Turpan Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The reservoir is planned to have a total storage of 39 million m3 at its normal storage water level of 944.5 m, and a river barrage dam of 105.26 m in height. It will serve 107 thousand mu of irrigated area and be responsible for water supply to the industrial development district and the irrigation areas at the downstream, and will protect the South main line of Xiniang optical fiber cable, the county seat of Tuokexun County and Yilahu township. Construction of the reservoir will not involve resettlement of people, but compensation for and relocation of inundated physical objects. The inundated physical objects include privately, collectively owned ones and state-owned ones (belonging to the State Resources Committee).
In order to properly implement resettlement of the Alagou reservoir, Tuokexun County has established Project Leading Group and Resettlement Office. The people’s Government of Tuokexun County herewith commits to follow requirements stipulated in the Regulations for Resettlement of the People’s Republic of China, the World Bank OP 4.12 “Non-voluntary Resettlement” and its annexes (effective as of January 01, 2002) and the Resettlement Action Plan for Construction of Alagou Reservoir in implementing resettlement activities for construction of the reservoir.
November 25, 2009
(with a seal of the People’s Government of Tuokexun County)
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Table of Contents
Purpose of This RAP and Definitions of Terms Used 4
1 General Description 6
1.1 Brief Introduction 6
1.2 Scope of Impacts and Services of Project 6
1.3 Project Design and Review 7
1.4 Measures for Mitigating Unfavorable Impacts 7
1.5 Preparation of RAP 9
1.6 References and Objectives of RAP 10
2 Brief Introduction of Natural, Social and Economical Conditions of Project Influenced Area 12
2.1 Natural Conditions 12
2.2 Brief Introduction of Social Economy 14
2.3 Basic Data of Production and Livelihood of Affected Households 15
3 Project Impacts 17
3.1 Project Impact Survey 17
3.2 Land Affected 23
3.3 Permanent Land Requisition 25
3.4 Temporary Land Occupation 25
3.5 Buildings to be Submerged 25
3.6 Institutes and Organizations Affected 27
3.7 Population Affected 27
3.8 Land Affiliated Facilities Affected 28
3.9 Other Impacts 29
3.10 Results of Social Economical Investigation in Project Area 30
4 Resettlement Policy Framework 32
4.1 Policies Used as References 32
4.2 Relevant Legal Regulations 32
5 Resettlement Action Plan 55
5.1 Guidelines and Principles for the Resettlement 55
5.2 Task and Objectives of the Resettlement 55
5.3 Overall Plan for the Resettlement 55
6 Reservoir Bottom Cleaning Plan 58
6.1 Cleaning of Reservoir Bottom 58
6.2 Scope of Reservoir Bottom Cleaning 58
6.3 Technical Requirements for the Reservoir Bottom Cleaning 58
6.4 Cost Estimate of Reservoir Bottom Cleaning 59
6.5 Implementation and Acceptance of Reservoir Bottom Cleaning 59
7 Development and Utilization Plan of the Reservoir Area 61
7.1 Preliminary Proposal for Tourism Development 61
7.2 Preliminary Proposal for Fishery Development 61
8 Plan for Recovery and Reconstruction of Structures for Specialized Activities 63
8.1 Principles for the Recovery and Reconstruction 63
8.2 Plan for Reconstruction of Power Transmission Line 63
8.3 Plan for Recovery and Reconstruction of Alagou Hydrological Station 63
8.4 Plan for Disposal of Cultural Relics and Historic Sites 63
9 Cost Estimate for Compensation of Land Acquisition and Resettlement 64
9.1 References Used in the Estimation of Compensation 64
9.2 Principles Used in Preparing the Cost Estimate of the Compensation 65
9.3 Definition of Compensation Standards 65
9.4 Total Investment for Land Acquisition and Resettlement of the Reservoir Construction 68
9.5 Management of Inundation Compensation Funds 70
10 Resettlement Organizational Structure 73
10.1 Institutional Structure Established for the Resettlement 73
10.2 Staffing of Resettlement Organization 77
10.3 Institutional Responsibilities and Relationships 77
10.4 Measures to Strengthen Institutional Capacity 79
10.5 Qualifications of Resettlement Organizations and Individuals Involved in the Resettlement 80
10.6 Measures to Strengthen Capacity of the Resettlement Institutions 80
11 Pubic Participation and Grievance Procedure 81
11.1 Public Participation 81
11.2 Grievance Procedures 84
12 Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism 86
12.1 Internal M&E 86
12.2 External Independent M&E 87
13 Plan for Report Preparation 91
13.1 Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) 91
13.2 Resettlement Progress Report 91
13.3 Independent Resettlement M&E Report 92
Annexes:
Annex 1 Results from Survey of Physical Objects to Be Inundated by Alagou Reservoir construction
Annex 2 Response to Pre-review Comments on Land Acquisition of Alagou Reservoir Construction in Tuokexun County (Document No. [2007]40 issued by Xinjiang Land Resources Bureau)
Annex 3 Letter of Comments on Cultural Relic Protection in Construction of Alagou Reservoir in Tuokexun County, Turpan Prefecture
Annex 4 Relocation Program for Alagou Hydrological Station
Annex 5 Confirmed Statistics of Inundated Forest by Tuokexun County Forestry Bureau
Annex 6 Confirmed Statistics of Affected State-owned Assets in the Alagou Reservoir Area by Tuokexun County National Asset Management Bureau
Annex 7 Ownership Rights to the Inundated Land in the Alagou Reservoir Area Confirmed by Tuokexun County Land Resources Bureau
Attached Map:
Sketch Map of Inundation by Alagou Reservoir
Purpose of This RAP and Definitions of Terms Used
This RAP is prepared in compliance with requirements in both relevant national and regional laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China and OP 4.12 “Involuntary Resettlement” of the World Bank. The purpose of this document is to work out an action plan for the resettlement to ensure that the resettled people will benefit from the project and their living standards are improved, or at least resumed after completion of the project.
During implementation of development project, acquisition of land and other properties may cause negative impacts to people working in the land area or relying on the land to make a living. “Project affected people” refers to those whose production or lives have been negatively affected by land acquisition under the project, including:
(1) Those whose land (including housing land, land for public facilities, land used for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery production and by-line production purposes.), buildings (private houses and the auxiliary buildings, factory buildings or public buildings, etc.), equities or properties have been partially or wholly acquired or occupied, temporally or permanently.
(2) Those who use the above mentioned land, buildings or properties, or whose business, profession, job, residing area or living habit have been negatively affected.
(3) Those whose living standard has been negatively affected by land acquisition under the project.
The definition of “Project affected people” is:
“Project affected people ” refers to those whose living standard is impacted or will be impacted negatively due to implementation of the project, or whose ownership, right or interest thereof any house buildings, or land (including housing land, farm land and pasture land) or other movable or immovable property is acquired temporally or permanently; or those whose business, profession, job, residing area or living habit is negatively affected.
“Project affected people” may be individuals, or legal persons of enterprises or public institutions. Definition of the “Project affected people” does not have restrictions by the status of legal registration, or by permission for living or business operation within the land area, or limit on compensation to properties, i.e. the “Project affected people” include:
(1) All affected people regardless of their legal right or equity status or their presence when their property is being acquired.
(2) People without permission for residing in a specific area.
Therefore, all those as mentioned above shall be regarded as “Project affected people” and shall be recorded.
If the acquired land or property is used by more than one person or one household, the compensation shall be made and recovery shall be conducted to all those people based on their losses and impacts on their rights or living standard. The definition of the “Project affected people” directly relates to the negative impacts on the people regardless of their legal rights or interests.
All people who are affected by the project should be compensated in order to improve or at least restore their living standard, and their losses of properties should be compensated. Loss of property should be compensated at replacement price, no depreciation or discount based on other reasons is allowed in making the compensation. All people affected by the project should be enabled to exercise their rights to get compensation to the impacts on them. Meanwhile, subsidies should be provided to them in addition to the compensations to their losses of properties, so that their living standard can be recovered. Those who are affected by the project but have no legal rights to the properties, entities or residing area, or permission of business operation, land reclamation or building, should be regarded equally to those who have legal property rights, equities or official permission as entitled to obtain compensations to recover their living standard.
Definition of “Resettlement”:
“Resettlement” refers to arrangement made for production and living of the project affected people to enable them to benefit from the project, including mainly:
(1) Moving them out off their original living spaces;
(2) Finding new employment positions for the project affected people;
(3) Recovering (or compensating) the affected land, working spaces, trees and basic infrastructures;
(4) Resuming living standard of project affected people whose living standard (life quality) is negatively impacted by land acquisition (or pollution of toxic gas, etc);
(5) Recovering or compensating individuals, enterprises or public institutions that are affected by the project;
(6) Recovering negative impacts on culture or public properties.
Definition of “Recovery”:
“Recovery” refer to resuming the production and living capabilities of the project affected people to enable them to continue their production and living activities, or improving, or at least maintaining their level of living standard before the project.
This RAP has the purpose of providing a recovery plan for the project affected people, ensuring that their losses get compensated and their living standard get improved or at least maintain the current level. To achieve this, the RAP puts forward recovery measures to recover the incomes of the project affected people, so that they can maintain their living. Similarly, the affected business or production resources (including shops, enterprises), public properties, basic infrastructures and cultural properties will also be improved, or at least resume to the level before project.
1 General Description
1.1 Brief Introduction
Alagou Reservoir will be located at the downstream reaches of Alagou River, 3.8km~7.5km upstream to the mountain pass, within the Nanshan Mine area of Urumqi, to the west of Tuokesun County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, longitude east 87º48′～87º50′ and latitude north 42º48′～42º50′. Alagou Reservoir Project will be a key control project serving Alagou River, Tuokesun County and the area of two river basins. The Project is designed to be a complex works playing the roles of flood control, irrigation, water supply, ecological protection, etc., with a catchment area above the proposed dam site of 1842 km2, total reservoir capacity of 45.67 million cubic meters, dam height of 82m, irrigation area of 122,000 mu, water supply services for downstream Tuokesun County Industry Part and Nanshan Mine area, flood control services for Alagou canal headworks, Alagou main diversion channel, Qingnian main channel, Southern Xinjiang railway, Southern Xinjiang communication optical fibre main stem, National road No.312, Provincial road No. 307 as well as Tuokesun, YiLaHu, etc. totally 3 townships at the downstream.
Alagou Reservoir Project will consist of a dam, a spillway and irrigation outlet works. An asphalt and concrete core dam will be employed with a total length of 332m and a height of 82m. The spillway will be a riparian type, arranged on the left bank besides the main river course, in a linear alignment, with an angle of 77°between its longitudinal axis and dam axis, and gated. The spillway will include four parts: headrace channel, gated section, discharge chute and energy dissipation works. The irrigation outlet works will be arranged on the left bank to do irrigation and water supply for Nanshan Region, containing approach channel, tower intake gated section, non-pressure tunnel section, exposed channel, hydraulic jump energy dissipator.
Alagou Reservoir is designed to be multi-purpose complex works with a total capacity of 45.67 million cubic meters and functions of flood control, industrial water supply, agricultural irrigation and ecological protection. In accordance with the Standard for Classification and Flood Control of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Project, SL252-2000, Alagou Reservoir is defined to be a Class III, medium project. The hydraulic structures are categorized as: for the main structures, dam of Grade 2, sediment flushing and discharge outlet of Grade 3, irrigation outlet of Grade 3, spillway of Grade 3; secondary structures of Grade 4; temporary structures of Grade 5.
1.2 Scope of Impacts and Services of Project
A. Project Impacts
Alagou Reservoir will be located 3.5km upstream to the mountain pass of Alagou, 70 km west to Tuokesun County. The total area that will suffer the impacts of submergence of the Alagou Reservoir will be 3.17km2 including two parts: (1) rural area: ① farmland to be submerged of 146.9 mu. Those farmland is not the land allotted for private use and not registered with the collective, defined as Grade III farmland. ②1432 fruit trees to be submerged, mainly concerning peach, apricot and apple; 22366 forest trees, mainly concerning mulberry, elm, willow and Alamo, etc. The aforesaid fruit trees and forest trees are contracted by the private.③ brick-concrete bungalows to be submerged of 803.7m2，brick-concrete storied buildings of 3793.3 m2，workshops pf 487.5m2， other buildings of 310.3m2，affiliated buildings such as sheep pens, etc. ⑵ specific facilities: ① Alagou Hydrological Station in need of resettlement; ② flood dike of 6.5 km, communication line of 4 km and transmission line of 3 km to be submerged; ③ 33 tumulus.
B. Scope of services
Alagou Reservoir will be of the important water works in the recent national economical development program in Tuokesun County. The reservoir can satisfy water demands of the downstream irrigation districts (YiLaHu Township, BoSiTan Township, Nanshan Mine Area, Tuokesun Industry Park), upgrade flood control standard and provide a dependable water source to guarantee the industrial and agricultural development of Tuokesun County.