E4075 V7 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND Road Asset Management Project ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN PROJECT: CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR AXEL LOAD STATIONS. I- AL ANAD ESMP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2/5/2014 0 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND Road Asset Management Project ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN PROJECT: CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR AXEL LOAD STATIONS. I- AL ANAD ESMP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 – February 2014 Prepared by: RMFIU Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works & Highways (MPWH) Rural Report For 1 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) study contains the results of the environmental and social impact assessment undertaken for the construction and operation of Al Anad axel load station – Lahj governorate. 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 work, the project is classified as category B. The ESMP document 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 ESMP report. The land for Axel load stations by Official Procedure is transferred on 17th of April 2013 by the Lahj governorate to the RMF free of charge (See the transfer agreement in Annex 1 in study). The surrounding land is also owned by the government. From the date of signature on 17th of April 2003 no complains from any person or local community upraised . Hence, the land is free from any squatters/encroachers and complies with the Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 and it is not triggered. Axel load stations are located at the bottleneck points on the national road network to control vehicle loads. Operation of the axel stations will prevent damages to roads by overloaded vehicles, facilitate good conditions of roads, and increase its lifetime. Al Anad Axel load station is a small project with the estimated cost of civil works of 240,000US$. The project duration is 8 months. It is located in a remote area on Aden – Sana'a road. The surrounding area is desert to semi-desert with very sparse population. Nearby this location there are: fuel station, a passenger's service center, an industrial plant and a security check point. Construction of the Al Anad axel station may have minor direct negative environmental and social impacts. However, the expected long-term positive impacts are very high due to maintaining good road conditions and increased 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. 2 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬  Accidents due to difficulty to control over loaded vehicles, articulated type in particular. This report is based on data collection field visit and prediction of the possible impacts according to environmental and social scoping matrix (Leopold matrix). The identified impacts are expected to have minor and temporary effect during the construction phase and almost no effect during the maintenance work. No major potential environmental impacts are expected, but only minor impacts associated with site preparation, earth works, waste generation, traffic and safety which are localized and reversible. The potential negative impacts of attention are:  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.  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.  Safety of labor during the construction phase in 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 are proposed to address the potential negative impacts. These 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. To enhance positive impacts during construction phase related to the preparation of site, excavation and paving, a clause in the bidding documents on equal opportunities should be introduced and implemented. The estimated total cost of implementing the mitigation measures is expected to reach USD 2,800. 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. It is envisaged that the monitoring activities will be carried out by monitoring specialist that will devote about 15% of his time to monitoring compliance of the Al Anad Weigh Station with the ESMP. The expected costs monitoring costs will include also vehicle, fuel and camera. They are expected to reach about USD 2,200. 3 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) table was prepared to summarize the finding of the study including the key impacts, mitigation of negative impacts and enhancement of positive impacts. The Environmental and Social Mitigation Measures and Monitoring Activities, during construction phase, are shown in table A.1 and table A.2 below. 4 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table A.1 Summary of General Mitigation Measures applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of Al Anad axel load station. Environmental Implementation and social Impacts Mitigation measures responsibility Cost aspects - Import soil from authorized borrow-pit - Maintain earth work and open cuts wet by water Will be part of Soil erosion, Contractor in spraying the contract. degradation of coordination with - Planting and Vegetation. Additional agricultural soil and the Supervising - Adequate surface water drainage from site. expected cost: landscape Consultant - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be USD 500 conducted only on paved and sealed areas. - Storage of fuel, lubricants, paints and solvents in Contractor in Pollution of sealed containers. coordination with USD 200 groundwater - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be the Supervising conducted only on paved and sealed areas. Consultant - Spraying of water during excavation and site Contractor in Will be part of Deterioration of air preparation works. coordination with the contract. Physical aspects quality by dust - Restriction to works during strong wind periods. the Supervising Additional emissions - Covering of vehicles carrying fine grade Consultant expected cost: materials USD 300 - Limiting working hours to the day time business Contractor in Will be part of hours. coordination with the contract. Noise pollution - Use of well maintain equipment. the Supervising Bidders will cost Consultant this item in their bids. - Storage and disposal of construction and Contractor in Will be part of Storage and domestic waste in specially designated areas coordination with the contract. disposal of agreed with the local communities. the Supervising Additional construction and - Provision of water container and sanitation Consultant expected cost: domestic waste facilities for contractor camp. USD 1,000 - Avoid damage to flora and fauna by machinery Contractor in Will be part of and workers. coordination with the contract. Ecological Damages to - Planting of vegetation. the Supervising Additional aspects Ecosystem Consultant expected cost: USD 300. - Shortening the construction works period Contractor in - Provision of work opportunities for the local coordination with community. the Supervising None - Maintain good cooperative relation with the local Consultant Restriction of community. socio-economic - In case Chance Find cultural heritage sites. must RE, Contractor, activities Application of Chance Find Procedures to assess Beneficiary requirements and implement mitigation (Annex 2). Committee, - GOAMM Social aspects (Contractor/Project) - Compliance with contract General Health, Contractor in Safety, and Environment Regulations. coordination with Will be part of - Traffic management, speed control, warning the Supervising the contract. Safety, Accidents signs, etc. Consultant Additional and injuries - Provision and use of personal protective expected costs: equipment to workers USD 500 - Safety plan, including emergency action plan. Generation of local Enhance positive impacts by providing job RMFIU None employment opportunities to local population. Total expected mitigation costs: USD 2,800 5 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL ANAD SITE- LAHJ GOVERNORATE ‫ــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table A.2 Summary of General Monitoring activities applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of Al Anad axel load station. Environmental Implementation & social Indicator Monitoring activities Frequency Cost responsibility aspects -Site inspection and photographic Once before E&S specialists, Soil erosion, documentation of excavation, commencement RMFIU degradation of earthwork and land disturbing Once during agricultural soil activities. construction and landscape -Photographic documentation of Once after planting and re-vegetation activities completion Physical - Visual observation and Once during earth Ditto aspects photographic documentation of works. equipment induced emissions and Once during asphalt Deterioration of dust clouds during excavation works. air quality by dust activities On any complaint. emissions - Site supervision/inspection and documentation to ensure compliance with the noise mitigation measures Once during site Ditto Damage to - Site inspection and photographic preparation and once Ecological vegetation and documentation of excavation and re- during planting aspects animals planting activities activities Once before Ditto commencement Cost of hiring - Site inspection and documentation Once during monitoring of community activities nearby site. construction specialist (15% Restriction of Once after of time input), socio-economic completion vehicle, fuel activities Follow the Procedures about Chance Depends on the E&SU and camera. Find cultural heritage sites. That situation Equivalent of mentioned in (SEA) and the policies related to. USD 2,200 - Checking records of solid and Continuous: Ditto liquid waste generation from monthly construction, machinery and labor Storage and camp. disposal of Social aspects - Inspection and photographic construction and documentation of waste storage and domestic waste disposal sites. - Consultation with the local community. Continuous monthly Ditto - Inspection and photographic documentation Safety, accidents - Maintaining a record of injuries and and injuries accidents specifying cause and location Continuous monthly Ditto Generation of -Inspection of records of locally local employment hired employees Total expected costs of monitoring activities: USD 2,200 6