E4075 v17 Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND Road Asset Management Project EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIALMANAGEMENT PLAN PROJECT: CONSTRUCTION AND OPREATION OF FOUR AXEL LOAD STATIONS. 3- BRUM SITE - HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE December 2014 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Brum Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Brum axel load station is located at the bottleneck points of the national road network to control moving vehicle loads. This should decrease damages to roads, improve roads conditions and increase its lifetime. This sub-project is part of the Road Maintenance Fund (RMF), financed under the Road Asset Management Project (RAMP). This ESMP report complies with the Bank’s Environmental and Social Policies and the Relevant Yemen Regulations. Due to the limited scale of the project and scope of works, the project is classified as category B (according to the WB OP 4.01). Brum axel load station is a small project (estimated cost of civil works is about 240,000 US$) located in a remote vacant area on Mukalla-Aden coastal main road in Hadramout Governorate. The original project site was located in a distance of about 5 km from Brum town and about 32.5 km from Mukalla city towards the west. The site was situated at the edge of wadi discharging to the sea (distance about 2 km) where the coast is proposed to be designated as Marine Protected Area (MPA). Following the recommendations of the Ecological Survey of the project area, the project site was moved by about 2 km West to minimize impacts on the coastal area. First, there are no major wadis near the new site running to the coastal area, as it was the case of the old project site. Second, the topography of the new project site is flat and wider than the originally proposed site and is also surrounded by some volcanic hills. Third, the new site is located about 7km to the south and 4km to the east and northeast to the Marine Protected Area (MPA). Moreover, there are chains of hills that separate the proposed new site from the coastal area. Therefore, no negative environmental or social impacts are anticipated if the mitigation measures that are included in this study are implemented. The project area is largely vacant land where only scattered settlements and low human activities exist. The ESMP document prepared for the new site location identifies and assesses the environmental and social risks and impacts of the project. In addition, the report determines the necessary mitigation measures and summarizes the necessary management and monitoring plans to ensure that impacts are dealt with and mitigation measures are followed during the project activities. The environmental and social review guidelines stipulated in the OP 4.01, impact screening and scoping checklists, and consultations with the PAPs were the main tools used during the preparation of this report. The project triggers also the OP 4.04 on Natural Habitats due to its proximity to the proposed MPA. Construction and implementation of this station may have minor negative short-term environmental and social impacts. The expected long-term positive impacts are very high due to the improved road conditions and long lifetime of roads. Keeping the current situation without axle load control may have many significant irreversible negative impacts on roads and socio-economic issues, such as: • Damages to roads, bridges and culverts. • Damages of vehicles. • Accidents due to difficulty to control overloaded vehicles, articulated type in particular. 1 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Brum Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ An initial evaluation of the potential impacts associated with this project was carried out during screening and scoping phase. No major potential environmental impacts are expected, but only minor impacts associated with solid and liquid waste generation and storage, site preparation, earth works, traffic and safety. The potential negative impacts of attention are: • Generation, temporary storage and disposal of construction waste, and domestic waste from the labor camp. These may cause dust emissions, erosion, littering, damage to soil. • Contamination of soil and groundwater by stored fuel, lubricants, paints, and refueling of vehicles. • Increased level of noise and dust nuisance during the preparation of site, excavation, paving and trucking materials, as heavy machinery will be involved in the construction works. • Damage to the bird habitats and scaring off migratory birds due to elevated construction noise levels. • Safety of labor during the construction phase within the site and around it. The positive impacts of attention during the construction phase are the local employment opportunities, which offer the local community the chance to enhance their income level. The mitigation measures proposed to address the potential negative impacts of the project during the construction phase include: • Storage of fuel and lubricants in sealed containers. • Refueling of diesel and oil should be conducted only on sealed areas to avoid contamination. • Spraying of water during excavation, site preparation and paving works. • Restriction of earthworks during strong wind periods. • Restriction of use of noisy equipment to the daytime business hours. • Planting of trees and bushes around the project site. Environmental and social monitoring plan was prepared to specify monitoring arrangements, frequency and responsibilities. The plan will allow effective monitoring of the contractor’s performance against the environmental and social mitigation measures (see table 2). It is envisaged that the monitoring activities will be carried out by monitoring specialist that will devote about 25% of his time to monitoring compliance of the Brum weigh station with the ESMP. The expected monitoring costs of 4,000 USD will include also vehicle, fuel and camera. The summary ESMP Table 1, (including mitigation and monitoring measures) is presented below. The total cost of mitigation and monitoring measures are estimated to reach 7,000 USD. The team conducted also social consultations with local community through field interviews. The consultations reached 15 interviewees including car drivers, local council representative and the local citizens in the area. All interviewed people near the weigh station site stressed the benefits that will be achieved by the project. 2 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Brum Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table 1: Summary of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) during the construction and operation phases of the Brum axel load station. Monitoring Cost [USD] Mitigation measures Cluster Impacts Responsibilities (mitigation and monitoring) Construction Phase Solid wastes of construction − Regular collection, temporary storage and materials such as plastics and & disposal of generated waste. metals may pollute the − Fuel and liquid wastes from machinery to environment near the site. be stored in sealed tanks to prevent Solid wastes such as debris leakages. are left (after completion of − Refueling and minor repairs should be Waste works) nearby the structures, undertaken in sealed areas. management on the existing habitat − Domestic solid waste should be stored in features. waste skips and regularly transferred and Disposal of oil and fuel and disposed off to a local dumpsite. spare parts on surrounding pasture land. Littering of the area by wind − Planting trees surrounding the site and RMF Land Soil erosion and visual appropriate plants inside. operation resources intrusion. − Restoration of vegetative cover. team under − Rehabilitation of disturbed sites. supervision Included in − Regular inspection of machinery and of RMF operational Noise pollution from the equipment used in construction to ensure headquarters. costs of RMF construction equipment and Air quality machinery. that they are in good working condition. and noise − Noisy construction works should be Dust emission during the restricted to daytime hours (6 am to 6 pm) construction works. − Water spraying for dust control Socio- Generation of local − Provision of work opportunities for the economics employment local community. − Adequate storage, removal and disposal of Coastal liquid and solid wastes. ecosystem, Negative impacts on bird − Restriction of noisy construction activities flora and habitats in the wadi mouth, to daytime hours. fauna especially on migratory birds. − Workers should avoid any interference with natural habitats. − Compliance with General Health, Safety, Accidents of the workers and Environment Regulations. Safety Reduced number of road − Traffic management, speed control, accidents warning signs, etc. Operation Phase − Oil should be stored in sealed containers. RMF Refueling and minor repairs should be operation Generation, storage and undertaken in sealed areas. Included in Waste team under disposal of solid and liquid − Domestic solid waste should be stored in operational management supervision of waste. waste skips and regularly transferred and costs of RMF RMF disposed off to a local dumpsite. headquarters. 3 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Brum Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Land Soil erosion, and visual − Maintaining trees and plants surrounding resources intrusion the site. − Preparation and implementation of safety Safety and Risk of accidents involving plan for spillage or fire of hazardous traffic station staff, visitors and liquid substances. management traffic − Implementation of traffic management, speed control and warning signs. Increased longevity of the − Provision of adequate access roads and road surface, bridges and parking. Socio- culverts. − Strict application of administrative economics Reduced number of car regulations and procedures. accidents. − Re-vegetation and planting trees − Always keep site clean and free from Fauna and Disturbance to vegetation accumulated wastes. Flora and animals − Adequate storage, removal and disposal of liquid and solid wastes. Blockage of surface water − Adequate maintenance of existing surface Hydrology water drainage culverts. drainage 4 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Brum Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table 2: Environmental and Social Monitoring Plan (construction phase) Measurements Frequency Implementati Cost Indicator (incl. methods & equipment) on responsibility − Maintaining a record of solid and liquid waste Continuous: monthly − E&S specialist generation from construction, machinery and of the contract Solid and labor camp. engineer liquid waste − Temporary storage of constriction waste in - RMFIU collection, designated area agreed with the local community. storage and disposal − Storage of domestic waste in containers. - Final disposal of waste in designated area agreed with the local authority. − Site inspection and photographic documentation -Once before - Ditto Land soil of excavation, earthwork and land disturbing commencement erosion and activities. -Once during visual - Photographic documentation of planting and re- construction intrusion vegetation activities -Once after completion − Visual observation and photographic -Once during earth Ditto documentation of equipment induced emissions works. Dust and and dust clouds during excavation activities -Once during asphalt Noise - Site supervision/inspection and documentation to works. Cost of ensure the implementation of noise mitigation -On any complaint. hiring measures monitoring - Site inspection and documentation of community -Once before Ditto specialist activities and complaints nearby site. commencement (25% of time Socio- -Once during input), economic construction vehicle, fuel activities -Once after completion and camera. Follow the chance find procedures. In case of chance finds E&SU Equivalent of -Once during site Ditto USD 4,000 Vegetation - Site inspection and photographic documentation preparation and and animals of excavation and re-planting activities -Once during planting activities -Once before Ditto commencement - Site inspection and photographic documentation -Once during Coastal of intertidal zone. construction ecosystem - Bird counting -Once after completion - After local flooding (if any) - Check conditions of the surface water drainage - Once during Ditto Surface system. construction water Once after rain (if any) drainage Once after completion Accidents − Inspection and photographic documentation Continuous monthly Ditto and injuries - Checking records of injuries and accidents specifying cause and location 5