INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET RESTRUCTURING STAGE Note: This ISDS will be considered effective only upon approval of the project restructuring Report No.: ISDSR8413 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 24-Nov-2014 Date ISDS Approved/Disclosed: 07-Jan-2015 I. BASIC INFORMATION 1. Basic Project Data Country: China Project ID: P116656 Project Name: Zhejiang Qiantang River Basin Small Town Environment Project (P116656) Task Team Guangming Yan Leader(s): Estimated 07-Jun-2010 Estimated 20-Jan-2011 Appraisal Date: Board Date: Managing Unit: GSURR Lending Specific Investment Loan Instrument: Sector: Wastewater Collection and Transportation (55%), Water supply (18%), Sanitation (17%), Solid waste management (9%), Public administra tion- Water, sanitation and flood protection (1%) Theme: City-wide Infrastructure and Service Delivery (53%), Pollution management and environmental health (40%), Environmental policies and institutions (7%) Is this project processed under OP 8.50 (Emergency Recovery) or OP 8.00 (Rapid Response to Crises and No O U Emergencies)? Financing (in USD Million) O Total Project Cost: 215.00 Total Bank Financing: 100.00 o Financing Gap: 0.00 Financing Source Amount Borrower 115.00 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 100.00 Total 215.00 Environmental A - Full Assessment Category: Is this a No Repeater project? 2. Current Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective. The proposed project development objective is to narrow the gap in Page 1 of 12 sustainable urban environmental infrastructure service provisi on between small towns and large urban centers in Zhejiang Province. This will b e achieved by supporting investments in wastewater, water supply, and solid wast e in ten selected small towns located in the Qiantang River Basin. In addition, O U the project intends to enhance the institutional capacity in the selected small towns to manage urban environmental infrastructure in a sustainable manner. Progress towards meeting the PDO would be measured through a variety of indicators to be developed during project preparation including on increased access to s ervices and reduced urban pollution loads, as well as indicators on institutiona 1 sustainability (i.e., operating efficiency rates, cost effectiveness, and cost recovery rates, etc.). Proposed New PDO (from Restructuring Paper) Project Development Objective. The proposed project development objective is to narrow the gap in sustainable urban environmental infrastructure service provisi on between small towns and large urban centers in Zhejiang Province. This will b e achieved by supporting investments in wastewater, water supply, and solid wast e in ten selected small towns located in the Qiantang River Basin. In addition, the project intends to enhance the institutional capacity in the selected small towns to manage urban environmental infrastructure in a sustainable manner. Progress towards meeting the PDO would be measured through a variety of indicators to be developed during project preparation including on increased access to s ervices and reduced urban pollution loads, as well as indicators on institutiona 1 sustainability (i.e., operating efficiency rates, cost effectiveness, and cost recovery rates, etc.). 3. Project Description The original project consists of the following four components. Component 1: Water Supply and Distribution (US$35.64 million, of which the IBRD loan is US $18.99 million). Construction and/or installation of water supply treatment plants and clear water distribution networks to enhance water supply in the sub-urban areas and adjacent towns in: Zhuji City of Shaoxing Municipality and Wucheng District of Jinhua Municipality. Component 2: Wastewater Collection and Treatment (US$158.03 million, of which the IBRD loan is US$68.05 million). Construction and/ or installation of wastewater collection networks and treatment facilities, stormwater collection networks, associated roads, and river embankment rehabilitation works in: Jiande City of Hangzhou Municipality; Qujiang District of Quzhou Municipality; Lanxi City/ Youbu Town of Jinhua Municipalty; Pan'an County/ Jianshan Town of Jinhua Municipality; Pan'an County/ Shenzhe District of Jinhua Municipality; Pan'an County/ Yunshan District of Jinhua Municipality; Tonglu County/ Jiangnan Town of Hangzhou Municipality; and Longyou County/ Chengbei New District of Quzhou Municipality. Component 3: Solid Waste Management (US$20.32 million, of which the IBRD loan is US$10.96 million). Improvements in solid waste management in Jiande City of Hangzhou Municipality through the construction of the Qingshankejiawu landfill in Meicheng Town which will serve five towns and one community of Jiande City; the construction of a tertiary leachate treatment plant; the closure of Page 2 of 12 three existing open dumps; and the provision of solid waste collection vehicles and equipment. Component 4: Institutional Strengthening and Training (IST) (US$2.00 million, IBRD loan). This component consists of: i) provision of technical assistance for project management and O U implementation including advisory and quality control services to the PPMO, PMOs, and PIUs in support of the project's infrastructure investments and on institutional and financial sustainability issues; ii) provision of technical assistance to support the development of strategic master plans and/ or other specific sector studies as the Bank may agree for sustainable environmental infrastructure service provision in small towns; and iii) provision of training and carrying out of study tours to build capacity of the PPMO, PMOs, and PIUs on technical, operational and institutional aspects of sustainable environmental infrastructure service provision in small towns. The proposed changes are to: (a) drop the wastewater subcomponent in Pan'an County/Yunshan District and some activities in Pan'an County/Shenze District; (b) finance new activities in Zhuji City and Qujiang District with Loan proceed savings; (c) update the project cost and financing plan; (d) reallocate Loan proceeds among expenditure categories and revise the disbursement ratios for certain categories; (e) revise the result framework; and (f) amend the legal agreements to incorporate the above changes. 4. Project location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) Located in the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang Province has a total area of 101,800 km2. The Qiantang River, the largest river in Zhejiang Province, starts in Xiuning County of Anhui and passes through Zhejiang Province and then flows to the East China Sea through Hangzhou Bay. Its catchment area in the upstream of Hangzhou Gate is 42,200 km2 and the length of its main stream is 484 km. The project includes eight cities/counties in the Qiantang River Basin: Jiande City, Meichen Town/ Jiande City, YoubuTown/ Lanxi City, Qujiang District, Wucheng Distrcit, Panan County, Longyou County, and Jiangnan Town/ Tonglu County. All projects are located either in the economically less advanced middle or upper part of Qiantang River Basin, such as Quzhou and Jinhua Municipalities, or the less developed counties and towns in the lower part of the Basin, such as Jiande City and Tonglu County in Hangzhou Municipality. Zhuji City is located in the N of Zhejiang and on the S bank of Qingtang River at the middle reach of the river basin. It is 200 km SW of Shanghai and 90 km S of Hangzhou. The city is affiliated to Shaoxing Municipality and covers an area of2,311 km2 with a population of 1.06 M. It consists of 27 townships and sub-districts. Jiande City is located in the W of Zhejiang in the upper-middle reach of the river basin. It is affiliated to Hangzhou Municipality and covers an area of 2,321 km2 with a population of 590,000. Meicheng Town, under the jurisdiction of Jiande, is 240 km SW of Hangzhou. Tonglu County is in the NW of Zhejiang and located in the upper reach of the River. Bordering Zhuji to the E and Jiande City to the NE, the county is affiliated to Hangzhou Municipality and covers an area of 1825 km2 with a population 390,000. Jiangnan Town, located 10km E of Tonglu County, covers an area of 78km2 with a population of 52,000. Quzhou Municipality is located in the W of Zhejiang Province and in the upstream of the Qiantang River. It covers an area of 8,837 km2 with a population of 2.49 M. It consists of one city, two districts and three counties under its jurisdiction. Qujiang, one of the districts of Quzhou Page 3 of 12 Municipality, consists of 2 sub-districts, 10 towns and 9 townships, covering an area of 1,748 km2 with a population of 350,000. Longyou County is located in the mid-west of Zhejiang Province. It is affiliated to Quzhou O U Municipality and covers an area of 1143 km2 with a population of 400,000. The County consists of 6 towns, 7 townships and 2 sub-districts under its jurisdiction. Having been a traditional agricultural county, Longyou is rich in land and forest resources. Jinhua Municipality is located in the central part of Zhejiang, bordering Shaoxing and Hangzhou to the NE. Lanxi City, Wucheng District, and Pan'an County are all affiliated to Jinhua. Lanxi is located at the middle reach of the river basin and is 132km SW of Hangzhou. The city has a population 650,000; Youbu Town, a historic town of Zhejiang, is 18km SW of Lanxi City. Youbu Town covers an area of 63.5km2 with a population of approximately 40,000; Wucheng District covers an area of 1,388 km2 with a population of 590,000. It consists of 9 town, 9 villages and 9 sub- districts under its jurisdiction; Pan'an County has a population 230,000 and covers an area of 1,1 98km2, featuring mountains (altitude>800m) and hills over the county. As part of restructuring, the two new proposed activities are located in the original project city/ district of Zhuji and Qujiang. 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists Feng Ji (GENDR) Songling Yao (GSURR) Ximing Zhang (GWADR) 6. Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) Environmental Assessment Yes OP/BP 4.01 Natural Habitats OP/BP No 4.04 Forests OP/BP 4.36 No Pest Management OP 4.09 No * Physical Cultural Resources Yes OP/BP 4.11 Indigenous Peoples OP/BP No 4.10 Involuntary Resettlement Yes OP/BP 4.12 Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 Yes Projects on International No Waterways OP/BP 7.50 Projects in Disputed Areas No OP/BP 7.60 II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues Page 4 of 12 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the Restructured project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: OP 4.01. Environmental Assessment. The project brings positive environmental benefits and contributes to Zhejiang's strategy of scaling-up environmental infrastructure provision and improving the water quality of the Qiantang River. The project as a whole is substantially positive in environmental terms, with the benefits greatly outweighing the negative impacts. Nevertheless some negative impacts have been identified in the EA process. The principal impacts include: disposal of sludge generated at the WWTPs, leachate and landfill gas impact, outfall impact, and construction spoil disposal etc. OP 4.04 Natural Habitats. OP 4.04 was marked as TBD at the PCN stage as it was not clear whether the project would have any adverse impacts on natural habitats including on a protection area (mainly for Chinese medicine herbs) in Panan County. The EA confirmed that there will be no adverse impacts to natural habitats in the influence area of the project. Though there are impacts at the outfalls, they will be minor on the receiving bodies because i) the four WWTPs are all of small scale and distributed in different cities and counties, and ii) the receiving water bodies generally have high absorption capacities. The outfall impact has been minimized by applying stringent effluent discharge standard and by careful site selection of the outfalls. OP 4.11 Physical Cultural Resources. Four bridges in Youbu Town have been identified as PCRs which are located in the vicinity of the Youbu subproject. The rehabilitation of the Youbu Stream through a combination of river back bank reinforcement, landscaping, and the repaving of two old streets in Youbu Town may temporarily cause adverse impact on the bridges. OP 4.10 Indigenous Peoples. OP4. 10 was marked TBD at the PCN stage. The task team screened for and did not find any minority villages through desk review and two field visits. It further suggested the SA continue screening for the presence of Ethnic Minorities. The SA completed the screening for Ethnic Minorities in the project area and indicated that there is only one ethnic minority village, Gewuta Village in Wucheng District, in the project area. The village consists of six ethnic minority people, constituting 71% of the total population, including She, Miao minorities, etc. However, these minorities are part of mainstream society. They do not have their own language but speak Mandarin. Furthermore, they do not have customary economic, social, or * political institutions separate from the dominant society. It is thus concluded that they do not fall under the definition of Indigenous Peoples as per OP 4.10, and that the policy does not apply to this project. OP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. Resettlement Plans (RPs) have been prepared for all project activities and are acceptable to the Bank. The project will directly impact ten townships in the eight counties. The major resettlement impacts include: (i) 99 ha collective land will be permanently acquired, from 596 households with 2014 persons; (ii) 82 ha land will be temporarily occupied, including 34 ha of collective land from which 711 households with 2642 persons derive a portion of their income; (iii) 183 households with 650 persons will have their houses demolished. OP/BP 4.37. Safety of Dams. The project does not finance the construction of dams, but some of the water supply systems to be constructed would draw directly from reservoirs controlled by existing dams. Specifically, there are two existing upstream dams which provide water sources for the water supply sub-projects: (i) Xinfan Dam in Wucheng District, Jinhua City and (ii) Qingshan Page 5 of 12 Dam in Zhuji City. The Bank's dam safety expert has visited the two dams and reviewed the documents concerning safety of dams. Xinfan Dam is operationally safe; Qingshan Dam, whose remedial works have been properly completed end of 2009, is also operationally safe. An Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP) for both dams exist and are acceptable. During project implementation the O&M and safety status will be monitored. The Chinese Government has issued a series of guidelines and regulations for dam safety Management, including the Reservoir Dam Safety Management Regulation, Regulations on Reservoir Dam Safety Review, Guidelines for Dam Safety Review, Guidelines for Emergency Preparedness Plan, and Guidelines for Operation, Maintenance and Surveillance of Dams. The Bank task team will include a dam safety expert, with terms of reference based on requirements of OP4.37, to monitor the dam safety status and supervise the implementation of any remedial works to ensure the project being implemented in compliance with the Bank Dam Safety Policy. Restructuring: Two new investments were proposed during restructuring. One new proposed investment in Zhuji City will mainly include the expansion of 48.6 km complementary distribution pipelines, in the same project areas. No major changes in the focus of the original project are anticipated, just a scaling-up of activities to enhance the impact and development effectiveness. There is no new environmental issue. With respect to the second new investment in Qujiang District, two roads (Jiangbindong Road and Guifangbei Road) with total lengthen of 2.3km and the associated pipelines will be constructed including 4.4k m storm water pipes, 2.3km water supply pipes and 2.9km sewer networks connecting to the wastewater treatment facility financed under the original project. The key environmental issues include mainly construction related impacts, and traffic noise and road safety issues during operation phase. These impacts are limited, and site specific and can be readily managed by good construction practice and design, and the specific measures proposed in the EMP. The above proposed new investment does not pose a substantial change in the overall project safeguards risks nor in the original environmental categorization (Category A). The two proposed activities both have resettlement related impacts. The Zhuji city water supply subcomponent will require temporary use of 365mu land to accommodate the installation of distribution of pipelines. For the construction of two roads and associated pipelines, 99 mu of farmland will be permanently acquired. A total of 230 persons from 55 households in three villages have been affected by land acquisition. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: The investments in the urban environment in the cities/ counties/ towns supported by the project will improve the public health, visual impact, and are also expected to have a positive impact on property values in these areas. No adverse long term social impacts are anticipated. The restructuring activities have the similar impacts as the original project components. 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. Alternatives were considered for water treatment and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, and landfill components during the Feasibility Study and EA preparation process, Page 6 of 12 including site selection, treatment technology, sludge disposal, and outfall selection. The objective of the alternative analysis was to minimize the environmental impacts and project costs. Furthermore, minimizing land acquisition and resettlement was also a critical project design O consideration. The main relevant measures taken include: i) reducing size of land occupied and number of households to be relocated through an alternative analysis of project location and technical designs; and ii) preferring unused land or land with poor quality. 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. The implementation arrangements at the Provincial level are the same as those for the existing Zhejiang Urban Environmental Project. The PPMO, under the Provincial Construction Bureau, will be responsible for project preparation and implementation. It is the same PPMO which is in charge of the ongoing Zhejiang Urban Environment Project. The PPMO has satisfactorily prepared and been implementing the Zhejiang Urban Environment Project. Its capacity to oversee and ensure safeguards compliance during project preparation and implementation is deemed adequate. Corresponding project city/ county level PMOs have been established to manage project preparation and implementation of the sub-components. Environmental Safeguards The borrower has engaged EA consultants to prepare the EA reports for all project components, which satisfy the Bank's requirements for OP.4.01 and Chinese EA regulations. The EA & EMP specifies appropriate mitigation measures, environmental monitoring plans, institutional arrangements, training and equipment requirements together with budget estimates for implementation of the mitigation measures and monitoring plans. The main mitigation measures are described below. Sludge and other solid waste from wastewater treatment plants will be sent to nearby landfills for disposal. The outfall impacts will be minimized (i) by site selection of outfall to avoid sensitive receptors; and (ii) by applying more stringent discharge standard (Class 1A). For the new sanitary landfill, groundwater pollution will be minimized by the installation of an impermeable membrane liner, and a leachate collection and treatment facility. Landfill gas will be collected and flared in short term, and to utilize the landfill gas in long term when there is adequate gas generation at the * landfill. Most of the construction spoils will be re-used on site, and spoil disposal plans prepared for each project component where excess spoil will be generated. To avoid any adverse impact on the four old bridges during construction, mitigation measures in line with Bank policy and the national regulatory and legal framework concerning cultural heritage have been agreed on with the concerned parties. The local PMOs will engage qualified and experienced contractors, who will minimize vibration, dust, noise, solid and water pollution, avoid night-time construction, minimize traffic in sensitive area, and develop temporary traffic plans to detour traffic around construction sites. Chance finds procedures are also included as a mitigation measure. Implementation of the Ongoing Project: Environmental progress report for the ongoing project has been prepared by the PMO regularly. Both the progress report and regular Bank mission confirm that safeguards-related activities are being satisfactorily implemented and that there are no significant outstanding environmental safeguard implementation issues. Page 7 of 12 Restructuring: The new proposed activities are still under management by the existing Zhuji and Qujiang PMOs. The original EMP for Zhuji City is still adequate for Zhuji's new proposed investment, i.e. water supply network in the same project area, which was covered by the original EA. There is no new environmental issue. With respect to the second new investment in Qujiang District, a supplemental EMP for the newly added investment has been prepared. Specific measures have been proposed in the supplemental EMP, including measures for construction impacts, and mitigation measures (e.g. traffic noise, road safety), for operation phase. Social Safeguards Livelihood development. Land acquisition impact is very limited in the affected villages with, on average, only 2.14 % farmland taken. The key measures for livelihood development include cash compensation, social security, and training, given land redistribution within villages is not possible. The affected farmers who will lose land will be provided with two options: a package of cash compensation, living subsidies/ pension arrangement and free job training, or cash compensation plus training. Those who temporarily lose land will receive periodic rent support during land occupation and may repossess their land af ter construction. For the two new proposed activities under the restructuring, livelihood development was developed in the two individual RPs, following the same strategies as the original project in the RPF. Household development. All 183 households under the six subprojects are in rural areas, and they are to be separately provided cash compensation, cash compensation plus residential plot, or cash compensation plus the right to purchase replaced house for resettlers. The resettlement planning concluded that the proposed cash compensation can meet the requirement of housing restoration. In addition, all relocated households also have the right to receive moving subsidies and transition allowances. Vulnerable households have been identified and will be provided with extra financial and physical assistance in their house rehabilitation. About 20 households need housing restoration, the prepared RP determined two ways in terms of cash compensation plus replacement house, and cash compensation. Other measures such as resettlement assistance, training, capacity building, and grievance redress are also explored based on meaningful consultation with the affected people, village committees and local governments and will be implemented by responsible agencies defined in the new RP. Linked activities. Linked activities not financed by the Bank were identified during project preparation. Five activities were identified as linked to the project, among which two activities had completed resettlement related assignments within two years prior to identification mission and the other three ones will implement resettlement assignments during project implementation. The already implemented resettlement under the two previous activities were reviewed by the social team and are reflected in the Annex 3 of the RP, the oncoming resettlement for the three ones will be planned and implemented according to the RPF. The new proposed activities under the restructuring have no any linked activities identified. Management and monitoring. The PPMO will lead and coordinate the resettlement implementation, and the specific activities of resettlement and land acquisition will be handled by county/ district PMOs. The RAPs have developed management systems for the project resettlement implementation, through provincial level to subproject project office at county level, including organizations and their responsibilities, personnel, and financial resources and training arrangements, etc. The consolidated RAP has listed resettlement staff in each city project Page 8 of 12 management office. The consolidated RAP has determined monitoring indicators and reporting systems for internal and external monitoring. The two new proposed activities under the restructuring will be integrated into the existing monitoring system. O Other social issues. The SA provided extensive recommendations on project planning and design, as well as resettlement, which were incorporated into the project planning and design. The recommendations mainly relate to: i) attitudes of various stakeholders to the project; ii) technical and/or institutional capacity of local government and relevant authorities/agencies; iii) social risk analysis and mitigation measures in project preparation, implementation and operation stages; iv) identification of vulnerable people; v) affordability of water and waste water tariff and solid waste fee; vi) willingness to pay. Resettlement Planning for the New Proposed Activities. Two individual RPs were prepared with assistance from Hohai University and submitted to the Bank. The TT social member provided suggestions, guidance and review comments, and found they are complaint with OP 4.12. The RPs were disclosed locally and in the Infoshop. Zhuji: A RP was drafted in line with the RPF and by the PMO with assistance from Hohai University. The main measure is to compensate in cash in the occupation period in line with the municipal land regulation, given the impact is temporary and partial, and the total cost is about 3.57 million yuan. The RP was disclosed locally on Aug 28, 2014 and in InfoShop on Oct 9, 2014. Zhuji Government agreed to implement and monitor the RP as usual and the project external monitor will cover the component resettlement. Qujiang: The RP was prepared according to the RPF with assistance from Hohai University. Compensation for land is based on national land regulation and provincial land plot price and for house is based on replacement price for structure. Livelihood restoration for those who lost land mainly relies on cash compensation, training, and social security program, while housing restoration is in two ways of combination of cash compensation plus replacement house, and cash compensation. Other measures such as resettlement assistance, training, capacity building, and grievance redress are also explored based on meaningful consultation with the affected people, village committees and local governments and will be implemented by responsible agencies defined in the RP. The RP for Qujiang was disclosed locally on Sept 23, 2014, and in InfoShop on October 9, 2014. Evaluation on the Ongoing Project. Progress: The original RPs are being smoothly implemented and the regular Bank supervision missions found the resettlement implementation satisfactory. Till End of March 2014, the project has completed: (i) permanent land acquisition of 938 mu, which is 63% of planned acquisitions; (ii) temporary land acquisitions of 1,243 mu, which is 101% of planned; (iii) house demolitions of 21,697 m2, which is 43% of planned demolitions; and (iv) new house restoration of 73 households, which is 40% of planned house restoration. Based on the original Resettlement Plan (RP), the remaining resettlement to be completed is only in three out of the eleven subprojects, namely, Jiande landfill; Jiande Chengdong WWTP; and Longyou County. Monitoring: The completed resettlement has generally been implemented satisfactorily by PMO, and has been monitored by independent resettlement monitor from Hohai University. The semi- annual progress reports and regular external resettlement monitoring reports stated that the resettlement impacts were fully investigated, disclosed, transparently compensated in line with the Page 9 of 12 RPs, and that the affected people were consulted and generally satisfied with the compensation and resettlement. The task team was able to confirm the above findings during field visits, and is satisfied with the resettlement implementation completed to date. O Grievance redress: in the resettlement implementation, transparent and effective grievance redress system was established and executed to let the affected persons aware of and use the channel. There is no any pending complaint so far. One dropped subcomponent, Yunshan wastewater sub-component using domestic financing, is still and will be continuously under the supervision and monitoring. 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. Environmental Safeguards In accordance with the World Bank Safeguard policies and Chinese regulation, public consultations have been conducted during the environmental assessment, including public consultation meetings, and a questionnaire survey on project affected people and other stakeholders to discuss project and their concerns. Their opinions and concerns have been taken into account in the EA process and project design. The EA&EMPs were locally disclosed in April 2010 through announcements published in the local newspaper and on the internet websites of local cities and counties. The safeguard documents were also disclosed at the Bank's InfoShop. With respect to the restructuring, the supplemental EMP for Qujiang City was locally disclosed at the local government website (http://qj.qz.gov.cn) on September 23, 2014 with an announcement published in the Qujiang daily newspaper on October 28, 2014. The EMP was disclosed at the InfoShop on November 12, 2014. O Social Safeguards Consultation and participation. Resettlement consultation was conducted throughout the project areas in more than 20 villages of ten townships, including local authorities and design institutes, through meetings, focus group discussions, questionnaire surveys, and asset investigation. All the stakeholders of the project including government, villagers, designers were involved in the selection of the locations of plants/ pump stations as well as realignment of various pipes, to mitigate resettlement impacts, and to develop rehabilitation measures. The consolidated RAP report includes a set of tables which show the consultation issues, process and outputs and a plan for consultation in next stage. The new prepared RPs under the restructuring are also based on extensive consultation along the project lines and at related villages. Vulnerable households. The social assessment identified five vulnerable households in the project areas and accordingly provided for supplementary measures in addition to common resettlement measures, including house provision, as well as life subsidies or employment. Gender. The resettlement planning paid attention to women who are affected by the project and developed specific measures to: i) integrate women into the project consultation and participation process; ii) ensure that compensation contract for households be signed by both spouses together Page 10 of 12 when applicable; iii) prioritize women for training courses provided by local governments to enhance their potential of earning additional income; iv) award prioritize when appropriate employment to women. O Q) Information disclosure. Before project appraisal all the resettlement documents were disclosed locally in May 2010, with announcements in local newspapers, and in the InfoShop. They were also available on relevant websites and in PMO offices for public information during the project implementation. Restructuring: The two RPs under the restructuring were disclosed locally on Aug 28, 2014 and Sept 23, 2014 separately and in InfoShop on Oct 9, 2014. B. Disclosure Requirements Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other Date of receipt by the Bank 30-Oct-2014 Date of submission to InfoShop 12-Nov-2014 For category A projects, date of distributing the Executive Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors "In country" Disclosure China 23-Sep-2014 Comments: Resettlement Action Plan/Framework/Policy Process Date of receipt by the Bank 01-Sep-2014 Date of submission to InfoShop 09-Oct-2014 "In country" Disclosure China 23-Sep-2014 Comments: If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Physical Cultural Resources policies, the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental Assessment/ Audit/or EMP. If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why: C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level OP/BP/GP 4.01 - Environment Assessment Does the project require a stand-alone EA (including EMP) Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] report? If yes, then did the Regional Environment Unit or Practice Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] Manager (PM) review and approve the EA report? Are the cost and the accountabilities for the EMP incorporated Yes [X] No [ ] NA [ ] in the credit/loan? OP/BP 4.11 - Physical Cultural Resources Does the EA include adequate measures related to cultural Yes[X] No[ ] NA [ ] property? Page 11 of 12 Does the credit/10an incorporate mechanisms to mitigate the Yes [ X] No [ ] NA[] potential adverse impacts on cultural property? OP/BP 4.12 - Involuntary Resettlement Has a resettlement plan/abbreviated plan/policy framework/ Yes [X] No [ ] NA [ ] process framework (as appropriate) been prepared? If yes, then did the Regional unit responsible for safeguards or Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] Practice Manager review the plan? OP/BP 4.37 - Safety of Dams Have dam safety plans been prepared? Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ X ] Have the TORs as well as composition for the independent Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ X ] Panel of Experts (POE) been reviewed and approved by the Bank? Has an Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP) been prepared and Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] arrangements been made for public awareness and training? The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the Yes [X] No [ ] NA [ ] World Bank's Infoshop? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups and local NGOs? All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included Yes [X] No [ ] NA [ ] in the project cost? O Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed Yes [ X] No [ ] NA [ ] with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? III. APPROVALS Task Team Leader(s): Guangming Yan Approved By Regional Safeguards Name: Peter Leonard (RSA) Date: 07-Jan-2015 Coordinator: Practice Manager/ Name: Date: Manager: Page 12 of 12