China - Sichuan Urban Development Project : resettlement action plan (Vol. 2 of 5) : Suining component

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Resettlement Action Plan and Resettlement Policy Framework for Suining Component Suining Economic Development Zone of Sichuan Province July 26, 2006  Suining Municipality ii Sichuan Urban Development Project Sichuan Urban Development Project (P083322) Resettlement Action Plan of Suining Components CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS ...............................................................................................................................................................IV RAP PURPOSES, TERMINOLOGIES & DEFINITIONS........................................................................................V 1 GENERAL..................................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Municipality, Area and Components.......................................................................................................1 1.2 Works of Suining Components..................................................................................................................4 1.3 Socioeconomic Surveys in Preparation...................................................................................................5 1.4 Mitigation Measures on Project Impacts................................................................................................6 1.5 RAP's Policy Basis and Objectives...........................................................................................................7 2 PROJECT IMPACTS..............................................................................................................................................9 2.1 Scope of Project Impacts.............................................................................................................................9 2.2 Land Use to be Occupied ..........................................................................................................................10 2.3 Rural House and Shops to be Demolished ...........................................................................................11 2.4 School and Enterprise to be Demolished..............................................................................................13 2.5 Vulnerable Groups to be Affected...........................................................................................................14 3 SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS............................................................................................................................17 3.1 General of Suining Municipality.............................................................................................................17 3.2 Guangde Street Office ................................................................................................................................18 3.3 Villagers' Groups.........................................................................................................................................21 3.4 Households and Persons to be Affected.................................................................................................24 3.5 Enterprises to be Affected.........................................................................................................................29 4 POLICY FRAMEWORK OF RESETTLEMENT.........................................................................................31 4.1 Policy Basis ...................................................................................................................................................31 4.2 Relevant Laws and Policies ......................................................................................................................32 5 RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION PLANS.....................................................................................49 5.1 Principles in resettlement plan ................................................................................................................49 5.2 RAP Reference and Resettlement Experiences...................................................................................49 5.3 Resettlement Approaches and Compensation Rates .........................................................................50 5.4 Development Plan of Resettlement Community .................................................................................54 5.5 Resettlement Provisions.............................................................................................................................55 5.6 Analysis on Adequacy in Compensation ...............................................................................................60 5.7 Relocation and Resettlement of Business Shops .................................................................................63 5.8 Enterprise Relocation and Resettlement ..............................................................................................64 5.9 Resettlement of School ...............................................................................................................................66  Draft RAP Contents & Abbreviation Revised Edition, Mar-06 6 COST ESTIMATE OF RES ETTLEMENT ....................................................................................................67 6.1 Preparation Basis........................................................................................................................................67 6.2 Summary Sheet of Resettlement Cost Estimates ................................................................................68 6.3 Itemized Calculation of Resettlement Fees ..........................................................................................69 7 RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN...........................................................................................71 7.1 Implementation Procedures .....................................................................................................................71 7.2 Schedule.........................................................................................................................................................72 8 INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION................................................................................................................77 8.1 Organization Chart ....................................................................................................................................77 8.2 Chief Persons in Charge ............................................................................................................................77 8.3 Institutional Composition and Responsibilities..................................................................................78 8.4 Liaison among Organizations..................................................................................................................80 8.5 Capacity Building Measures ....................................................................................................................80 9 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES .........................................................83 9.1 Public Participation during Project Preparation ...............................................................................83 9.2 Questionnaire of Attitude Toward LAR ...............................................................................................84 9.3 Consultation with Heavy Land Dependent Households ...................................................................86 9.4 Consultation with Vulnerable Groups...................................................................................................89 9.5 Consultation with Villages and Public Representatives ...................................................................92 9.6 Interviews with the Displaced in ETDZ................................................................................................96 9.7 Disclosure of RAP.......................................................................................................................................98 9.8 Grievance and Appeal ................................................................................................................................98 10 MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING SYSTEM .........................................................101 10.1 Internal Monitoring..................................................................................................................................101 10.2 External Monitoring and Evaluation ..................................................................................................102 11 REPORTING PLAN ...........................................................................................................................................105 11.1 Resettlement Action Plan (RAP)...........................................................................................................105 11.2 Progress Report of Resettlement...........................................................................................................105 11.3 Independent M&E Report......................................................................................................................106 12 TABLE OF RIGHTS AND INTERESTS .....................................................................................................107 ANNEX.........................................................................................................................................................................111 Annex 1 LAR Compensation of Suiyu Railroad Project .......................................................................111 Annex 2 Executive Summary on LAR Activities at Suining ETDZ....................................................115 Annex 3 Resettlement Policy Framework ..................................................................................................119 Annex 4 Information Sheet of Affected Households ...............................................................................130 Annex 5 Sameple Agreements.......................................................................................................................159  Suining Municipality iv Sichuan Urban Development Project ABBREVIATIONS WB World Bank APs Affected Persons AAOV Average Annual Output Value CRO Districts Resettlement Office ETDZ Economic and Technical Development Zone DMS Detailed Measurement Survey EA Executive Agency FS Feasibility Study LA Land Acquisition HD Housing Demolition IA Implementation Agency LAB Land and Resources Bureau LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement M&E Monitoring and Evaluation SSUEP Sichuan Suining Urban Environment Project RP Resettlement Plan PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal SMEDI Southwest Municipal Engineering Design &Research Institute SWJU Southwest Jiaotong University TOR Terms of Reference TRO Township Resettlement Office SUEP Sichuan Urban Environment Project CNY Also "yuan" or "Yuan", Chinese currency, with US$1.00 = CNY 8.11 mu Unit of area, with 1 hectare = 15 mu  Draft RAP Contents & Abbreviations Revised Edition, Mar-06 v RAP PURPOSES, TERMINOLOGIES & DEFINITIONS This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared in accordance with the national and local laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the World Bank Resettlement Guidelines (i.e., Operational Policy on Involuntary Resettlement -- OP 4.12). The purpose is to set out an action plan for the resettlement and restoration of the Affected Persons (APs) to ensure that those affected will benefit from the project, and their living standards be improved or at least restored to the pre-project levels after project implementation. Acquisition of land and the associated assets to enable project implementation would adversely affect the residents and other persons living or working on the land acquired. DEFINITIONOF APS "Affected Persons" means those who, because of the project execution, are likely to suffer in living standards or otherwise be adversely affected; or those whose building ownership, the entitlement or interest, lands (including house lands, agricultural and grazing lands) or any other fixed or movable assets thereof that are to be acquired or possessed, temporarily or permanently; or those whose business, occupation, working or residences or habitats that are to be adversely affected. APs may be any of the following categories: 1) those whose land (including housing land, utilities land, and land for agricultural, forestry, livestock breeding, fishery and other activities), structures (including private houses and attachment, enterprise buildings and public buildings, etc.), entitlement or any other properties or assets that will be acquired or occupied, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; 2) those who use the above structures, lands or properties; or those whose business, vocations, working, residences or habitat will be adversely affected; or 3) those whose living standards are to be adversely affected due to the land acquisition and/or resettlement activities. " Affected Persons" imply either individual person(s) or such legal persons as enterprises or public organizations. The definition of APs does not limit or restrict the associated legal registration or permission to live or conduct business in the affected location, nor does it limit the compensation for the property. Thus, they are to include: 4) all affected persons regardless of their legal entitlement or absence thereof to the assets being taken; and 5) persons without residential permit to live in a defined area. 6) Therefore, all such persons who are affected will need to be considered and recorded as the APs, regardless of their legal relationship to the assets, land or location. For a land or property to be acquired, if it is used by or to be compensated for one and more individuals or households, the associated compensation and restoration will be based on their losses, their entitlements, and the impacts on their living standards. Disregarding the legal entitlement or interest, definition of the APs will be directly related to the adverse impacts of the project.  Suining Municipality vi Sichuan Urban Development Project All APs shall be compensated to improve or, at least, restore their standards of living, including compensation for their property losses. The compensation to the loss of properties shall be based on the replacement values with no deduction or discount on account of depreciation or other reason(s). The APs shall have entitlements for what they suffer due to the project impacts. Not only should they be provided with compensation for property losses, they should also receive economic subsidy as well for restoration of their living standard. For those affected who run business, cultivated land or conduct construction with no property ownership, entitlement, or legal residential permission, they are eligible for restoration of their livelihoods and compensation for their lost properties on an equal footing with those owning lawful properties, entitlements or permissions. DEFINITIONOF "RESETTLEMENT" "Resettlement" is arrangement for the APs with respect to production and living to ensure they will benefit from the Project. Resettlement activities usually include, 1) relocation of living quarters; 2) provision of new and acceptable employment for people whose working engagement is affected; 3) restoration of (or compensation for) the affected productive resources such as land, working places, trees and infrastructures; 4) restoration of those affected whose living standards (quality of life) are adversely affected due to land acquisition and/or relocation; 5) restoration of or compensation to the affected private and public enterprises; 6) restoration of cultural or common properties that are adversely affected. DEFINITIONOF "RESTORATION" "Restoration" implies re-establishing the APs in their capacity and capability so that they can continue their productive activities, and/or to reinstate their living standards to at least those of the pre-relocation status, or higher levels. The purpose of this RAP is to provide an action plan for the potential resettlement and restoration activities so that the APs will be compensated for their losses and their living standards will be improved or at least restored to the pre-project levels. In order to attain these objectives, restoration measures are included in the RAP to enable income restoration for the APs for sustainable livelihoods. Similarly, business and production resources (including shops, enterprises), public properties, infrastructures, and cultural properties as affected will also be improved or at least restored to the pre-project status and levels.  Draft RAP 1. General Revised Edition, Mar-06 1 1 GENERAL 1.1 MUNICIPALITY,AREAAND COMPONENTS The Sichuan Urban Development Project consists of four project cities, Mianyang, Panzhihua, Suining and Yibin. The project components in Suining Municipality are of the Suining Economic and Technical Development Zone (ETDZ), specifically, the Xining area of the Suining ETDZ on the west side of the city. 1.1.1 Suining Municipality It is stated in Suining's urban master plan that Suining Municipality is an important transport hub, a logistic collection and distribution center, a regional central city in Sichuan Province, with emphasis on light and textile industries in ecological balance with gardens and urban landscaping. According to the urban master plan, the city's urban population will be around 700,000 by 2020. With the development of the express railroad passing through the Suining jurisdiction, construction of the highway system, and building of the third Fu River Bridge and the forest area of the Dongfeng mountain, Suining will further develop its status as a transport hub and regional distribution center for the Sichuan Basin. Urban development in Suining is in two directions, to the east and to the west. It will be developed into a metropolitan configuration that will include two urban groups, the east river urban group (or Jiangdong group) and the west river urban group (or Jiangxi group). 1.1.2 Xining Area Xining is located in west Suining and is one zone in Suining's urban master plan. It is separated from Suining's old urban districts by an open channel and abuts the thousand-year-old ancient Guangde Temple and the Crouched Dragon Park (or Wolong Park). It has a planned land occupation of 3.5km2, and is sub-divided into 3 residential zones. The planned residential population is 42,000. There are going to be a hospital, a street office, a public security office, a high school, a cultural activity center; three primary schools, three communities and three service stations; four kindergartens, four agricultural trade markets, four community committees, and four clinics providing the associated services and facilities. The area has a plain topography and is mostly alluvial land surrounded by green mountains. The Xining River flows across the area and the view is pleasant. The Suining Municipal Government identified such urban zones in Suining's urban plan as including the Hedong New Zone, the Nanba Industrial Park Zone, the old urban zone, and the Economic and Technical Development Zone (ETDZ) in 2002 in order to facilitate urban development. As an integrated economic zone of the ETDZ, Xining Area has recently witnessed slow development due to poor transport infrastructure. If the transport and other urban infrastructures were developed in Xining Area, it would expect rapid growth. 1.1.3 Suining Components The Suining Components will include roads and transport facilities in the Xining Area, which represent comprehensive efforts to integrate roads, transport, wastewater interception, bridges, river  Suining Municipality 2 Sichuan Urban Development Project embankment works and improvement. In particular, there will be roads of 33.83km, 13 small bridges, and waterway rehabilitation of 4.9km. The total cost estimate is CNY493.07 million. The transport components are proposed to, 1. develop urban infrastructure and improve urban services and functions to facilitate economic growth and social development; 2. improve the urban traffic conditions to address the congestion due to increasing urban population, so that there will be a pleasant environment for urban growth as well as habitation; 3. provide more incentives to the city to make orient the economy externally to ensure faster socioeconomic development; and 4. improve the city's profile and make it more attractive to investors to facilitate urban economic development. Principles applied in plan and design of the associated traffic facilities. 1. The right-of-way is exclusively specified for pavement, roadside landscaping, and provision of utilities, which is not allowed for any works that are not of a-transport nature. 2. Roads of the planned zone are of 58.64 km in total length, representing a road network density of 7.28 km/km2, and an area coverage of 16.69%. 3. The component roads will include urban arteries and collectors, which are of four classes as follows. w Comprehensiveurbanartery,whichrepresentsthewestextensionoftheKaishandongRoad, with a design speed of 40km/h and right-of-way of 40m; w Living area urban arteries, which are to serve the residential areas, with a design speed of 30km/h and right-of-way of 30m; w Secondaryarterieswithadesignspeedof20-30km/handright-of-wayof24m;and w Branch roads withadesignspeedof20km/handright-of-wayof16-20m. 4. All urban arteries will have barriers to separate automobile from non-automobile traffic. Signalized intersections will be applied in cases of high traffic volume projection. A bus terminal is planned at the designated area and public parking lots will be provided at the center of each urban group. 5. The maximal daily water supply in the planned area is about 32,000m3/day, with the comprehensive water consumption of 9,000 m3/hm3