People’S Republic Of China
Sichuan & Gansu Provincial Governments
The World Bank
Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project (WERP)
Sichuan Infrastructure Sub-projects (Batch 2)
Volume 3：Langzhong Subproject
Summary Environmental Impact Assessment Report
April 2010
Summary Environmental Impact Assessment for Langzhong Subproject under
Batch 2 of Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project (WERP)
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 General 1
1.1.1 Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Program (WERP) 1
1.1.2 Project Organization 2
1.1.3 Batch 2 Infrasturcture Sub-projects in Sichuan 3
1.2 Purpose and Scope of this Report 5
1.3 Layout of the Summary EA 5
2 Background and Description of Langzhong Subproject 7
2.1 Project Background 7
2.2 Compliance with Local Planning 7
2.3 Project Composition 7
3 Alternative Analysis 9
3.1.1 With and Without Langzhong Subproject 9
3.1.2 Project Location 9
4 Envionrmental Baseline Situation 12
4.1 Physical Settings 12
4.1.1 Geography 12
4.1.2 Geology 12
4.1.3 Climate 12
4.1.4 Hydrology 13
4.1.5 Ecology 13
4.2 Social & Economic Setting 14
5 Impact Assessment & Mitigation Measures 15
5.1 Anticipated Benefits from Langzhong Subproject 15
5.2 Impacts and Mitigation Measures Related to Project Location 15
5.2.1 Land Acquisition & Resettlement 15
5.2.2 Cultural Heritage 16
5.2.3 Ecological Resources 16
5.3 Impacts and Mitigation Measures Related to Construction Period 16
5.3.1 General Impacts 16
5.3.2 Specific Impacts 18
5.4 Impacts and Mitigation Measures Related to Operation Period 22
5.4.1 Air Pollution 22
5.4.2 Noise Pollution 22
5.4.3 Potential Impacts on Local Navigation and Flood Control 23
5.4.4 Clarification of Dam Safety Issues 23
6 Resettlement Action Plan 24
6.1 Brief description of the project 24
6.2 Impact of Land Acquisition and House Demolition 24
6.3 Applicable Policies and compensation standard 24
6.4 Estimated Cost for resettlement 24
6.4.1 Land compensation 25
6.4.2 Resettlement Plan for house demolition 25
6.4.3 Reemployment opportunities brought by No.3 Jialing River Bridge project 25
6.5 Implementation Plan for Resettlment 26
6.6 Resettlement organization and fund guarantee 27
6.7 Consultation, Appeals, Public Participation and Information Disclosure 27
6.8 Resettlement Monitoring 28
6.9 Matrix Table of Rights 28
7 Public Consultation & Information Disclosure 30
7.1 Public Consultation 30
7.2 Information Disclosure 31
8 Environmental Management Plan 33
8.1 Organization 33
8.2 Environemtnal Monitoring Plan 34
8.2.1 Construction Period 34
8.2.2 Operation Period 35
8.3 Capacity Building 35
8.4 Budget Estimate and Source of Funding 35
Appendix 1 Bibliography 1
Appendix 2 Environmental Standard 1
Environmental Air Quality Standards 1
Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water 1
Environmental Quality Standards for Noise 2
Wastewater 3
Air Emission 5
Noise 6
Soil Erosion Control 6
Appendix 3 Figures and Drawings 1
List of Tables
Table 11: List of Sub-project Cost 4
Table 21: Project Details of Proposed No.3 Jialing River Bridge Project in Langzhong City 8
Table 31: Alternative Analysis of Project Location 10
Table 41: Climiate CHaracteristics of Proposed Project Area 12
Table 42: Land Use of Proposed Project Area in 2009 13
Table 43: Information on Output Value in Langzhong CIty (100,000 RMB) 13
Table 44: Main Parameters of Social & Economic Settings in Langzhong City and Hexi Town 14
Table 51: Information of Proposed Spoil Disposal Sites 20
Table 52: Projection of Noise Levels at 3 Sensitive Receptors for Operation Period 22
Table 61: Resettlement Implementation Plan of No.3 Jialing River Bridge in Langzhong 26
Table 62: Right table for resettlement of Langzhong No.3 Jialing River bridge project 28
Table 81: Summary of Public Consultation for Langzhong Subproject 30
Table 82: Summary of Information Disclosure for Langzhong Subproject 31
Table 91: Monitoring Program during Construction 34
Table 92: Monitoring Program during Operation 35
Table 93: Budget of Environmental Monitoring Plan 36
List of Figures
Figure 11: Institutional Organization of WERP 2
Figure 12: Locations of Project Counties/Cities under Infrastructure Component (Batch 2) in Sichuan 3
Figure 31: Proposed bridge locations for No.3 Jialing River Bridge 10
Figure 51: Earthwork Balance of Langzhong Subproject (in loose measure) 19
Figure 81: Information Disclosure on Langzhong City Newspaper 32
Figure 91: Conceptual Organization for EMP Organization 34
DRA Consulting Team iii April 2010
Summary Environmental Impact Assessment for Langzhong Subproject under
Batch 2 of Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project (WERP)
Abbreviations, acronyms and units
CSE Construction Supervision Engineer
CSEE Construction Supervision Environmental Engineer
CSEMP Construction Site Environmental Management Plan
DI Design Institute
DRA Design Review and Advisory (services)
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EMC Environmental Management Coordinator
EMP Environmental Management Plan
EMS Environmental Monitoring Station
EPB Environmental Protection Bureau
ESU Environmental Supervision Unit
IA Implementing Agency
NCP Nuisance Control Plan
PIU Projet Implementation Unit
PMC Project Management Cost
PMO Project Management Office
PPE Personal Protective Equipment
PRC The People’s Republic of China
RAP Resettlement Action Plan
SA Social Assessment
SE Supervision Engineer
SEPA State Environmental Protection Administration
SEPB Sichuan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau
ToR Terms of Reference
WB World Bank
WERP Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project
WS Water Supply
WTP Water Treatment Plant
WWTP Wastewater Treatment Plant
MSW Municipal Solid Waste
CURRENCIES & OTHER UNITS
mu Area Unit (1mu＝0.0667 ha)
RMB Chinese Yuan (Renminbi)
USD United States Dollar
Conversion rate: 1 USD＝6.8 RMB
CHEMICAL ABBREVIATIONS
BOD5 Biochemical Oxygen Demand (5 days)
COD Chemical Oxygen Demand
CODMn Permanganate Index
NH3-N Ammonia Nitrogen
SS Suspended Solids
TP Total Phosphorus
TSS Total Suspended Solids
TSP Total Suspended Particulates
DRA Consulting Team iii April 2010
Summary Environmental Impact Assessment for Langzhong Subproject under
Batch 2 of Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project (WERP)
1 Introduction
1.1 General
1.1.1 Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Program (WERP)
On May 12, 2008 at 2:28pm, an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 Richter and 11.0 degrees in seismic intensity struck the southwestern part of China, centered in Wenchuan County in Sichuan province. As a result of this earthquake and its more than 20,000 significant aftershocks, more than 69,000 people have died, 374,000 have been injured, and 18,000 remain missing. Losses include: 34,000 km of highway destroyed; 1,263 reservoirs damaged; 7,444 schools and 11,028 hospitals and clinics collapsed, and 5.5 million rural houses and 860,000 urban houses destroyed or significantly damaged. Direct losses are estimated at RMB 844 billion (USD 123 billion). Approximately 34 million people live in the affected area, with almost 20 million in the severely affected area.
In response to the earthquake, the World Bank has lend USD 710 million of IBRD financing to the most highly affected provinces of Sichuan and Gansu for post-earthquake reconstruction, that is, the Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Program (WERP).
The expected outcomes of the project are to restore and enhance access to essential public infrastructure and services (e.g., water supply, wastewater and drainage, solid waste, roads) and core health services in affected counties in Sichuan and Gansu prioritizing, where possible, the needs of the poor and/or newly vulnerable arising from the earthquake. In addition, the expected outcomes include the rehabilitation of education facilities and restoration of access to public education in project counties in Gansu. In both provinces, sub-projects will be designed to reduce the vulnerability of the services to seismic and flood hazards.
The proposed WERP is designed to comprise two parts:
l Part 1- Sichuan Recovery Program (Bank loan US$510million)
- Infrastructure (Bank loan USD 432.4 million). This component will finance civil works and goods required for the reconstruction and appropriate expansion of infrastructure, in approximately 16 counties in the five municipalities of Mianyang, Guangyuan, Bazhong, Nanchong and Ya'an. In view of the project preparation progress, the component is organised to be implemented in two batches: Batch 1 and Batch 2.
- Health (Bank loan USD 57.6 mil lion) component will finance civil works and goods required for the reconstruction and appropriate expansion of health services, in about 19 counties in the seven municipalities of Mianyang, Guangyuan, Bazhong, Nanchong, Ya'an, Chengdu and Deyang.
- Project support (Bank loan USD 20.0million) will finance training, capacity building and engineering costs of sub-projects.
l Part 2 - Gansu Recovery Program (Bank loan US$200.0million)
This will finance infrastructure, health and education sub-projects in 7 counties in Longnan Municipality with a focus on Cheng, Hui, and Xihe Counties.
- Infrastructure (Bank loan USD 130.3 million). This component will finance civil works and goods required for the reconstruction and appropriate expansion of infrastructure.
- Health (Bank loan USD 32.3 million) will finance civil works and goods required for the reconstruction and appropriate expansion of health services.
- Education (Bank loan USD 33.4 million) will finance facilities and equipment for the reconstruction and appropriate expansion of primary, secondary, and vocational/technical schools.
- Project support (Bank loan USD 4.0 million) will finance training, capacity Building and engineering costs of sub-projects.
1.1.2 Project Organization
Due to the project urgency, a strong project leading and technical support system is required at all the national, provincial/municipal and county levels to guarantee the quality of project implementation.
At the national level, the National Development and Reform Comission is responsible for the approval of Investment Application Report, and the Ministry of Finance is responsible for the signing of Loan Agreement, the supervison of loan use and the loan repayment.
For the overall project coordination of all the involved Project Implementation Units (PIUs) at the project level, there are totally three project management offices organized under the leadership of the provincial DRC, the provincial financial bureau and the provincial department of construction in the two project provinces (Sichuan and Gansu), respectively:
- The Urban Construction Project Management Office (UCPPMO) and the Health Project Management Office (HPPMO) for Sichuan Components; and
- The Longnan Municipal Project Management Office (LMPMO) for Gansu components.
The general institutional organization of the project implementation can be summarised in the following chart.
Figure 11: Institutional Organization of WERP
At local level, the Project Implementation Units (PIUs) are specifically responsible for development, implementation, operation and management of the subprojects. For the Batch 2 urban infrastructure sub-projects in Sichuan Province under WERP, the project implementation units are all the planning and consruction bureaus at the local level.
1.1.3 Batch 2 Infrasturcture Sub-projects in Sichuan
The screening and identification of Batch 2 infrastructure sub-projects under Sichuan Recovery Program was started since June 2009 by the the Sichuan urban construction PPMO, and the proposed sub-projects have been confirmed by the World Bank with Sichuan Finance Bureau and Sichuan DRC on August 2009.
Figure 12: Locations of Project Counties/Cities under Infrastructure Component (Batch 2) in Sichuan
All the sub-projects are detailed in the table below. The total estimated cost of the second batch infrastructure subprojects is 2.22billion RMB, of which potentially USD 259.97million could be financed by the World Bank.
Table 11: List of Sub-project Cost
Project No. / Sub-project County/District / Sub-project Type / Cost(mil. RMB) / WB Loan
(mil. USD) /
Mianyang Municipality / 1054.95 / 109.90
SC2-MY-FC / Fucheng Dis. / WTP, WWTP, roads, & drainage network / 286.49 / 30.15
SC2-MY-YX / Youxian Dis. / Roads, drainage network and WWTP / 212.78 / 21.29
SC2-MY-SY / Songya Town, Youxian Dis. / Embankment / 114.94 / 9.00
SC2-MY-ST / Santai County / Roads, drainage network and WTP / 232.98 / 23.12
SC2-MY-YT / Yanting County / Roads, drainage network and embankment / 108.37 / 10.18
SC2-MY-ZT / Zitong County / Roads, drainage network, WTP and bridge / 214.33 / 25.18
Guangyuan Municipality / 644.92 / 81.60
SC2-GY-CT / Chaotian Dis. / Roads, drainage network, WWTP, bridge, bus station platform and bus control centre / 99.97 / 14.44
SC2-GY-WC / Wangcang County / Bridges, roads, drainage network, and embankment / 207.93 / 25.92
SC2-GY-CX / Cangxi County / Bridge rehabilitation and construction / 139.47 / 13.74
SC2-GY-LZ / Lizhou Dis. / Embankment / 61.65 / 8.25
SC2-GY-YB / Yuanba Dis. / Landfill site, WWTP, WTP, water supply network, roads and drainage network / 135.91 / 19.25
Nanchong Municipality / 217.68 / 26.47
SC2-NC-LZ / Langzhong City / Bridge / 217.68 / 26.47
Bazhong Municipality / 57.94 / 6.94
SC2-BZ-NJ / Nanjiang County / Bridges and embankment / 57.94 / 6.94
Ya’an Municipality / 246.29 / 35.29
SC2-YA-BX / Baoxing County / Roads, WS & drainage network, bridge / 69.91 / 9.81
SC2-YA-SM / Shimian County / WTP, bridge, roads and drainage network / 113.55 / 16.55
SC2-YA-LS / Lushan County / Bridge, WS facilities, road & drainage network / 62.83 / 8.93
Total / 2221.78 / 260.20
Note: In this report, we will refer to WERP as “the Project” and to the local sub-projects organized by city/county as the “sub-project”. We will refer to the sectoral components of each sub-project as “components” (i.e. Roads and Bridges, Water Supply, Drainage Network, Solid Waste Management, and River Rehabilitation).
1.2 Purpose and Scope of this Report
In accordance with PRC National Regulations and the World Bank Operational Policy 4.01 related to Environmental Assessment, three of the subprojects under Batch 2, WERP, including Cangxi, Yuanba and Langzhong, fall under the Category A projects. Therefore, for the Batch 2 projects, the following EIA documentations are required to meet the World Bank requirements.
l Volume 1: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Summary for Cangxi Subproject
l Volume 2: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Summary for Yuanba Subproject
l Volume 3: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Summary for Langzhong Subproject
l EIAs & EMPs for individual subprojects/components (in Chinese only)
In order to comply with PRC Regulation “Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Management for the Construction Project Loaned by International Finance Organisation” of June 21, 1993 and with World Bank Safeguards Operational Policy, the local PIUs have commissioned the local EIA consultants to prepare the Chinese EIAs for individual subprojects/components.