China - Second Jianxi Highway Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 12 of 14) : Wan ' an Connecting Road : environmental impact assessment (third edition)

E-425 VOL. 12 People's Republic of China World Bank Financed Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project Wan'an Connecting Road Environmental Impact Assessment Report (Third Edition) Research Institute of Highway, MOC December 2000  People's Republic of China World Bank Financed Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project Wan'an Connecting Road Environmental Impact Assessment Report (Third Edition) Research Institute of Highway, MOC December 2000  Research Institute of Highway Director Chen Guojing Chief Engineer Liu shutao Environment Protection Division Division Head : Ye Huihai Chief Engineer : Li zongyu Examiner Ye Huihai Project Team Leader : Yan Xiaolin Associate Research Fellow (EIA Professional Competence Certificate, No. 0060 Beijing) Project Team Member Shen yi, Associate Research Fellow (EIA Professional Competence Certificate, No. 2116 ); Li xiyun, Senior Engineer(EIA Professional Competence Certificate. No. 0909 Beijing); Dong bochang, Engineer(EIA Professional Competence Certificate, No. 08380); Wang Fang, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence Certificate, No. 0098 Beijing): Fan qingchun, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence Certificate, No. 0995 Beijing) Report editor: Li Xiyun Current statuesque monitoring Unit: Ji'an Prefecture Environmental Monitoring Station i  Contents Foreword ............................................................I Chapter I General Provisions ...........................................................2 1.1 Preparation Basis ...........................................................2 1.2 Assessment Scope and Time Horizon ............................................................ 3 1.3 Assessment Methodology and Key Points ...........................................................3 1.4 Assessment Standard ...........................................................4 1.5 Assessment Classification ............................................................5 1.6 Major Environm ental Protective Objectives ........................................................5 Chapter 2 Project Overview ............................................................6 2.1 Geographic Location ............................................................6 2.2 Road Alignment and Key Controlling Points ......................................................6 2.3 Construction Size, Major Technical Indicators and Work Quantities ..................6 2.4 Forecasting of Traffic Volume ........................7...................................7 2.5 Investment Estimation and Work Scheduling ......................................................7 Chapter 3 Description and Assessment of Current Environmental Conditions ............... 8 3.1 Natural Environment ............................................................8 3.2 Social Environment ............................................................9 3.3 Ecological Environment ........................................................... 10 3.4 Acoustic Environment ........................................................... 12 3.5 Ambient Air ............................................................13 Chapter 4 Environmental Impact Prediction and Protective Measures ............ .............. 15 4.1 Social Environmental Impact Assessment ......................................................... 1 5 4.2 Ecological Environmental Impact Assessment .................................................. 17 4.3 Acoustic Environmental Impact Assessment .................................. ................ 20 4.4 Ambient Air Prediction and Assessment .......................................................... 25 4. 5 Environmental Impact from Excavation and Transportation of Roadbuilding Materials .... 2 8 4.6 Mitigation Measures for Environmental Impacts .............................................. 29 Chapter 5 Alternative Proposals ........................................................... 35 5.1 Alternative Analysis without the Proposed Project ........................ ................... 35 5.2 Introduction to the Alignment ........................................................... 35 5.3 Comparative Analysis of Alignment Altematives ............................................. 36 Chapter 6 Environmnental Management and Monitoring Plan ........................................ 37 ii  6.1 Environment Management Plan ................................................ 37 6.2 Environmental Monitoring Plan ................................................ 39 6.3 Cost Estimation for Mitigation Measures ...................................... .......... 41 Chapter 7 Public Participation ................................................. 42 7.1 Overview of Public Participation ................................................ 42 7.2 Family interview ................................................ 42 7.3 Group interview ................................................ 43 7.4 Information Release and Feedback ......................................... 44 7.5 Summary of Public Participation .......................................... 44 Chapter 8 Assessment Conclusions ................................................ 45 8.1 Social Environment ................................................ 45 8.2 Ecological Environment ................................................ 45 8.3 Acoustic Environment ......... ........... ............................ 46 8.4 Ambient Air ................................................ 46 8.5 Public Participation ........ ............ ............................ 47 8.6 Environmental Protection Investment and Management Plan .. 47 8.7 Comprehensive Assessment Conclusion .................... ............................ 47 Annex I Overview of the Assessment Unit and Staff Member Annex 1I Reference Annex III Public Participation and Questionnaires (group interview) Annex IV Environmental and Resettlement Bulletin for the World Bank Financed Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway Annex V List of Tables and Figures Annex VI List of relevant reports iii  Foreword Early 1994, Jiangxi Provincial Government made an important strategy of "constructing Nanchang-Zhangshu-Ji'an-Ganzhou-GanYue border auto-highway".The implementation of this project will play a very important role in the opening to outside world of Jiangxi Province, in promoting the investment environment, industry structure, as well as the improvement of people's living standard. The Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou section is a World Bank financed project to be constructed by the Jiangxi Province. The Wan'an connecting road is one of its connecting roads, and is the only passageway entering onto or exiting, the Gan-Yue Expressway. The implementation of this project will play a very important role in perfecting the road transportation network of Jiangxi Province, in promoting Ganzhou region's economic development and in taking full play of highwavs as transportation Pivot. In Dec.1999. the Jiangxi Provincial Communications Department and the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration entrusted the Ministry of Communications Highway Research Institute to undertake the environmental impact assessment for this project. In Dec.1999, with the assistance from the JPCDI. the local governments and the relevant departments, the MOC Highway Research Institute conducted several times of the site reconnaissance along the proposed highway area for the environmental conditions and the major environrnental protection targets and collection of related materials and data, based on these, the EIA team has prepared the TOR of environmental assessment for the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (including connecting roads) According to the requirements of this meeting, the MOC Highway Research Institute has revised and supplemented the first edition of the EIA report and completed its second edition in August, 2000. In December 2000, the EIA team again modified this EIA report in accordance with the aide-memoire at the pre-evaluation mission of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Section) of the World Bank environmental experts I  Chapter 1 General Provisions 1.1 Preparation Basis (I) People 's Republic of China Law on Environmental Protection (Dec.26, 1989) (2) People 's Republic of China Law on Water and Soil Conservation(June 29,1991) (3) People 's Republic of China Law on Land Management (Aug.29, 1998) (4) People's Republic of China Law on Noise Pollution Control (Oct.29,1996) (5) People's Republic of China Law on Water Pollution Prevention (May.15,1996) (6) People's Republic of China Law on Air Pollution Prevention (Dec.29,1995) (7) People 's Republic of China Law on Solid Waster Pollution Prevention (Oct.30,1995) (8) People's Republic of China Law on Roads (July.3,1997) (9) Management Regulation on Environmental Protection for Construction Project (State Council document No.253, Nov. 18,1998) (10) Management Regulation on Environmental Protection for Transportation Construction Project (Ministry of Communications ordinance (90) No.17) (11) Notice on Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment Management for Construction Project Loaned by International Financial Institutions (National Environmental Protection Agency and other bodies document (1993) No.324) (12) World Bank Working Handbook OP/BP/GP4. 01 Environmental Assessment, March 1999 (13) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment (HJ/T2.1-2.3-93, HJ/T2.4-1995, HJ/T19-1997, NEPA) (14) Code of Environmental Impact Assessment for Road Construction Project (tentative) [JTJ 005-96, the Ministry of Communications] (15) Environmental Protection Regulations for Construction Project in Jiangxi Province (April 29.1995) (16) Letter of Commission on Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gan-Yue Expressuajy Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Highway Investment and Development Holding Co.. Ltd.. Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute. Dec. 1999) (17) Feasibility' Study Report for the Wan an Connecting road of the Gan-Yue Expresswa,v Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute Feb.2000) (18) Two stage Preliminary Design for the Wan'an Connecting Road of the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute May 2000) 2  (19) Two stage Preliminary Design for the Wan an Connecting Road of the Gan-Yue Expressway (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute) Sept. 2000) (20) Letter of Confirming the Environmental Impact Assessment Standardfor the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Agency [2000] 14) 1.2 Assessment Scope and Time Horizon 1.2.1 Assessment Scope According to the characteristics of environmental impacts during the construction and operation stages, the assessment scope for ecology, water, noise and air is usually the area 200m from the two sides of the road center, and can be extended to 300m if there is important sensitive location. 1.2.2 Assessment Time Horizon The assessment duration (time horizon) will comprehensively consider the design stage, construction stage and operation stage, and selects the year 2004, 2015 and 2023 representing the short-term. mid-term and long-term operation stage to make prediction and assessment according to the estimated traffic volume years in the FS report. 1.3 Assessment Methodology and Key Points 1.3.1 Assessment Methodology According to filed reconnaissance along the road, except for a few residences, schools and high-fill and deep-cut sections that are relatively highly sensitive in environment, other sections are rather similar in their environmental conditions. Therefore, the assessment will be conducted by the principle of combining points and locations and reflecting the whole road. 1.3.2 Assessment Key Points The construction of this project involves a lot of filling and cutting, building of bridges and culverts. which will exert a relatively big impact on local ecology (including water environment and water conservation). The traffic noise during operation stage will exert a relatively big impact on people's rest and schooling. So the key points are ecological impact assessment during construction stage and noise assessment during operation stage. The key points of this assessment are the ecological environmental impact assessment in the construction stage and the traffic noise impact assessment in the operation stage. 3  1.4 Assessment Standard According to the Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Agency's Letter [2000] No.14 and the World Bank environmental experts' requirements, the applying standards for this project are: (1) Water environment: the water quality assessment for the Ganjiang river af the surface water along the road applies the class III criteria of the GHZBI-1999<Surface Water quality Standard>(of which the SS indicator applies the class I criteria of the GB5084-92<Water Qualityfor Agricultural Irrigation>)(see Tablel-1). Tablel-I Applied Standard Limits for Water Environment Assessment Unit: mg/L(except pH value) Item pH CODcr Petroleum SS Remark GHZBI-l * SS applies class I criteria of the standard 6.5-8.5 - 20 < 0.05 (