Report No. 23790 Report No: I074121 <--Please check for duplicates! Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Initial) Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 03/04/2002 Section I - Basic Information A. Basic Project Data Country: BURKINA FASO Project ID: P074121 Project: Urban Environment Supplemental Task Team Leader: Eustache Ouayoro Authorized to Appraise Date: October 19, 2001 IBRD Amount ($m): Bank Approval: March 28, 2002 IDA Amount ($m): 22.00 Managing Unit: AFTU2 Sector: US - Urban Environment Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan (SIL) Status: Lending I.A.2. Project Objectives: The objectives of the project are to (a) improve urban living conditions in executing priority urban works on primary infrastructure (road, drainage, solid waste and sanitation); (b) develop urban services directly benefiting the low income groups; (c) promote active participation of the urban population in urban service development, either directly, or through beneficiary associations or elected representatives; and (d) promote sustainability of urban environment services by supporting the government's decentralization program and setting up new laws, regulations and practices that would result in better land management, investment programming and local resource mobilization. I.A.3. Project Description: The Supplemental Credit would finance construction of works identified under the Infrastructure Rehabilitation component: (i) asphalting of 18 kms of roads; (ii) the needed facilities on the two landfills (garages for trucks and landfill equipment, platforms for compost production, and aeration equipment for leachate treatment ponds) to make them fully operational and better protect the aquifers through improved landfill construction methods; (iii) 58 decentralized transfer stations; (iv) 4 kms of channeling of the Wemtinga gully; and (v) tree planting and improvement of land stretches located along the Zogona gully to prevent occupation by squatters. I.A.4. Project Location: (Geographic location, information about the key environmental and social characteristics of the area and population likely to be affected, and proximity to any protected areas, or sites or critical natural habitats, or any other culturally or socially sensitive areas.) Project activities would essentially be concentrated in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso. B. Check Environmental Classification: B (Partial Assessment) Comments: Works to be financed under the Supplemental Credit of PACVU: Pavement of four urban roads in Ouagadougou, four in Bobo-Dioulasso and planting of trees along the Zogona drainage canal: The mission reviewed and has no comments on the TOR for this EA study, which was completed in December 2001. The mission visited the four roads in Ouagadougou and observed that there will be no resettlement or land acquisition needed. There are some mobile businesses along these roads. All house owners have titles for plots they live on and the right-of-way is very wide. At present inhabitants are complaining of respiratory diseases because of excessive dust. After pavement the dust problem will be largely solved and it is expected that dust related diseases will diminish. No environmental problems are foreseen. Construction of the Wemtenga drainage canal in Ouagadougou: An EA (Etude d'execution detaille et dossier d'appel d'offres des travaux d'amenagement du canal Wemtenga a Ouagadougou, Avant-Projet Sommaire, Etude d'Impact sur l'Environnement, BCEOM et Sahelconsult, Fevrier 2001) was carried out for this project component. The mission reviewed the EA report and found it satisfactory. The EA report was forwarded to the World Bank and deposited in the Infoshop on 12/18/2001. The mission visited a large part of the right-of-way of this proposed project component. The area is so eroded and dangerous that people cannot live there. Also, there are no agricultural activities near the right-of-way. There is thus no resettlement or land acquisition needed. The positive environmental impacts will include: faster evacuation of drainage water, less breeding places for mosquitoes and less erosion. Pre-collection sites for solid waste in Ouagadougou 41 and 17 in Bobo-Dioulasso: The mission reviewed the EA report (Schema directeur de gestion des dechets - Ville de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Evaluation des impacts environnementaux des centres de collecte de Ouagadougou, Dessau - Soprin, Mars 2000) and found it satisfactory. This EA report was forwarded to the World Bank and deposited in the Infoshop on 12/18/2001. There was appropriate consultation with regard to the localization of the 58 pre-collection sites. The sites are small, around 30 by 30 meters. No land acquisition or resettlement will be needed for these sites, because they are already used as wild solid waste dumps. There are no households and the sites are not being used for agriculture. The positive environmental impacts will include: a cleaner environment in neighborhoods and on pre-collection sites. C. Safeguard Policies Triggered Policy Applicability Environmental Assessment (OP/BP/GP 4.01) Yes Forestry (OP/GP 4.36) No Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) No Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) No Pest Management (OP 4.09) No Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) No Indigenous Peoples (OD 4.20) No Cultural Property (OP 4.11) No Projects in Disputed Territories (OP/BP/GP 7.60)* No Projects in International Waterways (OP/BP/GP 7.50) No *By supporting the proposed project, the Bank does not intend to prejudice the final determination of the parties' claims on the disputed areas -2 - Section II - Key Safeguard Issues and Their Management D. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues. Please fill in all relevant questions. If information is not available, describe steps to be taken to obtain necessary data. II.D.la. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts. As indicated above, there will be no resettlement or land acquisition that involved in implementing the activities identified under the supplemental credit. II.D.lb. Describe any potential cumulative impacts due to application of more than one safeguard policy or due to multiple project component. NA II.D.lc Describe any potential long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area. NA II.D.2. In light of 1, describe the proposed treatment of alternatives (if required) NA II.D.3. Describe arrangement for the borrower to address safeguard issues The EIA reports and EMP are prepared by consultants and after their approval by the Project Steering Committee, they are included in the bidding documents. The implementation is supervised by the Project Implementation Unit II.D.4. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. An Inter-ministerial Steering Committee guides the Third Urban Project (PACVU). The Ministry of Environment has two representatives in this Steering Committee. This Steering Committee reviews and approves all TORs for the EA studies, as well as the EA studies. After approval the EA studies are routinely sent to the World Bank in Washington, where they have been commented on by the TTL. EA studies have now also been reviewed by ASPEN staff and found satisfactory. All available EA studies have been sent to the Infoshop and are being disclosed in country. E. Safeguards Classification. Category is determined by the highest impact in any policy. Or on basis of cumulative impacts from multiple safeguards. Whenever an individual safeguard policy is triggered the provisions of that policy apply. I S1. - Significant, cumulative and/or irreversible impacts; or significant technical and institutional risks in management of one or more safeguard areas [XI S2. - One or more safeguard policies are triggered, but effects are limited in their impact and are technically and institutionally manageable I S3. - No safeguard issues I SF. - Financial intermediary projects, social development funds, community driven development or similar projects which require a safeguard - 3- framework or programmatic approach to address safeguard issues. F. Disclosure Requirements Environmental Assessment/Analysis/Management Plan: Expected Actual Date of receipt by the Bank 2/6/2002 2/6/2002 Date of "in-country" disclosure 2/4/2002 2/4/2002 Date of submission to InfoShop 2/6/2002 2/6/2002 Date of distributing the Exec. Summary of the EA to the ED (For category A projects) Not Applicable Not Applicable Resettlement Action Plan/Framework: Expected Actual Date of receipt by the Bank Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of "in-country" disclosure Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of submission to InfoShop Not Applicable Not Applicable Indigenous Peoples Development Plan/Framework: Expected Actual Date of receipt by the Bank Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of "in-country" disclosure Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of submission to InfoShop Not Applicable Not Applicable Pest Management Plan: Expected Actual Date of receipt by the Bank Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of "in-country" disclosure Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of submission to InfoShop Not Applicable Not Applicable Dam Safety Management Plan: Expected Actual Date of receipt by the Bank Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of "in-country" disclosure Not Applicable Not Applicable Date of submission to InfoShop Not Applicable Not Applicable If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why. Signed and submitted by Name Date Task Team Leader: Eustache Ouayoro 2/28/2002 Project Safeguards Specialists 1: Robert Robelus 2/28/2002 Project Safeguards Specialists 2: Kristine M. Ivarsdotter/Person/World Bank 3/4/2002 Project Safeguards Specialists 3: Approved by: Name Date Regional Safeguards Coordinator: Serigne Omar Fye 2/28/2002 Sector Manager/Director: Letitia A. Obeng 2/23/2002 For a list of World Bank news releases on projects and reports, click here - 4 -