World Bank Financing
Small-Scale Civil Works of Pilot Towns
in Gansu
Under
Integrated Economic Development of Small Towns Project
Environmental Codes of Practice
Entrusted by: Gansu Provincial PMO for World Bank Financing Small Town Project
Prepared by: Gansu Design and Research Institute of Environmental Science
December 2011
ABBREVIATIONS
CS / Construction Supervisor
DI / Design Institute
EA / Environmental Assessment
ECOP / Environmental Codes of Practice
EIA / Environmental Impact Assessment
EMC / Environmental Management Coordinator
EMP / Environmental Management Plan
EMS / Environmental Monitoring Station
EPB / Environmental Protection Bureau
ES / Environmental Supervisor
GDRC / Gansu Development & Reform Commission
GDRIES / Gansu Design & Research Institute of Environmental Science
GSDA / Gansu Department of Audit
GSDALB / Gansu Department of Agriculture, Livestock Breeding
GSDEP / Gansu Department of Environmental Protection
GSDHURD / Gansu Department of Housing, Urban and Rural Development
GSDOF / Gansu Department of Finance
GSDWR / Gansu Department of Water Resource
IA / Implementation Agency
IEDST / Integrated Economic Development in Small Town
IREDTP / Integrated Rural Economic Development in Pilot Towns
MEP / Ministry of Environmental Protection
PG / People’s Government
PMO / Project Management Office
PPMO / Provincial Project Management Office
PRC / The People’s Republic of China
SE / Supervision Engineer
Table of Contents
1. General Introduction 1
1.1 Project Background 1
1.2 Relevant Laws & Regulations and WB Safeguard Policies 2
1.2.1 Relevant Government Laws & Regulations and Policies 2
1.2.2 WB Safeguard Policies 3
1.3 Main Activities under Small-Scale Civil Works Component 3
1.4 Objective of This ECOP 3
1.5 Applicability 4
2. ECOP Management System 8
2.1 Project Implementation Units 8
2.3 Main Responsibilities of The Agencies in ECOP Management System 11
2.4 Set-up and Tasks of Environmental Management Staff 12
2.5 Environmental Management Tasks at Different Stages 14
2.6 Main Tasks and Flow Chart of Environmental Supervision During Construction 15
2.7 Documents Management 16
3. General Requirements of ECOP 19
3.1 Environmental Protection Measures to Be Incorporated into Design Drawings and Bidding Documents 19
3.2 Preparatory Work Before Construction 21
3.3 Environmental Management for Construction Site 21
3.3.1 Environmental Management Supervision throughout the construction 21
3.3.2 EPB’s Regulatory and Public Opinions 23
4. Management on Construction Site 24
4.1 Environmental Impact of Construction Site 24
4.2 Management Measures of Construction Site 24
5. Management of Ambient Air Quality 27
5.1 Analysis on Impact on Ambient Air Quality 27
5.1.1 Fly Dust from Construction 27
5.1.2 Exhaust Gas from Vehicles 28
5.2 Environmental Air Quality Management Measures 28
5.2.1 Fly Dust from Construction 28
5.2.2 Exhaust Gas from Vehicles 29
6. Acoustic Environment Management 30
6.1 Analysis on Impact on Acoustic Environment 30
6.2 Acoustic Environmental Quality Management Measures 30
7. Surface Water Quality Management 32
7.1 Analysis on Impact on Surface Water Quality 32
7.2 Surface Water Quality Management Measures 32
7.2.1 Management and Collection of Rainwater 32
7.2.2 Control Measures of Wastewater Effluent 33
8. Conservation and Management of 34
Ecological Resources 34
8.1 Analysis of Impacts on Eco-Environment 34
8.2 Conservation and Management Measures of Ecological Resources 35
8.3 Soil Erosion Control Measures 35
8.3.1 Engineering Measures 35
8.3.2 Temporary Measures 36
8.3.3 Vegetative Measures 37
9. Management of Solid Wastes 38
9.1 Analysis on Impact of Solid Waste 38
9.2 Solid Wastes Disposal and Management Measures 38
10. Safety and Health During Construction 40
10.1 Analysis of Construction Safety and Health 40
10.2 Safety and Health Measures during Construction 40
11. Cultural Heritage 42
Attached Figure1 Geographic Map of Gansu Province 45
Attached Figure 2 Schematic Map of Small-Scale Civil Work in Pilot Towns 46
Appendix 1: Summary of the Project environmental Supervision and Management Measures 47
Annex 1: Site Inspection Checklist 54
Annex 2: Environmental Site Inspection Checklist 56
Annex 3: Environmental Supervisor’s Notice Sheet for Correction Actions to be Taken by Contractors 62
WB Financing-IEDST
ECOP for Small-scale Civil Works of Pilot Towns in Gansu
1. General Introduction
1.1 Project Background
Gansu province is in the middle part of China, on the upper reach of Yellow River. The province has a total land area of 454,400 km2, with a total population of about 26.35 million. It consists of 14 cities/prefectures, 86 counties and 1191 townships. The GDP of the province is 411.946 billion RMB, 11.70% more than the last year. The robust industries with national advantages are seed production of maize, raw material production for brewing and beer, vegetables and potatoes. The small towns are experiencing facilitated development with the improved industrial support, infrastructures and social services.
Though some achievements have been made in the development of the small towns in Gansu, there are still some constraints for its further development. In order to speed up the agricultural modernization and industrialization at the township level in Gansu, and to establish the featured small towns, such as industry-oriented towns, resources-developing towns, agricultural towns with local specialties, traffic hub towns, commercial and trade communication towns, touristic towns and the towns combined with agriculture, industry and trade, the application has been made for securing the WB financing under Integrated Economic Development of Small Towns Project. One of the important components of the project is small-scale civil works. The project is aimed to solve the trading problem of the agricultural products, improve the infrastructure, increase the farmers’ income and promote the steady and speedy socio-economic development of the small towns.
The activities under this project component include the construction of the vegetable trading center in Dongwan Town, the demonstration center of animal husbandry cooperatives (association) in Hongshui Town, fruits and vegetables market in Zaojiao Town, fresh-keeping storage house in Ganquan Town, processing zone of the Chinese herbal slices and reconstruction of the Chinese traditional medicinal market in Meichuan Town, fruits products market in Shizi Town, agricultural products distributing center in Dongzhi Town, vegetables logistics and trading center in Dangzhai Town, Qilian jade-processing center and its supplementary facilities, and agricultural market in Hongsi Town, grape gas modulation base in Qili Town, agricultural technical service and agricultural product storage and dispatch center in Huahai Town. The above-mentioned sub-components will be constructed in accordance with the ECOP.
This ECOP include such contents as brief description of small-scale civil works component under IREDPT project, institutional arrangement for executing ECOP, plan for implementing environmental mitigation measures, plans for environmental supervision, reporting procedures and documentation.
1.2 Relevant Laws & Regulations and WB Safeguard Policies
1.2.1 Relevant Government Laws & Regulations and Policies
Environmental Protection Law of People’s Republic of China, December 1989.
Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law of People’s Republic of China, Revised in June 2008
Atmosphere Pollution Prevention and Control Law of People’s Republic of China, Revised in September 2009
Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law of People’s Republic of China, Revised on April 2005
Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Law of People’s Republic of China, October 2002
Law of the Peoples Republic of China on Protection of Cultural Relics, December 2007
Environmental Impact Assessment Law of People’s Republic of China, October 2002.
Regulation on Environmental Protection Management of Construction Projects of the Peoples Republic of China, November 1998
List for Categorized Management on Environmental Protection of Construction Projects, January 1, 2003.
Regulation on the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the Peoples Republic of China, August 28, 2004.
1.2.2 WB Safeguard Policies
This ECOP is prepared to satisfy the WB safeguard requirements under OP4.01 (EA) which requires, that for Category B project, to develop an environmental management plan before and during construction, implement and supervise the environmental management plan and the mitigation measures during construction.
1.3 Main Activities under Small-Scale Civil Works Component
The main activities under small-scale civil works component are summarized in Table 1-1. Geographic location of the Project activities are also shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 attached in this ECOP.
1.4 Objective of This ECOP
The Objective of preparing this ECOP is to develop a set of detailed, technically feasible and practicable, financially viable environmental countermeasures to mitigate potential adverse impacts; to make institutional arrangement among constructors, supervisors, operators, environmental administrators to implement the mitigation measures during project construction and operation phases to eliminate or reduce the adverse environmental impact to the acceptable level. The specific objectives are to:
⑴Define Obligations of Constructors and Operators in Managing Environment
The EPB of each project counties/districts, Gansu Design and Research Institute of Environmental Science (GDRIES) , as well as relevant design institute should check and verify environmental protection targets in details, to put forward practical environmental prevention and mitigation measures in the light with environmental features in the project region and construction site, and are to ensure that the prevention and mitigation measures be incorporated into the project engineering designs and contracted responsibilities of constructors and operators.
⑵Be the Operational Directory for Environmental Management
The procedures and rules proposed in this ECOP are to ensure the effective implementation of prevention and mitigation measures during construction and operation. This ECOP will be provided to construction supervisors, environmental supervisors and other units concerned whose responsibilities are defined and communication between them are also proposed.
1.5 Applicability
In view of the type of project activities, locations, sensitivities, scales and potential environmental impact, this project is categorized as “Category B” according to screening and categorization required by the World Bank safeguard policy on environmental assessment (OP 4.01). There is a need to establish environmental management mechanism, prevention and mitigation measures to minimize negative environmental impacts during construction and operation phases.
This ECOP is applicable to the small-scale civil work construction sub-projects of the 11 towns. This ECOP is prepared on the basis of the individual EIA carried out for the 11 project towns, and will be used as guidance to the key parties (including the contractor, environmental supervisor, the project owner, etc.) to take effective actions to mitigate the potential adverse environmental impact.
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Table 1-1 A List of Small-Scale Civil Work Construction Projects
Serial No. / Municipality / Project Site (county, town) / Main Contents of Projects1 / Baiyin / Jingyuan, Dongwan / Vegetable Trading Market: one market, construction of detection and information service building (2413.9m2); trading shed (3600m2); 100 trading booths; storage house (797.1m2); gate house, loadometer room and toilet(106m2); on-site road and hardened floor, parking site (4800m2), water supply pipelines and sewers(650m); equipment and facilities for detection, information and public use in the market. The annual trading amount of the vegetables is estimated to be 200,000 tons.
2 / Jingtai, Hongshui / demonstration center of animal husbandry cooperatives (association): planting 600 mu of good-quality of alfalfa, 200 silage tanks with individual storage of 50m3 , economic development for 184 ethnic households and 116 poor Han households, introduction of 900 female goats for meat (3 goats per household), 140 counterpart project households.
3 / Tianshui / Qinzhou, Zaojiao / Fruits and vegetables market: construction of trading shed (2800m2), shops (3000m2), hardened floor in the market (3200m2), one gas-modulated fresh-keeping storage house (2500t).
Maiji, Ganquan / Fresh-keeping storage house: one with storage capacity of 5000t, in Ganjiang Village – apple production center, covering 10mu in area.
4 / Dingxi / Min, Meichuan / Processing zone of the Chinese herbal slices and reconstruction of the Chinese traditional medicinal market: new construction of a trading shed on the former site (4162.5m2), medicinal herb storage house (2388m2), market central office (600m2) and outdoor supplementary facilities. Establish technical service system for Chinese medicine industry, including nursing ground of 1000mu; construction of Chinese Medicinal Herbs Associations in Chelu, Dianzi, Xingwen, Hongshui and Meichuan villages, each with a construction area of 200 m2, totally 1000m2 .
5 / Pingliang / Lingtai, Shizi / fruits products market: new construction of one gas-modulated fresh-keeping storage house (2500t), one colored steel trading shed(1200m２), management office (300m２)
6 / Qingyang / Xifeng, Dongzhi / agricultural products distributing center: covering area of 20000m2 , 150m long and 133.33m wide; thermostatic storage house (1134m2), refrigeration room(90m2), ice-production room (72m2), underground storage (972m2), warehouse (1080m2), trading shed (1200m2), comprehensive building (office, training, chemical examination, information center)( 2520m2), loadometer room (15m2), boiler room (48m2), power distribution house (54m2), water pump house (12m2), toilet (60m2), gate house (30m2), water tank (270m3). The total construction area is 7287m2. The trading amount of the agricultural products is estimated to be 100000 tons with trading value of 250million RMB.
7 / Zhangye / Ganzhou, Dangzhai / vegetables trading center and logistics: one trading center with a daily sale of 1400t vegetables, 100t electric scale, loadometer control room, power distribution house, fast-speed detection equipment for agricultural products, agricultural product information system, market solid waste disposal facilities(collection station, one truck for transporting garbage, 10 trash cans); new construction of market management office, garbage collection station, power distribution house and loadometer control room (totally 1586.5m2 ); reconstruction of trading shed of 18002 (construction area 900m2 ); hardened floor (3830m2), one toilet (25m2).
8 / Sunan, Hongwansi / Qilian jade-processing center and its supplementary facilities, and agricultural market in Hongsi Town: new construction of one ethnic product processing and entrepreneurial training center, two-storey main body, 30m long, 17m wide, storey height 4.2m, land coverage (512m2), construction area (2048m2); new construction of one trading hall in Hongwansi Town for livestock products, two-storey main body, 40m long, 30m wide, net height 8.1m, construction area (1980m2); new construction of two cold storages (each of 500t), 49.5m long, 18.6m wide, 4.8-6m high, each with a construction area of 920.7m2, of which, (machine room: 19.5m long, 18.6m wide, 6m high, construction area of 362.7m2 ; storage room: 30m long, 18.6m wide, 4.8m high, construction area of 558m2 ), the total construction area is1841.4m2 , hardened floor1637m2 ; green area 1000m2 ; purchase of 5 refrigerator cars and 2 forklifts.
9 / Jiuquan / Dunhuang, Qili / Gas-modulated grape storage: one gas-modulated fresh-keeping storage (1200t), the annual storage capacity is 22% of the total grape production.
Yumen, Huahai / Agricultural technical service and agricultural product storage and dispatch center: construction of one thermostatic fresh-keeping storage (2000t) with refrigerated dock and refrigeration room; construction of warehouse (2160m2) and trading shed (6120m2). The estimated annual trading amount of the agricultural products is 100000tons.
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