China - Second Shanghai Urban Environment Project

Page 1 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Report No.: AC796 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: April 19, 2004 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: China Project ID: P075732 Project Name: CN-Shanghai Urban Environment APL Phase Task Team Leader: Mats Andersson Estimated Appraisal Date: May 27, 2005 Estimated Board Date: November 10, 2005 Managing Unit: EASUR Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Sector: Sewerage (50%);Water supply (25%);Solid waste management (25%) Theme: Access to urban services for the poor (P);Municipal finance (P);Pollution management and environmental health (S) Safeguard Policies Specialists in the task team: Bekir Onursal; Ke Fang; Chaogang Wang Loan/Credit amount ($m.): IBRD: 300 Other financing amounts by source: Borrower ($m) 2. Proposed project development objective(s) The three loans under this first programmatic APL in China have the objective of improving environmental conditions in Shanghai by progressive development and implementation of integrated, metropolitan-wide measures. 1 Implementation of APL1 --which objective is to put in place some of the underpinnings and enabling conditions to pursue these measures-- has started with about US$10 million (5%) of the loan disbursed to date. Progress is being made on infrastructure finance and PPP, including a proposal for an enterprise bond issue, recently submitted to the SMG for approval; design of a District Financing Vehicle (DFV) by an existing SMG investment company (UDIC) is underway; various joint venture O&M contracts have been signed with foreign firms for solid waste disposal; and a long term O&M contract is underway for a wastewater treatment plant to be financed under APL1. This second phase of the program aims to deepen the urban environment agenda through further investments, and policy/institutional reform initiatives. While the development objective of APL2 remains