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A'rongqi - Beihai Inter-provincial Highway Project

in Western China Development

An'kang - Maoba Expressway

Environmental Management Plan

(Revised Version)

Shaanxi Provincial Transportation Department

Shaanxi Xi'an

April, 2006

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Preface

The Inter-provincial Highway Project from A'rongqi toBeihai is one components of the eight projects ofmajor traffic corridors designed by the MOC with the intention to axis from North to South in the area ofWestern China. This project plays an important role in the blueprint of Western China Development in thecomprehensive and well-balanced way. The overall length of the project of An'kang-Maoba Expressway(AME in short in the following parts) is 86.902km, which links the Southern Shaanxi to Sichuan Province.The accomplishment of this proposed project will significantly improve the regional development of ShaanxiProvince and at the same time eliminate the poverty in An'kang area, as a component of the provincial roadnet work and that of the national road net work as well.

The Project will comply with the spirits of Environmental Protection Law of PRC, Environmental

Impact Assessment Law of the PRC, Rules of Environmental Protection Management for Construction

Projects, issued by the State Council of PRC, Measures Concerning Environmental Protection and

Management for Transportation Construction Projects, issued by MOC. The assessment team for AMEconsists of the experts from Chang'an University, the EA Report was accomplished in March, 2006.

With the intention to reach the objectives proposed in the EIA completely and limit or minimize thenegative environmental impacts by the project, the AME Environmental Management Plan has been workedout in accordance with the features of this project and the contents of relative designing documents.

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ABBREVIATIONS:

AME: Ankang-Maoba Expressway

LRS. county and village roads in the rural areas, Local roads

LRIP: the local road improvement program

MOC: Communication Administration of China's

SPTD: Shaanxi Provincial Transportation Department

FFO: Foreign Fund Financed Office

SDRC: Shaanxi Development and Reform Commission

SHAB: Shaanxi Provincial Highway Administration Bureau

SPHDI: Shaanxi Provincial Highway Design Institute

SEPB: Shaanxi Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau

SEPA: State Environmental Protection Administrative

EPB: Environmental Protection Bureau

TB: Transportation Bureau

DI: Design Institute

EO: Environment Office

PMO: Project Management Office

SCRD: Shaanxi Provincial Culture Relics Division

EMS: Environmental Monitoring Station

EIA: environmental impact assessment

EMP: environmental management plan

EMF: Environmental Management Framework

EP: environmental protection

EPO: environmental protection office

COD: Oxygen Amount for Chemistry

BOD: Oxygen Amount for Biochemistry

SS: Floating Substance

TSP : Total suspended particulate

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1. Project Review ............................................................ l1

1.1 SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT CONSTRUCTION .............................................. I

1.2 ASSESSMENT STANDARDS ............................................. 4

1.3 CONCLUSION MADE IN THE EIA .............................................. 5

1.4 EP ACTIONS PROPOSED IN THE DESIGN ............................................. 9

1.5 LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ........................................ 10

1.6 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTION AND ITS DUTY .......................................... 12

1.7 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION .14

2. Environmental Protection Action .16

2.1 MANAGEMENT PLAN OF EP FOR PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDY PHASE .16

2.2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIONS FOR DESIGN PHASE .16

2.3 PROJECT EP MANAGEMENT PLAN DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASE .26

2.4 ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION MEASURE IN OPERATION PERIOD .39

2.5 EP INVESTMENT ESTIMATION .42

2.6 TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION .43

3 Environmental Protection Surveillance Plan .45

4 The environmental Monitor plan .46

4.1 AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE MONITOR .46

4.2 THE MONITOR ORGANIZATIONS .46

4.3 THE MONITOR PLAN .46

4.4 MONITORING EQUIPMENTS, EXPENSES AND MONITORING REPORT SYSTEM .48

5. Plan for Environmental Supervision .49

5.1 THE MAIN CONTENTS AND REQUIREMENTS OF SUPERVISION .49

5.2 THE PLAN OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION .51

5.3 THE STATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION PERSONNEL .52

5.4 ESTIMATION EXPENSES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION .53

Attached Drawing 1:Environmental sensitive spots and monitoring spots along the AME

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Environmental Protection Implement Action Plan

1. Project Review

1.1 Significance of Project Construction!. To be Consistent with the national strategy to develop Western China, AME Project is one

of the components to be Inter-provincial Highway Project from A'rongqi toBeihai with the

intention to axis from North to South in the area of Western China, which functions to link the

Southern Shaanxi to Sichuan Province. With the accomplishment of this proposed project, it will

play a great role in eliminating the poverty in An'kang area in Southern Shaanxi and also greatly

to improve the local tourist industry.

Please refer to Fig. 1-1 for the route location.

2. This project mainly starts from Yinjiaying (K196+560)and leads to the terminal of Maoba

(K293+000), passing through Wulizhen town, Datong town, Hengkou town ,Liushui town of

Hanbin District in An'kang, Haoping town, Donghe town, Chengguan town, Xiangyang town,

Bajiao town, Gaotan town, Maoba town of Ziyang County in An'kang, with the total length of

86.906km altogether.

There are 3 connecting lines included in the project: Liushui connecting line, Haoping

connecting line and Ziyang connecting line.

3. The proposed project is submitted to the 4-driveway standard in computation of 80km/h,

with the roadbed width of 24.5m and in some hard section the standard will be lowered in a proper

way with the safety premise.

The connecting lines are submitted to Road Standard II and III.

Please refer to Table 1-1 for major technical standards.

Table 1-1 Major Technical standards ofAME

Technical standards

Name Unit Liushui Connecting Haoping Connecting ZiyangExpressway LnLieConnectingl ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~~~~Line Line Ln

Line

Designed Standard Expressway Standard III Standard II Standard III

0.5km to be built, 0.816km to be built, 3.847km to

86.902 to be 7.5km to be rebuilt, 1.315km rebuilt part of be rebuilt.Length to be built km

built the total length is S310, and the total

8km length is 2.131km

Speed Computation kmlh 80 30 40 30

Roadbed Width m 24.5/12.25 8.5 8.5 8.5

Driveway Width m 2 X 7.5

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Table 1-2 Major Project Construction work ofAME

Project Unit An'kang-Ziyang Ziyang-Maoba Total4r Length of Road km 52.873 34.029 86.902

Soil and Stone of Roadbed 10 000 m3 152.2 148.8 301

Slice stone form3 176860.89 55230 232090.89Fence building

Concrete m3 23341.23 15755 39096.23

Slice stone for3m3 33280.72 2300 35349.72Drainage building

Concrete m3 4011.83 2415 6426.83

Road Surface (Asphalt concrete) km2 288.49 288.47

Road Surface (Concrete) km2 17.0 72.597 89.597

Super Big Bridge m/number 3117.94/3 18117.75/12 21235.69/15

Big Bridge m/number 11757.30/67 7993.75/26 19751.05/93

Medium Bridge m/number 991.31/24 88.75/1 1080.06/28

Small Bridge m/number 158.08/11 / 158.08/11

Total Bridge Length m 16024.63 26200.25 42224.88

Culvert Number 25 8 33

Super Long Tunnel m/ Number(Single) 25985/4 3001.5/1 28986.5/5

Long Tunnel m/ Number(Single) 3842/2 3842/2

Medium Tunnel m/ Number(Single) 4487/6 4487/6

Short Tunnel m/ Number(Single) 4933/14 1340.5/4 6273.5/18

Total Tunnel Bridge Length m 39247 4342 43589

Interchange Number 4 2 6

Separate Interchange Number 2

Channel Number 18 18

Flyover Number 1

Local Road Rebuilt km 1.244 2.776 4.02

Interchange Connecting Road km 12.962 1.271 14.233

Service Area Number 3

Parking Site Number 3 5

_ ' tMaintenance Area Number I 1 2

Management Station Number I I

Square mu 3340.0 2616.0 5956

Building Resettlement m2 48430.0 54710.0 103140.0

5. The area of 5,956.Omu of land will be occupied for the whole project, in which 2655.45muare farming land, 34.7mu are orchard, 404.9mu are irrigated land, 1,688.03mu are forest land,

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460.99mu are construction land, and other un-occupied land 1141.02mu (river beach and

wasteland).

The following items have been decided: bricks blending buildings 57763 m2, brick and

wooden buildings 17554 m', soil and wooden houses with stone 27493 m', 58 wells, 5 hanging

bridges and 3 enterprises or government organizations.

6. The main line construction of this project will start in 2006 and complete by the end of

2010 with the construction period lasting for 5 years.

7. The proposed budget for main line of this project is 7.227 billion RMB yuan, in average

73.414 million per kilometer. The funding source are: national special construction capital 3

billion, proposed world bank loan US$ 350 million ( about 2.9 billion RMB yuan), domestic

World Bank load I billion RMB yuan, and others are from Shaanxi Government.

1.2 Assessment Standards1. The assessment factors are equivalent acoustic level A, executed with the basis of

"Environment Noise Standards in Urban Area" (GB3096-93)

(1) Standard I is applied to common area for present assessment, and Standard 4 in the area

of 50 meters along the national road G316 and provincial road S310.

(2)The areas road passing through are mainly agricultural district, the Standard 4 will be

applied to common village and the area within 50 meters from red line of resident communities,

while the Standard 2 will be applied to the area beyond 50 meters; with the Standard 2 to schools,

hospitals, etc. Refer to Table 1-3.

(3) "Noise Limit in Construction Site" (GB 12523-90) will be applied during construction

phase.

2. Water Environment

(1) The main rivers in the area road passing through are Hanjiang River and its branches ---

Yuehe River, Haoping River and Renhe River. According to "Shaanxi Water Functional

Identification" and "An'kang Urban Drinking Water Resource Planning Section and Water

Functional Identification", the water quality objective of Hanjiang River from Ziyang to Donghe

bayou is Level III. The water quality of Renhe River, Yuehe River, and Haoping River is Level III

(2) Sewage from toll gate and management area into the water body of Level III, "Sewage

Comprehensive Discharging Standard" (GB8978-96) Standard I will be applied; (See Table 1-6)

and "Farming Land Irrigation Water Quality Standard" (GB5084-92) will be applied when

discharging into farming land irrigation channel.

3. Ambient Atmosphere

(1) "Ambient Atmosphere Quality Standard" (GB3095-1996) Standard II will be applied to

present situation assessment and environment assessment. See Table 1-8;

(2) "Atmosphere Pollutes Comprehensive Discharging Standard" GB16297-96 Standard II

will be applied as for asphalt smoke during construction is concerned. "Ambient Atmosphere

Quality Standard" GB 16297-96 will be applied to TSP.

4. Assessment Standard of Soil Erosion

The JTJO05-96 "The Regulation of Road Construction Project EIA (Temporary)" is applied

as reference for water erosion identification.

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1.3 Conclusion made in the EIA1.3.1 Review of the Present Situation Environment Evaluation

(]) In terms of natural physiognomy, the road under planning can be divided into AnkangYuehe basin and Bashan Mountain area.

(2) The project area is full of fracture structures, and the route passes through 4 regionalfracture zones and a dozen of small fault crushed zones. These are likely to lead to landslips. Rooffall and water burst in tunnels may take place as well.

(3) There are mainly 11 rivers in the area, including Hanjiang and its tributaries such asRenhe River, Yuehe River, Haoping River, and Liushui River. Except for Hanjiang, the tributariesare of short runoffs.

(4) K196+560 (origin) -K211+600 section is situated in Yuehe basin of Ankang City.Agricultural planting is the production activity. K209 + 000 K293+000 (terminal) section,situated in Dabashan Mountain area, is covered with north sub-tropical evergreen broad-leavedwood and deciduous broad-leaved wood. The ecological environment along the route is good as awhole.

(5) Since the project is situated in valleys, where the altitude is low and human activities arefrequent, large wild animals are few, especially feline ones. However, there are a good many smallwild animals in river valleys, such as squirrel, field mouse, grass hare, wild boar, and badger etc.

(6) Three bridges of the road under planning (one on Yuehe River, one on Liushui River, andone on Yishui River) will pass by the experimental plot of Ankang Ying Lake wet land provincialnatural protection area, with the length being 15km, of which the length of bridges is 1.89km andthat of roadbeds 13.11km. Shaanxi Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, with thedocument of Shanhuan Letter (2005) No. 30, approved the passing-by of AME from theexperimental plot of the natural protection area in March 2005. The project will pass LiushuiRiver at the west 50m to the Ying Lake Scenic and Historic Interest Area.

(7) The project will also passes by the agricultural area of Ankang Yuehe basin, massif soilerosion control areas at the banks of Hanjiang, and the protection area of water source cultivationand animals as well as plants of Daba Mountain.

(8) Land utilizations along the route vary in accordance with the changes of landforms. Thevalley of Yuehe River is mainly the plowing area, and banks of Hanjiang, Haoping, and Renhe aremainly mountains, dongas, and bottomlands. Areas along the route are forests, pastures, villages,mines, and water areas, where the soil erosion is moderate.

(9) The daytime noise level in villages along the route is 42.7-52.3dB, and the night noiselevel 36.3 - 41.3dB, reaching Grade I level of the evaluation standard (GB3096-93). Theenvironment is good.

(10) After monitoring, the profiles of Hanjiang, Renhe, and Yuehe conform to thecorrespondingly designated surface water standards.

(11) The contents of nitrogen dioxide and overall suspended particle in the air along the routedo not exceed the standard, and conform to the air quality evaluation standard (Grade I level ofGB3095-1996).

1.3.2 Review of the EIA1.3.2.1 In Design and Construction Phase

1. Ecological Environment(1) The road will permanently occupy arable land (paddy field, irrigation land, and dry land)

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of 2,655.45 mu, woodland and grassland (holt, wasteland, and gardens) of 2,126.73 mu,

accounting for 80.3% of the total area occupied. Compared with lands at the two sides of the route

within the scope of 300m, it occupies arable land of 21.27% and woodland of 11.13%. With a

view to this, the project has really has impact on flow lands along the route, but the impact is

moderate. Since the areas along the route are still plow lands and forests, the land utilization

pattern is unchanged.

(2) The road occupies arable land of 2,655.42 mu, including basic farmland of 2,100 mu, so

reasonable compensation measures should be adopted.

(3) There are some agricultural wild animals and wild birds such as aigrettes, which live in

paddy fields and the course of Yuehe River (shallow water area). Main structure of farmlands and

functions of Yuehe River will not be changed in road construction, so the impact is acceptability.

(4) In the light of estimation, the animal loss resulting from the land occupation of the project

is 78,358,160kg, so the vegetation disturbed should be resumed after the completion of the

project.

(5) The project passes through nature forest of K216+300-K223+200 and K247+800-

K258+520 sections in the way of tunnels (tunnel of Phoenix Mountain and tunnel of Mixiliang),

so nature forest is well protected.

(6) With impact analysis of land acquirement for highway construction, water environment,

vegetation, animal, obstruction ,causing wetland dwindling, the project has little impact on the

marsh natural protection area of Ying Lake.

(7) To reduce the damage to woodlands and mountains along the route, 33 tunnels are

designed, making the impact on the ecological environment along the route to the minimum.

(8) The digging of roadbeds and the disturbance of spoil sits will lead to the increase of the

soil erosion and water loss along the route. But this can be mitigated through environmental

protection measures such as reasonable route selection, afforestation, land rehabilitation, channel

construction, slope protection, and settling basin. It is worth special attention that soil erosion

modulus in the construction phase is relatively bigger, so mitigating measures put forward in the

environmental evaluation and soil and water conservation schemes should be carried out to ensure

that the modulus can be the same as or lower than the original level in two to three years after the

completion of the project.

2. Acoustic Environment

In the construction phase, the noise is mainly caused by the construction machinery. With the

proper arrangement of the working hours and the relative mitigating measures, it is for sure that

the influence to the sensitive spots like villages and schools along the road will be limited.

Therefore, the normal life ambient the line will not be deteriorated greatly.

So the noise is just the short-term influence and can be reduced to the minimum through

prevention measures such as environmental monitoring and supervision.


It can be avoided that the construction of the proposed project will have impact on the water

environment to some extent. The major pollution sources are the piles and transportation of the

construction materials, the discard of the construction wastes, bridge construction and the

construction camps. However, the real impact on the surface water quality is limited, for the

construction period is not long, the pollution sources are located far between each other and the

amount of the discard is small.

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Household garbage is collected by special persons for compost during the construction period;dry toilets are built in construction camps for compost as well. Manure can be used for topdressing of trees or crops. Compost sites should be far away from water areas to protection waterresources of Hanjiang and its tributaries.

4. Air Environment

Main air pollutions during the construction period are dust nuisance and asphalt smoke. Buttheir influence on lives of residents along the route can be avoid through measures such as thereasonable selection of mixing sites and distance, periodic sprinkling, and canvas covering etc.

5. Social Environment(1) Before the construction of the project, cultural relic organs should carry out

investigations within the construction area and determine the construction scope. If undergroundcultural relics are discovered in the construction process, necessary protection measures should beadopted. After the report to cultural relic organs, they will be handled in the light of the statecultural relic protection act.

(2) The road construction will inevitably result in some unfavorable effect on the normaloperation of irrigation facilities and local roads along the route. So special attention should begiven to some small irrigation channels. If possible, the route should bypass these small channels.

(3) The masses and governments are in favor of alignment along the route, so landrequisition and removal before the road construction can be smoothly carried out as long asresidents are reasonably reimbursed.

(4) In terms of the road construction's influence on the environment, the recommendedscheme is superior to the compared one.

6. Soil and Water Conservation

The surface soil erosion and water loss resulting from the project construction is 2.0468million tons, and the new erosion is 1.9817 million tons.

Roadbed protection item and road surface as well as roadbed drainage item have already beendesigned. So as long as the construction is carried out in accordance with the water conservationscheme, soil erosion and water loss can be reduced efficiently.

1.3.2.2 Operation Phase1. Ecological EnvironmentThe proposed expressway will have little influence on the ecological environment of areas

along the route during the operation phase, but attention still has to be paid to the management andmaintenance of the road creature protective measures.

2. Acoustics Environment

(1) The project will have a little noise impact along the route during the running period.(2) In 2011, the daytime noise level of 31 villages along the route will reach the standard, and

the night noise level of 7 villages will exceed the standard, with the maximum exceeding volume3.1dB; in 2017, except I spot where the noise exceeds the standard by 5.7dB, the daytime noiselevel of the other sensitive spots conform to the evaluation standard. The 20 spots exceed thestandard at night, with the maximum value being 5.8dB; in 2025, 7 spots exceed the standard,with the value being 0. I dB to 8.3 dB, and almost all spots exceed the standard at night, with theexceeding value being 1.4 dB to 16.5 dB.

(3) With regard to the eight schools in the project evaluation scope, the noise value ofChangbai School exceeds 2.6 dB (A) at daytimq in the near future (2011), and the other sensitive

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spots are all in line with the evaluation standard (Grade II). Four spots exceed the standard at night,

with the maximum exceeding value being 10.7 dB; two sensitive spots exceed the standard at

daytime in 2017, with the maximum exceeding value being 8.9 dB, and six schools exceed the

standard at night, with the maximum value being 13.7 dB; six schools exceed the standard at

daytime in 2025, with the exceeding value being 11.5 dB, and all of the sensitive spots exceed the

standard at night, with the exceeding value being 19.7 dB.

(4) In the noise prevention measures considered in the road design, the scheme of

heightening the fence can not meet the demand of reducing noise, and the setting position of

sound screen at the section of K223+865-K233+995 is unreasonable.

(5) It is suggested in the evaluation that four noise sensitive spots along the route should be

designed with sound screen and seven with concrete brick sunk fences.

(6) Farmers's should be built about 200m far away from the trunk line to avoid traffic noise.


(1) The project route mainly passes by Hanjiang and its tributaries Haoping River, Yuehe

River, and Renhe River. Since the proposed road is crossing over or accompanying these rivers,

the project will have big influences on the water areas during the construction and operation phase.

It is suggested to design rainwater collection system and evaporation tanks (6 in total) at Yishui

River Bridge, Liuhe River Bridge, and Hanjiang Super-large size Bridge and the two sides of

bridges separately. In addition, emergency measures should be adopted at bridgeheads to avoid

water pollution caused by traffic accidents, such as foundry flask, sand pile, and accident tanks.

(2) There are three service centers, five parking lots, and two maintenance departments along

the whole route. The domestic waste water volume of toll stations and maintenance departments is

small. But the organic pollutants in the sewage are high, so they have to undergo treatment in

septic tank before being used for irrigation. The sewage volume of service centers is big, so it is

suggested to build septic tank + biological contact oxidation pond (buried) system to treat. The

water after the treatment can be used as for greening in service centers and middle belts.

4. Air Environment

(I) From the put into operation to 2025, the concentration of N02 at the two sides of the road

will not exceed the Grade II standard of the national air quality, in line with the evaluation

requirement.(2) The concentration of pollutants at environmental sensitive spots at the two sides of the

road is expected to conform to the Grade II level of GB3096-1996 standard, in line with the

evaluation requirement.

5. Social Environment

(1) The project construction is of great significance to the improvement of the road network

of Shaanxi Province, the development of the economic and tourism industries of areas along the

route, and especially the economic prosperity of Shaanxi Province and Ankang City.

(2) The number of underpasses, pedestrian bridges, and flyovers can meet the demand of

vehicles and passengers on the route; flood discharge and irrigation are taken into consideration in

the design of bridges and culverts, and the project will have no impact on flood discharges and

irrigations in operation phase.

(3) The project construction will push forward the prosperity of the regional economy and

the development of the tourism industry.

(4) Environmental economic profit and loss analysis indicates that after the adoption of

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certain environmental protection measures, the project's social benefit will be huge. With thedevelopment of the regional economy and the increase of traffics, traffic noises and vehicleexhaust gas will have increasingly bigger influence on the sound and air environment qualities ofareas along the existing roads if the road is not built. Therefore, the construction of the road, alongwith reasonable planning and environmental measures, will greatly enhance the environmentalquality of the region.

1.4 EP Actions Proposed in the DesignThe proposed AME is designed with EP concept, the works of both road line selection and

pollution prevention and control embody the EP content.1. EP Actions Proposed in Early Design and Assessment

EP actions considered in early design includes:(I) Road line selection is under principle of less fanning land and resettlement, to avoid

villages, towns, resident areas, and schools. For soil-filling work of slope, the retaining walls isadopted to save as much farming land as possible.

(2) Coordinate relationship of road line, irrigation works and flood prevention to reduceimpact on the around environment. For natural rivers, we try to not change the water flowdirection and not compact riverbed with water discharging design to avoid pollution on watersource or crops around.

(3) The flat, vertical or horizontal design is submitted to landform to avoid and reduce muchfilling and excavation working, which may bring geological harm. When much filling working inhigh place or excavation working in low place cannot be avoided, the working must be strictlycontrolled.

(4) Make good comprehensive design for roadbed, road surface, water discharging and bridgesystems. To ensure normal road operation and prevent eroding to roadbed and slope, in designapron walls, arch slope with framework, sliced stone protection wall, retaining walls, and sodding,etc, are adopted. For roadbed and surface design, the side ditches, drainage ditches, intersectionditches are of a discharging system with bridges structure. When road goes along mountain foot orchine, water-stopping ditches are placed for the slope with large square. When road goes throughreservoir district, in both sides of roadbed, drainage ditches, side ditches are placed to reducepollution impact from sewage on crops and to prevent much water into the reservoir.

(5) To ensure existing irrigation and discharging system and people's travel for living andworking, enough channels and tunnels are proposed in the design.

(6) Make good design on roadbed borrow and spoil soil, which are prevented to do onfarming land as much as possible,

(7) Landscaping work is very important to keep roadbed steady, water and soil reserve andbeautiful sight view, which will be good arranged in design.

(8) To prevent and reduce impact on Hanjiang River and the water environment in An'ku,and also Yinghu Wetland Natural Reserve and cultural resorts by road construction and operation,the implementation scheme is changed from Hanjiang Scheme in feasibility study to HaopingScheme.

(9) More than 40 plants are used in landscape protection, all from Shaanxi or have beensuccessfully replanted.2. EP Actions Proposed in the Construction Phase

(1) With inevitable great filling and digging, the construction of highway subgrade will lead

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to soil erosion and water loss as well as vegetation deterioration. In order to migitate the influence

for ecological environment in construction phase, the exposed land surface should promptly

carried on the reinforce protection. After roadbed earth and stone work had finished, the exposed

surface is supposed to plant trees immediately, in order to promote the vegetation to restore as

soon as possible, avoid soil erosion and water loss as well as guarantees the roadbed to be stable.

(2) In the construction, the location of spoil pits should be arranged properly. They should be

located in the branch valley or wasteland, and be treated by pressing or with the necessary

auxiliary protection measures like the surface being covered with vegetation. The spoil pits are

better to be re-cultivated if condition permits.

(3) The temporary occupied land should be located on the waste land and vegetation should

be restored after the completion of the project construction.

(4) Though the noise impact is temporary, the life of the residents will be influenced to some

extent, especially by the construction machinery. Therefore, the maintenance of the construction

machinery and transportation vehicles should be enhanced to reduce the noise influence to the

minimum. The construction time should be arranged properly, with the intention of avoiding the

nighttime construction and the noise mitigating measures should be taken if necessary. Meanwhile,

the measures should be adopted to reduce the pollution by the floating dust.

(5) In the road construction, it can be avoided that the temporary traffic short cut road will be

built to deliver the construction machinery and construction materials. The measures should be

taken to maintain and protect the original roads and the temporary roads to ensure the construction

of the whole project.

3. Environment Protection Actions Considered in Operation Phase

(1) Enhance the maintenance of the road surface to ensure that the roads will be kept even to

the best extent, therefore the traffic noise will be reduced to minimum. As the sensitive spots like

the residential areas and schools, the measures of sound barriers or intensified vegetation should

be taken to reduce the noise pollution.

(2) With the adoption of the non-lead petroleum and the improvement of the automobiles, the

air pollution by automobile emission can be reduced. In the operation phase, the plants which have

the better performance in absorbing C02 will be intensifiedly planted on both sides of the road to

purify the air to the most extent.

(3) The water drainage system should be kept in good condition with the security measures

taken in order to avoid severe accidents. The water sources should be under proper protection.

(4) In order to reduce the pollution to the ambient water environment by the expressway

facilities in the operation phase, the evaporating pools should be built in the proper places along

the road to avoid the waste water be discarded to Hanjiang River.

1.5 Laws and Regulations of Environmental Management1.5.1 National and Local Laws, Regulations and Documents

"Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China", into effect from Dec 26,

1989;"Environment Impact Assessment Law of the People's Republic of China", into effect from

Sep 1, 2003;"Management Regulation for Environment Protections of Construction Project", issued on

Nov 29, 1998;

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"Messures for Environmental Protections of Construction project", No.(2003)5,from MOC;"Air Pollution Prevention Law of PRC", into effect from Sep 1, 2000;"Environment Noise Pollution Prevention Law of PRC", into effect from March 1, 1997;"Water Pollution Prevention Law of PRC", into effect from Nov 1, 1984;"Land Management Law of PRC (Revised in 1998)", into effect from Jan 1, 1999;"The Implementation Regulation of The Law on Land Management of PRC", into effect

from Jan 1, 1999;"Water and Soil Conservation Act Law of PRC", into effect form June 29, 1991;"The Implementation Regulation of The Law on Water and Soil Conservation Act of PRC",

into effect form Oct 1, 1993;

"Forest Law of PRC", into effect from Jan 1, 1985;"The Implementation Regulation of The Law on Forest of PRC", into effect from Jan 29,

2000;

"Wild Animal Protection Law of PRC", into effect from Mar 1, 1989;"The Implementation Regulation of The Law on Wild Animal Protection of The Law on

Forest of PRC", into effect from Mar 1, 1992;"The Regulation on Agrarian Plants of PRC", into effect from Jan 1, 1997;"Environment Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution Law of PRC (Revised)", into

effect from April 1, 2005;

"Highway Law of PRC", into effect from Jan 1, 1998;"Flood Control Law of PRC", into effect from Jan 1, 1998;"Water Law of PRC", into effect from Oct 1, 2002;"The Regulation on River Channel Management of PRC", into effect from June 10, 1988;"The National Outline of Ecological Environment Protection", into effect from Nov 26,

2000;

"Culture Relics Protection Law of PRC", into effect from Oct 28, 2002;"Agriculture Law of PRC", into effect from March 1, 2003;"The Protection Regulation on Basic Farming Land", State Council, into effect from Jan 1,

1999;

"Energy Conservation Law of the People's Republic of China", into effect from Jan 1, 1998;"The Temporary Regulation on Scenic Resort and Historic Site Management", State Council,

into effect from June 7, 1985;"The Regulation on Scenic Resort and Historic Site Management of Shaanxi Province", the

People's Congress of Shaanxi Province, into effect from May 1, 2005;"The Method to Implement 'The Law on Environment Protection of PRC' in Shaanxi

Province", into effect from July 25, 1992;

"The Method to Implement 'The Law on Flood Control of PRC' in Shaanxi Province", intoeffect from Sep 8, 1999;

"The Method to Implement 'The Law on Land Management of the PRC ' in ShaanxiProvince", into effect from Jan 1, 2000;

"The Method to Implement 'The Law on Water and Soil Conservation Act of PRC' inShaanxi Province", into effect from Jan 10, 1994;

"The Regulation on Environment Protection of Urban Drinking Water Resource ProtectionArea", into effect from Mar 10, 2002;

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"The Regulation on Watercourse Management of Shaanxi Province", into effect from Dec 2,

2000;

"The Regulation on Road Transfer Management of Shaanxi Province", into effect from April

1,2000;

"The Regulation on Forest Management of Shaanxi Province", into effect from Dec 2, 2000.

1.5.2 Relative Documents from World Bank

"Environment Assessment", OP/BP/GP 4.01, World Bank;

"Environment TOR", OP/BP/GP 4.02;

"Natural Habitats", OP/BP/GP/4.04;

"Water Resources Management", OP 4.07;

"Involuntary Resettlement", OP/BP 4.12;

"Cultural Property", OP 4.11;

"Indigenous Peoples", OD 4.20.

1.5.3 Assessment Standards

"Environment Noise Standards in Urban Area" (GB3096-93)

"Noise Limit in Construction Site" (GB 12523-90)

"Surface Water Environment Quality Standard" (GB3838-2002)

"Sewage Comprehensive Discharging Standard" (GB8978-96)

"Farming Land IrrigationWater Quality Standard" (GB5084-92)

"AmbientAtmosphere Quality Standard" (GB3095-1996)

"Boiler Atmosphere Pollutes Discharging Standard"( GB 13271-2001)

"Atmosphere Pollutes Comprehensive Discharging Standard"( GB 16297-96)

1.6 Environmental Management Institution and Its Duty1. Management Institution

The relevant institutions of the environment protection are classified as the management

institution and the monitoring institution.

It is SPTD that takes general responsibility for the management of the EP. The implement and

management of the EP plan is due to the FFO (the item office)of SPTD. The EPO is set up by the

item office and three special people are assigned to take charge of it .

The major duties of the management institution:

( I ) Carry out and perform each item of the environment protection principles, policies

and statutes of the state, the province and the city.

(2) Take charge to supervise the compilation of the environmental performance plan and the

carrying out of all the EP measures proclaimed by the environment protection report.

(3) Organize to set down the prepared plan of the pollution accident, and to tackle with it.

(4) Organize to compile the urgent prepared plan of the transportation of the dangers on

AME, and personnel must be arranged to take the urgent training in order to deal with the

various risky accidents.

(5) Take charge of the EP research, training work and enhance the EP skills of the

personnel.(6) Take charge of the relative environment protection paper compiling of construction

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bidding and supervision bidding.(7) Take charge of the examination to environment protection task of construction team and

supervision team.(8) Take charge of EP project constructing and EP checking and accepting.

During the process of the performance of the item, the item office willassign two environmental supervisor engineers to take charge of the supervision of the biddingsites, and of the EAP assigned and the environment protection measures set down in the biddocument.

After the completion of this item, the item office will arrange full-time personnel to managethe environrment protection in its managing sections. The counties' administration regulate toconduct the fire fighters and the aid personnel.

See Chartl-2 for the management institution.2. Environment supervision Institution

See Chart 1-2 for the supervision institution that will be conducted by stage.a. The feasibility research period: The SEPA, the EPO of the Ministry of Communication,

SEPB, the World Bank and SPTD to take charge of it.The SEPA: It is the most SuperiorAdministrative Department that perform the supervision

and management together to the nation's daily environment protection. Fully take charge of theenvironmental management of the item, examine and ratify the report of the environmentalimpacts, guide the provincial environment protection bureau to carry out each item of the statutes,and be responsible for the completion and the check and acceptance of the environment protectionestablishment.

SEPB: Responsible for the supervision management of the environment protection of theitem, organize and coordinate the relevant institutions to the service of the environment protectionof the item, examine the report of the environmental impacts, supervise the performance ofenvironmental action plan of the item, be responsible for the completion and the check andacceptance of the environment protection of the item, confirm the environmental managementstatutes and the criteria that the item should perform, guide the cities' and counties' environmentprotection bureau to supervise and manage the environment of the item during the constructionand operation period.

b. The designed period: The EPO of the item office of SPTD is responsible for this.c. The construction period: The EPO of SPTD,the EPO of the item office of SPTD and SEPB

are responsible for this.The Cities' and Counties' EPB: Accept the guidance of the SEPB, supervise the

environmental action plan performed by the construction unit, carry out the statutes and criterionsabout the environmental management, coordinate with each department to do the environmentprotection well, be responsible for examination and supervision management of the construction,completion and operation of the environment protection establishment of the item inadministrative regions.

d. The operation period: SHAB and SEPB are responsible for this.e. The environment monitor is performed by the environment monitor units or the regional

and civic EMS in the construction and operation period.

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1.7 Environmental protection1. Environmental Management Plan: management activities to prevent or mitigate the

adverse impacts.

2. Environment Supervision Plan: supervision activities to ensure synchronous

implementation of mitigating measures together with the project construction.

3. Environment Monitoring Plan: monitoring activities to eliminate pollution during both

construction and operation phases.

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Organ World Bank SEPA | Supreme MonitoringOrga| EO of MOC

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- ~~~The Administration and Management Organ -- Monitoring OrganChart 1-2 Organization Structural Chart of Environment Protection of AME

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2. Environmental Protection Action

2.1 Management Plan of EP for Project Feasibility Study Phase

The major EP task during the phase of engineering feasibility is the EIA of the project.

The EIA of AME is undertaken by Chang'an University. The EIA panel made the field

reconnaissance survey in detail. An EIA was compiled in March, 2006.

To implement the EP measures put forward in the EPA and prevent or mitigative the negative

impacts of the projects, the Environmental Action Plan has been worked out as a result of

consultation with designers and FFO of SPTD.

2.2 Environmental protection Actions for Design Phase

The route have basically been determined, and should be optimized as necessary in design

phase.

2.2.1 Route SelectionFor the location of project in mountain area, which is limited by geographic condition,

selectable corridors are instructed. Selecting route is fully considered the project's elements of

areal topography, geology condition, environment protection, dismantlement, occupancies,

cultural relics, mines and implementation condition, avoids and circles residential centers and

environment sensitive areas as school along the line. Meanwhile, reducing effects on

along-the-line water resource, electric power and communication equipments will be paid

attention. Lessening building dismantlement and restrictively occupying arable land, and

combining along-the-line major cities' whole layout will also be considered to harmoniously

coordinate local development. The further design should focus on as follows:

(1) Set plane line location, meanwhile, to select lengthways line location with combining

geology and hydrology situation. Balance filling and digging soil and reduce waste soil.

(2) Dispose line along riverbank to possibly avoid jamming and occupying river way. Line

location needs to satisfy flood water level demand.

2.2.2 Social Disruption18 passes (average every 4.5km) and 8 grade separator will be constructed to facilitate the

crossings of the expressway by local people, animal and vehicles.

2.2.3 Prevention of Soil Erosion and Water Loss and Protection of Soil Resource

2.2.3.1 Prevention of Soil Erosion and Water Loss

(1) Base on original form, and according principle of non breaking existent drainage system,

little bridge culverts across artificial ditch will be reasonably unite. Natural bridge culverts will be

set according to topography, synthesis drainage and catchment area. Both-side transit condition of

setting little bridge will be considered, to achieve one-bridge-all-purpose.

(2) At left-right separate roadbed, high-low separate roadbed, and along-river-bridge, the

design draft should possibly reduce digging natural slope land and occupying riverside land.

(3) Linking line should utilize existent road, reduce influence of digging new road. Linking

line will make the most of waste residue of main body of the project to fill roadbed, which would

decrease influence of project total waste residue occupancy.

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(4) soil and water conservation design

AME Water and Soil Conservation Report is compiled by Shaanxi Province Water Maintainoffice. The report achieves special water and soil conservation design for every spot along the road,the major content will be see in relative chapters of Water and Soil Conservation Report.Organizations of road design and implementation should seriously perform special water and soilconservation design measures, and fulfill demands issued by water conservation department.

2.2.3.2 Soil Resource Protection

(]) The proposed road occupies more arable land, these land top layer's soil is more fertile.Therefore, at alteration and adjustment phase of construction drawing and construction perioddesign, main body of the project, casting soil spot and temporal occupying fertile arable land toplayer (0-20 cm) temporal peeling off, piling schemes and other water and soil conservationmeasures should be indicated, to guarantee utilizing these top layer loamy soil for land re-cultivatein the late period or landscaping making green project.

(2) Devised interconnection style interchange is limited by topography, its ramp is set undersatisfying using function demand, should flexibly master line guideline, possibly utilize advantagetopographic extensive line, and avoid causing loss of local land resource.

(3) During setting line at river valleys of HanJiang River, YueHe Rive, RenHe River, linelocation should be set along one side of mountain foot, do not occupy arable land amidst rivervalley.

(4) Selection taking and casting soil spot should be reasonably set with every segmenttopography character. Land style and quantity occupied by construction casting soil, and influenceof construction shortcut destroying vegetation should be considered toward casting soil spots.Waste residue should be cast near route place, gulch with few vegetation, and valley of wildmountainous land, far from water. At same time, prevention design of waste residue needs to becompleted to avoid new water and soil washing away. Setting detailed taking and casting soilspots should adequately cooperate with local land, water resource and other departments,according to land utilizing and programming and water resource equipment layout.

* According to project design, some taking and casting soil spots of the project occupysizable arable land. On the basis of project final decided casting soil spots situation, assessmentsuggests to adjust several casting soil spots that occupy paddy field, avoid occupying over arableresource. Meantime, at construction drawing phase, road's earth and stone lengthwaysadministration should be enhanced, strive for earth and stone balance, decrease taking and castingearth and stone quantity, consequently decrease taking and casting soil spots quantity andoccupying land quantity.

* During design phase, construction spots, construction shortcut, material store spots,mixer station and other temporal project will be administrated of land occupancy, reduce temporaloccupied land quantity, especially arable land. Construction encampment selecting should mostlyutilize existent house and spot along two side of route. Otherwise, utilizing service area,intercommunication and other permanent equipment occupied land as construction temporaloccupancy, for decrease occupied land.

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2.2.3.3 Protection Measures of Basic farmland

(I) In process of project construction, implementation organization should seriously carry

out Land Management Regulation of People's Republic of China and Protection Condition of

Basic farmland, pay land compensation fee, arrangement and subsidiary fee and vegetation

compensation on time and on quantity. If organization needs to pay arable land cultivation fee,

they have to do according to local land management department regulation to guarantee keeping

equivalent quantity of basic farmland. Special government departments of Ankang City and alone

the line should carry out principle of special fund special usage of basic farmland protection,

utilize land compensation for cultivating or reconstructing equivalent quantity new basic farmland

to occupied land.

(2) At next phase design, route design will conform to local land utilization program, fully

utilize local reserve area for communication, and avoid to occupy other arable land or adjust land

usage program. Otherwise, in the project design of roadbed and road surface, earth and stone,

taking and casting soil spot selection will avoid taking and casting soil within basic farmland

protection area, over limited requisition land scope is not allowed, and meantime, special project

and ecology protect measures will be taken toward taking and casting soil spots and side slope

surface, to avoid causing new water and soil washing away, and protect land resource.

(3) Administrate basic farmland adjustment and supplement work. After the project lawfully

getting approval of occupying basic farmland, Shaanxi Provincial Government and along the line

influenced local governments should revise Land Utilization Total Program according to

document from State Council, and supplement equivalent quantity and quality basic farmland.

(4) Less occupy arable land. On the base of fully consulting with suggestion from along the

line local governments, layout of taking and casting soil spot and re-cultivation will combine local

water resource and ecology construction, and improve local economic development and resolve

local practical difficulty.

(5) Road vegetation should be seriously carried out according to special demand of Notice

about Firmly Prohibit Occupancy Basic farmland Making Green from State Council. If along road

area is arable land, vegetation width should be strictly controlled. Vegetation should be within

road land scope. Under local government leading, to coordinate with local special departments to

build vegetation alley. For vegetation land of falling short of regulation, special department won't

give approval.

2.2.4 Noise

Under local condition and economic technology limitation, selection route combining local

topographic condition achieves optimizing design toward prevention noise measure along the line.

Fully utilizing sensitive spot's topographic condition to plant mix groves, for prevention noise.

Prevention noise measures as follows:

(1) As sensitive spots that noise exponent will exceed quota above 3dB at 2011 during

operation initial period, sound barrier would be built at 2010, objective of diminishing sound

exponent is set as long term until 2025.

(2) As sensitive spots that noise exponent exceeds quota above IdB below 3dB at 2011

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during operation initial period, building high roadbed as sound barrier at 2010.

(3) Survey sensitive spots that noise exponent is forecasted exceeding quota below I dB at2011 during initial period, or below 2dB at 2017 during midterm, if exceeding quota is serious,operation measure will be adopted.

(4) For school, noise exponent exceeds quota above 3dB at day in mid period, operation willbe taken at 20 1 0.

(5) Both sides of road embankment will be planted mix bamboo and shrubbery groves, forincreasing effectiveness of prevention noise.

Since sensitive spots forecasting severe exceeding quota, measures of prevention noise willbe operated as follows:

Table 2-1 Prevention Noise Measures at Sensitive Spots alongAME

Length of Forecasting exceeding quota ForecastingDistance between 'BMesrofInvestmentSensitive (dB) diminishing

Term Sensitive Spot fore house and spot along 2011 2017 diminishing noise rate (10,000)road center (m) noise

the road(m) day night day night (dB)

YuJiaHleI YuJiaHe 51f 240 2. 7 Timely surveyK196+560

K197+814-K19

7+986 setting

2 YangZuDian 30 100 3.1 6 172 X 2.5m 7 68.8K197+900 sound barrier at

village edge of

both sides ofK1 99+974-K20

0+226 setting

DaiHeBa 252 X 0.8m3 K200+100 75 0. 5 3.4 concrete brick 5 20.2

sunk fence at

village edge of

For higher of

roadbed & small

exceeding quota^ ~~~HeJiaBa in this segment,

4 56 100 2.9 5.8 , 7 55.2K203+500 setting 276 X

2.5m sound

barrier at K203+

362-K203+638RongGuang

5 Village 57 100 0. 6 Timely surveyK204+600

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Table 2-1 Continued Prevention Noise Measures at Sensitive Spots alongAME

Distance between Length of Forecasting exceeding quota ForecastingDistncebeteen Sensitive (dB~) Measure of d inis g Investment

Termn Sensitive Spot fore house and spot (dB) 2 diminishing (10,000)roa ceter(m) spot along 2011 2017 *nos noise rate

road center (in) noisethe road(m) day night day night (dB)

JiangJia

6 Yuanzi 99 400 1. 0 Timely survey

K205+600

K210+584-K21

0+816 setting

232 X 0.8m

7 Village 45 100 0.4 2.8 5 15.0

K210+700 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~concrete brickK210+700

sunk fence at

____________ _______________ ___________ village edge

BieGaiZi8 95 200 2.6 Timely survey

K226+900

HuaJiaWan9 120 210 0. 6 Timely survey 6 12.84

K227+ 190

K227+244-K227

+556 set 312 XZhongJiaYu 0.8m concrete

10 anZi 40 200 0.8 3.7 5 20.0brick sunk fence

K227+400 at edge of

___________ ______ village.

K234+974-K235

MengJia +326 set 352 X

YuanZi 0.8m concrete11 75 100 0.5 3.4 5 20.0

K235+ brick sunk fence

100 at edge of

village.

ShuangQi

12 ng Village 55 100 1. 0 Timely survey

K235+300 _

13 JinPing 55 200 1. 0 Timely survey

K235+400

YuanTang

14 Village 45 200 2. 8 Timely survey

K236+300

ZhuJiaKen

15 gK236+80 45 200 2. 8 Timely survey

0 °

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Table2-1 Continued Major Technical standards ofAME

Distance between Length of Forecasting exceeding quota Forecasting. Distance between l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~nvestment

Sensitive (bB) Measure of d imin ish ingTerm Sensitive Spot fore house and (10,000)

road center (m) spot along 2011 •F 2017 + diminishing noise noise ratethe road(m) day night day night (dB)

K264+824-K265

+176 set 352 X

WaFangDia 0.8m concrete16 75 100 I. I 5.7 3. 9 5 20.0

nK265+000 brick sunk fence

at edge of

_______ village.

GaoTan

17 Town 35 200 0. 6 Timely survey

K284+140

K196+784-K197

JiangDian +076 set 292 X

Primary 0.8m concrete18 75 40 0.2 3.2 5 18.0

School brick sunk fence

K196+930 at edge of

______ village.

K245+394-K245

ChangBai +546 set 152 X

19 Shoold 35 60 2. 6 10. 7 8. 9 13. 7 4.Om sound 12 128.0

K245+470 barrier at edge of

village.

K264+834-K265

+166 set 332 X

WaFangDi an 0.8m concrete20 . 70 100 1.2 1.9 4.0 5 20.0

Primary brick sunk fence

school at edge of

K265+000 village.

DaBa K290+024-K290

Primary +176 set 152 X21 school 45 20 5. 5 7. 8 2.5m sound 12 30.4

K290+100 barrier at edge of_ _____________________________ ____________ _____ ______ v illage.

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Table2-1 Continued Major Technical standards ofAME

Distance between Length of Forecasting exceeding quota ForecastingDistance between Inveslment

Sensitive (bB) Measure of diminishingTenn Sensitive Spot fore house and (10,000)

road center (in) spot along 2011 * 2017 • diminishing noise noise rate

the road(m) day night day night (dB)

ZhengYi

Primary22 school 80 70 2. 8 Timely survey

K226+i95

XinPu

village

23 primary 100 50 0. 9 Timely survey

school

K227+850

Total 428. 44

2.2.5 Landscape Protection

(I) Through bridge and tunnel method, elaborately researching of selecting route decreases

cutting points, earth and stone, and square. At initial design phase, cutting points number is less

than feasibility report phase, decreasing more cutting quantity and cutting bare square, and further

reducing influence toward mountain landscape.

(2) Due to cutting slope grade of the whole line is soft, all cutting points have designed

measures of renew landscape, including renew vegetation.

(3) For coordinating with natural landscape of BaShan Mountain, vegetation design will

assume local plants.

(4) Adopt advantage operation technology, reduce construction bare surface at tunnel

entrance, and cover these with vertical vegetation.

(5) Natural water surface of AME, YingHu Lake Natural Reserve and YingHu Lake

landscape area are precious landscape resources within visible scope of the road. From utilizing

water surface, vegetation and physiognomy, passengers would enjoy natural atmosphere during

the traveling.

2.2.6 Ecology Protection

2.2.6.1 Vegetation Protection and Recovery Measures

(1) According to roadbed fonn alone the road, environment condition of segment, vegetation

function, road landscape and guidance sight, vegetation of main body will be designed in segment.

Prohibit randomly enlarge vegetation area. Area between slope foot and drainage will plant

shrubbery, space between drainage and road edge plant mix of arbor and shrubbery. That will

assort with local shelter belt. Selection of vegetation species should avoid kinds that would cause

local plant diseases and insect pests, or harm local ecology.

(2) Central separate belt should have function of prevention giddy at night, appropriately

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plant evergreen flower shrubbery, which height should be 1.2 to 1.5 meter.

(3) Vegetation of interchange not only plant plane vegetation but also vertical, to form3-dimension vegetation area. Inter side of ramp mainly root shrubbery, reduce grass area, forincreasing ecology effectiveness, and reducing management task and cost.

(4) Vegetation in service section, management office, toll station should be harmonious withthese facilities' layout and building.

(5) Adopt local species simulating natural vegetation cover up tunnel entrances.

(6) Select plant should suit to local soil, which guarantee vegetation survival rate. In design,usage of little coronal flower should be paid attention, for it is fast-growth advantage species.Prevent it accessing farm field and natural environment outside road boundary, especially remotenatural environment, for it would cause ecology intrusion problem.

Local arbor, as Ch. Pine, arborvitae, chestnut, acacia, white poplar, soapbark, cork,metasequoia, maple, galbanum, privet, Ch. Tallow tree etc., and local shrubbery, as orientalblueberry, azalea, spicebush, Ch. pistache etc., will be used for vegetation design, let roadvegetation melt in natural landscape.

2.2.6.2 YingHu Lack Marsh Land Natural Reserve Protection

(1) Borrow and spoil site can't be set in area of reservation.

(2) Service section, management section, Parking section and other facility can't be set inreservation.

2.2.7 Water Environment Protection

(1) Construction drawing phase should fully pay attention on protection surface water quality.In framnework design of under part of bridge, according to relative regulation, drilling residue andother waste can't directly cast into surface water. After necessarily treatment, drilling residue willbe used for paving road or set to designated spoil site, which avoid water environment pollutioncaused by soil erosion and water loss or other reason.

(2) Road toll station and management section have to set waster water processor. Cesspool issuggested to use, its water will be regularly used on section vegetation. Service section would setup cesspool plus biological contact oxidation pool (earth bury style) treatment system to processwastewater, its water would be used on farm irrigation, vegetation of service section and centralbell, to achieve standard draining. Wastewater process flow as table 2-1.

|iliness wastewate [ * il separator

domestic sewage | * earth burying style biological | vegetation

contact oxidation pool irrigation

Table 2-1 Wastewater process flow

(1) For preventing road rainwater directly enter farm field or river along the road,evaporation tank will be designed for collecting water.

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(2) For diminishing or avoiding water environment pollution caused by danger accidentally

entering surface water, setting collecting road-surface-rainwater system at LiuShuiHe River at

west side of LiuShui, YiShuiHe River Bridge, and Han Jiang Special Large Bridge. Bridgehead set

evaporation tank to collect road-surface -rainwater, and prevent wastewater risk accident.

2.2.8 Protection of Environment Air Quality

Selection address for constructional material store spot, stirring station should locate far

from residential area and its leeward side over 200 meter. Rational design of material

transportation routes should be far from residential area, and avoid dust and noise influencing

resident.

For preventing vehicle exhaust air pollution at tunnel entrance to influence local villager,

suggest that remove villagers influenced by construction to other place apart from entrance over

200 meters.

2.2.9 Social Eoconomy Protection

2.2.9.1 Removal and Resettlement

(1) Project construction inescapably involve resident remove, route scheme formulated by

design organization should keep away from residential area, school and important infrastructure,

especially dense residential district and school. For instance according to sensitive points

distributing situation, segments near the proposed road as YangZuDian, ZhuJiaKeng, DaBa,

DaLanTan etc., should fix rational route scheme, maximum reduce removing and arrangement

population. As some inescapable sensitive point within road construction, such as school remove

(ChangBai School), should be rationally arranged under relative remote and arrangement

regulation. With local govemment jointly lay out rational remove and arrangement scheme, to

guarantee that the new address wo'n't be re-disturbed by road. Arrangement work should be

included in initial phase of road construction, to ensure completing new teaching facility before

remove, and resident normal living and school's regular teaching.

(2) New address of village arrangement should be apart from proposed AnKang to MaoBao

Road over 200 meters.

(3) ChangBai School only removes 2 rooms dormitory, belong partly remove. After remove,

school's front remain space will be storehouse or library, new classroom and dormitory will be

built at rear part space. The new address should be apart from MiXiLiang Channel entrance over

200 meters.

(4) Principle and Measure of Remove and Arrangement

* Arrangement and Recovery Objective

Total objective of arrangement and recovery: let living and production is recovered in short

term, and rapidly improve living standard and quality. Detailed target: house square and structure

of removed household at least touch ex-level before requisition; labor power is appropriately

arranged, and income improved by agriculture and third-estate development; compensation for

property owner can't be depreciated, and claimed any tax. School's regular teaching activity can't

be influenced.

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Arrangement Scheme

Arrangement and recovery for influenced people or organization should be operated fromtwo sides of living and production. Living arrangement and recovery content and scope mainlyincluding: land assigning and house rebuilding, water, electric power and other facility recovery.

Production arrangement and recovery content and scope mainly including: agriculture andnon-agriculture arrangement for influenced farm population; facility related production recovery,as water system and road etc.

For school, new address should be prior selected jointly with special local department, tomake sure that new school is built and available before remove, and guarantee school's regularteaching.

Building and land's belongings will be torn down and built by self, arrangement departmentwill appropriate fund on time before remove. For weak community, remove department wouldauthorize local government to give special labor help and subsidy.

Fully respect labors working willingness. For superfluous labor power caused by requisition,its arrangement principle should insist willingly selection style, base on state and local regulation.

Arrangement mostly be located in same community, and provide multi scheme forinfluenced household selecting, let them easily adapt new situation.

New arrangement less occupy farm field and cultivation land. Rebuilding land should bestutilize spare space. Procedure of building house will be transacted at land management departmentand programming department by community committee.

2.2.9.2 Cultural Relics Protection

According to Cultural Relics Law of People's Republic Of China chapter 3 term 18, asconstructing large size infrastructure, construction organization with provincial, autonomousregion and municipal administration department jointly investigate or survey cultural relics atpotential place within construction area. Construction organization relegates cultural relics surveyto Shaanxi Province Archaeology Research Institute, which issued cultural relics report.According to recommendation and suggestion from local cultural protection department, in thenext ascertaining detailed route phase, construction organization with local cultural relicsdepartment jointly survey cultural relics resource along the road, to make sure that roadconstruction won't cause any influence on them.

For there isn't cultural relics site survey at GaoPing segment, in the further design phase,cultural relics survey will be prior, to make clear that whether there has cultural relics along theroad, cultural relics protection rank and scheme, then to operate project design andimplementation.

2.2.9.3 Reduce Disturbance Impact on StudentSpot of K245+450 in proposed road is very near ChangBai School, which needs to remove 2

rooms of dormitory. For considering great disturbance effects on the school during constructionperiod, assessment suggests, at next phase design, this issue will be paid attention, this segmentoptimization and adjustment needs will be emphasized, and far from school.

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2.3 Project EP Management Plan during Construction Phase

2.3.1 Management during Construction Phase

2.3. 1.1 Establish efficient and practicable management system for environment protection

U) Establish information communication channel, accept supervision of Shaanxi Province

Communication Bureau and AnKang City Environment Protection Department.

(©) Set up Projection Environment Management Structure, and stimulat for relative

environment management methods.

a) Set up project environment management office in implementation period, composed by

special headquarter department, on-site design representative, project survey and local

communication bureau, which under projection construction headquarters' leading,

comprehensively coordinate and handle environment problem during implementation period.

b) According to result of environment impact assessment, stipulate systematic, stage

environment management objective and guideline, to define related organizations' environment

protection obligation, responsibility and management method.

c) Define supervision system of environment management measure effect, and formulate

stimulation and reward measure.

d) Launch environment knowledge promulgation campaign during construction period.

e) Supervise, assess and improve environment protection management methods during

construction period.

(®) Entrust qualified environment survey organization to survey pollution during

construction period, fulfill pollution control measure, and set up perfect compiling and submitting

system of survey report.

( Impel construction management and environment management organically combine

during construction period. For fulfilling project's environment management objective, to provide

enough resource guarantees, including qualified environment management team, available

management and administration fund.

cD Fully utilize adjustment method of project payment,. to execute task of environment

protection.

© Perfectly manage archives and file of environment protection.

2.3.1.2 Enhance inviting bid and bid work management

(D Inviting Bid stage

a) Inviting bid document compilation should express result assessment of project's

environment influence, define environment protection objective of each bid segment, clarify

sub-contractors' obligation and responsibility toward basic farmland, ecology environment

protection, water and soil maintenance, public heal environment treatment.

b) Describe detailed environment protection demand for each bid segment, demand

compiling environment protection measure plan, and equip special environment management team

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and facility.

c) Standardize compliance, examination and approval of base number of bid, to clarifysub-contractors' reasonable profit, which let them would implement environment protection plan.

®) Bid Stage

a) Bid document must reflect demands of environment protection problem in inviting biddocument, define implementation structure plan and administration measure that conform toenvironment protection, and equip special management team and facility.

b) In bid document, offer should rationally set its investment budget of administratingenvironment protection, according to special environment protection demand of each bid segment.

c) Sub-contractor should promise their environment protection obligation and responsibility,willingly accept supervision of construction organization and local environment protectiondepartment.

(a) Assessment Stage

a) Set up high quality assessment experts' team, try to invite high quality environmentprotection expert participating and assessing.

b) Enhance exarnination of bid organizations' qualification, implementation ability,management ability and outstanding achievement. In bid process, organization with outstandingachievement of environment protection will be prior considered.

c) Carefully check implementation organizing program and content of environmentprotection and enlightened implementation, especially toward its ensuring condition ofenvironment protection. To prohibit those subcontractor who randomly reduce environmentprotection investment, only for getting bid.

d) Enhance assessment and examination or bid price, to ensure subcontractors' rational profit.That will thoroughly avoid sacrificing environment due to pursuing profit.

2.3.1.3 Enhance Project Environment Protection Supervision

(D Construction Organization

a) Strengthen inviting bid and bid work of project supervision, make sure reasonablesupervision cost, which let project supervision department would independently operatesupervision toward project manage and environment protection.

b) Select excellent supervision team through bid procedure, strictly control on-post persons'qualification and ability, clearly raise demand that equip special technician with environmentprotection knowledge, and relative supervision equipment.

c) Clarify normal condition of supervision and independently running supervision functionright. To clearly inform construction organization about authority supervision content includingenvironment supervising.

d) Set up efficient system of project supervision, to avoid supervisors' improper action.

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@) Project Supervision Organization

a) Equip supervision team with environment protection knowledge and special facility

according to supervision contract, and as supervision service content strengthen spot supervisor's

environment protection awareness, and improve their special environment protection skill.

b) Supervise construction organizing program's implementation which conform to

environment protection demand. Project alteration must be demonstrated through environment

protection, and approved by supervision organization.

c) Project environment supervision is the most important step in control process of

environment protection of construction organization. Therefore, spot environment supervision

should be strengthened, and environment problem will be detected and handled on time.

d) Supervision organization should enhance supervising power toward earthwork project,

which would influence ecology environment, including fertility earth layer peeling and temporary

store, earthwork transport and piling, treatment and prevention for waste residue of building

bridge etc., avoiding waste of soil resource and erosion.

e) Final inspection, assessment and acceptance of environment protection operation will be

run, which is based on construction organization self-inspection, to ensure normal and regular

project operation.

2.3.1.4 Optimization of Design alteration

For diminishing environment problem caused by design flow on time, construction

organization should strengthen subsequent service management of road design.

( The design agencies should be sent to the construction sites in the relative construction

stage, with the capacity of which go along with the requirements of the construction procedures.

(© The responsibilities of the design agencies and the procedures of the design changes

should be identified clearly.

(®) The supervision of the environment impact should be enhanced with the cooperation of

the supervision units and construction units; the design change should be environmental oriented.

2.3.1.5 Implementation Organization

(i) As project implementing organization, its operation behavior directly effects whether

would diminish environment influence and destroy to minimal level. Implementing organization

must willingly abidance and maintain policy and regulation of environment protection, teach

builders to cherish each grass and wood around operation segment. Before building, to rationally

and scientifically make out plane drawing design, to fully utilize original topography, earth things,

according to principle of less occupying farmland and woodland. In implement, waste residue will

strictly regulate to be cast at designated spot, to prohibit to randomly digging and casting. Finally

achieving enlightened building, standardized operation, and construction according design.

( Implementation organization should rationally arrange operation, elaborately organize

management, strictly control projection implementation section within acquirement land scope,

and diminish and efficiently control influence scope and grade on ecology environment of

implementation section during digging procedure.

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(a) Reasonably arrange implement season, schedule and timetable, perfect implement scheme,

decrease temporary piling of waste earthwork. And avoid large size digging project in raining

season, to efficiently reduce regional soil erosion and water loss, so that diminishing destroy on

ecology environment.

2.3.2 Ecology Environment protection

2.3.2.1 Measure of Vegetation of Along the Road Protection

(1) According to Forest Protection Law of People's Public of China term 19, prohibit mining

stone, sand and soil. Passing forest, project need to demarcate limited construction area, and

confine lopping wood at minimal level. Construction in forest, especially natural forest, should

pay attention on fireproofing.

(2) According to local geology situation, exploding method, using dynamite quantity, and

distance should be seriously considered, to define explosion maximum swing, for avoiding heavy

explosion swing effects stability of mountain body, and further around vegetation growth.

(3) Temporary construction occupancy land should be set in scope of road requisition, as

interchange section, toll station etc., building encampment rent existent house and ground. All

bare land caused by construction destroyed vegetation, including inside and outside of road

boundary, should be quickly repaired after completion project, renew vegetation and arable land.

(4) In construction, negotiate with local land management department to integrate casting soil

land with agriculture development program and farmland basic construction. Renew arable land

and vegetation after completion project.

(5) For casting-soil-piling-slope, different materials' stability element should be considered.

Rejuvenation measure should operate residue tamping and stabilizing, and covering with loamy

soil for renew arable or planting pioneer spices.

(6) Prohibit planting vegetation with plant diseases and insect pests.

(7) Suggestion for channel implementation as follows: firstly, forecast underground water

situation of channel, to ensure knowing frontage hydrology situation during implementation, and

adopt rational measures, as leading drilling, geology radar, infrared, TSP etc, to avoid needless

loss. Secondly, according to re-checking underground water's erosion degree and sort, adjust

design style on time, and meanwhile, adopt relative anti-erosion measure. Thirdly, make

underground water blocking work, carry out priority measure of blocking, pre-blocking, to avoid

underground water dry that cause environment destruction. Fourthly, make survey work toward

water and spring point around channel. Emerging any abnormal situation should submit special

department to assume relative measure. Finally, suggest to set up special department for treating

issue underground water, such as leaking water, flowing mud and sand or earth surface collapsing.

(8) Pay attention on ventilation tilt well at MiXi Bridge channel:

* Building tilt well shortcut strictly follow design, hardly dig mountain.

* Waste residue-piling need to be shielded and drained on time, to prevent water and soil

washing away and forming mudflow.

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* Waste material and living rubbish of encampment and material store site need to becollected on time, to avoid environment pollution.

* Strictly operate fireproof measure to prevent forest fire.

* Seal operation shortcut on time after completion project, to protection local naturalecology.

2.3.2.2 Protection Measure for Land Resources along the Road

(1) Temporary sites, as Bridge component prefabrication site, mortar and soil mixer station,bitumen mill station and building material piling site, mostly set in scope of road requisition. Afterproject completion, these sites should be turned up and renew as arable field. 20 cm surface layerof occupied basic farm field need to be piled separately, which will be used on new cultivationland, shabby land, or other cultivation land amendment.

(2) Building casting soil spot should conform to demand to avoid new produced water andsoil washing away.

(3) Construction shortcut need to renew as cultivation field, except part kept for local farmshortcut usage.

(4) Encampment mostly rent local people's house or public hours. If these are set within road

area, should prevent living wastewater and rubbish polluting water environment.

(5) Several channel project produce abundance casting residue of channel. For instancelength of Phoenix Mountain Channel is over 4.9 km, quantity of casting residue approximately is290,000 m3. AnKang City is programming to build YueHe North Road, length is 28 km, width ofroadbed is 6.5 meters, as roadbed filling height is 1.5 meter, it needs to take soil 294,000 m3. Ifcasting waste residue of Phoenix Mountain Channel would be organically integrated with this road

building, the residue issue will be will solved.

(6) Building of project link-line and shortcut mostly adopt main body project's casting wasteresidue to fill roadbed, therefore reduce influence of total residue occupied land of project

2.3.2.3 Protection of YingHu Lake Natural Reserve

(1) Prohibit setting residue site and material site within reservation.

(2) After implementation finished, must renew temporary occupied land in reservation as

pre-function.

(3) Protect every facility within reservation.

(4) Standardize implementation team, prohibit building worker prey wild animal in

reservation.(5) Pay attention on safely using fire at construction site.(6) Prohibit casting or piling living wastewater and rubbish of project site in YingHu Lake

Marsh Natural reservation.

2.3.2.4 Promulgate Wild Animal Protection Law, and atrack preying wild animal behavior(1) Improve building workers' protection awareness, and prohibit preying wild animal.

Building workers must obey Wild Animal Protection Law of People's Public of China, prohibitpreying wild animal in construction area and around, especially state grade protected animal.

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Prohibit building workers and local resident preying amphibian and crawler, to avoid 'eating snake

trend, and eating frog trend'.(2) Investigate construction period of time and style, for reducing influence toward animal

Prevent explosion sound to disturb wild animal. Wild avian and beast normally prey food at

dawn, dusk or night, noon is rest time of avian. For reducing construction explosion sound disturbwild animal, explosion style, quantity and schedule should be rational arranged, and avoid

exploding at dawn, dusk and noon.(3) Prevention pollution of animal living environmentBe based upon attitude of ecology and environment protection, suggest making pre-work of

implementation program, before the project construction. During implementation, enhance casting

waste residue site protection, and strengthen sanitation management of building workers, such as

individual hygiene, dejecta and living wastewater. Forbid directly draining domestic sewage, for

reducing water pollution. Make renew work of ecology environment after project completed, for

largely reducing vegetation destroy. With road building and foresting, mountain, water, forest and

avian will fabricate new landscape.According to relationship between distribution areas of evaluation scope state degree

protective animal and route, protection measure for state grade protective animal as Table 2-2.

Table2-2 Protection Measure for Evaluation Scope & State Degree Protective Animal

Name Living Environment Protection Degree Protection Measure

I. Andrias Inhabit in mountain and beside Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, andState 11 degree

davidianus stream. strike preying wild animal behavior.

2. Ciconia ciconia Mountain beside YingHu State I degree Same as above mentioned.Lake,contigently seen.

3. C.nigra MiNiao, contigently seen State I degree Same as above mentioned.

4. Cygnus cygnus contigently seen State I degree Same as above mentioned.

5.TadomaYueHe River, YingHu Lake Provincial degree Same as above mentioned.

ferruginea

6. AnasYueHe River, YingHu Lake Provincial degree Same as above mentioned.

platyrhynchos _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

7. AquilachAysaetos YingHu Lake, contigently seen. State I degree Same as above mentioned.

chrysaetos

8. A.heliaca YingHu Lake, contigently seen State I degree Same as above mentioned.

9. Pucrasia Avoid exploding mountain at dawn and dusk,macrolopha YingHu Lake, contigently seen State ll degree Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, and

strike preying wild animal behavior

10. Phasianus Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, andcolcicus YingHu Lake, contigently seen Provincial degreestiepyngwlaimlbhvo

colchicus strike preying wild animal behavior.

Avoid exploding mountain at dawn, dusk and noon,11. Syrmaticus

.. s .....YingHu Lake, contigently seen State ll degree Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, andreevesii


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Table2-2 Continued Protection Measure for Evaluation Scope & State Degree Protective Animal

Avoid exploding mountain at dawn, dusk and noon,

.Gi pus YingHu Lake, contigently seen State II degree Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, andpictus


13. Paguma Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, and

larvata strike preying wild animal behavior

14. Felis Mountain area Provincial degree Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, and

bengalensis strike preying wild animal behavior

15. Moschus Propagandize Protection Law for Wild Animal, and

berezovskii Astrike preying wild animal behavior.

2.3.2.5 Protection Measure and Suggestion for Hydrobiont

Practically strengthen water environment protection, and avoid emerging over-nourishing at

some water area along the road. Try to limit influence on hydorbiont living environment to

minimal level.

Protection measurement for hydorbiont in implement period as following:

(1) Living rubbish and wastewater of encampment can't be randomly drained to local waterarea. Living rubbish collectedly piling is sent to municipals' rubbish station by implement vehicle.

Living wastewater must be treated through cesspool, oil separator and other equipment, then to

drain.

(2) Pile of material should be put far from water head and other water area, and place that

hardly be scoured by storm water stream. If part material piled near bridge location, should dig

open ditch, sinking sand well, and block fence, to avoid storm water flowing into water and effect

water quality. All kinds of material should be equipped rainproof and flashing. Site of casting soil

and residue of construction should be protected according environment protection demand.

(3) If construct bridge in water, prohibit casting wastewater, rubbish, and waste oil from ship

and other construction equipment into water body. All pollutant should be collected and treated

together. Digging silt, residue of bridge construction can't be put into river and reservoir.

2.3.2.6 Enhance Propagation and Education Work of Ecology Protection

From beginning to end of construction, propagation and education work of ecology

environment protection along the road should be enhanced. Set up scientific propagation board

about environment protection, including scientific knowledge of ecology protection, related

regulation, adopting ecology protection measure of the proposed project and its meaning, atconstruction site and around, especially sensitive environment, as across, accompanying segment

and channel entrance. Otherwise, for strengthen ecology environment protection and

administration power along the road, suggesting construction and implementation organization to

negotiate and jointly formulate related awards and punishment system of environment protection,

to define environment protect responsibility.

2.3.2.7 Practice Implementation Supervision

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Adopting suitable management measure for ecology environment protection inimplementation period would get twice the result with half the effort. Implementation supervisionis the best management measure in implementation period.

Within the whole implementation period, assuming project whole procedure supervisionstyle check fulfilling of ecology protection measure and building workers' ecology protectionbehavior.

Adopting project supervision totally participates in environment supervision check projectenvironment supervision work.

2.3.2.8 Recovery Measure for Temporary Occupied Land

Principle of renew measure for temporary occupied land:

(I) Casting residue site occupied wild land along the road must immediately be tumed up andvegetated, using mix of shrubbery and grass, after project completion.

(2) Casting residue site occupied wild land along the road must be covered with loamy soiland renew cultivation.

(3) Temporary occupied land of other implementation site and shortcut must be tumed upimmediately after project completion, and renew as original land usage function.

(4) Other casting residue site and taking soil site adjusted further, renew vegetation accordingto its original land usage function.

(5) Enhance protection toward beside river side-ditch block wall of No2 WaFangDian castingsoil spot. Wall body use starching slicing-stone, its height could endure flood, which occur oncetime within 50 years.

(6) Rationally perfect and adjust casting residue sites, as K221+100, K235+700, K236+40,K263+600, K267+600 and K275+400, according local topography and transportation condition.Adjustment scheme should be firstly selected as its maximum saving land, and protectingcultivation land, to fully utilize wild mountain and slope, casting residue site, and bare land. Ifland is not suitably adjusted, should adopt efficient measure, as classifying block, flatting earthsurface, setting backwater layer, to renew cultivation land.

Selecting address of other 27 spots of casting soil is reasonable. In further stage, shouldenhance protection, and adopt efficient measure, as classifying block, flatting earth surface, settingbackwater layer, to renew cultivation land.

2.3.3 Noise Prevention Measure

(1) Noise in construction phase is mainly caused by automatic machine and transportationvehicle. Implementation organization must choose construction equipment and vehicleconforming to state standard, try to select low noise making machine and techniques. Heavyshaking fixed machine should add damping base, and meantime enhance all kinds of equipments'maintenance and protection, to keep its perfectly running. Try to reduce intension of noiseresource.

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(2) Intensive implementation noise would cause people several kinds of ailment and noise

deafness. For protecting building workers' health, implementation organization should rationally

arrange shifts to operate heavy noise machine, consequently reduce time of workers touching

intensive noise. Meanwhile, pay attention on machine maintenance, to let building road

equipments keep noise in lowest level. For staff near high radiant intensity and heavy noise

resource, not only adopt labor protection measure as blocking sound earplug, but also

appropriately decrease working time.

(3) Noise of building road machine running has some character as bursting-out, irregularity,

incontinuity, and heavy intension etc. According to investigation, noise of implementation

sometime is over 4 kinds of standard, normally assume changing implementation method to

mitigate. For instance, could set working time of heavy noise resource at day-time, or suitably

change operation time of all kinds of machine. For reducing sound resource of material

transportation and knocking in working time, sub-contractors need to enhance efficient

management to mitigate noise by civilized operation.

(4) For segments near centralized village or town residential area, implementation of machine

with intensive noise should stop running at nighttime (22:00 - 6:00). Working spots that must

continually construct, according to practical situation, implementation organization should contact

with local environment protection department on time, apply night construction card by regulation,

at same time, proclaim notice to get public support, and use transferring or temporary sound block

or other measure of prevention noise.

(5) Working shortcut should be far from sensitive spots as residential area or school. If near

shortcut range within 50 meters located cluster residential area, prohibit transport construction

material by shortcut at night. For shortcut that must transport in the night, should set banned

ringing and limited speed signal. Miles per hour of vehicle passing should be limited below

30km/h.

(6) Distance sensitive-point of mixing site and bitumen milling station should be above or

equal 200 meters.

(7) Making heavy shaking implement near village, such as bridge pier tamping, vibrating

type road roller operation, etc.), or exploding operation, should survey civil house near temporary

operation site, to avoid accident. For civil house heavily influenced by implementation vibrating,

should assume necessarily repair measure.

2.3.4 Ambient Atmosphere Protection(1) Mortar and soil mixing along the road is the biggest mobile pollution resource in

operation. If ground wind speed is over 4th grade, its operation needs to be terminated, and

meantime, loading and unloading of lime and other bulk material must adopt falling dust measure.

(2) Concrete mixing station is the biggest fixed pollution resource in road construction.

Therefore, mixer should be perfectly sealed, and add II grade dust abatement equipment. Enhance

labor protection for operators. Selection address of Bitumen factory and milling station should be

far from residential area, or leeward side of sensitive point beyond over 200 meters.

(3) Transportation and temporary store of bulk material, as earthwork, cement, lime and

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others, should adopt windbreak measure, to reduce raising dust quantity. According to weathersituation, sprinkle water on bare construction road and site.

(4) Building organization must choose construction machine and transportation toolconforming to state hygiene protection standard, to ensure its exhaust emission conforming tostate standard. Strengthen maintenance for equipment, and reduce unnecessarily racing time, tocontrol exhaust emission.

(5) Operators and building workers are the heaviest effected by environment air pollution inconstruction period. Organization needs to emphasis on labor protection measure for operators andbuilding workers, such as decrease working time and provide block dust respirator.

2.3.5 Water Environment Protection

(1) For along rive segment that both side of step and ground undulate largely, should settemporary sediment bowel at potentially rain water passed segment, during digging roadbedperiod, for blocking silt and sand, and avoiding river way stagnation, to reduce water and soilwashing away. Deep of sediment bowel normally is I meter, its size is based upon catchmentsquare, location on physiognomy and topography. Sediment bowel water outlet side should beencircled with canvas fabric at necessary time. After construction completion, roll out sedimentbowel and renew vegetation and cultivation land.

(2) Bridge building's operation, such as digging silt in river or washing construction materialas sand and stone, would muddle water and effect river water quality. Improving constructiontechniques, as cofferdam or sinking well, would prevent river pollution caused by bridgeconstruction. For perennial large flux river, using sinking well method reduce pollution of riverwater quality. As small flux river, for its riverbed is wider than river surface, cofferdamn methodcould effectively prevent water quality muddle caused by construction, and construction rubbishcasting river to pollute water quality. Othetwise, building bridge pier need to use sediment circletechniques, to diminish silt and sand dropping into river.

(3) In construction area, domestic sewage, rubbish need to be collectively treated, can't bedirectly discharged into water body. Domestic sewage adopts cesspool treatment, throughwaterlogged, sediment, disinfection, and then use on cultivated land irrigation or compost.Prohibit randomly discharge without treatment.

(4) Oil leakage from machine or construction ship or waste oil dumpage into water wouldmake water pollution. So that, should enhance environment management, launch environmenteducation, to nip in the bud.

(5) Construction materials, as bitumen, oil plant, chemical, can't pile near river water body,rather far from rive, and equip temporary covering canvas, to avoid storm rain brushing andflowing into water body.

(6) Timely tamp roadbed in implementation period, to avoid washing erosion. At buildingroad surface period, firstly can't operate in raining season that would cause bitumen residue, andthen timely crush down and pave to avoid washing. Prohibit casting bitumen residue into river

(7) Selection address of building material site, prefabrication factory and mixing station,

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should be far from residential area and leeward beyond over 200 meters. Wastewater caused by

prefabrication factory and mixing station need to be treated in sediment bowel firstly, then

discharge. Discharged water SS & COD and oil density should satisfy GB8978-996 Wastewater

Integrated Discharge Standard I degree demand.

(8) In tunnel construction, construction wastewater caused by padding material selection and

treatment procedure, and living wastewater by building encampment, should be handled according

to treatment of wastewater from mixing station and encampment.

2.3.6 Social Environment Protection

(I) Less occupy cultivated land. To be based upon along the road local government special

department's suggestion, try best to integrate with local hydrology and ecology construction to

settle taking and casting soil spot address selection and renew cultivation. Provide convenience for

local economic development and practical difficulty solution.

(2) Depend on local government to smoothly fulfill land requisition. According to related

regulation and compensation standard, timely pay all kinds of compensation. Protect local

people's decent advantage, to control loss of remove household at minimal level, to guarantee

their living standard at least isn't lower than level before the project construction.

(3) Before construction, local road that transportation vehicle pass need to be operated

technique survey and consolidation, and pay attention on maintenance and protection. Building

transportation vehicle should shun local road communication peak tide, to avoid traffic jam and

accident. When construction complete, destroyed village road and ditch in project implementation

should be repaired, or pay some compensation to local government for reparation cost.

(4) In construction period, set safety sentry at interchange exit, population centralized area

and school segment, and transportation passing village, to maintain security.

(5) At explosion time, formulate timetable, strictly control people go in and out, prohibit

vehicle and walker transit. For un-remove household far from explosion point, at explosion time,

pay allowance to them for temporary leaving.

(6) There are 11 sites of cultural relics near proposed road route, so that should launch

propagation of culture relics protection in construction organization, and strictly define

construction area. If detect underground cultural relics in construction period, implementation

should be immediately terminated and timely submit to local cultural relics protection department,

and adopt appropriate protection measure.

(7) Selecting address for construction encampment, bitumen milling station and

prefabrication factory, should aware around mountain's stability, and don't choose at underside of

slope or collapse place.

2.3.7 Prevention Measure for the Soil and Water Conservation

2.3.7.1 Construction Specification

(1) In construction, try best to fulfill digging and filling balance, which should be

continuously digging, filling, and adopt slope protection measure.

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(2) Try best to decrease construction cycle, lessen bare time of loosening land surface, and

rationally arrange construction schedule to avoid raining and flood season.

(3) Construction at mountain area should control explosion quantity, to reduce side slope

casting residue. Protection project for digging and filling side slope should quickly operate

protection after achieving design stabilization. Meantime, make drainage system of slope surface

and foot, building one segment and protecting one segment.

(4) When cross HanJiang River and other water body, should settle drainage and block

measure. Timely renew drainage facility after project completion, and try to operate at dry season.

2.3.7.2 Water and Land Protection of the Project Main Body

(1) Dig temporary drainage ditch at both side of roadbed, ditch wall should be tamped.

Integrated with topography, set sinking sand pool at drainage ditch exit. Water flow drains to near

natural channel through sediment by sinking sand pool. In raining season, cover road embankment

and slope with waterproof cloth.

(2) Set temporary blocking residue wall at joint point of bridge, channel and roadbed.

Blocking residue wall would be built with bag gravel or lump stone. Based upon topography, its

height is 0.5 to 1.0 meter, width 1.0 meter.

(3) As across HanJiang River Bridge, earth and stone of digging bridge pier foundation

should pile at riverside higher place; for digging underwater foundation, earth and stone should be

delivered and put together at bank that flood can't strike or high land. Adopting temporary

protection measure, as covering with waterproof cloth. After pier foundation constructed, these

cubic earth and stone should be re-filled for main route.

(4) Operation at Ren river channel, firstly build construction shortcut and temporary bridge,

for delivering casting residue timely.

(5) In the process of the resettlement, the rules should be carried out strictly according to the

local regulation on the housing area. The partition wall are suggested to be built in order to avoid

the constructions beyond the limit. Measures should be taken to avoid the soil damage. The waster

materials should be transported to the decided spoil sites. For those which can be reused, the

materials should be stored within the confine and the necessary measures should be taken if the

temporary land occupation existing. Recovery measures should be considered after the

construction and if the borrow needs, relative regulations must be carried out strictly. The

consequent wastes must be piled to the place decided by the local authorities and the protection

measures must be taken if necessary.

2.3.7.3 The soil and water conservation at Casting Soil Spot

(1) Rationally organize earth and stone digging style, which can't be randomly cast at near,

choose suitable location for piling or re-filling.

(2) Before casting soil and residue, fix blocking residue measure and drainage project.

2.3.7.4 Temporary Project's the soil and water conservation

1. Implementation site

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(1) Bridge prefabrication work all operate inside implementation area. Before site flatting,top layer loamy soil should be peeled of, thickness as 20 cm. Peeled soil pile at higher cornerinside site, surface tamp for protection. Soil pile is covered with waterproof cloth in raining season.As construction finished, those will be used for top layer covering. Dig drainage ditch at edge ofevery implementation site, and set sinking sand pool at exit, which precipitate flowing water thatdischarge to near natural channel.

(2) After construction finished, clear hardened layer caused by prefabrication factory, whichwill be used on re-filling roadbed or near building shortcut, or pile in suitable valley and makeprotection and waterproof work. Rejuvenate land inside construction site.

(3) During projection construction, temporary occupied land should return to farmer forcultivation after usage completion. Construction organization should ensure that rejuvenate land asarable condition.

(4) Project required sand and stone materials is bought from existent material site. Water and

soil washing away caused by mining won't treat as part of the project water and soil washing awayprevention. Construction organization should buy material from material site with legalqualification.

2. Construction shortcut

(1) At main body project design, fully utilize and extend existent communication road forsatisfy construction demand. For past segment, building new construction shortcut mostly

integrates with local topography and physiognomy, to keep filling and digging balance.

(2) For preventing shortcut destroy caused by earth surface runoff, and relieving water andsoil washing away by digging shortcut, build drainage ditch at high side slope of shortcut, drainwater to near natural channel. Construction of gutter and shortcut operate simultaneously.

(3) Be based upon construction of shortcut roadbed protection and drainage project, andintegrate with topography, geology condition and implementation character to settle plant protect

measure. Based upon principle of 'plant tree at suitable land, and grow grass at suitable ground',giving attention to demand of protection and vegetation, integrating with land condition andvegetation character, and according to comprehensive analysis of survival rate and adaptability, to

select local anti-barren and rapid growing excellent seed of tree and grass, for road side vegetation,to fulfill objective of preventing water and soil washing away and improving environment.

2.3.8 Construction Organization SchemeIn construction period, there is intensive relationship between environment protection

measure fulfilling and environment protection organizing and managing. Suggest clarifyingdetailed demand of environment protection content in bid document, and fixing special experts toexamine environment protection content of construction organization scheme from each bidding

organization in inviting bid period, and survey construction period. Main content as follows:

(1) Strictly control earth and stone longitudinal allocation and transportationNot only include earth and stone longitudinal allocation and transportation within one

segment, but also about between different segments. In design and bid document, earth and stonefar from route scope or between different segments should be vertically allocated and delivered.

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Enough fund should be paid for ensure operation. Strictly punishment measure will be adoptedtoward those who can't administrate according to demand.

(2) Strictly control techniqueIn construction drawing design document, according to demand of earth and stone allocation

and transportation, and design demand for different segments working time and schedule,vertically allocating and transporting earth and stone should ensure to be linked up on time, tosave cost.

In construction design document, should avoid to arrange earth and stone project in mountainrainstorm period. For across water segment, wholly examine and clear before flood preventionperiod, to avoid flood detention.

(3) Environment protection for construction shortcutThere are existent local or provincial road along the route to ensure transportation. Due to

vehicle still need to transit existent provincial and local road in construction period, andtransportation vehicle increase for construction, heavy vehicle would damage road surface andincrease communication noise and raising dust effect. So that, construction transportation shortcutneed special maintenance, monitoring and management, including:

(D Maintain construction shortcut, protect its flat, reduce damage caused by vehicle, andensure road's traveling condition.

(2) Equip special vehicle, sprinkle water on shortcut, volume of sprinkling is controlled asvillage road no raising dust.

& At YingHu Lake segment set speed limitation (15 km/h) and forbidding whistle signal,and educate driver. Strictly demand, and adopt punishment on violator.

(i) Check transporting vehicle, prohibit over loading, to reduce damage on road.(4) Plant protectionIn construction process, inevitably meet plant needed protection, including all kinds of

shaped wood and root after lopped, would re-plant those at both sides of road or insideinterchange, to increase road landscape. These need to be protected by roadbed constructingorganization during construction period who will be paid protection cost.

(5) Water resource protectionSite living wastewater and rubbish should be collectively treated and settled, to avoid along

the route river pollution.

2.3.9 Vibration MonitoringWhen vibration producing construction(compaction of piers or operation of vibrating

rollers)is carried out ,the impact on neighboring adobe houses will be supervised. Reparativemeasures will be taken if they are exposed to severe vibration or blasting and likely to suffer fromdamage.

2.4 Environment Protection Measure in Operation Period2.4.1 Ecology Protection

1. Before construction, organize special headquarter, set special department, fix special staffwith responsibility for along the route ecology environment protection, especially towardfireproofing, anti-poaching and preventing over intensity explosion, and so on.

2. Guarantee fulfillment and encashment toward renew ecology cost, after main body projectcompleted.

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2.4.2 Vegetation Management

During road operation period, should enhance vegetation management along the road,

complement, pruning and maintenance for vegetation.

2.4.3 Noise Management(1) Set forbidding whistle signal at school segment.

(2) Operate vehicle noise survey, prohibit vehicle on road, which making noise is seriously

over standard.(3) About building program along the road, can't build resident house, school, hospital and

other sensitive building within distance of road central line 200 meters.

(4) Mobilizing along the road public and local government, and integrating local ecology

construction program and green passage project, plant trees in between village and road based

upon program, to protect environment.

(5) Noise prevention measure in operation long-term.

According to noise forecasting result, in some villages along the road, noise seriously exceed

quota in operate long-term period. At that time, according to vehicle flow accumulation, adopt

related prevention measure through practical survey. Road operation organization will afford

administration cost.

2.4.4 Prevention Measure for Air Pollution in Operation Period

(I) Plant tree at roadside.

The area along the road is very suitable for tree growth. Therefore, suggest planting several

kinds of arbor and shrubbery near both sides of road, especially in sensitive section, according to

local climate and earth character. In this way not only purify and absorb pollution from vehicle

exhausting air, to decrease total suspending mote in air, but also perfect environment and improve

landscape along the road.

(2) Enhance channel ventilation, to ensure environment air quality at channel entrance.

2.4.5 Water Pollution and Potential Risk in Operation period

(I) Road's management section and toll station drain a few wastewater, but its quality is

inferior, which cesspool treat then use irrigation inside road area. Treatment of wastewater from

service section should adopt biology touching oxidate-pool, and make sure its normal operation.

Waste water after treatment can be used for irrigation.

(2) Prohibit all kinds of vehicle with leakage and overloading issue on the road, to prevent

goods dissipation on road causing water body pollution.

(3) Administrate declaration system toward transporting dangerous goods vehicle. After

getting approval, escort vehicle with dangerous goods in whole transportation, police car clear the

way. Vehicle with dangerous goods must be strictly examine and control. In case occurring

horrible accident, rapidly disperse vehicle current through link shortcut, and administrate emergent

salvation, for controlling loss and environment effect at minimal level. Other wise, prohibit

vehicle with dangerous goods on road in rainstorm and fog day, and standby at related segments'

service section or management station.

(4) For guarantee water quality safety from HanJiang River and its branch, reinforce

preventing collision fence at both sides of bridge and bridge segment across YueHe River, RenHe

River and HanJiang River, add waming signal. In operation period, project should make risk and

accident prevention.

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(5) 4.9 km length segment at K206+300 - K211+200, height degree is from 274 meters to

430 meters, average slope of fall 3.2%, falling degree is bigger. Reinforce preventing collision

fence and add warning signal at both sides of road.

2.4.6 Prevention Measure for Transportation Accident and Pollution

1. Perfect prevention design for transportation accident

(I) Perfect design for drainage system bring stream of bridge surface into roadbed gutter, to

avoid HanJiang River is polluted by casting dangerous goods.

(2) Separately set warning board and speed limitation signal toward vehicle with dangerous

goods, at big bridgehead, for warning driver to pay attention on safety drive and control driving

speed.2. Management measure toward dangerous goods transportation

(1) Design road surface or bridge surface rainwater collection and drainage system at route's

water environment sensitive segment, as Yihe River Bridge, LiuHe River Bridge, and HanJiang

River Special Large Bridge.(2) Reinforce preventing collision fence at both sides of bridge segment.

(3) For avoid chemical accident risk, design perfect road surface rainwater collection system,

lead rainwater through side gutter into evaporating pool for sediment. When occur accident, utilize

the rainwater collection system to collectively treat.

(4) Set declaration point for chemical dangerous goods transportation at high speed road

entrance, check these vehicles' navicert, driver license, escort license, and dangerous goods

traveling list, if necessary, administrate safety examine toward these vehicles. Prohibit those

vehicles without whole license traveling on road, and add dangerous goods transportation standard

on the vehicle.

(5) Administrate examine and control of whole traveling toward transporting dangerous

goods vehicle, to prevent those vehicles high speed driving, overtaking. If transportation quantity

is over large, should be operated communication control for reducing accident rate.

(6) Fully function supervision, examine and management role of toll station, road

administration and road cruise police, to check tank car without declaration and dangerous goods

transportation signal. Prohibit vehicle, which didn't transact procedure according to regulation,

entering into high speed road.

(7) Prohibit vehicle with dangerous goods traveling on the road in storm and fog time, which

standby at related segment's service section or management station.

3. Emergency Response to the Accident of Dangerous goods Transportation

(1) The management personnel should have fully understanding of the names, the conditions,

the transportation ways and the attributes of the accidents in order to react, manage and guide

properly in case of the accidents.

(2) In the case of the accident, reports should be made to the authorities by any means of

communication facilities.

(3) The Expressway Management Institution should respond immediately after the report and

send the traffic petrels or fire fighters to the accident spots for security.

(4) The dangerous goods can be discarded if in solid form, while the report about the case

should be kept.(5) If the dangerous goods are in gas form and toxic, the fire fighters should be equipped with

masks and the information of the accident should be sent to the EP Bureau and Public Security

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Bureau to evacuate the residents nearby in the case that the toxic goods are not avoid emitted.

(6) Since the Project involves many programs crossing the Hanjiang River, if the dangerous

goods in liquid form are emitted into the river, report must be sent to the EP Bureau and the

containers must be salvaged immediately. The EP Bureau should inform the local residents and

those in the down river areas not to take water from the river; with EP experts being sent for

monitoring at the same time.

2.5 EP Investment Estimation2.5.1 Estimated Primary Cost

According to the EP methods submitted by this project, the estimated investment for EP will

reach 175.678 million yuan (the cost of soil and water conservation is included). The detailed

information is shown in Table 2-3.

Table 2-3 Estimated Primary Cost

CostItem Contents & estimation methods (10,000 Benefits

yuan)

To know existing environment, toAssessment, Monitoring, compilation of EIA, design of 500 predict future environment, todesign and environment engineering, research beautify environment, to implement

I preventative measures.

Sound barrier: 4. each of 980m long and2.5-4.Om high, with total surface of 2940m2,960yuan/ m2 and the cost of 282.4 ten

Measures for thousand yuan; 428. 44 To reduce noisenoise mitigation Brick walls 7 altogether(O.8m high, 2900m

long, 500yuan/m, with the cost of 146.04 tenthousand yuan.)

soil and water To alleviate soil erosion, to beautifyconservation, Construction, Vegetation and temporary environment, to restore scenery, to

plantation construction 13000 alleviate atmospheric& acousticlandscape pollution, to protect environment

Reduction of 36OX4X400yuan/day, with lOkm per shift, 607 To mitigation air pollutionconstruction dust 105.364km in length

Rain collection system on the surfaces of YiProtection of Shuihe Bridge, Liu Shuihe Bridge and To prevent the water from thewater sources Hanjiang Bridge, 6 Evaporation systems on 300 bridge surface polluting the

during the both sides of the bridge, Sand boxes, sand underneath rivers due to the trafficoperation piles on the ends of the bridge in case of the accident.

emergency

Treatment of Along Hanjiang river, Ren river, Yue river anddomestic sewage Haoping river, each construction camp one

duringu sewage toilet, with the waste collected by specially 200 To protect water environment

institution assigned person. Each camp cost 2.0 tenthousand yuan.

Treatment ofsewage on the 110

construction sites

Mending damage 200roads

Water treatment Cesspool 20 thousand/per, under earth dumpdevices of toll 150 thousand yuan/per, I Management office, To control water pollution, protect

stations, service 3 service areas, 5 parking lots, 6 toll stations, 110 surface waterarea and parking with total cost of 1.10 million yuan.

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Table 2-3 Continued Estimated Primary Cost

CostItem Contents & estimation methods (10,000 Benefits

yuan)w r~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o improve the capacity ofPersonnel Personnel training for EP in road

87 management and monitoring and thetraining construction, management and emergency .-kills to react the emergency.

Environment

management lperson/lOkm,10 persons altogether 240 Implement of the EPmeasuresduring the 5000yuan/month per capita

construction

monitoring

during Air, water, noise 80.0construction

Monitoring

during the Air, water, noise 60operation

Compilation of 20.2the emergency

Enviromnent

monitoring durin 1000construction

Fee for Environmen50Examining

The total cost of the project is 7.927

billion yuan, with the cost forTotal 16992.6 environmental protection making

up 2.14% of the total.In the construction design, the estimated budget for soil and water conservation makes up

130 million yuan, and the other cost 39.926 million yuan, with the total of 169.926 million yuan,taking 2.14% of the total construction investment.

2.6 Training of personnel for environmental protectionThe purpose is to train the administrative personnel, technician and environmental

supervisor that concerned with expressway program in Shannxi province to understand and masterconcerning content of the environment protection, and to ensure that the environmentalperforming plan of program could be implemented in full scale.

( I ) In accordance with the working content, the trainees can be classified into 3 categories:Advanced environmental administrative personnel -aiming to train 9 advanced and

middle-level personnel (among which 3 from project administrative office, 3 fromCommunication Bureau, 2 from Design Institute and Scientific Research Institute, and I fromabroad monitoring unit) on environment protection and emergency measures.

(2) Environmental supervisor-aiming to train 12 monitoring engineers of each section onenvironment protection knowledge, control of environmental quality, management of environment

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protection expenses, and engineering technology of environment protection to ensure that project

of the environmental performing plan of program can be carried out smoothly. Each section has

one contractor. All should be trained in china.

(3) Stuff from regional and environment-3 from each county, and 3 from region and city.

The purpose is to understand the content and construction program can be carried out smoothly.

The training of environtnental administrative personnel is consisted of training at home and

training abroad. The duty of training abroad is to understand the new methods, technology and

management of road environment protection in developed countries, so that publicize them to

environment protection personnel of the whole program. The training of management personnel

and stuff in Nan'ning which is hosted by project administrative office, invites officers from World

Bank, officers from other departments and experts to give lectures.

In accordance with trainees and training content, the training time is divided into three

batches:

@ Training time for environmental supervisors: May, 2006, lasting for 7 days.

(® Training abroad time for advanced environmental administrative personnel: May, 2006,

lasting for 21 days.

& Training at home time for ordinary stuff: June, 2006, lasting for 7days

The training fee for training abroad (advanced administrative personnel) is 450000RMB in total,

50000 for each person.

The training fee for twelve stuffs is 180000RMB in total, 15000 for each person.

The training fee for enviromnental supervisor is 240000RMB in total, 20000RMB for each

person.

The total training fee amounts to 870000RMB.

Refer to Table 2-6 for details.

Table 2-6 Training Plan for Environment Protection Personnel

period category number total number time expense

stuff of

management 3 from construction office 3 persons 2001

institution 450000RMBEnvironmental 2 from FFO in autonomous region, 3

administrative from communication bureau, one from 6 persons 2001construction

phase personnel DI or scientific research institute.Environmental

12 persons from all sections 12 persons 2001 240000RMBsupervisor

stuff, workers of

emergency Road administration 10 persons 2000 150000RMB

measures2003-2024

Environmentaloperation administrative 2 persons from administration(at 2 persons One person 30000RMB

phase home) every otherpersonnel )year

amount 33 people 870000RMB

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3 Environmental Protection Surveillance Plan

Refer to Table 3-1

Table 3-1 Environmental Protection Surveillance PlanPhase Institutions Contents of surveillance Purpose of surveillanceFeasibilit SEPA Review of Outline of EIA To make EIA cover all sides focusing ony Study EPO Review of ETA key pointsphase SEPB Review of EAP To put forward all potential & major

World Bank issuesSPTD To make certain that all the mitigated

measures are implementedDesign SEPA I Review of initial design & EAP I To strictly carry out three simultaneous& EPO 2 Examination of use of funds for EP policy & EAPconstruct SEPB 3 Examination of locations of sites of quarries & mixing 2 To ensure that it is used properlyion EPB of related stations 3 To ensure that they satisfy requirementsphases prefectures 4Examination of control of dust & noise of EP

pollution ;determination of construction activity time 4 To mitigate impact on environment&5 Examination of storage of toxic materials & emission implementof atmospheric pollutants 5 To mitigate impact on environment&6 Examination of discharge and disposal of sewage implement

waste oil at construction camp 6 To keep surface water unpolluted7 Restoration of borrow &spoil sites 7 To ensure that scenery & land resources8 Examination of three simultaneous of EP facilities are not damageddeter mination of completion time 8 To guarantee three simultaneous policy9 Examination of implementation of EP standards 9 To check & accept EP works10 Check up the scenery design and working quality 10 Protection of route sources of scenery

SCRD Examination of existence of culture relics To protect cultural relicsOperatio SEAB Examination of implementation of EAP Implementation of EAPn phase Cities or Examination of implementation of monitoring plan Implementation of monitoring plan

countries Determination of further measures some sensitive Proper protection of environmentcominunication locations not identified previously Proper protection of public healthDepartment Examination of weather the environment quality Grarantee of emission standards ofPublic Security complies with requirements at the sensitive locations sewageDepartment Examination of treatment of sewage at management Getting rid of possible accidents to protect

areas environmentPrevention of contingent accidents by strengthening Add up some measures for protection ofsurveillance. In case of accidents , to take timely scenery when usesmeasures to get rid of leakage of toxic materials

Check up the scenery quality

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4 The environmental Monitor plan

4.1 Aims and Principles of the Monitor

The effects on the environment in the construction phase mainly display as the life pollution

caused by the gathering constructors, water pollution in the rivers by the construction of the bridge

pier and noise by the operation of the constructional organization and blasting mountains. What's

more, they also contain the soil erosion and water loss, raising dust, asphalt smokes and other

pollutions caused in the construction of stone cutting and pavement of the road. When this project

is put into operation after being finished, the driving vehicles at a high speed will bring about

waste steams, raising dust, noise and so on, which cause the pollution of the surrounding

environment. Furthermore, the serious pollution on some areas of sudden accidents should also be

taken into consideration. Therefore we should keep abreast of the pollution trends along the route

line comprehensively and timely; find out the quality change of the environment in nearby areas;

serve for the environmental supervision along the route line and practice environment monitor

there. The formulated principles are according to the forecast of the main environmental effect in

every phase and the possible extra-target sections and the extra-target index, with the sensitizing

range of the environment as the important point.

4.2 The Monitor OrganizationsThe environmental monitor in the period of the expressway construction and operation is

entrusted to the EMS in Ankang city. In order to ensure the practice of the monitor plan, the

constructional units should sign the environmental monitor contract for the construction phase

with the monitor unit before the construction and sign one more for the operation phase before the

project is handed over and put into service.

4.3 The Monitor PlanThe focuses are the monitor of noise, water and the atmosphere. The environment monitor

plan during the period of construction and operation is as Table 10-810-10. The monitor units

carry out the monitor plan in accordance with the requirements in the monitor contract, in a way of

a combination with fixed spots and mobile monitor, time and interval check according to the

requirements of the environmental monitor

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Table 4-1 Environmental Monitor Plan (Noise)

TimeMonitor Duration

Monitor for Enforcemeperiod Monitor Spots Frequenc of Body in Charge.' ~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~Projects. Sap ntBdy monitor SBi

Jiangdian primary school, One day, Twice Entrust toonce inLiuying village, Guangrong a day the local Project Office,Constructio Constructio Once per day andvillage, Wafangdian primary in the Environme Ministry ofn Period n Noise season nightschool, Zhengyi primary respectiv constr nt Monitor Communication

school, Changbai school uction Stationely _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Initial stage

of the Once per

operation Liuying village, Guangrong two One day,once in Entrust toperiod village, Wafangdian primary years once in Administrationday and the local(2010-201 school, Changbai school, Traffic day and Office ofnight EnvironmeMid-term Huajia Wan, Shuangqing, noise night Ankang-shaanchrespecti nt Monitorof the Jinping, Gaotan town, respectiv uan expresswayTwice vely Stationoperation Xinpucun primary school ely

period ~~~~~~~~~~~~per yearperiod

(2015-2025) _ 1 1

Table 4-2 the Environment MonitorPlan (Water)

Monitor Monitor Duration of Time for Enforcement Body inperiod Monitor Spotsitems Frequency monitor Sampling Body Charge

CODPrjcContinuous Project

The Hanjiang river, Ren Petroleums Entrust to the Office,Construction river, Haoping river uspension Three times Tyosampling local Ministry

Two days for twoPeriod The construction sites ammonia a year Environment ofor their lower reaches and dayMonitor Statio Comun

nitrogen ication

Annotation: The routine monitor data of the local Environmental Monitor Station should beused in the operation period.

Table 4-3 EvironmentalAtmosphere Monitoring Program

period Monitoring Progra F Monitoring Sampling Implementing Organs in charge< | I location |Fm e time time organ

Local _ llProject

One day e on al ManagementConstruction Hongping town once every Once every environmentalTSP in sampling Office,phase Maoba town 6 months day time monitoring l ul

stationBureau

Annotation: Monitor No2 in operation phase by using of the monitoring data from local

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environmental monitoring station.

4.4 Monitoring equipments, expenses and monitoring report system

1. Monitoring equipments

The monitoring equipments needed in this environmental monitoring program belong to

monitoring unit. The rate of utilization and depreciation charge of equipments shall be included in

the total monitoring expenses.

2. Monitoring expenses

The estimative monitoring expenses of AME during construction phase and operation phase

is detailed in table 4-4.

Monitoring expenses of construction phase: 160000RMB x 5years =800000RMB

Monitoring expenses of operation phase:30000RMB/yearx20years =600000RMB

Table 4-4 Table of EstimativeAnnual Monitoring Expense

MonitoringMonitoring ~~~expense of each annual expense

phase program spot frequency every .expenseofa aull epns remarks

year ~time(million) (million)year

noise

environmen 6 4 0.1 4

t

air

Construction environmen 2 2 0.2 0.4

phase t including

waasete . Monitoring

water

environmen 3 4 0.2 0.8 expenses inrandom

t

amount 0.575 1.6

noise

operation environmen 9 1 0.3 0.3

phaset

3. Monitoring Report System

Annual monitoring report system should be submitted to concerning departments before

March 31 which is stipulated by monitoring contract under the monitoring report system.

Monitoring report system of the program is detailed in Chart.4- 1.

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HPl) OfBTrPO,f T ic World Banfkn SEPB Derortuent

Pro vincial Tra ff'i lEPB ; Department

Municipa l d1-1

Chart 4-1 Schematic diagram of Monitoring report procedures

5. Plan for Environmental Supervision

5.1 The main contents and requirements of supervisionHow a supervisor paying much attention to environmental supervision and the

responsibility of environmental protection will directly influence the effectiveness ofenvironmental supervision during construction phase. The major Environmental supervisioncontents as follow:

the major contents of environmental protection supervision is detailed in table 5-1(I)enviromnental protection supervision

Table 5-I Contents of Environmental Supervision

Items branches Content for supervision

To supervise whether the borrow and spoil site as planned;To supervise whether the surface earth is properly treated;To supervise whether the depth and height of the sites for discharging earth is

Sites for excavation and appropriate;To supervise whether measures are taken to lessen soil erosion and water loss;

Ecological To supervise whether the sites for excavation and discharging earth are restored toenviromne their original states.nt To supervise whether all the wastes from the project are properly positioned into

the sites for holding wastes

To supervise whether fences are installed in time on side slopes;To supervise whether forestation of side slopes meets the requirements of designSubgradeplan;

To supervise whether the roadbase has caused isolation between its two sides.

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Table 5-1 Continued Contents of Environmental Supervision


To supervise whether adequate bridges and culverts are built to ensure th e

continuity of ecological environment;

To supervise whether all wastes from construction are brought into sites used for

Bridges and culverts holding wastes;

Ecological To supervise whether wastes prepared for filling the road base are recyclable

environme To supervise whether the construction methods and time chosen meet the

nt requirements to resist floods

To supervise whether the regions vehicles run across are protected;

to supervise whether measures are taken to proof dust;Route for transport

To supervise whether dustproof measures are effectively carried out and whether

vehicles passing environmental sensitive spot lower their speeds

To supervise whether plants chosen meet the requirements of local environment;

To supervise whether the construction is carried out as scheduled:

To supervise whether the construction work is strictly carried out in accordance

Afforestationwith the design plan

To supervise whether the quantity and survival rate of afforestation meet the

requirements

Sites for storing materials To supervise whether measures are taken to resist wind and rainstorms

and prefabrication To supervise whether wastes from construction are properly treated

Ecological Ying Lake Reserve ( a To supervise no borrow and spoil site into Ying Lake Natural Reserve or the

lenvironm scenic reserve with scenic reserve with places of interests

ent places of interests) To supervise no wild animals are captured in the reserve.

To supervise whether garbage from daily life and construction is brought into

special garbage collecting centers

To supervise whether plastic garbage is undercontrolfor construction workers

To supervise whether the work has been down with grace

To supervise whether residences for workers are clean and their food healthy.

To supervise whether the borrow and spoil site are arranged in time and whether

Vertical shaft for fences are installed in time and whether water dots are pumped in time

building tunnels To supervise whether the site is restored to its original state after the completion

of the project

To supervise whether the noise erecting from the construction site meets relevant

noise standards concerning noisenoise

To supervise whether drivers take measures to lessen their impact when vehicles

environme Schools and villagespa ssing environmentally sensitive spots

ntTo supervise whether the quality of acoustic-proofing materials meets the

requirements

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Table 5-I Continued Contents of Environmental Supervision


To guarantee the rivers are not blocked

Water Han River and its To supervise whether measures are taken to prevent water pollution during theenvironme branches, especially, Han construction phase

nt River, Liushui River To supervise whether garbage and waste water from management zones andservice centers are properly treated.

aircondition Schools and villages To supervise whether the quality of air meets the corresponding requirements.condition

To supervise whether measures are taken to ensure the smooth movement of

vehicles on construction sectionsSocialenviroial Traffic securityTo supervise whether potential dangers exist along sections nearing villagesenvironme Traffic security

To supervise whether the impact of transport vehicles has been lowered to thentminimum

To supervise whether water dots exist inconveniences the passage of villagers.

Engineering environmental protection supervision

The engineering environmental protection supervision is setup for the environment during theoperation phase and construction phase. The items under this project includes:

(I Preservation of ecological environment: preservation of forestation and rivers along theroute.

© Treatment of noise : According to the report on assessment of environmental influence,measures are taken to lower the negative impact of noise wherever necessary 0

(®) Treatment of water pollution: According to the report on assessment of environmentalinfluence, efforts are made to treat polluted water discharged from management zones, toll stationsand service centers.

Enviromnental supervision under the environmental protection supervision includesconducting supervision of project, supervision of design plan, schedule, and finance collected

5.2 The Plan of Environmental Supervision

The working period of Environmental Supervision of Ankang-Shaanchuan Expresswayincludes these three terms:

The Environmental Supervision in the constructional managing design and preparing period;The Environmental Supervision in the constructional phase;

The Environmental Supervision in the project guarantee period (the handling over anddefection responsibility period);

The main work and requirements of the supervision in every period stipulates as in Table 5-2.

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Table 5-2 Plan of Environmental Supervision

Period Contents

Be familiar with the design documents and the contents of the construction contractthe constructional

documents; make a particular supervision working plan; examine the contractor's environmentmanaging design and

protection formula and fee estimation in the constructional managing design; examine thepreparing period;

contractor's environment protection personnel and technology; prepare to hold the first site

meeting, etc.

Concentrate effort on the environmental supervision in the construction; cooperate withThe constructional

period the site project supervision; finish every work according to the requirement of the project

schedule.

Renovate and rebuilt-supervision of the environment protection project; carry on the

Prespojecbity period environmental supervision on the period of reparation, renovation and rebuilding of theresponsibility period

defections in project

5.3 The Station of Environmental Supervision PersonnelThe Environmental Supervision organization of AME is adapted to its project constructional

managing system, including two levels of Chief Supervision Office and the Site Supervision

Group.The expressway environmental supervision adopts a supervision model of blending

environmental supervision into the project supervision system. The Chief Supervision Office sets

up the vice supervisor of environment protection, with the chief supervisor and his or her

representative presiding the work of environment supervision and the Department of Environment

protection which guides and supervise the routine duties of the environmental supervision. The

Project Supervision Division is responsible for the leading responsibility of the Environmental

Supervision Group. The Department of Environment protection guides the business and supervises

environmental supervision engineers' work. It enjoys the right of making decisions on common

environment protection problems, but it should refer to the chief supervisor on environmental

protection when facing major problems on environmental protection.

The constitution of the environmental provision personnel is as follows:

1. The vice supervisor of environment protection I (serves by the chief supervisor or the

representative)

2. Department of the Environment protection 2

The one with a senior title of professional post, engaged in the major of environment

protection and familiar with the road environmental supervision; the other is with a senior title of

professional post, engaged in the major of road and bridge, and familiar with the expressway

provision.

3. Every director of the site supervision group is responsible for the environmental

supervision in his group

4. Every supervision engineer is responsible for the environmental supervision in his business

scope

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5.4 Estimation Expenses of the Environmental SupervisionThe estimation expenses of the environmental provision is RMB 2 million yuan per year in

the construction phase which lasts for 5 years. The total expenses of environmental supervision isRMB 10 million altogether.

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Appendix 1 AME Environment Protect Implement PlanEnvironmental Measures Implement Bureau

problems agency agency

A Design phase

I Selection of The alignment was/will be selected considering minimizing land Dl SCD

alignment acquisition ,relocation and resettlement ,and impact of air pollution and EAI PMO

noise on sensitive areas as residential areas ,cities and towns, etc.

The alignment was/will be selected considering reducing cutting

mountain to protect the resource of landscapes.

2 Soil erosion Plantation of grasses & trees on slopes; retaining wall, catchment Dl SCD

ditches , mortar schist and road base drainage system will be installed ; EAI PMO

culverts will be constructed.

3 Air pollution On determination of location of spoil sites, quarries ,waste storage DI SCD

and mixing stations, dust or other elements of impact on environment EAI PMO

have been taken into account.

4 noise A combination of measures such as resettlement ,installation of DI SCD

noise barriers , double-layer glass windows , and afforestation will be EAI PMO

undertaken to mitigate the short and medium term noise problems

5 Cultural relics Cultural relics survey was carried out and there are three cultural Shannxi SCD

relics were found out in the working area of the project Archaeolog

ical Studies

Team

6 Land Through comparison of schemes, a scheme was recommended Land a SCD

acquisition was recommended from partial alternatives to occupy as less farmland and PMO

and as possible the alignment at the foot of mountains . The borrow sites are resettlemen

resettlement only chosen at wastes and poor land; spoil can be filled into valleys for t office

farmland formation.

Plans for land acquisition & resettlement will be drawn up

7 Scenery Some highway section were selected as scenery ,and to minimize DI PMO

protection noise at the same time; EAI

The alignment though Yinghu Natural Reserve should be design

based on the function

Local species should be applied to afforestation

8 Social Passages have been built to meet the local people. DI PMO

disruption Reduce the disruption to the present highway, Irrigate facility and

power net.

9 Water Sewage treatment facilities will be set up at the service areas and DI PMO

pollution toll stations. EAI

The sewage can't be discharged into farmland

Biological treatment should be adopted.

10 Basic According to the principle of how much occupied and how much DI SCD

farmland cultivated, occupied organization cultivate equivalent quantity and PMO

quality of occupied land. Without cultivation condition or cultivated

arable land unsatisfied demand, organization should pay arable land

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cultivation fee according to provincial and municipal regulation, special

fund will be used for cuiltivating new arable land. Organization

* occupying basic farmland should use soil of occupied basic farmland

cultivation layer on new cultivating arable land, barren land or other

* _ cultivation land amendment.

B Construction

phase

I Dust & air All reasonable measuIes including water spraying will be taken , Contractor SCD

pollution in dry season in particular; PMO

Material storage sites will be 300m away from residential areas.

In addition , they will be covered with mufflers; and adopt water

spraying regularly . The haulage vehicles will be covered with mufflers

to prevent from spilling

Mixers will be sealed properly and provided with dust removing

device

2 Soil erosion Road base protection construction. Arrange the procedures and Contractor SCD

time properly. Adopt the' section construction methods in order to PMO

reduce the area of the construction site. The road base protection

measures should be implemented immediately after the road base

construction.

Protection measures in the rain season

(D) mud deposit pool and cloth block wall for construction earth

established in concave place on the vertical section or where the surface

runoffjoint.

0avoid developing the construction slope or cover the slope on

the both sides of the road base with straw/cloth in the rainstorm.

®piling sites or mixing sites will be surrounded ed by cloth wall

(Dthe spoil earth deposit sites in the size above the medium

should be located in the -concave places (small basin as an example)

with the official permission and should be re-cultivated or made flat

after the construction.

Vegetation measures should be taken both within and beyond the

construction lines to improve the environment.

Avoid damage the vegetation beyond the construction lines,

especially in the places of valley, hillside or dam.:

Recover/re-cultivate/reforest the temporary occupied land soon


3 Water Construction camps far from the river. Dumps and toilets should Contractor SCD

pollution be treated regularly and be eliminated when the construction PMO

accomplished.

Toxin-borne construction materials like asphalt, concrete and

other chemicals should not be piled near the water resources or

farmland and should be confined with cloth/wood blocks

Construction waste water should not be emitted to the water body

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or farmland nearby. If necessary, vaporizing pit in small size should be

built and recovered after the construction.

In bridge construction, the dregs or spoil should not be discarded

to the river passage or flood land in order to avoid lifting the river bed

or depressing the water passing.

Toxin-borne construction materials like asphalt, concrete and

other chemicals should not be piled under the shelters to reduce the

pollution by the rain drain.

In bridge constructions, oil-borne materials or chemical products

should be avoided dropping into the water body nearby and the related

wastes can not be discarded into the water body either but be

transported or stored in the places permitted.

Bridge, culvert and pile construction should be preferably

arranged in the dry season.

Dump and waste materials should be taken away regularly but can

not be discarded on the construction site when the project finished, nor

discarded to the river nearby.

Transportation vehicles should be checked regularly and avoid

oil-borne waster water being discharged to the river nearby.

Strict treatment of the domestic sewage and wastes in the

construction camps

To prevent sewage from discharging directly into rivers or canals,

all necessary measures will be taken ,e.g. settlement tanks

Cofferdams and caissons will be used in bridge construction with

the former applying to the construction in the river with smaller flow

and wider surface and the latter applying to the river larger folw.

4 Environmental If the road section is near a school, the contractor should negotiate Contractor SCDwith the school administrator about the working time for the

Noise and mechanical construction which making noise, in case to avoid impact PMO

Vibration the teaching and learning progress.The section near the habitation living area, the mechanical

construction with strong noise should be halted from 22 o'clock at nighttill 6 o'clock in the next morning.

The vehicles loading material are better not to run through thehabitation concentrated area and are forbidden to ringing at night.During the rush hour of the communication on the expressways of theregional areas, the loading vehicles should be halted or diminished theimpact of noise.

The mechanisms with low noise should be used as possible ascan. The construction mechanisms operating working staff and theconstruction staff on site should be performed with the individualprotection.

During the construction with strong vibration near a village, theadobe house nearby should be monitored to avoid the potentialaccident.

The working staff near the strong radiation and noise should be

given the sound-proof earphones or other protective labor measures,

and their working time should be shortened.

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5 Entironment borrow select the borrow and spoil sites and take Contractor SCI)and measures so as to prevent soil erosion and water

resources spoil loss; PMO. site land occupation compensation to be used in

land re-cultivation and reducing the temporarylosses of the farmers' income;

Borrow and spoil earth from the sites asdesigned. When the necessity of alteration arises,written application shall be submitted and should beapproved with signature by the superintendentengineer of EP and the monitoring office, otherwiseexcavation and discharge without authority areforbidden. Rock material shall be purchased fromthe qualified quarries; the hauling routes andinformation of the stone quarry shall be submitted tomonitoring office to prevent illicit quarrying;self-excavation quarry shall be leveled andreclaimed timely.

ecological recovery of the spoil sites

(O)The location of the spoil sites, the height of

heaped earth and post-excavation arrangement shall

conform to the requirements of the project design

documents and environment assessment documents;

®Surface soil in the spoil sites which used to

be cultivated land shall be heaped and be leveled

after the completion of spoil so as to cover the soil

for re-cultivation;

r()Trees and grass shall be planted in the spoil sites

which can not be re-cultivation.

Quarries and pre-casting yards shall be set up Contractor SCDin the requisition area of the project so as to reducetemporar the number of the temporary land acquirement PMO

y' land Compensation for young trees shall be directlydelivered to household.

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flora and fauna Forest Protection Contractor SCD

protection G)Forests within the temporary land use area PMO

during the construction phase shall not be felled or

felled in its minimum; shelter forest by river bank

and protection forest of water source shall be free

from felling.

(®construction base shall be out of forest land

and constructors must not destroy the forests; fire

and smoking are forbidden in forest area in case of

fires.

®Forests within the right-of-way

area( parking area, charge center and interchange,

etc.)shall be best protected; forests out of

right-of-way area must not be damaged;

(A)Over-vibration shall be avoided at

dynamite which can affect the stability of the

mountain and growth of the peripheral vegetation;

(OGrowth of plants infected with pests is

forbidden;

(®Water shall be sprayed to settle dust in the

construction sites and pavement to prevent dust

from covering foliage, thus affecting

photosynthesis.

Vegetation compensation. To build Green Path

Project in combination of the local ecological

system and to conduct an overall greenery in the

right-of-way area;

Vegetation recovery

(Dthe land for temporary use during the

construction period shall be given an overhauling

immediately after the completion of

construction( clearing-up, loosing the earth,

covering mature soil)to help the surface vegetation

recover.

(2)The land out of right-of-way area on which

vegetation has been destroyed due to expressway

construction shall be recovered by vegetation and

not be exposed.

Wildlife conservation. Publicize laws and

regulations of wildlife conservation and strike

hunting activities. Strengthen the protection of water

environment and avoid ovemutrition of local waters

along the construction line and reduce its effect on

aquatic environment to its minimum.

Overhauling and greenery shall be conducted

timely after completion of construction in the

tunnel-shaft construction areas.

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Land resources Protection of cuitivated land SCD

and agriculture rigated land shall not be occupied by parking lots, PMO

production control agency, charge centers, etc.;

(Temporary land use such as quarries,

mixing plants, pre-casting yards and asphalt

mixing plants shall be best set up within the

expressway acquisition land areas such as

service areas, interchanges.

(®)Construction base shall be set up within the

expressway acquisition land areas or public

houses and private houses be rented as the

base;

12. Re-cultivation of temporary acquisiton

land. Surface arable soil for temporary land use

shall be heaped for storage and overhauling of land

shall be conducted immediately after completion of

construction to cover the cultivated soil for

re-cultivation.

Reduce the number of spoil sites: Make full

use of the local construction materials to fill the

road base and sub-base. Reduce the height of the

road bed to its largest extent provided the technical

standards allow.

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Soil Erosion Road base protection construction. Arrange SCD

the procedures and time properly. Adopt the section PMO

construction methods in order to reduce the area of

the construction site. The road base protection

measures should be implemented immediately after

the road base construction.

Protection measures in the rain season

G) mud deposit pool and cloth block wall for

construction earth established in concave place on

the vertical section or where the surface runoffjoint.

(®)avoid developing the construction slope or

cover the slope on the both sides of the road base

with straw/cloth in the rainstorm.

(®piling sites or mixing sites will be

surrounded ed by cloth wall

(a)the spoil earth deposit sites in the size above

the medium should be located in the concave places

(small basin as an example) with the official

permission and should be re-cultivated or made flat


Vegetation measures should be taken both

within and beyond the construction lines to improve

the environment.

Avoid datnage the vegetation beyond the

construction lines, especially in the places of valley,

hillside or dam.;

Recover/re-cultivate/reforest the temporary

occupied land soon after the construction.

Yinhu Natural Prohibit damaging all the facilities in the SCD

Reserve Reserve area. No spoil site or borrow can be set PMO

within the Reserve.

Ensure that the function of the temporary

occupied land will be recovered like before. No

hunting for wild animals in the Reserve. Safety

should be laid when fire is used. Domestic sewage

and wastes can not be discharge to the Reserve.

5 During the construction phase, if the cultural relics are Contractor SCD

Cultural discovered, the construction should be stopped and the site should be PMORelics preserved and the contractor should inform the department of the

historical department to handle it, and then restart the construction.

6 Construction There will be garbage cans & sanitation facilities. Feces waste, Contractor SCD

areas domestic sewage can not be discharged into rivers or other water bodies PMO

unless disposed of properly

7 Haulage To decrease dust and noise and minimize impact on existing Contractor SCD

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management transport ,haulage route will be selected carefully; PMO

To consult transport & security departments for better control of

traffic;

To build temporary roads intersecting existing road properly;

To avoid peak hours on existing road by drawing up reasonable

transport schedules;

8 Construction Safety markings will be set up on temporary road regulations Contractor SCI)

safety suitable for temporary road will be adopted; PMO

Effective safety measures will be taken during

construction ;during blast people and vehicles will be evacuated for

safety;

Wardens will be needed on construction sites for safety;

9 Scenery Scenery quality can be restored by strict implementation; Contractor SCI)

protection Borrow sites far from the highway , no steep slopes is formed by PMO

borrowing.

Trial sections would be set up in an early stage of construction,

where the environmental mitigation measures against the cutting of

neighboring adobe houses will be supervised. Reparative measures will

be taken if they are exposed to severe vibration or blasting and likely to

suffer from damage.

10 Vibration When vibration producing construction(compaction of piers or

monitoring operation of vibrating rollers)is carried out ,the impact on neighboring

adobe houses will be supervised. Reparative measures will be taken if

they are exposed to severe vibration or blasting and likely to suffer

from damage.

c Operation

phase

I Zonal No village (within 50m) and schools (within 100m)or other Local PMO

planning sensitive locations will be built along highway Governmen

t

2 noise No homing markings will be set up at school sections; Highway PMO

At accesses of road ,noise monitoring stations will be installed , section of

and the vehicles with loud noise will not be allowed to run on the road; counties or

Noise barriers or other appropriate noise prevention measures will cities

be taken at locations where noise exceeds the standard ,based on the

result of monitoring.

With the necessary prevention measures, the excess levels can be

controlled below 5dB at villages; below 2.0dB at schools in daytime.

3 Air pollution Afforestation by planting trees on both sides .The natural Highway PMO

conditions along the alignment are good for growth of trees, it is section of

required that high trees and bushes should be planted where possible on counties or

either side to absorb pollutants and beautify the environment. cities

The vehicles on the road will be tested ad hoc in emitting

pollutants .Those in great excess of pollutants will not be allowed to run

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on the bed .

4 Vehicular Vehicles will be kept in good conditions by examining vehicular Highway PMO

management exhaust gases ;vehicles with low speed and loud noise will not be section of

allowed to go on road; counties or

The public will be educated to be aware of noise pollution and cities

informed of relevant regulations

5 Risk of spills An emergency group will be organized by Shaanxi traffic Highway PMO

of hazardous department and environment protect department to deal with the section of

goods emergency ; the group will be responsible also for Management of counties or

hazardous goods spill on high class highways all over the region. cities

Transport of hazardous goods will have all the three certificates

issued by security department;

Special routes or stop locations will be assigned by security

department;

In case of spilling of hazardous goods, relevant departments will

be informed immediately to take urgent measures .There will be another

monitoring group to deal with similar accidents.

6 Water Domestic sewage at toll stations will be disposed of by use of Highway

pollution septic tanks , and then used as irrigation water. Garbage will be treated section of

centrally counties or

cities

D Environment Monitoring will be conducted based on relevant specifications or Environme PMO

monitoring standards issued by National environment Institution ntal

Monitoring

Station

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Appendix 2: Standards of Assessment

order Standards serial number

Z I Noise Standards in Urban Area GB3096-93

2 Noise Limit in Construction Site GB12523-90

3 Quality standards of Surface Water GB3838-2002

4 Sewage Comprehensive Discharging Standards GB8978-96

5 Farming Land Irrigation Water Quality Standard GB5084-92

6 Ambient Atmosphere Quality Standard GB3095-1996

7 Atmosphere Pollutes Comprehensive Discharging Standard GB16297-96

Table 2-1 Noise Standards at Urban Areas(GB3096-93)(Excerpt) unit:Laeq(dB)

Grade Apple to Daytime night

0 Very sensitive areas 50 40

I Residential and educational areas 55 45

2 Residential ,shopping and industrial mixed areas 60 50

3 Industrial areas 65 55

4 Areas on both sides of artery lines 70 55

Table2-2 Noise Limit in Construction Site (GB12523-90) (Excerpt) Unit: Laeq (dB)

Construction Main Noise Source Daytime Night

Content__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Soil and Stone Bulldozer, grab, loading truck, road roller, etc. 75 55

work

Piling work All kinds of piling drivers. 85 Construction prohibited

Structure work Concrete blender, quiver stick, electronic saws. 70 55

Decoration Crane and elevators. 65 55

Table 2-3 Quality Standards of SurfaceWater(GB3838-2002)

Item pH Permanganate Salt Petroleum<- NH3-N

class \ Exponent S

I 6-9 2 0.05 0.15

II 6-9 4 0.05 0.5

III 6-9 6 0.05 1.0

IV 6-9 8 0.05 1.5

V 6-9 10 1.0 2.0

Note: unit mg/i with exception of pH

Class-one applies to water sources and natural reserves;

Class-two applies to key central drinking water sources and rare species of fish protection areas

and spawn bed areas;

Class-three applies to ordinary central drinking water sources and swimming areas;

Class-four applies to water sources of industrial areas and other sources;

Class-five applies to irrigation and scenic waters

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Table 2-4 General Discharge Standards of Sewage(GB8978-1996)

pollutants SS CODcr BOD5 NH 3-N Petroleum Propagation oilStandard 1 70 100 20 15 5 10Standard 2 150 150 30 25 10 15Standard 3 400 500 300 / 20 100

Notes: Class-I applies to sewage emission standards GB3838-2002111;Class-2 applies to sewage emission standards GB3838-2002IV, V;Class-2 applies to the drainage system with class two water treatment device.

Table 2-5 Farming Land lrrigation Water Quality Standard (Excerpt) Unit: mg/L

Types of Crop

No. Items Products in Products in dry

paddy field field Vegetables

Oxygen Amount for < 80 150 80Biochemistry (BOD5 )

Oxygen Amount for2 S200 300 150

Chemistry (CODcr)

3 Floating Substance S 150 200 100

4 K's Nitrogen < 12 30 30

5 Phosphorus Amount (Count 5.0

in P)

6 Petroleum < 5.0 10 1.0

Ordure Coliform Group7 S 10000

Number/L

Note: Type I: Products in paddy field, for example, rice, irrigation amount 800m 3/mu year;Type 11: Products in dry field, for example, wheat, corn, cotton, etc, irrigation amount300m 3/mu-year;

Type III: Vegetables, for example, Chinese cabbage, leek, onion, etc.

Table 2-6 AmbientAtmosphere Quality Standard (GB3095-1996) (Excerpt)

pollutants Time of taking Concentration limit remark

example Class-I Class-2 Class-3

NO2 Time per day 0.08 0.08 0.12 GB3096-1996

Time per hour 0.12 0.12 0.24 Revised

TSP Timeper day 0.12 0.30 0.30

Note: Class-I adopt to natural conservations, famous scenic site and other very sensitive areas.Class-2 adopt to residential , cultural, normal industrial and village areas.Class-3 adopt to very sensitive industrial areas

Table2-5 Atmosphere Pollutes Comprehensive Discharging Standard GB16297-96(Excerpt)

production process pollutants | The Limit ofDischarging Velocity (kg/h)

Asphalt smelting and stirring Asphalt Smoke 80-150

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