Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized PEOPLE COMMITTEE OF HOCHI MINH CITY WORLD BANK HO CHI MINH CITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT HDP E2122 V3 BRIEF ENVIRONMENT REPORT HA NOI HIGHWAY FROM SAIGON BRIDGE TO THU DUC CROSSROAD INVESTOR: HA NOI HIGHWAY INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (HNHC) 50 Ton That Dam St, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh City May 2010 1
BRIEF REPORT ON THE COMPLIANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINE OF HFIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (HDP) THE SUB PROJECT OF HA NOI HIGHWAY ENLARGEMENT FROM SAI GON BRIDGE TO THU DUC CROSSROAD 1. OVERVIEW 1.1 Introduction Ha Noi Highway, the section of National Highway linking two southern key economic regions are Ho Chi Minh city and Bien Hoa city, which is one of the most important traffic lines ensure the transportation in the southern Vietnam. However it is now overloaded with the traffic jam is daily occurred. The subproject of Ha Noi Highway Enlargement, section from Sai Gon Bridge to Tan Van Crossroad with the number of lanes is 2-3 times of the present one will contribute to solve basically the traffic jam for the more and more future traffic increase in this key economic region. The subproject is decided to invest by HCMC People Committee upon the Decision number 101/Q -TTg dated 22 nd January 2007 of Prime Minister approved for the master plan of Traffic and Transportation in HCMC to 2020 and the vision after 2020. It is realized under the BOT form and the anticipated time of refund is 27 years. The agency, the investor which formed EIA is Ho Chi Minh city joint-stock Company for Infrastucture Investment (CII). After EIA was approved, CII has established HA NOI HIGHWAY INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (HNHC) with the license issued by Department of Planning and Investment (DPI) dated 14 July 2009 and the first registered change dated 15 December 2009 to manage and realize this project. The project basic content is to enlarge the Ha Noi Highway section from Sai Gon Bridge to Tan Van Crossroad with the length of 16.2km and the planned cross section of 153.5m (section from Sai Gon Bridge to Binh Thai Crossroad) and 113.5m (section from Binh Thai Crossroad to Tan Van Crossroad) having the scale of the main city street followed to TCXDVN 104-2007. The project passes the area of District 2, 9, Thu Duc and Di An District of Binh Duong Province from the beginning point at the North of Sai Gon Bridge (km 0+197.43), Thao Dien Ward, HCMC to the end point at Tan Van Crossroad (km 16+200.00), Binh Thang Commune, Di An District, Binh Duong Province. 2
The Ha Noi Highway Enlargement Project using the loan of WB via HDP of HFIC for the section of project from the North of Sai Gon Bridge (km 0+197,43) to Thu Duc Crossroad (km 8+100) (Loan project for short) invested by HNHC. This enviromental compliance report includes the following contents: 1) Background; 2) Appraisal on complying with the ES requirements of the project compared with those in ES guideline of HDP and 3) Develop the RMP of subproject if necessary. It is prepared after reviewing the ES related documents, proofs; listing the differences, shortcomings of documents (if any) compared with SS and ES guidelines of HDP and developing a RMP of subproject to meet the ES requirements of HDP if necessary. 1.2. Methods 1.2.1 Desk review and site visiting In the considering the EIA of the subprojects and visiting Ha Noi Highway participating in HDP and working with 2 HNHC s officers are: Mr. Duong Quang Chau, Member of HNHC Management Board; Mr. Huynh Thai Hoang, Officer of Technical Department of HNHC with the participation of Mr. Nguyen Ha Lam expert of Department of Investment Promotion of HFIC. In visiting the Highway and the local areas in which the project goes through, the construction site are right as in the EIA presented. discussing with these HNHC officers to make clearer the investor s requirements to the contractors and getting more relating documents. 2. APPRAISAL THE APPROPRIATENESS OF COMPLIANCE OF ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBPROJECT WITH ES REQUIREMENTS OF HDP 2.1 Introduction of the subproject, impact on the atmosphere, waste solid, waste water and other impacts 2.1.1 Ha Noi Highway Enlargement Subproject The construction items of the subproject includes: enlarge the main road (the centre is at the present highway centre), new construction 2 parallel roads (width is 10.5-12m) and construct the auxiliary works (drainage, technical infrastructure, tree ). In the scope of the project do not have the different level crossroad as well as the bridge (Rach Chiec Bridge). These belong to the other projects which are realized at the different time with the subproject. 3
2.1.1.1. Geographical location of the subproject The beginning point of the subproject is at the North Crossroad of Sai gon Bridge (km 0+197.43; co-ordinate 10 0 47 57 N- 106 0 43 41 E) and the end point at Tan Van Crossroad (km 16+200,00, co-ordinate 10 0 53 58 N- 106 0 49 41 E). The line of subproject coincides with the line of present highway goes through 13 wards which are: Binh An, Thao Dien, An Phu (District 2), Tan Phu, Hiep Phu, Long Binh, Phuoc Long A, Phuoc Long B (District 9), Truong Tho, Binh Tho, Linh Trung (District Thu Duc)- HCMC and Dong Hoa, Binh Thang, Di An - Bình Duong province. 2.1.1.2. Scale and Design Standards The level and designed speed of the route are followed to the current Vietnam Standards: 2.1.1.2. Road direction The road direction of all the project is concided with the present Ha Noi Highway direction and enlarged both sides includes 4 sections with the total length is 16.2km: - Section 1: North Sai Gon Bridge - South Rach Chiec Bridge (3.4km); - Section 2: North Rach Chiec Bridge South Binh Thai Crossroad (2.77km); - Section 3: South Binh Thai Crossroad North Station 2 (5.56km) - Section 4: North Station 2 South Tan Van Crossroad (4.47km) In the frame of HDP loan includes section 1,2 and a part of section 3 from South of Binh Thai Crossroad to Thu Duc Crossroad. 2.1.1.3. Cross section The planned cross section of Ha Noi Highway is planned and approved by HCMC People Committee in Decision No 373/Q -UB dated 26/01/2005 is 153.5m (from Sai Gon Bridge to Binh Thai Crossroad) and 113.5m from Binh Thai Crossroad to Tan Van Crossroad. 2.1.1.4. The road-bed All the road-bed of the project is essentially with soil and sand which are suitably treated. 2.1.1.5. Crossroads At the present Ha Noi Highway has 8 large crossroads and many loacal roads, small roads, the company gates intersects with the parallel roads. The innovation of these crossroad is planned does not include in the Ha Noi Enlargement Project. 2.1.1.6. The auxiliary works: 4
1) Sidewalk: The planned width of the sidewalk is 5m. 2) Separation band and sidewalk, corridor: These are concrete and higher than the road surface is 0.3m. In the middle band is the grass and trees. 3) Inclined roof and retaining wall: With the inclined roof and the base to plant the grass to project the base of highway and the digging road is over the boundary of site cleaning will be constructed with bricks. 4) Drainage: Along the highway, on the 1 st section from Sai Gon Bridge to Rach Chiec Bridge had the drainage for rain water flows to the canals and to Sai Gon River. On the remaining sections there are no drainage system along the highway and the rain water flows through bothe sides by horizontal sewers. 2.1.2. The environment issues of Ha Noi Highway Enlargement Subproject In the construction and exploitation of the Ha Noi Highway Enlargement Project must concern the following environment issues: 1) Air pollution All the construction activities with or without the machines are specified to emit the dust and hazardous gas. 2) Noise and Shaking Impacts: The construction activities cause noise, shaking includes the site clearance, digging and soil transportation as calculated in EIA. 3) Waste water impacts: The waste water created from the construction and domestic activities from the workers, in which the waste water from the operation, maintenance of the machines, construction equipments contains the large quantity of organic substances, oils, and suspended solids. Waste solid impacts: The waste solid including chemical and domestic waste from the construction machines and equipments and from the worker activities 2.2. Appraisal of the compliance of environment safety of the Ha Noi Highway Enlargement Subproject 1) Review the environment safeguard documents provided by the investor before building the subproject, particularly the approval decisions and appraisals of the authorities; 2) Compare the availlable ES documents to the requirements of HDP; 3) Visit the subproject site. Below is the consultant s detailed assessment. 5
2.2.1. The appropriateness of the government environment safety When the investor met with HFIC s authorities to arrange the budget for the subproject, he had already the EIA and its approved decision. Some following assessments after consider the relating documents areas follows: The approved project EIA has also presented completely the measures to minimize the negative impacts during the construction time as well as in exploitation time. The contractors must ensure the environment safety during the transportation the materials as well as the waste to and from the construction site on the only Ha Noi Highway which may undertake the heavy transportation, the nearest distance that ensure the economical efficiency for the contractors. There are the dangerous warning boards at the deep pits and the 2m in high steel fences to ensure the safety for the people that the contractors must implement as in the tender documents. These cost to ensure the environment protection and safety for the traffic participants has been included in the tender cost and will be checked carefully by the investor s agencies. Reduce the impact of noise, shaking during the construction especially at the specified sensitive regions must implement closely with the control, supervision during the construction time and vehicles as presented in EIA. If the contractors do not implement completely or not ensure the technical conditions and safety, the investor will hire the 3 rd party to implement this work and the cost paid will be deducted in the contract. In community consultation, the investor has consulted and received enough the responses with documents of the People Committees and Fatherland Committees of 13 wards related with the project with 100% of comments agree with the impacts and the mitigation measures presented in EIA. Commitment to protect environment, the investor and its tenders have committed enough the contents presented in EIA. 2.2.2 ES requirements of HDP Apart from the compliance with the ES requirements of GOV, the subproject needs also to comply with the ES requirements of HDP. The item 2.10 ES Guideline of HDP guides to assess the appropriateness via some issues that often have the differences between the ES requirements of GOV and those of WB such as: Community consultation and information dissemination; Investor s ES implementation capacity; 6
Risk Management Plan of subproject that had EIA; Cost for implementing the mitigation measures, environmental works and monitoring plan and the investor s commitments which reserves the budget to do these activities. The assessments are as the following: Suitable community consultation and information dissemination. The investor s ES implementation capacity: Beside the budget for monitoring the investor needs to supplement the group for environment supervision in Technical Department of HNHC beside 2 environment supervisors for each package as in EIA. EMP/RMP (Environment Management Plan-EMP / Risk Management Plan-RMP): The EMP/RMP was prepared by the investor to borrow loan from HDP. However the investor has to supplement and develop this plan as follows: 1) The articles supervised during the construction and exploitation time as presented in details in the approved EIA 2) Monitoring the air pollution, noise and shaking at the specified points obey the standards (TCVN 5938-2005), (TCVN 5937-2005), (TCVN 5949-1998), (TCVN 5948-1999). Beside it must include more the monitoring parameters such as CO, NO x, HC with PM10 dust (4 parameters). Beside the specified locations as presented in EIA it must include some sensitive locations: x Ky Quang 3 Pagoda (km 0+800) x Medical center of An Phu Ward (km 3+000) x North Rach Chiec Resident area (Km 3+800 Km 4+000) x Tourist Area at Thu Duc District (km 6+500) x Sai Gon International University (km 7+600) The frequency as presented in the approved EIA and in the peak construction time and when having the feedback of the local government the frequency of the air monitoring will be monthly (in place of 3 months as in EIA). 3. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION As the above analysis it shows that the subproject of Ha Noi Highway Enlargement of HNHC meets the ES requirements of GOV. However to borrow the budget from WB via HDP, the subproject needs to comply the ES of HDP as mentioned above. 7
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