China - PCB Management and Disposal Demonstration Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 1 of 3) : Environmental impact assessment : executive summary

CHINA PCB MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT Executive Summary of Environmental Assessment A. Project Objective 1. This project will identify and demonstrate environmentally-sound and cost- effective policies, procedures and techniques for safely management and disposal of China's temporarily-stored polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), PCB-contaminated wastes and remaining in-use PCBs equipment. The project will also serve as a demonstration of how this objective can be achieved most cost-effectively throughout China and in other countries that face the same challenge. B. Project Description 2. The project has six components: (1) institutional strengthening; (2) development of a policy framework for PCB management and disposal; (3) PCB management and disposal in Zhejiang Province; (4) disposal in Liaoning Province of highly-contaminated PCB wastes; (5) project monitoring and evaluation; and (6) design of a national replication program. In particular, this project will sample, test and clean up about 56 PCB temporary storage sites in Zhejiang. PCB contaminated soil and other PCB wastes with a PCB concentration between cleanup action levels to 500ppm will be decontaminated with a thermal desorption facility in Zhejiang.1 Highly contaminated PCB wastes (witha PCB concentration higher than 500ppm) will be stored temporarily in Zhejiang and then transported to Shenyang for final disposal in a high-temperature rotary kiln incinerator. See the attached map (Map No. IBRD 33583) for the locations of identified PCB storage sites in Zhejiang and the Shenyang incinerator. C. Environmental Assessment 3. Environmental impacts of the project are assessed in two full environmental assessment (EA) reports