China - Third Henan Highway Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 2 of 9) : Environmental action plan

E- 304 VOL. 2 No.0206 First Class Certificate for EIA Issued bv SEBA 4 World Bank- Loan Project Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway of Jing-Zhu National Trunk Road Environmental Action Plan SCANNED Henan Provincial Communications Department November, 1999   No.0206 First Class Certificate for EIA Issued by SEBA World Bank Loan Project Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway of Jing-Zhu National Trunk Road Environmental Action Plan Henan Provincial Communications Department November, 1999  I I  CONTENTS Foreword 1 1. A Brief Introduction to the Projeet I 1.1 Engineering brief 1 1.2 Main standards used in the EIA 2 1.3 Main conclusions of the EIA statement 3 1.4 Laws and regulations 5 1.5 Environmental management and supervison organizations 5 2. Environmental Protection Action Plan 8 2.1 Design period 8 2.2 Construction period 10 2.3 Operation period 19 2.4 Cost estimation of the environmental protection 23 3. Environmental supervision plan 23 4. Environmental monitoring plan 25 4.1 Purpose and principles 25 4.2 Environmental monitoring target and item in different period 25 4.3 Environmental monitoring organ 25 4.4 Cost estimation for environmental monitoring work 27 4.5 Monitoring report procedure 27 4.6 Personnel training for environmental protection 28  l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Environmental Action Plan for Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway Project Foreword The Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway as part of Jing-Zhu national trunk road starts in the north from the end point of that to be built Lohe-Zhumadian expressway, on the eastern side of the Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) railway, and ends at the border area between Henan and Hubei provinces, which is an important section of Jing-Zhu national trunk road. Total length of the expressway is I32.9km, with estimated cost about CNY3,470 million, of which the first 95.1km is taken as the World Bank loan project, with the rest 37.8km as domestic project. At the end of 1998, the Environmental Protection Center (EPC) of the Ministry of Communications (MOC) undertook the EIA work for the Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway project. A meeting of preliminary examination of the EIA Statement was presided over by the Environmental Protection Office of the MOC in August 1999. To control and mitigate the possible adverse impacts caused by the expressway project, an environmental action plan (EAP) has been formulated based on the Environmental Impact Assessment Statement for Zhumadian-Xinyang Expressway Project with contents including the action plan of enviromnental management and environmental monitoring for environmental protection work. 1. A Brief Introduction to the Project. 1.1 Engineering brief (1) Geographical location of the project The proposed road project of Zhumadian-Xinvang expressway (provincial border area section) starts in the north from the end point of the Lohe-Zhumadian expressway of the Jing-Zhu national trunk road, on the eastern side of the Jing-Guang (Beijing- Guangzhou) railway, southwards via the major cities of Queshan, Minggang. Xinyano. and ends at the national trunk road No. 312 the eastern of Xinang, with total length of 95.15km, of which 57.45km are in Zhumadian area and 37.7km are in Xinyang area. Figure 1 shows the geographical location of the project. (2) Major technical indicators of the engineering design The landform along the road area is characteristic of plain and light hilly and changing from north to south; meanwhile the area economic development level shox s a  rN jl A M^AIP 1-l icogrisphlical L,ocatimil of t;hu-Nit l.xpressvs,m  declining trend, with much higher traffic volume in the south than that in the north. The design speed is 120 km/h, subgrade width 28 m and horizontal clearance of bridge deckl 2 x 12 m. There are five interchanges at Zhumadian, Queshan, Minggang and Xinvang respectively to be connected with the local road network. The technical indicators of the engineering design are in Table I - 1. Table 1-iMain technical indicators of the engineering design Item Unit kO+000-k95+ 150 I Design speed km/h 120 2 Subgrade width m 28 3 Minimum radius of horizontal curve m 1,000 4 Maximum iongitudinal gradient/length %/ m 31900 5 Bridge deck net width m 2 X 12.00 6 Design load capacity Vehicle - super 20. trailer - 120 7 Flood frequency in bridge design 1/100 (1/300 for extra-large bridge) 8 Pavement type Bitumen concrete 9 Subgrade | Earth m3 14,907,576 earth/stone work Stone m 57,635 10 Drainage protection m_ 535,496 11 Culvert No. 68 12 Small bridge m/No. 315/15 13 Medium bridge m/No. 888/20 14 Large bridge rm/No. 840/6 15 Extra-large bridge m/No. 805/1 16 Interchange No. 5 17 Separated interchange No. 19 18 Underpass No. 156 19 Overpass No. 4 20 Land acquisition mu 8,005 21 Rest area No. (3) Cost estimation and time schedule of engineering work Total cost estimation for the recommended scheme of the road project is CNY 2.458.7756 million, CNY 25.841 million per kilometer, of which CNY 1,580.2939 million are construction installation engineering cost accounting for 64.27% of the total. Financing for the road project shall be arranged as follows: the grant from the Ministry of Communications CNY 570.9 million; the World Bank loan USD 150 million (CNY 1,254 million); with the rest of CNY 642.8756 million financed by the Henan province. It has been preliminarily decided that the engineering work of the road project shall be started in the year of 2000 and accomplished by the end of 2002 and open to the traffic in 2003. 1.2 Main standards used in the EIA (1) Surface water: The Class III standard in the "Surface Water Quality 2  Standard" (GB3838-89) is to be used for surface water environmental assessment: the Class II standard in the "Comprehensive Sewage Water Discharge Standard" (GB8978-1996) is to be used for the assessment of the sewage water discharge from the rest area. (2) Ambient air: The Class II standard in the "Ambient Air Quality Standard" (GB3095-96) is to be used for ambient air assessment. (3) Ambient noise: The "Ambient Noise Standard for Urban Area" (GB3096-93) is be used for the noise assessment as follows: Class IV standard for areas within a distance of 200 meters from the central line of ihe road, and Class I standard for the sensitive areas (schools, hospitals, etc.) . 1.3 Main conclusions of the ELIA statement The area passed by the proposed road project is plain area, the design unit did not set forth alternative schemes for the road alignment for the whole route, with only part of the section, about 24.85km, having alternative scheme. By comprehensive comparisons of the altemative schemes in terms of the engineering, economic and environmental factor, the recommended scheme is reasonable and feasible. (1) Societal environmental impact (i) The proposed road project will greatly promote the economic development of the areas along the proposed road and the economic development of the whole province and improve the living standard of the local people. (ii) To mitigate the severance impact caused by the proposed road project, 156 underpasses, 4 flyovers have been included in the engineering design, with one passage every 590m, for the local communities communications and production on both sides of the road. (iii) Land acquisition and resettlement will be arranged in accordance with the government policy and regulations with proper compensations for the affected people. with average about 5-8 times of every mu of land output value for each of mu of the land occupation to be provided as compensation, together with proper arrangement of the land and building facilities for relocation and resettlement. (2) Ecological environmental impact (i) The total length of the proposed road is 95.15km, with permanent land occupation of 8,054mu. of which 7,193mu are dry land, accounting for 89.31% of the total, 377mu pond and paddy land 155mu accounting for 0.23% of the total area of the three counties of Nunan, Queshan and Xinyang; with annual loss of grain 2.984million kg equivalent to CNY4. 178 million; therefore the impact on agriculture production is not great. 3  (ii) There are one extra-large bridge, 6 large bridges, 34 medium bridges, 15 small bridges, 68 culverts to be built with full considerations of the local area, river and climate conditions to meet the flood discharge requirement, to keep the original irrigation intact and to minimize the impact on the river system. (iii) Since the area along the road project is dominated bv farm land with some hilly land, there is no plants and animals protected in the area, the impact is little. (iv) The earth and stone work amount will be 14.95 million m3, which will cause certain impact on soil erosion along the road area, particularly in the construction period; therefore a number protective measures have been designed to mitigate the impact. After completion of the road construction the impact will be reduced back to the original level and hopefully the environment will be improved with the implementation of the effective protection measures. (3) Surface water environmental impact (i) The water quality of the rivers to be crossed over by the proposed road project is of Class III or Class IV, with the Huaihe river being in the condition of serious pollution. and relatively better for the other rivers with overall water quality of Class III. (ii) During the bridge construction period, there will be impact on the river water. mainly cause by the SS and oil. (iii) The sewage, garbage from the labour camp and the wastes from constriction work will have certain impact on the environment. (iv) According the engineering feasibility study report, there will be one living service area and the sewage from the living service area will be treated before to be discharge into the water body and the garbage to be disposed to the designated place; therefore the impact will be small. (4) Ambient air impact (i) The current status of the CO and NOx concentrations are up to the Class II standards of the GB3096-1996, with some exceeding of TSP over the standard limit: so on the whole the ambient air quality is good with greater environrmental capacity. (ii) In the operation year of 2020, the CO and NOx concentrations will not exceed the standard limits on both sides of the road; therefore the impact on the ambient air quality is small. (iii) The flying dusts and bitumen smoke arising from the construction work will have certain impact on the ambient air quality; and measures will be taken to mitigate the impact. (5) Acoustic environmental impact (i) Investigation and monitoring of the current status of the acoustic environment show that the current status of the acoustic environment is up to the Class II standard of 4  GB3093-1 996. (ii) According to the forecast. there will be greater impact of the traffic noise on the sensitive spots along the road area in the operation period, with exceeding of the noise level over the standard limit in different extent in the long term operation period: measures will be taken to mitigate the impact. (iii) In the construction period, the noise produced by the construction machines will have impact on the surrounding areas' residents as well as the construction workers; so measures will be taken to minimized the impact. 1.4 Laws and regulations * ,Law of Environmental Protection of the People' s Republic of China" December, 1989; * "Law of Water Pollution Prevention and Control of the People' s Republic of China" , May 1996; * " Land Administration Law of the People' s Republic of China" .. June 25. 1986; , "Law of Environmental Noise Pollution Prevention and Control of the People' s Republic of China" , October 26, 1996; - "Law of Air Pollution Prevention and Control of the People' s Republic of China" - "Law of Cultural Relics Protection of the People' s Republic of China", May 11. 1982: * "Law of Water and Soil Retention of the People' s Republic of China" . June, 1991; * "Regulations Concerning Environmental Protection for Construction Project' Directives No. 253 issued by the State Council, November, 1998; * "Measures Concerning Environmental Protection Management for Communications Construction Project" , MOC Ordinance No.17, 1990; * "Notice to Strengthen the Environmental Impact Assessment and Management of Construction Project Financed by Loan from International Financial Organizations" jointlv issued by SEPA, State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance and People' s Bank of China in 1993: * OP/BP/GP4.01 "The World Bank Operational Manual," January 1999 1.5 Environmental management and supervision organizations The environmental protection management system for the expressway project includes supervision, management and executive organs, as shown in Figure 1-2. 5  (1) Management organ and function The EPO of the MOC is responsible for the environmental protection workl in highway and waterway transport field. There is an Environmental Protection Office under the Henan Provincial Communications Department (PCD) has responsibilities as follows: EPO of MOC World Bank | Top l..l..l..'J Supervisor Provincial Communications World Banl rovincial Top routine Department (PCD) rovEP Supervuisor [ t EPB | Supervisor C/) Z . . Routine o 1 EPO of PCD Worid Bank Regional Municipal Supervisor Project Office EPB ._ ~~~~~~Of PCD |EP 0~~~~~~~~~~~ CIO Roa Prjc Ci . II - l l 0 ~~~~~~~~~~~County EPB l Competent authorits for > ~~~road management Cs. - Manage & Executive Agceny Supcrvisor organ Figure 1-1 Environmental protection management organization (i) To implement the environmental protection policies and regulations and to formnulate the measures for the environmental protection according to the policies and regulations and the concrete situations in the province; (ii) To forrnulate environrrnental protection prograrn and to supervise implementation of the program for the PCD, and to conduct statistics of the environrnental protection work; (ill) To be responsible for the environrnental management of the capital construction project under the jurisdiction of the PCD; The World Bank Loan Project Office in the PCD responsible for capital 6  construction and the Provincial High Grade Highway Management Bureau (PHGHMB) have their own environmental protection organs respectively, with two environmental specialist respectively under the guidance of the EPO of the PCD, and have the responsibilities as the following. (i) To implement the PCD' s environmental protection measures; (ii) To fornulate the environmental protection action plan for the high grade highways in the province, and to supervise implementation of the action plan. To be responsible for the statistics of the high grade highway environmental protection to be submitted to the EPO of the PCD; (iii) To be responsible for the environmental management and the resettlement work for this expressway project; .(iv) To be responsible for the environmental monitoring for the provincial high grade highway and to submit the monitored results to the EPO of the PCD; (v) To conduct supervision and inspection of the environmental protection facilities and equipment use and maintenance for the environmental monitoring; (vi) To encourage good practice and to cite advanced units and individuals; (vii) To implement other environmental related directions issued by the EPO of the PCD. During the construction period, two environmental supervising engineers will be designated by the EPO of World Bank loan pro ject office of the Henan PCD, for the supervision work over the environmental protection measures as specified in the EAP and the bidding document. After completion of the expressway project, the local communications bureaus along the expressway will designate officers specifically for the environmental protection issues within their jurisdiction section. The emergency response team. including fire-fighting and first aid personnel, shall be organized and coordinated by the county government. (2) Supervising organs and responsibilities SEPA: is the highest administrative competent authority at the national level for supervision of routine overall environmental protection work, including examination and approval of TOR of EIA, EIA statement, en-forcement guidance for the provincial EPB, and appraisal and acceptance of the completed environmental protection facilities. Henan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB): is responsible for supervision of the environmental protection work at the provincial level, including organization and coordination of the environmental protection work by different departments, examination of EIA statement or commissioned by the SEPA to examine TOR of EIA and EIA report, supervision of implementation of environmental protection 7  action plan. hppraisal and acceptance of completed environmental protection facilities. confirmation of applicable environmental protection laws and standards, supervision of the environmental protection work in the construction and operation period. The regional and county level EPB: under the leadership and guidance of the provincial EPB responsible for supervision of implementation of the environmental protection action plan by the project owner; enforcement of relevant laws and regulations and standards; coordination of the environmental protection work by different departments; inspection and supervision of construction, completion and operation of environmental protection facilities within their jurisdiction areas. 2. Environmental Protection Action Plan 2.1 Design period (1) Alignment in harmony with the urban and township development program Design of the road alignment should follow the principle of "close to but not getting into and to be away from but not too far from" the urban and township areas, to reduce resettlement, to leave more room for urban and township development, to facilitate connection between cities and minimize the impact of traffic emission noise on the resident, e.g. the starting point of the expressway is to the east by north of Zhumadian 5km away from the downtown area, and the expressway is 1,200m from the eastern ring road of the city, which is a reasonable layout for the mid and long term urban development. (2) Design of passages to mitigate the severance impact Since there will be severance impact arising from fully controlled access of the expressway, 156 underpasses and 4 flyover passages have been designed for local people' s communication, with average of every 0.59km one passage and more density of passages in village areas being passed through by the expressway. (3) In the design stage the road alignment has been optimized by adjustment of the longitudinal gradient to reduce filling height and cutting depth to be away from village and school as far as possible and to minimize farm land occupation. (4) Reasonable selection of earth borrowing and spoils disposal sites with particular attention to such impacts as soil erosion, dust flying and the impact on the sensitive spots of resident areas, school and etc.. (5) Soil erosion: to plant cover plantation in median area, side slope, to provide earth retaining wall, proper drainage and to avoid high filling and cutting as much as possible. (6) Air pollution: proper selection of quarry, earth borrowing, spoil disposal area, mixing plant location to be away from sensitive spots. 8  (7) Water pollution: design of waste water treatment facility in rest area. subgrade drainage system. (8) Noise mitigation: a total of 800m long and 3m high noise barriers for primarN schools of Xingzhuang, Zhendian and Sanlihe are to be provided. (9) Flood control: flood control design for flood once in 300 years for bridges & 100 years for culverts, and 68culverts will be constructed to irrigation function. (IO) Land acquisition and resettlement: proper arrangement of the resettlement; and fair compensation for the resettlement. (11) Plantation: plantation of greenbelt of trees has been designed to mitigate air pollution impact. (12).Cultural relics protection (i) Where important protected cultural relics are involved in highway project, it is imperative to follow the procedures as specified under the "Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People' s Republic of China" for examination and approval. (ii) Exploration and excavation work should be carried out by the cultural relics protection department around the highway area to make sure there is no cultural relics before commencement of the construction work. For selection of the earth borrowing and thie spoils disposal sites, the same procedures should also be followed. (iii) Where the highway passing through the areas of or close to the cultural relics. proper water drainage system and the landscape beautification measures should be designed. (iv)Under the provisions of Chapter 3 Article 20 of the "Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People' s Republic of China and the State Council documenI No. 13 [97] ",Strengthening Cultural Relics Protection in Capital Construction" , the costs needed for the cultural relics protection should be included in the capital investment planning and budget, to ensure smooth implementation of the cultural relics protection measures. (13) Landscape design (i) Grass protection for areas with gentle slope. (ii) For not too high cutting areas with deep slope, more cutting/filling work might be carried out to make the slope gentle, then to adopt grass protection. (iii) For cutting area higher than I Om, to reduce the grade of the slope down to I :1. so that the measure of grass protection might be used. (14) Hazards spillage: in sensitive areas to provide collision prevention wall and effective drainage sytem for sewage to be discharged into less sensitive area or storage pool to cope with emergency situation. 9  2.2 Construction period 2.2.1 Environmental protection measures for the ecological environment (1) Protection measures for land resource Since per capita farmn land ownership is less in this area, farm land occupation should be reduced as much as possible. (i) For the road section with high output farm lands on both sides, earth retaining wall shall be adopted as subgrade protection to minimize land occupation by road subgrade. (ii) To minimized farm land occupation for service and rest area, road maintenance division and administration building areas. (iii) To minimize temporary land occupation by making full use of the permanent land and no permanent building shall be built on the temporary land use area. Once the construction work is over, the temporary used land shall be retumed back for agricultural production in time. (iv) No paddy land and woodland shall be borrowed for temporary land use, to take the existing resident house or waste land as temporary land as much as possible. (v) Careful design of the earth borrowing with balanced earth cutting and filling work as much as possible. In case that it is necessary to borrow earth from the farm land. the surface layer of the farm land soil (30cm depth) should be set aside in one place and shall be put back once the earth borrowing is completed. (2) Protection measures for wood land (i) To protect the wood land in the land acquisition area, particularly the wood land along the bank of rivers. (ii) In the temporary land use area, trees should be preserved, particularly the trees planted for soil retention and river bank protection. (iii) Education should be strengthened to protect the cover plants in the construction period. (iv) The labour camp should not be set in wood land area. (3) Plantation of green belt (i) Plantation of green belt should be designed according to the environmental and landscape features of each of the road sections. (ii) The plantation on both sides of the road should take into account of not only the subgrade protection, but also the landscape and environmental protection, such as soil retention, noise mitigation and ambient air protection, to increase the width of the planted green belt as much as possible when the conditions being allowed. Evergreen bush or flowering bush should be planted from the foot of side slope to the drainage ditch. with arbor and shrub combination from the drainage ditch to the road side and to IU  be harnonized with the local protective green belt. (iii) Turf should be planted on the side slope of the embankment: and when earth retaining wall is built for the high embankment, it shall be combine with cover plant protection. (iv) Both engineering protection and plantation protection should be used for the cutting slope, i.e. when the cutting slope is higher than 8m. the foot of the slope should be protected by mortar pitching stone, with reinforced surface grid planted with turf and with grass and shrub at the top of the slope. (v) The plantation in the median area should have anti-glare function with 1 .m high evergreen or flowering shrub. (vi) Special greening design should be made for the interchanges, with particular features for each of the interchanges, including different types or patterns of design. to form multiple dimensional greening landscape. (vii) The greening of the service and rest area should be in harmony with the overall planning of the area planted with grass and flowers. (viii) To make sure the survival rate of the plantation (over 90%) based on careful investigation of the local soil and climate conditions. 2.2.2 Protection measures for surface water and water conservancv engineering (1) The sewage. garbage, excrement and urine from the labour camp should not be discharged directly into the water body and should be treated before discharged. Septic tank and garbage tank should be provided in the labour camp to collect the treated sewvage which might be used as fertilizer. (2) During the bridge construction period, the construction machine and ships should be inspected carefully to prevent oil leakage and to prohibit discharge waste oil and other wastes into the water body. (3) During the construction period of the bridges, such engineering measures as boring pile construction process could be adopted for under water pier construction. which could significantly reduce the impact on the water quality caused by the substrate silt resuspension . The waste silt generated by drilling should be disposed at a designated site by barge, so that the water pollution caused by the silt might be reduced to the minimum. (4) The construction materials such as bitumen, oil, chemicals should not be stored close to the drinking water source area, such as well. river and lake, to prevent the materials from being brought away into the water body bN rainfall. The materials should be covered by canvas. (5) Pre-embedded pipe should be arranged for the irrigation system where necessary. wxith its cross section no less than that of the original irrigation system and the elevation 11  of the bottom of the pipe a little bit lower than the original water ditch. (6) While permanent irrigation system is being built, some temporary irrigation and drainage systems should be built. 2.2.3 Protection measures for ambient air (1) Measures to reduce dust flying Dust flying over the construction work site will have significant impact on the workers and the near-by sensitive resident area. The materials storage site should be away from the resident area, with measures of coverage and water sprinkle to be taken. Experience shows that sprinkling is an effective dust reducing measure, which might reduce the dust flying by 70%. It is proposed that water sprinkle at least once per day should be included in the bidding document. (2) Prevention and control of bitumen smoke Great amount of bitumen concrete will be produced used for the expressway pavement construction. It is better to use stationary mixing plant with fully airtight mixing equipment. To prevent environmental pollution, it is necessary to properly select the mixing plant work site, with no resident area in the leeward direction in area 200m from the work- site. Particularly open or semi-closed bitumen heating and mixing equipment shall not used. 2.2.4 Measures to prevent noise impact (I) Noise prevention and control measures in the construction period Since noise will have serious impact on the workers and the surrounding environment, the following environmental protection and labour protection measures should be taken. (i) The rest area for the construction workers is normally arranged 200m away from the work site. For the sensitive spots of resident area, hospital and school close to the work site, such measures as relocation, installation of sound insulation door and windows might be adopted. (ii) For the construction machine operators, labour protection measures should be taken, such as to put on ear plug. helmet; or reduce working time based on the actual noise level. (iii) It is recommended that no construction work should be arranged by night (22:00-6:00) for road sections with sensitive spots in areas 200m from the work site. (iv) There are measures to reduce the noise level produced by the machine, such as to select low noise equipment, careful maintenance of the construction machine. and proper operation of the machine. and etc.. 2.2.5 Traffic guidance to ensure safety (I) The proposed expressway intersects with the national road G 1 08 at a number of 12  places over the Hancheng-Hevang section. During the construction period, it is necessary to set up traffic mangement team to guide the existing road traffic to ensure smooth traffic flow and safety. For the intersection area. detour road should be built first for convenience of the existing road vehicle and pedestrain traffic. (2) Safety watcher should be arranged at intersections and the road sections close to densely populated areas and shcools, villages. (3) During the bridge construction period, pedestrains are banned to pass through the detour bridge. 2.2.6 Cultural relics protection During the construction period, once there is any cultural relics discovered, the construction work should stopped immediately and the site should be protected properly and the project owner and the engineering supervision department should be informed of the discovery in time. The construction work should not proceed until the site is excavated and properly disposed by the cultural relics protection departmeni.. 2.2.7 Vibration monitoring Where strong vibratory machine operation exists, such as piling of bridge pier, vibratory roller operation, vibration monitoring should be conducted for the near-by buildings, to prevent accident. For the vulnerable buildings to be affected by the vibration, necessary effective re-inforcement measures should be taken. 2.2.8 Lanscape protection For the earth borrowing site. natural gentle slope should be maintained. so as to effect fast restoration of the cover plants. For thie spoils disposal site grass protection should be implemented. 2.2.9 Engineering measures to prevent soil erosion (1) Before commencement of subgrade cutting wotk, drainage pipes should be set first for discharge of the surface run-off; and once the subgrade construction is accomplished, engineering protection work should be carried on immediately, to minimize soil erosion. (2) Soil retention measures for the earth borrowing and spoils disposal sites The terrain of the area along the Zhumadian-Xinyang expressway is characteristic of great undulations, with the north bank of the Huaihe river being plain area, where great amount of earth borrowing will be at the sites of high land, river side, dry land or poor farm land area combined with soil retention measures and in line with the farm land development program. In the area between the Huaihe river and the Shihe river. there are more creeks lakes and the road alignment is along the ridge of the mound to avoid water and village area with low elevation of the subgrade and the earth borrowing work amount being not great. The area beyond the south of the Shihe river is mountain 13  area the alignment has been selected in a way to negotiate the terrain with less cutting and filling engineering work as much as possible. For road section in the natural reserve and scenic spots areas appropriate engineering protection measures should be taken in harrmony with the environment. Table 4.2-6 shows the summary of the earth borrowing site and Table 4.2-7 shows the summary of the spoils disposal sites. The earth borrowing and spoils disposal sites shall be finalized in consultation with the relevant local departments of land use planning, water conservancy and environmental protection. as well as the depth and scope of the earth borrowing to avoid any' newly created environmental problems. For the earth borrowing sites, the following protection and control measures should be taken. (i) It is important to use waste and dry land as the earth borrowing site and to minimizes farm land occupation as much as possible. (ii) The earth borrowing site of high land could be used as wood land or dry land and the some earth borrowing site could be used as fish raising or irrigation pond after the borrowing. (iii) The depth of the earth borrowing at high land area should be properly determined so that after the borrowing the land should at the same level with or little lower than the surrounding area. (iv) The gradient of the cutting area should be as small as possible (to be same as that of the original of the hill slope at least) and greening plantation should be carried on in time once the borrowing is finished. (v) After the earth borrowing from the farm land, the land should be leveled and retumed back for agricultural production in time. Temporary soil retaining embankment should be set up where necessary. (vi) No explosion should be allowed at the earth borrowing site of clay mound to prevent the hidden risk of land sliding or breakdown caused by vibration. (vii) The earth borrowing pit should not be dug too deep, otherwise it endangers safe environment; and necessary safety guardrail or warning sign should be set around the borrowing pit to prevent accident. (3) Location of the spoils disposal site and measures to control soil erosion For this road engineering project the filling work is mainly concentrated in the plain and light hilly area before k95+426, after which is the mountain area with great amount of cutting work. Therefore it is difficult to balance the cutting and filling. As shown in the Table 4.2-7, total stone spoils will be 3,731,028m3, and earth spoils 451,652mn. The spoils disposal site will be finalized in consultation with the relevant department of the local government, with the following attentions to be paid. (i) The spoils disposal site should not be close to the village and public utility areas 14  nor close to the dangerous areas with breakdowvn or slide risk. (ii) The height of the spoils should not be ihigher than that of the surrounding ground. (iii) Interception ditch should be set at the top of the side slope on both sides of the spoils disposal site. (iv) When the height of the spoils site is above 5m, 1 .5-2.Om horizontal stages should be set every 5 m, with filling height no higher than 1: 1.0. (v) To discharge the permeating water, caecal tube should be embedded, normally with diameter over 250-300mm surrounded by 300-500mm thick gravel. (vi) Where there is run-off of rainfall associated with the subgrade construction. temporary soil deposit pool should be set, made by bulldozer, usually 0.5m deep with area over 20-30m2, which could slow down thfe rainfall flow making the soil and sand to be deposited. At the outlet of the deposit pool, geotextile should be set to stop once again the soil and sand. After completion of the subgrade construction and pipes installation, the deposit pool will be leveled. (vii) Surrounding the temporary storage site (such as mixing plant work site area) of the construction materials, geotextile fence should be used to prevent soil erosion. The width of the geotextile of the fence is usually 65m, with the geotextile being fixed on the posts, with one post every 3m and the bottom of the geotextile fence to be folded into the earth. The function of the fence is to stop the soil and sand and to let rainfall passing through. (4) Protection engineering for the subgrade There will be great amount of cutting and filling work in the mountain areas. particularly in the Xinyang mountain area. The exposed slope after cutting is easy to be eroded by rainfall to cause breakdown and slide. Therefore it is imperative to take necessary protection measures. The subgrade protection is to ensure stability of the subgrade and the road use under all weather conditions. Since the subgrade damages are caused by different factors, the principles of ,measures suited to local conditions, with local materials, prevention first, combined with effective control" should be fDllowed. In addition, the subgrade protection is also related to the appearance of ihe road structure, which should be harmonized with the surrounding landscape. Particularly the expressway in the suburb and scenic spots areas should be built taking into account of durability, cost effective and beatification concurrently. The subgrade protection method can be classified into two types, i.e. surface protection and protection against scouring. There are two kinds of direct and indirect 15  protection measures against scouring. The direct protection measures refer to the measures of using surface protective wall, concrete slab or pitching stone for the slope and the geotextile protection surface, also including use of watered side slope along the river or rock rip-rap, crib work filled with stone, watered soil retaining wall; and the indirect protection measures refer to the structures associated with the embankment along the river bank and the river channel treatment, to guide away the water floW which is detrimental to the road subgrade to designate position so as to reduce the direct impact of the water flow on the subgrade. Taking into consideration of the concrete situation of the proposed road projec{, the protection measures for the road section beyond the north of the Huaihe river shall mainly depend on the greening plantation; and those for the road sections in the southern bank area of the Huaihe river shall include the measures for road embankment slope and those for the cutting slope. The measures of grass plantation is mainly for the embankment slope, except for watered area along the river, and for the side slope of road earth cutting. Surface protective wall should be used for the side slope of the cutting area with weathered stone and non-seriously broken hard rock. Since the river beds of the Huaihe river and the Shihe river are stable with distinct flow and the rivers in Queshan county are deep, the work amount of the protective structures is not great. The road subgrade and pavement drainage and protection engineering work amount estimation is shown in Table 2-1. The following requirements should be taken into account in the side slope design for the filling and cutting sections. (i) The gradient of the side slope of the filling section shall depend on the filling material, height, terrain and geological conditions and the local weather conditions. which should be determined by making reference to the data given in Table 2-2. The gradient of the side slope of watered embankment should be 1:2 with necessary reinforcement measures depending on the water level. (ii) The gradient of the side slope of the cutting section shall depend on the geological conditions and the height of the slope, which should be determined by making reference to the data listed in Table 2-3. (iii) When the side slope is above I Om high, staged structure should be taken with provision of drainage facility. (iv) The engineering protection measures of mortar pitching stone should be taken as protective subgrade side slope for river side sections, and for some important sections. rock rip-rap protective slope and concrete protective slope should be used. (v) The quantity of the explosives should be controlled at the level of no more than I Okg each time for the stability of the side slope. 16  Table 2-1 Subgrade and pavement drainage and protection work amount estimation Location KO+000- K68+750-- K68+000- K l 3 +000--- Total Typx of protection K58+750 K68+000 K83+000 K95+ 150 Mortar pitching stone (m3) 1,080 240 500 _ 1820 Concrete shoulder protection (in3) 4,230 660 1,080 870 6 840 Concrete chute (m3) 19.000 1.500 2,470 2.000 24,970 Stone side ditch & gutter (m3) 129,250 20,350 33,000 26,730 209,330 Mortar pitching slab earth retaining wall (m3) __. _ Turf protective slope (m2) 1,081,00 170,200 276,000 223,560 1,750.760 Bitumen concrete water retaining belt (m3) 3,230 500 820 670 5.220 Remarks Plain area Mound Hilly low land Water area Table 2-2 Reference data for gradient of road embankment Maximum height (in) Gradient Filling materials Total Upper part Lower part Total Upper part Lower Parn Clay, pulverulent soil, sandy soil 20 8 12 _ 1:1 5 I 1 7 Clay gravel, granular & medium sand 12 - - I i 5 _ Crushed stone soil, gravel soil 20 12 8 _ 1 1.5 1 1 7 Block stone 20 8 12 _ 1.3 I1I Table 2-3 Reference data for gradient of road embankment Type of earth and stone Height of'side slope < 20 m 20-30m Slack I I 0-I 1 5 1 I -1 1 75 Soil Moderate dense and dense 1-0 5-I l 0 I 075-1 1 1 S Binder soil 1 0.3-1:05 1 0 5-I 07> Loess I 0 I-1:025 1 02--I 1 25 Maematic rock, thick lime stone or silica. calcareous'sandy gravel, gneiss, marble I0.1 1-107 I 0 I- I I 0 Rock medium layer of sandy gravel, medium lime stone. hard plattenlava, phyllte i O 1 -1 I 0 02- I 1 25 Thin layer of sandy shale, phyllite. mica, chlorite. magnesian slate, carbon shale 1 0.2- 10 25 . 0 3-I I 5 (5) Drainage engineering The main cause of breakdown and slide is water, the drainage engineering system is important for the road project. Where there is great area of cutting work, interception ditch should be provided at place 2m away from the cutting area, to prevent rainfall from flowing into the joints and fissure of the earth block causing slide. Integrated drainage system should be designed for the road project to ensure smooth and prompt water flow on both sides of the road. The drainage work amount for the road project is shown in Table 6.2- 1. The main function of the subgrade drainage is to reduce the water content in the subgrade area down to certain level. Because too much of the water content will soften the soil to reduce the strength of the subgrade causing breakdown of the slope or slide of I 7  the subgrade bodx' Therefore surface water drainage, underground water drainage and the subgrade side slope drainage should be provided based on the rainfall. and the geological conditions in the road engineering design to ensure the strength of the subgrade and the stability of the side slope to form an integrated drainage system together with the drainage for the bridges and culverts of the road. In the design stage, design of interception of the surface water having potential impact on the stability of the subgrade should be made. In addition to the surface water in the subgrade area. the underground water with potential impact on the stability of the subgrade should also be intercepted, to be drained outside the subgrade area. The subgrade drainage system for the road project should be designed by adhering to the following principles. (i) The drainage system should be arranged in a way with less farm land occupation as much as possible, to be coordinated with the irrigation system. However the side ditches should not be used for the farm land irrigation. (ii) The design should be suited to the local conditions and cost effective, with the drainage ditches to be located in geologically sound area and for areas with poor geological conditions, special reinforcement should be designed. (iii) The outlet of the ditches should be connected with the natural streams and rivers and should not directly to the farm land. The emphasis of the subgrade drainage design is for the road section in the area of the southem bank of the Huaihe river. The underground water drainage is mainly for the road section in the water area between the Huaihe river and the Shihe river; and in the southern bank of the Shihe river the emphasis is the surface water drainage. ParticularlN for the rock cutting sections at the Huangchengshan and the both ends of the Segang tunnel, comprehensive drainage system for the subgrade must be made, including gutter. chute, side ditches with reasonable dimensions. Pavement drainage are mainly for draining of rainfall over the pavement area, which is closely related with the subgrade drainage. The combination of the subgrade drainage and the pavement drainage shall form an integrated water drainage system. The pavement drainage include the crossfall, water retaining belt, water discharge outlet. chute and discharge ditches. Since the rainfall in the area is abundant, the intervals between the water discharge outlet should be 20m with large dimensions of the cross- section to meet the requirements for the pavement water drainage. (6) Recovery of the cover plant for soil retention (i) Plantation of shrubs or arbors should be done in the road land area on both sides of the road and the road land area of the intersections and the road area close to local residential areas. (ii) On the side slope of the subgrade and cutting section, plantation of grass should 18  be carried out. On the permanent spoils disposal site. in addition to the soil retaining wall to be built, compaction should be made with the surface covered with soil and the cover plants. (iii) The recommended cover plants include the arbor of Chinese scholartree, poplar, tung, elm, masson pine, fir, oak tree; and the ground cover plants of cogongrass. Japanese clover, carex callitrichos, Bermuda grass and etc.. 2.3 Operation period 2.3.1 The measures to prevent water pollution (I) Septic tanks should be provided in the toll collection areas ( a total of 8 toll collection areas) for treatment of the excrements and the garbage collection and disposal measures, as well as the treatment facility for the waste water from washing and cleaning. (2) Sewage treatment facility should be provided in the service and rest area to discharge the sewage in accordance with the Class 1I standard a specified in the State Standard of "Comprehensive Sewage Discharge Standard, (GB8978-96). It is recommended that the two-stage biological method is used for the treatment, with procedures as follows: Oil containing waste water - Oil separation pool Sewage Septic tank-Aerobic biochemical treatmdnt-Deposit pool-discharge According to the forecast of the sewage from the service and rest area, the investment for the sewage treatment facility should be CNYO.9 million. (3) The solid wastes from the service and rest area should be disposed tc designate place. (4) The drainage from the road side ditches should not be discharged into the fish raising pond directly to prevent the water body from being polluted by the pavement run-off in the operation period. 2.3.2 Measures in response to dangerous goods traffic incident and/or accident In the operation period there will be traffic incident and/or accident invclved with dangerous goods, which will have impact on the environment. To minimize this kind of impact recommendations are made as the following. (1) A emergency response steering group and emergency response team should be established under the leadership of the Henan Provincial High Grade Highway Management Bureau and the Henan Provincial ]Environmental Protection Bureau, to deal with the traffic incident or accident, and shall be established by the road project owner and the Henan provincial EPB with emergency response and first aid program to 19  deal with dangerous goods spillage incidents; (2) Implementation and enforcement of dangerous goods transport regulations, including certificate for vehicle, driver and security personnel. Trucks with leakage of the bulk- goods and/or overloaded goods should not be allowed driving on the road. to prevent the water body from being polluted by the spillage of the materials. (3) To strictly abide by the "Regulations Concerning Dangerous Goods Motor Transport (JTJ3 130-88), such as registration of the vehicle, display of dangerous goods signs, routing, and time schedule, and etc.. (4) The expressway management organ should establish an emergency response system for traffic incident and/or accident, with one emergency response vehicle and necessary firefighting, and cleaning equipment, so as to minimize the impact arising from the traffic incident and /or accident. (5) Trucks loaded with dangerous goods shall follow the designated route and park in designated place as specified by the local PSB; (6) In case there is any dangerous goods spillage, emergency response and first aid prograrm- will be implemented and a monitoring group shall be set up. 2.3.3 Vehicle management 1. strengthen vehicle maintenance and management and to keep vehicle in good condition; 2. to strengthen inspection of vehicle noise & emissions for those not up to the standard, no registration plate shall be issued; and low speed vehicle shall not be allowed on expressway; 3. strengthen education and publicity of environmental protection to reduce vehicle emission pollutants and relevant regulations. 2.3.4 Acoustic environmental protection measures in the operation period (1) There will be noise impact on the sensitive spots along the road area in the operation period. The protection measures for the sensitive spots along the road area have been designed based on the areas and the distance of the sensitive spots from the road side. Table 6.4-1 shows the summary of the acoustic environmental protection measures for the sensitive spots. Increase resettlement to 5Om from the road , because the mitigation measures of enclosing wall and insulation windows are useless within 50m. The area of one family which increasing resettlement is about 80m 2,and the compensation condenser is about CNY 20.000. The cost of heighten enclosing wall which can reduce 6-8dB is CNY 1,000 each family (the area is about 20m2). The cost of sound insulation windows which can reduce 10-12dB is CNY 2,000 20  each family(the area is about 8m2). The cost of sound barrier is CNY 1500 each meter long (2) For the interests of the public health, it is recommended that no school, and hospital should be newly built in the areas 220m from the road side, and the newly built shop, depot and other buildings should be in thz areas I 0m away from the road side and the interchange area. (3) To strengthen traffic management, by enforcement of vehicle regulations, to ban unroadworthiness vehicles and vehicles with emissions and noise level over the standard limits driving on road. (4) To strengthen road maintenance and greening plantation to mitigate noise impact. (5) Advanced low noise materials should be used as much as possible in pavement construction when it is possible. Table 2-4 Summarv of environmental Protection measures for the sensitive spots Distance Protcction measures Estimation Name of village Tome No Location from road thearea(rrf,) &theaccount of of cost & town Schedule (mn) mitigate noise (dB) (CNYI .000) Increasing resettlement 240 60 I Kl+100 Zhanglou 40 sound insulation windows 24 10 2002 6 _ _________ ___________________Iheighten enclosing wall 40 6 2 2 K3,180 Shenzhuang 170 Heighten ecielosing wall 100 7 2010 3 K3+910 Xiaozhongzhuang 170 Heighten eiclosing wall 80 7 2020 4 Sound insulation windows 24 7 2002 6 4 K4+700 Weigang 60 heighten ericlosing wall 120 6 2010 6 Sound insulation windows 24 10 2002 6 5 KS+000 Xinzhuang 60 Heighten enclosing wall 80 6 20 _0 4 6 K6+400 Guanzhuang 80 Heighten enclosing wall 100 7 2005 sound insulation windows 16 10 2002 7 K8+300 Liuzhuang 60 heighten enclosing wall 40 7 2010 8 K9+600 Lizhuang 60 sound insulation windows 40 10 2002 10 9 KI0+850 Xianglin 80 Heighten enclosing wall 120 7 2005 6 10 K 1+680 Guchengxiang 60 Heighten enclosing wall 100 7 2002 11 K12-500 Lilou S0 Heighten enclosing wall 140 7 2005 7 12 K 13+800 Shuangiou 60 Heighten enclosing wall 140 7 2005 7 13 K15+260 Guozhuang 150 Heighten enclosing wall 60 8 2020 3 14 K 16+050 Duanzmihuang 80 Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2005 3 IS K I Q+000 Zhaozhuang 100 Heighten enclosing wall 100 8 2010 5 16 K19+870 clanzhuang 180 Heighten enclosing wall 40 6 2020 2 17 K2t+250 Mazhuang 80 Heighten enclosing wall 100 7 2010 5 IS K21+250 liiuozhuang 80 Heighten enclosing wall 40 7 2010 2 to be continued 21  Table 2-4 Summarn of environmental Protection measures for the sensitive spots Name of village Distance Protection measures Estimatior |Name of villateeTm No Location from road the area (mn) & the account of of cost & town Schedule (m) mitigate noise (dB) ICrNYl 000 Increase resettlement to 50m 240 2002 6C 20 K22+-700 Qucaivuar. 25 Sound insulation windows 24 10 2002 6 2_ K23+200 Daquzhuang 25 Increase resenlement to 50m 240 2002 60 Sound insulation windows 12 12 2002 4 22 K24+270 Dadongzhuang 100 Heighten enclosing wall 40 7 2020 2 23 K24+270 Erdongzhuang 100 Heighten enclosing wall 20 7 2020 24 K26+600 Xueying 120 Heighten enclosing wall 200 8 2020 10 25 K33+100 Zhaolou 100 Heighten enclosing wall 160 8 2010 4 Increase resettlement to Sm 240 2002 60 26 K33+560 Dapanzhuang 25 Sound insulation windows 160 10 2002 8 27 K39+830 Tangwo 80 Heighten enclosing wall 80 7 2005 4 28 K41+520 dujiazhuang 90 Heighten enclosing wall 60 8 2010 3 Increase resenlement to 50m 320 2002 80 29 K42+850 Jiangzhuang 25 Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2005 3 Increase resettlement to 50m 320 2002 80 30 K43+700 Dailou 25 sound insulation windows 56 10 2005 7 31 K45+550 Laohuangzhuang 60 Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2005 32 K48+300 Xinzhuang 120 Heighten enclosing wall 40 8 2010 2 Sound insulation windows 320 10 120 33 K48+600 Xinzhuang P.S. 80 2002 200(iong)' IOm(width) forest row 3 80 Increase resettiement to 50m 240 2002 60 34 K50+6-i O Xiaojiangzhuang 25 sound insulation window 32 0 2002 8 35 K52+000 Xiaoiuzihuang 100 Heighten enclosing wall 80 7 2010 4 36 K52+700 Gaotanggeng 80 Heighten enclosing wall 80 7 2010 4 37 K55+100 Mazhenzhuang 25 Increase resettlement to 50m 240 2002 60 37 K55+100 | Mazhenzhuang | 25 . Sound insulation windows 32 10 2002 8 38 K56+950 Zhengzhuang P.S 100 300m long 3m high noise barrier 12 2002 450 39 K59-+300 Xichenwan 60 Sound insulation windows 32 10 2002 8 40 K61+! 10 SanDaohe PS 90 300m long 3m high noise barrier 12 2002 450 41 K66+830 Laogang 70 Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2010 3 42 K69+680 Xlwa 60 Heighten enclosing wall 40 7 2005 2 43 K71+150 Xiaowangzhuang 80 Heighten enclosing wall 140 7 2005 7 | Increase resenlement to 50m 160 2002 40 144 IK72+~2G00 Luzhuang 1 30 1I I _I _ f_f_| Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2002 7 45 K82+650 Hou Woniudian 60 Heighten enclosing wall 60 7 2005 3 46 K85|+iO00 Yangliagang 80 Heightenenciosingwall 80 7 2010 4 47 K93+400 Yuanwan 30 Sound insulation window 24 10 2002 6 47 K93+400 Yuanwan 30 f________ _____ _ _Heighten enclosing wall 120 7 2010 6 Total 1.958 22  2.4 Cost estimation of the environmental protection Table 2-5 shows the summarv of the cost estimation of the protection measures. It can be seen in the Table that the total investment for the environmental protection measures is CNY22.55 million, accounting for 0.91% of the total construction investment of CNY2,458.77 million, and the societal benefit of the investment will be very conspicuous. Table 2-5 Summarv of cost estimation and cost-lbenefit analvsis of the protection measures }Inivestment No Item Measures and estimation method Environmental benelit CINY(1,000) _ EIA & design EIA & environmental engineering design 1,300 Effective & efficient protection measures 2 Greening Plantation CNY80.000/krn 7,600 Ambient air, acoustic environment, landscape CNY500,000/rest area Road user, recovery of ecological environment. 3 Beautification 4,500 CNY800,000/interchange public health, landscape Noise barrier CNY1,500/m 4 Noise mitigation Sound insulation windows 1,921 Protection for sensitive spots, landscape Enclosing wall etc 5 Sewage treatment CNY900.000/set 900 Service & rest area ecological environment Sewage treatment CNY I 5,000/site, Construction 6 garbage treatment CNY3,000/site, 540 Pollution control period total of 30 sites To understand environmental conditions for eflective 7 Personnel training Construction environmental protection 500 _ _ work in management I Monitoring Construction & operation period 4,450 9 Wastes treatment I place CNY 50.000. total of 7 places 350 I 0 Sprinkle vehicle 3 x CNYI 50,000 450 Construction period dust control Total- 22,548 In addition to the above mentioned environmental protection investment of CNY 24.97 million, the total cost of the land acquisition and resettlement is CNY 176.881 million, of which CNY 25.659 million is the resettlement cost, and CNY 129.766 million is the land compensation cost. 3. Environmental supervision plan The environmental supervision plan is shown in Table 3-1. 23  Table 3-1 Environmental supervision plan Stage Agency |Work content J Purpose Feasibilit! SEPA 1. Examine the EIA I.To ensure possible serious issues for the project to study MOC(EPO) be addressed properly World Bank 2. Examine the draft of EAP 2.To ensure there is feasible action plan to deal with PEPB,PCD possible major and potential issues. Design & SEPA 1. Examine preliminary design for 1. To carry out the "three simutaneousness, construction EPOMOC environment protection & EAP & EAP period PEPB, 2. To examine if there is investment 2. To make sure the investment being made Local for environment protection EPB 3. To checkl construction site: 3. To make sure the work site to meet the material handling, mixing etc. requirements of environment protection 4. To check dust & noise control 4. To reduce the impact & implement measures & work time schedule regulations 5. Hazardous materials loading, 5. To reduce the impact & implement unloading and storage management. regulations 6. To check sewage discharge and 6. To ensure water resource not being polluted wastes treatment at work site. 7.Earth borrowing & spoil disposal 7. To ensure no damage to landscape and land area arrangement & treatment resources 8. To check the implementation of 8. To make sure the implementation of the the "three simutaneousness, & to athree simutaneousness " determine the final time schedule 9. To examine if the environment 9.To check and accept the environment protection facilities in conformity protection facilities with the standards PCRB 10. Cultural relics 10. To protect the cultural relics Operation Protject I. Examine EAP implementation I. To carry out EAP period owner. 2. Examine the implementation 2. To carr, out environment monitor plan Local EPB of environment monitor plan 3. To strengthen environmental management & to 3. Check further measures be taken protect people' s health (for unforeseen issues) 4.Sensitive spot environment quality 4. Environmental management for public health 5. No surface drainage directly into 5. Ensure drinking water not being polluted drinking water source 6. Be prepared for traffic incidents 6. To remove hidden danger and to avoid serious & accidents pollution accident, and to reduce accident loss Local EPB 7. Emergenc% response 7. To response emergencies to minimize the impact Fire Ifighting I ._ _ _._. I'CRB - Provincial Relics Bureau 24  4. Environmental monitoring plan 4.1 Purpose and principles The purpose of the environmental monitoring plan is to supervise implementation of the environmental protection measures and to modify the environmental protection action plan according to the monitored results and to provide basis for the time schedule and implementation scheme of the environmental protection measures. The principle to formulate the environmental monitoring plan is based on the main environmental impact in different period and possible polluted areas with emphasis on the sensitive spots. 4.2 Environmental monitoring target and item in different period In construction period there are impacts of TSP, construction noise, bitumen smoke arising from the mixing plant, vibration caused by piling machine and the impact on the river water quality caused by bridge construction. In long term operation period there are vehicle emission pollutants impact, traffic noise and pavement run-off impact on the river water quality. Based on the analysis and assessment of the environmental impact, the items monitored in the construction period are TSP, noise, CODcr, SS, BOD5 and oil. 4.3 Environmental monitoring organ The environmental monitoring plan for this road project shall be classified into ambient air, noise and water quality, as shown in Table 4-1, Table 4-2 and Table 4-3. After in consultation with Henan Provincial Communications Department, it is recommended that the routine environmental rmonitoring work should be undertaken by qualified environmental monitoring organ. To ensure implementation of the environmental monitoring plan, the project owner should entrust an environmental monitoring organ to undertake the monitoring work in construction period by contract before the construction; and entrust the environmental organ to undertake the monitoring work in operation period by contract before the expressway open to traffic. To monitor the ambient air quality, noise level and the surface water quality for each of the road sections in operation period, and to monitor the pollutants arising from the dangerous goods traffic accident, it is recommended that one mobile environmental monitoring vehicle should be prepared and be equipped with complete sets of monitoring equipment and certain number of professional staff. Table 4-4 shows the environmental monitoring equipment needed for the environmental monitoring organ. 25  Table 4-1 Air environmental monitoring plan Period Location Item | Frequency Duration Sampling Action unit SupervIsor Construction site TSP each once in Bitumen mixing bitumen the moming & once/month three eavs U'B project Construction Plant smoke the aftemoon Office lime mixing plant, TSP random one day ditto temporary road Monitoring Xingzhuang primary school organ Erdongzhuan, Zhanglou, twice/year Yuanwan, Mazhenzhuang, 7 00, 10 00 Road Operation Co (January & five days Xiaojiangzhuang, Dailou, 14 00. 17 00 Project Company July) Luozhuang, Qucaiyuan, Daquzhuang, Jlangzhuang Table 4-2 Noise environmental monitoring plan Period Location Item Frequency Duration Sampling Action unit Super isor Construction site with work time Monitoring WB project Sensitive spots in 200m Noise once/month two days twice/day organ Office Construction piling machine work site Vibration random work time ditto Contractor with sensitive spots in SOm Initial & mid before the year of 2010 term of primary schools of 10 00, 11:00 Monitoring Road Noise twice/year 2 days operation Xingzhuang, Zhendian,and 22 00, 23 00 organ Project Companv period Sanhihe 2010-2020 add following Mazhenzhuang.Xiaojiang- Mid & long zhuang, Dailou, term of Jiangzhuang, Dapanzhuang, 10 00, If 00 Monitor(ng Noise once/year 2 days Protect Companv operation Luozhuang, Qucaiyuan, 22 00. 23 00 organ period Daquzhuang. Zhanglou. Yuanwan and sensitive spots in 60m . _ Table 4-3 Water quality monitoring plan Period Location Item Frequency Duration Sampling Action unit Supervisor Construction Around the bridge areas of o f each once in Environmental WB project Otlice of 1 once/year( fori Shahe river, Huaihe river. pH,oil one days the moming & monitoring PCD Operation normal Level) Zhentouhe & Yanghe the afternoon organ Project owner l 26  Table 4-4 List of environmental monitoring equipment No Name ofequipment Type Quantitu Cost (USD .000) I CO Infra-red analyzer 3 2 HC analyzer 3 30 3 Air sampling instrument Sampling instrument, pump I S 2 4 Balance 3 5 Spectrophotometer 3 3 6 Acouslometer 15 40 7 Noise analyzer 3 43 8 Water quality monitoring apparatus with sampling instrument 3 30 9 BOD analyzer _ 3 10 COD analyzer 3 8 I I Mobile monitoring vehicle with QT analyzer, NOx analyzer, HC analyzer, TSP I 26 analyzer, meteorological instrument and etc 12 Desk top computer 3 1 2 13 Smoke meter I10 10 14 Vehicle emission analyzer (CO, HC) 6 20 Total USD300,000 (about CNY2 478 million) 4.4 Cost estimation for environmental monitoring work Total cost for environmental monitoring is CNYI .9708 million. (i) Ambient air The ambient air monitoring cost in construction period is CNY200.000; and that in operation period is CNY1,400,000, with total of CNY1,600,000. (ii) Noise The noise monitoring cost in construction period is CNY57,600; and that in operation period is CNY193,200, with total of CNY250,800. (iii) Water quality The total cost for water quality monitoring in construction and operation periods is CNY 1 20,000. The environmental monitoring work shall be implemented based on the monitoring contract to implement the monitoring plan. 4.5 Monitoring report procedure The monitoring report Procedure is shown in Figure 4-1. An annual monitoring report will be furnished to the Word Bank by January 31 of each year starting in 2001 during the construction period and for each of the first three years following the compeltion of construction. 27  | SEPA | | EPO of MO | World Bank Provincial EPB en1adn World Bank Construction period: Project Office of HPCD Operation period: Expressway Company Environmental monitoring organ Figure 4-1 Environmental monitoring report procedure 4.6 Personnel training for environmental protection Personnel training will be provided for relevant people under the expressway project, including domestic training and overseas training. The main officers from the EPO of the World Bank loan project office will participate the overseas training to learn highway project related environmental protection method and technology in developed countries. The domestic training will be on-the-job training for the environmental management staff, emergency response personnel to improve management, including 8 environrnental managers, 10 environmental supervising engineers, 3 emergency response personnel, with a total 21 persons and the total cost for training is about CNY 500,000. as shown in Table 8-4. Table4 -5 Environmental protection personnel training plan _ Period Personnel Number of persons Subject Site Total Year Cost ICN\)' Environmental S Environmental Provincial EPO 2, programme & overseas 12 man- 2000 320 000 management PCD 2, others 4 management months Environment Environmental i 0 Construction supervising IO for all the sections monitoring & Domestic 30 man- 2000 60 000 engineer controling months 3 Highway management Emergency response Emergency response Domestic 18 man- 2000 60 000 division system of expressway months 4 2002 -2004 Environmental Management division 3 Environmental Operation Domestic 16 man- l 60 00t( managemcnt (domestic), PHGMB I management months personl2years Total 25 5000.0( 28  Appendix; Summary of the environmental management action plan for thc road project EA factor EnvironmenLal protection measures |Organ for actionr Organ in chlarec A Design stage i Route selection - selection of recommended scheme, land occupation as less as possible, Design unit, HPCD - away from sensitive points as far as possible such as school and resident area, EIA unit to reduce resenlement. to lease more room for urban and township development to facilitate connection bterecn cities 2 Traffic impact - passages, fly-over, aqueduct design to meet local needs - 156 underpasses and 4 flyover passages have been designed for local people s communication. 3 Soil erosion - cover plantation in median area, side siope, earth retaining wall,proper drainage to avoid high filling and cunting as much as possible 4 Air pollution proper selection of quarr, earth borrowing, spoil disposal area, mixing plant: 5 Water pollution - waste water treatment facility in rest area, subgrade drainage system designed, 6 Noise - noise barriers for primary schools of Xingzhuang, Zhendian and Sanlihe. total of 800m long and 3m high. 7 Flood - flood control design for flood once in 300 years for bridges & 100 years for culverts 8. Cultural relics - there are cultural relics and shall be excavated before construction, HCR HPCD 9 Land - proper arrangement of the resettlement, Resettlement PCD acquisition - fair compensation for the resenlement office & resettlement 10. Plantation -plantation ofgreenbelt of trees to mitigate air pollution impact, Design unit HPCD 11. Hazard - provide collision prevention wall and effective drainage system for poliutant to be EIA unit spillage discharged into less sensitive area or storage pool to cope with emergencies, B Construction stage I Air pollution - all necessary measures including sprinkle over work site (at least once per day) and Contractor. HPCD unpaved road surface to reduce dust, - proper arrangement of material storage area away from sensitive areas, - proper arrangement of mixing plant 200m from sensitive points. -to use air tight mixing plant with dust remove device and labour protection 2 iand resourse earth retaining wall shall be adopted as subgrade protection to minimize land occupation by toad subgtade. - To minimized farm land occupation for service and resi rea, road maintenance diision and administration building 5at - To minimize temporary land occupation by making full use of the permanent land and no permanent building shall be built on the temporary land use areai Once the construction work is over. the temporary used land shal be returned back for atgnculnural production in time - No paddy land and woodland shall be borrowed for temporary land use, to take the existing resident house or waste land as temporary land as much as possible - Careful design of the earth borrowing with balanced earth cutting nd filling work as much as possible in case thai it is necessar to borrow earth from the firm land, the surface laver of ihe farm iand soil (30cm depth) should be set aside in one place and shall be put beck once the earth borowing Is completed 3 Soi; erosion, - The sewage, garbage. excrement and anne from the iabour camp shouid not be discharged directly water pollution into the water body and should be treated before discharged - During the bridge construction period. the construction machime and ships should be inspected catrefuly to prevent oil leakage and to prohibit discharge waste oil nd othet wastes to the watet body - Thc construction materils such as bitumen, oil, chemicals should not be stored close to the drinking water source area - plantation on side slope and along the road area, timely restoration of damaged drainage & irrigation system, with temporay drainage & imgation system when necessary;diseharg wastes at designated place: to be continued 29  Appendix: Summarv of the environmental management action plan for the road project EA factor Environmental protection measures Organ for action Organ in chargc 4 Noise pollution - abide by the industrial noise standard, to take protection measures for worker, Contractor !HiPCD -stop machine work at night when there is resident area in 200m, form 22-00 to 6 00 next moming. - strengthening maintenance of vehicle & machine to minimize noise level, S Ecological - Education should be strengthened to protect the cover plants in the construction penod environment To protect the wood land in the land acquisition area particularly the wood land along the bank of nvers - In the temporary land use arem, trees should be preserved, panicularly the tres planted for soil retention and nver bank protection The labour camp should not be set in wood iand area - no earh borrowing in wood land area, - to avoid earth borrowing on farm land, and if it is needed the surface soil should be set aside preserved and to be put back when the borrowing is finished to minimize negative impact, - strengthening education and training of the workers to be conscious of protection of wild life and cover plant, and hunting is prohibited, - spoil disposal should not damage to farm land and other farm facilities and the disposal site be selected in consultation with the local EPB 6 Cultural relics - c case any relics so be discovered, it should be reported immediately to the cultural relics protection department and the construction should stop and not proceed until proper treatment having been done by the archaeological professionals, for cultural relics area one expert should supervise the work, 7 Plantation of green - Plantation of green belt should be designed according to the environmental and landscape features belt of each of the road sections * The plantaion on both sides of the road should take into accounta of na only the subgsade protection. but also the landscape and environmental protection, such as soil retention, noise mitigation and mbient air proMecion. lo increase the width of the planted green belt as much as possible when the conditions being allowed. Evergreen bush or nowering bush should be planted from the foot of side slope to the drainage ditch, with arbor and shrub combination from the drainage ditch to the road side and to be hamtnonized with the local prnteetive gm"en balt - Turf should be planted on the side slope of the embankment, and when earth retaining wall is built for the high embankment it shall be combine with cover plant proecion - Both engineering protection nd pltsntion protection should be used for the cuning slope. e when the cuming slope is higher than Sm, the foot of the slope shoutd be protected by monrt pitching stone. with reinforced surface grid planted with turf and with grass and shrub at the top of the slope The plantation in the median area should have anti-glae funrcon with I .m high evergmeen or floweenag shrub - Special greening design should be made for the interchanges, with pamcular features for each of the imterchanges, including differest types or panemss of design, to forn multiple dimensional jreening iandscape - The greening of the service and rest area should be in hamiony with the overall planning of the area planted with grass and flowers - To make sure the survival rate of the plantation (over 90%) bwsed on careful investigation of the local soil and climate conditons 8 Labour camp - garbage tank & septic tank should be provided in the labour camp regularly treated, drinking water should meet the state standard wastes disposed in designated piace to be continued 30  Appendix: Summary of the environmental management action plan for the road project EA factor Environmental protection measures Organ for actior Organ in chargc - proper selection of transport route, to minimize impact on the existing traffic and dust and noise pollution. - in cooperation with the local communications & public securiry bureau (PSB) 9 Traffic to guide the traffic to prevent traffic congestion, management - to build temporary road for construction, - proper planing of construction materials transport to avoid the peak hour of the existing road traffic - lighting & safery sign for temporary road, implementation of traffic rule, 10 Safetv - safety and waming measures for quarry explosion area and strict management l0 Safety' of the explosives according to the rules of the PSB with proper time schedule for the explosion. _ C Operation stage - no audible waming by night, - based on the monitoring results, greenbelt is to be planted to mitigated air I Noise & air pollution, and noise barriers and other sound insulation measures for sensitive HPCD pollution areas, - no hospital and school shall be built within areas 200m from the expressway, no other buildings shal be built within the areas lOOm from the expressway Project owner - to stengthen vehicle maintenance and management and to keep vehicie in good condition; to strengthen inspection of vehicle noise & emissions for those 2 Vehicle not up to the standard, no registration plate shall be issued; and low speed management vehicie shall not be allowed on expressway, - stTengthen education and publicity of environmental protection to reduce vehicle emission pollutants and relevant regulations. - a steering group for emergency response shall be established by the road project owner and the Henan provincial EPB with emergency response and first aid program to deal with dangerous goods spillage incidents; Project owner 3.Dangerous - implementation and enforcement of dangerous goods transport regulations, Henan goods including certificate for vehicle, driver and security per sonnel, Provincial EPB HPCD transport - trucks ioaded with dangerous goods shall foliow the designated route and Henan park- in designated place as specified by the local PSB, Provincial PSB - in case there is any dangerous goods spillage, emergency response and first aid program will be implemented and a monitoring group shall be set up - Septic ranks should be provided in the tall collection areas ( a totia of s toll collection ras) for treanent ofthe excrements and the garbage collection nd disposal measures, as well as the tmantent facility for the waste water from nwashing and cleaning 4 The measures to - Sewage treatment faciiity should be provided in the service and rest ara to discharge the prevent water sewage in accordance with the Class 11 standard a specified in the State Standard of pollution -Comprehensive Sewage Dischirge Standard" (GB8978.96) - The solid wastes fron the service and rest ara shouid be disposed to designate place - Tbe drainage from the road side ditches should not be discharged into the fish aising pond directly to prevent the water body frm being polluted by the paeiment run-off in the operation peiod For the interests of the public health, it is recommended that censtuctton of schoolsthospitals 5. Enviroment plan will not be allowed in the areas 220m fron the road side, and the newvly built shop, other buildings will not bc aliowed I Drno away fron the road side and the interchange area - to implement the environmental monitoring plan as specified in Table4- 1, Environmental 6 Environmental Table 4-2 and Table 4-3 and to carry out the environmental monitoring monitoring HPCD - work in accordance with the standards and methods sipcified by the SEPA. unit 31