WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project Office Lanzhou University Applied Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. December 2020 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN .................................................................................... 3 1.3 DEVELOPMENT OF EMP ............................................................................................................................. 4 2. POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK ......................................................................................................... 6 2.1 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAWS .......................................................................................................... 6 2.2 BYLAWS, REGULATIONS AND NORMATIVE DOCUMENTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ..................................... 6 2.3 TECHNICAL GUIDELINES ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ............................................................................. 7 2.4 WORLD BANK SAFEGUARD POLICIES AND ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY (EHS) GUIDELINES .......................... 7 2.5 RELEVANT WORLD BANK POLICIES ON EPIDEMIC PREVENTION AND CONTROL ..................................................... 10 2.6 OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS ............................................................................................................... 10 2.7 ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTION ZONE PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT STANDARDS ..................................................... 10 3. PROJECT OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 17 3.1 INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT AREA............................................................................................................... 17 3.2 TVET OVERVIEW .................................................................................................................................... 19 3.3 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES ........................................................................................................... 23 3.4 PROJECT COMPONENTS ............................................................................................................................ 23 4. ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS &SENSITIVE POINT SURVEY....................................................................... 40 4.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT’SSURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT .................................................................. 40 4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OBJECTS ...................................................................................................... 47 5. IMPACT ANALYSIS & MITIGATION MEASURES .................................................................................... 53 5.1 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION MEASURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD .......................... 53 5.2 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION MEASURES IN THE OPERATION PERIOD ............................... 96 5.3 DUE DILIGENCE .................................................................................................................................. 103 5.4 SOCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS........................................................................................................................ 105 6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM....................................................................................... 114 6.1 CONFIGURATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AGENCIES ................................................................... 114 6.2 RESPONSIBILITIES AND STAFFING OF AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM............ 116 6.3 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TASKS IN DIFFERENT PERIODS OF THE PROJECT ............................................ 118 6.4 ENVIRONMENTAL SUPERVISION ................................................................................................................ 120 6.5 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING ............................................................................................... 122 i WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 6.6 PUBLIC GRIEVANCE REDRESS AND FEEDBACK MECHANISMS ........................................................................... 124 7.ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN ............................................................................................ 128 7.1GENERAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD .................................................. 128 7.2 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES FOR SPECIFIC SITES IN THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD ............. 150 7.3 GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL CODES OF PRACTICES IN THE OPERATION PERIOD ................................................... 164 7.4 ENVIRONMENTAL CODES OF PRACTICES FOR SPECIFIC SITES IN THE OPERATION PERIOD....................................... 166 7.5 SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CODES OF PRACTICES .................................................................................. 168 8. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN ............................................................................................. 195 8.1 MONITORING OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES ................................................................................................ 195 8.2 MONITORING AGENCY ............................................................................................................................ 196 8.3 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN ........................................................................................................ 196 9. EMP INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................. 199 9.1 INFORMATION EXCHANGE ....................................................................................................................... 199 9.2 RECORDING MECHANISM ........................................................................................................................ 199 9.3 REPORTING MECHANISM ........................................................................................................................ 199 9.4 FILE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................... 200 10. COST ESTIMATION .......................................................................................................................... 203 10.1 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENT ESTIMATION FOR GANSU VOCATIONAL COLLEGE OF ENERGY AND CHEMICAL.......................................................................................................................................................... 203 10.2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENT ESTIMATION FOR GANSU FINANCE AND TRADE VOCATIONAL COLLEGE204 10.3ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENT ESTIMATION FOR GANSU SENIOR TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF MECHANICS 205 10.4ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENT ESTIMATION FOR LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE ......... 206 10.5 SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COST................................................................................. 207 11. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE .............................................................. 209 11.1 OBJECTIVES OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION & INFORMATION DISCLOSURE............................................................ 209 11.2 IDENTIFICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS ......................................................................................................... 210 11.3 METHODS AND CONTENTS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................................ 212 11.4 PUBLIC OPINIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ...................................................................................................... 213 11.5 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND FEEDBACKS ............................................................................................. 234 11.6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................................. 258 12. SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 259 12.1 PROJECT CONSTRUCTION COMPONENTS .................................................................................................. 259 12.2 CONCLUSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT .................................................................... 259 12.3 CONCLUSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MITIGATION MEASURES ............................................................ 260 ii WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 12.4 CONCLUSIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN ............................................................................ 261 12.5 CONCLUSIONS ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................................................ 261 12.6 CONCLUSIONS ON COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT ...................................................................................... 261 ATTACHED TABLE 1 CIVIL WORKS CONSTRUCTION CHECKLIST.............................................................. 262 ATTACHED TABLE 2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RECTIFICATION NOTICE ....................................... 267 ATTACHED TABLE 3 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT PUBLIC CONSULTATION QUESTIONNAIRE ..................................................................... 268 iii WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 1. Introduction 1.1 Project Background Gansu Province has witnessed remarkable development of its technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector since the beginning of the “12th Five-year Plan� period, reflected in increasing size, improved conditions and strengthened service capacity ofTVET schools. Every year,TVET schools in Gansu Province enroll 174,000 students in totaland has more than 500,000 students in school; every year, approximately 150,000 technical and skilled labor with TVET experience are output to the society, maintainingan employment rate of more than 90%; and every year, nearly 1,000,000 trainees receive TVET skill training of various types. TVET has become an important drivingforce ofeconomic restructuring, industrial upgrading and development and employment and livelihood improvement in the Province. Nevertheless, the Province’s TVET sector still has problems, e.g. weak attraction, outdatedconcept of development, weak fundamental capacity, inadequate enterprise participation, outdated training models, unreasonable hierarchical structure and imperfect institutional system. As a result, TVET sector in the Province remains unable to fully meet the demand for accelerating transformation of economic development pattern. In accordance with the relevant plans, in the five years to come, the Province’s TVET sector needs to fully implement the Decision by the State Council on Accelerating the Development of a Modern TVET System� and the Outline of the National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2010), speed up the development of modern TVET in alignment with the specific circumstances of Gansu Province and according to the national top-level design, and significantly promote the market pertinence and social attraction of TVET, train and output a large pool of high-quality labor and technical and skilled talents with excellent professional ethics and transform its labor resourceadvantage into talent resource advantage so as to provide talent and intelligence supports needed by the Province to achieve economic transition, leap- forward development and overall social progress. Currently in agoldera with policies foraccelerated growth, opportunities of policy superposition and efforts of upgrading and leap-forward, the TVET sector of Gansu Province is in the face of both new challenges and historical opportunities. In such a context, Gansu Department of Education (DoE), with supports and assistancesfrom Gansu Provincial Government (GPG) and the concerned authorities, proposed the implementation of the “World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project�in order to fully enforce the keynotes of the National TVET Work Conference, the Decisions by the State 1 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Council on Accelerating the Development of a Modern TVET System, the Modern TVET System Construction Plan (2014-2020)as well as the Opinions of GPG on Implementing the Decisions by the State Council on Accelerating the Development of a Modern TVET Systemandbuild upa modern TVET system, set up innovative school-industry cooperation models and develop industries with special advantages and establish a benign operation mechanism realizing interactive and mutual promotion of HR demand by industries with special advantages and HR supply by TVET sector. The Project has been identified as one of the candidate WB loan projects for the fiscal years of 2015-2017 with a proposed loan of USD 120,000,000 from the World Bank. The “World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project�involves the construction of project components infour project schools, which, in nature, may be further categorized into “hard activities� aiming at infrastructure construction or equipment procurement and “soft activities� aiming at strengthening the development of TVET system and improving the quality and relevance of TVET delivery in Gansu Province. The “hard activities� mainly include construction of school buildings and procurement of associated equipment for the fourproject schools. The remaining components constitute the “soft activities�. The component involving environmental management plans is the construction of school buildings in the four project schools, including teaching building, practical training building, student dormitory building and canteen of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical ( GVCEC), practical training building, teaching building and student dormitory building of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College (GFTVC), the Art Practice Center of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science(LUAS)and the teaching building and teaching and office room building of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics (GSTSM). S ee Table 1- 1 for construction details and Figure 1-1 for site locations of buildings to be constructed. 2 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 1-1 Locations of EMP Implementation and Buildings to be Constructed under the WB Loan Project S.N Location School Building Description Teaching Building No. 24, Practical Training Gansu Vocational College of Building No. 4, Student Dormitory Building No. 31 1 Lanzhou Energy and Chemical and No. 32, Student Canteen No. 30, Dormitory Building No. 33 Practical Training Building No. 18 and No. 19, Gansu Finance and Trade Second Teaching Building No. 21, Student 2 Lanzhou Vocational College Dormitory Building No. 22, Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20 Lanzhou University of Arts 3 Lanzhou Art Practice Center and Science Gansu Senior Technical Teaching Building（A,B）, Teaching and Office 4 Tianshui School of Mechanics Room Building Figure 1-1 Location Map of EMP Implementation Sites of the WB Loan Project 1.2 Objectives of Environmental Management Plan It is agreed between the World Bank Mission and Gansu Department of Education that a comprehensive and practical environmental managementplan (EMP) is needed for the Project. 3 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan In order to eliminate or compensate the negative environmental and social impacts generated during the implementation of the Projectand reduce them to an acceptable level, it is necessary to develop, as a part of the management actions of the Project, a package of mitigation plans, monitoring plans and institutional building measures and their implementation arrangement plans (i.e. the environmental management plan) that are technically reliable, economically feasible and suitable for implementation in the design period, construction period and operation period of the Project. The EMP is developed in order to improve activities of project selection, site selection, planning, design and implementation through development of practical and feasible measures for preventing, reducing, mitigating or compensating negative environmental impacts and reinforcing positive environmental impacts, mitigate and manage negative environmental impacts through measures taken throughout the implementation of the Project and assess the actual effectiveness of the mitigation measures through implementation of environmental monitoring plan and recommend further improvement and mitigationmeasures based on the monitoring results. Therefore, the key objectives of the EMP of the Project include: 1�To conduct qualitative analysis and assessment of the condition of natural environment and socioeconomic development of the project area, identify the scope and level of impact assessment and review the design and execution of the environmental protection program of the Project; 2�To describe and assess the positive environmental impacts and identify, screen and conduct predictive analysis of negative environmental impacts likely to begenerated during the implementation of the Project. 3�To propose tailored and effective mitigation measures for key inevitable negative environmental impacts; 4�To develop requirements to assure timely and effective implementation of such tailored measures; 5�To assess the actual effectiveness of the mitigation measures through implementation of the environmental monitoring plan. 1.3 Development of EMP As shown in Table 1-2, there are three categories of projects in accordance with the “World Bank Operation Manual --- Environment Assessment� OP4.01 and based on the level and scope of environmental impacts likely to be generated by the proposed project as well as the level of 4 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan environmental sensitivity of the project area. Table 1-2 EIA Categories of Construction Projects EIA Environmental impacts Content of EIA Category Construction projects likely to generate Projects of this category require a A significant negative environmental comprehensive EIA. impacts Construction projects likely to generate Projects of this category generally require negative environmental impacts that are of special environmental impact assessment or limited scope and degree and may be environmental impact analysis based on the B remarkably mitigated through characteristics of the engineering and implementation of required prevention environmental factors instead of a and control measures using advanced and comprehensive EIA. proven technologies Projects of this category only need to fulfill the procedure environmental protection Construction projects generating no or C administration filing and generally require no minimal negative environmental impacts environmental impact assessment or environmental impact analysis. Based on the site survey conducted by the World Bank Environment Specialist, Provincial PMO and Project EIA Team, there are neither ecologically sensitive and vulnerable zones nor environmentally sensitive zones requiring special protection and social concern in the project area and, so far as the nature, scope and impact level of the Project and the environmental characteristics of the project area are concerned, the impacts generated by the Project on the surrounding environment are short, insignificant and reversible and the Project is finally assessed as Category B, which is consistent with the World Bank documents related to the Project. 5 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2. Policy and Legal Framework 2.1 Environmental protection laws （1） Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (Jan. 1, 2015); （2） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment (Dec. 29, 2018); （3） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Environment Noise Pollution (Dec. 29, 2018); （4） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution (Oct. 26, 2018); （5） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (Jan. 1, 2008); （6） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Environmental Pollution (Nov. 7, 2016); （7） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation (Mar. 1, 2011); （8） Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (Jan. 1, 2020); （9） Law of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of Cultural Relics (Nov . 5, 2017). 2.2 Bylaws, Regulations and Normative Documents on Environmental Protection （1） Decision by the State Council on Environmental Protection Issues (State Council Doc. No. [1996]31; （2） Environmental Protection Management Regulations for Construction Projects, State Council Order No. (1998)253; （3） National Catalog of Hazardous Wastes (Edition 2021), Nov. 25, 2020; （4） Notice on Issues of Environmental Noise in Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway, Railway (Including Light Rail) Construction Projects, MoEP Doc. No. [2003]94; （5） Notice on Issuance of the National Outlines for Protection of Ecological Environment, State Council Doc. No. [2000]38; （6） Basic Farmland Protection Regulations, State Council Order No. (1998)257; 6 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （7） Regulations on Implementation of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation, State Council Order No. (1993)120; （8） Catalog of Classification and Management of Environmental Impact Assessment for Construction Projects, MoEP Order No. (Edition 2021), Decree No. 16 of the Ministry of Ecological Environment, Nov. 30, 2020; （9） Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment, Decree No.4 of the Ministry of Ecological Environment; （10） Management Methods for Water and Soil Conservation Programs of Development and Construction Projects, Water-Soil Doc. No. [1994]512; （11） Guiding Catalog for Industrial Restructuring (Edition 2019), Jan. 1, 2020； （12） Notice on Strengthening Management of Environmental Impact Assessment of Projects Utilizing Loan from International Financial Institutions, MoEP Monitoring Doc. No. [1993]324; （13） Environmental Protection Regulations of Gansu Province, Jan. 1, 2020; （14） Industrial Water Use Quota of Gansu Province (Edition 2017), (Jun. 21, 2017) 2.3 Technical Guidelines on Environmental Protection （1） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment – General (HJ2.1- 2016); （2） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment – Air Environment (HJ2.2-2018); （3） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment-Surface Water Environment (HJ2.3-2018); （4） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment – Ground Water Environment (HJ610-2016); （5） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment –Sound Environment (HJ2.4-2009); （6） Technical Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment –Ecological Impact (HJ19-2011); 2.4 World Bank Safeguard Policies and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines 7 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan WB safeguard policies aim to assure that appropriate considerations are given to social and environmentalimpacts generated by WB-financed projects, including analysis of possible impacts and measures for mitigating negative impacts, so as to not only avoid hazards to environment or affected persons, but also improve project design, increase efficiency of execution and safeguard the credit standing of the World Bank and the borrower country. Policy documents related to the Project include the World Bank Operation Manual OP4.01 and the Environment, Health and Safety Guidelines (EHS Guidelines). Details of operation policies involved in the Project are shown in Table 2-1. 8 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 2-1WB Operation Policies and EHS WB Operation Policies Triggered? Description Fund provided by the proposed project will be utilized in skill training and new school buildings needed for such training. The civil works of each school included in the project plan basically comprise of buildings of 5 or 6 stories. Such buildings will be located on existing land on campus and no land acquisition or resettlement is involved. Water supply, drainage and electricity supply to be provided by existing systems on campus can satisfy normal operational needs of Environmental OP4.01 Yes such buildings and no additional equipment is assessment needed.Based on the project type, location, sensitivity and scope, the potential impacts to be involved in the Project are insignificant and only limited in the project area. Therefore, it is recommended that the Project be categorized in Category B and it is necessary to prepare an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the civil works of the four project schools to cover the environmental management activities of the Project. The civil works of the Project are located on existing campuses and it is verified through site OP4.04 Natural habitat No visits that the Project will not produce any impacts on any natural habitats or important natural habitats referred to in the policy definitions. The Project will neither involve procurement of OP4.09 Pest management No pesticides nor result in increase of pesticide usage. This policy will not be triggered since all the Indigenous schools under the Project are not located in OP4.10 No People populated areas of indigenous people (with three in Lanzhou, and one in Tianshui). The civil works under the Project are located in existing campuses. The EA Team confirmed after investigation that no physical cultural resources OP4.11 Cultural Heritage No defined in this policy are involved, but the opportunity identification process should be incorporated into the EMP and relevant articles into the construction contracts. It is known from initial consultation with the PMO staff that all the proposed school improvement Non-voluntary activities will occur in existing campuses of the OP4.12 No Resettlement four project schools and no new land acquisition is involved (with three schools located in the urban area of Lanzhou,and one in Tianshui). The Project components involve no felling or OP4.36 Forest Protection No planting activities of any kind in forest areas, thus producing no impacts on forest areas. The Project involves no dam construction or OP4.37 Dam Safety No rehabilitation contents defined in this policy. 9 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan International The Project involves no international waters OP7.50 No Waters defined in this policy. The Project involves no disputable areas defined in OP7.60 Disputable Areas No this policy. 2.5 Relevant World Bank Policies on Epidemic Prevention and Control （1）Advice on the Use of Masks in the Context of COVID-19; （2）ESF/Safeguards Interim Note: COVID-19 Considerations in Construction/Civil Works Projects; （3）Rational Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19); （4）Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Waste Management for the COVID-19 Virus 2.6 Other Relevant Documents （1） Lanzhou New District Master Plan (2011-2030); （2） Master Urban Planof Lanzhou Municipality (2011-2020); （3） Master Urban Plan of Tianshui Municipality (2005-2020); （4） Feasibility Study Report of World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project （5） Consultation Report of Preliminary Design of No. 33 Dormitory Building of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Industry; （6） World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project, Phase III Construction Project of Gansu Finance and Trade Professional College-General Description of Preliminary Design of Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20 and Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22. 2.7 Environmental Function Zone Planning and Assessment Standards The individual environmental function zoning and evaluation standard of the Project are determined in accordance with the environmental function zoning of the regions where the project schools are located. See Table 2-2 for detail. 10 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 2-2 Environmental Function Zoning and Applicable Standards for the Proposed Project Area Air Environment Function Zoning Surface Water Environment Function Zoning Sound Environment Function Zoning and Applicable Standards and Applicable Standards and Applicable Standards ◎ Located in the TVET Park in Lanzhou New District (LND), the proposed project area primarily belongs to a cultural and （1） educational function zone requiring quiet environment. Since the Gansu proposed project is located in a distance of less than 200m from Vocation the planned urban roads on both sides and subject to significant al impacts of traffic noise, it is recommended based on the “Notice College on Issues of Environmental Noise in Environmental Impact of Assessment of Highway, Railway (Including Light Rail) ◎ The proposed project area is Energy Construction Projects�that the noise standards of 60dB in day and located in a Class II ambient air and 50dB at night as specified in the Sound Environment Quality quality function zone and Class Chemica Standard (GB3096-2008) be applied in this EIA. ⚫ The proposed project involves no surface II standards specified in the l ⚫ Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Ambient Air Quality Standard waters within a distance of 200m in its Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011) should be neighborhood and the domestic wastewater (GB3095-2012) are applicable. applied during the construction period. generated by the Project is discharged into ◎ Indoor Air Quality Standard ◎ Located in the TVET Park in Lanzhou New District (GB/T18883-200) will be municipal sewage pipelines after (LND), the proposed project area primarily belongs to a pretreatment in the school septic tanks and is applied for indoor air quality not directly discharged into the surface cultural and educational function zone requiring quiet during decoration. environment. Since the proposed project is located in a water. The wastewater should be treated to ⚫ Emission Standards of Cooking Class III standards in the Comprehensive distance of less than 200m from the planned urban Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001)★ （2） Discharge Standard for Wastewater roads on both sides and subject to significant impacts of will be applied for cooking fume. Gansu (GB8979-1996) before discharged into the Finance traffic noise, it is recommended based on the “Notice ⚫ Emission standards of 60dB in municipal sewage pipelines and finally and on Issues of Environmental Noise in Environmental day and 50dB(A) at night delivered to the WWTP in the cities where Trade Impact Assessment of Highway, Railway (Including specified in Emission Standard the schools are located for compliance Vocation for Environmental Noises on the treatment. Light Rail) Construction Projects�that the noise al Boundary of Industrial College standards of 60dB in day and 50dB at night as specified Enterprises (GB12348-2008) in the Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096- will be applied. 2008) be applied in this EIA. ⚫ Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523- 2011) should be applied during the construction period. （3） ◎ Located in the Qinzhou District of Tianshui City, the proposed Gansu project area primarily belongs to a residential, medical and health Senior and cultural and educational function zone. Since the school is 12 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Technica located close to Chiyu Road, it is recommended based on the l School “Notice on Issues of Environmental Noise in Environmental of Impact Assessment of Highway, Railway (Including Light Rail) Mechani Construction Projects�that the noise standards of 60dB in day and cs 50dB at night as specified in the Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008) be applied in this EIA. ⚫ Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011) should be applied during the construction period. ◎ Located in the Yantan of Lanzhou City, the proposed project area primarily belongs to a residential, medical and health and cultural and educational function zone. Since the proposed project is （4） located close to Chiyu Road, it is recommended based on the Lanzhou “Notice on Issues of Environmental Noise in Environmental Universit Impact Assessment of Highway, Railway (Including Light Rail) y of Arts Construction Projects�that the noise standards of 60dB in day and and 50dB at night as specified in the Sound Environment Quality Science Standard (GB3096-2008) be applied in this EIA. ⚫ Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523- 2011) should be applied during the construction period. Note:◎ indicates environmental quality standards;� indicates pollutant emission standards; ★This standard is applicable to Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical. 13 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2.6.1 Environmental Quality Standards （1）Sound Environment The noise standards of 60dB in day and 55dB at night specified in the Sound Environment Quality Standards (GB3096-2008) will be applied to all the project schools. （2）Air Environment Class II standards specified in the Ambient Air Quality Standards (GB3095-2012) will be applied. Table 2-3 Ambient Air Quality Standards (GB3095-2012) Function Average Concentration limit（mg/m3） Zone time SO2 NO2 PM10 TSP Annual 0.06 0.04 0.07 0.2 average Class II zone Daily average 0.15 0.08 0.15 0.3 Hourly 0.5 0.2 / / average Indoor Air Quality Standard (GB/T18883-2002) will be applied during decoration. Table 2-4 Indoor Air Quality Standards (GB/T18883-2002) Parameter Standard SN Parameter Unit Remarks type value 1-hour 1 NH3 mg/m3 0.20 average 1-hour 2 HCHO(methanol) mg/m3 0.10 average Chemical 1-hour 3 C6H6(benzene) mg/m3 0.11 average TVOC(total volatile organic 8-hour 4 mg/m3 0.60 compound) average Annual average 5 Radioactive Chlorine 222Rn Bq/m3 400 (action level c) Note: The above indicators are monitored items upon acceptance monitoring. 2.6.2 Pollutant Emission Standards （1）Air Pollutant Emission Standards The major air pollutant involved in this Project is the cooking fume generated by the canteen of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical. The Emission Standard of Cooking Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001) will be applied. See Table 2-5 for detail. 14 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table2-5 Emission Standards of Cooking Fume Scope Small Medium Large Benchmark stove number ≥1，<3 ≥3，<6 ≥6 Total capacity of corresponding ≥1.67，<5.00 ≥5.00，<10 ≥10 stoves103J/h Total projected area of corresponding ≥1.1，<3.3 ≥3.3，<6.6 ≥6.6 exhaust hood on the stove(m2) Maximum permitted emission 2.0 concentration(mg/m3) Minimum removal rate of purification 60 75 85 facility (%) Note: “Cooking businesses emitting fume must have fume purification facilities installed and assure such facilities are operated according to the requirements. Uncontrolled emission is deemed as non-compliant�. （2）Noise Emission Standards Construction noises during the construction period of the Project shall comply with the Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011). See Table 2-6 for detail. Upon completion, the project schools should enforce the noise emission standards of 60dB(A) in day and 50dB(A) at night specified in Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Industrial Enterprises (GB12348-2008). （3）Water Pollutant Emission Standards Wastewater generated by the proposed project mainly comprises of domestic wastewater, which is discharged into municipal sewage pipelines after pretreatment in the school septic tanks and is not directly discharged into the surface water. The wastewater should be treated to Class III standards in the Comprehensive Discharge Standard for Wastewater (GB8979-1996) before discharged into the municipal sewage pipelines and finally delivered to the WWTP in the cities where the schools are located for compliance treatment. 15 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 2-7 Comprehensive Wastewater Discharge Standard (Unit: mg/l） SN Item Class III 1 pH 6-9 2 SS 400 3 BOD5 300 4 CODcr 500 5 Animal and vegetable oil 100 6 Number of fecal coliforms 5000/L Note: The above indicators are monitored items upon acceptance monitoring. 16 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 3. Project Overview 3.1 Introduction of Project Area 3.1.1 Overview of Gansu Province Gansu Province is located in the geographical center of China at the upper reaches of the Yellow River with a vast territory spanning from 32°11′to 42°57′north latitude and 92°13′ to 108°46′east longitude. Having Shaanxi on the east, Ningxia on the northeast, Sichuan on the south and Qinghai and Xinjiang on the west and Inner Mongolia on the north as its neighboring provinces,Gansu Province also borders the People’s Republic of Mongolia. Gansu has a complex topography comprising of complete elements including mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, deserts and Gobi in staggered distribution and an inclining terrain from southwest to northeast. Gansu has a total land area of 454,000km2, accounting for 4.72% of the total land area of China and ranking the seventh. It has an elongated terrain that is 1655 km long east to west and 530 km wide north to south. The boundary line is 8700 km long and the narrowest area is only 25 km. Mountains and plateaus take more than 70% of the Province’s total land area; and a large area of Gobi and desert is present in its northwest part, accounting for about 14.99% of its total land area. Gansu Province is a northwest inland province with difficult accessibility of warm and humid ocean airflow and little chance of rain. Most of its territory is dry and belongs to very strong continental temperate monsoon climate featuring in long and cold winters, vague spring- summer boundary, short and hot summers and fast cooling autumns. The annual average temperature in the Province ranges from 0 to 16℃ and due to the different elevations, the various parts of the Province have big temperature differences, adequate sunshine and big day temperature difference. The Province as a whole has an annual precipitation of 36.6mm to 734.9mmdecreasing from the southeast to the northwest. Precipitation in areas west of Wushaoling Mountain is obviously less while that in Longnan Mountainous Area and the east section of Qilian Mountain is bigger. Affected by the monsoon, precipitation is concentrated in June to August, accounting for 50 to 70% ofthe annual precipitation. Different parts of the Province have largely different frost-free periods, with that inLongnan Valley lasting for about 280 days while that of GannanPlateau being the shortest of only 140 days. 3.1.2 Overview of Lanzhou City Located at 36°03′north latitude and 103°40′east longitude, Lanzhou, a city on the Yellow 17 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan River, is the geometrical center on the world geographical map and the only provincial capital with the Yellow River flowing through the urban center. Under the influence of the mountainous terrain on the northern and southern sides, the urban area is in a long and narrow shape that is approximately 30km long east to west and the narrowest part is only around 5km south to north, carrying the obvious characteristics of a belt-shaped basin city with an average elevation of 1518m. Lanzhou belongs to the temperate continental climate with an annual average temperature of 10.3℃. With no intense heat in summer and severe cold in winter, Lanzhou is a well-known summer resort. Its annual average sunshine time is 2446 hours and the frost-free period is 180 days. Precipitation, with an annual average of 327mm, is concentrated in the months of June to September. Lanzhou is the provincial capital and political, cultural, economic and science and education centerof Gansu Province and has under its jurisdiction 5 districts of Chengguan, Qilihe, Xigu, Anning and Honggu, 3 counties ofYongdeng, Yuzhong andGaolanandLanzhou New District (LND), Lanzhou National Hi-tech Development Zone and LanzhouEconomic and Technological Development Zone. The total urban area is 13,100km2. As of the end of 2014, the city has a resident population of 3,664,900, a registered population of 3,216,400and a non- agricultural population of 2,009,900. There are 56 ethnic groups including Han, Hui, Manchu, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, etc. Officially approved by the State Council on Aug. 20, 2012, Lanzhou New District (LND) becomes the 5th national new district in China and the 1st in the northwest provinces. According to the approval document of the national government, Lanzhou New District (LND) will be built into a nationally important industrial base, an important economic growth pole in Northwest China and an important strategic platform opening westward to the outside world and a demonstration zone to undertake industrial transfer. 3.1.3 Overview of Tianshui City Tianshui is located at 104°35′to 106°44′ east longitude and 34°05′to 35°10′north latitude in the southeastern part of Gansu Province on the borders of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan and halfway from Xi’an to Lanzhou. The average elevation in the urban area is 1100m. With a total area of 14,392km2, Tianshui has under its jurisdiction 2 districts of Qinzhou and Maiji and 5 counties of Gangu, Wushan, Qin’an, Qingshui and ZhangjiachuanHui Autonomous County. Tianshui has a total population of 3,400,000 and a resident population of 3,720,000, including an urban population of 1,200,000. With a population of 603,000 in the 18 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan urban area, its urbanization rate has reached 33%. Tianshui is located in a mountainous terrain that is high in the northwest and low in the southeast and has an elevation ranging from 1000 to 2100m. Mt. Tianyeliang, the highest peak in Tianshui, is 3,120m high while Niubei Village, the lowest point, is only 760m in elevation. Topographically featuring in the distinct regional landform differentiation, Tianshui has a mountainous landform in its eastern and southern parts formed from the ancient folded and uplift strata and a loess hilly landform in its northern part formed from geological subsidence and red soil and loess layer deposition. There is a small area in its middle part where the Wei River valley landform is formed, under the influence of river division and erosion and accumulation in the Quaternary Period, from the Wei River Graben developed due to the fracture of the latitudinal tectonic zone. Tianshui has an annual average precipitation of 574mm that decreases from southeast to northwest. Rainfall in the mountainous area in the middle and eastern parts amounts to more than 600mm while in the area north of Wei River is less than 500mm. With an annual average sunshine time of 2100 hours, Tianshui has neither severe cold winters nor intensely hot summers. In spring, temperature rises at high speed. In autumn, this area is under the unbroken spell of wet weather. The temperate climate in Tianshui features in four distinctive seasons, adequate sunshine and moderate precipitation. 3.2 TVET Overview 3.2.1 TVET in the Project Area （1）TVET in Gansu Province As of 2015, Gansu Province as a whole has 228 TVET institutions of all types, including 88 ordinary secondary specialized schools, 118 vocational high schools and 22 adult secondary specialized schools, and 229,348 students in school. The Province has totally 19,157 TVET teachers, including 2,888 teachers with both teaching and technical qualifications, accounting for only 18.54% of the total faculty, fully unable to meet the needs of TVET in Gansu Province. In terms of office condition of the higher TVET institutions, in Year 2015, Gansu Province has an administrative office area of 1796317.69m2, a per student teaching and administrative office area of 13.02m2 and a per student school building area of 25.1m2, an asset value of CNY 946,327,800for its teaching and research instruments and equipment and a collection of 8,252,800 books. So far as the office condition of the secondary TVET institutions is concerned, in 2015, Gansu Provincehas an administrative office area of 2012112.4m2, a per student teaching and administrative office area of 8.77m2 and a per student school building area of 19 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 18.42m2 and an asset value of CNY 1,081,065,200 for its teaching and research instruments and equipment and a collection of 5,824,400 books. （2）TVET in Lanzhou City In 2015, Lanzhou City as a whole has 67 TVET institutions of all types, accounting for 29.38% of the total of Gansu Province; in 2014, Lanzhou TVET colleges and schools have 69,636 students in school, accounting for 30.3% of the total of Gansu Province. Lanzhou has 44 ordinary secondary specialized schools with 64,996 students in school, 12 vocational high schools with 2,571 students in school and 11 adult secondary specialized schools with 2,069 students in school, TVET teachers in Lanzhou City as a whole has been decreasing from 6,381 teachers in 2011 to 5,368 teachers in 2014. The number of full-time teachers has also been decreasing from 3,925 teachers in 2011 to 3,587 teachers in 2015. Lanzhou City has a per student school building area of 20.1m2 and an asset value of CNY 125,00,000 for its teaching and research instruments and equipment and a collection of 726,000 books. （3）TVET in Tianshui City At present, Tianshui City has 30 TVET institutions of all types, including 3 higher vocational colleges, 5 ordinary secondary specialized schools, 6 technical schools and 16 vocational high schools (secondary vocational schools), and 55,000 students in school. Among the secondary vocational schools, there are 4 national key schools, 5 provincial key schools and 1 municipal key school. The TVET institutions provide nearly 100 specialties under 10 categories substantially covering the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. A TVET system integrating the primary, secondary and higher TVET institutions and interconnected with the other education elements has taken shape. The TVET capability of providing service to economic development is remarkably stronger. 3.2.2 TVET Overview of Project Schools （1）Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College（GFTVC） Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College（GFTVC）was founded through the merge of 7 secondary vocational schools, including Lanzhou Clothing Workers College (Gansu Art Design School), Gansu Bank School, Gansu Economic School, Gansu Finance and Trade School, Gansu Economic Trade School, Gansu Industrial and Commerce Administration School, Gansu Commercial School. GFTVC’s development plan: Based on its master plan,GFTVC plans to have 3500 students in school in 2017 and 10000 students in 2020. Its campus in LND TVET Park will have a planned land area of 855mu and a planned building area of 392,000m2, including 187,600m2 20 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan for Phase 1 scheduled to complete in 2017 with a total investment of CNY 810 million and 58,000m2 for Phase 2 scheduled to commence in 2018 with a total investment of CNY 341 million, including a World Bank loan of CNY 297 million. GFTVCfaculty: GFTVC has 368 full-time teachers, including 328 teachers with an education background of university degree or above. GFTVC plans to have a full-time teaching staff of 450 teachers (including practice tutors) and a full-time management and logistics staff of 100 persons, with the teaching and research staff accounting for more than 80% of the total number of teachers. GFTVC’s specialty construction plan: GFTVC plans to establish 8 specialty departments, including logistics, accounting, finance, economic management, art design, applied engineering, information technology and modern services, and starts to enroll students in 2016 for 5 specialties, namely, logistics management, e-commerce, accounting, financial management practices and art design. GFTVC will adjust and increase specialties based on the needs of social and economic development and its own operation capacity to manifest its own unique features in modern service sector among finance, commerce and trade colleges. By 2020, the total number of specialties will reach 36. （2）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical (GVCEC) Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical (GVCEC) was founded through the merge of 4 secondary vocational schools, namely, Gansu Senior Technical School of Chemical Industry, Gansu Technical School of Construction Materials, Gansu Technical School of Coal Industry and Lanzhou Technical School of Electronics. GVCEC’s development plan: GVCEC has two campuses, the LND main campus and the Pingchuan sub-campus, involving a planned land occupation of 1,505mu (including 1,173mu for the main campus and 329mu for the sub-campus). Pingchuan Campus has an existing school building area of 91,800m2. The main campus is to be developed in 2 phases under one planning. Phase 1 development to be implemented from June 2015 to December 2017 includes the main teaching building, the comprehensive building and the practical training building with a total building area of 139,700m2, including a floor area of 132,400m2 and an underground building area of 7,300m2. Phase 2 development to be implemented from September 2016 to December 2018 involves a building area of 56,100m2. The building area of the LND Main Campus and Pingchuan Campus will respectively reach 195,800m2 and 91,800m2, bringing the total building area of GVCEC up to 287,600m2. GVCECfaculty: GVCEC has a faculty of 393 persons, including 326 full-time teachers and 67 management and logistics staff. 21 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan GVCEC’s specialty construction plan: GVCEC plans to initially establish the specialties of applied chemical technology, coal chemical technology, mine mechanical and electrical technology, material engineering technology, electrical automation technology, and machinery manufacturing and automation and computer network technology. GVCEC will establish new specialties to serve economic development of Gansu Province based on the needs of social and economic development and its own operation capacity and will develop its own unique features in the areas of equipment manufacturing, energy chemical industry, electronic information, new energy, new material and energy conservation and environmental protection. GVCEC plans to have 35 specialties in total. （3）Secondary Specialized School of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science (LUAS) Lanzhou University of Arts and Science (LUAS) is a provincial ordinary institution of higher education providing full-time undergraduate courses. Its predecessors are Gansu Institute of Education and Gansu Lianhe University respectively founded in 1950 and 1985 and merged in July 2001 into the new Gansu Lianhe University. In April 2013, at the approval of Ministry of Education,LUAS was founded on the basis of Gansu Lianhe University. LUAS is located in Yantan District, Lanzhou Gansu Province by the Yellow River. With a campus area of more than 1300 mu and a school building area of 330,000m2, LUAS has more than 9000 full-time students in school and a faculty of more than 700 persons. LUAS’s faculty: The Secondary Specialized School of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science has 85 full-time teachers. LUAS specialty construction plan: The Secondary Art School (Gansu Provincial Art School) mainly focuses on more than 10 specialties in the three areas of music, dancing and opera. LUAS’s unique specialties include Dunhuang Dancing Performance, Qinqiang Opera Performance and Long Opera Performance and LUAS is the only school in Gansu Province providing training in the specialties ofQinqiang Opera Performance and Long Opera Performance. （4）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics(GSTSM) Founded in 1973 and involving a land occupation of 152mu and a building area of 74,000m2, Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics (GSTSM) has an in-service faculty of 208 persons, including 21 specialty leaders, 27 specialty construction managers and 83 teachers with both teaching and technical qualifications, 1 teacher subsidized by the State Council Special GovernmentAllowance Program and 1 national famous TVET teacher. GSTSM has a number of teachers honored as the national, provincial and prefecture-level teachers of 22 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan excellence and has employed more than 60 senior engineers and technicians with rich practical experiences as specialty lecturers and practical training tutors. 3.3 Project Development Objectives Through implementation of the Project, skilled professionals will be trained and provided for the industries of petroleum, chemical industry, non-ferrous metallurgy and equipment manufacturing where Gansu enjoys unique advantages. The Province’s TVET sector will take HR development as the starting point to realize industrial innovation and set up a benign operation mechanism enabling interaction and mutual facilitation of HR demand of the industries with unique advantages and the HR supply of the TVET sector. Through implementation of the Project, the project schools’ hardware environment and teaching conditions will be improved, teaching performance evaluation standards and student examination and appraisal standard will be developed and improved, the school operation concepts will be enhanced and school-industry partnership will be upgraded and enriched and the school-industry partnership operating mechanism will be promoted. First-class and high- quality teaching forces will be trained and modular and theory-practice integration specialty design, teaching design and textbooks will be developed and adopted; school management will be more scientific and standardized; school-industry linkage will become much closer and training quality will be improved to provide significantly effective service to the society and radiate and drive TVET development in the surrounding areas. A large number of high-quality labors and practical professionals with professional behavior and ability will be output to contribute to the high-speed and high-quality development of regional economy. 3.4 Project Components 3.4.1 Project Components The World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project consists of components of four project schools, namely, Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, Lanzhou University of Arts and Science and Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics. Figure 1-1 shows the location of the fourproject schools in the respective cities in Gansu Province. 3.4.2 Geographical Location of Construction Works of the Project Schools （1）Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 23 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical are located in the TVET Park in Zone B of the Science & Education Park of LND. The LND TVET Park construction site borders Baiyin-LND Class I Highway on its east, the City Ring Expressway on its west, the North Expressway on its north and the urban arterial street of Weiershiliu Road on its south， with the City Light Rail running south-to-north through the site center. The construction land parcel of the TVET Park is adjacent to Gansu Gymnasium Construction Project. See Figure 3-1 for location details. 24 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Figure 3-1 Location of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical in LND （2）Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Lanzhou University of Arts and Science is located in the planned site of its southern 25 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan campus at No. 400, Beimiantan, Chengguan District, Lanzhou. Bordering Yanbei Road, also the planned route of Metro Line No. 3 of Lanzhou City, and having the urban arterial streets of North Exit Street and Tianshui Road of Lanzhou City located 1km away to the north, the construction site has a flat and regular terrain and a layout plan meeting the requirements of school planning. See Figure 3-2 for location details. Figure 3-2 Location of Lanzhou Art & Science College in Lanzhou City （3）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics The construction site of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Project is located in the southern campus of Gansu Mechanical and Electrical Vocational and Technical College at No. 107, Chiyu Road, Qinzhou District, Tianshui, Gansu Province. Surrounded by a campus road and student dormitories on the east, the west campus fencing wall on the west, the Central Campus Garden on the north and the rubber playground on its south and the South Hill, the construction site of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics is a land parcel owned by the School and belongs to educational land. See Figure 3-3 for location details. 26 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Figure 3-3 Location of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics in Tianshui City 3.4.3 Construction Works of Each Project School Table 3-1 shows in detail the construction works of each project school under the “World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project�. 27 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 3-1 List of Construction Components of the Proposed Project Name of Natu Construction Site Construction Works Construction Scope Key Functions school re Teaching Building No. 24, Practical Training In the middle of LND Building No. 4 and The total building area as planned is TVET Park bordering Student Dormitory 74322.07m2, including 14233.58m2for 1 The key function is teaching and practical Gansu Wenquxi Road on the Buildings No. 31, No. teaching building, 14762.35m2for 1 training. The Practical Training Center Vocational east, Weiershiliu Road 32, and No. 33, Student professional practical training building, mainly hosts the Automobile Engineering College of New on the south, Beidou Canteen No. 30, as well 38368.14m2for 2 student dormitory Practical Training Center, the Material Energy and Road on the west and as the supporting buildings, 6958m2 for 1 student canteen. Engineering Practical Training Center and Chemical North Expressway on the facilities and campus Phase 2 planning contains no underground the Elevator Practical Training Center. north landscaping providing building. services to 2,320 students Practical Training The key functions are teaching, student Building No. 18, dormitory and practical training and At the northwestern Practical Training specialties involved are finance corner of LND TVET Building No. 19 and The total building area as planned is management, international trade, Gansu Park bordering Beidou Area AB of Practical 70326.43m2, including 37046.61m2for the commercial English, computer application Finance and Road and Expressway on Training Building No. comprehensive practical training building, technology, fashion show, hotel service and Trade the east, Weiershiliu 20, and Second 19737.36m2 for the second teaching building, management, tourism management, city New Vocational Road on the south, Keti Teaching Building No. 13542.46m2for student dormitory building. light rail operation and management, etc. College Road on the west and 21, Student Dormitory Phase 2 planning contains no underground North Expressway on the Building No. 22 and building. north campus landscaping providing services to 2,074 students Floor No. 1 to 5 of the Teaching Building contain ordinary classrooms and practical Inside the Southern Teaching Building and With a total building area of 34782㎡, the training rooms while the 6th Floor contains Gansu Campus of Gansu Senior building complex comprises of the Teaching teaching research rooms and conference Senior Technical School of Teaching Office Building with 6 floors above the ground and rooms. The 2st Floor of the Teaching Office Technical Mechanics at No. 107, Building of Gansu New the Teaching Office Building with 16 floors Building hosts the School History Exhibition School of Chiyu Road, Qinzhou Senior Technical School above the ground and 1 floor under the Hall, the Fire Control Room and the Duty Mechanics District, Tianshui, Gansu of Mechanics（AB） ground. Room while Floors No. 2 to 15 are for Province teaching offices. The 16th Floor is a big conference room and Basement 1 hosts 28 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan equipment rooms such as power distribution rooms, heat exchange rooms and water pump rooms. In terms of functional arrangement, the Art Practice Center mainly comprises of arena and auditorium in the center, both being single-storey. The half basement floor is mainly space for the stage pit, distribution room and air conditioners. The southern part of the building has four floors. Floor 1 is Inside the planned site of mainly the resting zone and evacuation exits the Southern Campus of With a total building area of 6100m2, the and washrooms; Floor 2 and 3 are exhibition Lanzhou Lanzhou University of Art Practice Center of building comprises of 1 floor above the space while Floor 4 mainly provides office University of Arts and Science at No. Lanzhou University of ground and a half basement floor and and management space. The eastern part of New Arts and 400, Beimiantan, Arts and Science (Gansu partially 2 and 4 floors. The construction site the auditorium has two floors, with the first Science Yantan, Chengguan Art School) is flat and has an excellent geological floor mainly hosting the control rooms and District, Lanzhou, Gansu condition. the lobby and main entrance and exit while Province the second floor the multi-purpose hall; the western part of the arena comprises of four floors, with the first floor containing auxiliary makeup, waitingspaces and an actor/actress entrance on the northern side while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors all for office and management purposes. 29 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 3.4.4 Relationshipof Reliance between the Proposed Works and the Existing in-campus Facilitiesof each Project School The civil works to be constructed under the proposed WB loan project are all located in the existing campuses and are reliant on the existing in-campus facilities of water supply, drainage and power supply and heating. See Table 3-2 for details in this regard. Table 3-2 Relationship of Reliance between the Proposed Project Components and the Various Infrastructure Works Gansu Finance Lanzhou Gansu Vocational Gansu Senior Type of and Trade University of Feasibility of College of Energy and Technical School of works Vocational Arts and reliance Chemical Mechanics College Science Practical Training Building No. 18 Teaching Building No. and 19, Area AB 24, Practical Training of Practical Teaching Main Building No. 4, Student Training Building（AB） and Art Practice / structures Dormitory Buildings No. Building No. 20, Teaching Office Center 31, 32 and 33, Student Second Teaching Building Canteen No. 30 Building No. 21, Student Dormitory Building No. 22 Relying on Relying on water supply existing in- Relying on water supply pipelines Relying on existing in- campus water Water Supply pipelines constructed in constructed in campus water supply supply Water supply Phase I, water supply is Phase I, water pipelines, water supply pipelines, capacity can connected into the supply is is connected into the water supply is meet the buildings to be connected into buildings to be connected into requirement. constructed under the the buildings to constructed under the the buildings to Project. be constructed Project. be constructed under the under the Project. Project. New drainage New drainage New drainage Public Utilities pipelines to be pipelines to be New wastewater pipelines and one constructed constructed collection pipelines to be outdoor septic tank Wastewater inside the inside the Drainage constructed inside the will be constructed and collection buildings are buildings are buildings are connected to domestic wastewater is capacity can connected to the connected to the the outdoor main drainage pretreated and then meet the outdoor main existing main pipeline constructed in discharged into the in- requirement. drainage pipeline drainage Phase I. campus main drainage constructed in pipelines in pipeline. Phase I. campus. Relying on the power grid of Relying on the power grid Power Supply Phase I, power Power distribution of Phase I, power supply Connected to the Power supply supply is rooms are constructed is connected into the existing power capacity can connected into to connect with the buildings to be supply in meet the the buildings to existing power supply constructed under the campus. requirement. be constructed in campus. Project. under the Project. 30 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Relying on the heating Relying on the heating network of Heat exchange stations network of Phase I, heat Phase I, heat Connected to the Heating Heating are constructed to supply is connected into supply is existing heating capacity can connect with the the buildings to be connected into network in meet the existing heating constructed under the the buildings to campus. requirement. network in campus. Project. be constructed under the Project. Ventilation Ventilation Ventilation systems are Ventilation systems Ventilation Ventilation systems are systems are provided in are provided in toilets, requirement is provided in toilets, etc. provided in toilets, etc. met. toilets, etc. exhibition halls, etc. Ventilation fans are Exhaust gas provided in the practical Ventilation fans Ventilation fans are Exhaust gas training rooms and fume are provided in provided in the treatment / purification equipment the practical practical training requirements and ventilation system training rooms. rooms are met. provided in canteens. Relying on septic tank constructed in Phase I, domestic sewage is One new 100m3 septic Domestic pretreated and then Relying on septic tank is to be sewage is discharged into the tank constructed constructed outdoors collected via the municipal wastewater in Phase I, Wastewater and the sewage is pipeline into the Wastewater pipelines; canteen and domestic sewage collection and pretreated and then existing outdoor kitchen wastewater is is pretreated and treatment collected into the main septic tank and treated through the oil then discharged capacity can drainage pipeline in then treated and separating tank and then into the meet the campus before finally discharged into discharged together with municipal requirement. Environmental Protection Works discharged into the the municipal the domestic sewage into wastewater municipal wastewater wastewater the septic tank and then pipelines. pipelines. pipelines. pretreated and discharged into the municipal wastewater pipelines. （1）Domestic solid wastes collection bins are provided at specified service radius in the various buildings and structures. （2）Solid wastes Domestic solid generated from Domestic solid Domestic solid wastes collection automobile engineering wastes collection wastes collection Solid Wastes bins are Solid waste practical training bins are provided bins are provided at provided at collection and activities may contain oil at specified specified service specified service disposal rags, which may be mixed service radius in radius in the various radius in the requirements and treated together with the various buildings and various are met. the domestic solid wastes. buildings and structures. buildings and Such wastes are structures. structures. hazardous solid wastes exempted from all processes in the National Catalog of Hazardous Wastes (2016) and are not managed as hazardous wastes in full process. 31 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Sound Sound Noise control Noise Sound insulation insulation Sound insulation insulation requirements windows are installed. windows are windows are installed. windows are are met. installed. installed. 3.4.5 Layout Plan of the Construction Works of Each Project School Layout plans of the construction works in each project school are shown in Figures 3-4 to 3-5. 32 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Figure 3-4 Layout Plan of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 33 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Figure 3-5 Layout Plan of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College 34 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Teaching Building A Teaching Teaching Office Building Building B Figure 3-6 Layout Plan of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Figure 3-7 Layout Plan of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science 35 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 3.4.6 Project Land Occupation and Earthwork Balance （1）Project Land Occupation The proposed project involves a total land occupation of 39,754.02m2 as land for construction works in the campuses of each project school, with no new land acquisition and resettlement involved. See Table 3-3 for details of land occupation of the Project. Table3-3 Statistics of Land Occupation of the Project (Unit:m2) Land Occupation Nature of land Name of School Building Area Area occupation Land for Gansu Vocational College of 14947.5 74295.07 construction works Energy and Chemical in campus Land for Gansu Finance and Trade 17148.99 77759.11 construction Vocational College works in campus Land for Gansu Senior Technical 4883.00 34782.00 construction works School of Mechanics in campus Land for Lanzhou University of Arts 2774.53 6100.00 construction and Science works in campus Total 39754.02 192936.18 （2）Earthwork Balance The proposed project involves a total earthwork excavation of approximately 40,247.6m3, backfill and leveling fill of 49,541.11m3 and earthwork transfer and reuse of 15,415.89m3 and spoildisposal of 6,122.38m3 during the construction period. A borrow fill of 15415.89m3 will be needed for the construction works of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College. Since the World Bank Loan Project is Phase II construction works of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and the College already took account of site leveling in the campus as a part of the overall construction planning and planned comprehensive allocation and utilization of earth and rock fill needed at all the construction sites in campus, the borrow fill needed for the construction sites under the proposed World Bank loan project will be sourced from the other construction sites on campus. Spoil generated during the construction of the Project should be handled according to the construction waste disposal requirements of local environmental protection authorities in the project area. Table 3-4 shows the earthwork balance of every project school. Table 3-4 Earthwork Balance (Unit:m3) Backfill Spoil Item Excavation Borrow fill amount disposal 36 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 12886.11 12886.11 0.00 0.00 Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational 15258.97 30674.86 15415.89 0.00 College Gansu Senior Technical School of 9683.30 4407.65 0.00 5275.65 Mechanics Lanzhou University of Arts and 2419.22 1572.49 0.00 846.73 Science Total 40247.6 49541.11 15415.89 6122.38 3.4.7 Identification of Environment Management Tools An environmental management plan aims to eliminate or compensate the adverse environmental or social impacts generated during the implementation of a project and, therefore, its most important concern is the construction works of the project. The Environmental Management Plan of the Project should include environmental code of practices (ECOP) and specific site impacts (SS). ECOP mainly refers to the impacts of general civil works and the impacts of specific items and their mitigation measures. Specific site impacts (SS) includes mitigation measures for the sensitive points and sensitive objects around the civil works during the construction period as well as handling of construction solid wastes and safety issues. 3.4.8 Selection of Environmental Impact Assessment Factors （1）Construction Period Environmental impacts during the construction period of the Project mainly come from noises, wastewater, exhaust gas and solid wastes generated during the construction process and from the domestic activities of the construction staff. See Table 3-5 for detail. 37 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 3-5 Identification of Environmental Impacts during the Construction Period Environmental Key Processes Generating Impacts Key Impact Factors Elements Site leveling, foundation excavation, construction Dust material transportation, storage and usage Ambient air Operation of fuel-driven construction plants and Tail gas transportation vehicles Exhaust gas from Indoor decoration decoration activities Construction Foundation excavation, mixing, washing Water wastewater environment Domestic activities of construction workers Domestic sewage Sound Operation of construction plants and transportation Noise environment vehicles Foundation excavation, material processing Construction wastes Solid wastes Domestic activities of construction workers Domestic wastes Construction vehicle management Construction camp management Social Personnel safety environment Construction staff behavior management Environment, health and safety （2）Operation Period After the Project is completed, the main pollutants will include wastewater, exhaust gas, noise and domestic solid wastes generated from the domestic and teaching activities of students and teachers on campus. See Table 3-6 for the identified environmental impacts during the operation period. Table3-6 Identification of Environmental Impacts during the Operation Period Environment Key Processes Generating Impacts Key Environmental Factors al elements Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Water Canteen, domestic activities of students and Kitchen wastewater, domestic sewage environment teachers on campus Sound Teaching activities Noises from social activities environment Practical training equipment Equipment noises Domestic activities of students and teachers on Domestic solid wastes campus Solid wastes Vehicle test and maintenance practical training Waste oil rag room Ambient air Canteen Fume 38 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Water Domestic activities of students and domestic sewage environment teachers on campus Sound Teaching activities Noises from social activities environment Solid Domestic activities of students and teachers on Domestic solid wastes wastes campus Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Water Domestic activities of students and domestic sewage environment teachers on campus Sound Teaching activities Noises from social activities environment Domestic activities of students and teachers on Solid wastes Domestic solid wastes campus Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Water Domestic activities of students and domestic sewage environment teachers on campus Sound Performance and teaching activities Noises from social activities environment Solid Domestic activities of students and teachers on Domestic solid wastes wastes campus 39 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 4. Environmental Status &Sensitive Point Survey 4.1 Characteristics of the Project’sSurrounding Environment 4.1.1 Status Quo of Civil Works Construction Sites of Project Schools （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College On this construction site,the “LND TVET Park Three-school One-park Construction Project� is being implemented, which is Phase I Project of these schools. The World Bank Loan Project covers construction works of Phase II of these schools. The original landform of the construction site is loess low hills and the majority of the site has been leveled during Phase I construction. The site is located in LND TVET Park surrounded by planned roads and involves no villages of centralized residence within a distance of 200m. See Figure 4-1 for details. Figure 4-1 Construction Site and Surrounding Environment of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical and Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College （2）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics 40 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan The construction site of this project school is currently hardened ground comprising of a football field and a small number of sport facilities as well as the school offices in the northwestern corner. All these structures will be demolished for the sake of construction of the Project. To the north and west of the site are the school’s central greenbelt and Practical Training Building while to its south and east are a sports ground and internal roads and student dormitory buildings. See Figure 4-2 for details. Figure 4-2 Construction Site and Surrounding Environment of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics （3）Lanzhou University of Arts and Science The construction site of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science is located on the northeastern side of its southern campus and is currently a landscaping area planted with trees and flowers. The site is adjacent to Yanbei Road on its north and the Teaching Building to its southwest, with the Practical Training Base and the sports ground respectively located to its 41 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan south and east. See Figure 4-3 for detail. Figure 4-3 Construction Site and Surrounding Environment of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science 4.1.2 Sound Environment Quality Status of the Project School Areas Gansu Xinbaoli Environment Monitoring Co., Ltd. is engaged to conduct noise monitoring in areas around the project schools as a part of this EIA process aiming to study the sound environment quality status in the project area. （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College 1）Monitoring points Since these two schools are adjacent to each other, monitoring points in this EIA were arranged based on the layout plan of both schools and the location of the proposed project. See Table 4-1 and Figure 4-1 for details of the noise monitoring points. 42 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 4-1 Noise Monitoring Points Monitoring Location Remarks Point No. A1 North of GVCEC Monitoring at monitoring points on the A2 West of GVCEC school boundary and adjacent to roads is required to be conducted in traffic peak A3 South of GVCEC hours, with distance from the monitoring points to the center lines of adjacent roads A4 East of GFTVC as well as traffic flow of different vehicle types recorded simultaneously. A5 East of GVCEC At the location of the proposed Practical A6 Training Building of GVCEC Unanticipated noises of construction and At the locations of the proposed Practical horns should be avoided. A7 Training Buildings No. 18 and No. 19 of GFTVC 2）Monitoring Time and Monitoring Frequency The monitoring lasted for 2 consecutive days of the 21st and 22nd of April, 2016, one each day and night. 3）Monitoring Method The monitoring methods stipulated in Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096- 2008) and Provisional Technical Specifications on Routine Monitoring of Sound Environment Quality are adopted. 4）Monitoring Results See Table 4-2 for the results of site boundary noise monitoring. Table 4-2 Summary of Environmental Noise Monitoring Results(Leq dB(A)) Day & Monitoring Date Applicable Monitoring Point Night April 21 April 22 standard Day 63.0 62.7 60 A1, north of GVCEC Night 52.5 53.1 50 Day 53.6 54.4 60 A2, west of GVCEC Night 45.6 46.2 50 Day 55.7 54.8 60 A3, south of GVCEC Night 46.6 46.4 50 Day 56.1 58.5 60 A4, east of GFTVC Night 46.9 47.0 50 Day 62.6 64.6 60 A5, east of GVCEC Night 51.9 52.1 50 A6, at the location of the proposed Day 54.2 53.7 60 Practical Training Building of GVCEC Night 43.0 44.8 50 A7, at the locations of the proposed Day 53.9 54.9 60 Practical Training Buildings No. 18 and No. 19 of GFTVC Night 44.3 44.7 50 5）Sound Environment Quality Assessment 43 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan It is known from the noise monitoring results that the sound environment in the project school areas is of relatively good quality in general. Noise values at the monitoring points other than A1 and A5, where minimal non-compliance is detected, comply with the respective standards. Analysis of the monitoring sites reveals that the main cause of the non-compliant monitoring results at A1 and A5 is their adjacency to an arterial city street partially open to traffic and non-stop vehicle passage during construction. Based on the monitoring of this area, it is indicated that the local sound environment quality will be impacted to different degrees as the construction works under the proposed project commence and the adjacent roads are open to traffic. The monitoring results show that impacts from the construction noises generated by the construction works in the schools are relatively small and of short duration and will end as the construction works complete. Traffic noise from the adjacent roads is a key factor leading to deterioration of the regional environment quality. Along with the development of LND, traffic flow in this region will grow, making road traffic noise a key source of noises in the region. （2）Lanzhou University of Arts and Science 1）Monitoring Point 4 boundary noise monitoring points (B1, B2, B3 and B4) are arranged around the campus and 1 sound environment quality monitoring point （B5） is arranged in the campus. See Table 4-3 and Figure 4-3 for layout of the monitoring points. Table 4-3 Sound Environment Monitoring Points Monitoring Point Position Remarks No. B1 North of LUAS Monitoring at monitoring points adjacent to roads is required to be conducted in B2 West of LUAS traffic peak hours, with distance from the monitoring points to the center lines of B3 South of LUAS adjacent roads as well as traffic flow of different vehicle types recorded simultaneously. B4 East of LUAS In the construction site of the B5 During classes Project 2）Monitoring Time & Monitoring Frequency The monitoring lasted for 2 consecutive days of the 19th and 20th of April, 2016, one each day and night. 44 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 3）Monitoring Methods The monitoring methods stipulated in Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096- 2008) and Provisional Technical Specifications on Routine Monitoring of Sound Environment Quality are adopted. 4）Monitoring Results See Table 4-2 for the results of site boundary noise monitoring. Table 4-4 Summary of Environmental Noise Monitoring Results (Leq dB(A)) Day & Monitoring Date Applicable Monitoring point Night April 19 April 20 standard Day 63.2 62.9 60 B1, North of LUAS Night 61.6 60.5 50 Day 53.9 51.8 60 B2, West of LUAS Night 52.4 52.5 50 Day 49.6 50.5 60 B3, South of LUAS Night 46.7 45.9 50 Day 71.7 69.7 60 B4, East of LUAS Night 67.2 67.0 50 Day 54.2 53.9 60 B5, in the project construction site Night 53 52.8 50 5）Sound Environment Quality Assessment It is known from the noise monitoring results that the sound environment in the project school area is subject to significant impacts from its urban function layout, with noise level at the northern, eastern and western boundaries not compliant due to significant impacts from traffic noise on the adjacent roads and the sound environment on the southern boundary of fine quality because it is mainly subject to impacts from domestic noises of the adjacent residential blocks. The construction site is located in the campus and, attenuated by roadside greenbelts and on-site vegetation, the sound environment quality on the project construction site is significantly better than the school boundary, with daytime monitoring results complying with the standard while nighttime monitoring results non-compliant. This is because that the construction site is close to Yanbei Road, which is an arterial urban street, and the day and night traffic flow is not of much difference resulting in similarly small difference of noise levels between day and night. The civil works to be constructed in this project school is the Art Practice Center that is mainly used for performance and watching and involves no overnight stay. Thus, minimal impact is produced from night time traffic noises. 45 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （3）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics 1）Monitoring Points 4 boundary noise monitoring points (C1, C2, C3 and C4) are arranged around the campus and 1 environment quality monitoring point (C5) is arranged in the campus. See Table 4-5 and Figure 4-2 for layout of the monitoring points. Table 4-5 Sound Environment Monitoring Points Monitoring Point Position Remarks No. C1 North of GSTSM Monitoring at monitoring points adjacent to roads is required to be C2 West of GSTSM conducted in traffic peak hours, with distance from the monitoring points to the center C3 South of GSTSM lines of adjacent roads as well as traffic flow of different vehicle types recorded simultaneously C4 East of GSTSM In the construction site of the C5 During classes Project 2）Monitoring Time & Monitoring Frequency The monitoring lasted for 2 consecutive days of the 19th and 20th of April, 2016, one each day and night. 3）Monitoring Methods The monitoring methods stipulated in Sound Environment Quality Standard (GB3096- 2008) and Provisional Technical Specifications on Routine Monitoring of Sound Environment Quality are adopted. 4）Monitoring Results See Table 4-6 for boundary noise monitoring results. 46 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 4-6 Summary of Environmental Noise Monitoring Results(Leq dB(A)) Day & Monitoring Date Applicable Monitoring Point Night April 19 April 20 standard Day 66.1 62.9 60 C1, north of GSTSM Night 60.4 60.8 50 Day 50.0 52.3 60 C2, west of GSTSM Night 43.9 36.4 50 Day 55.4 50.4 60 C3, south of GSTSM Night 35.1 32.5 50 Day 56.9 51.1 60 C4, east of GSTSM Night 36.7 33.4 50 Day 59.6 57.4 60 C5, in the project construction site Night 40.5 39.4 50 5）Sound Environment Quality Assessment It is known from the noise monitoring results that the sound environment in the project school area is subject to significant impacts from its urban function layout, with noise level at the northern boundary not compliant due to significant impacts from traffic noise on Chiyu Road in its adjacency and the sound environment at the other monitoring points of fine quality because it is mainly subject to impacts from domestic noises. The construction site is located in the campus and, attenuated by roadside buildings and vegetation, the sound environment quality on the project construction site is significantly better, with both daytime and nighttime monitoring results complying with the standard. 4.2 Environmental Protection Objects The environmentally sensitive protection objects of the proposed project mainly include in-campus teaching buildings, dormitory buildings as well as residential buildings, schools, hospitals and nursing homes in the neighborhood that might be subject to impacts during the construction period of the Project. As a part of the EIA process, sensitive protection objects in the neighborhood of the Project were identified based on the scope of noise impacts during the construction period. Here described as follows are the results: Noise pollution during the construction period mainly occurs in four construction periods, i.e. the earthwork construction period, the foundation construction period, the structure construction period and the decoration period. The main noise sources are the various kinds of construction plants, e.g. excavators, loaders, trucks in service, etc., mostly producing continuous noise. Noises in the construction period are temporary and restoration is anticipated after the construction is completed. Here shown in the table below are predictednoise sourceintensity and impacts of noises generated by the key construction plants: 47 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 4-7Noise Values of Key Construction Plants Construction Distance from Sound Noise Source Noise Level [dB(A)] period Source(m) Bulldozer 95 1 Earthwork Excavator 95 1 Trucks 90 1 Pile driver 85～105 1 Pneumatic pick 100 1 Foundation Crane 90 1 Grader 90 1 Concrete truck-mixer 90 1 Structure Electric welding machine 95 1 Trucks 90 1 Electric drill 100 1 Electric hammer 105 1 Decoration (indoors) Hand drill 105 1 Multifunction carpenter’s 95 1 plane Table 4-8Noise Values of Transportation Vehicles during the Construction Period Concrete tank trucks, Noise source Heavy trucks Light trucks load-carrying vehicles Sound Level dB(A) 95 80～85 75 Table 4-9Prediction of Noise Impacts of Construction Plants (Equivalent Sound Level (LAeq:dB(A)) Compliance Measuring point distance (m) SN Plant Distance 10 20 50 70 100 150 200 Day Night Drop 1 hammer 85 78.98 71.02 68.10 65.00 61.48 58.98 57 317 pile driver Spiral pile 2 75 68.98 61.02 58.10 55.00 51.48 48.98 18 100 driver Hydraulic 3 65 58.98 51.02 48.10 45.00 41.48 38.98 6 35 pile driver Pneumatic 4 80 73.98 66.02 63.10 60.00 56.48 53.98 32 178 pick 5 Excavator 75 68.98 61.02 58.10 55.00 51.48 48.98 18 100 6 Crane 70 63.98 56.02 53.10 50.00 46.48 43.98 10 57 Standard: Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011); 70dB（A） in day and 55dB（A） at night Note: The noise impact scopes of different types of construction plants in operation are largely different. In order to take account of the worst impacts, prediction during this EIA does not address attenuation by the surrounding buildings and is conducted using the point sound source model in semi-free space. In actual operation, the noise impact scope will be smaller than the prediction results shown in the table above. 48 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan It is known from the prediction results of noise impacts of the various representative construction plants that pile drivers and pneumatic picks produce the strongest impacts during the construction period, mainly concentrated in the foundation construction period. With only distance attenuation taken into account but not the influence of building barrier, the ordinary construction plants can meet the daytime noise limits at a distance of 30m in daytime and beyond 100m at night; Different pile drivers produce impacts of significant difference in operation. Predictions show that the conventional drop hammer pile drivers have the biggest scope of impacts, in particular in night time when the compliance distance is as long as 300m away; spiral and hydraulic pile drivers have smaller impacts, with not very large difference from ordinary construction plants, and, therefore, are recommended. Based on the above noise prediction results, sensitive points within a distance of around 100m around the construction sites will, to a certain extent, be impacted by construction noises and the level of such impacts will be very minor beyond 100m. In association with the above information, sensitive areas around the civil works of the Project were identified as a part of the EIA. Such sensitive areas include teaching buildings and dormitory buildings in campus and residential buildings, schools, hospitals, nursing homes in the neighborhood. See Table 4-10 and Figures 4-4, 4-5 and 4-6 for detail. 49 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 4-10Survey of Environmental Protection Objects in the Surroundings of the Proposed Project Environmental Affected S Sensitive Loca Dista Impacting ly Sensitive Person and Photo N Protection Objects tion nce Period Elements Scope I Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical (LND) 11# Logistics Construction 1 NW 75m Air, Noise 30 persons Building period 4#Dormitory Construction 2 NW 50m Air, Noise 300 persons Building period 5# Dormitory Construction 300 3 NW 55m Air, Noise Building period persons 3# Practical Training Construction Figure 4- 4 W 30m Air, Noise 50 persons 5 Building period Construction 50 5 19# Building NW 60m Air, Noise period persons Dormitory Building Air, noise Construction 6 No.31* W 35m Period 250 persons Dormitory Building Air, noise Construction 7 No.32* S 35m Period 170 persons * Note: The implementation period of this project is relatively long, in which the construction of the Dormitory Building No. 33 will be late. At that time, Dormitory Buildings No.31 and No. 32 will be completed and put into use, which may be affected by the construction of Dormitory Building No. 33. II Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College (LND) 2# Student Construction 1 N 65m Air, Noise 300 persons Dormitory Building period 14# Comprehensive Construction 2 W 75m Air, Noise 600 persons Teaching Building period Practical Training Air, noise Construction Figure 3 Building No. 19* W 32m Period 200 persons 4-5 Second Teaching Air, noise Construction 4 Building No. 21* N 55m Period 170 persons Area AB of Student Air, noise Construction 5 Dormitory Building S 20m Period 170 persons No. 22* * Note: The implementation period of this project is relatively long, in which the construction of the Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20 and Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 will be late. At that time, Practical Training Building No.19, Second Teaching Building No. 21 and Area AB of Dormitory Building No. 22 will be completed and put into use, which may be affected by the construction of Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20 and Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22. III Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics (Tianshui City) Construction 1 In-campus library N 15m Air, Noise 80 persons period In-campus office Construction 50 persons 2 N 75m Air, Noise building period Figure 4- In-campus student Construction 400 persons 6 3 E 25m Air, Noise dormitory building period In-campus practical Construction 30 4 W 15m Air, Noise training rooms period persons All-weather sport Construction 80 5 S 35m Air ground period persons IV Lanzhou University of Arts and Science (Lanzhou City) 50 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan In-campus teaching Construction 300 1 SW 70m Air, Noise office building period persons Practical Training Construction 2 S 10m Air, Noise 300 persons Base period Figure 4- Approximat 7 ely 20 Beimiantan New Construction 3 N 95m Air, Noise persons in Village period the impact scope Status of GFTVC Construction Site Status of GVCEC Construction Site Figure 4-4 Construction Status of the Sensitive points of LND GVCEC and GFTVC In-campus teaching office building In-campus student dormitory 51 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan In-campus practical training rooms Figure 4-5Sensitive point Layout and Status Quo Photograph of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics In-campus teaching office building Beimiantan New Village Figure 4-6Sensitive point Layout and Status Quo Photograph of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science 52 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 5. Impact Analysis & Mitigation Measures 5.1 Environmental Impact Analysis and Mitigation Measures in the Construction Period 5.1.1 General impact analysis （1）Analysis of impacts by exhaust gas pollutants on the surrounding environment Exhaust gas pollution in the construction period of the Project mainly comes from construction dust, tail gas of construction plants and exhaust gas of organic solvent used in decoration works. 1）Impact analysis of construction dust In the construction period, dust produces the greatest impact on ambient air quality. Dust can easily arise from loose soil on the ground surface damaged by earthwork excavation and fill and other construction activities in the land use area during construction. Spoil transportation and removal, building material transportation, handling and stockpiling operations may also easily lead to dust. The local climate featuring in little rainfall and dry and windy springs and winters in Gansu Province constitute a driving force of dust generation. Dust easily rises in windy weathers and produces serious impacts on air quality. The amount of dust generated in the construction period is related to many factors, such as wind power, material moisture, operational civilization, stacking and stockpiling methods and particle size and sedimentation velocity of dust particles. The amount of dust generated when construction transportation vehicles travel is related to pavement condition and vehicle speed. Dust generated by vehicles under the action of natural wind normally has an impact range of 100m and can be reduced by around 70% if water is sprayed 4 or 5 times a day over the pavement. Impacts of construction dust can be effectively reduced by means of erecting fencing walls, more frequent water spraying on site roads, reasonable stockpiling of spoil and improved construction management in the construction process. The adverse impacts disappear as the construction period comes to an end. 2）Tail Gas of Construction Plants and Transportation Vehicles Exhaust gas in the construction period mainly includes exhaust gas emitted by construction plants and tail gas from vehicles and the key pollutants are NOx, CO and THC. The project area has excellent diffusion conditions and, as the exhaust gas from the construction plants is of a small volume and has a limited scope of impacts, its environmental impacts can be effectively reduced through improving maintenance of the construction plants and minimizing 53 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan emission due to mechanical failures. 3）Impact Analysis of Organic Solvent Organic exhaust gas generated by decoration materials such as paints, latex paints, spray agents and binding agents include formaldehyde, dimethylbenzene and chlorinated hydrocarbons. In the decoration process, it is difficult to estimate the quantities of decoration materials used. It is usually difficult for indoor air to comply with the requirements of the Indoor Air Quality Standard (GB/T18883-2002) immediately after the decoration work is completed. Vitalization of the aforesaid organic exhaust gases mainly occurs in the 3-month decoration period. These organic exhaust gases belong to fugitive emission mainly affecting human health and may be effectively reduced indoors through selection of environment-friendly decoration materials and improvement of indoor ventilation. （2）Analysis of impacts by wastewater pollutants on the surrounding environment The key sources of water pollution in the construction period are construction wastewater and domestic sewage generated in the process of construction plant and transportation vehicle washing and ground pit excavation. Analysis of water quality monitoring results in the construction period of similar previous projects shows that the key pollutants contained in such construction wastewater are SS, COD, BOD5 and petroleum. Sedimentation tanks may be provided on the construction site for sedimentation of such construction wastewater, with the supernatant water recycled. Based on comparison of domestic sewage in similar construction conditions, during the construction of the project school components, 20 construction workers will be mobilized on site to the maximum and the Project will produce 0.64 t/d of wastewater with an assumed water consumption of 40L/ day per construction worker and domestic sewage generation calculated as 80% of the daily water consumption. Such wastewater is mainly domestic sewage generated by the construction workers and generally contains no toxic substances. Each project school will produce approximately 460.8 tons of domestic sewage in a construction period of 24 months. The pre-treatment concentrations of the key pollutants are determined as follows based on the statistics of effluent concentration of these pollutants in domestic sewage: 400mt/L for CODcr, 200mg/L for BOD5，220mg/L for SS，and 25mg/L for NH3-N. In such a context, the production of water pollutants of COD, BOD5, SS and NH3-N is respectively 0.512kg/d, 0.256kg/d, 0.282kg/d and 0.032kg/d in the construction period and the total volume of such water pollutants generated by each project school in the construction period is respectively 54 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 184.32kg, 92.16kg, 101.38kg and 15.36kg. Domestic sewage generated in the construction period is collected and treated via the existing wastewater collection pipeline or self-built domestic sewage collection tanks of the schools, producing little environmental impacts. （3）Analysis of impacts by noise on the surrounding environment In this EIA, the key noise pollution sources and intensities are analyzed and determined based on different stages of construction. See Table 5-1 for detail. The key noise sources in the earthwork construction stage are bulldozers, excavators, loaders and transportation vehicles while those in the foundation construction stage are compactors, cranes and graders. Cutters are the main noise-generating equipment in the structure construction stage. Since most of the construction activities in the decoration stage are carried out inside the buildings and the construction noise is reduced to a certain extent by the walls, noise impacts produced in this part of the construction process are insignificant. Table 5-1 Noise Values of Key Construction Plants Construction Noise Level Distance from Sound Noise Source period [dB(A)] Source(m) Bulldozer 95 1 Earthwork Excavator 95 1 Trucks 90 1 Pile driver 85～105 1 Pneumatic pick 100 1 Foundation Crane 90 1 Grader 90 1 Concrete truck-mixer 90 1 Structure Electric welding machine 95 1 Trucks 90 1 Electric drill 100 1 Decoration Electric hammer 105 1 (indoors) Hand drill 105 1 Multifunction carpenter’s plane 95 1 55 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 5-2 Noise Values of Transportation Vehicles in the Construction Period Concrete tank trucks, Noise source Heavy trucks Light trucks load-carrying vehicles Sound Level dB(A) 95 80～85 75 Table 5-3 Prediction of Noise Impacts of Construction Plants (Equivalent Sound Level (LAeq:dB(A)) Compliance Measuring Point Distance (m) Distance SN Plant 10 20 50 70 100 150 200 Day Night Drop 1 hammer 85 78.98 71.02 68.10 65.00 61.48 58.98 57 317 pile driver Spiral pile 2 75 68.98 61.02 58.10 55.00 51.48 48.98 18 100 driver Hydraulic 3 65 58.98 51.02 48.10 45.00 41.48 38.98 6 35 pile driver Pneumatic 4 80 73.98 66.02 63.10 60.00 56.48 53.98 32 178 pick 5 Excavator 75 68.98 61.02 58.10 55.00 51.48 48.98 18 100 6 Crane 70 63.98 56.02 53.10 50.00 46.48 43.98 10 57 Standard: Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011); 70dB（A） in day and 55dB（A）at night. Note: The noise impact scopes of different types of construction plants in operation are largely different. In order to take account of the worst impacts, prediction during this EIA does not address attenuation by the surrounding buildings and is conducted using the point sound source model in semi-free space. In actual operation, the noise impact scope will be smaller than the prediction results shown in the table above. It is known from the prediction results of noise impacts of the various representative construction plants that pile drivers and pneumatic picks produce the strongest impacts in the construction period, mainly concentrated in the foundation construction stage. With only distance attenuation taken into account but not the influence of building barrier, the ordinary construction plants can meet the daytime noise limits at a distance of 30m in daytime and beyond 100m at night; Different pile drivers produce impacts of significant difference in operation. Predictions show that the conventional drop hammer pile drivers have the biggest scope of impacts, in particular in night time when the compliance distance is as long as 300m; spiral and hydraulic pile drivers have smaller impacts, not very significantly different from ordinary construction plants, and are, therefore, recommended. With the characteristics of high intensity and short duration, noise impacts in the construction period may be mitigated through strict control of construction time and improved operation and management of construction plant in the construction stage. Impacts of construction noise will no longer exist as the Project is completed. The adverse environmental 56 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan impacts caused by construction noises are temporary and short and no long-lasting and accumulative impacts will be generated. Therefore, impacts from construction noises on the surrounding environment are insignificant. （4）Analysis of impacts by solid wastes on the surrounding environment Solid wastes generated in the construction period mainly include construction debris and construction solid wastes generated in the construction process and domestic solid wastes generated by the construction workers. 1)Construction solid wastes generated from construction activities The amount of construction solid wastes generated from construction activities is predicted based on building area evolution as follows: JS=QSCS Where: JS: total amount of construction solid wastes generated (t) QS: Total building area of the newly constructed components (m2), 155,094.17m2 CS: Amount of construction solid wastes generated per m2 of building area, 0.06t/m2 2）Construction solid wastes generated from demolition activities Comparison with construction solid wastes generated by similar demolition projects shows that residential houses with brick-&-concrete structure usually generate 1.3t construction solid wastes per square meter. Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics involves the demolition of 1 old building with a building area of approximately 400m2 and, therefore, will generate approximately 520 t construction solid wastes. Calculation using the above formula shows that, in the construction of the Project, approximately 12,096.17 tons of construction solid wastes will be generated. See Table 5-4 for details of the amount of construction solid wastes to be generated from each school. The project schools should assure proper disposal of such construction solid wastes following the requirements of the local environmental protection authorities. 57 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table5-4 List of Estimated Amount of Construction Solid Wastes to be Generated by Each School under the Proposed Project Amount of Construction Building Area Name of School Solid Wastes to be (m2) Generated (t) Gansu Vocational College of 74295.07 4457.704 Energy and Chemical Gansu Finance and Trade 77759.11 4665.547 Vocational College Gansu Senior Technical School 34782 2606.92 of Mechanics Lanzhou University of Arts and 6100 366 Science Total 192936.18 12096.17 2)Earthwork Spoil The proposed project involves a total earthwork excavation of approximately 40,247.6m3, backfill and leveling fill of 49,541.11m3 and earthwork transfer and reuse of 15,415.89m3 and spoil disposal of 6122.38m3 in the construction period. The project schools should assure proper spoil disposal according to the requirements of local environmental protection authorities. 3) Domestic Solid Wastes The amount of domestic solid wastes is predicted based on population evolution as follows: WS=PSCS Where: WS: amount of domestic solid wastes generated (kg/d) PS: Total number of construction workers, 20 persons CS: Amount of domestic solid wastes generated per capita (1kg/d-person) Calculation using the above formula shows that, in the 24-month construction period of the Project, approximately 0.02 tons of domestic solid wastes will be generated per day and the amount of domestic solid wastes to be generated in total by the project schools will be 14.6 tons. The project schools should assure proper collection and treatment of such domestic solid wastes following the requirements of the local environmental protection authorities. Solid wastes generated in the construction period are ordinary solid wastes. In order to avoid secondary pollution, the construction contractors must strengthen management and develop a reasonable plan to achieve classified collection and timely removal of construction solid wastes. The earthwork spoil and construction solid wastes should be transported to stockpiling sites designated by the environmental sanitation authority to reduce temporary 58 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan storage on site; domestic solid wastes should be removed out of site by the end of each day and transported by the construction contractors to designated sites for disposal. Impacts generated by solid wastes on the surrounding environment are insignificant. （5）Impacts on Ecological Environment by the Construction Activities Site excavation in the construction process will result in a certain area of disturbed surface and relatively significant damages to the existing native land, further leading to increase of fragmentation, change of soil particle size and aggravation of soil erosion. Impacts on vegetation caused by construction works are mainly reflected in the damages to surface vegetation in the operation area from activities of surface excavation, transportation and stockpiling of construction materials and production equipment as well as rolling of construction plant and vehicles and trampling by the construction workers. （6）Environmental Impacts Generated by Construction Sites Construction camps, construction material storage and transportation, construction time and construction vehicles will generate impact of different levels on the local environment. Construction camps and construction material storage require occupation of land on campus and generate significant impacts on vegetation and environment on campus in the affected area; construction vehicles, construction material transportation and construction plants and equipment generate noise and traffic jam generate significant impacts on the objects of sound environment protection and road transportation in the project schools and their neighborhood. Such impacts will be maximized in particular when the construction time is not reasonably scheduled or overtime work is involved. In addition, construction wastewater and exhaust gas generated by construction plants and equipment will have certain impacts on local surface water and air environment. Construction sites generate relatively significant environmental impacts, which are however limited in certain time and will disappear as the construction works are completed. （7）Construction Safety & Health Since the construction sites of the Project are located on campus, teachers and students on campus may easily be exposed to health and safety hazards if construction site planning and construction management are not reasonably implemented in the construction period. The construction contractors and supervision agencies are responsible to take all reasonable actions to protect the personal safety of construction workers and teachers and students on campus and the physical safety of buildings in the neighborhood from unexpected constructional hazards. Therefore, in the process of tendering and bidding, the contractors must enforce the 59 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan management regulations on construction safety and health included in the appraisal report, organize relevant training in a timely manner and incorporate such requirements into the procurement documents. 5.1.2 General Pollution Control Measures To address the adverse impacts generated by the civil works of the project school components on air environment, water environment, sound environment and solid wastes, the following prevention and mitigation measures are proposed: 5.1.2.1 Ambient air pollution control measures （1）Dust pollution control The key sources of construction dust include dust brought by vehicles travelling on construction sites, dust generated by construction and decoration materials and earthwork stockpiling, dust generated in the transportation process of earthwork, debris and construction solid wastes and dust generated in mortar mixing operation. Regarding the aforesaid dust pollution sources, the following dust pollution control measures are proposed: 1）First of all, to manage the construction activities on site, a construction site environmental protection responsibility system should be set up, with the Project Manager as the primary responsible person, and environmental protection measures and special program for construction dust control must be included in the construction organization design, which should not be put into implementation until approved by the competent authority. 2）Dust screens and fences should be set up for the building structures according to the respective specification to reduce the possibility of construction dust; 3）Ground surface of the construction sites and traffic roads should be hardened and sprayed with water for dust suppression; 4）Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt are removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; 5）Proper covering or other effective dust prevention measures should be implemented on construction sites where construction solid wastes cannot be removed in time by the required deadline; 6）Slurry tanks and slurry troughs should be provided on construction sites involving 60 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan slurry operation to prevent slurry spillage. Waste slurry should be transported out of site in closed tankers; 7）Pre-mixed concrete and pre-mixed mortar should be used on construction sites according to the respective requirements and in-situ open-air mixing is prohibited; 8）During earthwork excavation and backfill operations, water should be sprayed for dust suppression and to reduce the duration of dusty operation; in case of winds above Grade 4, no earthwork construction and demolition operations should be implemented; 9）Construction materials, sand and gravel, soil and other dust-generating materials stockpiled on site should be covered with dust screen or cloth and dust suppression agent or water should be sprayed on a periodical basis to prevent wind erosion and dust generation; 10）Bulk materials, construction solid wastes and debris conveyed on and over buildings and structures should be put in closed containers and tossing and throwing from high altitude is prohibited. 11）Dense dust screen or cloth with excellent dust suppression effect should be installed outside the scaffolds during building construction and dust prevention measures such as water spraying, mist spraying should be taken during building demolition. 12）Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they are clean when leaving the sites; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent possible spillage and leakage on roads. 13）Construction sites should be 100% fenced up; material stockpiles 100% covered; vehicles 100% washed; construction site surface 100% hardened; demolition sites 100% adopting wet operation method and debris transportation vehicles 100% achieving air-tight transportation. （2）Vehicle Tail Gas 1）Construction plants and vehicles in good operating condition should be selected; 2）Fuel-driven construction plants and vehicles must be operated in normal condition to assure compliant tail gas emission; 3）Equipment should be used in a reasonable way and equipment maintenance and repair should be strengthened. （3）Decoration Exhaust Gas 1）Environment-friendly decoration materials should be selected; 61 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2）Doors and windows should be opened after the decoration work is completed for effective ventilation. 3）Indoor air quality monitoring should be conducted before the school buildings are put into service to assure that they are not occupied until full compliance is achieved. 5.1.2.2 Water Pollution Control Measures Wastewater generated in the civil works construction process of the project schools mainly comprises of construction wastewater and domestic sewage of construction workers as well as intermittent stormwater. The construction and production wastewater mainly includes wastewater from mortar mixing, water permeated from ground pit excavation, wastewater from construction plant washing and wastewater containing machine oil and grease. Regarding the aforesaid wastewater, the following discharge control measures are proposed: （1）Stormwater Management 1）A sound stormwater and drainage system is already in place in each project school. During construction, the stormwater collection gutters must be kept unblocked and no construction materials should be stockpiled over and adjacent to the stormwater collection gutters to avoid possible obstruction. 2）Soil contaminated (e.g. by oil, grease or paints) in the construction period should be removed in time to prevent massive contamination of stormwater. 3）The construction contractors are encouraged to use weather forecast and rainstorm warning functions to respond to any upcoming adverse rainfall conditions. 4）During rainfalls, timely attention should be paid to make sure that the stormwater collection gutters and drainage pipelines remain unblocked and any obstructions are removed in time. （2）Construction Wastewater 1）Wastewater from vehicle cleaning and washing, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregate washing on construction sites should be collected via the gutters and then mixed and diluted to reduce wastewater pH value before such wastewater enters the temporary sedimentation tank for treatment. The temporary sedimentation tank should have an adequate size to guarantee12-hour wastewater retention as specified in the standard and the treated wastewater should be fully reused in construction site cleaning, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregates re-washing; 2）Muddy stormwater and slurry water should be collected into the sedimentation tank 62 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan for sedimentation and reuse; 3）Machine oil leaked from machinery and wastewater from equipment and material washing should be settled in oil separating tank before reuse to control impacts from sediments and suspended substances contained in the construction wastewater on the surrounding environment; 4）The oil separating tanks and sedimentation tanks should be subject to proper anti- seepage treatment to avoid possible impacts on the surrounding environment. 5）Oil or water leaks must be inspected and repaired before any mechanical equipment is used. （3）Domestic sewage 1）Temporary toilets, septic tanks and wastewater collection tanks should be provided on construction sites. Laundry and kitchen wastewater generated by the construction workers should be subject to oil separation and sedimentation before discharged into the school sewage pipelines. Night soil generated in the temporary toilets should be stored in septic tanks temporarily before removed by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical basis. 2）In order to prevent possible pollution of ground water, anti-seepage cement should be used in the foundation construction of the wastewater collection tanks. 3）Environmental protection education for construction workers should be strengthened to promote environmental awareness and prevent uncontrolled littering and wastewater discharge. 5.1.2.3 Noise Pollution Control Measures Noises in the construction period mainly include noises of construction plants and transportation vehicles on construction sites. Such noises have relatively high intensity and the key control measures include reasonable planning of construction sites, assuring normal operation of construction plants and reasonable scheduling of construction time, etc. 1）Reasonable planning of construction sites The number of construction plants mobilized on site should be minimized provided that the constructional need is satisfied. Steel rebar and steel sheet processing should be outsourced, if possible, to reduce noise source from on-site processing; the implementation agency should develop a comprehensive plan to arrange the noise sources at a centralized location where possible to reduce the scope of construction noise impacts. 2）Assuring normal operation of construction plants 63 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan State-of-the-art low-noise equipment should be selected if possible; high-noise equipment should be used at lower frequency and low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used for pile driving; high-efficiency silencers should be installed on loaders, excavators and other mobile noise sources and honking should be banned on construction sites to avoid and reduce noise disturbance. The construction contractors should conduct periodical inspection and maintenance of the construction plants in the construction process to assure normal operation and avoid high-intensity noises generated from operation of defective equipment. High-noise mechanical equipment should be located away from the side adjacent to residential areas and noise-reduction fences should be set up on construction sites located in a distance of less than 5m from residence, hospital and school buildings. 3）Reasonable scheduling of construction time ①The construction time should be reasonably scheduled to have high-noise construction periods (e.g. foundation construction) arranged in winter or summer holidays if possible. Otherwise, the construction activities should at least be coordinated with the teaching activities to, e.g. have high-noise construction activities arranged in afternoons or weekends to avoid operation of high-noise equipment in time periods for concentrated teaching and student rest. ②The construction sequence should be reasonably arranged and no construction should occur in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. ③When continuous construction is needed, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority. Night construction must not be implemented without prior approval and without the acknowledgement by schools and residents in the neighborhood. High-noise equipment should be arranged for daytime construction and the standards specified in Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011) should be strictly enforced. （4）Construction Vehicle Noise Control Measures ①Stronger efforts should be made in transportation management. The implementation agency and the construction contractors should negotiate on environmental protection education for transportation workers. The speed of transportation vehicles should be controlled and overloading banned. ②Vehicle maintenance and repair should be strengthened to assure normal operation; ③Direction boards should be provided at entrances and exits of construction sites and unnecessary idle speed, braking, ignition and honking should be avoided. 64 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ④Transportation vehicles are banned to travel in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day to assure normal resting of local residents. ⑤Traffic noise may generate certain impacts on sound environment sensitive points in the neighborhood. Therefore, the construction contractors should promote the environmental protection awareness of the construction workers, learn about the local customs and habits and reasonably arrange transportation time. In centralized residential areas and other environmentally sensitive areas, speed limit, horn prohibition and other self-conscious actions should be taken to control vehicles and other construction plants so as to prevent and reduce noise impacts. ⑥Transportation vehicles should travel in low speed on campus to not only reduce impacts by traffic noise on teaching activities, but also protect personal safety on campus. Vehicles traveling on campus should strictly follow the planned route. Random parking and honking are prohibited. （5）Decoration Noise Control Measures When it is unlikely to implement the decoration works in a centralized time period, management of decoration noise should be strengthened and strict decoration management measures should be developed to minimize impacts caused by decoration noises. Doors and windows should be properly closed while decoration work is going on. The decoration time period should be limited and no decoration activity of any kind should be conducted in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. 5.1.2.4 Solid Waste Pollution Control Measures Solid wastes in the construction period mainly include domestic solid wastes generated by construction workers and construction solid wastes generated in the construction process. In order to reduce impacts on surrounding environment by the construction solid wastes, this EIA proposes the following measures: 1）Construction Solid Wastes ①Construction solid wastes generated in the construction period should be removed in time to avoid secondary pollution in the process of stockpiling. ②Some package bags generated in the construction process need to be classified and stockpiled, with the reusable parts adequately recycled and the other parts incorporated into and treated together with domestic solid wastes. ③Earthwork construction should be carefully designed and organized to achieve 65 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan substantial earthwork excavation and fill balance and avoid long haulage; waste concrete and bricks discarded on site should be removed in time. ④Solid wastes should be subject to classified treatment. Reusable construction solid wastes, such as steel rebar, should be recycled to avoid waste of resources while the non- reusable construction solid wastes need to be dumped at designated sites. ⑤Vehicles transporting bulk materials and wastes should be properly sealed, fastened and covered to avoid spillage on the way; vehicles transporting soil should travel along designated route in the specified time period. Spoil disposal should be conducted in a concentrated period and avoid storm season and be accompanied with simultaneous compacting. ⑥Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they leave the sites clean and tidy; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent possible spillage and leakage on roads. ⑦Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at the entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; ⑧The project schools should strictly abide by the requirements of local authorities on treatment of construction solid wastes. 2）Domestic solid wastes The construction contractors should properly carry out the collection and stockpiling of domestic solid wastes and remove the domestic solid wastes out of the construction sites in a timely manner. Education to the construction workers should be strengthened and civilized construction should be promoted to put an end to uncontrolled dumping of domestic solid wastes and assure the environmental quality on construction sites and the surrounding areas. Closable classified garbage bins should be provided in the temporary living areas and the domestic solid wastes should be collected and transported on a daily basis to the adjacent garbage collection stations and then by the environmental sanitation authority to municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. (3) Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets During the decoration of school buildings, paint will be used to varying degrees, and all construction units will face the problem of temporary storage and disposal of waste paint buckets generated after the paint is used up. 66 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan According to the National Hazardous Waste List (2021), used-up waste paint buckets fall under the category of "Non-specific Industries" in "HW12 dyestuff and paint wastes"and "900- 252-12 paint (excluding water-based paint), organic solvents for painting, the waste generated in the process of painting". According to the storage requirements of hazardous wastes in the Technical Specifications for Collection, Storage and Transportation of Hazardous Waste (HJ 2025-2012), the temporary storage sites of waste paint buckets generated during decoration fall under the category of "Facilities Used for Temporary Storage by Hazardous Waste Generating Units". Therefore, waste paint buckets need to be stored separately. According to the requirements of the Pollution Control Standard for Hazardous Waste Storage (GB 18597-2001, 2013 Amendment), the temporary storage site of waste paint buckets is forbidden to be close to the protection area prone to kindling and high voltage electricity. Warning signs should be set up in the storage site and rainproof, fire prevention and seepage prevention measures should be taken. The temporary storage site should be equipped with lighting and fire fighting facilities. At the same time, the construction unit should establish a collection, transfer and storage ledger to record the whole process from the generation, collection and temporary storage of waste paint buckets until they are delivered to the manufacturer for recycling. See Table 5-5, Table 5-6 and Table 5-7 for detailed record tables. Therefore, the construction units of all project schools should give priority to water-based paint. If non-water-based paint is required, the waste paint buckets should be managed in strict accordance with the "Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets" in this report. Table 5-5 Record of Hazardous Waste Collection Collection Location Collection Date Type of Hazardous Name of Hazardous Waste Waste Quantity of Form of Hazardous Hazardous Waste Waste Temporary Storage Packaging Form Location Subject of Responsibility Correspondence Address Contact No. Zip Code Collection Unit Correspondence Address Contact No. Zip Code Signature of Signature of Collector Responsible Person 67 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 5-6 Record of Transfer in Hazardous Waste Generating Unit Enterprise Name: Type of Hazardous Name of Hazardous Waste Waste Quantity of Form of Hazardous Hazardous Waste Waste Place of Generation Collection Date Packaging Form Packing Quantity Transfer Batch Transfer Date Transferred by Received by Subject of Responsibility Correspondence Address Contact No. Zip Code Table 5-7 Handover Record of In-warehouse and Ex-warehouse of Hazardous Waste Warehouse Name: Type of Hazardous Name of Hazardous Waste Waste Source of Hazardous Quantity of Waste Hazardous Waste Characteristics of Packaging Form Hazardous Waste In-warehouse Date Storage Location Ex-warehouse Date Receiving Unit Handler Contact No. 5.1.2.5 Ecological Impact Mitigation Measures （1）Ecological Resource Protection and Management Measures ①Construction site layout and arrangement should be reasonable and optimized to minimize the scope of construction activities and land damages caused during project implementation; ②Bricks, stone, sand, cement, timber among other construction materials needed and outsourced for the construction works should be transported to the construction site at time intervals and in loads roughly matching the actual demand on site to minimize land area 68 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan occupied by material stockpiles; upon completion of the construction works, residual materials should be removed out of site in time to enable landscaping of construction sites; ③Temporary protective fences should be erected around trees remaining on the construction site before the construction works commence based on the results of construction site investigation; ④Neither should the trees be attached with marks and labels other than the identification label nor should the tree protection zones have construction materials stockpiled or stored and construction plants and equipment parked in their immediate adjacency; ⑤Temporary intercepting ditches should be constructed on construction sites and floodways should be built to replace surface runoff passage damaged by the Project to divert rain season flood and prevent the construction works from erosion by surface runoffs; ⑥On the premise that construction quality is assured, the construction contractors should take all possible actions to shorten the time of temporary land occupation, control the construction time of earthwork and maintain stable cut and filled slope to minimize impacts outside the scope of the construction works. （2）Soil Erosion Control Measures 1）Engineering Measures ①Leveling and backfill: including measurement of backfill area and depth, backfill bulk density and rolling bulk density, determination of backfill rolling method, determination of forecast and protection measures of possible subsidence and its hazards; ②Planning of transportation routes of backfill material and top soil; ③Depression backfill and utilization: waste soil and ballasts should be adequately utilized for depression backfill so that the depressions are properly backfilled and leveled and waste materials are used up. Terrain, construction conditions and area among other factors should be considered upon determining backfill method. Normally, manual backfill and mechanical backfill are integrated and used simultaneously, with bulldozers used to level off large depressions in rectangular partitions and manual methods used to handle small depressions, corners and edges that are not accessible for mechanical operation; ④Upon rough leveling, the key backfill positions should be identified first based on the terrain and topographical features and the backfill height of the project area. Then, bulldozers or other construction plants are used to move the fill materials to the depression backfill zone. 69 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan During backfill operation, the fine and particulate sand and gravel materials should be placed on bottom layers while aggregates of larger particle sizes on the top before rolling and compacting. After rough leveling is over, shovels and spaces should be used to manually handle and level off the disturbed edges and corners of the construction zones and small depressions left over from mechanical leveling until the final leveling effect required in the design document is achieved. 2）Temporary Measures Since the civil works of each project school are of a large scale, it is necessary to stockpile the sand and aggregates needed for building foundation excavation, backfill and construction works for a long time. In order to avoid wind and water erosion, it is necessary to have the stockpiles temporarily covered and protected. Such temporary covering and protection measures include temporary covering with dust screen, water spraying, etc. ①Covering Temporary covering measures should be taken to prevent the exposed parts of the temporary stockpiles from wind and water erosion. Dense dust screen may be selected as the covering material. Dust screen should not be removed until the earthwork backfill commences and should be rolled up backward from the ground pit position and fully removed and recovered after the backfill operation is completed. ②Water spraying 1 or 2 passes of water spraying should be conducted on the leveled construction sites. When the water infiltration depth reaches about 2cm, a surface crust with an effective wind erosion resistance thickness will be formed to facilitate restoration of water and soil conservation function. 3）Vegetation Measures Native species should be selected for vegetation restoration on construction sites and spoil disposal areas upon the completion of the construction works. Introduction of alien species should be avoided. 5.1.2.6 Construction Site Management Measures The construction contractors of the Project must strictly enforce the following management measures to minimize the adverse environmental impacts generated on the construction sites. 70 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （1）Working hours The working hours on the construction sites are 7:00 am to 22:00 pm. Construction is banned during the noon hours of 12:00 to 14:00 and restricted at night. Where night construction becomes inevitable, a notice should be given to the local residents and relevant formalities fulfilled and actions taken to reduce impacts on residents. The arrival and departure time of construction transportation vehicles must comply with the requirements of local governments; （2）Construction camp arrangement If possible, the construction contractors should rent local residential houses in the project area for lodging and accommodation and avoid locating the construction camps and canteens on the construction sites, where only offices and material stockpiling sheds are allowed. （3）Traffic safety 1）Best traffic safety practices should be adopted in all aspects related to transportation during the construction of the Project to best avoid traffic accidents and reduce casualty of both project personnel and general public. In such a context, the following measures should be taken: ①Drivers should be made particularly aware of the importance of safety rules; ②Driving skill should be improved and all drivers must be licensed; ③Driving time should be limited and driver duty shift schedule developed to avoid fatigue driving; ④Dangerous road sections and driving in the dangerous hours of a day should be avoided to minimize accident probability; 2）Vehicle maintenance should be conducted on a periodical basis and manufacturer approved spare parts used to avoid serious traffic accidents resulting from equipment failure or premature failure of parts and components. 3）All efforts should be made to reduce simultaneous occupation of roads by pedestrians and construction vehicles; 4）Road signs and visibility should be improved in cooperation with local communities and competent authority to promote the level of road safety as a whole, in particular on roads adjacent to schools and other areas where children are present. Traffic and pedestrian safety education campaigns (e.g. advertisement activities in schools) should be organized in cooperation with local communities; 5）A mechanism should be established for coordination with the emergency response personnel to assure that appropriate first aid is available in case of any accidents; 71 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 6）Local materials should be used where possible to shorten haulage. The relevant facilities (e.g. worker dormitories) should be located adjacent to the project sites to avoid increase of traffic flow; 7）Traffic safety control measures should be taken and road signs and signalmen should be used to warn pedestrians and traffic against dangers. （4）Spoils and Construction Solid Wastes Spoils and construction solid wastes should be stockpiled at landfills designated by local environmental sanitation authority and should not be dumped at free will. （5）Public Information Platform ①Construction data plates should be installed at obvious positions to indicate the project name, construction site area, names of project implementation agency, construction contractors and supervision and administration agencies as well as names of project responsible person, dates of construction commencement and completion, complaint hotline and specific environmental protection measures; ②The construction contractors should post a Notice of Project Commencement around the construction site 7 days before the scheduled date of project commencement to disclose information including project overview, construction plan, names of respective construction units and name of project responsible person, complaint hotline, etc.; ③Night construction should be restricted. When night construction is inevitable under special circumstances, actions should be taken to control the impacts of night construction on the surrounding environment and a prior notice should be given to the local residents to seek their understanding; ④The construction contractors should post notices around the project sites and the premises of affected residents and enterprises to notify the public of pending interruption of services (including water supply, electricity supply, telecommunication and traffic, etc.) 5 days in advance. （6）Prevention of Accidents and Risks The construction contractors should develop an accident prevention plan and assign an emergency responsible person and seek aids from the concerned authorities immediately upon the occurrence of any accidents; （7）Personal Safety and Health The construction sites should be separated and fenced up and traffic signs and guardrails provided to assure pedestrian safety; safety training should be provided to the construction 72 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan workers before construction commences; personal protection devices must be provided and mandatorily used; all construction activities should be suspended in case of a rainstorm or any emergency accidents; （8）Prohibited Activities Unapproved tree felling outside the approved construction site is prohibited; use of unapproved toxic substances, including lead paint, asbestos, open flame and alcohol, is prohibited. 5.1.2.7 Construction Safety and Health Measures The construction contractors are responsible for following the World Bank EHS Guidelines and all the national and local safety requirements and implementing other accident prevention measures to assure the safety and health of construction workers. ①All the buildings on construction sites should be kept in good integrity; the temporary buildings and structures should be structurally safe and reliable to resist impacts of local bad weathers and have appropriate sunlight and proper facilities for partial isolation of dust and noises; the floors should be kept level, flat and skip-resistant. ②The construction contractors should assure availability of first aid complying with the respective standard. Appropriate first aid toolkits should be provided on construction sites; a written emergency response procedure should be available and cover the full process till the patients are finally transferred to an appropriate medical institution. ③Occupational health and safety training should be provided to all new construction workers to introduce to them the basic working rules and personal protection rules on construction sites and teach them how to prevent injuries to other workers; the training contents should include basic knowledge of hazards and dangers, specific hazards present in work places, codes of safe operation, fire emergency response procedures, evacuation procedures and natural disaster response procedures (the final contents will be determined based on actual needs). The training should include detailed introduction of specific hazards and their color codes in work places. ④Correct signs should be provided in hazardous areas (e.g. power distribution rooms, etc.), devices, materials, safety measures and emergency exits and actions should be taken to prevent unauthorized access to such areas; the signs should conform to the international standards and be easy to understand for staff, visitors and general public (to be determined depending on actual circumstances). ⑤If a worker holding a handheld or electrical tool feels vibrations on his/her hands and 73 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan arms or a worker standing or sitting on a vibrating surface feels vibration in the whole body, such vibration should be controlled through equipment selection, installation of vibration reduction gaskets or devices or limiting exposure time; ⑥Appropriate personal protection devices should be determined and provided by the construction contractors to the construction workers to assure that the workers, their colleagues and occasional visitors are adequately protected and no unnecessary inconvenience is caused to the users; ⑦Clamping hazards should be eliminated upon design of machinery and actions should be taken to prevent possible physical harms by the machinery projections in normal operation; ⑧Warning signs should be installed on all live electrical devices and wires; all the electricity wires, cables and handheld electrical tools should be inspected to identify any damaged or exposed wires and the maximum allowable working voltage of handheld tools should be determined according to the manufacturer’s recommendations; all electrical equipment used in humid (or possibly humid) environment should be equipped with double insulation / grounding; all electrical wires buried under the ground should be identified and marked before any digging operation commences. ⑨Actions should be taken to prevent the construction workers from overexertion. Training should be provided to workers on how to correctly move and handle materials during construction and demolition activities, including specifying the upper limit of load a single operator can handle (and the requirement of mechanical aid or double operation beyond the upper limit)；The layout plan of the construction site should be so developed to avoid, to the best possibility, needs for manual movement of heavy objects; tools should be so selected and work table so designed to reduce, to the best possibility, the level of force and the duration of handholding needed and facilitate the workers to keep the correct position (and, when necessary, use the users’ and adjusted worktable). ⑩Actions should be taken to prevent trip-over and fall-over. A sound site cleaning and management system should be implemented to, for example, classify the scattered building materials and demolished parts and place them in areas away from walkways, remove excessive wastes and spilled liquids on a periodical basis, place electrical wires and ropes in public areas and labeled corridors and use skid-resistance mats. ⑪Safety protection requirements for high-altitude operation: Temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; training should be 74 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan provided to the workers on actual operation of the fall prevention devices which are used during operations of high altitude of or more than 2m from the ground or on occasions with the possibility of falling into machines in operation, water or other liquids or hazardous substances or falling from an opening on the working face; training should be provided to the workers on actual operation of personal fall prevention equipment, e.g. full-body harness and buffering lanyard capable of carrying a load of 5000lb; rescue procedures should be developed to rescue workers successfully prevented from falling. The connecting points of fall prevention equipment should also be able to carry a load of 5000lb; control zone and safety supervision system should be set up to warn the workers against the presence of a fall hazard zone in the adjacency and covers of openings on floors, ceilings and walkway pavements should be reinforced, marked and indicated. ⑫Safety protection requirements on preventing hit by objects: Solid wastes should be discarded and discharged at designated and restricted areas. Wastes should be conveyed safely through the chutes from upper floors to lower floors; appropriate protective devices and fastening methods should be used during sawing, cutting, welding, grinding, polishing, chiseling and carving operations; passages and corridors should be kept unblocked and actions should be taken to avoid heavy-duty machinery travelling on scattered wastes; temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; appropriate personal protection devices (e.g. safety glasses with protective edges, masks, safety helmets and safety boots) should be used. ⑬Safety protection requirements for moving machinery: The vehicle travelling, machinery operation and personnel walking areas should be planned and zoned; one-way traffic rules should be adopted to control vehicle traffic; speed limit should be stipulated; and on-site traffic should be guided by trained signalmen (wearing obvious vests or jackets); Personnel working or walking in the operation zones of heavy-duty machinery should wear visible vests to increase visibility and training should be provided to teach workers how to have eye contacts with equipment operators before approaching a vehicle in operation; it should be assured that back-up buzzers are installed on moving equipment; hoisting equipment (e.g. cranes) should be properly inspected, maintained and confirmed suitable to move on road before they are used to lift heavy objects up to a higher working level for fastening. ⑭Dust protection requirements: All dust removal methods, e.g. water spraying or non- toxic chemical agents, should be used to reduce dust raised by vehicles; where excessive amount of dust is present, personal protection devices (e.g. dust masks) should be used. 75 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ⑮The construction contractors should develop procedures and systems for reporting and recording the following contents: occupational accidents and diseases, hazardous circumstances and accidents. Such systems should enable the construction workers to immediately report to their own direct superintendent any circumstances causing serious hazards to life and health. When the construction workers are caught in any occupational injuries and risks, suspicious occupational diseases, dangerous situations and accidents, an immediate report should be submitted to the top management; the top management should investigate into all reported occupational accidents, occupational diseases, risks and incidents, during which assistance should be sought from professionals with knowledge and competences of occupational safety. ⑯Health education should be provided to the construction workers, e.g. execution of information communication strategy, strengthening face-to-face consultation, addressing systematic problems affecting individual behavior, encouraging use of personal protection devices, avoiding spread of disease to others, etc. In addition, the construction workers should be encouraged to use mosquito repellent, clothing and mosquito nets and other blocking methods to avoid spread of diseases from mosquito bites. ⑰Health examinations should be organized for construction workers to prevent the spread of infectious and epidemic diseases. 5.1.3 Environmental Impact Analysis of Specific Sites In addition to the aforesaid general impacts on the surrounding environment generated in the construction period of the proposed project, there are still some differences in the environmental impacts on the construction sites of each project school due to the different geographical locations of the construction sites, the different distances from the construction sites to the adjacent sensitive buildings as well as the different functions of these buildings. Such differences are mainly reflected in the impacts of the construction activities on the surrounding environment and constructional safety. The environmental impacts mainly include construction dust and construction noise. Analysis of the level of impacts shows that noise in the construction period is the key pollution source affecting teaching and domestic activities in the project schools. Since a large variety of mechanical equipment is involved in the construction stage, pneumatic picks, the equipment with the biggest source intensity, are selected in this EIA for prediction and detailed analysis, from the most adverse perspective, of possible impacts that construction noise generates on the surrounding environment; construction safety is mainly reflected in construction site layout, construction management, personnel management and transportation and analysis of possible impacts in this regard needs 76 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan to be conducted in association with the layout plan of the project schools. （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical is currently under construction and will be put into operation in September 2017. By that time, GVCEC will have around 3000 students and 300 teachers in school. The civil works to be constructed under this WB Loan Project will generate certain impacts on the study and daily life and traffic safety of students in school. According to the design data, Practical Training Building No. 3, located only 30m away from the civil works to be constructed in GVCEC under the WB Loan Project, will be subject to significant impacts, followed by Dormitory Building No. 4, Building No. 19, Logistics Building No. 11 and Dormitory Building No. 5 with a distance ranging from 30m to 100m. Due to the late construction of Dormitory Building No. 33, Dormitory Buildings No. 5, 31 and 32, which are 35 meters away from Dormitory Building No. 33, will be greatly affected by the civil engineering of Dormitory Building No. 33. See Table 5-8 for details of impact analysis. Table 5-8 Analysis of Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of GVCEC Sensitive Source of Construction Safety SN Protection Environmental Impact Analysis Impacts Impact Analysis Objects � Construction noise: 62.5dB(A), exceeding the standard by 2.5dB(A) � Construction sites No. 30, in day time; No. 31 and No. 32 are � The construction site is located located at the northeastern approximately 75m away from the corner of the campus, a Construction of Logistics Building, which is mainly living quarter in the school. Logistics Student occupied by logistics workers and 1 If not properly managed, Building No. 11 Dormitory No. subject to significant impacts from construction vehicles and 30 noises in the construction period uncontrolled stockpiling of mainly in the foundation construction construction materials will period. The side facing the bring safety hazards to construction site is subject to greater students on campus. impact and involves approximately 30 affected persons. �In addition, this area is relatively densely � Construction noise: 66.02dB(A), populated, in particular in exceeding the standard by6.02dB(A) Dormitory the morning, noon and 2 in daytime. Building No. 4 evening peak hours when �The student dormitory buildings are students are on the way densely populated and have a shortest going to or coming back Construction of distance of approximately 50m from from classes. Therefore, the Student the construction site, thus subject to three construction sites must Dormitory No. significant impacts from construction be reasonably planned and 31 and 32 noise, in particular during noon and Dormitory special personnel must be 3 night resting hours. Therefore, the Building No. 5 assigned to guide and construction time must be reasonably manage pedestrians on the scheduled to avoid significant road. impacts on the students in rest periods. 77 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan �Building No. 4 is located Practical in the southeastern corner of 4 Training � Construction noise: 70.46dB(A), the school, as a part of the Building No. 3 exceeding the standard teaching zone. The by10.46dB(A) in daytime. construction site should be Construction of � The construction sites are very selected in concert with Practical close to the two buildings, with the Building No. 24 and the Training shortest distance being only 30m. construction areas should be Building No. 4 Construction noise produces 5 Building No. 19 isolated to prevent safety significant impacts on the teaching hazards brought by traffic activities, involving approximately on students and teachers on 100 affected persons. their way to and back from classrooms. �The construction site of Dormitory Building No. 33 is located in the northeastern corner of the campus, a living quarter of the school. If not properly managed, �Construction noise: 69.1 dB (A), construction vehicles and exceeding the standard by 9.1 dB (A) uncontrolled stockpiling of in the daytime. The construction is construction materials will prohibited at night. bring safety hazards to �The distance between the students on campus. Dormitory construction site and each of the three �In addition, this area is dormitory buildings is equivalent, Building No. 5 relatively densely about 35m. The building is mainly for Construction of populated, in particular in Dormitory students' accommodation. Noises 6 Dormitory the morning, noon and during the construction have a great Building No. 31 Building No. 33 evening peak hours when influence and are mainly from students are on the way to or Dormitory foundation construction. coming back from classes. Building No. 32 The side of Building No. 32 facing Therefore, the three the construction site is greatly construction sites must be affected, while Building No. 5 and reasonably planned and Building No. 31 not directly facing special personnel must be the construction site are slightly assigned to guide and impacted. manage pedestrians on the road. The construction area should be isolated to avoid any potential safety hazards to teachers and students brought by vehicles. Note: The sound environment standard for school campus is 60dB in day and 55dB at night. （2）Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College is currently under construction and will be put into operation in September 2017. By that time, GFTVC will have around 6000 students and 487 teachers in school. The civil works to be constructed under this WB Loan Project will generate certain impacts on the study and daily life and traffic safety of students in school. According to the design data, Student Dormitory Building No. 2 and Comprehensive Teaching Building No. 14 will be impacted by the civil works to be constructed in GFTVC under the WB Loan Project. Based on the characteristics of the noise and dust impacts in the construction period, the impacts on the aforesaid 2 buildings can be effectively reduced through 78 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan reasonable planning of construction time and improved construction management. However, with the functions of the two buildings taken into account, in particular Teaching Building No. 14 which undertakes the majority of GFTVC's teaching function and involves relatively dense pedestrian flow during class hours, the attention should focus on the layout of construction sites and construction vehicle traffic and construction management to prevent traffic safety hazards to the students. Since the Practical Training Building No. 20 and Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 will be built late, the civil engineering of Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 causes impact on Dormitory Building No. 2 and Area AB of Dormitory Building No. 22, of which Dormitory Building No. 2 and Dormitory Building No. 22 are about 45m and 20m respectively away from the construction site. The dormitory located on the north side of Area B and facing the construction site will be greatly affected. The Second Teaching Building No. 21 and Practical Training Building No.19 are affected by the civil engineering in Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20. The Second Teaching Building No. 21 is about 55m away from the construction site, while the Practical Training Building No. 19 is about 32m away from the site. See Table 5-9 for details of impact analysis. 79 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table5-9 Analysis of Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of GFTVC Sensitive Source of Environmental Impact Construction Safety SN Protection Impacts Analysis Impact Analysis Objects � Construction noise: 63.74dB(A), exceeding the �The construction sites are standard by 3.74dB(A) in located close to the living daytime. quarters. If not properly � The student dormitory managed, construction buildings are densely vehicles and uncontrolled populated and have a shortest stockpiling of construction distance of approximately materials will bring safety 65m from the construction hazards to students on site, thus subject to significant campus. In addition, this Area AB of impacts from construction area is relatively densely Student Dormitory Dormitory 1 noise, in particular during populated, in particular in the Building No. 2 Building No. noon and night resting hours. morning, noon and evening 22 Therefore, the construction peak hours when students are time must be reasonably on the way going to or scheduled to avoid significant coming back from classes. impacts on the students in rest Therefore, the three periods. Impacts on local construction sites must be pedestrians by dust generated reasonably planned and in the construction period special personnel must be may be effectively mitigated assigned to guide and manage through dust screens and pedestrians on the road. timely water spraying. Area AB of � Construction noise: Dormitory 62.50dB(A), exceeding the Building No. standard by2.5dB(A) in 22 daytime. � The construction site is relatively close to the teaching buildings, with a distance of approximately 75m and, thus produces significant impacts on � The four construction sites Second teaching activities involving are mainly located in Teaching approximately 600 affected teaching areas and should be Building No. persons, mainly on the eastern reasonably planned and 21 part of the teaching building. located in concert with the Impacts by dust generated in Comprehensive position of Teaching the construction period on 2 Teaching Building Building No. 14. The local pedestrians may be No. 14 construction areas should be effectively mitigated through isolated to prevent safety dust screens and timely water hazards brought by traffic on spraying. students and teachers on their Practical � Construction noise: way to and back from Training 57.72dB(A), compliant in day classrooms. Building No. time. 19 � The construction site is located relatively far from the teaching buildings with a Practical distance of approximately Training 130m. Construction activities Building No. in day time produce little 18 impact on the teaching activities while the construction noise at night 80 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan produces no impact on the teaching building since it is not occupied at night. �Construction noise: 66.9 dB (A), exceeding the standard 6.9 dB (A) in daytime, and construction is prohibited at night. �It is about 45m away from the construction site, and the Dormitory building is mainly for 3 Building No. 2 students' accommodation. Noises caused during the construction have a great influence and are mainly from the foundation construction. The side facing Area C of the construction site is subject Dormitory to greater impact. �The construction sites of Area C of Dormitory Building No. �Construction noise: 74.0 dB 22 Building No. 22 and Area AB (A), exceeding the standard of Practical Training Building by 14.0 dB (A) in daytime, No. 20 are both located in the and construction is prohibited living and teaching area. If at night. not properly managed, �It is about 20m away from construction vehicles and the construction site, and the Area AB of uncontrolled stockpiling of building is mainly for 4 Dormitory construction materials will students' accommodation. Building No. 22 bring safety hazards to Noises caused during the students on campus. construction have a great This area is relatively densely influence and are mainly populated, in particular in the from the foundation morning, noon and evening construction. The side facing peak hours when students are the construction site is subject on the way to school or to greater impact. coming back from classes. �Construction noise: 65.2 dB Therefore, the three (A), exceeding the standard construction sites must be by 5.2 dB (A) in daytime, and reasonably planned and construction is prohibited at special personnel must be night. assigned to guide and manage �It is about 55m away from pedestrians on the road. The the construction site, and the construction area should be Second Teaching building is mainly for 5 isolated to avoid any potential Building No. 21 students' accommodation. safety hazards to teachers and Noises caused during the students brought by vehicles. Area AB of construction have a great Practical influence and are mainly Training from the foundation Building No. construction. The side facing 20 the construction site is subject to greater impact. �Construction noise: 62.50dB(A), exceeding the standard by 9.9dB(A) in day time, and construction is Practical Training 6 prohibited at night. Building No. 19 �The building is about 32m away from the construction site, and is mainly for teaching and practical 81 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan training. Since Building No. 19 is not directly facing the construction site, the noise mainly concentrated in the foundation construction stage will have a slight impact on teaching activities. Note: The sound environment standard for school campus is 60dB in day and 55dB at night. （3）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics The construction site is located in the middle of the campus surrounded by teaching buildings, office buildings, practical training buildings, student dormitories and a track field. The key pedestrian passages in campus are located around the construction site and these roads are very densely occupied by pedestrians in particular during the peak hours before and after class and the breakfast, lunch and supper hours. Safety of pedestrians on campus becomes an issue deserving focused attention in the construction period. See Table 5-10 for details of impact analysis. Table 5-10 Analysis of Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of GSTSM Sensitive Source of Environmental Impact Construction Safety Impact SN Protection Impacts Analysis Analysis Objects � Construction noise: � Since the construction site is 76.48dB(A), exceeding the located in the middle of the standard by16.48dB(A) in campus, surrounded by day time. walkways used in daily activities �The library is located very of teachers and students, the In-campus 1 close to the construction site normal teaching activities and library with a distance of only 15m student daily life will be Teaching and construction noise seriously disturbed if no building and produces significant impacts effective measures of teaching on students studying in the construction organization and office library. management are implemented. building to � Construction noise: �Analysis of the layout of the in- be 62.50dB(A), exceeding the campus roads shows that the constructed standard by12.5dB(A) in day East Gate is the only access for time. vehicles, including In-campus 2 � The office building is transportation vehicles in the Office Building located at a distance of 75m construction period. However, from the construction site roads connecting this gate are and subject to relatively relatively narrow and have high insignificant noise impact. concentration of pedestrians and 82 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan � Construction noise: traffic in particular in the 72.04dB(A), exceeding the morning, noon and evening rush standard by12.04dB(A) in hours. Without a reasonable day time. route planning for construction � Located east of the vehicles, traffic jam will occur construction site with a and traffic safety hazards will relatively short distance of arise to a certain extent. approximately 25m, the dormitories are subject to In-campus significant noise impacts Student mainly during the noon and 3 Dormitory night resting hours. Building Therefore, the construction time must be reasonably planned to avoid significant impacts on students in rest periods. Impacts on local pedestrians by dust generated in the construction period may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. � Construction noise: 76.48dB(A), exceeding the standard by16.48dB(A) in day time. � The construction site is located only 15m away from the practical training rooms In-campus and construction noise 4 Practical produces significant impacts Training Rooms on the teaching activities involving approximately 30 affected persons. Impacts on local pedestrians by dust generated in the construction period may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. � The impacts generated by the construction site on the sport ground are mainly reflected in the impacts of All-weather 5 construction dust on the sport ground health of those exercising on the sport ground. The impact of construction noise is not significant. Note: The sound environment standard for school campus is 60dB in day and 55dB at night. （4）Lanzhou University of Arts and Science The construction site is located in the northern part of the campus with Yanbei Road on its north, a planned road on its east and the Practical Training Base 10m away to its south and 83 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan the school landscaping area and plaza to its west. The Teaching Office Building is located approximately 70m southwest of the construction site. Impacts generated by the construction of the Project on the normal teaching activities of the school are mainly reflected in noise impacts and construction safety. See Table 5-11 for details of impact analysis. Table 5-11 Analysis of Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of LUAS Sensitive Source of Environmental Impact Construction Safety SN Protection Impacts Analysis Impact Analysis Objects � Construction noise: �Analysis of in-campus 63.10dB(A), exceeding the traffic condition shows that standard by3.1dB(A) in daytime. the School has only one � The construction site is gate located approximately located far away from this 150m west of the building, with a distance of construction site. approximately 70m. The According to the site classrooms adjacent to the survey, the School has two construction site are mainly used campuses, the South In-campus for exams and have relatively Campus and the North 1 teaching office high requirements on sound Campus, with Yanbei Road building environment. Therefore, running in-between and the attention must be paid to control gates of the two campuses of noise in the construction just across the road. The period. Impacts on local South Campus, located pedestrians by dust generated in south of Yanbei Road, the construction period may be mainly provides the Art effectively mitigated through functions of daily teaching Practice dust screens and timely water and practical training while Center to spraying. the North Campus, located be �Construction noise: 80dB(A), north of YanbeiRoad, constructed exceeding the standard mainly provides the by20dB(A) in daytime. function of student lodging �The proposed Practical and accommodation. Training Base is located in the Therefore, during the very close neighborhood with a morning, noon and evening distance of only 10m from the peak hours, students will construction site and significant travel between the two Practical impacts will be generated from campuses across Yanbei 2 Training Base construction noise on the Road for meals or classes. teaching activities. Therefore, The high concentration and actions must be taken for noise density of pedestrian flow reduction. Impacts on local in such hours bring traffic pedestrians by dust generated in pressure on this road the construction period may be section. effectively mitigated through � The proposed project dust screens and timely water component is located in the spraying. South Campus of LUAS 84 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan �Construction noise: and it will be necessary to 60.92dB(A), exceeding the transport large volume of standard by0.92dB(A) in construction materials and daytime. debris or construction solid �Beimiantan New Village is wastes in the construction mainly a residential area and the period. Therefore, Beimiantan New houses subject to impacts of the reasonable route planning 3 Village project construction are roadside for the construction shops that are not densely vehicles is needed in order populated. The construction site to avoid possible traffic is located approximately 95m safety hazards to the away from this residential area students. and the impacts of construction noise are thus insignificant. Note: The sound environment standard for school campus is 60dB in day and 55dB at night. 5.1.4 Environmental Mitigation Measures for Specific Sites （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 1）Mitigation measures are proposed in this EIA for each of the sensitive points of this project school as shown in detail in Table 5-12. 85 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 5-12 Mitigation Measures for the Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Construction Environmental Layout Requirements SN Traffic Safety Measures Site Mitigation Measures of Construction Site �One centralized construction camp should be set up at the Student Canteen northeastern corner of the 1 No. 30 campus. The construction camp and the three construction sites should � Noises generated by be separated from the the construction surrounding dormitory activities exceed the buildings with closeable standard by 2.5 to fences. Dormitory No. 2 6.02dB(A). Sound �Construction workers 31 insulation windows are should not be allowed to installed for each enter the student building with a noise dormitory buildings reduction of without due approximately 10 to 15 authorization. �Vehicles should enter and dB(A). Therefore, with �Special personnel leave the campus via the windows closed, it can should be assigned to East Gate and travel along be guaranteed the carry out tour inspections designated routes and sound environment around the construction should not travel in campus standard will be area to prevent students without due authorization. satisfied. from entering the �Transportation vehicles �Construction should construction area without on campus should follow be avoided in the noon due authorization. the guide by special hours of 12:00 – 14:00 �Stronger efforts should personnel and pedestrians Dormitory No. and night hours of be made in inspection on the road should be 3 22:00 – 07:00 the next around the construction diverted to assure traffic 32 day. sites, in particular in the safety. �Low-noise pneumatic breakfast, lunch and �No honking is allowed or spiral pile drivers supper hours, and special when construction vehicles should be used. personnel should be travel on campus. assigned to manage �Transportation of students in this area. construction materials and Students should be construction debris should instructed to stay away occur during class hours from and not to stick with minimal pedestrians around the construction on road. sites. Teaching �The construction site �One centralized 4 Building No. 24 of Practical Training construction camp should Building No. 4 is be set up in the eastern located very close to part of the campus to Practical Training provide service during Building No. 3 and the the construction of both noise standard is civil works. A fully Practical exceeded by closed management 5 Training 10.46dB(A). In order to system should be adopted Building No. 4 assure effective noise for the construction sites. reduction, sound � Construction workers insulation retaining should not be allowed to walls (with a noise enter the Practical reduction of 6- Training Building 10dB(A)) should be without due 86 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan provided around the authorization. construction site and �Visitors are not allowed sound insulation to enter the construction windows should be area without due installed to avoid authorization. impacts from construction noise and assure that the sound environment in the Practical Training Building complies with the standard. �The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the western and northern sides of the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction. �High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. �Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. �A construction camp should be set up in the northeast corner of the �The noise caused by campus. The construction construction exceeds �A temporary gate will be camp and the Dormitory the standard by about set up on the side of the Building No. 33 should 9.1 dB (A). Sound construction site near the be separated from the insulation windows are road in the northeast surrounding dormitory installed in all corner. Vehicles should buildings with closed buildings, with a noise enter and leave the campus fences. reduction effect of via the temporary gate and �Construction personnel about 10-15dB (A). travel along designated should not be allowed to Therefore, with routes and should not travel enter or leave the building windows closed, it can on campus without due Dormitory without authorization. 6 be guaranteed that the authorization. Building No. 33 �Special personnel sound environment �Transportation vehicles should be assigned to standard will be met. on the construction site carry out tour inspections �Construction should should follow the guide by around the construction be avoided in the noon special personnel and area to prevent students hours of 12:00 – 14:00 pedestrians on the road from entering the and night hours of should be diverted to construction area without 22:00 – 07:00 the next assure traffic safety. due authorization. day. �No honking is allowed �Patrol should be �Low-noise pneumatic when construction vehicles strengthened in the or spiral pile drivers travel on campus. vicinity of the should be used. construction site, especially in the morning, middle and evening 87 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan meals and class hours. Special personnel should be assigned to be responsible for the management of the flow of students in the area. Students are required to stay away from the construction site and not stay around the construction site for a long time. 2）Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 3）The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. （2）Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College 1）Mitigation measures are proposed in this EIA for each of the sensitive points of this project school as shown in detail in Table 5-13. Table 5-13 Mitigation Measures for the Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Environmental Construction Layout Requirements of SN Mitigation Traffic Safety Measures Site Construction Site Measures � Noises generated � One centralized �Vehicles should enter and by the construction construction camp should leave the campus via the activities exceed the be set up at the East Gate and travel along standard by southeastern corner of the designated routes and should 3.74dB(A). With campus. The construction not travel in campus without windows closed, camp and the construction due authorization. impacts from sites Building No. 21 and �Transportation vehicles on construction noise 22 should be fenced up and campus should follow the can be effective separated from the guide by special personnel reduced to assure surrounding buildings with Area AB of and pedestrians on the road compliance with the closeable fences. 1 Dormitory should be diverted to assure sound environment � The construction Building No. 22 traffic safety. standard. workers should not be �No honking is allowed � Construction allowed to enter the when construction vehicles should be avoided in Student Dormitory travel on campus. the noon hours of Building and Teaching �Transportation of 12:00 – 14:00 and Building without due construction materials and night hours of 22:00 authorization. construction debris should – 07:00 the next �Special personnel should occur during class hours day. be assigned to carry out with minimal pedestrians on �Low-noise tour inspections around the road. pneumatic or spiral construction area to 88 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan pile drivers should prevent students from � Due to campus be used. entering the construction environment restrictions, it area without due is necessary to provide a authorization. special road on the �Stronger efforts should construction site of Building be made in inspection No. 18 as a construction around the construction transportation access road sites, in particular in the connecting the East Gate. breakfast, lunch and Therefore, a reasonable Second supper hours, and special route planning is needed and � Noises generated personnel should be it is recommended that 2 Teaching by the construction assigned to manage fences are installed to Building No. 21 activities exceed the students in this area. separate pedestrian from standard by Students should be traffic. 2.5dB(A). With instructed to stay away � Based on the layout of the windows closed, from and not to stick school buildings, it is impacts from around the construction recommended to close roads construction noise sites. adjacent to the construction can be effective area on the east side of the Practical reduced to assure �The construction sites of campus and arrange all 3 Training compliance with the Building No. 18 and No. students and faculty to use Building No. 19 sound environment 19 should be fenced up roads on the west side of the standard with closeable fences. Due campus. �High-noise to environment construction restrictions, it is necessary activities should be to set up a centralized avoided in class construction camp at the hours. southeastern corner of the �Low-noise campus to provide Practical pneumatic or construction services to 4 Training spiral pile drivers both construction sites. Building No. 18 should be used. � Stronger efforts should be made in management of construction workers, who should not be allowed to enter the teaching building and the practical training building without due authorization. �The noise of �One centralized �When vehicles enter and Dormitory Building construction camp should leave the campus, they No. 2 exceeds the be set up at the should all enter and leave the standard by 6.9 dB southeastern corner of the campus through the east gate (A). The influence Area AB of Practical and the temporary gate, and of construction Training Building No. 20. strictly along designated noise can be The construction camp and routes. Without permission, effectively reduced the construction site No. they are not allowed to travel by closing the 20 should be fenced up and through the campus at will. windows to ensure separated from the Area C of �Transportation vehicles on that the sound surrounding buildings with 5 Dormitory campus should follow the environment closeable fences. An exit Building No. 22 guide by special personnel reaches the should be opened near the and pedestrians on the road standard. gate on the east side of the should be diverted to assure �Area AB of campus, with special traffic safety. Dormitory Building personnel guarding it and �No honking is allowed No. 22 is very close guiding vehicles into the when construction vehicles to the construction construction site. travel on campus. site, and the noise �Closeable fences should �Transportation of exceeds the be set around the construction materials and standard by 14dB construction site in Area C construction debris should (A). In order to of Dormitory Building No. 89 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan assure effective 22, and a temporary gate occur during class hours noise reduction, should be opened on the with minimal pedestrians on sound insulation side adjacent to the road. the road. retaining walls All construction workers (with a noise and vehicles should enter reduction of 6- and leave the site through 10dB(A)) should be the temporary gate and provided around the should not be allowed to construction site enter the campus without and sound due authorization. insulation windows �Construction workers should be installed should not be allowed to to avoid impacts enter or leave the school from construction buildings without due noise and assure that authorization. the sound �Special personnel should environment in the be assigned to carry out Practical Training tour inspections around the Building complies construction area to with the standard. prevent students from The sound entering the construction insulation retaining area without due wall should not be authorization. lower than 5m in �Patrol should be height and should strengthened in the fully surround the vicinity of the construction western and site, especially in the northern sides of the morning, middle and building to be evening meals and class constructed. The hours. Special personnel sound insulation should be assigned to be retaining wall responsible for the should be able to management of the flow of move with the floors students in the area. under construction. Students are required to �Construction stay away from the should be avoided in construction site and not the noon hours of stay around the 12:00 – 14:00 and construction site for a long night hours of 22:00 time. – 07:00 the next day. �Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. �Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 5.2 to 9.9dB(A). Sound Area AB of insulation windows Practical are installed for 6 Training each building with a Building No. 20 noise reduction of approximately 10 to 15 dB(A). Therefore, with windows closed, it can be guaranteed 90 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan the sound environment standard will be satisfied. �Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day. �Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 2）Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 3）The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. （3）Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics 1）Mitigation measures are proposed in this EIA for each of the sensitive points of this project school as shown in detail in Table 5-14. Table 5-14 Mitigation Measures for the Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Construction Environmental Layout Requirements SN Traffic Safety Measures Site Mitigation Measures of Construction Site �Noises generated by �A reasonable layout �Special personnel should the construction plan should be be assigned to guide activities exceed the developed for the construction vehicles standard by 16.48dB(A) construction site. Based entering the construction to the maximum. Sound on the location of the site via the East Gate and insulation retaining Teaching Building, make sure the vehicles walls (with a noise high-noise equipment strictly follow the reduction of 6- including the mixers designated routes on site. Teaching 10dB(A)) are and cutters, as well as � Transportation vehicles Building and recommended around material stockpiling on campus should follow 1 the guide by special Teaching Office the construction sites sites easily generating Building and sound insulation dusts should be located personnel and pedestrians windows are installed to on the southern side of on the road should be effectively avoid the construction site far diverted to assure traffic impacts of construction away from the teaching safety. noises and assure building, dormitory �No honking is allowed compliance with the building and practical when construction sound environment training rooms. vehicles travel on standard. � Protective fences campus. �The sound insulation should be provided �A reasonable time 91 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan retaining wall should along roads around the schedule should be not be lower than 5m in construction sites to developed for vehicles height and should fully prevent high-altitude entering and leaving the surround the building to falling objects and campus so that be constructed. The warning signs should be transportation is arranged sound insulation provided. Pedestrians in class hours with little retaining wall should be should be prohibited to pedestrian flow and the able to move with the stick around the morning, noon and evening floors under respective area and peak hours are avoided. construction for high- special personnel �Large transportation rise buildings. should be assigned vehicles should not be � Construction should during pedestrian peak allowed to enter the be avoided in the noon hours to maintain order. campus before 20:00. hours of 12:00 – 14:00 � The tower cranes and night hours of 22:00 should be located with – 07:00 the next day. the surrounding �High-noise buildings and construction activities pedestrian safety taken should be avoided in into account to prevent class hours. safety hazards possibly �No honking is allowed to arise when materials when construction are hoisted at high vehicles travel on altitude over campus. pedestrians. �In order to avoid health impacts by construction dust on those exercising on the sport ground, it is recommended that the school should adjust the teaching schedule to avoid teaching activities on the sport ground in the ground excavation stage with high incidence of dusting; double-layer dust screens should be used and water should be sprayed in the other construction periods to minimize dust generation. � Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 2）Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage should be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Tianshui Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 3）Construction solid wastes must be collected at designated locations and subject to centralized disposal by Tianshui Environmental sanitation Bureau at designated solid wastes 92 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan landfill sites. （4）Lanzhou University of Arts and Science 1）Mitigation measures are proposed in this EIA for each of the sensitive points of this project school as shown in detail in Table 5-15. Table 5-15 Mitigation Measures for the Specific Impacts in the Construction Period of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Construction Environmental Layout Requirements of Traffic Safety SN Site Mitigation Measures Construction Site Measures � It is recommended that a temporary exit be opened on the side of the construction site on Yanbei Road and the � Special personnel construction site is connected should be assigned to � Noises generated by with the school fencing wall guide construction the construction activities to form an independent and vehicles entering the exceed the standard by closed construction area. All construction site and 20dB(A) to the construction plants, vehicles strictly travel along maximum. Sound and personnel will enter and designated routes on insulation retaining walls leave the construction site via site. (with a noise reduction of the temporary exit to realize �No honking is 6-10dB(A)) are full separation of allowed when recommended around the construction activities from construction vehicles construction sites and teaching activities, travel on campus. sound insulation effectively avoid mutual � A reasonable time windows (with a noise impacts between schedule should be reduction of 10-15dB(A)) construction workers, developed for are installed to effectively construction vehicles and vehicles entering and avoid impacts of pedestrians and vehicles in leaving the campus so construction noises and campus and minimize that transportation is assure compliance with impacts on normal teaching arranged in class the sound environment Art Practice activities on campus and the hours with little 1 standard. Center dense pedestrian flows pedestrian flow and � The sound insulation appearing in the morning, the morning, noon retaining wall should not noon and evening peak hours and evening peak be lower than 5m in at the existing gate. hours are avoided. height and should fully � A reasonable layout plan �Large transportation surround the building to should be developed for the vehicles should not be be constructed and be construction site. Based on allowed to enter the able to move with the the location of the Teaching campus before 20:00. floors under construction. Building, high-noise � Active efforts �High-noise construction equipment including the should be made to activities should be mixers and cutters, as well as coordinate and avoided in class hours. material stockpiling sites negotiate with the � No honking is allowed easily generating dusts traffic police about when construction should be located on the the need of traffic vehicles travel on northeastern side of the safety management at campus. construction site far away the front gate and � Foundation excavation from the teaching building early installation of should be carried out and practical training rooms. video camera manually. � Protective fences should surveillance be provided along roads equipment. south of the construction site at the entrance and exit of the Practical Training Building 93 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan to prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. � The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. 2）The construction contractors should have all their staff on site registered and filed at the School Security Department and rent residential houses in the neighborhood as the accommodation of construction workers. 3）Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage should be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Lanzhou Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 4）Construction solid wastes should be declared and reported to Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and a Letter of City Image and Environmental Sanitation Responsibility should be signed. Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau should be responsible for supervising and managing the disposal of all construction solid wastes of the proposed project. （5）Mitigation Measures for Sensitive Protection Objects Environmental mitigation measures for the sensitive zones in the neighborhood are mainly related to the construction period and include measures for mitigating air environment and sound environment impacts. Details of the impact factors and measures are described as follows: 1）Air environment impact factors The key factor impacting the air environment at the sensitive points in the construction period of the proposed project is construction dust. Dusts generated in the construction period include dust raised by vehicles, dust raised by wind from open-air stockpiles and exposed sites and dust raised by wind from lime soil mixing sites. Construction dust will pollute the air environment around the construction site and affect the health of target population for sensitive protection. 94 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2）Air environment impact mitigation measures ①Transportation dust control: Transportation management should be strengthened and actions should be taken to assure the transportation vehicles travel at specified speed; transportation routes should be selected in a scientific way and transportation roads should be sprayed with water on a periodical basis; powdery materials should be packed in tanks or bags while fly ash should be packaged and transported in the wet method; Overloading is prohibited during transportation of soil, cement and lime, which should be covered with tarpaulin, with any spills en route immediately cleaned and removed. ②Mitigation measures for dust generated from lime soil mixing and cement concrete mixing: Reasonable arrangements should be made for the mixing plants to achieve centralized mixing; lime soil mixing plants should not be located upwind of environmentally sensitive points; mixing plant operators should be provided with health protection services and masks and protective goggles; cement concrete should be outsourced from commercial concrete suppliers, if possible, and no cement mixing plant should be constructed. ③Mitigation measures for dust generated from material stockpiles: Material stockpiles should be located downwind of the sensitive areas and covered with tarpaulins; materials in storage should be reduced in volume and utilized in time. Fences should be provided when necessary and water should be sprayed on a periodical basis for dust prevention. 3）Sound environment impact factors and their mitigation measures 1）Transportation noise Mainly referring to noise generated in the process of vehicle travelling. 2）Construction plant noise Different mechanical plants are used on the construction sites in different construction stages of the project. The key noise sources in the earthwork construction stage, for example, are bulldozers, excavators, loaders and transportation vehicles while those in the foundation construction stage are compactors, cranes and graders. Cutters are the main noise-generating equipment in the structure construction stage. The noise impact scope of the aforesaid construction plants is normally within 100m. 3）Traffic noise control ①Construction sites of the proposed project should be reasonably selected so that the sensitive zones in the adjacency are avoided and noise pollution problems are avoided at the time of planning. ②Measures such as erecting “No Honking� and speed limit signs may be taken along 95 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan sensitive road sections with schools, hospitals, and residential areas and nursing homes on both sides and in campus. ③Workers in high-noise working environment should take self-protection measures. 4）Construction Plant Noise Control ①High-noise plants in the living area of construction workers and in the construction sites should be located as far away from sensitive points as possible and, in the meanwhile, measures such as silencing, insulation and damping should taken against strong noise sources. ②Construction technologies with low noise vibration should be selected. ③Temporary sound insulation fences should be installed on the boundary of the construction site; high-noise operations should be scheduled in such a way that the class hours and noon time resting hours are avoided; high-noise operations including pile driving should be suspended in night time. Where continuous operation is necessary, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority for approval and a notice should be issued to teachers and students on campus as well as residents in the neighborhood; some specific high-noise operations may be implemented during the fixed festivals and holidays or winter and summer school holidays. 5.2 Environmental Impact Analysis and Mitigation Measures in the Operation Period 5.2.1 Analysis of General Environmental Impacts （1）Analysis of air environment impacts The civil works of the four project schools under the Project will be mainly used for teaching, practical training and student daily activities, basically involving no impacts on the air environment. （2）Analysis of water environment impacts Sewage in schools mainly comes from daily activities of students served by the proposed project. Wastewater generated in general is domestic sewage that is pretreated in the septic tanks in the schools and discharged into the municipal sewage pipelines after satisfying Class III standard limits specified in Comprehensive Discharge Standard for Wastewater (GB8978- 1996). The sewage is finally delivered to the municipal WWTP of the city where the respective school is located and treated to the required standard before discharge, thus producing very minor environmental impacts. （3）Solid Wastes 96 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan After the Project is put into service, solid wastes to be generated in the ordinary teaching activities and daily life activities will be domestic solid wastes. Garbage collection sites will be set up by each school and the collected solid wastes will be subject to disposal according to the uniform requirements of the environmental sanitation authority of the cities that the project schools belong to. Therefore, environmental impacts will be very insignificant. （4）Sound environment impact analysis Noises in the operation period of the proposed project mainly comprise of noise from equipment operation in the Practical Training Building and noise generated in the teaching and daily life activities. The practical training equipment is mainly used for presentation and the noise-generating equipment are located inside the building with a noise value ranging from 60 to 80 dB(A), producing substantially no impact on the surrounding environment. 5.2.2 General pollution control measures （1）Water pollution control measures Wastewater in the operation period is mainly domestic sewage with simple quality and stable quantity and will produce very insignificant environmental impact after treated with the following measures. 1）Domestic sewage of the project schools should be pretreated in septic tanks to meet Class III standard limits specified in the Comprehensive Discharge Standard for Wastewater (GB8978-1996) before discharged into the local municipal sewage pipelines. 2）Each of the project schools should implement separate stormwater and sewage drainage system, with stormwater collected and discharged into the municipal stormwater pipeline and domestic sewage treated in septic tanks and diverted via the municipal sewer pipelines into the adjacent WWTP to be treated according to the respective standard before final discharge. 3）The sewage pipelines, in particular the pipe connections and elbows, should be inspected on a periodical basis to prevent environmental pollution caused by leakage of domestic sewage. 4）Septic tanks should be periodically dredged and maintained, with the dried sludge delivered to the municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. 5）Each of the project schools should develop a special emergency response plan and assign a special responsible person so that any sewer blockage, leakage or abnormalities are resolved immediately to prevent contamination to the surrounding environment. 97 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （2）Solid wastes Solid wastes involved in the Project are mainly domestic solid wastes and septic tank sludge and the domestic solid wastes mainly include paper scraps, peels and plastics. Based on the characteristics of such solid wastes, the following solid waste management measures are proposed: 1）Classified garbage collection bins should be provided in the project area to achieve classified recovery of domestic solid wastes such as paper scrap, metals, glass, and corresponding management measures should be developed: ①A sound management system should be developed to define responsibilities and achieve periodical cleaning and collection of garbage; ②Degradable garbage bags should be used as a general requirement for garbage collection; ③Reasonably garbage collection and transportation routes should be planned and protective measures taken to minimize spillage during transportation. 2）Solid wastes should be removed in time and subject to proper disposal. Upon completion, the domestic solid wastes to be generated by teachers and students and other workers in the project schools will be ordinary solid wastes. Such solid wastes should be regularly collected by in-campus cleaners and stockpiled at existing domestic solid waste stockpiling sites in schools and then transported out of the campus by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical and timely basis for centralized hygienic landfill or incineration. The temporary solid waste stockpiling sites should be subject to periodically sterilization and pest control. 3）Stronger management actions should be taken to prohibit littering. Garbage collection facilities should be reasonably arranged in the project area for the sake of convenient garbage discharge. In addition, stronger management actions should be taken by providing obvious signs or directives to avoid littering. 4）The sludge dredging frequency of septic tanks should be determined based on the technical standards of the septic tanks, which are usually dredged every 90 days, 180 days or 360 days. The dredged sludge may be used as organic fertilizers or delivered for harmless disposal. （3）Sound environment 1）Rubber shock pads should be placed beneath the practical training equipment to reduce impacts from equipment vibration and noise. 98 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2）Landscaping should be used as a measure for controlling noises. Areas around the buildings should be landscaped to not only absorb sound and reduce noise, but also stop dust and beautify environment. 3）Double-glazed windows should be used. Double-glazed windows (with a thickness of 150mm) may reduce indoor noise by 10 to 25 dB(A). The aforesaid measures can effectively reduce the impacts on school buildings generated by ambient noises as well as the impacts on the surrounding environment generated by practical training equipment in the classrooms to satisfy the sound environment quality standard. 5.2.3 Impact Analysis of Specific Sites （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 1）Waste oil rags GVCEC has set up a vehicle testing and maintenance training room to meet the needs of specialty teaching. The vehicle testing and maintenance simulations included as a part of the training process produce a small amount of waste oil rags of about 0.2tons per year. According to the requirements of the National Hazardous Waste Catalog (2016), waste oil rags are full- process exempted hazardous wastes and not managed as hazardous wastes in the full process and should be mixed with domestic solid wastes for disposal. 2）Cooking fume Cooking fume in this Project mainly comes from the canteen. Assuming that the canteen provides service to 2320 students and each student consumes approximately 30g edible oil at an oil volatilization rate of 2.83%, the cooking fume generation capacity will be 1.97kg/d (591kg/a). As shown in the design data, the concerned canteen with 28 double-stove ovens is categorized as a large catering enterprise in the Emission Standards of Cooking Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001) and fume purification facilities must be installed and operated according to the requirements. No uncontrolled emission should occur and the removal rate of fume purification facilities should not be less than 85%. Therefore, it is required in this EIA that gas collecting hood, special flue and fume purifiers are provided in the canteen operation rooms to assure that the cooking fume collected by the gas collecting hood enters via the special flue into the fume purifier for purification treatment according to the discharge standard. The flue ventilator should be positioned on the roof to achieve high-altitude emission. The canteen flue ventilators should be located on the side far 99 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan away from the student dormitories and rooftop high-altitude emission can assure rapid diffusion of fume, thus no significant impacts will be generated on ambient air environment quality. 3）Canteen stove combustion gas Calculated at a per capita gas consumption of 0.2m3/d, the canteen will come up with a total gas consumption of 464m3/d (139,200m3/a). Exhaust gas in a total volume of 12m3 will be generated from the combustion of 1m3 natural gas and the yearly combustion gas will amount to 1,670,400m3/a. Based on the amount of pollutants generated from natural gas combustion (as shown in detail in Table 5-16), the proposed canteen will generate 0.088 t of NO2, 0.014t of SO2 and 0.033t of flume from natural gas combustion of its stoves. Table 5-16 Pollutant generated from natural gas combustion of stoves Pollutant NO2 SO2 Fume Pollutant generation coefficient (kg/10000 6.3 1.0 2.4 m3 natural gas) Natural gas consumption (10000 m3/a) 13.92 Emission (t/a) 0.088 0.014 0.033 Natural gas is a clean energy. Pollutant emitted from natural gas consumed in the project canteen will be collected by the gas collecting hood and delivered via the special flue to rooftop for high-altitude emission to assure rapid diffusion and no significant impacts will be caused on the ambient air environment quality. 4）Canteen cooking wastewater According to the design data, upon completion, the canteen will involve a maximum wastewater discharge capacity of 337.5m3/d (101.25t/a). Such wastewater mainly comprises of cooking wastewater. See Table 5-17 for details of cooking wastewater generation and discharge. Table 5-17 Statistics of Generation Volume of Wastewater and Key Pollutants Before pretreatment After pretreatment SN Pollution factor Generation Discharge Generation Discharge concentration(m concentration capacity(t/a) capacity (t/a) g/L) (mg/L) 1 CODcr 400 40.50 340 34.43 2 BOD5 200 20.25 180 18.23 3 SS 220 22.28 154 15.59 Ammonia 4 25 2.53 24 2.43 nitrogen 100 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Animal and 5 30 3.04 9 0.91 vegetable oils The removal efficiency of the oil separating tanks is70%. Note The removal rate of the septic tank is 15% for CODcr, 10% for BOD5, 30% for SS and 4% for ammonia nitrogen. According to the design data, outdoor oil separating tanks will be constructed as a part of the canteen and the cooking wastewater generated from the canteen will be treated in the outdoor oil separating tank and then delivered to the septic tank for digestion treatment before further discharged into the municipal sewers to effectively avoid the impact on water environment by such wastewater. 5）Canteen kitchen wastes Calculated at a capacity of 0.5kg per person per day, 1160kg kitchen wastes will be generated per day and 348 t per year by the canteen. This EIA requires the canteen to provide special collection bins for kitchen wastes. Such collection bins should be leak proof and properly sealed to prevent odor and leakage during transportation. Special personnel should be assigned in the canteen to collect garbage and make sure the collected garbage is handled according to the disposal requirements of LND EPB. 6）Natural gas Using natural gas as the fuel, the canteen involves risks of intoxication, fire and explosions caused by natural gas leaks due to pipeline ruptures in the operation period. Regarding such risks, the EIA has proposed strict risk prevention measures as shown in detail in the section of “Natural Gas Risk Prevention Measures�. 5.2.4 Mitigation Measures for Specific Sites （1）Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 1）Garbage collection bins should be provided in the practical training rooms and the waste oil rags generated in the teaching process are collected and mixed with domestic solid wastes for disposal according to uniform requirements. 2）Gas collecting hood, special flue and fume purifiers should be provided in the canteen operation rooms to assure that the cooking fume collected by the gas collecting hood enters via the special flue into the fume purifier for purification treatment to the Emission Standards of Cooking Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001) before final emission. The flue ventilator should be positioned on the roof to achieve high-altitude emission. 3）The canteen flue ventilators should be located on the side far away from the student dormitories. 101 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 4）Outdoor oil separating tanks should be constructed as a part of the canteen to assure that the cooking wastewater generated from the canteen is treated in the outdoor oil separating tank and then delivered to the septic tank for digestion treatment before finally discharged into the municipal sewers. 5）The canteen should provide special collection bins for kitchen wastes. Such collection bins should be leak proof and properly sealed to prevent emission of odor and leakage during transportation. Special personnel should be assigned in the canteen to collect garbage and make sure the collected garbage is handled according to the disposal requirements of LND EPB. 6）The “Natural Gas Risk Prevention Measures� should be strictly enforced. （2）Natural gas risk prevention measures Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical under the World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project involves connection to the natural gas network and risks of intoxication, fire and explosion from natural gas leaks due to natural gas pipe ruptures. To address such risks, the EIA requires the implementation of the following measures: 1）Underground pipelines should be identified using warning boards erected on the ground while aboveground pipelines should be painted in one uniform warning color to promote public awareness of protection. 2）Problems discovered during periodical inspection, maintenance and normal operation of pipelines and valves should be rectified in a timely manner to avoid accidents arising from equipment failures; 3）Operators should strictly abide by the codes of operation to avoid accidents caused by operation errors; 4）Operational management should be strengthened through periodical training to improve the operating skills of pipeline workers; 5）Fire protection and extinguishing devices should be inspected regularly and assured in normal operation. 6）In case of a fuel gas leak, valves should be shut off and windows should be opened for immediate ventilation while open flames, telecommunication tools of whatever kinds and on/off operation of lights or electrical appliances and metal frictions should be avoided. 7）In case of a fire accident due to fuel gas leakage, wet rags should be placed over the fire point and valves shut off after the fire is completely extinguished. Never attempt to shut off the valves before the fire is extinguished because backflow may occur and lead to explosion 102 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan when shutting off a valve immediately upon a fire. 8）Immediately evacuate personnel in the building and call 119 in case of a serious fire. 9）Intelligent fire alarm controllers should be selected for the fire alarm system. 10）The project schools should develop a detailed emergency response plan to make sure that emergency response actions are implemented under uniform command, responsible persons and departments are assigned and their duties and responsibilities defined and emergency accidents are put under control in the shortest possible time to reduce environmental and personal harms caused by natural gas leakage risks. Such emergency response plans should mainly include the following contents: ①Alarm call, contact information; ②Tiered response procedure; ③Emergency environmental monitoring, emergency rescue, first aid and control measures; ④Personnel emergency evacuation, evacuation organization plan; ⑤Restoration measures; ⑥Emergency response training plan. 5.3 Due Diligence 5.3.1 Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling Center of LND TVET Park Zone A 2 wastewater treatment and water recycling centers will be constructed in Zone A of LND TVET Park. Name of project: LND TVET Park Zone A Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling Center (East) and LND TVET Park Zone A Wastewater Treatment and Water Recycling Center (West). Scope of construction: The East Center and the West Center will respectively achieve a treatment capacity of 20,000 ton/day and 5,000 ton/day. Construction Site: The East Center will be located west of Chuangzhinan Road and south of Weishiliu Road in LND and will adopt AAO treatment technology;The West Center will be located between Weiershiliu Road and Chuangzhixi Road in LND and will adopt MSBR treatment technology; Construction period: The centers will be commenced in 2016 and completed in July 2017, able to meet the needs of wastewater treatment of the Project. Effluent water quality standards: Effluent is designed to meet the standard of Class 1A in the Discharge Standards for Pollutants from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants 103 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan (GB18918-2002) and will be used for greenbelt irrigation and landscaping in the Park. This WWTP is under the supervision and management of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Lanzhou New Area. According to the survey results, this WWTP can achieve compliant discharge with its effluent meeting Class 1B standard specified in the Discharge Standard for Pollutants of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002), and has not had any non-compliance incidents. 5.3.2Yanerwan Wastewater Treatment Plant (Lanzhou Zhongtou Water Affairs Co., Ltd) Yanerwan Wastewater Treatment Plant (Lanzhou Zhongtou Water Affairs Co., Ltd.) , affiliated to Beijing Enfei Environmental Protection Co., Ltd., is located at Yanerwan, Chengguan District, Lanzhou, Gansu Province with a designed treatment capacity of 180,000m3/d. Since Yanerwan Wastewater Treatment Plant (Lanzhou Zhongtou Water Affairs Co., Ltd.) was officially put into operation in June 1998, its wastewater treatment equipment has been operating in excellent condition and achieving a daily average treatment capacity of 125,500m3. Using state-of-the-art wastewater treatment equipment, the WWTP selected secondary biochemical treatment process as its main treatment technology and the treated effluent can satisfy Class 1B standards specified in Discharge Standard for Pollutants of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002). This WWTP is equipped with an online monitoring system, which is supervised and managed by Lanzhou Municipal EPB, and environmental monitoring is conducted on a quarterly basis by Lanzhou Municipal Environment Monitoring Station. According to the survey results, this WWTP can achieve compliant discharge with its effluent meeting Class 1B standard specified in the Discharge Standard for Pollutants of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002), and has not had any non-compliance incidents. 5.3.3Tianshui Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (Qinzhou District Branch) Tianshui Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (Qinzhou District Branch) is located at Dongshili, Qinzhou District, Tianshui, Gansu Province with a designed treatment capacity of 60,000m3/d. Since Tianshui Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (Qinzhou District Branch) was officially put into operation in June 2006, its wastewater treatment equipment has been operating in excellent condition and achieving a daily average treatment capacity of 40,500m3. Using state-of-the-art wastewater treatment equipment, the WWTP selected secondary biochemical treatment process as its main treatment technology and the treated effluent can satisfy Class 1B standards specified in Discharge Standard for Pollutants of Municipal 104 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002). This WWTP is equipped with an online monitoring system, which is supervised and managed by Tianshui Municipal EPB, and environmental monitoring is conducted on a quarterly basis by Tianshui Municipal Environment Monitoring Station. According to the survey results, this WWTP can achieve compliant discharge with its effluent meeting Class 1B standard specified in the Discharge Standard for Pollutants of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002), and has not had any non-compliance incidents. 5.4 Social Impact Analysis The proposed World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project is related to two project cities of Lanzhou and Tianshui in Gansu Province and involves extensive social impacts, with every step of the implementation process closely related and linked. Smooth implementation of the Project depends, to a very large extent, on the will and attitude of participation of the project stakeholders. In order to support design optimization and effective implementation of the Project, Gansu YishanYishui Center for Environmental and Social Development, entrusted by Gansu Provincial Department of Education, developed the Social Impact Assessment Report for the Project. According to the World Bank safeguard policy, this EMP needs to include social impact assessment and analysis conducted as a part of the social assessment work. It is concluded in the Social Impact Assessment Report of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project that the Project will generate excellent social and economic benefits; the project and its stakeholders are highly compatible with each other; with significant social influence and insignificant and controllable social risks, the Project will contribute remarkably to the development of TVET sector in Gansu Province. 5.4.1 Social Benefits of the Project （1）The Project will contribute to promotion of teaching competence. Upon completion of the Project, the project schools will expect significantly improved infrastructures and an excellent working, study and living environment will be provided for the teachers contributing to not only stabilization of existing teaching force but also attraction of excellent teachers. The competence building activities designed under the Project will include school-industry partnership, aiming to provide more training opportunities to teachers and promote school management and teaching competence. （2）The Project will train and provide vocational talents to the society. Improved school infrastructure will provide the students with excellent learning and living environment to facilitate increase of enrollment and significant promotion of students' competence in learning 105 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan the occupational skills in a professional and systematic way and provide the vocational talents needed for social and economic development of China. （3）The Project will contribute to poverty reduction. Research data shows that more than 79% of the students enrolled by vocational and technical schools are poverty-stricken students, who will win more opportunities of employment and stronger ability of revenue generation through systematic vocational education and professional competence training to not only play a leading role in improving their own and their families’ livelihood, but also indirectly help other poverty-stricken households overcome poverty. In addition, during the implementation period of the Project, infrastructure construction will generate a large number of jobs. Upon the implementation of the Project, two project schools will be relocated to LND and their normal operation will provide job opportunities to local residents. （4）The Project will promote urbanization. As a part of its construction efforts, LND attracted investment and settlement of a large number of enterprises. By the end of 2015, 219 enterprises had settled down in LND, including 47 comprehensive enterprises, 53 administrative parks, 19 petrochemical parks, 43 equipment manufacturing parks, 27 economic development zones, 9 bonded zones, 15 agriculture, forestry and water affairs zones and 6 enclaves economic parks. The number of enterprises settling in LND is still growing. The construction of LND will no doubt drive the progress of urbanization and provide schools in the TVET Park with practice and employment opportunities. （5）The Project will contribute to the spread of the social gender concept. The Project will contribute significantly to the spread and popularization of social gender concept among teachers and students thanks to its content design of competence building and its attentions to career development of female teachers, enrollment and employment percentages of female students and joint administration of infrastructures. （6）The Project will contribute to the promotion of inclusive development. The Project will, through its interventions in poverty reduction, ethnic minority, social gender, specialty design and competence building, improve the understanding by teachers and students and facilitate the promotion and implementation of the concept of cultural inclusiveness. 5.4.2 Potential Social Risks and Countermeasures （1）The Project mainly involves potential risks in the following 3 aspects: 1）Grievances：Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College (founded through the merger of 7 vocational schools) and Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical (founded through the merger of 4 vocational schools) will be moved from the urban area of 106 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Lanzhou to the TVET Park in LND. Additional time of commuting from the teachers’ residences to the new campuses and inconvenience for female teachers in taking care of their children and parents may lead to some grievances. 2）Risks from occupational transformation of teachers and specialty adjustment for students: 59.47% of the teachers in the project schools will be transformed from teachers of secondary vocational schools to tertiary vocational schools. With the merger of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and Gansu Energy & Chemical Technical College, some specialties will be cancelled. Therefore, teachers transforming from a secondary vocational school to a tertiary vocational school will find themselves in immediate risks if they fail to promote their specialty competence and teaching skills. Also with the merger of these schools, some specialties will no longer exist and students will find themselves in risks of choosing a second specialty. 3）Risks of decreased income for land-depleted farmers: Both schools will build new campuses in LND and need to acquire 2,232 mu of land, resulting in 260 farming households losing their land to different degrees (from 0.31 to 18 mu per household). Despite of the replacement livelihood measures developed by LND for affected farmers, including pension insurance, employment, reemployment training, etc., these farmers still have the potential risks of income decrease or instability. （2）On the basis of interviews, discussions, questionnaires and comprehensive analysis of first-hand and second-hand data, the social assessment team proposed the following measures against the potential risks of the Project: 1）Grievance redress measures: It is recommended that a stable and transparent communication channel is established by GDoE, Gansu Provincial PMO and the project school management to address the various problems encountered in the operation period of the Project. Regarding the potential grievances from some teachers of the 2 merged schools, in addition to active efforts in promoting the Project, the respective project schools should set up a sound communication mechanism and a grievance redress mechanism and create a comfortable working and living environment for the teachers so as to enable them to get free from family worries and concentrate on teaching activities. 2）Measures to address risks of teacher transformation and student specialty adjustment: As a part of the competence building activities under the Project, specific contents should be designed for teachers pending transformation to promote their competence and help them adapt themselves to the new specialties at the fastest possible speed. Regarding students pending 107 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan specialty adjustment, the concerned project schools should adjust the affected students to new specialties based on market demand and free will of students, and, if necessary, provide them with psychological counseling. 3）Measures to address the risks of income decrease for land-depleted farmers: It is recommended that the LND government authorities continue improving the pension insurance and unemployment insurance policies and consult the LND enterprises or institutions on providing preferential policies and safeguards for local land-depleted farmers to get long-term and stable jobs. The project schools can also provide employment opportunities during the implementation of the Project to local land-depleted farmers, in particular, women, poor households and disabled individuals. In addition, stronger efforts should be made in training for land-depleted farmers to increase their employment rate. In short, implementation of the Project will generate significant impacts on TVET development in Gansu Province; the various stakeholders are highly compatible with the Project; and the social risks are insignificant and controllable. 5.4.3 Recommendations In order to facilitate realization of the project development objectives (PDOs), expansion of project outcomes, and increase of project influences and exploration of replicable, reproducible and innovative project experiences, the SA Team makes the following recommendations: （1）Project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) should be implemented. It is recommended that the Provincial PMO engages an experienced independent M&E agency during the implementation period of the Project to carry out the M&E of the project execution and implementation outcomes, develop M&E indicators and provide the PMO and WB with an independent M&E report and make timely corrections to any possible deviations during project implementation and assure the achievement of the anticipated project development objectives. （2）Attention should be paid to social gender sensitivity. In China, the level of recognition of social gender among all trades and sectors is very low. It is recommended that the project beneficiary schools pay more attention, in their specialty design, to disciplines and fields more suitable for female to study in school and get employed after graduation; significant improvements should be made to the accommodation conditions of girl students and the design of women’s lavatory based on the physiological characteristics of female through implementation of the Project. The existing toilets in the project schools, for instance, do not have enough latrine pits and the women’s washrooms are more narrow and crowded. It is 108 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan recommended that the aforesaid factors are incorporated into the design of the teaching and office buildings to be constructed utilizing the World Bank loan so that the toilets will provide adequate number of latrine pits and the girl’s washrooms and dormitories will have adequate space. Accounting for nearly 50% of the faculty in TVET schools, female teachers, however, are obviously in a disadvantaged position in terms of professional title promotion, management team membership and continual education. In such a context, it is recommended that the percentage of female teachers arranged to take part in teacher training should not be less than 45%. The 2 project schools to be moved to LND should take full account of the rights and demands of female teachers since the female teachers will need to travel more frequently between LND and the urban center in order to take care of their parents, children and families. （3）Attention should be paid to the poverty-stricken students. Poverty-stricken students account for up to 79% of the total number of students in the project beneficiary schools. It is recommended that the project beneficiary schools will pay attention to the poverty-stricken schools from the perspectives of psychological counseling, preferential policy, employment and scholarships and grants. Systematic sponsorship policies favorable to the study and employment of poverty-stricken students should be developed to conform to the World Bank goals of “Ending Extreme Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity� and the Chinese policy of “targeted poverty alleviation�. （4）The project schools should promote their management competence and improve their management concepts. Management plays a crucial role in TVET schools. However, the reality is that the project beneficiary schools, not on the same level, even have no long-term planning of school management. Teachers and students in some schools already expressed their grievances about the school management. It is recommended that the project schools will take this World Bank loan project as an opportunity to draw on the state-of-the-art management experiences of the international TVET schools, train their management professionals and realize target-based management in the real sense to incorporate teacher performance management, social gender concept, school-industry partnership, teacher competence promotion and student employment capability management and competence-based education into their system of performance appraisal indicators. （5）It is recommended that the following theme studies are designed as a part of the theme studies financed under the Project to lay a basis for realization of the innovations and objectives of the World Bank Project: A. Gansu TVET Project Policy and Case Studies in Successful School-industry Partnerships Home and Abroad; B. Study in Promoting the Level 109 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan of Internationalization of TVET Teachers and Social Gender Concept; C. Study of Student Training Model and Participatory Teaching and Management in TVET Schools; （6）TVET institution interdisciplinary cooperation and forums should be organized. It is recommended that the Provincial PMO should organize interdisciplinary cooperation and salons and working teams comprising of technical professionals from industries, backbone teachers from key specialties of educational institutions should be set up to address issues concerning talent training and market demand, carry out specialty design and building and align with the needs of industries and jointly develop teaching and practical training programs; 2 tailored forums or salons should be organized each year for the project schools, inviting TVET school management and teacher representatives and experts to discuss and communicate about the current status, development tendency and trends and innovative cases of TVET sector. 5.4.4 Summary of Social Impact Analysis After the World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project is implemented, excellent social and economic benefits will be generated; With highly compatible stakeholders, significant social influence and insignificant and controllable social risks, the Project will generate significant impacts on the development of TVET sector in Gansu Province. (See Table 5-18 for detail.) 110 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 5-18 Schedule of Social Impacts of Gansu TVET Project Project SN Compon Positive Impacts Negative Impacts Solutions to Negative Impacts ent 1)Female teachers will be provided with more spacey and 1)Decoration pollution should be addressed from comfortable office facilities and conditions. Upon the two aspects. First, the construction quality implementation of the Project, the new campuses of standards should be promoted and the various Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and construction works should be completed on Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical schedule. Environment-friendly materials will be built up in LND TVET Park and a number of should be selected in the decoration process to comprehensive buildings and teaching buildings will control pollutant at the source. Second, more be built up in the other three project schools, providing scientific and human-centered management the female teachers with better office and teaching 1)GFTVC and GVCEC to be skills should be introduced. After the schools constructed under the Project will facilities and conditions. Improved experimental, are moved to LND, ventilation frequency be located in LND TVET Park far practice and practical training facilities and conditions should be increased and green vegetation away from the urban center of will help promote the work efficiency of teachers. absorbing pollutants should be planted Lanzhou City. However, the 2)Female teachers will be provided with more training indoors; reasonable time table should be residences of the great majority of opportunities. In addition to infrastructure developed to reduce lengthy indoor activities. the teachers are located and construction, competence building contents are also 2)In order to address the issue of accommodation Impacts scattered in the urban center. included in the design of the Project, e.g. specialty for the school faculty in LNC TVET Park, on Commuting from the urban center 1 building, curriculum building, teaching force building, Phase I project of Wenqu Lake Jingyuan female to LND will take more time and etc. The project schools will enforce relevant policies Residential Area and business complex will be teachers create adverse impacts on female to fund this series of competence building activities, constructed. This residential area is located in teachers, in particular pregnant which will provide the teachers with more training LND north of Wenqu Road, south of teachers. In addition, opportunities, including arranging teachers to take part Chuangzhixi Road, east of a planned road and accommodation is an issue to be in external training, promoting teachers educational west of Wenquxi Road. With a total building addressed for teachers who need to background and technical title, and female teachers area of 549,500 m2, LND Wenqu Lake take a nap at noon or give lectures will be among the beneficiaries. Jingyuan Residential Area Project will or do experiments and tests at 3)Female teachers will benefit from higher incomes. This night. comprise of medium to high-end commercial Project involves 14 schools in total, 11 of which will residential buildings, supporting business be transformed from secondary specialty school to facilities, community service center, vocational colleges. School upgrading will help kindergarten, police substation, underground increasing the income of teachers to a certain extent garage, food market, etc. and will include and female teachers will benefit too. In addition, supporting facilities of water supply, implementation of the Project will be helpful to electricity, fuel gas, heating and ventilation promoting teachers’ education background and and landscaping. technical title, which will also contribute to higher 3)Commuting bus lines will be opened between 111 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan income for female teachers. LND TVET Park and Lanzhou Urban Center and reasonable bus routes, stops and time table will be developed to reduce waiting time and make teacher commuting easier. 1)Upon implementation of the Project, the project schools will expect extremely improved infrastructure and hardware conditions. Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical will build new campuses in 1)Commuting bus lines will be opened between LND TVET Park while the other three schools will LND TVET Park and Lanzhou Urban Center build a number of comprehensive buildings and 1)The long distance from the new and reasonable bus routes, stops and time table teaching buildings. In addition, the classrooms, campuses of GFTVC and GVCEC will be developed to reduce waiting time and laboratories and practice bases on the project schools to the urban center will result in provide preferential fare to students. will have improved environment. travelling and daily life 2)LND has introduced 281 industrial projects in 2)Upon implementation of the Project, school-industry inconveniences and increased Impacts total involving a total investment of CNY partnership will be strengthened in both depth and costs of living for girl students. 2 on girl 388.3 billion covering multiple sectors such as extent of partnership, providing more practice and 2)The long distance from the new students equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, high- employment opportunities for girl students, who can campuses of GFTVC and GVCEC &-new technology and modern services. The acquire new technical skills and promote practical to the urban center will generate two schools in LND will take advantage of operation abilities through school-industry short-term impacts on the practice their geographical location and establish off- partnership. and practical training activities of campus practice and practical training bases. 3)GFTVC and GVCEC are merged from multiple schools students of some specialties. In addition, students of these schools will also and their greatly increased strength in school embrace more opportunities of employment. management will benefit girl students on campus. 4)Thanks to the expanded scope of the two new schools, girl students will expect expanded scope of communication, enabling them to improve their abilities of interpersonal interaction and employment. 112 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 1)Thanks to the implementation of the Project, school- 1)The long distance from the new industry partnership will be strengthened in both depth campuses of GFTVC and GVCEC and extent and more practice and employment to the urban center will result in opportunities will be provided for poverty-stricken travelling and daily life students. Strengthened school-industry partnership inconveniences and increased will enable the poverty-stricken students to acquire costs of living, time and traffic for new technical skills and promote their practical poverty-stricken students. Taking operation abilities and will also provide them with Gansu Coal Industry School to be employment opportunities and their poverty-stricken moved to LND as an example, the families with opportunities of poverty alleviation. price level of Pingchuan District, 2)After the merger of GFTVC and GVCEC, a secondary Baiyin City, the existing site of the 1)The project schools should provide more part- Project and tertiary TVET integration model will be school, is lower than Lanzhou time jobs for poverty-stricken students. For impacts implemented to provide opportunities of continual City. Merger of the 7 schools example, fixed commodity stalls may be set up on education for poverty-stricken students. The school means increase of living and traffic 3 on campus to provide the poverty-stricken poverty- merger will broaden the horizon of the poverty- cost for the poverty-stricken students with chances of on-campus work as a stricken stricken students and promote their interpersonal students and heavier burden for means of financial support to their academic students interaction abilities. some families. After GFTVC and career. 3)Improved school infrastructure will provide the poverty- GVCEC are moved to LND, the stricken students with an excellent study and living long distance to the urban center environment. Construction of the library and shower will result in longer time of rooms, for example, will make study and daily life in travelling and certainly increased school more convenient for poverty-stricken students. costs of time for students. 4)Teachers will receive technical skill training thanks to the 2)After GFTVC and GVCEC are implementation of the Project and acquire stronger merged, some specialties will be ability to teach academic knowledge to poverty- merged or cancelled and the stricken students in a more systematic and affected poverty-stricken students comprehensive way and the students’ technical skills will have the risks of specialty and employment abilities will be promoted. adjustment. 113 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 6. Environmental Management System This Project has a relatively large coverage and complex composition of components. In order to minimize negative environmental impacts during project implementation, it is necessary to assure that the environmental management actions designed for the Project are implemented in the full process of project construction and operation. According to the respective requirements and actual needs, in addition to the supervisory duties and functions to be performed by law by the environmental protection authorities, special personnel will be assigned in the PMOs of all levels to be responsible for environmental management and an environmental management system comprising of a supervision agency, implementation agency and consulting service agency will be established to better achieve the demonstrative effect of the Project. 6.1 Configuration of Environmental Management Agencies Details of the configuration of the environmental management agencies in the construction period of the Project are shown in Table 6-1 and Figure 6-1. The logistics service bodies of the project schools will be responsible for environmental management in the operation period. Table 6-1 Agencies Involved in the Environmental Management System in the Construction Period Nature of Name of agency Mission of agency agency Responsible for project implementation and management, assigning full-time environmental management personnel, implementing the environmental protection activities in the planning, design and implementation periods of the Project, developing working procedures to meet the domestic and WB Provincial PMO requirements on environmental assessment and environmental management, responsible for supervising EMP implementation and assuring that the environmental mitigation measures are incorporated into the tendering Manage documents and contract documents. ment Responsible for implementation of the respective project component, assigning a agency full-time environmental protection officer to be mainly responsible for final acceptance of the environmental protection aspect upon the completion of the Project Project and routine environmental supervision and management in the Implementation construction period of the Project to minimize or reduce the adverse Office of the environmental impacts of the Project to an acceptable level and in the meanwhile Project Schools fully realize the environmental benefits of the Project; assuring that fund needed for the environmental protection activities of the Project are available and the relevant documents are prepared and put into archives. Environmental Performing the supervision and inspection duties and responsibilities of a Supervis protection government supervision and administration body to assure that the working ion authorities of the procedures of the Project satisfy the environmental management requirements of agency project school China and the pollution prevention and control measures in the implementation cities process meet the needs of environmental protection of China. 114 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Assigning an Environment Specialist and supervising and inspecting the World Bank implementation of the Environmental Protection Implementation Regulations. EIA Consultant Accepting a commission to prepare the Project’s EMP; Accepting a commission to prepare the feasibility study report and construction Design design program and assure that the measures and programs included in the EMP Consultant Consulti are included in the outcomes. ng Environmental service Accepting a commission to supervise and manage the routine production Supervision agency activities of the construction contractors. Agency Environmental Assisting the Provincial PMO in inspecting the environmental management work Expert Panel of the project components and providing guidance to the EIA agencies and employed by the implementation agencies needed for proper design and implementation of the Provincial PMO various environmental protection measures. Providing a site environment supervision engineer, implementing the Impleme environmental protection and water and soil conservation requirements included Civil works ntation in the contract and tendering and bid documents, satisfying the environmental contractors agency protection requirements of the World Bank as well as the local environmental protection authorities and developing and submitting construction checklists. Monitori Environmental Responsible for environmental monitoring activities in the operation period of ng monitoring the Project as a qualified environmental monitoring agency. agency agencies Note: Staffing details of the aforesaid agencies are shown in “5.2 Responsibilities and Staffing of Agencies Involved in the Environmental Management System�. 115 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan World Bank Mission World Bank Loan Gansu TVET EIA Consultant Project Management Office Environmental protection authorities at all levels Environment Manager Environmental Expert Panel employed by Project school PMO Provincial PMO Full-time environmental protection officer Civil works contractors Environment and school PMOs supervision agency Management Implementation agency agency Supervision Consulting service agency agency Figure 6-1 Organizational Framework of Environmental Management in the Construction Period 6.2 Responsibilities and Staffing of Agencies Involved in the Environmental Management System Agencies involved in the Project’s environmental management system include project management agencies, supervision agencies, implementation agencies and consulting service agencies. These agencies, each an integral part of the environmental management system, undertake different missions and have different duties and responsibilities. The Project will be implemented under the organization and leadership of the Provincial PMO and the project school PMOs to assure that the Project is constructed in accordance with the respective stipulations and requirements of both China and World Bank regarding the various working procedures as well as the implementation of pollution prevention and control measures. Table 6-2 below shows the responsibilities and staff configuration of the various agencies under the Project. 116 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 6-2 Duties & Responsibilities of the Agencies Involved in the Environmental Management System Name of Type of Size of Duties & Responsibilities agency agency Staff 1. Conducting full-process environmental supervision and Environment management for the Project by law, including approval of the al protection Supervisio 1 person Project’s EIA report (including the EIA activities of the project authorities at n agency components) as well as environmental supervision and management all levels in the construction and operation periods. 1. Preparing and supervising EMP implementation; 2. Causing and coordinating the enforcement of the domestic and WB environmental management requirements; 3. Submitting relevant reports to the World Bank on a semi-annual Provincial basis; Manageme PLG and 1 person 4. Inspecting the environmental management work of PMOs at all nt agency PMO levels; 5. Coordinating with the other relevant authorities in addressing significant environmental issues; 6. Engaging an Environmental Expert Panel to carry out inspections of the Project; 1. Preparing and supervising the implementation of the environmental management rules and regulations of the project components; 2. Organizing the development and approval of domestic EIA documents; 3. Making sure that the project design meets the EIA requirements; 4. Including the environmental protection measures in this EMP into the construction contracts of the Project; 5. Employing, supervising and coordinating the work of construction supervision engineers (qualification, responsibilities and management); Project 6. Organizing the implementation of the environmental management Implementat Manage training program; 1-2 ion Office of ment 7. Organizing theme studies or relevant investigations; persons Each Project agency 8. Properly recording, sorting and addressing public complaints and School appeals arising in the construction and operation periods and interpreting the results to the public; 9. Reviewing the environmental supervision and environmental consulting reports; 10. Submitting reports (statements) to the Provincial PMO on a quarterly basis; 11. Receiving and reviewing site checklists submitted by construction contractors and supervision agency to verify environmentally sensitive problems, with records put into archives; 12. Accepting environmental work inspections (including World Bank project missions) 1. The World Bank assigns missions on a yearly basis to carry out Supervisi special project implementation inspections; World Bank on 1 person 2. Inspecting the execution of loan agreement and implementation of agency the EMP of the Project. Units with qualification 1. Carrying out site investigations and environmental assessment of EIA s for EIA of 3 persons each project component; agency construction 2. Responsible for EMP preparation; projects Environment Consulting 1. Carrying out site inspections of the construction sites and contractors 1-2 al Expert service and assisting the Provincial PMO in inspecting the environmental Panel agency persons management work of each project component; 117 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Name of Type of Size of Duties & Responsibilities agency agency Staff engaged by 2. Providing guidance to EIA agencies and IAs to properly carry out Provincial the design and implementation of environmental protection PMO measures, drafting and submitting reports and providing suggestions and opinions to the Provincial PMO on implementation of the environmental protection activities; 3. Identifying school variations, preparing checklists and making comments on school variation selection. 1. The Supervision Engineer will be separately engaged by the Provincial PMO or local PMOs; 2. Supervising and inspecting domestic wastewater treatment, production wastewater treatment, soil erosion prevention measures, exhaust gas, dust and noise control measures, production and Construction domestic solid wastes and sediment treatment, health and disease Supervision control on the construction sites; Engineer Consultin 3. Preparing on a periodical basis the various environmental (responsible 1-2 management checklists (Attached Table 1) included in the annexes g service for persons of the EMP; agency environment 4. Proposing and following up with rectification solutions to al environmental protection problems encountered by the construction supervision) contractors in the construction activities, including issuing Rectification Notice (Attached Table 2) and rectification checklists and putting the inspection documents into archives; 5. Assuring that the construction contractors prepare and submit reports on a weekly basis about the implementation status of the construction works to the county (city, district) PMOs. 1. Developing environmental protection measures in the construction period; 2. Accepting environmental protection supervision and inspections conducted by the Supervision Engineer, the World Bank and the environmental protection authorities at all levels; 3. Setting up a feedback mechanism and carrying out the rectification Civil works Implement within 3 working days (or 10 working days where coordination is contractor ation Several required from the management agency) as of receipt of the and school agency Rectification Notice; principals 4. Completing the construction checklist (Attached Table 1) together with the construction supervision engineer before construction and submitting the checklist to the project school PMO; 5. The construction contractors will report on a weekly basis the implementation status of the construction works to the supervision engineer. 6.3 Environmental Management Tasks in Different Periods of the Project As shown in Figure 6-2, the Project involves different environmental management tasks in different periods of project implementation. The most important mission of EMP is to assure that all the environmental protection measures are actually and effectively implemented, including: (1) the environmental protection measures in the EMP are incorporated into the design and construction contracts of the Project; (2) the construction contractors’ performance in implementing the environmental protection measures in the construction period of the Project is supervised through the environmental supervision engineer, and the effectiveness and implementation status of the environmental protection measures are inspected; (3) project acceptance and project operation period are well 118 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan supervised and managed and mechanisms for EMP inspection, reporting and filing are established; time efficiency of the work activities is demonstrated through routine inspection. Project Period Identifying project category Assuring that the environmental protection measures Preliminary Design proposed in the EMP are effected in the Construction Supervision Plan EMP implementation; the Construction Supervision Engineer Project Construction supervising and managing the contractors construction activities on the construction sites Environmental protection The EMP specifically requires submitting the acceptance acceptance of the Project outcome to the concerned authority. Project Operation Implementing the EMP of the operation period Figure 6-2 Environmental Management Tasks in Different Periods of the Project 119 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 6.4 Environmental Supervision 6.4.1 Objectives In the construction period of the Project, the construction supervision engineer (also responsible for environmental supervision) should carry out the environmental supervision tasks of the construction period based on the environmental protection design requirements, fully supervise and inspect the progress and effectiveness of the environmental protection measures implemented by each construction contractor and handle and settle in a timely manner any environmental pollution incidents as they arise. In addition, the supervision outcomes in the construction period will serve as the basis for implementing the project acceptance activities and a special report needed for the acceptance report. 6.4.2 Contents Abiding by the national, local and World Bank guidelines, policies, bylaws and regulations of environmental protection and supervising and making sure that the environmental protection clauses included in the construction contracts are executed by the contractors. The key responsibilities include: 1�Preparing the environmental supervision plan and proposing and determining environmental supervision items and contents; 2�Reviewing the environmental protection clauses included in tendering and bid documents of the construction works; 3�Supervising the contractors’ activities and preventing and mitigating environmental pollution and wildlife damages arising from construction activities and in the meanwhile preventing fire accidents; 4�Fully supervising and inspecting the progress and effectiveness of the environmental protection measures implemented by each construction contractor and handling and settling in time any environmental pollution incidents as they arise based on the survey and monitoring data; 5�Fully inspecting treatment and restoration of slag disposal pits and construction slashes that the construction contractors are responsible for, mainly including slope stabilization, site restoration and landscaping and greening rate, etc.; 6�Assuring the implementation of environmental monitoring, reviewing the relevant environmental reports, proposing construction management requirements based on the water quality, ambient air and noise monitoring results to minimize adverse environmental impacts 120 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan caused by the construction activities; 7�Properly preparing supervision notes and reports as a part of the routine work activities and participating in final acceptance of the construction works. 6.4.3 Work Flow for Environmental Supervision Engineer to Implement the EMP in the Construction Period Environmental supervision is an important part of environmental management with relative independence. Therefore, an independent environmental supervision agency should be established and organizations with required qualifications should be assigned with the tasks of environmental supervision to supervise, review and evaluate the contractor’s performance in executing the environmental protection measures following the requirements of the contract documents and the national environmental protection laws, regulations and policies and based on the environmental monitoring data and inspection results and identify and correct in a timely manner any construction behaviors’ violating the contract clauses and national requirements of environmental protection. The environmental supervision engineer should inspect the construction sites at least once a week and prepare and put Construction Management Checklists (Attached Table 1) in archives. Rectification plans should be proposed for environmental problems existing in the contractors’ construction activities and followed up and implemented, with reports submitted to the project schools and put into archives on a monthly basis. The project schools should submit reports to the Provincial PMO and put them in archives on a quarterly basis while the Provincial PMO should report to the World Bank specialist on a semi-annual basis. See Figure 6-3 for the flowchart of environmental supervision in the construction period. 121 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Do the environmental protection measures in the construction period satisfy the environmental management requirements? Rectification requirement not satisfied Rectification requirement satisfied The Environmental Inspector issues The Construction Supervision rectification instructions to the Rectification requirement satisfied Engineer files and submits a summary construction contractor according to report based on completed the EMP requirements and makes Construction Site Checklists and sure the rectifications are carried out Rectification Checklist; within the deadline Rectification Rectification requirements not requirements finally satisfied satisfied The Construction Supervision The construction contractors carry out Engineer reports actual situation to the environmental protection measures Environmental Manager of Provincial Rectification requirement satisfied of the construction period according to PMO; the project school PMOs the rectification requirements of the coordinate the construction contractors EMP before the Construction to carry out the rectification Supervision Engineer checks again requirements raised by the and completes the checklist. Construction Supervision Engineer. Rectification requirements not satisfied The project school PMOs report the actual situation to Provincial PMO; the Provincial PMO or PLG decides according to the contract requirements whether the construction fund payment is withheld and a third party is consigned to carry out the rectification to the environmental protection and prevention measures. Figure 6-3 Flowchart of Environmental Supervision in the Construction Period 6.5 Environmental Management Training 6.5.1 Training Objectives Environmental management training aims to assure smooth and effective implementation of the environmental management activities by enabling the concerned personnel to be familiar with the environmental management contents and procedures, strengthening the environmental management competence of the environmental management personnel and assuring effective implementation of the environmental protection measures. Environmental managers and environmental supervision engineers are the key objects of environmental competence building and training provided to them is a part of the technical assistance under the Project. The training courses also cover the construction contractors and their workers in the implementation process of the Project. Prior to commencement of the construction works, all the construction contractors, operation units and building supervision personnel will be required to take part in 122 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan mandatory environment, health and safety training. 6.5.2 Trainees The trainees include staff of the Provincial PMO, the project school PMOs and the environmental supervision agency and representatives of the environmental monitoring agencies and key contractors. 6.5.3 Training Contents 1�Knowledge and application of World Bank environmental policies and domestic environmental protection laws and regulations, environmental standards; 2�Environmental management models of World Bank loan projects and environmental clauses in the loan agreement; 3�EMP of each project component; 4�Environmental management requirements of each project component; 5�Responsibilities and relationships of environmental management personnel, environmental supervision personnel, environmental monitoring personnel and contractors; 6�Environmental management work report, environmental supervision work report and environmental monitoring report. 6.5.4 Training Fund Fund for EMP training in the construction period of World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project will be included in the project budget while fund for training in the operation period will be included in the operation and maintenance cost. The total training fund is 185,000 yuan, see Table 6-3 for details. 123 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 6-3 Competence Building and Training Schedule Train Traini No. of Train Trainin Trainee Orga ing ng Training Training Objectives and Traine ing g Organization nizer Perio Durati Cost Contents es Time Method d on Provincial Objective: to make sure the 1 CNY 5,000 Environmental protection specialists will be invited to provide centralized training. PMO Provincial PMO environmental protection GVCEC PMO 3 CNY 15,000 measures proposed in the EIA CNY Report are actually enforced. GFTVC PMO 3 Contents: (1) environmental 15,000 GSTSM PMO 3 CNY 15,000 protection laws, regulations CNY and standards as well as LUAS PMO 3 environmental management 15,000 knowledge of construction projects; (2) basic knowledge 3 days of environmental monitoring; (3) stipulations on 3 person/school During construction Before construction School PMO environmental supervision CNY and law enforcement; (4) Contractor 15,000/scho environmental engineering ol and supervision technologies; (5) environmental management standard system and basic qualification training of management staff. CNY (1) Environmental 10，000/sch construction workers protection laws and School Contractor Representative of ool, to be regulations, codes and borne by Construction principles of construction Worker 2 days environmental contractor Training Plan protection practices; and included (2) Implementation of EMP in in the construction construction period contracts CNY Subtotal of construction period 165,000 Environmental protection specialists will be invited to provide centralized GVCEC PMO 1 CNY 5,000 During operation (1) Environmental safety Before operation GFTVC PMO 1 CNY 5,000 rules and regulations and training. Provi specifications; ncial 2 days (2) Risks, accidents and PMO emergency response GSTSM PMO 1 CNY 5,000 plans LUAS PMO 1 CNY 5,000 Subtotal of operation period CNY 20,000 CNY Total 185,000 6.6 Public Grievance Redress and Feedback Mechanisms 6.6.1 Public Grievance The Project’s grievance redress mechanism (GRM) covers all periods of project 124 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan implementation, including pre-construction investigation, construction period disturbance and operation period supervision. （1）Pre-construction Public Consultation In the pre-construction EIA period, public consultation will be implemented in the forms of discussions and questionnaires. The public may express their opinions at such discussions or by preparing and submitting questionnaires distributed by or requested from EIA agency; the public may also submit their opinions to the implementation agency or EIA agency by mail, telephone, fax or email or submit their complaints and appeals to the EPBs and Complaint Offices in the project counties (cities or districts). （2）Public Grievances in the Construction Period The implementation agencies of the proposed project should set up safety and civilized construction information bulletin boards and be constantly aware of construction progress and inconveniences brought by the construction activities to local people. A special reception desk should be set up, special personnel assigned and contact telephone number disclosed to allow for timely collection of public opinion. Public Opinion Notebooks should be provided to keep timely records of names and contact information of incoming telephone calls or visitors, impacts caused by project implementation on the public as well as the public opinions and comments. The implementation agencies are required to respond to questions raised by the public within 3 working days and propose and implement solutions within 10 to 15 working days depending on the level of difficulty, with the implementation process and final outcomes of coordination and resolution recorded in the Public Opinion Notebook and submitted to the project school PMOs. （3）Operation Period Supervision If any problems arise in the operation period, the public may directly put forward such problems to the project school PMOs and the project school PMOs will keep records and study, discuss and give a response to such problems within 3 working days and propose and implement a solution within 10 to 15 working days depending on the degree of difficulty. The Environmental Management Department of the project school PMOs should set up a GRM tracking and recording system to: 1) develop tracking tables and tracking procedures to collect information from project personnel and appellants; 2) assign a special personnel to update database information periodically; 3) establish an information analysis system to identify causes of grievances, increase transparency of grievance redress procedure and evaluate the overall operation of such mechanism on a periodical basis; 4) set up procedures 125 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan for informing the stakeholders of grievance redress progress; and 5) reporting the status of grievance redress to the Provincial PMO and WB on a periodical basis. See Figure 6-4 for the grievance redress mechanism of the Project. Appeals / complaints raised by affected public, groups or institutions Writing or verbal appeals Identifying a solution within 2 weeks and informing the appellant Contractor / construction local EPB supervision engineer Public Grievance Redress Office (incl. hotline) affiliated to the PMO Environmental Management Department Explaining and Recording and evaluating effectiveness of interpreting to grievances the appellants Solution not Discussing solutions with IA and Project identified Implementation Consultant and obtaining recognition from the appellants Holding meetings of multiple parties Solution identified (contractors, PMOs, IAs, appellants, within 2 weeks EBPs and consulting firms) to identify solutions and action plans Solution identified within 2 weeks Implementing the solution and the relevant action plans Construction Operation Period Period Implementation Contractor Agency Figure 6-4 Illustration of the Grievance Redress Mechanism of the Proposed Project The GRM will be open to all local residents to allow all affected persons, groups or 126 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan institutions to send their complaints and appeals via telephone, mail, email and other media. Before project commencement, the contact persons at each step of the grievance redress procedure will be determined (e.g. concerned school managers, contractors, IA environmental management personnel, local EPB officials, etc.) and their contact information (e.g. telephone numbers, addresses and email addresses, etc.) will be disclosed in the information bulletin board on construction sites or the websites of local governments. 6.6.2 Feedback Mechanism Based on the environmental monitoring reports and the inspections of the supervision agencies, relevant adjustments will be made in the EMP to the mitigation measures to facilitate further improvements to the environmental management activities. If any significant discrepancies are noted during the inspections from the contents of the EMP or any huge adverse environmental impacts or significant increase of persons affected by such adverse environmental impacts are caused by project variation, the PMO will immediately consult the environmental agency and the environmental assessment teams established by the World Bank for additional EIA and, if necessary, additional public consultation. The IAs and the contractors should also be advised to implement the revised EMP. 127 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 7.Environmental Management Plan 7.1General impacts and mitigation measures in the construction period The following prevention and mitigation measures are proposed for the adverse impacts generated by the civil works of each project school in terms of air environment, water environment, sound environment and solid wastes: 7.1.1 Construction site management 7.1.1.1 Environmental impacts generated by the construction sites Construction camps, construction material storage and transportation, construction time and construction vehicles will generate impact of different levels on the local environment. Construction camps and construction material storage require occupation of land on campus and generate significant impacts on vegetation and environment on campus in the affected area; construction vehicles, construction material transportation and construction plants and equipment generate noise and traffic jam generate significant impacts on the objects of sound environment protection and road transportation in the project schools and their neighborhood. Such impacts will be maximized in particular when the construction time is not reasonably scheduled or overtime work is involved. In addition, construction wastewater and exhaust gas generated by construction plants and equipment will have certain impacts on local surface water and air environment. Construction sites generate relatively significant environmental impacts, which are however limited in certain time and will disappear as the construction works are completed. 7.1.1.2 Construction site management measures The construction contractors of the Project must strictly enforce the following management measures to minimize the adverse environmental impacts generated on the construction sites. （1）Working hours The working hours on the construction sites are 7:00 am to 22:00 pm. Construction is banned during the noon hours of 12:00 to 14:00 and restricted at night. Where night construction becomes inevitable, a notice should be given to the local residents and relevant formalities fulfilled and actions taken to reduce impacts on residents. The arrival and departure time of construction transportation vehicles must comply with the requirements of local governments; （2）Construction camp arrangement If possible, the construction contractors should rent local residential houses in the project area for lodging and accommodation and avoid locating the construction camps and canteens 128 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan on the construction sites, where only offices and material stockpiling sheds are allowed. （3）Traffic safety 1）Best traffic safety practices should be adopted in all aspects related to transportation during the construction of the Project to best avoid traffic accidents and reduce casualty of both project personnel and general public. In such a context, the following measures should be taken: ①Drivers should be made particularly aware of the importance of safety rules; ②Driving skill should be improved and all drivers must be licensed; ③Driving time should be limited and driver duty shift schedule developed to avoid fatigue driving; ④Dangerous road sections and driving in the dangerous hours of a day should be avoided to minimize accident probability; 2）Vehicle maintenance should be conducted on a periodical basis and manufacturer approved spare parts used to avoid serious traffic accidents resulting from equipment failure or premature failure of parts and components. 3）All efforts should be made to reduce simultaneous occupation of roads by pedestrians and construction vehicles; 4）Road signs and visibility should be improved in cooperation with local communities and competent authority to promote the level of road safety as a whole, in particular on roads adjacent to schools and other areas where children are present. Traffic and pedestrian safety education campaigns (e.g. advertisement activities in schools) should be organized in cooperation with local communities; 5）A mechanism should be established for coordination with the emergency response personnel to assure that appropriate first aid is available in case of any accidents; 6）Local materials should be used where possible to shorten haulage. The relevant facilities (e.g. worker dormitories) should be located adjacent to the project sites to avoid increase of traffic flow; 7）Traffic safety control measures should be taken and road signs and signalmen should be used to warn pedestrians and traffic against dangers. （4）Spoils and Construction Solid Wastes Spoils and construction solid wastes should be stockpiled at landfills designated by local environmental sanitation authority and should not be dumped at free will. （5）Public Information Platform 129 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ①Construction data plates should be installed at obvious positions to indicate the project name, construction site area, names of project implementation agency, construction contractors and supervision and administration agencies as well as names of project responsible person, dates of construction commencement and completion, complaint hotline and specific environmental protection measures; ②The construction contractors should post a Notice of Project Commencement around the construction site 7 days before the scheduled date of project commencement to disclose information including project overview, construction plan, names of respective construction units and name of project responsible person, complaint hotline, etc.; ③Night construction should be restricted. When night construction is inevitable under special circumstances, actions should be taken to control the impacts of night construction on the surrounding environment and a prior notice should be given to the local residents to seek their understanding; ④The construction contractors should post notices around the project sites and the premises of affected residents and enterprises to notify the public of pending interruption of services (including water supply, electricity supply, telecommunication and traffic, etc.) 5 days in advance. （6）Prevention of Accidents and Risks The construction contractors should develop an accident prevention plan and assign an emergency responsible person and seek aids from the concerned authorities immediately upon the occurrence of any accidents; （7）Personal Safety and Health The construction sites should be separated and fenced up and traffic signs and guardrails provided to assure pedestrian safety; safety training should be provided to the construction workers before construction commences; personal protection devices must be provided and mandatorily used; all construction activities should be suspended in case of a rainstorm or any emergency accidents; （8）Prohibited Activities Unapproved tree felling outside the approved construction site is prohibited; use of unapproved toxic substances, including lead paint, asbestos, open flame and alcohol, is prohibited. 7.1.2 Ambient air quality management 7.1.2.1 Ambient air impact analysis 130 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Exhaust gas pollution in the construction period of the Project mainly comes from construction dust, tail gas of construction plants and exhaust gas of organic solvent used in decoration works. 1）Impact analysis of construction dust In the construction period, dust produces the greatest impact on ambient air quality. Dust can easily arise from loose soil on the ground surface damaged by earthwork excavation and fill and other construction activities in the land use area during construction. Spoil transportation and removal, building material transportation, handling and stockpiling operations may also easily lead to dust. The local climate featuring in little rainfall and dry and windy springs and winters in Gansu Province constitute a driving force of dust generation. Dust easily rises in windy weathers and produces serious impacts on air quality. The amount of dust generated in the construction period is related to many factors, such as wind power, material moisture, operational civilization, stacking and stockpiling methods and particle size and sedimentation velocity of dust particles. The amount of dust generated when construction transportation vehicles travel is related to pavement condition and vehicle speed. Dust generated by vehicles under the action of natural wind normally has an impact range of 100m and can be reduced by around 70% if water is sprayed 4 or 5 times a day over the pavement. Impacts of construction dust can be effectively reduced by means of erecting fencing walls, more frequent water spraying on site roads, reasonable stockpiling of spoil and improved construction management in the construction process. The adverse impacts disappear as the construction period comes to an end. 2）Tail Gas of Construction Plants and Transportation Vehicles Exhaust gas in the construction period mainly includes exhaust gas emitted by construction plants and tail gas from vehicles and the key pollutants are NOx, CO and THC. The project area has excellent diffusion conditions and, as the exhaust gas from the construction plants is of a small volume and has a limited scope of impacts, its environmental impacts can be effectively reduced through improving maintenance of the construction plants and minimizing emission due to mechanical failures. 3）Impact Analysis of Organic Solvent Organic exhaust gas generated by decoration materials such as paints, latex paints, spray agents and binding agents include formaldehyde, dimethylbenzene and chlorinated hydrocarbons. In the decoration process, it is difficult to estimate the quantities of decoration materials used. It is usually difficult for indoor air to comply with the requirements of the Indoor 131 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Air Quality Standard (GB/T18883-2002) immediately after the decoration work is completed. Vitalization of the aforesaid organic exhaust gases mainly occurs in the 3-month decoration period. These organic exhaust gases belong to fugitive emission mainly affecting human health and may be effectively reduced indoors through selection of environment-friendly decoration materials and improvement of indoor ventilation. 7.1.2.2 Ambient air management measures （1）Dust pollution control The key sources of construction dust include dust brought by vehicles travelling on construction sites, dust generated by construction and decoration materials and earthwork stockpiling, dust generated in the transportation process of earthwork, debris and construction solid wastes and dust generated in mortar mixing operation. Regarding the aforesaid dust pollution sources, the following dust pollution control measures are proposed: 1）First of all, to manage the construction activities on site, a construction site environmental protection responsibility system should be set up, with the Project Manager as the primary responsible person, and environmental protection measures and special program for construction dust control must be included in the construction organization design, which should not be put into implementation until approved by the competent authority. 2）Dust screens and fences should be set up for the building structures according to the respective specification to reduce the possibility of construction dust; 3）Ground surface of the construction sites and traffic roads should be hardened and sprayed with water for dust suppression; 4）Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt are removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; 5）Proper covering or other effective dust prevention measures should be implemented on construction sites where construction solid wastes cannot be removed in time by the required deadline; 6）Slurry tanks and slurry troughs should be provided on construction sites involving slurry operation to prevent slurry spillage. Waste slurry should be transported out of site in closed tankers; 7）Pre-mixed concrete and pre-mixed mortar should be used on construction sites 132 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan according to the respective requirements and in-situ open-air mixing is prohibited; 8）During earthwork excavation and backfill operations, water should be sprayed for dust suppression and to reduce the duration of dusty operation; in case of winds above Grade 4, no earthwork construction and demolition operations should be implemented; 9）Construction materials, sand and gravel, soil and other dust-generating materials stockpiled on site should be covered with dust screen or cloth and dust suppression agent or water should be sprayed on a periodical basis to prevent wind erosion and dust generation; 10）Bulk materials, construction solid wastes and debris conveyed on and over buildings and structures should be put in closed containers and tossing and throwing from high altitude is prohibited. 11）Dense dust screen or cloth with excellent dust suppression effect should be installed outside the scaffolds during building construction and dust prevention measures such as water spraying, mist spraying should be taken during building demolition. 12）Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they are clean when leaving the sites; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent possible spillage and leakage on roads. 13）Construction sites should be 100% fenced up; material stockpiles 100% covered; vehicles 100% washed; construction site surface 100% hardened; demolition sites 100% adopting wet operation method and debris transportation vehicles 100% achieving air-tight transportation. （2）Vehicle Tail Gas 1）Construction plants and vehicles in good operating condition should be selected; 2）Fuel-driven construction plants and vehicles must be operated in normal condition to assure compliant tail gas emission; 3）Equipment should be used in a reasonable way and equipment maintenance and repair should be strengthened. （3）Decoration Exhaust Gas 1）Environment-friendly decoration materials should be selected; 2）Doors and windows should be opened after the decoration work is completed for effective ventilation. 3）Indoor air quality monitoring should be conducted before the school buildings are put 133 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan into service to assure that they are not occupied until full compliance is achieved. 7.1.3 Sound environment quality management 7.1.3.1 Sound environment impact analysis Noises in the construction period mainly comprise of noise of construction plants, noise of construction operation and noise of construction vehicles. The construction period of the Project is divided into four stages, i.e. the earthwork construction stage, the foundation construction stage, the structure construction stage and the decoration stage. The key noise sources in the earthwork construction stage are bulldozers, excavators, loaders and transportation vehicles while those in the foundation construction stage are compactors, cranes and graders. Cutters are the main noise-generating equipment in the structure construction stage. Since most of the construction activities in the decoration stage are carried out inside the buildings and the construction noise is reduced to a certain extent by the walls, noise impacts produced in this part of the construction process are insignificant. 7.1.2.2 Sound environment management measures 1）Reasonable planning of construction sites The number of construction plants mobilized on site should be minimized provided that the constructional need is satisfied. Steel rebar and steel sheet processing should be outsourced, if possible, to reduce noise source from on-site processing; the implementation agency should develop a comprehensive plan to arrange the noise sources at a centralized location where possible to reduce the scope of construction noise impacts. 2）Assuring normal operation of construction plants State-of-the-art low-noise equipment should be selected if possible; high-noise equipment should be used at lower frequency and low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used for pile driving; high-efficiency silencers should be installed on loaders, excavators and other mobile noise sources and honking should be banned on construction sites to avoid and reduce noise disturbance. The construction contractors should conduct periodical inspection and maintenance of the construction plants in the construction process to assure normal operation and avoid high-intensity noises generated from operation of defective equipment. High-noise mechanical equipment should be located away from the side adjacent to residential areas and noise-reduction fences should be set up on construction sites located in a distance of less than 5m from residence, hospital and school buildings. 3）Reasonable scheduling of construction time ①The construction time should be reasonably scheduled to have high-noise construction 134 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan periods (e.g. foundation construction) arranged in winter or summer holidays if possible. Otherwise, the construction activities should at least be coordinated with the teaching activities to, e.g. have high-noise construction activities arranged in afternoons or weekends to avoid operation of high-noise equipment in time periods for concentrated teaching and student rest. ②The construction sequence should be reasonably arranged and no construction should occur in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. ③When continuous construction is needed, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority. Night construction must not be implemented without prior approval and without the acknowledgement by schools and residents in the neighborhood. High-noise equipment should be arranged for daytime construction and the standards specified in Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011) should be strictly enforced. （4）Construction Vehicle Noise Control Measures ①Stronger efforts should be made in transportation management. The implementation agency and the construction contractors should negotiate on environmental protection education for transportation workers. The speed of transportation vehicles should be controlled and overloading banned. ②Vehicle maintenance and repair should be strengthened to assure normal operation; ③Direction boards should be provided at entrances and exits of construction sites and unnecessary idle speed, braking, ignition and honking should be avoided. ④Transportation vehicles are banned to travel in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day to assure normal resting of local residents. ⑤Traffic noise may generate certain impacts on sound environment sensitive points in the neighborhood. Therefore, the construction contractors should promote the environmental protection awareness of the construction workers, learn about the local customs and habits and reasonably arrange transportation time. In centralized residential areas and other environmentally sensitive areas, speed limit, horn prohibition and other self-conscious actions should be taken to control vehicles and other construction plants so as to prevent and reduce noise impacts. ⑥Transportation vehicles should travel in low speed on campus to not only reduce impacts by traffic noise on teaching activities, but also protect personal safety on campus. Vehicles traveling on campus should strictly follow the planned route. Random parking and 135 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan honking are prohibited. （5）Decoration Noise Control Measures When it is unlikely to implement the decoration works in a centralized time period, management of decoration noise should be strengthened and strict decoration management measures should be developed to minimize impacts caused by decoration noises. Doors and windows should be properly closed while decoration work is going on. The decoration time period should be limited and no decoration activity of any kind should be conducted in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. 7.1.4 Surface water environment quality management 7.1.4.1 Surface water environment impact analysis Wastewater in the construction period mainly comprises of construction wastewater and domestic sewage. Construction wastewater mainly includes wastewater from vehicle cleaning and washing, construction site washing, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregate washing. Although insignificant in volume, such wastewater contains oil and mud and, if discharged randomly without proper treatment, will cause pollution of soil and surface water and ground water to a certain extent and, in particular, even bigger impact on surface water environment in rain weather. Domestic sewage mainly comes from daily life activities of construction workers and the key pollutants are CODcr, BOD5 and SS with a generation concentration of 400mg/Ｌ, 200mg/Ｌ and 220mg/Ｌrespectively. In addition, ground water that might flow out of ground in the course of piling, foundation and building construction and natural precipitation flowing over the construction sites, if not properly treated, will generate significant impacts on the surface water environment of the project area. 7.1.4.2 Surface water environment management measures （1）Stormwater Management 1）A sound stormwater and drainage system is already in place in each project school. During construction, the stormwater collection gutters must be kept unblocked and no construction materials should be stockpiled over and adjacent to the stormwater collection gutters to avoid possible obstruction. 2）Soil contaminated (e.g. by oil, grease or paints) in the construction period should be removed in time to prevent massive contamination of stormwater. 3）The construction contractors are encouraged to use weather forecast and rainstorm 136 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan warning functions to respond to any upcoming adverse rainfall conditions. 4）During rainfalls, timely attention should be paid to make sure that the stormwater collection gutters and drainage pipelines remain unblocked and any obstructions are removed in time. （2）Construction Wastewater 1）Wastewater from vehicle cleaning and washing, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregate washing on construction sites should be collected via the gutters and then mixed and diluted to reduce wastewater pH value before such wastewater enters the temporary sedimentation tank for treatment. The temporary sedimentation tank should have an adequate size to guarantee12-hour wastewater retention as specified in the standard and the treated wastewater should be fully reused in construction site cleaning, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregates re-washing; 2）Muddy stormwater and slurry water should be collected into the sedimentation tank for sedimentation and reuse; 3）Machine oil leaked from machinery and wastewater from equipment and material washing should be settled in oil separating tank before reuse to control impacts from sediments and suspended substances contained in the construction wastewater on the surrounding environment; 4）The oil separating tanks and sedimentation tanks should be subject to proper anti- seepage treatment to avoid possible impacts on the surrounding environment. 5）Oil or water leaks must be inspected and repaired before any mechanical equipment is used. （3）Domestic sewage 1）Temporary toilets, septic tanks and wastewater collection tanks should be provided on construction sites. Laundry and kitchen wastewater generated by the construction workers should be subject to oil separation and sedimentation before discharged into the school sewage pipelines. Night soil generated in the temporary toilets should be stored in septic tanks temporarily before removed by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical basis. 2）In order to prevent possible pollution of ground water, anti-seepage cement should be used in the foundation construction of the wastewater collection tanks. 3）Environmental protection education for construction workers should be strengthened 137 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan to promote environmental awareness and prevent uncontrolled littering and wastewater discharge. 7.1.5 Solid waste management 7.1.5.1 Solid waste impact analysis Solid wastes in the construction period mainly include construction solid wastes generated in the construction process and spoil (debris) generated from foundation excavation and backfill as well as domestic solid wastes generated by the construction workers. Construction solid wastes refer to any substances generated and discarded in the construction and demolition activities and consist of complicated components, mainly including waste sand and aggregates, bricks and tiles, timber, waste ceramic tiles, plastics, waste concrete, waste metal and packaging materials. Domestic solid wastes mainly include plastics and waste paper. Construction solid wastes generated in the construction period will not only affect site view if not properly treated, but will also generate dust in windy and dry weathers; domestic solid wastes generated by the construction workers, if not treated in time, will generate mosquitoes and pests and odor when the temperature condition is suitable and spread diseases and result in adverse impacts on the surrounding environment. 7.1.5.2 Solid waste management measures 1）Construction Solid Wastes ①Construction solid wastes generated in the construction period should be removed in time to avoid secondary pollution in the process of stockpiling. ②Some package bags generated in the construction process need to be classified and stockpiled, with the reusable parts adequately recycled and the other parts incorporated into and treated together with domestic solid wastes. ③Earthwork construction should be carefully designed and organized to achieve substantial earthwork excavation and fill balance and avoid long haulage; waste concrete and bricks discarded on site should be removed in time. ④Solid wastes should be subject to classified treatment. Reusable construction solid wastes, such as steel rebar, should be recycled to avoid waste of resources while the non- reusable construction solid wastes need to be dumped at designated sites. ⑤Vehicles transporting bulk materials and wastes should be properly sealed, fastened and covered to avoid spillage on the way; vehicles transporting soil should travel along designated 138 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan route in the specified time period. Spoil disposal should be conducted in a concentrated period and avoid storm season and be accompanied with simultaneous compacting. ⑥Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they leave the sites clean and tidy; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent possible spillage and leakage on roads. ⑦Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at the entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; ⑧The project schools should strictly abide by the requirements of local authorities on treatment of construction solid wastes. 2）Domestic solid wastes The construction contractors should properly carry out the collection and stockpiling of domestic solid wastes and remove the domestic solid wastes out of the construction sites in a timely manner. Education to the construction workers should be strengthened and civilized construction should be promoted to put an end to uncontrolled dumping of domestic solid wastes and assure the environmental quality on construction sites and the surrounding areas. Closable classified garbage bins should be provided in the temporary living areas and the domestic solid wastes should be collected and transported on a daily basis to the adjacent garbage collection stations and then by the environmental sanitation authority to municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. (3) Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets During the decoration of school buildings, paint will be used to varying degrees, and all construction units will face the problem of temporary storage and disposal of waste paint buckets generated after the paint is used up. According to the National Hazardous Waste List (2021), used-up waste paint buckets fall under the category of "Non-specific Industries" in "HW12 dyestuff and paint wastes"and "900- 252-12 paint (excluding water-based paint), organic solvents for painting, the waste generated in the process of painting". According to the storage requirements of hazardous wastes in the Technical Specifications for Collection, Storage and Transportation of Hazardous Waste (HJ 2025-2012), the temporary storage sites of waste paint buckets generated during decoration fall under the category of "Facilities Used for Temporary Storage by Hazardous Waste Generating 139 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Units". Therefore, waste paint buckets need to be stored separately. According to the requirements of the Pollution Control Standard for Hazardous Waste Storage (GB 18597-2001, 2013 Amendment), the temporary storage site of waste paint buckets is forbidden to be close to the protection area prone to kindling and high voltage electricity. Warning signs should be set up in the storage site and rainproof, fire prevention and seepage prevention measures should be taken. The temporary storage site should be equipped with lighting and fire fighting facilities. At the same time, the construction unit should establish a collection, transfer and storage ledger to record the whole process from the generation, collection and temporary storage of waste paint buckets until they are delivered to the manufacturer for recycling. See Table 5-5 and Table 5-7 for detailed record tables. Therefore, the construction units of all project schools should give priority to water-based paint. If non-water-based paint is required, the waste paint buckets should be managed in strict accordance with the "Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets" in this report. 7.1.6 Ecological impact management 7.1.6.1 Ecological impact analysis Site excavation in the construction process will result in a certain area of disturbed surface and relatively significant damages to the existing native land, further leading to increase of fragmentation, change of soil particle size and aggravation of soil erosion. Impacts on vegetation caused by construction works are mainly reflected in the damages to surface vegetation in the operation area from activities of surface excavation, transportation and stockpiling of construction materials and production equipment as well as rolling of construction plant and vehicles and trampling by the construction workers. 7.1.6.2 Ecological impact management measures （1）Ecological Resource Protection and Management Measures ①Construction site layout and arrangement should be reasonable and optimized to minimize the scope of construction activities and land damages caused during project implementation; ②Bricks, stone, sand, cement, timber among other construction materials needed and outsourced for the construction works should be transported to the construction site at time intervals and in loads roughly matching the actual demand on site to minimize land area occupied by material stockpiles; upon completion of the construction works, residual materials should be removed out of site in time to enable landscaping of construction sites; 140 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ③Temporary protective fences should be erected around trees remaining on the construction site before the construction works commence based on the results of construction site investigation; ④Neither should the trees be attached with marks and labels other than the identification label nor should the tree protection zones have construction materials stockpiled or stored and construction plants and equipment parked in their immediate adjacency; ⑤Temporary intercepting ditches should be constructed on construction sites and floodways should be built to replace surface runoff passage damaged by the Project to divert rain season flood and prevent the construction works from erosion by surface runoffs; ⑥On the premise that construction quality is assured, the construction contractors should take all possible actions to shorten the time of temporary land occupation, control the construction time of earthwork and maintain stable cut and filled slope to minimize impacts outside the scope of the construction works. （2）Soil Erosion Control Measures 1）Engineering Measures ①Leveling and backfill: including measurement of backfill area and depth, backfill bulk density and rolling bulk density, determination of backfill rolling method, determination of forecast and protection measures of possible subsidence and its hazards; ②Planning of transportation routes of backfill material and top soil; ③Depression backfill and utilization: waste soil and ballasts should be adequately utilized for depression backfill so that the depressions are properly backfilled and leveled and waste materials are used up. Terrain, construction conditions and area among other factors should be considered upon determining backfill method. Normally, manual backfill and mechanical backfill are integrated and used simultaneously, with bulldozers used to level off large depressions in rectangular partitions and manual methods used to handle small depressions, corners and edges that are not accessible for mechanical operation; ④Upon rough leveling, the key backfill positions should be identified first based on the terrain and topographical features and the backfill height of the project area. Then, bulldozers or other construction plants are used to move the fill materials to the depression backfill zone. During backfill operation, the fine and particulate sand and gravel materials should be placed on bottom layers while aggregates of larger particle sizes on the top before rolling and 141 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan compacting. After rough leveling is over, shovels and spaces should be used to manually handle and level off the disturbed edges and corners of the construction zones and small depressions left over from mechanical leveling until the final leveling effect required in the design document is achieved. 2）Temporary Measures Since the civil works of each project school are of a large scale, it is necessary to stockpile the sand and aggregates needed for building foundation excavation, backfill and construction works for a long time. In order to avoid wind and water erosion, it is necessary to have the stockpiles temporarily covered and protected. Such temporary covering and protection measures include temporary covering with dust screen, water spraying, etc. ① Covering Temporary covering measures should be taken to prevent the exposed parts of the temporary stockpiles from wind and water erosion. Dense dust screen may be selected as the covering material. Dust screen should not be removed until the earthwork backfill commences and should be rolled up backward from the ground pit position and fully removed and recovered after the backfill operation is completed. ② Water spraying 1 or 2 passes of water spraying should be conducted on the leveled construction sites. When the water infiltration depth reaches about 2cm, a surface crust with an effective wind erosion resistance thickness will be formed to facilitate restoration of water and soil conservation function. 3）Vegetation Measures Native species should be selected for vegetation restoration on construction sites and spoil disposal areas upon the completion of the construction works. Introduction of alien species should be avoided. 7.1.7 Social impact mitigation measures 1）The implementation agency should develop construction worker management methods with the specific circumstances of the project schools taken into account and submit such methods to the project schools for review. The construction workers should not enter the school buildings without prior approval and should not cause interferences and disturbances to normal teaching activities; 142 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 2）The “Environmental Codes of Practices on Safety and Health� for construction workers must be strictly followed to not only safeguard the health and safety of construction workers, but also prevent introduction of infectious and epidemic diseases into the campuses; 3）A stable and transparent communication channel should be established by GDoE, Gansu Provincial PMO and the project school management to address the various problems encountered in the operation period of the Project. 4）It is recommended that the PMO opens commuting bus lines between LND TVET Park and Lanzhou Urban Center and develops reasonable bus routes, stops and time table to reduce waiting time and allow easy commuting for teachers and provide preferential fare to students. 5）Regarding the potential grievances from some teachers of the 2 merged schools, in addition to active efforts in promoting the Project, the respective project schools should set up a sound communication mechanism and a grievance redress mechanism and create a comfortable working and living environment for the teachers so as to enable them to get free from family worries and concentrate on teaching activities； 6）As a part of the competence building activities under the Project, specific contents should be designed for teachers pending transformation to promote their competence and help them adapt themselves to the new specialties at the fastest possible speed. Regarding students pending specialty adjustment, the concerned project schools should adjust the affected students to new specialties based on market demand and free will of students, and, if necessary, provide them with psychological counseling. 7）It is recommended that the project schools provide more part-time jobs for poverty- stricken students. 8）It is recommended that the schools take advantage of their geographical location and establish off-campus practice and practical training bases to provide not only training but also more opportunities of employment for the students. 9）It is recommended that the LND government authorities continue improving the pension insurance and unemployment insurance policies and consult the LND enterprises or institutions on providing preferential policies and safeguards for local land-depleted farmers to get long-term and stable jobs. The project schools can also provide employment opportunities during the implementation of the Project to local land-depleted farmers, in particular, women, poor households and disabled individuals. In addition, stronger efforts should be made in training for land-depleted farmers to increase their employment rate. 143 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 7.1.8Environmental Codes of Practices on Cultural Relics Protection In the construction period, procedures for handling tangible cultural heritage should be implemented. Upon any discovery or suspected discovery of any cultural relics, the construction contractors should immediately have the site protected and report the local cultural relics bureau for further actions following the requirements of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Cultural Relics Protection （Dec. 29, 2007） and the World Bank’s policies on tangible cultural resources and should not resume construction until further actions are implemented by the Cultural Relics Bureau. See Figure 7-1 for the reporting procedure of cultural heritages. Upon the discovery or suspected discovery of any cultural relics in the construction process, the construction contractors should: 1）immediately suspend the work at the construction site where such cultural relics are discovered and reinforce site protection; 2）immediately report the police and cultural relics administration for verification and further actions; 3）immediately have the protection area determined once the cultural relics discovered are verified by experts; 4）carry out rescue excavation of the cultural relics in case of urgent construction progress or risks of natural damages; 5）Rescue excavation of cultural relics should be carried out by professionals using professional equipment and should not be conducted by the contractors on their own; 6）The cultural relics authority needs to determine the level of protection of the respective cultural relics. If the respective cultural relics are determined as county level, corresponding protection measures should be taken and the construction contractor should not resume the construction until an instruction to resume construction is received from the Cultural Relics Bureau; if the respective cultural relics are determined as provincial or national level, a report needs to be submitted to the State Cultural Relics Bureau and corresponding protection measures should be taken and the construction contractor should not resume the construction until an instruction is received from the Cultural Relics Bureau. 7）If the discovery is deemed as a significant cultural relics discovery, the Project will need to go through the process of re-siting justification. 144 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Cultural relics discovered Suspend work and protect site Report to local cultural relics protection authority Cultural relics authority gives instructions Implementation agency develops a construction program for the section involving cultural relics Comments by cultural Disagree relics authority Agree Implementation agency implements the construction program Figure 7-1 Flowchart for Handling Cultural Relics Discovered in the Construction Period 7.1.9 Environmental Codes of Practices on Safety & Health 1）Constructional safety and health analysis The construction contractors and the supervisory agency are responsible for taking all reasonable measures to safeguard the life safety of workers, school faculty and students as well as the safety of surrounding buildings and prevent them from unexpected damages caused by 145 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan construction activities. The enterprises should engage a contractor that is competent in managing the occupational health and safety issues of its employees and make sure the contractor also executes the enterprise’s hazard management rules through a formal procurement agreement. Construction safety and health under the Project includes design and operation of ordinary facilities, communication and training, human body hazards and monitoring. 2）Constructional safety and health measures The construction contractors are responsible for following the World Bank EHS Guidelines and all the national and local safety requirements and implementing other accident prevention measures to assure the safety and health of construction workers. ①All the buildings on construction sites should be kept in good integrity; the temporary buildings and structures should be structurally safe and reliable to resist impacts of local bad weathers and have appropriate sunlight and proper facilities for partial isolation of dust and noises; the floors should be kept level, flat and skip-resistant. ②The construction contractors should assure availability of first aid complying with the respective standard. Appropriate first aid toolkits should be provided on construction sites; a written emergency response procedure should be available and cover the full process till the patients are finally transferred to an appropriate medical institution. ③Occupational health and safety training should be provided to all new construction workers to introduce to them the basic working rules and personal protection rules on construction sites and teach them how to prevent injuries to other workers; the training contents should include basic knowledge of hazards and dangers, specific hazards present in work places, codes of safe operation, fire emergency response procedures, evacuation procedures and natural disaster response procedures (the final contents will be determined based on actual needs). The training should include detailed introduction of specific hazards and their color codes in work places. ④Correct signs should be provided in hazardous areas (e.g. power distribution rooms, etc.), devices, materials, safety measures and emergency exits and actions should be taken to prevent unauthorized access to such areas; the signs should conform to the international standards and be easy to understand for staff, visitors and general public (to be determined depending on actual circumstances). ⑤If a worker holding a handheld or electrical tool feels vibrations on his/her hands and arms or a worker standing or sitting on a vibrating surface feels vibration in the whole body, 146 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan such vibration should be controlled through equipment selection, installation of vibration reduction gaskets or devices or limiting exposure time; ⑥Appropriate personal protection devices should be determined and provided by the construction contractors to the construction workers to assure that the workers, their colleagues and occasional visitors are adequately protected and no unnecessary inconvenience is caused to the users; ⑦Clamping hazards should be eliminated upon design of machinery and actions should be taken to prevent possible physical harms by the machinery projections in normal operation; ⑧Warning signs should be installed on all live electrical devices and wires; all the electricity wires, cables and handheld electrical tools should be inspected to identify any damaged or exposed wires and the maximum allowable working voltage of handheld tools should be determined according to the manufacturer’s recommendations; all electrical equipment used in humid (or possibly humid) environment should be equipped with double insulation / grounding; all electrical wires buried under the ground should be identified and marked before any digging operation commences. ⑨Actions should be taken to prevent the construction workers from overexertion. Training should be provided to workers on how to correctly move and handle materials during construction and demolition activities, including specifying the upper limit of load a single operator can handle (and the requirement of mechanical aid or double operation beyond the upper limit)；The layout plan of the construction site should be so developed to avoid, to the best possibility, needs for manual movement of heavy objects; tools should be so selected and work table so designed to reduce, to the best possibility, the level of force and the duration of handholding needed and facilitate the workers to keep the correct position (and, when necessary, use the users’ and adjusted worktable). ⑩Actions should be taken to prevent trip-over and fall-over. A sound site cleaning and management system should be implemented to, for example, classify the scattered building materials and demolished parts and place them in areas away from walkways, remove excessive wastes and spilled liquids on a periodical basis, place electrical wires and ropes in public areas and labeled corridors and use skid-resistance mats. ⑪Safety protection requirements for high-altitude operation: Temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; training should be provided to the workers on actual operation of the fall prevention devices which are used during 147 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan operations of high altitude of or more than 2m from the ground or on occasions with the possibility of falling into machines in operation, water or other liquids or hazardous substances or falling from an opening on the working face; training should be provided to the workers on actual operation of personal fall prevention equipment, e.g. full-body harness and buffering lanyard capable of carrying a load of 5000lb; rescue procedures should be developed to rescue workers successfully prevented from falling. The connecting points of fall prevention equipment should also be able to carry a load of 5000lb; control zone and safety supervision system should be set up to warn the workers against the presence of a fall hazard zone in the adjacency and covers of openings on floors, ceilings and walkway pavements should be reinforced, marked and indicated. ⑫Safety protection requirements on preventing hit by objects: Solid wastes should be discarded and discharged at designated and restricted areas. Wastes should be conveyed safely through the chutes from upper floors to lower floors; appropriate protective devices and fastening methods should be used during sawing, cutting, welding, grinding, polishing, chiseling and carving operations; passages and corridors should be kept unblocked and actions should be taken to avoid heavy-duty machinery travelling on scattered wastes; temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; appropriate personal protection devices (e.g. safety glasses with protective edges, masks, safety helmets and safety boots) should be used. ⑬Safety protection requirements for moving machinery: The vehicle travelling, machinery operation and personnel walking areas should be planned and zoned; one-way traffic rules should be adopted to control vehicle traffic; speed limit should be stipulated; and on-site traffic should be guided by trained signalmen (wearing obvious vests or jackets); Personnel working or walking in the operation zones of heavy-duty machinery should wear visible vests to increase visibility and training should be provided to teach workers how to have eye contacts with equipment operators before approaching a vehicle in operation; it should be assured that back-up buzzers are installed on moving equipment; hoisting equipment (e.g. cranes) should be properly inspected, maintained and confirmed suitable to move on road before they are used to lift heavy objects up to a higher working level for fastening. ⑭Dust protection requirements: All dust removal methods, e.g. water spraying or non- toxic chemical agents, should be used to reduce dust raised by vehicles; where excessive amount of dust is present, personal protection devices (e.g. dust masks) should be used. ⑮The construction contractors should develop procedures and systems for reporting and 148 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan recording the following contents: occupational accidents and diseases, hazardous circumstances and accidents. Such systems should enable the construction workers to immediately report to their own direct superintendent any circumstances causing serious hazards to life and health. When the construction workers are caught in any occupational injuries and risks, suspicious occupational diseases, dangerous situations and accidents, an immediate report should be submitted to the top management; the top management should investigate into all reported occupational accidents, occupational diseases, risks and incidents, during which assistance should be sought from professionals with knowledge and competences of occupational safety. ⑯Health education should be provided to the construction workers, e.g. execution of information communication strategy, strengthening face-to-face consultation, addressing systematic problems affecting individual behavior, encouraging use of personal protection devices, avoiding spread of disease to others, etc. In addition, the construction workers should be encouraged to use mosquito repellent, clothing and mosquito nets and other blocking methods to avoid spread of diseases from mosquito bites. ⑰Health examinations should be organized for construction workers to prevent the spread of infectious and epidemic diseases. 7.1.10 Suggestions on Camp Layout and Construction Route Management (1) When each project school is signing a contract with the construction contractor, the contract contents should include but not limited to the following: ① Sort out the environmental protection measures in the EMP Report and incorporate the environmental protection measures into the contract; ② The contract should specify whether the school allows the contractor to set up living camps, kitchens, toilets, office camps, material processing plants and other sites within the scope of the school construction site, and specify the corresponding solutions and environmental protection requirements, which should be strictly implemented after the construction team enters. It is recommended that contractors arrange accommodation and meals for construction personnel by renting private houses. Under restrictions by conditions, if living areas must be set up on campus, the contractors must be required to manage domestic wastewater, domestic garbage and kitchen waste, and make clear relevant terms and conditions, so as not to pollute the campus environment; ③ The contract should specify the requirements for the layout of the construction site, requirements for the construction driving route, requirements for traffic organization and management, and requirements for the management of camps and personnel; 149 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ④ The contract should explicitly require the contractors to provide medical first aid kits, which should contain commonly used drugs and that contractors should provide relevant medical supplies such as disinfection, hemostasis and bandaging required for emergency treatment of minor injuries; ⑤ The contract should explicitly require the contractors to strictly implement the relevant policies and regulations of the World Bank on epidemic prevention and control. (2) When the general layout design of the construction is carried out at the construction drawing phase of the Project, the design unit should communicate with the school and the EIA unit in a timely manner, and verify the feasibility of the layout scheme of the construction camps in all aspects. The Project should not be commenced until it meets the World Bank's requirements for environmental protection. 7.2 Environmental impacts and mitigation measures for specific sites in the construction period 7.2.1 Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical （1）Environmental impact analysis ①Construction of Student Canteen No. 30 will mainly affect the Logistics Building with a maximum construction noise of approximately 62.5dB(A) and exceeding the standard by 2.5dB(A) in daytime. The construction site is located approximately 75m away from the Logistics Building, which is mainly occupied by logistics workers and subject to significant impacts from noises in the construction period mainly in the foundation construction period. The side facing the construction site is subject to greater impact and involves approximately 30 affected persons. ②Construction of Student Dormitory No. 31 and 32 will mainly affect Dormitory Building No. 4 and 5 with a construction noise of approximately 66.02dB(A) and exceeding the standard by 6.02dB(A) in daytime. The student dormitory buildings are densely populated and have a shortest distance of approximately 50m from the construction site, thus subject to significant impacts from construction noise, in particular during noon and night resting hours. Therefore, the construction time must be reasonably scheduled to avoid significant impacts on the students in rest periods. ③Construction of Practical Training Building No. 4 will mainly affect Building No. 3 and 19 with a construction noise of approximately 70.46dB(A) and exceeding the standard by 10.46dB(A) in daytime. The construction sites are very close to the two buildings, with the 150 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan shortest distance being only 30m. Construction noise produces significant impacts on the teaching activities, involving approximately 100 affected persons. ④Construction sites No. 30, No. 31 and No. 32 are located at the northeastern corner of the campus, a living quarter in the school. If not properly managed, construction vehicles and uncontrolled stockpiling of construction materials will bring safety hazards to students on campus. ⑤In addition, this area is relatively densely populated, in particular in the morning, noon and evening peak hours when students are on the way going to or coming back from classes. Therefore, the three construction sites must be reasonably planned and special personnel must be assigned to guide and manage pedestrians on the road. ⑥Building No. 4 is located in the southeastern corner of the school, as a part of the teaching zone. The construction site should be selected in concert with Building No. 24 and the construction areas should be isolated to prevent safety hazards brought by traffic on students and teachers on their way to and back from classrooms. ⑦ The construction of Dormitory Building No. 33 mainly affects Dormitory Buildings No. 5, No. 31 and No. 32. The construction noise is about 69.1 dB (A), which exceeds the standard by 9.1 dB (A) in the daytime. The distance between the construction site and each of the three dormitory buildings is equivalent, about 35m. The noise during the construction has a great influence, and is mainly from the foundation construction. ⑧ The construction site of Dormitory Building No.33 is located in the northeast corner of the school, and the construction site is located in the living area. If not properly managed, construction vehicles and uncontrolled stockpiling of construction materials will bring safety hazards to students on campus. In addition, this area is relatively densely populated, in particular in the morning, noon and evening peak hours when students are on the way to school or coming back from classes. Therefore, the construction site must be reasonably planned and special personnel must be assigned to guide and manage pedestrians on the road. The construction area should be isolated to avoid any potential safety hazards to teachers and students brought by vehicles. （2）Mitigation measures ①One centralized construction camp should be set up at the northeastern corner of the campus used for construction of Buildings No. 30, 31, 32 and 33 . The construction camp and the three construction sites should be separated from the surrounding dormitory buildings with closeable fences. Another centralized construction camp should be set up in an unoccupied area 151 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan in the middle east of the campus for construction of Building No. 4 and No. 24. A fully closed management system will be adopted for the construction sites. ②Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory buildings and practical training buildings without due authorization while non-constructional personnel should not be allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. ③Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student dormitories, in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should be assigned to manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from and not to stick around the construction sites. ④Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. ⑤Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. ⑥The construction site of Practical Training Building No. 4 is located very close to Practical Training Building No. 3 and the noise standard is exceeded by 10.46dB(A). In order to assure effective noise reduction, sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) should be provided around the construction site and sound insulation windows should be installed to avoid impacts from construction noise and assure that the sound environment in the Practical Training Building complies with the standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the western and northern sides of the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction. ⑦Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes and should not travel in campus without due authorization. ⑧Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. ⑨No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. ⑩Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours with minimal pedestrians on road ⑪Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. ⑫The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid 152 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. ⑬Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. ⑭ It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. ⑮ It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 7.2.2Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College （1）Environmental impacts ①Construction of Area AB of Building No. 22 mainly affects Dormitory Building No. 2. The construction noise is 63.74dB(A) and exceeds the standard by 3.74dB(A) in daytime. The student dormitory buildings are densely populated and have a shortest distance of approximately 65m from the construction site, thus subject to significant impacts from construction noise, in particular during noon and night resting hours. Therefore, the construction time must be reasonably scheduled to avoid significant impacts on the students in rest periods. Impacts on local pedestrians by dust generated in the construction period may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. ②The construction site of Area AB of Building No. 22 is located close to the living quarters. If not properly managed, construction vehicles and uncontrolled stockpiling of construction materials will bring safety hazards to students on campus. In addition, this area is relatively densely populated, in particular in the morning, noon and evening peak hours when students are on the way to school or coming back from classes. Therefore, the three construction sites must be reasonably planned and special personnel must be assigned to guide and manage pedestrians on the road. ③Construction of Building No. 21 mainly affects Teaching Building No. 14. The maximum construction noise is 62.50dB(A) and exceeds the standard by 2.5dB(A) in daytime. The construction site is relatively close to the teaching buildings, with a distance of approximately 75m and, thus produces significant impacts on teaching activities involving approximately 600 affected persons, mainly on the eastern part of the teaching building. Impacts by dust generated in the construction period on local pedestrians may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. ④The construction sites of Building No. 18, 19 and 21 are mainly located in teaching 153 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan areas and should be reasonably planned and located in concert with the position of Teaching Building No. 14. The construction areas should be isolated to prevent safety hazards brought by traffic on students and teachers on their way to and back from classrooms. ⑤ The construction of Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 mainly affects Dormitory Building No. 2 and Area AB of Dormitory Building No. 22, of which Area B of Dormitory Building No. 22 is closer to the construction site, around 20m, recording the maximum construction noise of about 74.0 dB (A) and exceeding the standard by 14.0 dB (A) in daytime. Moreover, the north side of Area B of Dormitory Building No. 22 is facing the construction site and greatly affected by noise. Dormitory Building No. 2 is about 45m away from the construction site, and the maximum construction noise is about 66.9 dB (A), which exceeds the standard by 6.9 dB (A) in the daytime. After the window is closed, the noise decreases. ⑥ The construction of Area AB of Practical Training Building No. 20 mainly affects Practical Training Building No.19 and Second Teaching Building No.21, of which Practical Training Building No.19 is about 32m away from the construction site, recording a maximum noise of 69.9 dB (A), exceeding the standard by 9.9 dB (A) in the daytime. The building is mainly for teaching and practical training. Since Building No. 19 is not directly facing the construction site, the noise mainly concentrated in the foundation construction stage will have a slight impact on teaching activities. Building No. 21 is about 55m away from the construction site, with the maximum construction noise of 69.9 dB (A), exceeding the standard by 9.9 dB (A) in the daytime. The building is mainly for students' accommodation. Noises caused during the construction have a great influence and are mainly from the foundation construction. The side facing the construction site is subject to greater impact. （2）Mitigation measures ①A centralized construction camp should be set up in the southeastern corner of the campus for construction of school buildings. Closeable fences are required to separate it from the construction area. ②The construction site in Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 should be fenced up. A temporary gate should be opened on the east side of the site near the road for construction workers and vehicles to pass through under closed-off management. Anti-falling frames should be set up above the road on the west side of the site to prevent falling objects from harming people. ③Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory 154 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan buildings and practical training buildings without due authorization while non-constructional personnel should not be allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. ④Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student dormitories, in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should be assigned to manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from and not to stick around the construction sites. ⑤Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. ⑥Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. ⑦Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes and should not travel in campus without due authorization. ⑧Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. ⑨No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. ⑩Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours with minimal pedestrians on road. ⑪Due to campus environment restrictions, it is necessary to provide a special road on the construction site of Building No. 18 as a construction transportation access road connecting the East Gate. Therefore, a reasonable route planning is needed and it is recommended that fences are installed to separate pedestrian from traffic. ⑫Based on the layout of the school buildings, it is recommended to close roads adjacent to the construction area on the east side of the campus and arrange all students and faculty to use roads on the west side of the campus. ⑬Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. ⑭The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. ⑮Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. ⑯It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. 155 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ⑰It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 7.2.3 Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics （1）Environmental impacts ①Significant impacts will be generated on the library, office building and dormitories in the neighborhood. The maximum construction noise is 76.48dB(A) and exceeds the standard by 16.48dB(A) in daytime. ②Located east of the construction site with a relatively short distance of approximately 25m, the dormitories are subject to significant noise impacts mainly during the noon and night resting hours. Therefore, the construction time must be reasonably planned to avoid significant impacts on students in rest periods. Impacts on local pedestrians by dust generated in the construction period may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. ③The impacts generated by the construction site on the sport ground are mainly reflected in the impacts of construction dust on the health of those exercising on the sport ground. The impact of construction noise is not significant. ④Since the construction site is located in the middle of the campus, surrounded by walkways used in daily activities of teachers and students, the normal teaching activities and student daily life will be seriously disturbed if no effective measures of construction organization and management are implemented. ⑤Analysis of the layout of the in-campus roads shows that the East Gate is the only access for vehicles, including transportation vehicles in the construction period. However, roads connecting this gate are relatively narrow and have high concentration of pedestrians and traffic in particular in the morning, noon and evening rush hours. Without a reasonable route planning for construction vehicles, traffic jam will occur and traffic safety hazards will arise to a certain extent. （2）Mitigation measures ①A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the Teaching Building, high-noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located on the southern side of the construction site far away from the teaching building, dormitory building and practical training rooms. ②Protective fences should be provided along roads around the construction sites to 156 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. ③The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. ④Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. ⑤Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 16.48dB(A) to the maximum. Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction for high-rise buildings. ⑥Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. ⑦In order to avoid health impacts by construction dust on those exercising on the sport ground, it is recommended that the school should adjust the teaching schedule to avoid teaching activities on the sport ground in the ground excavation stage with high incidence of dusting; double-layer dust screens should be used and water should be sprayed in the other construction periods to minimize dust generation. ⑧Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site via the East Gate and make sure the vehicles strictly follow the designated routes on site. Pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. ⑨No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. ⑩A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. ⑪Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage will be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Tianshui Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 157 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ⑫Construction solid wastes must be collected at designated locations and subject to centralized disposal by Tianshui Environmental sanitation Bureau at designated solid wastes landfill sites. ⑬Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Tianshui City. 7.2.4Lanzhou University of Arts and Science （1）Environmental impacts ①The construction site is located very close to the Practical Training Base to the south, with a distance of only 10m. The construction noise is 80dB(A) and exceeds the standard by 20dB(A) in day time. Significant impacts will be generated from construction noise on the teaching activities. Therefore, actions must be taken for noise reduction. Impacts on local pedestrians by dust generated in the construction period may be effectively mitigated through dust screens and timely water spraying. ②The teaching building and residential areas are located far away from the construction site, thus involving insignificant noise impacts. ③Analysis of in-campus traffic condition shows that the School has only one gate located approximately 150m west of the construction site. According to the site survey, the School has two campuses, the South Campus and the North Campus, with Yanbei Road running in-between and the gates of the two campuses opposite to each other across the road. The South Campus, located south of Yanbei Road, mainly provides the functions of daily teaching and practical training while the North Campus, located north of Yanbei Road, mainly provides the function of student lodging and accommodation. Therefore, during the morning, noon and evening peak hours, students will travel between the two campuses across Yanbei Road for meals or classes. The high concentration and density of pedestrian flow in such hours bring traffic pressure on this road section. ④The proposed project component is located in the South Campus of LUAS and it will be necessary to transport large volume of construction materials and debris or construction solid wastes in the construction period. Therefore, reasonable route planning for the construction vehicles is needed in order to avoid possible traffic safety hazards to the students. （2）Mitigation measures ①It is recommended that a temporary exit be opened on the side of the construction site on Yanbei Road and the construction site is connected with the school fencing wall to form an independent and closed construction area. All construction plants, vehicles and personnel will 158 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan enter and leave the construction site via the temporary exit to realize full separation of construction activities from teaching activities, effectively avoid mutual impacts between construction workers, construction vehicles and pedestrians and vehicles in campus and minimize impacts on normal teaching activities on campus and the dense pedestrian flows appearing in the morning, noon and evening peak hours at the existing gate. ②A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the Teaching Building, high-noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located on the northeastern side of the construction site far away from the teaching building and practical training rooms. ③Protective fences should be provided along roads south of the construction site at the entrance and exit of the Practical Training Building to prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. ④The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. ⑤High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. ⑥Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 20dB(A) to the maximum. Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows (with a noise reduction of 10-15dB(A)) are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed and be able to move with the floors under construction. ⑦Foundation excavation should be carried out manually ⑧Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site and strictly travel along designated routes on site. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. ⑨A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. 159 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ⑩Active efforts should be made to coordinate and negotiate with the traffic police about the need of traffic safety management at the front gate and early installation of video camera surveillance equipment. ⑪The construction contractors should have all their staff on site registered and filed at the School Security Department and rent residential houses in the neighborhood as the accommodation of construction workers. ⑫Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage should be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Lanzhou Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. ⑬Construction solid wastes should be declared and reported to Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and a Letter of City Image and Environmental Sanitation Responsibility should be signed. Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau will be responsible for supervising and managing the disposal of all construction solid wastes of the proposed project. ⑭Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou City. 7.2.5 Mitigation Measures for Sensitive Protection Objects Environmental mitigation measures for the sensitive zones in the neighborhood mainly related to the construction period and include measures for mitigating air environment and sound environment impacts. Details of the impact factors and measures are described as follows: （1）Air environment impact factors The key factor impacting the air environment at the sensitive points in the construction period of the proposed project is construction dust. Dusts generated in the construction period include dust raised by vehicles, dust raised by wind from open-air stockpiles and exposed sites and dust raised by wind from lime soil mixing sites. Construction dust will pollute the air environment around the construction site and affect the health of sensitive protection target population. （2）Air environment impact mitigation measures 1）Transportation dust control ①Transportation management should be strengthened and actions should be taken to assure the transportation vehicles travel at specified speed. ②Transportation routes should be selected in a scientific way. 160 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ③Transportation roads should be sprayed with water on a periodical basis. ④Powdery materials should be packed in tanks or bags while fly ash should be packaged and transported in the wet method; Overloading is prohibited during transportation of soil, cement and lime, which should be covered with tarpaulin, with any spills en route immediately cleaned and removed. 2）Construction dust control ①Reasonable arrangements should be made for the mixing plants to achieve centralized mixing; lime soil mixing plants should not be located upwind of environmentally sensitive points; mixing plant operators should be provided with health protection services and masks and protective goggles; cement concrete should be outsourced from commercial concrete suppliers, if possible, and no cement mixing plant should be constructed. ②Material stockpiles should be located downwind of the sensitive areas and covered with tarpaulins; materials in storage should be reduced in volume and utilized in time. Fences should be provided when necessary and water should be sprayed on a periodical basis for dust prevention. （3）Sound environment impact factors and their mitigation measures 1）Transportation noise Mainly referring to noise generated in the process of vehicle travelling. 2）Construction plant noise Different mechanical plants are used on the construction sites in different construction stages of the project. The key noise sources in the earthwork construction stage, for example, are bulldozers, excavators, loaders and transportation vehicles while those in the foundation construction stage are compactors, cranes and graders. Cutters are the main noise-generating equipment in the structure construction stage. The noise impact scope of the aforesaid construction plants is normally within 100m. 3）Traffic noise control ①Reasonable planning of construction sites Construction sites of the proposed project should be reasonably selected so that the sensitive zones in the adjacency are avoided and noise pollution problems are avoided at the time of planning. ②Transportation road Measures such as erecting “No Honking� and speed limit signs may be taken along sensitive road sections with schools, hospitals, and residential areas and nursing homes on both 161 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan sides and in campus. ③Labor protection Workers in high-noise working environment should take self-protection measures. 4）Construction plant noise control ①Reasonable site selection High-noise plants in the living area of construction workers and in the construction sites should be located as far away from sensitive points as possible and, in the meanwhile, measures such as silencing, insulation and damping should taken against strong noise sources. ②Construction technologies with low noise vibration should be selected. ③Prevention and control of noises from construction activities adjacent to environmentally sensitive areas. Temporary sound insulation fences should be installed on the boundary of the construction site; high-noise operations should be scheduled in such a way that the class hours and noon time resting hours are avoided; high-noise operations including pile driving should be suspended in night time. Where continuous operation is necessary, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority for approval and a notice should be issued to teachers and students on campus as well as residents in the neighborhood; some specific high-noise operations may be implemented during the fixed festivals and holidays or winter and summer school holidays. 7.2.6 Codes of Practices on Road Traffic Safety Protection It is obvious from the site visit that all the four schools supported by the Project are in the close adjacency to arterial urban streets with large traffic flow, dense population and potential risks of traffic safety. In order to strengthen traffic safety education to students aiming to enhance their awareness of traffic safety laws and civilization, enhance their abilities of traffic safety cognition and self-protection and further influence and draw greater attention from student parents and social public to student traffic safety so that student traffic safety is better guaranteed and student traffic accidents are minimized, it is necessary to implement safety education and precaution activities targeted at the massive students and assure the normal school operation and healthy growth of students. In such a context, the following measures are proposed for project schools involving complicated road traffic condition and heavy traffic in association with the specific circumstances of the civil works components of these schools. （1）Stronger efforts should be made in traffic safety knowledge education to students. 162 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Students should receive traffic safety knowledge education in diversified forms to increase the safety awareness of both teachers and students and enable students to learn the traffic rules in detail. （2）A traffic safety duty system should be established and implemented at school intersections. The project schools should develop and strictly enforce the school gate and key intersection safety duty system based on their specific circumstances, with duties defined and personnel assigned. In the after-class peak hours, teachers and students should be assigned to guide traffic and make sure traffic rules are followed by students and duty shift records maintained. （3）The PMOs of the project schools should set up and implement a system for regular inspection of key roads in campus and at school gates that students travel on their way to and from classes in the construction period. The schools should set up road inspection teams headed by the school officer in charge and with fixed positions and fixed personnel and fixed sections of responsibility. A responsibility-based management mechanism should be implemented in campus and special personnel assigned to inspect and keep records of the student compliance of traffic rules in campus and at school gates in the before-class and after-class peak hours. （4）The project schools should incorporate road section safety guard and in-campus road inspection in the construction period into their staff management system and target appraisal of students, classes and teachers and develop and publish weekly statistics and monthly reports. （5）Visible warning signs should be provided at school gates and road intersections with dense student pedestrians to warn construction vehicles to slow down at school gates and keep unauthorized vehicles away from campus. The construction area should be separated from the teaching areas and residential areas and warning signs should be erected around the construction area; teachers and students should neither enter the construction sites or operation areas (and students are banned to enter the construction area) nor stay or stick around the construction areas and should leave the aforesaid areas as soon as possible if they have to pass such areas out of necessity. （6）A traffic safety target responsibility system and accountability system should be established and strictly enforced, with the school principals as the primary responsible person. The project schools should set up a sound and operable safety responsibility system based on their specific circumstances, under which tasks are broken down and assigned to specific personnel so as to realize the standardization and institutionalization of student traffic safety management and achieve the prevention-oriented management objectives. In case of a traffic 163 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan accident, the student victims should be sent to hospitals for timely rescue and responsible personnel investigated and identified. （7）Windows and doors should be properly shut in classes to reduce noise impacts. Students should be advised to distract their attention from construction operations, construction noises construction activities. Teachers should make all efforts to properly guide the students and organize the lectures in class. （8）Construction material transportation is an essential part of the construction process to meet the needs of the construction works. All teachers and students passing the construction areas need to watch for vehicles and loading and unloading operations to avoid being hit or hurt by vehicles or construction materials. When traffic is affected by any ongoing loading or unloading operation at the entrances, teachers and students should stop and wait till it is safe to pass. （9）All construction workers should follow the codes of conducts of civilized construction and must not litter and defecate indiscriminately. Vehicles should be parked at designated positions in good order. All construction workers should attach paramount importance to traffic safety of students and teachers and take all measures and actions to guarantee construction safety as well as teacher and student safety. During construction, crane operation should be suspended in the morning, noon and evening peak hours when teachers and students enter and leave the campus. Safety briefings should be organized periodically so that problems are identified or handled in time to prevent and avoid safety accidents of whatever nature in the construction period. 7.3 General Environmental Codes of Practices in the Operation Period （1）Water pollution control measures 1）Domestic sewage of the project schools should be pretreated in septic tanks to meet Class III standard limits specified in the Comprehensive Discharge Standard for Wastewater (GB8978-1996) before discharged into the local municipal sewage pipelines. 2）Each of the project schools should implement separate stormwater and sewage drainage system, with stormwater collected and discharged into the municipal stormwater pipeline and domestic sewage treated in septic tanks and diverted via the municipal sewer pipelines into the adjacent WWTP to be treated according to the respective standard before final discharge. 3）The sewage pipelines, in particular the pipe connections and elbows, should be inspected on a periodical basis to prevent environmental pollution caused by leakage of 164 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan domestic sewage. 4）Septic tanks should be periodically dredged and maintained, with the dried sludge delivered to the municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. 5）Each of the project schools should develop a special emergency response plan and assign a special responsible person so that any sewer blockage, leakage or abnormalities are resolved immediately to prevent contamination to the surrounding environment. （2）Solid wastes 1）Classified garbage collection bins should be provided in the project area to achieve classified recovery of domestic solid wastes such as paper scrap, metals, glass, and corresponding management measures should be developed: ①A sound management system should be developed to define responsibilities and achieve periodical cleaning and collection of garbage; ②Degradable garbage bags should be used as a general requirement for garbage collection; ③Reasonably garbage collection and transportation routes should be planned and protective measures taken to minimize spillage during transportation. 2）Solid wastes should be removed in time and subject to proper disposal. Upon completion, the domestic solid wastes to be generated by teachers and students and other workers in the project schools will be ordinary solid wastes. Such solid wastes should be regularly collected by in-campus cleaners and stockpiled at existing domestic solid waste stockpiling sites in schools and then transported out of the campus by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical and timely basis for centralized hygienic landfill or incineration. The temporary solid waste stockpiling sites should be subject to periodically sterilization and pest control. 3）Stronger management actions should be taken to prohibit littering. Garbage collection facilities should be reasonably arranged in the project area for the sake of convenient garbage discharge. In addition, stronger management actions should be taken by providing obvious signs or directives to avoid littering. 4）The sludge dredging frequency of septic tanks should be determined based on the technical standards of the septic tanks, which are usually dredged every 90 days, 180 days or 360 days. The dredged sludge may be used as organic fertilizers or delivered for harmless disposal. （3）Sound environment 165 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 1）Rubber shock pads should be placed beneath the practical training equipment to reduce impacts from equipment vibration and noise. 2）Landscaping should be used as a measure for controlling noises. Areas around the buildings should be landscaped to not only absorb sound and reduce noise, but also stop dust and beautify environment. 3）Double-glazed windows should be used. Double-glazed windows (with a thickness of 150mm) may reduce indoor noise by 10 to 25 dB(A). 7.4 Environmental Codes of Practices for Specific sites in the Operation Period 7.4.1Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Waste oil rags to be generated in the automobile engineering practical training process as well as the cooking fume and kitchen wastewater to be generated from the canteen of the project school will cause certain impacts on the environment if not properly treated. Therefore, this EIA proposes the following specific measures for this project school. 1）Garbage collection bins should be provided in the practical training rooms and the waste oil rags generated in the teaching process are collected and mixed with domestic solid wastes for disposal according to uniform requirements. 2）Gas collecting hood, special flue and fume purifiers should be provided in the canteen operation rooms to assure that the cooking fume collected by the gas collecting hood enters via the special flue into the fume purifier for purification treatment to the Emission Standards of Cooking Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001) before final emission. The flue ventilator should be positioned on the roof to achieve high-altitude emission. 3）The canteen flue ventilators should be located on the side far away from the student dormitories. 4）Outdoor oil separating tanks should be constructed as a part of the canteen to assure that the cooking wastewater generated from the canteen is treated in the outdoor oil separating tank and then delivered to the septic tank for digestion treatment before finally discharged into the municipal sewers. 5）The canteen should provide special collection bins for kitchen wastes. Such collection bins should be leak proof and properly sealed to prevent emission of odor and leakage during transportation. Special personnel should be assigned in the canteen to collect garbage and make sure the collected garbage is handled according to the disposal requirements of LND EPB. 6）The “Natural Gas Risk Prevention Measures� should be strictly enforced. 166 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 7.4.2 Natural gas risk control measures 1）Underground pipelines should be identified using warning boards erected on the ground while aboveground pipelines should be painted in one uniform warning color to promote public awareness of protection. 2）Problems discovered during periodical inspection, maintenance and normal operation of pipelines and valves should be rectified in a timely manner to avoid accidents arising from equipment failures; 3）Operators should strictly abide by the codes of operation to avoid accidents caused by operation errors; 4）Operational management should be strengthened through periodical training to improve the operating skills of pipeline workers; 5）Fire protection and extinguishing devices should be inspected regularly and assured in normal operation. 6）In case of a fuel gas leak, valves should be shut off and windows should be opened for immediate ventilation while open flames, telecommunication tools of whatever kinds and on/off operation of lights or electrical appliances and metal frictions should be avoided. 7）In case of a fire accident due to fuel gas leakage, wet rags should be placed over the fire point and valves shut off after the fire is completely extinguished. Never attempt to shut off the valves before the fire is extinguished because backflow may occur and lead to explosion when shutting off a valve immediately upon a fire. 8）Immediately evacuate personnel in the building and call 119 in case of a serious fire. 9）Intelligent fire alarm controllers should be selected for the fire alarm system. 10）The project schools should develop a detailed emergency response plan to make sure that emergency response actions are implemented under uniform command, responsible persons and departments are assigned and their duties and responsibilities defined and emergency accidents are put under control in the shortest possible time to reduce environmental and personal harms caused by natural gas leakage risks. Such emergency response plans should mainly include the following contents: ①Alarm call, contact information; ②Tiered response procedure; ③Emergency environmental monitoring, emergency rescue, first aid and control measures; 167 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan ④Personnel emergency evacuation, evacuation organization plan; ⑤Restoration measures; ⑥Emergency response training plan. 7.5 Summary of Environmental Codes of Practices See Table 7-1 for the general environmental codes of practices and Table 7-2 for the specific environmental codes of practices for the Project. 168 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 7-1 General Environmental Codes of Practices Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 1. Satisfying the teaching needs to the maximum, convenient and practical; 2. Satisfying the actual needs of project unit and mitigating the problem of inadequate teaching space; 3. All formalities and procedures are fulfilled; no land acquisition and resettlement involved; compliant with local planning; 4. The project should be implemented through public tendering; 5. The plane layout should adopt a square and regular shape to increase energy efficiency; 6. Provided that consistency is maintained with the existing buildings of the project schools to the best possibility, the architectural style should be as simple as possible to save cost; 7. Decoration design should reflect control of cost effectiveness and functional applicability while material selection should Site selection highlight critical positions and low-to-medium class materials should be selected for non-critical positions; 8. Outdoor works mainly include essential outdoor water supply and drainage, electricity and telecommunication works within the land parcel as well as roads, plazas, landscaping and site leveling; 9. The main frame structure will have a design service life of 50 years; 10. The seismic fortification intensity may be promoted to a higher grade or keep the same grade as the required local intensity of Gansu Province, whichever is appropriate, but the seismic fortification measures should be provided one grade higher than the Design required local intensity； stage 11. The existing water supply and drainage and electricity supply systems and facilities should be used where possible as the indoor systems in the buildings. 1. If there are any WWTPs and municipal pipelines around the project schools, domestic sewage in the operation period should be discharged via the municipal pipelines to the municipal WWTP for proper treatment; if the municipal wastewater system around the schools is not yet completed or under construction, it will be necessary to speed up the construction of the municipal pipelines and WWTPs; 2. Earthwork excavation and fill on site should be controlled provided that the functional, safety and environmental requirements of the buildings are satisfied; Design requirements 3. The site drainage requirements as well as the pipeline installation requirements should be satisfied and followed; 4. Separate stormwater and wastewater drainage systems should be constructed, with the collected stormwater discharged into the municipal stormwater pipeline; 5. Electrical appliances and devices should not be installed in high-temperature, humid, dusty conditions and places with fire hazards and corrosion. The installation position should allow easy inspection, maintenance and disassembling; 6. Landscaping, sound insulation windows and other noise reduction measures should be included in the design in association 169 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem with the functional design of the school buildings so as to avoid impacts on normal teaching activities and student life by external traffic noise and assure compliance of sound environment; 7. The pipeline design should comply with the operational functions and the construction, maintenance and spacing requirements of the various pipelines should be satisfied based on the nature, usage and installation methods of the different pipelines. The pipelines should be arranged in a centralized way if possible to preserve space for environment. 1. Working hours The working hours on the construction sites are 7:00 am to 22:00 pm. Construction is banned during the noon hours of 12:00 to 14:00 and restricted at night. Where night construction becomes inevitable, a notice should be given to the local residents and relevant formalities fulfilled and actions taken to reduce impacts on residents. The arrival and departure time of construction transportation vehicles must comply with the requirements of local governments; 2. Construction camp arrangement If possible, the construction contractors should rent local residential houses in the project area for lodging and accommodation and avoid locating the construction camps and canteens on the construction sites, where only offices and material stockpiling sheds are allowed. 3. Traffic safety 1）Best traffic safety practices should be adopted in all aspects related to transportation during the construction of the Project to best avoid traffic accidents and reduce casualty of both project personnel and general public. In such a context, the following Construct measures should be taken: Construction site ①Drivers should be made particularly aware of the importance of safety rules; ion stage ②Driving skill should be improved and all drivers must be licensed; ③Driving time should be limited and driver duty shift schedule developed to avoid fatigue driving; ④Dangerous road sections and driving in the dangerous hours of a day should be avoided to minimize accident probability; 2）Vehicle maintenance should be conducted on a periodical basis and manufacturer approved spare parts used to avoid serious traffic accidents resulting from equipment failure or premature failure of parts and components. 3）All efforts should be made to reduce simultaneous occupation of roads by pedestrians and construction vehicles; 4）Road signs and visibility should be improved in cooperation with local communities and competent authority to promote the level of road safety as a whole, in particular on roads adjacent to schools and other areas where children are present. Traffic and pedestrian safety education campaigns (e.g. advertisement activities in schools) should be organized in cooperation with local communities; 5）A mechanism should be established for coordination with the emergency response personnel to assure that appropriate first aid is available in case of any accidents; 170 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 6）Local materials should be used where possible to shorten haulage. The relevant facilities (e.g. worker dormitories) should be located adjacent to the project sites to avoid increase of traffic flow; 7）Traffic safety control measures should be taken and road signs and signalmen should be used to warn pedestrians and traffic against dangers. 4. Spoils and Construction Solid Wastes Spoils and construction solid wastes should be stockpiled at landfills designated by local environmental sanitation authority and should not be dumped at free will. 5. Public Information Platform ①Construction data plates should be installed at obvious positions to indicate the project name, construction site area, names of project implementation agency, construction contractors and supervision and administration agencies as well as names of project responsible person, dates of construction commencement and completion, complaint hotline and specific environmental protection measures; ②The construction contractors should post a Notice of Project Commencement around the construction site 7 days before the scheduled date of project commencement to disclose information including project overview, construction plan, names of respective construction units and name of project responsible person, complaint hotline, etc.; ③Night construction should be restricted. When night construction is inevitable under special circumstances, actions should be taken to control the impacts of night construction on the surrounding environment and a prior notice should be given to the local residents to seek their understanding; ④The construction contractors should post notices around the project sites and the premises of affected residents and enterprises to notify the public of pending interruption of services (including water supply, electricity supply, telecommunication and traffic, etc.) 5 days in advance. 6. Prevention of Accidents and Risks The construction contractors should develop an accident prevention plan and assign an emergency responsible person and seek aids from the concerned authorities immediately upon the occurrence of any accidents; 7. Personal Safety and Health The construction sites should be separated and fenced up and traffic signs and guardrails provided to assure pedestrian safety; safety training should be provided to the construction workers before construction commences; personal protection devices must be provided and mandatorily used; all construction activities should be suspended in case of a rainstorm or any emergency accidents; 8. Prohibited Activities Unapproved tree felling outside the approved construction site is prohibited; use of unapproved toxic substances, including 171 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem lead paint, asbestos, open flame and alcohol, is prohibited. 1. Stormwater Management 1）A sound stormwater and drainage system is already in place in each project school. During construction, the stormwater collection gutters must be kept unblocked and no construction materials should be stockpiled over and adjacent to the stormwater collection gutters to avoid possible obstruction. 2）Soil contaminated (e.g. by oil, grease or paints) in the construction period should be removed in time to prevent massive contamination of stormwater. 3）The construction contractors are encouraged to use weather forecast and rainstorm warning functions to respond to any upcoming adverse rainfall conditions. 4）During rainfalls, timely attention should be paid to make sure that the stormwater collection gutters and drainage pipelines remain unblocked and any obstructions are removed in time. 2. Construction Wastewater 1）Wastewater from vehicle cleaning and washing, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregate washing on construction sites should be collected via the gutters and then mixed and diluted to reduce wastewater pH value before such wastewater enters the temporary sedimentation tank for treatment. The temporary sedimentation tank should have an adequate Water pollution size to guarantee12-hour wastewater retention as specified in the standard and the treated wastewater should be fully reused in construction site cleaning, construction material washing, concrete curing and aggregates re-washing; 2）Muddy stormwater and slurry water should be collected into the sedimentation tank for sedimentation and reuse; 3）Machine oil leaked from machinery and wastewater from equipment and material washing should be settled in oil separating tank before reuse to control impacts from sediments and suspended substances contained in the construction wastewater on the surrounding environment; 4）The oil separating tanks and sedimentation tanks should be subject to proper anti-seepage treatment to avoid possible impacts on the surrounding environment. 5）Oil or water leaks must be inspected and repaired before any mechanical equipment is used. 3. Domestic sewage 1）Temporary toilets, septic tanks and wastewater collection tanks should be provided on construction sites. Laundry and kitchen wastewater generated by the construction workers should be subject to oil separation and sedimentation before discharged into the school sewage pipelines. Night soil generated in the temporary toilets should be stored in septic tanks temporarily before removed by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical basis. 2）In order to prevent possible pollution of ground water, anti-seepage cement should be used in the foundation construction 172 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem of the wastewater collection tanks. 3）Environmental protection education for construction workers should be strengthened to promote environmental awareness and prevent uncontrolled littering and wastewater discharge. 1. Dust pollution control 1）First of all, to manage the construction activities on site, a construction site environmental protection responsibility system should be set up, with the Project Manager as the primary responsible person, and environmental protection measures and special program for construction dust control must be included in the construction organization design, which should not be put into implementation until approved by the competent authority. 2）Dust screens and fences should be set up for the building structures according to the respective specification to reduce the possibility of construction dust; 3）Ground surface of the construction sites and traffic roads should be hardened and sprayed with water for dust suppression; 4）Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt are removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; 5）Proper covering or other effective dust prevention measures should be implemented on construction sites where construction solid wastes cannot be removed in time by the required deadline; Air pollution 6）Slurry tanks and slurry troughs should be provided on construction sites involving slurry operation to prevent slurry spillage. Waste slurry should be transported out of site in closed tankers; 7）Pre-mixed concrete and pre-mixed mortar should be used on construction sites according to the respective requirements and in-situ open-air mixing is prohibited; 8）During earthwork excavation and backfill operations, water should be sprayed for dust suppression and to reduce the duration of dusty operation; in case of winds above Grade 4, no earthwork construction and demolition operations should be implemented; 9）Construction materials, sand and gravel, soil and other dust-generating materials stockpiled on site should be covered with dust screen or cloth and dust suppression agent or water should be sprayed on a periodical basis to prevent wind erosion and dust generation; 10）Bulk materials, construction solid wastes and debris conveyed on and over buildings and structures should be put in closed containers and tossing and throwing from high altitude is prohibited. 11）Dense dust screen or cloth with excellent dust suppression effect should be installed outside the scaffolds during building construction and dust prevention measures such as water spraying, mist spraying should be taken during building demolition. 173 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 12）Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they are clean when leaving the sites; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent possible spillage and leakage on roads. 13）Construction sites should be 100% fenced up; material stockpiles 100% covered; vehicles 100% washed; construction site surface 100% hardened; demolition sites 100% adopting wet operation method and debris transportation vehicles 100% achieving air-tight transportation. 2. Vehicle Tail Gas 1）Construction plants and vehicles in good operating condition should be selected; 2）Fuel-driven construction plants and vehicles must be operated in normal condition to assure compliant tail gas emission; 3）Equipment should be used in a reasonable way and equipment maintenance and repair should be strengthened. 3. Decoration Exhaust Gas 1）Environment-friendly decoration materials should be selected; 2）Doors and windows should be opened after the decoration work is completed for effective ventilation. 3）Indoor air quality monitoring should be conducted before the school buildings are put into service to assure that they are not occupied until full compliance is achieved. 1. Reasonable planning of construction sites The number of construction plants mobilized on site should be minimized provided that the constructional need is satisfied. Steel rebar and steel sheet processing should be outsourced, if possible, to reduce noise source from on-site processing; the implementation agency should develop a comprehensive plan to arrange the noise sources at a centralized location where possible to reduce the scope of construction noise impacts. 2. Assuring normal operation of construction plants State-of-the-art low-noise equipment should be selected if possible; high-noise equipment should be used at lower frequency Noise pollution and low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used for pile driving; high-efficiency silencers should be installed on loaders, excavators and other mobile noise sources and honking should be banned on construction sites to avoid and reduce noise disturbance. The construction contractors should conduct periodical inspection and maintenance of the construction plants in the construction process to assure normal operation and avoid high-intensity noises generated from operation of defective equipment. High-noise mechanical equipment should be located away from the side adjacent to residential areas and noise-reduction fences should be set up on construction sites located in a distance of less than 5m from residence, hospital and school buildings. 3. Reasonable scheduling of construction time 174 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem ①The construction time should be reasonably scheduled to have high-noise construction periods (e.g. foundation construction) arranged in winter or summer holidays if possible. Otherwise, the construction activities should at least be coordinated with the teaching activities to, e.g. have high-noise construction activities arranged in afternoons or weekends to avoid operation of high-noise equipment in time periods for concentrated teaching and student rest. ②The construction sequence should be reasonably arranged and no construction should occur in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. ③When continuous construction is needed, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority. Night construction must not be implemented without prior approval and without the acknowledgement by schools and residents in the neighborhood. High-noise equipment should be arranged for daytime construction and the standards specified in Emission Standard for Environmental Noise on the Boundary of Construction Sites of Buildings (GB12523-2011) should be strictly enforced. 4. Construction Vehicle Noise Control Measures ①Stronger efforts should be made in transportation management. The implementation agency and the construction contractors should negotiate on environmental protection education for transportation workers. The speed of transportation vehicles should be controlled and overloading banned. ②Vehicle maintenance and repair should be strengthened to assure normal operation; ③Direction boards should be provided at entrances and exits of construction sites and unnecessary idle speed, braking, ignition and honking should be avoided. ④Transportation vehicles are banned to travel in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day to assure normal resting of local residents. ⑤Traffic noise may generate certain impacts on sound environment sensitive points in the neighborhood. Therefore, the construction contractors should promote the environmental protection awareness of the construction workers, learn about the local customs and habits and reasonably arrange transportation time. In centralized residential areas and other environmentally sensitive areas, speed limit, horn prohibition and other self-conscious actions should be taken to control vehicles and other construction plants so as to prevent and reduce noise impacts. ⑥Transportation vehicles should travel in low speed on campus to not only reduce impacts by traffic noise on teaching activities, but also protect personal safety on campus. Vehicles traveling on campus should strictly follow the planned route. Random parking and honking are prohibited. 5. Decoration Noise Control Measures When it is unlikely to implement the decoration works in a centralized time period, management of decoration noise should be strengthened and strict decoration management measures should be developed to minimize impacts caused by decoration 175 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem noises. Doors and windows should be properly closed while decoration work is going on. The decoration time period should be limited and no decoration activity of any kind should be conducted in the noon hours from 12:00 to 14:00 and the night hours from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day. 1. Construction Solid Wastes ①Construction solid wastes generated in the construction period should be removed in time to avoid secondary pollution in the process of stockpiling. ②Some package bags generated in the construction process need to be classified and stockpiled, with the reusable parts adequately recycled and the other parts incorporated into and treated together with domestic solid wastes. ③Earthwork construction should be carefully designed and organized to achieve substantial earthwork excavation and fill balance and avoid long haulage; waste concrete and bricks discarded on site should be removed in time. ④Solid wastes should be subject to classified treatment. Reusable construction solid wastes, such as steel rebar, should be recycled to avoid waste of resources while the non-reusable construction solid wastes need to be dumped at designated sites. ⑤Vehicles transporting bulk materials and wastes should be properly sealed, fastened and covered to avoid spillage on the way; vehicles transporting soil should travel along designated route in the specified time period. Spoil disposal should be conducted in a concentrated period and avoid storm season and be accompanied with simultaneous compacting. ⑥Vehicles transporting construction solid wastes and debris should be washed and cleaned in time to make sure that they leave the sites clean and tidy; transportation vehicles should be properly covered to achieve air-tight transportation and prevent Solid waste pollution possible spillage and leakage on roads. ⑦Vehicle washing equipment should be installed at the entrances and exits of construction sites to make sure all transportation vehicles are washed and cleaned and dust and dirt removed before leaving site to keep the access roads and the surrounding area in a clean condition; ⑧The project schools should strictly abide by the requirements of local authorities on treatment of construction solid wastes. 2. Domestic solid wastes The construction contractors should properly carry out the collection and stockpiling of domestic solid wastes and remove the domestic solid wastes out of the construction sites in a timely manner. Education to the construction workers should be strengthened and civilized construction should be promoted to put an end to uncontrolled dumping of domestic solid wastes and assure the environmental quality on construction sites and the surrounding areas. Closable classified garbage bins should be provided in the temporary living areas and the domestic solid wastes should be collected and transported on a daily basis to the adjacent garbage collection stations and then by the environmental sanitation authority to municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. 3. Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets 176 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem ①The construction units of all project schools should give priority to the water-based paint. If non-water-based paint is required, the waste paint buckets should be managed in strict accordance with the "Management Requirements for Waste Paint Buckets" in this report. ②Management requirements for waste paint buckets: The temporary storage sites of waste paint buckets generated during decoration fall under the category of "Facilities Used for Temporary Storage by Hazardous Waste Generating Units". Therefore, waste paint buckets need to be stored separately. Moreover, the temporary storage site of waste paint buckets is forbidden to be close to the protection area prone to kindling and high voltage electricity. Warning signs should be set up in the storage site and rainproof, fire prevention and seepage prevention measures should be taken. The temporary storage site should be equipped with lighting and fire fighting facilities. The temporary storage site should be equipped with lighting and fire fighting facilities. At the same time, the construction unit should establish a collection, transfer and storage ledger to record the whole process from the generation, collection and temporary storage of waste paint buckets until they are delivered to the manufacturer for recycling. See Table 5-5 and Table 5-7 for detailed record tables. 1. Ecological Resource Protection and Management Measures ①Construction site layout and arrangement should be reasonable and optimized to minimize the scope of construction activities and land damages caused during project implementation; ②Bricks, stone, sand, cement, timber among other construction materials needed and outsourced for the construction works should be transported to the construction site at time intervals and in loads roughly matching the actual demand on site to minimize land area occupied by material stockpiles; upon completion of the construction works, residual materials should be removed out of site in time to enable landscaping of construction sites; ③Temporary protective fences should be erected around trees remaining on the construction site before the construction works commence based on the results of construction site investigation; Ecological impact ④Neither should the trees be attached with marks and labels other than the identification label nor should the tree protection zones have construction materials stockpiled or stored and construction plants and equipment parked in their immediate adjacency; ⑤Temporary intercepting ditches should be constructed on construction sites and floodways should be built to replace surface runoff passage damaged by the Project to divert rain season flood and prevent the construction works from erosion by surface runoffs; ⑥On the premise that construction quality is assured, the construction contractors should take all possible actions to shorten the time of temporary land occupation, control the construction time of earthwork and maintain stable cut and filled slope to minimize impacts outside the scope of the construction works. 2. Soil Erosion Control Measures 177 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 1）Engineering Measures ①Leveling and backfill: including measurement of backfill area and depth, backfill bulk density and rolling bulk density, determination of backfill rolling method, determination of forecast and protection measures of possible subsidence and its hazards; ②Planning of transportation routes of backfill material and top soil; ③Depression backfill and utilization: waste soil and ballasts should be adequately utilized for depression backfill so that the depressions are properly backfilled and leveled and waste materials are used up. Terrain, construction conditions and area among other factors should be considered upon determining backfill method. Normally, manual backfill and mechanical backfill are integrated and used simultaneously, with bulldozers used to level off large depressions in rectangular partitions and manual methods used to handle small depressions, corners and edges that are not accessible for mechanical operation; ④Upon rough leveling, the key backfill positions should be identified first based on the terrain and topographical features and the backfill height of the project area. Then, bulldozers or other construction plants are used to move the fill materials to the depression backfill zone. During backfill operation, the fine and particulate sand and gravel materials should be placed on bottom layers while aggregates of larger particle sizes on the top before rolling and compacting. After rough leveling is over, shovels and spaces should be used to manually handle and level off the disturbed edges and corners of the construction zones and small depressions left over from mechanical leveling until the final leveling effect required in the design document is achieved. 2）Temporary Measures Since the civil works of each project school are of a large scale, it is necessary to stockpile the sand and aggregates needed for building foundation excavation, backfill and construction works for a long time. In order to avoid wind and water erosion, it is necessary to have the stockpiles temporarily covered and protected. Such temporary covering and protection measures include temporary covering with dust screen, water spraying, etc. ①Covering：Temporary covering measures should be taken to prevent the exposed parts of the temporary stockpiles from wind and water erosion. Dense dust screen may be selected as the covering material. Dust screen should not be removed until the earthwork backfill commences and should be rolled up backward from the ground pit position and fully removed and recovered after the backfill operation is completed. ②Water spraying：1 or 2 passes of water spraying should be conducted on the leveled construction sites. When the water infiltration depth reaches about 2cm, a surface crust with an effective wind erosion resistance thickness will be formed to facilitate restoration of water and soil conservation function. 3）Vegetation Measures Native species should be selected for vegetation restoration on construction sites and spoil disposal areas upon the completion 178 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem of the construction works. Introduction of alien species should be avoided. 1. The implementation agency should develop construction worker management methods with the specific circumstances of the project schools taken into account and submit such methods to the project schools for review. The construction workers should not enter the school buildings without prior approval and should not cause interferences and disturbances to normal teaching activities; 2. The “Environmental Codes of Practices on Safety and Health� for construction workers must be strictly followed to not only safeguard the health and safety of construction workers, but also prevent introduction of infectious and epidemic diseases into the campuses; 3. A stable and transparent communication channel should be established by GDoE, Gansu Provincial PMO and the project school management to address the various problems encountered in the operation period of the Project. 4. It is recommended that the PMO opens commuting bus lines between LND TVET Park and Lanzhou Urban Center and develops reasonable bus routes, stops and time table to reduce waiting time and allow easy commuting for teachers and provide preferential fare to students. 5. Regarding the potential grievances from some teachers of the 2 merged schools, in addition to active efforts in promoting the Project, the respective project schools should set up a sound communication mechanism and a grievance redress mechanism Social impact and create a comfortable working and living environment for the teachers so as to enable them to get free from family worries and concentrate on teaching activities； 6. As a part of the competence building activities under the Project, specific contents should be designed for teachers pending transformation to promote their competence and help them adapt themselves to the new specialties at the fastest possible speed. Regarding students pending specialty adjustment, the concerned project schools should adjust the affected students to new specialties based on market demand and free will of students, and, if necessary, provide them with psychological counseling. 7. It is recommended that the project schools provide more part-time jobs for poverty-stricken students. 8. It is recommended that the schools take advantage of their geographical location and establish off-campus practice and practical training bases to provide not only training but also more opportunities of employment for the students. 9. It is recommended that the LND government authorities continue improving the pension insurance and unemployment insurance policies and consult the LND enterprises or institutions on providing preferential policies and safeguards for local land-depleted farmers to get long-term and stable jobs. The project schools can also provide employment opportunities during the implementation of the Project to local land-depleted farmers, in particular, women, poor households and disabled individuals. In addition, stronger efforts should be made in training for land-depleted farmers to increase their employment rate. Cultural relics 1. immediately suspend the work at the construction site where such cultural relics are discovered and reinforce site protection; 179 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem protection 2. immediately report the police and cultural relics administration for verification and further actions; 3. immediately have the protection area determined once the cultural relics discovered are verified by experts; 4. carry out rescue excavation of the cultural relics in case of urgent construction progress or risks of natural damages; 5. Rescue excavation of cultural relics should be carried out by professionals using professional equipment and should not be conducted by the contractors on their own; 6. The cultural relics authority needs to determine the level of protection of the respective cultural relics. If the respective cultural relics are determined as county level, corresponding protection measures should be taken and the construction contractor should not resume the construction until an instruction to resume construction is received from the Cultural Relics Bureau; if the respective cultural relics are determined as provincial or national level, a report needs to be submitted to the State Cultural Relics Bureau and corresponding protection measures should be taken and the construction contractor should not resume the construction until an instruction is received from the Cultural Relics Bureau. 7. If the discovery is deemed as a significant cultural relics discovery, the Project will need to go through the process of re-siting justification. 1. All the buildings on construction sites should be kept in good integrity; the temporary buildings and structures should be structurally safe and reliable to resist impacts of local bad weathers and have appropriate sunlight and proper facilities for partial isolation of dust and noises; the floors should be kept level, flat and skip-resistant. 2. The construction contractors should assure availability of first aid complying with the respective standard. Appropriate first aid toolkits should be provided on construction sites; a written emergency response procedure should be available and cover the full process till the patients are finally transferred to an appropriate medical institution. 3. Occupational health and safety training should be provided to all new construction workers to introduce to them the basic working rules and personal protection rules on construction sites and teach them how to prevent injuries to other workers; the training contents should include basic knowledge of hazards and dangers, specific hazards present in work places, codes of Health and safety safe operation, fire emergency response procedures, evacuation procedures and natural disaster response procedures (the final contents will be determined based on actual needs). The training should include detailed introduction of specific hazards and their color codes in work places. 4. Correct signs should be provided in hazardous areas (e.g. power distribution rooms, etc.), devices, materials, safety measures and emergency exits and actions should be taken to prevent unauthorized access to such areas; the signs should conform to the international standards and be easy to understand for staff, visitors and general public (to be determined depending on actual circumstances). 5. If a worker holding a handheld or electrical tool feels vibrations on his/her hands and arms or a worker standing or sitting on a vibrating surface feels vibration in the whole body, such vibration should be controlled through equipment selection, 180 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem installation of vibration reduction gaskets or devices or limiting exposure time; 6. Appropriate personal protection devices should be determined and provided by the construction contractors to the construction workers to assure that the workers, their colleagues and occasional visitors are adequately protected and no unnecessary inconvenience is caused to the users; 7. Clamping hazards should be eliminated upon design of machinery and actions should be taken to prevent possible physical harms by the machinery projections in normal operation; 8. Warning signs should be installed on all live electrical devices and wires; all the electricity wires, cables and handheld electrical tools should be inspected to identify any damaged or exposed wires and the maximum allowable working voltage of handheld tools should be determined according to the manufacturer’s recommendations; all electrical equipment used in humid (or possibly humid) environment should be equipped with double insulation / grounding; all electrical wires buried under the ground should be identified and marked before any digging operation commences. 9. Actions should be taken to prevent the construction workers from overexertion. Training should be provided to workers on how to correctly move and handle materials during construction and demolition activities, including specifying the upper limit of load a single operator can handle (and the requirement of mechanical aid or double operation beyond the upper limit) ；The layout plan of the construction site should be so developed to avoid, to the best possibility, needs for manual movement of heavy objects; tools should be so selected and work table so designed to reduce, to the best possibility, the level of force and the duration of handholding needed and facilitate the workers to keep the correct position (and, when necessary, use the users’ and adjusted worktable). 10. Actions should be taken to prevent trip-over and fall-over. A sound site cleaning and management system should be implemented to, for example, classify the scattered building materials and demolished parts and place them in areas away from walkways, remove excessive wastes and spilled liquids on a periodical basis, place electrical wires and ropes in public areas and labeled corridors and use skid-resistance mats. 11. Safety protection requirements for high-altitude operation: Temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; training should be provided to the workers on actual operation of the fall prevention devices which are used during operations of high altitude of or more than 2m from the ground or on occasions with the possibility of falling into machines in operation, water or other liquids or hazardous substances or falling from an opening on the working face; training should be provided to the workers on actual operation of personal fall prevention equipment, e.g. full-body harness and buffering lanyard capable of carrying a load of 5000lb; rescue procedures should be developed to rescue workers successfully prevented from falling. The connecting points of fall prevention equipment should also be able to carry a load of 5000lb; control zone and safety supervision system should be set up to warn the workers against the presence of a fall hazard zone in the adjacency and covers 181 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem of openings on floors, ceilings and walkway pavements should be reinforced, marked and indicated. 12. Safety protection requirements on preventing hit by objects: Solid wastes should be discarded and discharged at designated and restricted areas. Wastes should be conveyed safely through the chutes from upper floors to lower floors; appropriate protective devices and fastening methods should be used during sawing, cutting, welding, grinding, polishing, chiseling and carving operations; passages and corridors should be kept unblocked and actions should be taken to avoid heavy-duty machinery travelling on scattered wastes; temporary fall protection measures should be taken, e.g. providing handrails and foot baffles around scaffolds and at the edges of other high-altitude operation areas to prevent fall of materials; appropriate personal protection devices (e.g. safety glasses with protective edges, masks, safety helmets and safety boots) should be used. 13. Safety protection requirements for moving machinery: The vehicle travelling, machinery operation and personnel walking areas should be planned and zoned; one-way traffic rules should be adopted to control vehicle traffic; speed limit should be stipulated; and on-site traffic should be guided by trained signalmen (wearing obvious vests or jackets); Personnel working or walking in the operation zones of heavy-duty machinery should wear visible vests to increase visibility and training should be provided to teach workers how to have eye contacts with equipment operators before approaching a vehicle in operation; it should be assured that back-up buzzers are installed on moving equipment; hoisting equipment (e.g. cranes) should be properly inspected, maintained and confirmed suitable to move on road before they are used to lift heavy objects up to a higher working level for fastening. 14. Dust protection requirements: All dust removal methods, e.g. water spraying or non-toxic chemical agents, should be used to reduce dust raised by vehicles; where excessive amount of dust is present, personal protection devices (e.g. dust masks) should be used. 15. The construction contractors should develop procedures and systems for reporting and recording the following contents: occupational accidents and diseases, hazardous circumstances and accidents. Such systems should enable the construction workers to immediately report to their own direct superintendent any circumstances causing serious hazards to life and health. When the construction workers are caught in any occupational injuries and risks, suspicious occupational diseases, dangerous situations and accidents, an immediate report should be submitted to the top management; the top management should investigate into all reported occupational accidents, occupational diseases, risks and incidents, during which assistance should be sought from professionals with knowledge and competences of occupational safety. 16. Health education should be provided to the construction workers, e.g. execution of information communication strategy, strengthening face-to-face consultation, addressing systematic problems affecting individual behavior, encouraging use of personal protection devices, avoiding spread of disease to others, etc. In addition, the construction workers should be encouraged to use mosquito repellent, clothing and mosquito nets and other blocking methods to avoid spread of diseases from mosquito bites. 182 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 17. Health examinations should be organized for construction workers to prevent the spread of infectious and epidemic diseases. 1. When each project school is signing a contract with the construction contractor, the contract contents should include but not limited to the following: ① Sort out the environmental protection measures in the EMP Report and incorporate the environmental protection measures into the contract; ② The contract should specify whether the school allows the contractor to set up living camps, kitchens, toilets, office camps, material processing plants and other sites within the scope of the school construction site, and specify the corresponding solutions and environmental protection requirements, which should be strictly implemented after the construction team enters. It is recommended that contractors arrange accommodation and meals for construction personnel by renting private houses. Under restrictions by conditions, if living areas must be set up on campus, the contractors must be required to manage domestic wastewater, Suggestions on Camp domestic garbage and kitchen waste, and make clear relevant terms and conditions, so as not to pollute the campus environment; Layout and ③ The contract should specify the requirements for the layout of the construction site, requirements for the construction Construction Route Management driving route, requirements for traffic organization and management, and requirements for the management of camps and personnel; ④ The contract should explicitly require the contractors to provide medical first aid kits, which should contain commonly used drugs and that contractors should provide relevant medical supplies such as disinfection, hemostasis and bandaging required for emergency treatment of minor injuries; ⑤ The contract should explicitly require the contractors to strictly implement the relevant policies and regulations of the World Bank on epidemic prevention and control. 2. When the general layout design of the construction is carried out at the construction drawing phase of the Project, the design unit should communicate with the school and the EIA unit in a timely manner, and verify the feasibility of the layout scheme of the construction camps in all aspects. The Project should not be commenced until it meets the World Bank's requirements for environmental protection. 1. Domestic sewage of the project schools should be pretreated in septic tanks to meet Class III standard limits specified in the Comprehensive Discharge Standard for Wastewater (GB8978-1996) before discharged into the local municipal sewage pipelines. Operation 2. Each of the project schools should implement separate stormwater and sewage drainage system, with stormwater collected Water pollution stage and discharged into the municipal stormwater pipeline and domestic sewage treated in septic tanks and diverted via the municipal sewer pipelines into the adjacent WWTP to be treated according to the respective standard before final discharge. 3. The sewage pipelines, in particular the pipe connections and elbows, should be inspected on a periodical basis to prevent environmental pollution caused by leakage of domestic sewage. 183 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Environmental Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Problem 4. Septic tanks should be periodically dredged and maintained, with the dried sludge delivered to the municipal domestic solid wastes landfills for hygienic landfill. 5. Each of the project schools should develop a special emergency response plan and assign a special responsible person so that any sewer blockage, leakage or abnormalities are resolved immediately to prevent contamination to the surrounding environment. 1. Rubber shock pads should be placed beneath the practical training equipment to reduce impacts from equipment vibration and noise. 2. Landscaping should be used as a measure for controlling noises. Areas around the buildings should be landscaped to not only Noise pollution absorb sound and reduce noise, but also stop dust and beautify environment. 3. Double-glazed windows should be used. Double-glazed windows (with a thickness of 150mm) may reduce indoor noise by 10 to 25 dB(A). 1. Classified garbage collection bins should be provided in the project area to achieve classified recovery of domestic solid wastes such as paper scrap, metals, glass, and corresponding management measures should be developed: ①A sound management system should be developed to define responsibilities and achieve periodical cleaning and collection of garbage; ②Degradable garbage bags should be used as a general requirement for garbage collection; ③Reasonably garbage collection and transportation routes should be planned and protective measures taken to minimize spillage during transportation. 2. Solid wastes should be removed in time and subject to proper disposal. Upon completion, the domestic solid wastes to be generated by teachers and students and other workers in the project schools Solid waste pollution will be ordinary solid wastes. Such solid wastes should be regularly collected by in-campus cleaners and stockpiled at existing domestic solid waste stockpiling sites in schools and then transported out of the campus by the local environmental sanitation authority on a periodical and timely basis for centralized hygienic landfill or incineration. The temporary solid waste stockpiling sites should be subject to periodically sterilization and pest control. 3. Stronger management actions should be taken to prohibit littering. Garbage collection facilities should be reasonably arranged in the project area for the sake of convenient garbage discharge. In addition, stronger management actions should be taken by providing obvious signs or directives to avoid littering. 4. The sludge dredging frequency of septic tanks should be determined based on the technical standards of the septic tanks, which are usually dredged every 90 days, 180 days or 360 days. The dredged sludge may be used as organic fertilizers or delivered for harmless disposal. 184 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 185 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 7-2 Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures for Specific Sites Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component 1. One centralized construction camp should be set up at the northeastern corner of the campus used for construction of Buildings No. 30, 31, 32 and 33. The construction camp and the three construction sites should be separated from the surrounding dormitory buildings with closeable fences. Another centralized construction camp should be set up in an unoccupied area in the middle east of the campus for construction of Building No. 4 and No. 24. A fully closed management system will be adopted for the construction sites. 2. Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory buildings and practical training buildings without due authorization while non- constructional personnel should not be allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. 3. Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student dormitories, in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should be assigned to manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from and not to stick around the construction sites. 4. Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. 5. Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. Gansu Vocational Construct 6. The construction site of Practical Training Building No. 4 is located very close to Practical Training Building No. 3 and the College of Energy and ion stage noise standard is exceeded by 10.46dB(A). In order to assure effective noise reduction, sound insulation retaining walls (with Chemical a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) should be provided around the construction site and sound insulation windows should be installed to avoid impacts from construction noise and assure that the sound environment in the Practical Training Building complies with the standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the western and northern sides of the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction. 7. Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes and should not travel in campus without due authorization. 8. Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. 9. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 10. Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours with minimal pedestrians on road 11. Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 186 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component 12. The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 13. Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 14. It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. 15. It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 1. A centralized construction camp should be set up in the southeastern corner of the campus for construction of school buildings. Closeable fences are required to separate it from the construction area. 2. The construction site in Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 should be fenced up. A temporary gate should be opened on the east side of the site near the road for construction workers and vehicles to pass through under closed-off management. Anti- falling frames should be set up above the road on the west side of the site to prevent falling objects from harming people. 3. Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory buildings and practical training buildings without due authorization while non-constructional personnel should not be allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. 4. Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student dormitories, in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should be assigned to manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from and not to stick around the construction sites. Gansu Finance and 5. Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High-noise Trade Vocational construction activities should be avoided in class hours. College 6. Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 7. Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes and should not travel in campus without due authorization. 8. Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. 9. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 10. Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours with minimal pedestrians on road. 11. Due to campus environment restrictions, it is necessary to provide a special road on the construction site of Building No. 18 as a construction transportation access road connecting the East Gate. Therefore, a reasonable route planning is needed and it is recommended that fences are installed to separate pedestrian from traffic. 187 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component 12. Based on the layout of the school buildings, it is recommended to close roads adjacent to the construction area on the east side of the campus and arrange all students and faculty to use roads on the west side of the campus. 13. Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 14. The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 15. Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 16. It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. 17. It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 1. A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the Teaching Building, high- noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located on the southern side of the construction site far away from the teaching building, dormitory building and practical training rooms. 2. Protective fences should be provided along roads around the construction sites to prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. 3. The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. Gansu Senior 4. Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 the next day; High- Technical School of noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. Mechanics 5. Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 16.48dB(A) to the maximum. Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction for high-rise buildings. 6. Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 7. In order to avoid health impacts by construction dust on those exercising on the sport ground, it is recommended that the school should adjust the teaching schedule to avoid teaching activities on the sport ground in the ground excavation stage with high incidence of dusting; double-layer dust screens should be used and water should be sprayed in the other construction periods 188 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component to minimize dust generation. 8. Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site via the East Gate and make sure the vehicles strictly follow the designated routes on site. Pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. 9. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 10. A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. 11. Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage will be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Tianshui Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 12. Construction solid wastes must be collected at designated locations and subject to centralized disposal by Tianshui Environmental sanitation Bureau at designated solid wastes landfill sites. 13. Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Tianshui City. 1. It is recommended that a temporary exit be opened on the side of the construction site on Yanbei Road and the construction site is connected with the school fencing wall to form an independent and closed construction area. All construction plants, vehicles and personnel will enter and leave the construction site via the temporary exit to realize full separation of construction activities from teaching activities, effectively avoid mutual impacts between construction workers, construction vehicles and pedestrians and vehicles in campus and minimize impacts on normal teaching activities on campus and the dense pedestrian flows appearing in the morning, noon and evening peak hours at the existing gate. 2. A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the Teaching Building, high- noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located Lanzhou University of on the northeastern side of the construction site far away from the teaching building and practical training rooms. Arts and Science 3. Protective fences should be provided along roads south of the construction site at the entrance and exit of the Practical Training Building to prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. 4. The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. 5. High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. 6. Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 20dB(A) to the maximum. Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows 189 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component (with a noise reduction of 10-15dB(A)) are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed and be able to move with the floors under construction. 7. Foundation excavation should be carried out manually 8. Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site and strictly travel along designated routes on site. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 9. A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. 10. Active efforts should be made to coordinate and negotiate with the traffic police about the need of traffic safety management at the front gate and early installation of video camera surveillance equipment. 11. The construction contractors should have all their staff on site registered and filed at the School Security Department and rent residential houses in the neighborhood as the accommodation of construction workers. 12. Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage should be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Lanzhou Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 13. Construction solid wastes should be declared and reported to Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and a Letter of City Image and Environmental Sanitation Responsibility should be signed. Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau will be responsible for supervising and managing the disposal of all construction solid wastes of the proposed project. 14. Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou City. 1. The TVET Park Administration Committee should strengthen the supervision of the construction progress of this Wastewater Wastewater Treatment Treatment and Water Recycling Center and assure that it is put into service before the LND schools are completed and and Water Recycling commissioned to enable effective collection of domestic sewage in these schools. Center of LND TVET 2. Upon the completion of the Center, an online water quality monitoring system should be installed according to the requirement Park Zone A of LND EPB to conduct regular monitoring on a quarterly basis and submit the monitoring results via PMO to the World Bank so as to assure that the collected sewage complies with the water quality standard after treatment. Mitigation measures 1) Transportation dust control: ①Transportation management should be strengthened and actions should be taken to assure the for sensitive protection transportation vehicles travel at specified speed; ②transportation routes should be selected in a scientific way; objects ③transportation roads should be sprayed with water on a periodical basis; ④powdery materials should be packed in tanks or 190 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component bags while fly ash should be packaged and transported in the wet method; Overloading is prohibited during transportation of soil, cement and lime, which should be covered with tarpaulin, with any spills en route immediately cleaned and removed. 2) Construction dust control:①Reasonable arrangements should be made for the mixing plants to achieve centralized mixing; lime soil mixing plants should not be located upwind of environmentally sensitive points; mixing plant operators should be provided with health protection services and masks and protective goggles; cement concrete should be outsourced from commercial concrete suppliers, if possible, and no cement mixing plant should be constructed. ②Material stockpiles should be located downwind of the sensitive areas and covered with tarpaulins; materials in storage should be reduced in volume and utilized in time. Fences should be provided when necessary and water should be sprayed on a periodical basis for dust prevention. 3) Traffic noise control:①Construction sites of the proposed project should be reasonably selected so that the sensitive zones in the adjacency are avoided and noise pollution problems are avoided at the time of planning. ②Measures such as erecting “No Honking� and speed limit signs may be taken along sensitive road sections with schools, hospitals, and residential areas and nursing homes on both sides and in campus.③Workers in high-noise working environment should take self-protection measures. 4) Construction plant noise control:①High-noise plants in the living area of construction workers and in the construction sites should be located as far away from sensitive points as possible and, in the meanwhile, measures such as silencing, insulation and damping should taken against strong noise sources. ②Construction technologies with low noise vibration should be selected. 5) Control of noise from construction activities adjacent to environmentally-sensitive areas: Temporary sound insulation fences should be installed on the boundary of the construction site; high-noise operations should be scheduled in such a way that the class hours and noon time resting hours are avoided; high-noise operations including pile driving should be suspended in night time. Where continuous operation is necessary, a request should be submitted to the local environmental protection authority for approval and a notice should be issued to teachers and students on campus as well as residents in the neighborhood; some specific high-noise operations may be implemented during the fixed festivals and holidays or winter and summer school holidays. 1. Stronger efforts should be made in traffic safety knowledge education to students. Students should receive traffic safety knowledge education in diversified forms to increase the safety awareness of both teachers and students and enable students Code of practice on to learn the traffic rules in detail. road traffic safety 2. A traffic safety duty system should be established and implemented at school intersections. The project schools should develop protection and strictly enforce the school gate and key intersection safety duty system based on their specific circumstances, with duties defined and personnel assigned. In the after-class peak hours, teachers and students should be assigned to guide traffic and 191 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component make sure traffic rules are followed by students and duty shift records maintained. 3. The PMOs of the project schools should set up and implement a system for regular inspection of key roads in campus and at school gates that students travel on their way to and from classes in the construction period. The schools should set up road inspection teams headed by the school officer in charge and with fixed positions and fixed personnel and fixed sections of responsibility. A responsibility-based management mechanism should be implemented in campus and special personnel assigned to inspect and keep records of the student compliance of traffic rules in campus and at school gates in the before- class and after-class peak hours. 4. The project schools should incorporate road section safety guard and in-campus road inspection in the construction period into their staff management system and target appraisal of students, classes and teachers and develop and publish weekly statistics and monthly reports. 5. Visible warning signs should be provided at school gates and road intersections with dense student pedestrians to warn construction vehicles to slow down at school gates and keep unauthorized vehicles away from campus. The construction area should be separated from the teaching areas and residential areas and warning signs should be erected around the construction area; teachers and students should neither enter the construction sites or operation areas (and students are banned to enter the construction area) nor stay or stick around the construction areas and should leave the aforesaid areas as soon as possible if they have to pass such areas out of necessity. 6. A traffic safety target responsibility system and accountability system should be established and strictly enforced, with the school principals as the primary responsible person. The project schools should set up a sound and operable safety responsibility system based on their specific circumstances, under which tasks are broken down and assigned to specific personnel so as to realize the standardization and institutionalization of student traffic safety management and achieve the prevention-oriented management objectives. In case of a traffic accident, the student victims should be sent to hospitals for timely rescue and responsible personnel investigated and identified. 7. Windows and doors should be properly shut in classes to reduce noise impacts. Students should be advised to distract their attention from construction operations, construction noises construction activities. Teachers should make all efforts to properly guide the students and organize the lectures in class. 8. Construction material transportation is an essential part of the construction process to meet the needs of the construction works. All teachers and students passing the construction areas need to watch for vehicles and loading and unloading operations to avoid being hit or hurt by vehicles or construction materials. When traffic is affected by any ongoing loading or unloading operation at the entrances, teachers and students should stop and wait till it is safe to pass. 9. All construction workers should follow the codes of conducts of civilized construction and must not litter and defecate indiscriminately. Vehicles should be parked at designated positions in good order. All construction workers should attach 192 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component paramount importance to traffic safety of students and teachers and take all measures and actions to guarantee construction safety as well as teacher and student safety. During construction, crane operation should be suspended in the morning, noon and evening peak hours when teachers and students enter and leave the campus. Safety briefings should be organized periodically so that problems are identified or handled in time to prevent and avoid safety accidents of whatever nature in the construction period. 1. Garbage collection bins should be provided in the practical training rooms and the waste oil rags generated in the teaching process are collected and mixed with domestic solid wastes for disposal according to uniform requirements. 2. Gas collecting hood, special flue and fume purifiers should be provided in the canteen operation rooms to assure that the cooking fume collected by the gas collecting hood enters via the special flue into the fume purifier for purification treatment to the Emission Standards of Cooking Fume (Trial) (GB18483-2001) before final emission. The flue ventilator should be positioned on the roof to achieve high-altitude emission. Gansu Vocational 3. The canteen flue ventilators should be located on the side far away from the student dormitories. College of Energy 4. Outdoor oil separating tanks should be constructed as a part of the canteen to assure that the cooking wastewater generated and Chemical from the canteen is treated in the outdoor oil separating tank and then delivered to the septic tank for digestion treatment before finally discharged into the municipal sewers. 5. The canteen should provide special collection bins for kitchen wastes. Such collection bins should be leak proof and properly sealed to prevent emission of odor and leakage during transportation. Special personnel should be assigned in the canteen to Operation collect garbage and make sure the collected garbage is handled according to the disposal requirements of LND EPB. stage 6. The “Natural Gas Risk Prevention Measures� should be strictly enforced. 1. Underground pipelines should be identified using warning boards erected on the ground while aboveground pipelines should be painted in one uniform warning color to promote public awareness of protection. 2. Problems discovered during periodical inspection, maintenance and normal operation of pipelines and valves should be rectified in a timely manner to avoid accidents arising from equipment failures; 3. Operators should strictly abide by the codes of operation to avoid accidents caused by operation errors; Natural gas risk 4. Operational management should be strengthened through periodical training to improve the operating skills of pipeline prevention measures workers; 5. Fire protection and extinguishing devices should be inspected regularly and assured in normal operation. 6. In case of a fuel gas leak, valves should be shut off and windows should be opened for immediate ventilation while open flames, telecommunication tools of whatever kinds and on/off operation of lights or electrical appliances and metal frictions should be avoided. 7. In case of a fire accident due to fuel gas leakage, wet rags should be placed over the fire point and valves shut off after the fire 193 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Name of Specific Mitigation and Protection Measures Stage Component is completely extinguished. Never attempt to shut off the valves before the fire is extinguished because backflow may occur and lead to explosion when shutting off a valve immediately upon a fire. 8. Immediately evacuate personnel in the building and call 119 in case of a serious fire. 9. Intelligent fire alarm controllers should be selected for the fire alarm system. 10. The project schools should develop a detailed emergency response plan to make sure that emergency response actions are implemented under uniform command, responsible persons and departments are assigned and their duties and responsibilities defined and emergency accidents are put under control in the shortest possible time to reduce environmental and personal harms caused by natural gas leakage risks. Such emergency response plans should mainly include the following contents: ①Alarm call, contact information; ②Tiered response procedure; ③Emergency environmental monitoring, emergency rescue, first aid and control measures; ④Personnel emergency evacuation, evacuation organization plan; ⑤Restoration measures; ⑥Emergency response training plan. 194 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 8. Environmental Monitoring Plan 8.1 Monitoring Objectives and Principles The environmental impacts generated by the Project mainly occur in the construction period and include domestic pollution arising from construction workers, noises arising from construction operations and dust caused by earthwork excavation and quarrying and foundation construction and other forms of pollution. In addition, serious local pollution caused by unexpected pollution accidents should also be considered. Therefore, in order to have a full and timely understanding of pollution status in the Project as well as the environmental quality changes in the neighborhood and provide services to regional environment management in the project area, it is necessary to implement environmental monitoring over the Project. An environmental monitoring plan is developed for the purpose of monitoring the implementation of various measures so as to make timely adjustments to the environmental protection action plan based on the monitoring results and provide a basis for determining the implementation time and developing implementation plan of the environmental protection measures. Monitoring plans are developed based on the predictions of the key environmental factors of the various stages (construction stage or operation stage). Implementation of the environmental monitoring plan enables timely understanding of the environmental quality of the project implementation area and is helpful to the analysis and implementation of targeted mitigation of environmental impacts caused by project construction to assure that the environmental impacts of the Project are minimized, people’s livelihood is not affected and the natural and ecological environment is not damaged. The environmental monitoring plan of the proposed project may be implemented by an agency consigned by the Provincial PMO. This agency should have the required monitoring qualifications and will be responsible for collecting and analyzing monitoring data, producing and submitting the environmental analysis reports to the client, with a copy submitted by the client to the World Bank. See Table 8-1 for the organizational responsibilities of the monitoring plan of the Project. 195 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 8-1 Organizational Responsibilities of the Monitoring Plan Activity to be implemented Responsible agency Environmental monitoring agency with the required Collecting monitoring data monitoring qualifications Monitoring agency will be responsible for data Data analysis collection and analysis. Monitoring agency produces analysis report based on Preparing environmental report the monitoring data. The aforesaid monitoring plan may be implemented by an environmental monitoring agency consigned by the Provincial PMO. The environmental monitoring agency will collect and analyze the monitoring data on a quarterly basis and produce and submit to the client an environmental analysis report, with a copy submitted by the client to the World Bank. After the environmental analysis report is submitted, the Provincial PMO will be responsible for centralized management and filing of the report and distribute the Management plan report to the project executive offices of the project schools as the environmental impact summary report of the implementation period of the Project to be used for final acceptance of the Project. 8.2 Monitoring agency It is recommended that the project management agency will consign a qualified environmental monitoring agency to implement the monitoring plan and undertake instant monitoring of environmental impacts caused by any unexpected pollution accidents. Such arrangement will not only leverage the advantages of existing environmental monitoring organizations in full supply of professional staff and monitoring equipment, but also enable the management agency of the proposed project to save costs and expenditures of monitoring equipment and staff. The implementation agency should sign the construction period monitoring contract with the monitoring agency before the construction commences. 8.3 Environmental monitoring plan The monitoring plan of this World Bank Project covers two stages, the construction period and the operation period. In the construction period, the key monitoring factor is indoor air quality while, in the operation period, the key monitoring factor is the standard compliance of pollutants including wastewater, exhaust gas and noises. The total monitoring cost is 325,000 yuan, see Table 8-2 for details of the monitoring factors. 196 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 8-2 Project Monitoring Plan Monitoring Routine Periodical Environmental Monitoring Period Monitoring content Monitoring site Applicable standard cost monitoring monitoring factor frequency (CNY10000) agency agency School buildings to be built in Gansu Vocational 4 College of Energy and Chemical LND EPB School buildings to be Construction built in Gansu Finance period (before 4 Consigned and Trade Vocational indoor HCHO(formaldehyde), Indoor Air Quality agency with College decoration is Indoor air quality NH3, benzene, TVOC, Once Standard (GB/T18883- required School buildings to be completed radioactivity 2002) monitoring built in Gansu Senior Tianshui and put into 4 qualifications Technical School of EPB service) Mechanics School buildings to be built in Lanzhou Lanzhou 2 University of Arts and EPB Science Subtotal 14 Main discharge outlet of Gansu Vocational 2.5 College of Energy and Chemical LND EPB Main discharge outlet of Class III in Consigned pH, BOD5, COD, SS, Gansu Finance and Trade Once/year for Comprehensive 2.5 agency with Operation Wastewater animal and vegetable oil, Vocational College 5 consecutive Discharge Standard for required period quality feces coliforms Main discharge outlet of years Wastewater (GB8978- monitoring Tianshui Gansu Senior Technical 1996) 2.5 qualifications EPB School of Mechanics Main discharge outlet of Lanzhou Lanzhou University of 2.5 EPB Arts and Science 197 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Cooking fume emission Once/year Emission Standards of outlet of Gansu for 5 Cooking fume Kitchen fume Cooking Fume 2.5 LND EPB Vocational College of consecutive (Trial)(GB18483-2001) Energy and Chemical years Boundary of Gansu Vocational College of 1.5 Energy and Chemical LND EPB Boundary of Gansu Environmental Noise Consigned Finance and Trade 1.5 Once/year for Discharge Standard on agency with Site boundary Vocational College LAeq 5 consecutive the Boundary of required noise Boundary of Gansu years Industrial Enterprises (GB monitoring Tianshui Senior Technical School 1.5 12348-2008) qualifications EPB of Mechanics Boundary of Lanzhou Lanzhou University of Arts and 1.5 EPB Science Subtotal 18.5 Total 32.5 Note: The charging standard of indoor air quality acceptance monitoring is estimated at 20,000 yuan/time; Cost of wastewater quality monitoring is estimated at the baseline price of CNY5,000/discharge outlet-time; Cost of cooking fume monitoring is estimated at the baseline price of CNY 5,000/discharge outlet-time; Cost of site boundary noise monitoring is estimated at the baseline price of CNY 3,000/time. 198 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 9. EMP Information Management 9.1 Information Exchange Environmental management requirements should be disclosed among the different departments and job positions of the PMOs, the employer, the contractors and the operators through internal information exchange and also published to external parties (the stakeholders and social public, etc.). Internal information exchange may be implemented via diversified channels such as meetings, internal briefings, but 1 formal meeting must be held every month and all exchanged information must be recorded and filed. External information exchange should be conducted semiannually or annually and minutes should be prepared and filed for information exchange with cooperative units. 9.2 Recording Mechanism In order to assure effective operation of the environmental management system, a robust recording system must be established to keep records of the following aspects: （1）Legal and regulatory requirements; （2）Licenses and permits; （3）Environmental factors and relevant environmental impacts; （4）Training; （5）Inspection, checking and maintenance activities; （6）Monitoring data; （7）Effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions; （8）Information of stakeholders; （9）Audits; （10）Reviews. In addition, the above records must also be subject to necessary controls, including record identification, collection, cataloging, filing, storage, management, maintenance, inquiry, storage life and disposal, etc. 9.3 Reporting Mechanism The contractors, operators, monitoring agencies, environmental supervision engineers and PMOs should record and report project progress, EMP execution status and environmental monitoring results to the concerned authorities in a timely manner, mainly including contents of the following six aspects: 199 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （1）The Project Environmental Supervision Engineer should record in detail the execution status of EMP on a monthly basis and submit the weekly reports and monthly reports in time to the Project Employer and the project school PMOs. The weekly reports and monthly reports should include execution status of environmental protection measures, progress of environmental monitoring and monitoring data. （2）The contractors and operators should record in detail the project progress and EMP execution status on a quarterly basis and submit quarterly reports to the project school PMOs with a copy to local EPB. （3）After the monitoring activities are carried out, the monitoring agency should submit the monitoring report to the contractors (operators) and the environment supervision engineer in a timely manner. （4）The project school PMOs should submit the Project Progress Report to the Provincial PMO in a timely manner, with a copy to the Provincial EPB. The Project Progress Report prepared by the project school PMOs (e.g. monthly reports, quarterly reports, yearly reports, etc.) must include contents about EMP progress, e.g. progress and outcomes of EMP execution, in particular, environmental monitoring results. （5）In case of any significant incidents involving environmental protection violations, the Environmental Supervision Engineer and the PMOs should submit a report to the local government authority of environmental protection and, when necessary, to the government authorities of upper levels. （6）The yearly EMP execution reports of the Project must be finalized and submitted to the World Bank before the 31st of March the next year and such reports may include the following contents: ① Implementation status of training plans; ② Progress of project implementation; ③ Execution status of environmental protection measures, implementation status of environmental monitoring and key monitoring results; ④Records of the key contents, solutions and public satisfaction of public complaints, if any; ⑤ EMP execution plan for the coming year. 9.4 File Management In the implementation process of the EMP, the World Bank, the Provincial Project Management Office, the Project School PMOs, the EIA agency, the Engineer and the 200 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan construction contractors shall properly manage the respective files and documents. See Table 9-1 for detail in this regard. Table 9-1 File Management Requirements for the Concerned Institutions Name of institution File management 1) Preparing, archiving and submitting to the Construction Engineer records of construction progress on a weekly basis; 2) Completing, together with the Construction Supervision Engineer, the construction site checklists prior to commencement of construction works and having them archived and submitted to the project school PMOs; 1. Construction 3) Preparing detailed records of the implementation status of construction contractors works in case of any emergency and unexpected circumstances and having such records archived and submitted to the Construction Supervision Engineer; 4) Carrying out rectification within 3 working days (or 10 working days where coordination is required from the management agency) as of the receipt of the Rectification Notice, with the respective documents put into archives. 1) Preparing, archiving and submitting to the project school PMOs records of information reported by construction contractors on a weekly basis; 2) Completing, together with the Construction Contractor, the construction site checklists prior to commencement of construction works and having them archived and submitted to the project school PMOs; 2. Construction 3) Preparing detailed records of the implementation status of construction Supervision works in case of any emergency and unexpected circumstances and having Engineer such records archived and submitted to the project school PMOs; 4) Proposing and following up with rectification solutions to environmental protection problems encountered by the contractors in the construction activities, including issuing Rectification Notice and rectification checklists and putting the inspection documents into archives; 3. Organizations with EIA qualifications 1) Preparing the contents of the EMP and putting the first draft, the draft for for construction review and the draft for approval into archives. projects 1) Organizing theme studies or surveys and having documents of workshops and surveys well managed and put into archives; 2) Properly maintaining, managing and archiving records of complaints arising in the construction and operation process of the Project; 3) Recording and archiving information reported by the Construction 4. Project School Supervision Engineer on a quarterly basis and submitting reports PMOs (statements) to the Provincial PMO; 4) Receiving site checklists submitted by the construction contractors and construction supervision engineers and verifying and archiving environmentally sensitive problems; 5) Sorting and putting into archives submitted Rectification Notices. 201 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 1) Preparing and supervising the implementation status of EMP and putting it into archives; 2) Summarizing, on a semi-annual basis, information reported the project school PMOs and submitting relevant reports to the World Bank; putting the 5. Provincial PMO reports into archives; 3) Coordinating with the other concerned authorities to address significant environmental issues and maintaining records and archives of the specific actions taken; 1) Recording and archiving, on a half-year basis, information reported by the 6. World Bank Provincial PMO. 202 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 10. Cost Estimation 10.1 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Table10-1 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Investment SN Usage Content Remarks (CNY10000) Construction Period Temporary sedimentation tank and oil separating tank for construction 1.0 1 No. Wastewater wastewater 1.1 Wastewater collection tank and oil Management 1.0 1 No. separating tank for domestic sewage Temporary toilets, septic tanks 5 1 No. Solid Waste 1.2 Closeable classified garbage bins 0.4 4 Nos. Management Dust screen, dust reduction through water spraying, shielding tarpaulin, paved 20 1.3 Dust Control access roads, etc. Construction fences, 1000m per site 25 Totally 5 sites Entrance and exit signs, traffic guidance 0.5 Noise 1.4 Colored steel sheet sound insulation Management 20 retaining wall 1.5 Subtotal 72.9 Operation period 2.1 Solid wastes Domestic solid waste collection bins 2 20 Nos. Noise Already 2.2 Aluminum alloy insulating glass window / management included in construction Ventilation fans / investment Exhaust gas 2.3 management Gas collecting hood, fume purifier, 50 special flue Already included in In-building wastewater collection system / 2.4 Wastewater construction management investment Canteen oil separating tank 10 2.6 Subtotal 62 Construction Supervision cost 10 period supervision Labor costs Management and labor cost 3 3 Overheads and expenses Office Equipment procurement and material expenses 3 cost during management 4 Monitoring cost Indoor air quality monitoring 4 203 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Operation period wastewater quality 2.5 monitoring Operation period fume monitoring 2.5 Operation period noise monitoring 1.5 Already included in 5 Landscaping cost / construction investment 6 Environmental protection knowledge training 4.6 Calculated at a 7 Contingencies 16.6 percentage of 10% Total 182.6 10.2 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Table10-2 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Investment SN Usage Content Remarks (CNY10000) Construction Period Temporary sedimentation tank and oil separating tank for construction 1.0 1 No. Wastewater wastewater 1.1 Wastewater collection tank and oil Management 1.0 1 No. separating tank for domestic sewage Temporary toilets, septic tanks 5 1 No. Solid Waste 1.2 Closeable classified garbage bins 0.4 4 Nos. Management Dust screen, dust reduction through water spraying, shielding tarpaulin, paved 20 1.3 Dust Control access roads, etc. Construction fences, 1000m per site 20 Totally 4 sites Noise 1.4 Entrance and exit signs, traffic guidance 0.5 Management 1.5 Subtotal 47.9 Operation Period 2.1 Solid wastes Domestic solid waste collection bins 2 20 Nos. Already Noise included in 2.2 Aluminum alloy insulating glass window / management construction investment Already Exhaust gas included in 2.3 Ventilation fans / management construction investment Already Wastewater 2.4 In-building wastewater collection system / included in management construction 204 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan investment 2.5 Subtotal 2 Construction Supervision cost 10 period supervision Labor costs Management and labor cost 3 3 Overheads and expenses Office Equipment procurement and material expenses 3 cost during management Indoor air quality monitoring 4 Operation period wastewater quality 4 Monitoring cost 2.5 monitoring Operation period noise monitoring 1.5 Already includedin 5 Landscaping cost / construction investment 6 Environmental protection knowledge training 4.6 Calculated at a 7 Contingencies 7.85 percentage of 10% Total 86.35 10.3Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Table 10-3 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Investment SN Usage Content Remarks (CNY10000) Construction Period Temporary sedimentation tank and oil separating tank for construction 1.0 1 No. Wastewater wastewater 1.1 Wastewater collection tank and oil Management 1.0 1 No. separating tank for domestic sewage Temporary toilets, septic tanks 5 1 No. Solid Waste 1.2 Closeable classified garbage bins 0.4 4 Nos. Management Dust screen, dust reduction through water spraying, shielding tarpaulin, paved 20 1.3 Dust Control access roads, etc. Construction fences, 1000m per site 5 1 site Entrance and exit signs, traffic guidance 0.5 Noise 1.4 Colored steel sheet sound insulation Management 20 retaining wall 1.5 Subtotal 52.9 205 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Operation period 2.1 Solid wastes Domestic solid waste collection bins 2 20 Nos. Already Noise included in 2.2 Aluminum alloy insulating glass window / management construction investment Already included in Exhaust gas 2.3 Ventilation fans / constructio management n investment Already included in Wastewater In-building wastewater collection system / 2.4 construction management investment 100m3 septic tank 10 2.5 Subtotal 12 Construction Supervision cost 10 period supervision Labor costs Management and labor cost 3 and 3 Overheads expenses Office Equipment procurement and material expenses 3 cost during management Indoor air quality monitoring 2 Operation period wastewater quality 4 Monitoring cost 2.5 monitoring Operation period noise monitoring 1.5 5 Environmental protection knowledge training 4.6 Calculated at 6 Contingencies 9.35 a percentage of 10% Total 102.85 10.4Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Table10-4 Environmental Protection Investment Estimation for Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Investment SN Usage Content Remarks (CNY10000) Construction Period Temporary sedimentation tank and oil separating tank for construction 1.0 1 No. Wastewater 1.1 wastewater Management Wastewater collection tank and oil 1.0 1 No. separating tank for domestic sewage 206 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Temporary toilets, septic tanks 5 1 No. Solid Waste 1.2 Closeable classified garbage bins 0.4 4 Nos. Management Dust screen, dust reduction through water spraying, shielding tarpaulin, paved 20 1.3 Dust Control access roads, etc. Construction fences, 1000m per site 5 1 site Entrance and exit signs, traffic guidance 0.5 Noise 1.4 Colored steel sheet sound insulation Management 20 retaining wall 1.5 Subtotal 52.9 Operation period 2.1 Solid wastes Domestic solid waste collection bins 2 20 Nos. Already Noise included in 2.2 Aluminum alloy insulating glass window / management construction investment Already included in Exhaust gas 2.3 Ventilation fans / constructio management n investment Already Wastewater included in 2.4 In-building wastewater collection system / management construction investment 2.5 Subtotal 2 Construction Supervision cost 10 period supervision Labor costs Management and labor cost 3 and 3 Overheads expenses Office Equipment procurement and material expenses 3 cost during management Indoor air quality monitoring 2 Operation period wastewater quality 4 Monitoring cost 2.5 monitoring Operation period noise monitoring 1.5 5 Environmental protection knowledge training 4.6 Calculated at 6 Contingencies 8.15 a percentage of 10% Total 89.65 10.5 Summary of Environmental management Cost As shown in Table 10-5, the total cost of environmental management amounts to a total of 4.6125 million yuan. 207 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 10-5 Summary of Project Environmental Management Budget Environmental Environmental Name of Mitigation Training Cost Contingency Total Monitoring Cost Project Measures (CNY10000) (CNY10000) (CNY10000) (CNY10000) (CNY10000) World Bank Loan Gansu 32.5 368.5 18.5 41.75 459.25 TVET Project 208 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11. Public Participation and Information Disclosure 11.1 Objectives of Public Participation & Information Disclosure Public participation in the EIA process aims to improve the quality of EIA and provide more information and suggestions to make the EIA of a construction project more democratic and public, enable the public directly or indirectly connected to the project to participate in the EIA and assure the transparency and credibility of EIA decisions and provide the public with a chance of expressing their opinions and views to make the EIA more robust and fair. Public participation is an important part of the EIA process and also an effective approach to sound and scientific decision. Public participation in a construction project is an important approach to improving bidirectional communications between the project implementation agency, the EIA agency and the general public. Through extensive public participation, the public directly or indirectly affected by the construction of a project is provided with a chance to fully understand the environmental impacts likely to arise from, the related environmental protection and mitigation measures as well as the economic benefits and social benefits to be brought by the construction project; in addition, extensive public participation enables the public to actively give feedbacks and opinions, contribute suggestions and advices and jointly identify solutions to problems existing in the project so as to minimize the environmental impacts, avoid pollution disputes arising in the construction and operation period of the project and realize better coordination between development and environmental protection. The key objectives of public participation are: （1）Through public participation, public opinions are analyzed and incorporated in the environmental protection management measures and also used as a guide to future actions in the construction process of the Project. （2）Through public participation, a bridge of bidirectional communication between the public and the implementation agency, a detailed introduction about the project overview, pollution condition, management measures, EIA prediction results are given to the public and public opinions and suggestions are fed back to the implementation agency as a basis of program revision. （3）Through public participation, public attitudes and opinions on the Project are known and a basis is determined for safeguarding the vital interests of the public; feasibility recommendations are adequately considered in the EIA process; and public concerns due to lack of communication are reduced and adverse impacts on public benefits minimized, with necessary compensation provided. 209 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （4）Post-EIA appraisal mainly relies on public surveillance. Active public participation, an important component of the environmental management mechanism, facilitates protection of ecological environment, promotion of the Project’s environmental and economic benefits and improvement of environmental quality and assures smooth implementation of the sustainable development strategy. 11.2 Identification of Stakeholders The World Bank initiated the concept of “stakeholder� and defined stakeholder groups in its assistance strategy. Stakeholders refer to “those affecting the actions and policies of and affected by the World Bank� (World Bank 1994:1). Based on the characteristics of impacts generated by the civil works of this World Bank Project, the stakeholders related to the Project are grouped in this EIA as follows: (1) students and faculty of the project implementation schools; (2) individuals and social groups outside the schools; (3) government departments and related organizations. （1）Students and faculty of the project implementation schools Stakeholders most directly connected to the Project are the students and faculty of the 4 schools. Since the civil works of the Project will be directly constructed in campus, noises, dust, wastewater, construction solid wastes and construction traffic safety issues generated by the construction activities will generate direct impacts on school students and faculty. Therefore, this EIA, in the public participation process, will focus on the detailed study of the opinions and requests of this stakeholder group on environmental management in the construction period and the operation period and incorporate them into this EMP. （2）Individuals and social groups outside the schools The participants of public participation are mainly the public directly or indirectly affected by the Project. Apart from the students and faculty of the 4 schools, the general public outside the schools (including local residents, schools, hospitals and social groups, etc.) are also affected by the project construction to different degrees. Since this part of the public are distributed in a large geographical scope and affected to different degrees, it is necessary to identify this part of the affected public to make the public participation more pertinent. Based on the characteristics of the impacts of construction projects, the impacts of this World Bank Loan Project mainly cover the environmental and social impacts in the construction period and the operation period. The scope and degree of such impacts are described in detail in Table 11-1 and Table 11-2. Table 11-1 Analysis of Degree of Public Impacts in the Construction Period 210 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Object Impact Residents Hospitals Schools Social groups Distance 50m Large Large Large Large 50-100m Medium Medium Medium Medium ＞100m Small Small Small Small Transportation route Small Small Small Small Table 11-2 Analysis of Degree of Public Impacts in the Operation Period Objects Impacts Residents Hospitals Schools Social groups Distance 50m Small Small Small Small 50-100m Small Small Small Small ＞100m Small Small Small Small It is known from the tables above that it is in the construction period that a Project generates its largest impacts, in particular on those in a distance of less than 50m from the construction sites, followed by those in a distance of 50m to 100m. Therefore, the key objects of public participation are the affected individuals and social groups outside the project schools in a distance of 100m from the construction sites of the Project, including local residents, hospitals and social groups. Although the public outside the 100m distance and along the transportation routes are subject to relatively smaller impacts, they are still affected by the project construction and their opinions and requests will also be considered in this public participation survey. The aforesaid survey objects are mainly individuals at and above the age of 18 with different occupations, different educational backgrounds and different age groups. The role that women play in environmental protection will also be considered. （3）Government Departments and Related Organizations During the construction of the Project, environmental management, solid waste treatment and supportive wastewater treatment in the construction period and the operation period will be involved, making it necessary to consult the opinions and requirements of related departments and organizations. Table 11-3 shows the government departments and related organizations to 211 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan be consulted under the Project. Table 11-3 List of Government Departments and Related Organizations to be Consulted under the Project Name of department Relation with the Project Competent authority of the administrative district that the Local government project schools belong to Local education bureau Competent authority of each project school Environmental management authority in the construction Local EPB period and the operation period Local environmental sanitation City administration and solid waste disposal bureau Organization providing supports in wastewater treatment in WWTP the construction period 11.3 Methods and Contents of Public Participation According to the requirements of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment, the Provisional Methods of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment published by Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Operational Policy of the World Bank (OP4.01), two rounds of public consultation and information disclosure activities were conducted in our EIA process, with Round 1 carried out after identification of environmental issues and before finalization of the terms of reference of EIA and Round 2 in the finalization stage of Draft EIA Report. 11.3.1 Methods The methods of public participation and consultation mainly include: （1）Posting announcements around project schools; （2）Visiting local residents around project schools; （3）Issuing public survey questionnaires; （4）Inviting public representatives, teacher and student representatives and NGO representatives to discussions; 11.3.2 Contents （1）Posting announcements To introduce to the public around the project schools about the basic information of the Project as well as the environmental impacts likely to arise in the construction period and operation period of the Project; to inform the public of impacts that the Project might generate 212 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan on the environment and on their daily life, to announce contact information for receiving public consultations and feedbacks; （2）Discussions and interviews Such discussions mainly aim to introduce to the participants about the progress of project construction and key contents of environmental protection and listen to their opinions and suggestions in these regards. （3）Questionnaires Main contents of the questionnaires of the Project are shown in Attached Table 3. 11.4 Public Opinions and Suggestions 11.4.1 Summary of Public Survey on EMP See Table 11-4 for details of public surveys carried out on the environmental management plan. 11.4.2 Summary of Public Survey on Social Impact Assessment See Table 11-5 for details of public surveys carried out on the social impact assessment. 213 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 11-4Methods and Contents of EMP Public Consultation and Participation Objects of Stage Time Method Location Contents Consultation Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics March 30, Sensitive protection Public Consultation Information Disclosure of World Bank Loan Gansu 1st Round Public Participation and Information Disclosure 2016 targets such as project TVET Project includes project construction site, construction Posting - school gates, affected Stakeholders component, environmental impacts likely to arise in the construction announcements April 13, residential areas, period and operation period, contact information and feedback channels 2016 hospitals, schools of implementation agency and EIA agency Investigations are carried out in local environmental conditions to find School PMO out facts about the existence of WWTPs, final destination of domestic March 30, Project schools, Site investigation members, EPB solid wastes, disposal requirement of construction solid wastes, sensitive 2016 Municipal EPB responsible person points in the neighborhood and stakeholders’ environmental concerns and their opinions and requirements on the Project. EPB, EB, Resident Committee, School Local environmental management requirements are studied; the basic March 30, Project school PMO responsible Discussions information and possible impacts of the Project are introduced; 2016 conference room persons and teacher participants are consulted about their opinions and requirements. and student representatives Public consultation questionnaire (individuals) and (units / groups) of March 30, Affected residential World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project including contents of project 2016 Questionnaire areas, hospitals, construction site, construction component, environmental impacts likely - Stakeholders survey schools, NGOs around to arise in the construction period and operation period, contact April 8, project sites information and feedback channels of implementation agency and EIA 2016 agency Website of Gansu 2nd Round Public Participation Institute of Mechanical and Information Disclosure Project introduction, key EIA conclusions, notice on public participation Website & Electrical Aug. 18, invitation, contact information, full document download link of the information Engineering: The general public 2016 Environmental and Social Management Plant of World Bank Loan disclosure http://www.gsjdxy.com Gansu TVET Project (Chinese version) /Article/tzgg/201608/5 221.html Notice on EMP Full Document Disclosure and Public Participation Project school Sept. 16, Posting School gate and bulletin Invitation of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project includes project teachers and students 2016 announcements board and adjacent public name, project introduction, key environmental protection measures and conclusions, contact person and information feedback channels. Sept. 16, Discussions Multimedia classroom Students and teachers ESMP is distributed to meeting participants; Head of school PMO 214 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Objects of Stage Time Method Location Contents Consultation 2016 and teaching research introduces the basic information of the Project; EIA Team Members office introduce environmental impacts and mitigation measures and discuss with participants about environmental protection measures in ESMP and propose specific amendments. Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Sensitive protection Public Consultation Information Disclosure of World Bank 1st Round Public Participation and Information Disclosure Apr. 1, 2016 targets such as Loan Gansu TVET Project includes project construction site, - Posting project school gates, construction component, environmental impacts likely to arise Stakeholders Apr. 15, announcements affected residential in the construction period and operation period, contact 2016 areas, hospitals, information and feedback channels of implementation agency schools and EIA agency Investigations are carried out in local environmental conditions to find out facts about the existence of WWTPs, final April 1, Project school PMO destination of domestic solid wastes, disposal requirement of Site investigation Project school 2016 members construction solid wastes, sensitive points in the neighborhood and stakeholders’ environmental concerns and their opinions and requirements on the Project. The basic information and possible environmental impacts of the Project Project schools and Project school are introduced to the public; the local public around the project schools affected residential April 1, teachers and students are consulted to collect and summarize their attitude toward and Interview areas, hospitals, 2016 and local residents, opinions on the Project; questionnaires are distributed on campus to schools, NGOs in the NGO representatives consult school faculty and students and the public on campus about their neighborhood opinions and requirements on school construction. Public consultation questionnaire (individuals) and (units / April 1, Affected residential groups) of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project including 2016 Questionnaire areas, hospitals, contents of project construction site, construction component, - Stakeholders survey schools, NGOs environmental impacts likely to arise in the construction period April 10, 2016 around project sites and operation period, contact information and feedback channels of implementation agency and EIA agency Website of Lanzhou Project introduction, key EIA conclusions, notice on public and Information Participation Website University of Arts and participation invitation, contact information, full document Disclosure 2nd Round Aug. 15, information Science: The general public download link of the Environmental and Social Management Public 2016 disclosure http://news.luas.edu.cn/ Plant of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project (Chinese news/7986.html version) Sept. 20, Posting School gate, library, In-school teachers Notice on EMP Full Document Disclosure and Public 2016 announcements teaching building, staff and students and Participation Invitation of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET 215 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Objects of Stage Time Method Location Contents Consultation dormitory building, adjacent public Project includes project name, project introduction, key residential areas in the environmental protection measures and conclusions, contact neighborhood person and information feedback channels. ESMP is distributed to meeting participants; Head of school PMO introduces the basic information of the Project; EIA Team Art School students Sept. 20, Conference Room of Members introduce environmental impacts and mitigation Discussions and teachers, adjacent 2016 Provincial Art School measures and discuss with participants about environmental shops protection measures in ESMP and propose specific amendments. Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical; Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College April 2, 2016 Sensitive protection Public Consultation Information Disclosure of World Bank Loan Gansu - targets such as project TVET Project includes project construction site, construction April 18, Posting school gates, affected Stakeholders component, environmental impacts likely to arise in the construction 2016 announcements residential areas, period and operation period, contact information and feedback channels hospitals, schools of implementation agency and EIA agency Nov. 30, 2020 1st Round Public Participation and April 2, LND TVET Park, Investigations are carried out in local environmental conditions to find 2016 LND EPB main out facts about the existence of WWTPs, final destination of domestic Information Disclosure Project school, LND Site investigation responsible persons solid wastes, disposal requirement of construction solid wastes, sensitive Nov. 30, TVET Park and school PMO points in the neighborhood and stakeholders’ environmental concerns 2020 members and their opinions and requirements on the Project. April 2, The basic information and possible environmental impacts of 2016 Adjacent resident the Project are introduced to the public; the local public around Adjacent residential representatives and the project schools are consulted to collect and summarize Interview areas, existing old campus teacher their attitude toward and opinions on the Project; Nov. 30, campuses and student questionnaires are distributed on campus to consult school 2020 representatives faculty and students and the public on campus about their opinions and requirements on school construction. April 2, Public consultation questionnaire (individuals) and (units / groups) of Affected residential 2016 World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project including contents of project areas, hospitals, - Questionnaire construction site, construction component, environmental impacts likely schools, NGOs around Stakeholders April 13, survey to arise in the construction period and operation period, contact project sites 2016 information and feedback channels of implementation agency and EIA Nov. 30, Teachers and students agency 216 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Objects of Stage Time Method Location Contents Consultation 2020 impacted by the project Website of Gansu Vocational College of Aug. 18, Energy and Chemical: 2016 http://www.gsnyedu.cn /html/news/gonggao/5 Website 65.html information Official Website of disclosure Gansu Vocational 2nd Round Public Participation and Information Disclosure College of Energy and Dec. 18, Chemical Industry 2020 https://www.gsnh.edu.c n/Info/1/17463/index. Project introduction, key EIA conclusions, notice on public participation aspx invitation, contact information, full document download link of the The general public Website of Gansu Environmental and Social Management Plant of World Bank Loan Finance and Trade Gansu TVET Project (Chinese version) Vocational College: Aug. 16, http://www.gscmxy.co 2016 m/index.php?_m=mod Website _article&_a=article_co information ntent&article_id=458 disclosure Official Website of Gansu Finance and Dec. 24, Trade Professional 2020 College https://www.gscmxy.ed u.cn/shjggg/1351.jhtml Sept. 13, Main Gate of Gansu Project school 2016 Vocational College of Posting teachers and Energy and Chemical, Dec. 18, announcements students and Notice on EMP Full Document Disclosure and Public Participation adjacent hospitals, 2020 residential areas adjacent public Invitation of World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project includes project name, project introduction, key environmental protection measures and Main Gate of Gansu Project school Sept. 22, Posting conclusions, contact person and information feedback channels. Finance and Trade teachers and students 2016 announcements Vocational College, and adjacent public Dec. 24, adjacent hospitals, 217 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Objects of Stage Time Method Location Contents Consultation 2020 residential areas In-school faculty representatives， Conference Room of Sept. 13, student Discussions Provincial Vocational 2016 representatives, College adjacent public representatives 3rd Floor Multimedia In-school student Sept. 22, ESMP is distributed to meeting participants; Head of school PMO Classroom of representatives, 2016 Discussions introduces the basic information of the Project; EIA Team Members Provincial Commerce teacher introduce environmental impacts and mitigation measures and discuss & Trade School representatives with participants about environmental protection measures in ESMP and Conference Room of In-school student propose specific amendments. Gansu Vocational representatives, Discussions College of Energy and teacher Dec. 18, Chemical Industry representatives 2020 Conference Room of In-school student Gansu Finance and representatives, Discussions Trade Professional teacher College representatives 218 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 11-5 Methods and Contents of Public Consultation and Participation in Social Impact Assessment Method Object Content Key contents of teacher interviews include school-industry partnership, teaching resources, teacher training, social service, Focus group School teachers and infrastructure, secondary and tertiary TVET integration, etc.; discussion students student interviews mainly focus on students’ level satisfaction about schools, specialties, fields of employment, school-industry partnership, etc. Key informants in school teachers, students, administration staff, Information is collected by means of meetings, job interviews Key informant government and household interviews to obtain more data related to the interview officials, female Project SIA and explore internal information. teachers and students, poverty- stricken students Questionnaires are used to find out the different attitudes and the Teachers, students, different interest demands of different stakeholders to the Project Questionnaire parents to provide important references needed for correct planning, content design and social assessment of the Project. 11.4.3 Public Consultation Sites The following photographs show the sites of public consultation carried out as a part of the environmental and social impact assessment process of the World Bank Loan Project. Discussions at Lanzhou University of Arts and Teacher Discussions at Gansu Industrial and Science Commercial School 219 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Community Interviews at Gansu Senior Technical Government Interviews at Gansu Senior School of Mechanics Technical School of Mechanics Household Interviews at Gansu Senior Technical Private Business Interviews at Gansu Senior School of Mechanics Technical School of Mechanics Teacher Discussions at Gansu Finance and Trade Student Discussions at Gansu Economic School School Discussions at Gansu Finance and Trade Discussions at Gansu Vocational College of Professional College Energy and Chemical Industry 220 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Questionnaire Completion at Gansu Finance and Questionnaire Completion at Gansu Vocational Trade Professional College College of Energy and Chemical Industry 221 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11.4.4 Statistics and Analysis of Public Participation Results 11.4.4.1 Distribution of Questionnaires and Structure of Respondents （1）Recovery Rate of Questionnaires In the process of public participation survey, adequate consideration was given to opinions and suggestions of respondents of different age groups, different professions and different educational background and serious attention was paid to the rationality of male-female proportion in the survey to give equal consideration to female rights and interests. In this public participation survey, totally 400 questionnaires were distributed, with 63, 85, 79, and 67 individual questionnaires distributed respectively in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics and Lanzhou University of Arts and Science and 7 and 4 organization questionnaires distributed respectively in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College and Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics. The questionnaire recovery rate and effective questionnaire rate both reached 100%. （2）Respondent Structure Analysis The questionnaire survey covers respondents of different age groups, different genders and different educational backgrounds and includes both directly affected persons and indirectly affected persons. The great majority of the respondents are Han in terms of ethnic group. Among the respondents in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, 46% are male and 54% are female; the percentages of male and female respondents are respectively 76% and 24% in Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, 67% and 33% in Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics and 1% and 99% in Lanzhou University of Arts and Science. 70%, 89% and 82% of the respondents respectively in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics and Lanzhou University of Arts and Science are young and middle-aged people in the age group of 18 to 60 years old. Showing the strongest concern about the project construction and environmental condition, the young and middle-aged people will be active supporters and participants in construction of the Project and environmental protection. In terms of educational background of the respondents, in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College, 2%, 66% and 32% of the respondents respectively have an educational background below the level of secondary specialized school, at the level of secondary specialized school / high school and at and above the level of university; in Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical, 74% of the respondents have an education background of 222 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan secondary specialized school / senior middle school and the remaining 26% are at and above the level of university;in Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics, 7%, 13%, 46% and 34% of the respondents respectively have an educational background below the level of secondary specialized school, at the level of secondary specialized school / senior middle school, at the level of college and at and above the level of university; in Lanzhou University of Arts and Science, the great majority of the respondents are in-school students and teachers in terms of occupation and the respondents have background of secondary and tertiary education and certain level of awareness of environmental protection. In terms of the relation between respondents and the Project, 46%, 4% and 50% of the respondents in Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College live or work at a place located in a distance of less than 1km, 1km to 2km and more than 2km from the project site respectively; 64%, 7% and 29% of the respondents in Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical live or work at a place less than 1km, 1km to 2km and more than 2km away from the project site; in Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics, 54%, 9% and 37% of the respondents live or work at a place less than 1km, 1km to 2km and more than 2km away from the project site; in Lanzhou University of Arts and Science, 99%, 0% and 1% of the respondents live or work at a place less than 1km, 1km to 2km and more than 2km away from the project site. 11.4.4.2 Questionnaire Statistics and Analysis for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Table 11-6Structural Statistics of Consultation Objects for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Category Number of persons Percentage (%) Age Below 18 years old 17 27% 18-50 years old 46 73% Male 29 46% Gender Female 34 54% Han 54 86% Hui 4 6% Ethnic group Tibetan 3 5% Others 2 3% Below secondary 1 2% specialized school Secondary specialized Educational background 42 66% school At and above the level of 20 32% university Student 43 68% Occupation Teacher 20 32% Less than 1km 29 46% Relation with the Project 1k to 2km 3 4% More than 2km 31 50% 223 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table11-7 Statistics of Individual Questionnaire Results for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 27 43% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 33 52% environment? (3) Average 3 5% (4) Zero 0 0% (1) Very good 14 22% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 28 45% condition of the project area? (3) Average 19 30% (4) Poor 2 3% (1) Air pollution 29 46% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 11 17.5% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 11 17.5% (4) Solid waste pollution 12 19% (1) Yes 46 73% 4.Do you know about the components of the (2) Not very well 16 25% Project? (3) No 1 2% (1) Yes 58 92% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local 4 6% (2) No economic development? (3) I have no idea. 1 2% (1) Air pollution 13 19% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 6 9% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 10 14% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 13 19% (5) No impact 27 39% 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 5 8% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 29 46% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 29 46% (1) Supportive 63 100% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 0 0% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 61 97% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 2 3% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental 45 72% (1) Yes, I can. impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 16 25% protection measures are taken under the (3) No, I cannot. 2 3% proposed project? Table11-8Statistics of Group questionnaire Results for Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 6 86% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 1 14% environment? (3) Average 0 0% (4) Zero 0 0% 224 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan (1) Very good 1 14% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 3 43% condition of the project area? (3) Average 2 29% (4) Poor 1 14% (1) Air pollution 5 72% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 1 14% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 0 0% (4) Solid waste pollution 1 14% (1) Yes 7 100% 4.Do you know about the components of the (2) Not very well 0 0% Project? (3) No 0 0% (1) Yes 6 86% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local (2) No 0 0% economic development? (3) I have no idea. 1 14% (1) Air pollution 4 58% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 1 14% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 0 0% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 0 0% (5) No impact 2 28% 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 0 0% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 5 71% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 2 29% (1) Supportive 6 86% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 1 14% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 6 86% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 1 14% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental (1) Yes, I can. 3 43% impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 3 43% protection measures are taken under the proposed project? (3) No, I cannot. 1 14% 1）It is known from statistical analysis of the results of individual questionnaires that: ①Environmental conditions of the project area The majority of the respondents participating in the questionnaire survey are concerned about the local environmental quality conditions, with respectively 43%, 52% and 5% being highly concerned, relatively concerned and averagely concerned. 22%, 45% and 30% of the respondents respectively evaluate the local environmental quality as very good, fine and average. Air pollution is deemed as the most serious environmental problem in the project area by 46% of the respondents; water pollution by 17.5%, noise pollution by 17.5% and solid waste pollution by 19%. ②Expectations on the construction project Results of public participation survey indicate that 73% of the public know about the 225 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan components of the Project while the remaining 25% do not. The majority of the respondents think that the Project will benefit local economic development. Regarding the environmental problem that will produce relatively significant impact after the Project is implemented, 19%, 9%, 14% and 19% of the respondents choose air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and solid waste pollution respectively and the remaining 39% choose no impact. 46% of the respondents think that ,thanks to the project implementation, the local environmental problems in the project area will be mitigated and the remaining 46% think no impact will be produced. 8% think it may be worsened: It is known from our return visits that they hold the dust and noises generated from the construction may impact the local environment. We have made detailed interpretations on the preventive measures and management requirements on such problems, and they finally understood and accepted. The public in the neighborhood show a very high support rate towards the Project, with 100% of the respondents supporting the construction of the Project. ③ Comments and suggestions on environmental protection measures Results of public participation survey show that 97% of the public think that the environmental protection measures proposed under the Project are reasonable and the remaining 3% not sure. The majority of the respondents indicated that they can accept the negative environmental impacts of the Project after the environmental protection measures are taken. 2）Statistical analysis of the group questionnaire survey results Totally 7 group questionnaires were issued and 7 recovered. The surveyed groups are Gansu Economic and Trade School, Gansu Bank School, Gansu Commercial School, etc. Supportive to the construction of the Project, the surveyed groups believe that the Project will be able to drive local economic growth. In addition, a brief introduction about the Project and the possible environmental problems was made to the responsible persons of the surveyed groups. Showing sincere concerns about the Project, the surveyed groups, in general, believe that the various problems existing in the construction process of the Project should be well addressed based on the specific circumstances of the project schools so as to assure normal construction of the Project in the true sense. 11.4.4.3 Questionnaire Statistics and Analysis for Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Table 11-9Structural Statistics of Consultation Objects for Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical 226 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Category Number of persons Percentage (%) Below 18 years old 7 8% Age 18-50 years old 76 90% Above 50 years old 2 2% Male 65 76% Gender Female 20 24% Han 80 94% Ethnic group Others 5 6% Secondary specialized 63 74% school Educational background At and above the level of 22 26% university Student 63 74% Occupation Teacher 22 26% Less than 1km 54 64% Relation with the Project 1k to 2km 6 7% More than 2km 25 29% Table 11-10 Statistics of Individual Questionnaire Results for Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 50 59% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 34 40% environment? (3) Average 1 1% (4) Zero 0 0% (1) Very good 11 13% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 34 40% condition of the project area? (3) Average 36 42% (4) Poor 4 5% (1) Air pollution 49 58% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 1 1% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 25 29% (4) Solid waste pollution 10 12% (1) Yes 53 62% 4.Do you know about the components of the (2) Not very well 29 34% Project? (3) No 3 4% (1) Yes 80 94% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local (2) No 0 0% economic development? (3) I have no idea. 5 6% (1) Air pollution 25 23% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 9 8% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 34 32% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 8 8% (5) No impact 31 29% 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 14 17% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 42 49% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 29 34% 227 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan (1) Supportive 81 95% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 4 5% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 76 89% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 9 11% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental (1) Yes, I can. 65 76% impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 20 24% protection measures are taken under the (3) No, I cannot. 0 0% proposed project? It is known from statistical analysis of the results of individual questionnaires that: ①Environmental condition of the project area The majority of the respondents participating in the questionnaire survey are concerned about the local environmental quality conditions, with respectively 59%, 40% and 1% being highly concerned, relatively concerned and averagely concerned. 13%, 40% and 42% of the respondents respectively evaluate the local environmental quality as very good, fine and average. Air pollution is deemed as the most serious environmental problem in the project area by 58% of the respondents; water pollution by 1%, noise pollution by 29% and solid waste pollution by 12%. ②Expectations on the construction project Results of public participation survey indicate that 62% of the public know about the components of the Project while 34% do not. The majority of the respondents think that the Project will benefit local economic development. Regarding the environmental problem that will produce relatively significant impact after the Project is implemented, 23%, 8%, 32% and 8% of the respondents choose air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and solid waste pollution respectively and the remaining 29% choose no impact. 49% of the respondents think that, thanks to the project implementation, the local environmental problems in the project area will be mitigated and the 34% think no impact will be produced. The public in the neighborhood show a very high support rate towards the Project, with 95% of the respondents supporting the construction of the Project. ③Comments and suggestions on environmental protection measures Results of public participation survey show that 89% of the public think that the environmental protection measures proposed under the Project are reasonable and the remaining 11% not sure. The majority of the respondents indicated that they can accept the negative environmental impacts of the Project after the environmental protection measures are 228 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan taken. 11.4.4.4Questionnaire Statistics and Analysis for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Table 11-11Structural Statistics of Consultation Objects for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Category Number of persons Percentage (%) Age 18-50 years old 77 97% Above 50 years old 2 3% Male 53 67% Gender Female 26 33% Han 74 94% Ethnic group Hui 5 6% Others 0 0% Below secondary 8 10% specialized school Secondary specialized school / senior middle 8 10% Educational background school College 36 46% At and above the level of 27 34% university Student 17 22% Teacher 26 33% Occupation Worker 12 15% Others 24 30% Less than 1km 43 54% Relation with the Project 1k to 2km 7 9% More than 2km 29 37% Table 11-12Statistics of Individual Questionnaire Results for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 59 75% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 20 25% environment? (3) Average 0 0% (4) Zero 0 0% (1) Very good 46 58% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 19 24% condition of the project area? (3) Average 14 18% (4) Poor 0 0% (1) Air pollution 29 37% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 15 19% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 21 27% (4) Solid waste pollution 14 17% (1) Yes 65 82% 4.Do you know about the components of the (2) Not very well 14 18% Project? (3) No 0 0% 229 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan (1) Yes 75 95% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local (2) No 0 0% economic development? (3) I have no idea. 4 5% (1) Air pollution 13 16% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 7 9% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 12 15% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 1 1% (5) No impact 46 59% 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 5 6% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 19 24% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 55 70% (1) Supportive 77 97% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 2 3% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 75 95% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 4 5% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental (1) Yes, I can. 77 97% impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 2 3% protection measures are taken under the proposed project? (3) No, I cannot. 0 0% Table 11-13Statistics of Group questionnaire Results for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 4 100% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 0 0% environment? (3) Average 0 0% (4) Zero 0 0% (1) Very good 3 75% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 1 25% condition of the project area? (3) Average 0 0% (4) Poor 0 0% (1) Air pollution 0 0% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 3 75% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 1 25% (4) Solid waste pollution 0 0% (1) Yes 4 100% 4.Do you know about the components of the Project? (2) Not very well 0 0% (3) No 0 0% (1) Yes 4 100% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local (2) No 0 0% economic development? (3) I have no idea. 0 0% (1) Air pollution 0 0% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 0 0% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 0 0% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 0 0% (5) No impact 4 100% 230 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 0 0% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 1 25% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 3 75% (1) Supportive 4 100% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 0 0% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 4 100% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 0 0% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental (1) Yes, I can. 4 100% impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 0 0% protection measures are taken under the (3) No, I cannot. 0 0% proposed project? 1）It is known from statistical analysis of the results of individual questionnaires that: ①Environmental condition of the project area The majority of the respondents participating in the questionnaire survey are concerned about the local environmental quality conditions, with respectively 75% and 25% being highly concerned and relatively concerned. 58%, 24% and 18% of the respondents respectively evaluate the local environmental quality as very good, fine and average. Air pollution is deemed as the most serious environmental problem in the project area by 37% of the respondents; water pollution by 19%, noise pollution by 27% and solid waste pollution by 17%. ②Expectations on the construction project Results of public participation survey indicate that 82% of the public know about the components of the Project while 18% do not. The majority of the respondents think that the Project will benefit local economic development. Regarding the environmental problem that will produce relatively significant impact after the Project is implemented, 16%, 9%, 15% and 1% of the respondents choose air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and solid waste pollution respectively and the remaining 59% choose no impact. 24% of the respondents think that, thanks to the project implementation, the local environmental problems in the project area will be mitigated and 70% think no impact will be produced. The public in the neighborhood show a very high support rate towards the Project, with 97% of the respondents supporting the construction of the Project. ③Comments and suggestions on environmental protection measures Results of public participation survey show that 95% of the public think that the environmental protection measures proposed under the Project are reasonable and the remaining 5% not sure. The majority of the respondents indicated that they can accept the 231 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan negative environmental impacts of the Project after the environmental protection measures are taken. 2）Statistical analysis of the group questionnaire survey results Totally 4 group questionnaires were issued and 4 recovered. The surveyed groups are the China Unicom, TianshuiQinzhou District Taxation Bureau, Jiahui Supermarket and Xishili Community Office. Supportive to the construction of the Project, the surveyed groups believe that the Project will be able to drive local economic growth. 11.4.4.5Questionnaire Statistics and Analysis for Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Table 11-14Structural Statistics of Consultation Objects for Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Category Number of persons Percentage (%) Age Below 18 years old 63 94% 18-50 years old 4 6% Male 1 1% Gender Female 66 99% Han 64 97% Ethnic group Hui 1 1% Others 2 2% Secondary specialized 65 97% school Educational background At and above the level of 2 3% university Student 65 97% Occupation Teacher 2 3% Less than 1km 66 99% Relation with the Project 1k to 2km 0 0% More than 2km 1 1% Table 11-15Statistics of Individual Questionnaire Results for Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Number of Questions Answers Percentage persons (1) Very high 67 100% 1. What’s your level of concern about local (2) Relatively high 0 0% environment? (3) Average 0 0% (4) Zero 0 0% (1) Very good 26 39% 2.How do you evaluate the environmental (2) Fine 0 0% condition of the project area? (3) Average 41 61% (4) Poor 0 0% (1) Air pollution 66 99% 3.What do you think is the most serious (2) Water pollution 0 0% environmental problem in the project area? (3) Noise pollution 0 0% (4) Solid waste pollution 1 1% 232 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan (1) Yes 65 98% 4.Do you know about the components of the (2) Not very well 0 0% Project? (3) No 2 2% (1) Yes 66 99% 5.Do you think the project will benefit local economic development? (2) No 1 1% (3) I have no idea. 0 0% (1) Air pollution 0 0% 6.What do you think is the environmental (2) Water pollution 0 0% problem that will produce significant impact on (3) Noise pollution 41 61% yourself after the Project is implemented? (4) Solid waste pollution 0 0% (5) No impact 26 39% 7.What impacts will the project implementation (1) Aggravated 0 0% produce on the environmental problems that you (2) Mitigated 25 37% are not satisfied with in the project area? (3) No impact 42 63% (1) Supportive 67 100% 8.What’s your general attitude toward the (2) I don’t care. 0 0% Project? (3) Not supportive 0 0% 9.Do you think the environmental protection (1) Reasonable 67 100% measures proposed under the Project are (2) Not sure 0 0% reasonable? (3) Unreasonable 0 0% 10. Can you accept the negative environmental (1) Yes, I can. 67 100% impacts of the Project after the environmental (2) I am not sure. 0 0% protection measures are taken under the (3) No, I cannot. 0 0% proposed project? It is known from statistical analysis of the results of individual questionnaires that: ①Environmental condition of the project area 100% of the respondents participating in the questionnaire survey are very highly concerned about the local environmental quality conditions. 39% of the respondents evaluate the local environmental quality as very good while the remaining 61% as average. Air pollution is deemed by 99% of the respondents as the most serious environmental problem in the project area, with the remaining 1% choosing solid waste pollution. ②Expectations on the construction project Results of public participation survey indicate that 98% of the public know about the components of the Project while 2% do not. The majority of the respondents think that the Project will benefit local economic development. Regarding the environmental problem that will produce relatively significant impact after the Project is implemented, 61% of the respondents choose air pollution and the remaining 39% choose no impact. 37% of the respondents think that, thanks to the project implementation, the local environmental problems in the project area will be mitigated and 63% think no impact will be produced. The public in the neighborhood show a very high support rate towards the Project, with 100% of the respondents supporting the construction of the Project. ③Comments and suggestions on environmental protection measures 233 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Results of public participation survey show that 100% of the public think that the environmental protection measures proposed under the Project are reasonable. All the respondents indicated that they can accept the negative environmental impacts of the Project after the environmental protection measures are taken. 11.5 Information Disclosure and Feedbacks 11.5.1 1st Information Disclosure (On-site Information Disclosure) On-site information disclosure was carried out during the 1st public participation survey mainly through posting printed materials at project school gates and in the adjacency of sensitive protection objects affected by the project, such as residential areas, hospitals and schools. The disclosed information mainly includes the construction sites and construction works of the Project, initial conclusions on the environmental impacts in the construction period and operation period as well as their mitigation measures and the contact information of the implementation agency and EIA agencies and feedback channels. See Table 11-16 for details of information disclosure. Figure 11-1 Schematic Diagram of the 1st Public Announcement 234 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 235 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 11-16 List of 1st Information Disclosure Project Location Photo School Residential area adjacent to GFTVC new campus Bulletin board of Gansu Art Design School Gansu Finance and Trade Bulletin Board Vocational of Gansu College Economic and (GFTVC) Trade School Bulletin Board of Gansu Industrial and Commercial School Gansu Economic School 236 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Location Photo School Gansu Commercial School Bank School Gate of Gansu Finance and Trade Professional College Dormitory Building 237 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Location Photo School Construction site of New Campus Bulletin Board of Gansu Senior Technical School of Chemical Industry Gansu Main gate of Vocational Gansu College of Construction Energy and Material Chemical Industry (GVCEC) School Residential building in the neighborhood Gansu Coal Industry School 238 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Location Photo School Residential area in the neighborhood Lanzhou Electronics Industry School Gate of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Industry Dormitory Building 239 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Location Photo School North Campus Gansu Senior Technical South Campus School of Mechanics Residential building in the neighborhoo d School Gate Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Hallway of Gansu Art School 240 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project Location Photo School Residential area in the neighborhoo d 241 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11.5.2 2nd Information Disclosure (Full Document Disclosure) The full document of the Environmental Management Plan was disclosed on websites, public announcements and printed documents available at the Project Management Office after the first draft of the EMP was completed and reviewed by and then revised based on the comments made by the World Bank Safeguard Mission. The main contents disclosed are: 1�Project Introduction and key EIA conclusions; 2�Notice of Invitation to Public Participation; 3�Download link of the full document of the Environmental and Social Management Plan of World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project (Chinese version); 4�Contact information, including the contact person, telephone number, email of the implementation agency and the EIA agency. Websites of information disclosure are shown in Table 11-17 and 11-18 as follows: Table 11-17 2nd Information Disclosure on Websites Name of Disclosure SN Website Webpage Printscreen of Disclosed Information website Time Gansu http://www.gs Departmen edu.gov.cn/A Aug. 24, 1 t of rticle/Article_ 2016 Education 36341.aspx Gansu Vocational http://www.gs College of nyedu.cn/htm Aug. 18, 2 Energy l/news/gongg 2016 and ao/565.html Chemical 242 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan https://www.g snh.edu.cn/In Dec. 18, fo/1/17463/in 2020 dex.aspx http://www.gs cmxy.com/in dex.php?_m= Aug. 16, mod_article& 2016 _a=article_co ntent&article _id=458 Gansu Finance 3 and Trade Vocational College https://www.g scmxy.edu.cn Dec. 24, /shjggg/1351. 2020 jhtml Lanzhou University http://news.lu Aug. 15, 4 of Arts as.edu.cn/new 2016 and s/7986.html Science 243 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Gansu Institute of http://www.gs Mechanica jdxy.com/Arti 5 l& 2016.8.18 cle/tzgg/2016 Electrical 08/5221.html Engineerin g 244 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Figure 11-2 Schematic Diagram of 2nd Public Announcement 245 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 11-18 Public Announcement Posted in the 2nd Information Disclosure Project School Location Photo School Gate Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Affected school buildings 246 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project School Location Photo Residential area in the neighborhood 247 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project School Location Photo Hospital in the neighborhood Residential area in the neighborhood Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational School Gate College 248 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project School Location Photo School Bulletin Board School bulletin board Residential area in the neighborhood Lanzhou University School Gate of Arts and Science 249 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project School Location Photo Gate of school library Main gate of teaching building Main gate to staff residential area Gate of residential area in the neighborhood 250 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Project School Location Photo School Gate Gansu Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering School bulletin board 251 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11.5.3 Summary of Public Participation Opinions and Feedbacks In the EIA process of the Project, 2 rounds of information disclosure and public participation activities were carried out. In the early stage of public participation survey, opinions and requests of the school stakeholders were collected and environmental mitigation measures (as described in detail in Section 7) were developed for the project schools based on their specific circumstances. Public opinions were incorporated into the ESMP and detailed requirements on management of construction noise, construction dust and construction sites and operation of construction vehicles. The first draft of ESMP was finalized and disclosed in full document and public feedbacks and opinions were further collected and incorporated for the final revision and improvement of ESMP. Table 11-19 describes in detail the public feedbacks as well as ESMP responses involved in this public participation process. 252 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Table 11-19 Summary of Public Participation Opinions and Feedbacks Name of Public opinions and suggestions EMSP responses to public opinions schools 1) If not properly managed, the construction 1) One centralized construction camp should be set up at the northeastern corner of the campus used vehicles will cause impacts on safety of for construction of Buildings No. 30, 31, 32 and 33. The construction camp and the three teachers and students in campus. Therefore, construction sites should be separated from the surrounding dormitory buildings with closeable the construction vehicles should be fences. Another centralized construction camp should be set up in an unoccupied area in the middle required to use the east gate and the entire east of the campus for construction of Building No. 4 and No. 24. A fully closed management system construction site should be fully closed and will be adopted for the construction sites. separated from the teaching and living areas 2) Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. to assure normal order of teaching and daily Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory buildings and practical life activities. training buildings without due authorization while non-constructional personnel should not be 2) Construction activities adjacent to student allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. dormitories will affect resting of students. 3) Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student dormitories, Therefore, construction at noon and at night in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should be assigned to should be suspended and sound insulation manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from and not to stick around walls should be constructed to the west of the construction sites. the Practical Training Building to separate 4) Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 it from the existing buildings and minimize the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. impacts of construction noises. 5) Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. GVCEC 3) Through adequate discussion and 6) The construction site of Practical Training Building No. 4 is located very close to Practical Training communication, the meeting participants Building No. 3 and the noise standard is exceeded by 10.46dB(A). In order to assure effective noise believe that the WB loan construction reduction, sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) should be project is a significant affair for promoting provided around the construction site and sound insulation windows should be installed to avoid the development of the project school and impacts from construction noise and assure that the sound environment in the Practical Training they understand and support the project. Building complies with the standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 4) Air pollution, dust, construction waste and 5m in height and should fully surround the western and northern sides of the building to be domestic waste may be generated during constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under the construction, which requires regular construction. water sprinkling to reduce air pollution. 7) Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes Construction waste and domestic waste and should not travel in campus without due authorization. should be sorted and cleaned up in time. 8) Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and pedestrians on 5) Do not destroy the plants around the the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. construction site during the construction. 9) No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 6) Due to the large flow of people in the school, 10) Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours pay attention to the safety of construction with minimal pedestrians on road. workers, teachers and students in the school 11) Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should 253 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan during the construction. be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 12) The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 13) Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 14) It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. 15) It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 1) A centralized construction camp should be set up in the southeastern corner of the campus for construction of school buildings. Closeable fences are required to separate it from the construction area. 2) The construction site in Area C of Dormitory Building No. 22 should be fenced up. A temporary gate should be opened on the east side of the site near the road for construction workers and vehicles to pass through under closed-off management. Anti-falling frames should be set up above the road on the west side of the site to prevent falling objects from harming people. 1) The construction activities in the 3) Special personnel should be assigned to carry out tour inspections around the construction area. construction period should be scheduled in Construction workers should not be allowed to enter the student dormitory buildings and such a way that construction in the resting practical training buildings without due authorization while non-constructional personnel periods of students and teachers and at should not be allowed to enter the construction area without due authorization. night is avoided. 4) Stronger efforts should be made in inspection in the construction sites around student 2) The construction area and the teacher and dormitories, in particular in the breakfast, lunch and supper hours, and special personnel should student activity areas should be clearly be assigned to manage students in this area. Students should be instructed to stay away from identified and separated if possible. GFTVC and not to stick around the construction sites. 3) Construction workers should wear working 5) Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – clothes and badges and site access should 07:00 the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. be strictly controlled; 6) Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 4) Vehicles entering and leaving the site should obey directions and serious attention 7) Vehicles should enter and leave the campus via the East Gate and travel along designated routes should be paid to traffic safety; and should not travel in campus without due authorization. 5) Actions should be properly implemented to 8) Transportation vehicles on campus should follow the guide by special personnel and address dust pollution. pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. 9) No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 10) Transportation of construction materials and construction debris should occur during class hours with minimal pedestrians on road. 11) Due to campus environment restrictions, it is necessary to provide a special road on the construction site of Building No. 18 as a construction transportation access road connecting the East Gate. Therefore, a reasonable route planning is needed and it is recommended that fences are installed to separate pedestrian from traffic. 254 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 12) Based on the layout of the school buildings, it is recommended to close roads adjacent to the construction area on the east side of the campus and arrange all students and faculty to use roads on the west side of the campus. 13) Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in construction camps and night soil should be collected and delivered on a periodical basis to Lanzhou New District Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for treatment. 14) The construction contractors should remove and transport the construction solid wastes in time to places of storage designated by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 15) Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou New District. 16) It is required to strictly implement mitigation measures for sensitive protection targets and traffic safety protection regulations. 17) It is required to strictly implement World Bank's policies on COVID-19 prevention and control. 1) It is recommended that a temporary exit be opened on the side of the construction site on Yanbei Road and the construction site is connected with the school fencing wall to form an independent and closed construction area. All construction plants, vehicles and personnel will enter and leave the construction site via the temporary exit to realize full separation of construction activities from teaching activities, effectively avoid mutual impacts between construction workers, construction 1) It is recommended that the traffic police vehicles and pedestrians and vehicles in campus and minimize impacts on normal teaching activities authority will install video cameras at road on campus and the dense pedestrian flows appearing in the morning, noon and evening peak hours intersections. at the existing gate. 2) Dust should be minimized or dust 2) A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the prevention measures should be taken. Teaching Building, high-noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material 3) Night construction should be reduced to stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located on the northeastern side of the avoid impacts on student resting. construction site far away from the teaching building and practical training rooms. LUAS 4) Actions are needed to safeguard student 3) Protective fences should be provided along roads south of the construction site at the entrance and safety in the construction period. exit of the Practical Training Building to prevent high-altitude falling objects and warning signs 5) The construction areas in campus should be should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick around the respective area and special closed to prevent students from entering the personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak hours to maintain order. construction sites. 4) The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian safety taken into 6) The construction contractors should have account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials are hoisted at high altitude over their staff on site registered and filed at the pedestrians. School Security Department. 5) High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. 6) Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 20dB(A) to the maximum. Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows (with a noise reduction of 10-15dB(A)) are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound 255 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed and be able to move with the floors under construction. 7) Foundation excavation should be carried out manually. 8) Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site and strictly travel along designated routes on site. No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 9) A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. 10) Active efforts should be made to coordinate and negotiate with the traffic police about the need of traffic safety management at the front gate and early installation of video camera surveillance equipment. 11) The construction contractors should have all their staff on site registered and filed at the School Security Department and rent residential houses in the neighborhood as the accommodation of construction workers. 12) Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage should be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Lanzhou Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 13) Construction solid wastes should be declared and reported to Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and a Letter of City Image and Environmental Sanitation Responsibility should be signed. Lanzhou Urban Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau will be responsible for supervising and managing the disposal of all construction solid wastes of the proposed project. 14) Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Lanzhou City. 1) Noise and dust impacts on teaching 1) A reasonable layout plan should be developed for the construction site. Based on the location of the activities should be reduced in the Teaching Building, high-noise equipment including the mixers and cutters, as well as material construction period. stockpiling sites easily generating dusts should be located on the southwestern side of the 2) Stronger efforts should be made in construction site far away from the teaching building, dormitory building and practical training management of construction vehicles to rooms. GVTCM prevent traffic accidents. 2) Protective fences should be provided along roads around the construction sites to prevent high- 3) Management over construction workers altitude falling objects and warning signs should be provided. Pedestrians should be prohibited to should be strengthened. stick around the respective area and special personnel should be assigned during pedestrian peak 4) Protective fences should be provided along hours to maintain order. roads around the construction sites to 3) The tower cranes should be located with the surrounding buildings and pedestrian 256 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan prevent high-altitude falling objects and safety taken into account to prevent safety hazards possibly to arise when materials warning signs should be provided. are hoisted at high altitude over pedestrians. Pedestrians should be prohibited to stick 4) Construction should be avoided in the noon hours of 12:00 – 14:00 and night hours of 22:00 – 07:00 around the respective area and special the next day; High-noise construction activities should be avoided in class hours. personnel should be assigned during 5) Noises generated by the construction activities exceed the standard by 16.48dB(A) to the maximum. pedestrian peak hours to maintain order Sound insulation retaining walls (with a noise reduction of 6-10dB(A)) are recommended around the construction sites and sound insulation windows are installed to effectively avoid impacts of construction noises and assure compliance with the sound environment standard. The sound insulation retaining wall should not be lower than 5m in height and should fully surround the building to be constructed. The sound insulation retaining wall should be able to move with the floors under construction. 6) Low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers should be used. 7) In order to avoid health impacts by construction dust on those exercising on the sport ground, it is recommended that the school should adjust the teaching schedule to avoid teaching activities on the sport ground in the ground excavation stage with high incidence of dusting; double-layer dust screens should be used and water should be sprayed in the other construction periods to minimize dust generation. 8) Special personnel should be assigned to guide construction vehicles entering the construction site via the East Gate and make sure the vehicles strictly follow the designated routes on site. Pedestrians on the road should be diverted to assure traffic safety. 9) No honking is allowed when construction vehicles travel on campus. 10) A reasonable time schedule should be developed for vehicles entering and leaving the campus so that transportation is arranged in class hours with little pedestrian flow and the morning, noon and evening peak hours are avoided. Large transportation vehicles should not be allowed to enter the campus before 20:00. 11) Temporary toilets and septic tanks should be provided in the construction camp and connected to the in-campus sewage pipelines. The construction and domestic sewage will be pre-treated in the septic tanks and then delivered to the school sewage and drainage pipelines and finally to Tianshui Municipal WWTP for compliance treatment. 12) Construction solid wastes must be collected at designated locations and subject to centralized disposal by Tianshui Environmental sanitation Bureau at designated solid wastes landfill sites. 13) Domestic solid wastes in the construction period should be collected at designated site and removed by the environmental sanitation authority of Tianshui City. 257 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 11.6 Conclusions and Recommendations of Public Participation 11.6.1 Conclusions of Public Participation This public participation process enables the EIA agency to collect extensive public information related to the construction of the Project and plays a positive guiding role in coordinating project construction and environmental protection. In addition, the public participation activities also enhanced the public understanding of and supports to the Project and contributed significantly to improvement of project design and promotion of EIA effectiveness, laying a solid foundation for smooth implementation of the Project. It is known from the public participation that the public in the project area and the teachers and students of the project schools are supportive to the Project and believe that the construction of the Project is favorable to the development of local education. （1）Extensive supports from the concerned government authorities and recognition by the public in the project area create a favorable environment for the implementation of the Project. In addition, public participation, in particular participation by the local government authorities, provides an excellent opportunity of integration for the Project and the regional development and the general public. （2）The public wishes that the implementation agency will highly recognize the importance of environmental protection, take specific actions to implement environmental protection and management measures and make all efforts to minimize the environmental impacts of the construction period, safeguard the public benefits and maximize the social benefits of the Project. 11.6.2 Relevant Recommendations Based on the results of the public participation survey, the following recommendations are proposed: In the construction process of the Project, the construction contractors should strictly follow the environmental protection requirements specified in the EMP and properly address the various environmental impacts and problems arising from construction noise, dust, wastewater and solid wastes in the construction period to enable the Project to benefit not only the development of local education sector but also environmental protection and achieve the coordination of project construction and environmental protection. 258 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan 12. Summary 12.1 Project Construction Components The “World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project� involves the construction of project components in four project schools, which, in nature, may be further categorized into “hard activities� aiming at infrastructure construction or equipment procurement and “soft activities� aiming at strengthening the development of TVET system and improving the quality and relevance of TVET delivery in Gansu Province. The “hard activities� mainly include construction of school buildings and procurement of associated equipment for the four project schools. The remaining components constitute the “soft activities�. The component involving environmental management plans is the construction of school buildings in the four project schools, including teaching building, practical training building, student dormitory building and canteen of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical (GVCEC), practical training building, teaching building and student dormitory building of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College (GFTVC), the Art Practice Center of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science (LUAS) and the teaching building and teaching and office building of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics (GSTSM). 12.2 Conclusions of Environmental Analysis of the Project It has been discovered during the identification of the construction components of the Project that the key impacts on environment generated in the school building construction of the four project schools come from the civil works are mainly environmental impacts in the construction period including: （1）Air environment: dust brought by vehicles travelling on construction sites, dust generated by construction materials and earthwork stockpiling, dust generated in concrete and mortar mixing operations, dust generated in the transportation process of earthwork, debris and construction solid wastes, tail gas emitted by construction plants and vehicles in the construction process. Pollutant in the operation period mainly includes canteen cooking fume. （2）Water environment: Water pollution caused by construction wastewater, domestic sewage of construction workers, water permeated from ground pit excavation and wastewater containing machine oil and grease. Domestic sewage is the main pollutant in the operation period. （3）Sound environment: Noise generated by the construction plan and transportation vehicles in the construction period and mechanical operation of power-driven equipment, bulldozers, and excavators will impact the sound environment in the neighborhood of the 259 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan project area. （4）Solid wastes: Solid wastes in the construction period include construction solid wastes (including cement debris, steel, site fencing panels, packaging materials, etc.), domestic solid wastes and wastes generated by wastewater treatment facilities (such as sedimentation tanks). In the operation period, the impact mainly comes from domestic solid wastes. 12.3 Conclusions of Environmental Impact Mitigation Measures To address the adverse impacts generated by the civil works on the air environment, water environment, sound environment and solid wastes, the following prevention and mitigation measures are proposed: （1）Necessary site hardening and water spraying should be conducted for dust suppression; fugitive and fine-particle bulk materials should be stored in an airtight way and covering measures should be taken during loading and unloading and handling operations, with remaining particulate materials after stockpile relocation removed in time; stronger efforts should be made in transportation vehicle management. Vehicles should slow down when approaching the construction sites to reduce dust generation and airtight measures should be taken for the loading space of transportation vehicles engaged in earthwork debris and construction solid wastes transportation. （2）Sedimentation tanks should be constructed on the construction sites for sedimentation of production wastewater and the wastewater after sedimentation may be reused on the construction site or for dust suppression; construction plant and vehicles should not be repaired or washed on construction sites and should be sent to professional repair shops for maintenance to avoid the generation of oil-contaminated wastewater in the construction site; oil or water leaks should be inspected and repaired before the mechanical equipment is put into service. （3）Mechanical equipment generating strong noises should have shock-absorbing foundations or vibration-reducing pedestals and should be wrapped with damping materials; low-noise equipment needs to be used and construction time strictly controlled. The time table should be reasonably arranged to avoid simultaneous operation of multiple large and high-noise mechanical plants on the same construction site and in the same period; the contractors need to have the construction equipment maintained on a periodical basis andkept in the best working condition and at the lowest noise level; the idle facilities on site must be in an inactive or throttle shock-absorbing state; construction and transportation vehicles must slow down and not honk around the construction sites. 260 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （4）Solid wastes generated from construction, demolition and site clearing processes should be subject to classified treatment. Reusable or recyclable materials should be collected, classified and recycled while the remnants removed out of site by a consigned agency; soil contaminated by any oil or grease spillage in the construction process must be immediately removed; obstructions in the drainage ditches should be removed on a periodical basis and all solid wastes generated in the construction activities must be fully removed after the construction activities are completed. 12.4 Conclusions on Environmental Monitoring Plan It is necessary to conduct environmental monitoring in order to properly implement environmental protection in the project implementation area, verify the environmental impact prediction and assessment results, and prevent environmental damages caused by unexpected accidents and develop a detailed implementation plan for the environmental protection measures. Environmental monitoring also provides a scientific basis for the activities of environmental pollution control and environmental management in the operation period of the Project as well as the environmental protection work of the region as a whole. 12.5 Conclusions on Public Participation The stakeholders in the area around the four project schools in general know about, support and have no objections to the implementation of the Project; they believe that the construction of the Project will benefit local economic development and improve quality of local environment and expect that the Project will be implemented as soon as possible according to the respective quality and quantity requirements and the environmental protection activities under the Project will be properly implemented to realize the social, environmental and economic benefits of the Project at the earliest possible date. 12.6 Conclusions on Comprehensive Assessment According to the implementation results of the EMP under the Project, it is believed that the construction of the Project complies with the relevant national and local policies and plans and will drive local economic and social development. With reasonable measures implemented, the environmental impacts of the civil works in the construction period and in the operation period are acceptable. If the “three-simultaneousness� system is strictly enforced and the various environmental protection measures proposed in this EMP are fully implemented by the implementation agency, the Project is feasible from the perspective of environmental protection. Attached Table 1 261 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Civil Works Construction Checklist Serial Number: Contract Number & Description: Name of Project: cc: Construction Stage: Checked by: Date: Implemented? Remarks/ Check Item Recommended Yes No N/A Action 1．Pre-commencement check Has a construction team been employed? Is the construction site fully prepared and construction plant in normal condition? Are temporary pass permits provided for and carried by the construction workers entering and leaving the construction sites? Is the project information disclosed on bulletin boards at and around the construction sites? Are masks, earplugs, arc protective glasses and other construction protective devices prepared? Are the materials in use environment-friendly and nontoxic? Others, please specify: 2．Air pollution control Is water sprayed on construction sites in dry weathers for dust reduction? Are vehicles transporting powdery substances covered and washed before leaving site? Are dusty sites sprayed with water for dust suppression? Are actions taken to assure that water consumption for dust suppression does not affect surface water runoffs or water usage in local communities? Are stockpiling sites of powdery materials covered or sprayed with water for dust reduction? Are cement bags opened at places with proper coverage? Are cargoes properly covered and firmly fastened in transportation? Are impacts of wind direction taken into account upon selection of material stockpiling sites? Are windproof and dust suppression actions considered and taken for stockpiling of construction materials? Do the construction vehicles abide by the speed limit requirements? Are construction vehicles washed before they are allowed to travel on road? Are residual powdery and dusty materials removed and cleaned from site after the material stockpile is removed? Others, please specify: 3．Water pollution control Are drains and gutters dredged regularly? Are domestic sewage of construction workers and wastewater from equipment washing treated by the existing school 262 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Implemented? Remarks/ Check Item Recommended Yes No N/A Action wastewater treatment equipment (and discharged into existing municipal sewers or treated in existing school septic tanks if no municipal sewers are available)? Are the wastewater treatment systems on construction sites (e.g. sedimentation tanks) in normal operation and maintenance? Are plants and equipment washed and cleaned before demobilized from construction sites? Others, please specify: 4．Noise pollution control Are the relevant noise laws and regulations respected during construction? Are effective construction noise permits used for periods of noise prohibition or noise limit? Are noise-generating equipment operations enclosed indoors with door closed? Are low-noise equipment used during construction? Are construction activities implemented within specified working hours to reduce noise pollution? Do contractors provide proper maintenance of construction plants to keep them in optimum work condition and lowest noise level? Are idle facilities on site in shut-down or throttle damping state? Is night construction, if needed, approved by the concerned authority and carried out in approved hours? Others, please specify: 5．Solid waste management Are construction sites kept in a clean and well-organized condition? Are construction wastes, recyclable wastes and ordinary solid wastes stored on site removed and classified on a periodical basis? Are there any oil spills during construction and is the contaminated soil immediately decontaminated? Are all residual solid wastes immediately removed out of the construction sites and properly treated upon project completion? Are domestic solid wastes transported in covered container or trucks to designated solid waste treatment and disposal sites? Is there adequate space on the construction sites for temporary storage of various solid wastes? Others, please specify: 6. Personal health and safety management Are fire-fighting equipment provided for camps, on-site facilities and construction sites? 263 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Implemented? Remarks/ Check Item Recommended Yes No N/A Action Do the machinery operators and vehicle managers have required operation permits? Are the construction camps and sites adequately equipped with fire-fighting devices, hoses and hydrants? Do the construction workers wear masks, earplugs, arc protective glasses and other protective devices when necessary? Others, please specify: 7. Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical Are the construction camps located at the positions designated in the EIA process? Are closed fences provided around the construction sites to isolate the construction areas? Are special personnel designated for routine inspection of construction safety and management of construction staff on the periphery of construction sites? Are vehicles on site travelling according to the requirements and enter and leave the campus via the East Gate? Are low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers adopted? Are actions taken on No. 30, No. 31, No. 32 and No. 33 construction sites to avoid construction in the hours of 12:00 to 14:00 at noon and 22:00 to 07:00 at night? Are actions taken on No. 4 construction site to avoid high- noise construction activities during class hours? Are sound insulation fencing walls provided around No. 4 construction site? Are temporary toilets and septic tanks provided as required and managed according to the EIA requirements? Does the rotation radius of the tower cranes meet the height limits of adjacent buildings and safety requirements for persons beneath? Others, please specify: 8. Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College Are the construction camps located at the positions designated in the EIA process? Are closed fences provided around the construction sites to isolate the construction areas? Are special personnel designated for routine inspection of construction safety and management of construction staff on the periphery of construction sites? Are vehicles on site travelling according to the requirements and enter and leave the campus via the East Gate? Are low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers adopted? Are actions taken on No. 22 construction site to avoid construction in the hours of 12:00 to 14:00 at noon and 22:00 264 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Implemented? Remarks/ Check Item Recommended Yes No N/A Action to 07:00 at night? Are actions taken on No. 21, 18, 19 and 20 construction sites to avoid high-noise construction activities during class hours? Are temporary toilets and septic tanks provided as required and managed according to the EIA requirements? Does the rotation radius of the tower cranes meet the height limits of adjacent buildings and safety requirements for persons beneath? Others, please specify: 9. Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics Are the construction sites arranged according to the EIA requirements? Are special personnel designated for routine inspection of construction safety and management of construction staff on the periphery of construction sites? Are protective fences and warning signs provided against high-altitude falling objects along access roads? Are actions taken to avoid construction in the hours of 12:00 to 14:00 at noon and 22:00 to 07:00 at night and avoid high- noise construction during class hours? Are colored steel sheet sound insulation fences moveable with construction floors provided on the periphery of buildings? Are low-noise pneumatic or spiral pile drivers adopted? Are special personnel designated to guide and assure the construction vehicles to travel according to the respective requirements? Are temporary toilets and septic tanks provided as required and managed according to the EIA requirements? Does the rotation radius of the tower cranes meet the height limits of adjacent buildings and safety requirements for persons beneath? Others, please specify: 10. Lanzhou University of Arts and Science Are the construction sites arranged according to the EIA requirements? Are special personnel designated for routine inspection of construction safety and management of construction staff on the periphery of construction sites? Are protective fences and warning signs provided against high-altitude falling objects along access roads? Are actions taken to avoid high-noise construction activities during class hours? Are colored steel sheet sound insulation fences erected around buildings? 265 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Implemented? Remarks/ Check Item Recommended Yes No N/A Action Is manual excavation method adopted during construction? Are special personnel designated to guide and assure the construction vehicles to travel according to the respective requirements? Are temporary toilets and septic tanks provided as required and managed according to the EIA requirements? Does the rotation radius of the tower cranes meet the height limits of adjacent buildings and safety requirements for persons beneath? Others, please specify: 266 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Attached Table 2 Environmental Protection Rectification Notice Serial Number: Contract Number & Description: Name of Project: cc: Construction Stage: Date: Existing problems identified during site inspection: Cause analysis and improvement actions: EPB recommended rectification (if necessary): Environment inspector: Date: Deadline of rectification: Rectification to be finished within days Accepted by: Date: Review conclusions: Reviewed by: Date: 267 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan Attached Table 3 World Bank Loan Gansu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project Public Consultation Questionnaire I. Project Basic Information Project Name World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project Purpose of Nature of Construction New School Education Construction The “World Bank Loan Gansu TVET Project� involves the construction of project components in four project schools, which, in nature, may be further categorized into “hard activities� aiming at infrastructure construction or equipment procurement and “soft activities� aiming at strengthening the development of TVET system and improving the quality and relevance of TVET delivery in Gansu Province. The “hard activities� mainly include construction of school buildings and procurement of associated equipment for the four project schools. The remaining components constitute the “soft activities�. The component involving EMPs is the construction of Construction Scope school buildings in the four project schools, including teaching building, practical training building, student dormitory building and canteen of Gansu Vocational College of Energy and Chemical involving a total building area of 74295.07m 2, practical training building and student dormitory building of Gansu Finance and Trade Vocational College involving a total building area of 77759.11m 2, the Art Practice Center of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science involving a total building area of 6100m2, and the teaching building and teaching and office room building of Gansu Senior Technical School of Mechanics involving a total building area of 34782m 2. Upon the completion of the Project, impacts will be generated on the environment mainly in the following aspects: 1. Sound environment Upon completion, the Project will mainly be used for teaching and student activities and the noises as generated are noises from social activities with little impacts on residents in the neighborhood. Key environmental 2. Air environment problems arising from Upon completion, the Project will involve canteen fume from some individual schools project construction and little impacts will be produced on the air environment. 3. Water environment Wastewater generated by the Project upon completion will mainly comprise of domestic wastewater generated from teaching activities and student dormitories, which will be collected and delivered via the municipal wastewater pipeline to local WWTP for treatment, with little impacts on water environment. 4. Ecological environment 268 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan The land used for construction of the Project is in-school constructional land and complies with the land use planning, involving substantially no impacts on the ecological environment. 4. Social impacts Construction of the Project will cause certain impacts on teaching activities and the daily life of students and teachers. Upon completion, with teaching as its main function, the Project will facilitate development of local education and promote national quality. 1. Conceptual design The project site selection complies with the school development plan. 2.Engineering measures An independent and integral drainage system is included in the design of the Project, which will be connected with the local municipal sewage pipelines for full wastewater collection and avoiding pollution to water environment. 3. Environmental protection measures Initial Management Wastewater and debris generated in the construction period shall not be dumped Actions randomly; construction in windy and rainy seasons shall be avoided or controlled to a certain scope; and actions such as fencing, covering and water spraying shall be taken to reduce dust pollution to the air environment. The key pollutants of the Project upon completion will be domestic wastewater, which will be collected and delivered via the municipal sewage pipelines to local WWTP for centralized treatment to the required standard before discharge. Domestic solid wastes will be collected for centralized disposal according to the requirements of local environmental protection authority. Therefore, little impacts will be generated on environment. The proposed project meets the requirements of national industrial policy; the project site is reasonably selected; and a series of environmental pollution control measures are taken to meet the requirements of environmental protection. With the environmental protection measures and requirements proposed in this EIA well Initial EIA Conclusion implemented and scientifically managed, the Project, upon completion, will produce no obvious adverse impacts on the surrounding environment and, therefore, from the perspective of environmental protection, the Project is deemed, after analysis and justification, as feasible. 269 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan II. Information of Respondents Name Gender Age Ethnic Education Occupation group background Distance from your residence or office to the project site: Less than 1km□ Relation with the 1 to 2km□ Project More than 2 km□ Others, please specify□ Home address Contact information Note: This table is compulsory. III. Questionnaire Contents (Please tick the appropriate box) (I) Your views about the environmental condition of the project site 1.What’s your level of concern about local environment? （1）□Very high（2）□ Relatively High（3）□ Average（4）□Zero 2.How do you evaluate the environmental condition of the project area? （1）□ Very good（2）□ Fine（3）□ Average（4）□ Poor 3.What do you think is the most serious environmental problem in the project area? （1）□ Air pollution（2）□ Water pollution（3）□ Noise pollution（4）□ Solid waste pollution (II) Your expectations on the construction project 4.Do you know about the components of the Project? （1）□ Yes （2）□ Not very well（3）□ No 5.Do you think the project will benefit local economic development? （1）□ Yes（2）□ No （3）□ I have no idea. 6.What do you think is the environmental problem that will produce significant impact on yourself after the Project is implemented? （1）□ Air pollution（2）□ Water pollution（3）□ Noise pollution 270 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan （4）□ Solid waste pollution（5）□ No impac 7.What impacts will the project implementation produce on the environmental problems that you are not satisfied with in the project area? （1）□ aggravated（2）□ mitigated（3）□ no impact 8.What’s your general attitude toward the Project? （1）□ supportive （2）□ I don’t care （3）□ not supportive (Please explain the reason) Please explain your reason if you are not supportive: （III）Your comments and suggestions about the environmental protection measures 9.Do you think the environmental protection measures proposed under the Project are reasonable? （1）□ Reasonable（2）□ Not sure（3）□ Unreasonable (Please explain the reason) Please explain the reason if unreasonable: 10.Can you accept the negative environmental impacts of the Project after the environmental protection measures are taken under the proposed project? （1）□ Yes, I can.（2）□ I am not sure.（3）□ No, I cannot (Please explain the reason) Please explain the reason if you cannot accept: 11.Do you think any obstacles or problems will arise during the implementation of the environmental protection measures under the Project? What are they? If possible, please provide other comments or suggestions on environmental protection for the Project. Questionnaire survey executive person: Employer: Date of questionnaire distribution: Method of distribution: □ home visits; □ centralized distribution Date of questionnaire recovery: Method of recovery: □ home visits; □ centralized recovery 271 WORLD BANK LOAN GANSU TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT Environmental and Social Management Plan The questionnaire survey executive person assures that no fraudulent behavior is involved in the process of distribution, preparation and recovery of this questionnaire and shall be responsible for the authenticity of information contained therein. Survey executive person (Signature): 272