World Bank Loan for China Guangdong Technical and Vocational Education Training Project

Environmental Management Framework (EMF)

Word Bank Loan Project Management Office, Department of Labour and Social Security of Guangdong Province

July，2008

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Table of Contents1. Foreword...................................................................................................................................42. General Rules............................................................................................................................62.1 Purpose of Framework Establishment........................................................................................62.2 Content of the Framework..........................................................................................................62.3 General Principles.......................................................................................................................63. Legal Framework......................................................................................................................83.1 Relevant Policies and Laws of China....................................................................................8

3.1.1 Relevant laws of national government.............................................................................83.1.2 Relevant regulations of national government...................................................................83.1.3 Relevant laws and regulations of provincial government................................................83.1.4 Important documents of State Environmental Protection Administration........................8

3.2 Safeguard Policies of the World Bank........................................................................................93.2.1 Relevant safeguard policies of the World Bank related to the Project.............................93.2.2 Safeguard policies of the World Bank not related to this Project.....................................9

3.3 Relevant Policies of Environmental Protection of China..........................................................103.3.1 Implementation of environmental impact assessment system of construction projects. 103.3.2 Pollution prevention and other Nuisance.......................................................................103.3.3 Management system of “3-Synchronies”.......................................................................10

4. Objectives and Main Contents of this Project.........................................................................114.1 General......................................................................................................................................114.2 Features of Project....................................................................................................................114.3 Components of this Project.......................................................................................................11

4.3.1 Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry.................................................114.3.2 Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School................................................124.3.3 Yangjiang Technical School...........................................................................................124.3.4 Project management, monitoring, and evaluation..........................................................12

4.4 Project Implementation Locations............................................................................................124.5 Site Selection and Sensitivity....................................................................................................135. Major Environmental Impacts................................................................................................145.1 Major Environmental Impacts of this Project...........................................................................145.2 Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-Projects............................................145.3 Environmental Responsibility of the Contractors....................................................................166. Public Participation and Disclosure of Information................................................................186.1 Regulations of Chinese Government........................................................................................186.2 Requirements of the World Bank..............................................................................................186.3 Public Participation and Information Disclosure......................................................................18

6.3.1 Procedures of information disclosure.............................................................................186.3.2 Methods of information disclosure................................................................................206.3.3 Public participation........................................................................................................206.3.4 Information feedback.....................................................................................................20

7. Environmental Safeguard System...............................................................................................217.1 Organization arrangement.........................................................................................................21

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7.2 Allocation of Tasks...................................................................................................................217.3 Training.....................................................................................................................................217.4 Fund Arrangements...................................................................................................................217.5 Mechanism of Complain...........................................................................................................217.6 Public Participation...................................................................................................................227.7 Environmental Monitoring and Environmental Management System......................................22

7.7.1 Environmental monitoring plan.....................................................................................247.7.2 Environmental management reporting system...............................................................24

Annex 1...........................................................................................................................................25

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1. Foreword

The World Bank Loan financed China Guangdong Technical and Vocational Education Training Project is the first project in Guangdong Province, which utilizes the fund of vocational education of the World Bank Loan to develop technical education. It is one of the important channels to invest in technical education in Guangdong with multiple sources of funds. This Project will play important roles to demonstrate and disseminate the experience on attracting international financial funds to develop technical education in Guangdong Province and in China.

During the past 20 years of opening and reform, especially after China joined WTO, Guangdong has achieved a rapid economic growth. Pearl River Delta area has become a global processing factory, with the concern of shortage of skilled talents. It is estimated that the shortage of skilled talents will be about 4.59 million in Guangdong by 2010. Although the number of students in technical schools in Guangdong has been doubled in the past five years, it still cannot meet the needs of rapid social and economic development. Technical education as the main way of skilled worker training in Guangdong, increasing the investment, speeding up the development, and strengthening the training ability of skilled worker education will provide sufficient intelligence support and professional guarantee for industrial optimization and upgrade and continuous promotion of industrial competition ability.

With the rapid development of science and technology, enterprises pose more requirements on different types and levels of skilled talents. Under such circumstance, branded specialties in connection with Guangdong’s new hi-tech and traditional superior industries must be positively created for skilled worker education, as well as innovation of educational module, improvement of education quality, to assume the historic responsibilities of training large number of high quality skilled talents.

Implementation of this Project will play a significant role in the reform and development of technical education in Guangdong.

The objective of this Project is to support technical education by strengthening the training ability, improving the quality and correlation, and increasing the management efficiency, thereby to provide a basis for establishment of planning and policy development mechanism. The total investment of this Project will be about RMB280 million, 50% of which in amount of USD20 million (RMB140 million) is loan of the World Bank. Domestic counterpart fund of RMB140 million will be financed by schools and government finance.

According to the new requirements of environmental safeguards of the World Bank, a safeguard framework needs to be prepared by the Borrower with the assistance of the World Bank if a project has multiple sub-projects and the size and implementation location of sub-projects are still uncertain during appraisal. It is also confirmed that all planned constructions of the Project will be

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carried out on the existing lands or lands which have obtained Land Utilization Permit during the pre-appraisal. Therefore, resettlement will not be a concern. Moreover, in order to minimize and avoid the negative environment impacts from project activities, ensure smooth implementation of reform on quality and correlation of the Project, and improve sustainable economic and social development, with the assistance of the World Bank team, provincial Project Management Office (PMO) under Department of Labour and Social Security of Guangdong Province, together with PMOs of different schools, prepared the Environmental Management Framework (EMF). This Framework is in accordance with national and local laws and in accordance with safeguard policies of the World Bank as well.

By analyzing the potential environmental impacts of sub-projects, mitigation measures are proposed, as well as the environmental management framework. The Framework clearly identifies activities may be supported or may not, and avoids the locations where are not suitable for some activities in order to reduce the negative impacts on environment. The Framework also establishes the mechanism to meet safeguard requirements of the World Bank (including organization structure, evaluation system, monitoring system and capacity building, etc.).

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2. General Rules

2.1 Purpose of Framework Establishment

Constitution of the Framework should be in compliance with the safeguard policies of the World Bank and apply to respective sub-projects of this Project. The purpose of this Framework is to ensure that all activities of the projects will meet the following requirements:

Increase positive and sustainable environment and society outputs; Integrate the content of environmental protection of individual sub-project into the process of

policy making; Minimize environmental deterioration resulting from impacts of individual sub-project or

accumulated impacts.

2.2 Content of the Framework

Environmental Safeguard Framework includes the following contents: Introduction of relevant national, local authorities’ and the World Bank policy frameworks; Discussion of the type, possible scale and impact of sub-projects; Identify environmental impacts of this Project, plans to eliminate the impacts, and

arrangement for implementation of the monitoring system; System to meet the World Bank safeguard requirements (including preparation of

environmental assessment and environmental management plan); Capability of project implementation agencies to carry out the activities and suggested

capacity building measures; Monitoring and reporting system, including regular inspection and adjustment mechanism of

implementation.

2.3 General Principles

While recognizing the necessity of the implementation of this Project, potential negative impacts on environment must be identified, and sufficient abilities are needed to deal with these impacts. This Project must meet both national and local requirements and the relevant operation policies of the World Bank.

The following principles proposed in the Framework apply to all sub-projects.

(1) There are three sub-projects included in this Project. In order to ensure effective implementation of the World Bank safeguard policies, this Framework will provide guidance on the selected methods for the engineering constructions of this Project.

(2) This Project is classified as Category C environmental project, as well as all sub-projects.(3) The general development objective of proposed activities is to support the skilled worker

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education in terms of extension of training capacity, improvement of quality and correlation, and improvement of management effectiveness, and consequently to provide basis for system establishment of planning and policy development.

(4) According to relevant requirements, information of this Project will be disclosed to the public. Relevant investigations must be carried out with the main participants, including local communities, environmental groups and/or national research units, etc. Among which, women, minorities and other vulnerable groups should also be involved. It is required to record the comments of participants and the adopted measures. This Framework will be disclosed in relevant provincial government departments, public areas and websites, and the infoshop of the World Bank.

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3. Legal Framework

3.1 Relevant Policies and Laws of China

3.1.1 Relevant laws of national government

(1) Law of Environmental Impact Assessment of PRC (2003.9) (2) Law of Environmental Protection of PRC (1989.12)(3) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (Revised

in March 2008)(4) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric

Pollution (Revised in 2000)(5) Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste

Pollution (Revised in Dec 2004)(6) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Noise Pollution

(1996)

3.1.2 Relevant regulations of national government

(1) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection (1998.11)

(2) Classified Catalogue of Environmental Protection Management in Construction Projects (2003.01.01)

(3) Regulations for the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (2004.08.28)

3.1.3 Relevant laws and regulations of provincial government

(1) Regulations of Environmental Protection of Guangdong Province (2004.09.24)(2) Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection of

Guangdong (Revised in Nov 2004)(3) Eleventh Five Year Plan of Environmental Protection of Guangdong (2005)(4) Outline of Environmental Protection Planning of Guangdong (2006-2020)(5) Outline of Surface Water Environment Function Zoning of Guangdong <Tentative Scheme>

(No.553 Guangdong Government Issued (1999))(6) Regulations on the Administration of Municipal Solid Waste of Guangdong No. 116 (2001.09)(7) Regulations on the Prevention of Environmental Pollution Caused by Solid Waste of

Guangdong (2004.01.14)(8) Implementation Opinions of Public Participation on Construction Project Environmental

Protection of Guangdong (Guangdong Environment (2007) No. 99)

3.1.4 Important documents of State Environmental Protection Administration

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Notice on Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (State Environmental Protection Administration, 2006.03)

3.2 Safeguard Policies of the World Bank

3.2.1 Relevant safeguard policies of the World Bank related to the Project

(1) Environmental Assessment OP4.01(2) Disclosure of Safeguard Documentation OP17.50

The main contents and requirements of the World Bank safeguard policies related to this Project are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 World Bank Safeguard PoliciesSafeguard Policies Abstract of the Policy

OP 4.01 Environmental Assessment

The assessment process of potential environmental risk, impact, extension, depth, and analysis type depends on the nature, scale and potential environmental impacts of the project. In the mean time, the environmental assessment will check substitute projects to minimize, alleviate and compensate negative environmental impacts and reinforce positive impacts by prevention. The measures involve alleviation and control of the negative environmental impacts to determine the methods of project identification, site selection, planning, design and implementation.

OP17.50 Disclosure of Safeguard Documents

Key information of all projects must be disclosed in the host countries and the infoshop of the World Bank

3.2.2 Safeguard policies of the World Bank not related to this Project

OP4.04 Natural habitats. This Project does not involve natural habitats, different levels of natural reserves or any construction in natural reserves.

OP4.09 Pest Management. This Project does not involve the purchase of pesticide.

OP4.10 Indigenous Peoples. This Project does not involve ethnic minority groups.

OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. This Project does not involve resettlement.

OP4.11 Physical Cultural Resources. This Project does not involve physical cultural resources, will not carry out any activity on the site with archaeology, paleontology, historical value.

OP4.36 Forests. This Project does not involve business behavior of tree logging or natural forests.

OP4.37 Dam Safety. This Project does not involve any construction and renovation of dams and will not base on any existing dams or the ones under construction.

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OP7.50 Projects on International Waterways. This Project, as well as sub-projects, does not involve international waterways.

OP7.60 Projects in Disputed Areas. This Project does not involve any disputed areas..

3.3 Relevant Policies of Environmental Protection of China

3.3.1 Implementation of environmental impact assessment system of construction projects

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be conducted during the Feasibility Study Phase for the construction projects, to evaluate pollution and ecological impacts of construction project. Prevention measures should be proposed. Environmental impact report must be approved according to defined procedures.

3.3.2 Pollution prevention and other Nuisance

Any units that generate pollution and other nuisance must incorporate environmental protection into the plan, establish responsibility system of environmental protection, take effective measures to prevent and control the pollutions and harms of waste gas, wastewater, waste residue, dust and odor, radioactive substances as well as noise, vibration, electromagnet. Production enterprises should carry out technological renovations, and utilize equipment and technologies with high efficiency of resource utilization and low pollution discharge, as well as the economical and sound technologies of waste comprehensive utilization and pollution treatment.

3.3.3 Management system of “3-Synchronies”

For any construction project with environmental impacts, the design, construction and operation of environmental protection facilities should be synchronous with the design, construction and operation of the main civil works according to law.

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4. Objectives and Main Contents of this Project

4.1 General

This Project includes the following two aspects. One is to carry out reform and innovation activities at school level; the other is to carry out policy development and capacity building at province level. The preliminary preparatory work of this Project will be finished by 2008. Construction will start in 2009 with 4 year construction period and be finished by 2012.

In accordance with the loan requirements of the World Bank, under the decision by Guangdong Province Development and Reform Commission, Department of Finance and Department of Labor and Social Security, the Department of Labor and Social Security is responsible for implementation of this Project. Three implementing agencies are Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry (GDSTSLI), Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School (GDCCSTS) and Yangjiang Technical School (YTS) respectively. The total investment cost is about RMB280 million (Ratio of the World Bank loan and domestic counterpart fund is 1:1). It is planned to apply for a loan of USD20 million dollars from the World Bank, including USD7 million for GDSTSLI, USD6.5 million for GDCCSTS, and USD6.5 million for YTS.

4.2 Features of Project

1. Site selection, construction land planning permission and environmental impact assessment of each sub-project have been approved by relevant authorities. No relocation is involved. The environmental impacts of this Project are relatively simple.

2. The main objectives of this Project are to provide financial support, improve school’s hardware environment, promote innovations for institutional mechanisms of technical education, and train high-level teachers.

4.3 Components of this Project

4.3.1 Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry

The objectives of the sub-project in this school are to set up the concept of “Quality, Management, Feature and Brand” based on market orientation, to upgrade school level and realize a breakthrough transformation of training highly skilled personnel; to highlight the development of specialty characteristics, to improve the quality of teaching and management, to promote integrated capacity of the school, to train to high quality talents with practical skills who can meet the market demand. During the implementation period of the sub-project, the number of in-school students will be increased from 11,130 to 15,000. Upgrade, renovate and add the lab training equipment for characteristic specialties like Paper Making, Food, refinery Chemical Engineering, Costume, Decoration, and Cartoon, as well as for traditional specialties like Automobile, Mold, Digital Control, Electrical, Mechanical and Electrical, and Computer. Add the lab training equipment for new specialties like Logistics, Business. Construct a new building for teaching and training to centralize high-skill training and socialization identification programs, to further

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improve the training facility for the training of highly skilled personnel.

4.3.2 Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School

The objectives of sub-project in this school are to adapt to the social development and marketing demand by upgrading the school scale and level, improving the capability of management, enhancing the cooperation with enterprises and deepening the reform of teaching. The number of in-school students will reach 10,000 in the next 4 years with graduation rate of 97% and employment rate of above 98%. Perfect the special and main specialities. Establish academic leading person system. Expand the ratio of students in senior classes. Enhance cooperation with enterprises. Improve quality of teaching. Implementation of the sub-project will make the school become a demonstrative school in Guangdong province and a famous school with national influence.

4.3.3 Yangjiang Technical School

This school has been passed the assessment of provincial key technical schools and it is striving for passing the assessment of national key technical schools in 2008. The number of in-school students will reach 7,000 by 2010. The objectives of this school are to improve the conditions of the school, comprehensively enhance the standard of teaching and management capacity; exert fully the guidance function of school-enterprise cooperation on teaching, and further facilitate school-enterprise cooperation to a deeper level.

4.3.4 Project management, monitoring, and evaluation

All sub-projects will include the support on general management and implementation of this Project, design and utilization of comprehensive project Management Information System (MIS). Sub-projects will also support the design of project participation method. The method of participation will penetrate into all sub-projects, mainly including the monitoring and evaluation with participation of project activities.

4.4 Project Implementation Locations

This Project has completed the procedures of site selection and obtained construction land planning permit. No relocation will incur. The implementation sites are as follow:

Sub-project of Guangdong Senior Technical School of Light Industry is located at Qi Xing Gang, Shi Liu Gang Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong;

Sub-project of Guangdong City Construction Senior Technical School is located in Lian He, Luo Gang Town, Guangzhou Economic and Technology Development Zone, Guangdong;

Sub-project of Yangjiang City Technical School is located in Wang Niu Gang, Baisha Street Office, Jiangcheng District, Yangjiang City, Guangdong.

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4.5 Site Selection and Sensitivity

The sites of this Project are low-sensitive areas, not involving with natural reserve, geological parks, national forest parks, scenic tourist areas, the water resource protection areas and water conservation areas, cultural relics, historical sites or relocation, etc.

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5. Major Environmental Impacts

According to the nature of three sub-projects, 50% of the investment will be used for school infrastructure (mainly civil works) construction. In the course of construction, some environmental impacts will incur.

5.1 Major Environmental Impacts of this Project

The implementation of this Project is carried out on the lands acquired for school use, not involving the issues of ethnic minority groups and relocation.

However, implementation of this Project will have some negative environmental impacts on ecological and environmental quality.

(1) Ecological Impacts: earthwork for project foundation will damage soil and vegetation likely to cause soil erosion.

(2) Impacts on environmental quality: noise, air pollution and water pollution may occur during construction. Wastewater, waste gas, noise and solid waste generated during operation (such as students, teachers, laboratory and other day-to-day teaching) may cause impacts on ambient environment.

(3) Impacts of land occupation: construction will involve the issue of long-term land occupation. Planed construction of each sub-project will be carried out on existing lands or lands which have obtained land utilization permit. No relocation will occur.

5.2 Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-Projects

The environmental impacts of sub-projects and the mitigation measures are shown in Table 2.

Table 2 Main Environmental Impact and Mitigation Measures of Sub-ProjectsProject Major Impacts Mitigation Measures

ConstructionPeriod

(1) Water Pollution Wastewater during construction is mainly from runoff of heavy rain, underground water, wastewater of construction and sewage from construction staff. Wastewater of construction consists of muddy water of excavation and drilling, cooling water and washing water of operating equipment. Sewage consists of water from construction workers washing and cleaning, wastewater from canteen and toilet flushing water. Ground water is mainly related to the drainage water of excavated stratigraphic section. Storm runoff washes soil, construction sand and gravel, garbage and waste soil, which carries lots of silt, oils, chemicals

(1) Water Pollution Prevention and Control During the construction period, the contractor must strictly follow the guideline of “Interim Regulations on Construction Site and Environmental Management”; orderly organize the discharges of surface water; prohibit disorder discharge and irregular flows to pollute roads and environment or submerge of municipal facilities. Muddy water produced during construction and slurry produced from drilling and punching can not be discharged randomly without treatment, and can not pollute the site and ambient environment. Construct temporary settling tanks at piling yards of backfill soil and the locations where may generate slurry. The storm water

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Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measuresand other pollutants. The sediment produced during drainage process will cause water pollution and block river course and water body if the sediment is discharged into surface water without treatment.

(2) Air Pollution The main sources of air pollution during the construction are: the flying dust caused by excavation and transportations vehicles and machinery; loading and unloading, transportation and piling up of construction materials (cement, lime, aggregate), transportation and piling up of the spoil; exhaust gas from various construction machinery and transportation vehicles.

(3) Noise Noise values of construction machinery (Excavators, bulldozers, loaders, trucks, cranes, blenders, etc.) range from 85～105 dB(A), which cause impacts on surrounding environment.

(4) Solid Waste The construction will produce large amount of mud, spoil (including demolish debris), mud from excavation, spare construction materials etc. Failure to dispose properly the solid wastes will incur obstruction of traffic and pollution of the environment. Moreover, if the transportation vehicles are not properly cleaned, the littered soil will pollute the streets or roads, affecting the city appearance and traffic in urban area.

(5) Ecological Impact and Soil Erosion The earthworks of project development and construction, such as land leveling and elimination of surface vegetation, will have impacts on local ecological environment; rainfall, surface excavation and spoil landfill will easily cause soil erosion. Besides, damage of soil structure by

containing sand and muddy water should be treated by settling tanks before discharge. Fecal sewerage from the construction site will be treated by the three-stage septic tanks. Wastewater from canteens at construction sites should be treated by oil and residual separator before discharge.

(2) Air Pollution Prevention and Control Management on construction sites should be strengthened. All wastes are not allowed to be burned on construction sites. flying dust control should be taken when carry out earth work. Measures should be taken to keep vehicle clean at the entry and exit of construction sites. Remove the mud adhere to surface of the vehicles. Cover the vehicles by canvas. Sites for storage of material and mould boards should be flat and solid. Cement, other dusty particles and construction materials should be confined to store or to take measures of coverage, watering and cleaning.

(3) Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Acoustic elimination and acoustic insulation measures should be equipped for equipment with high noise. Operation can only be allowed from 7:00 to 12:00, from 14:00 to 22:00.

(4) Solid Waste Prevention and Control Pile-up, collection and clean-up of garbage; constructors must abide by the local regulations on solid waste disposal by applying for approval of disposal. The solid wastes should be transported to designated locations approved by the local authority.

(5) Ecological Impact and Soil Erosion Prevention and Control In the premise of quality guarantee, the constructor should shorten the period of land occupation. Upon construction completion, the vegetation or reclamation must be restored immediately; protect the forests within the range of site; upon completion of construction, the temporary lands should be cleaned, stirred, leveled to restore original vegetation. The drainage interception ditch should be built on the sites. Construct flooding channel for damaged surface runoff. Construct the

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Project Major Impacts Mitigation Measuresconstruction, weakened soil erosion resistance will result in serious soil erosion during heavy rain.

ditches along the slope to divert flood and avoid the erosion of surface runoff.

Operation Period

(1) Water Pollution Sewage from students and wastewater from laboratories will have impacts on water environment. (2) Air Pollution Laboratory emissions and oil smokes from canteens will have impacts on atmospheric environment.(3) Solid Waste Inappropriate disposal of domestic garbage and waste liquid from laboratories will have impacts on environment.(4) Noise The noise, ring tones from machinery in light industrial training rooms, and the noise from fans in kitchen and equipment room will cause impacts on the environment.

(1) Water Pollution Prevention and Control Wastewater from laboratory should be disinfected and chemically neutralized and be treated together with sewage by wastewater treatment plant in school.(2) Air Pollution Prevention and Control Laboratories must be installed with ventilation equipment and as well as exhaust fans with appropriate numbers; canteen must be installed with oil smoke purifier.(3) Solid Waste Prevention and Control Domestic garbage will be collected and disposed by environment and sanitation department; waste liquid from laboratories will be stored in special containers or temporary tanks, then treated by qualified units.(4) Noise Prevention and Control Low noise machinery and fans should be selected and acoustic elimination and vibration treatment should be taken; control the use of bells.

5.3 Environmental Responsibility of the Contractors

During construction, the contractor will play a key role in environmental management, pollution control and implementation of prevention and mitigation measures etc. Therefore, the contractor is required to meet the following requirements:

(1) Contractors should be capable of making sure that the environmental mitigation measures be carried out effectively.

(2) Contractors and CSE are required to be trained on environmental protection and management before construction.

(3) The environmental impact mitigation measures mentioned above should be included in the bidding documents submitted by contractor and finally included in the contract as the requirements for contractor.

(4) Contractor should designate at least one full-time staff, who should be trained according

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to training plan so that they are able to do their work.(5) During construction, contractors must communicate and negotiate with local residents in

project area, and establish a board on each construction site, inform people of the specific activities and time of construction, while providing contractor’s name and telephone, so that affected people can complain or give suggestion conveniently.

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6. Public Participation and Disclosure of Information

Public Participation and Disclosure of Information should be in accordance with the regulations or requirements of both Chinese Government and the World Bank.

6.1 Regulations of Chinese Government

According to the “Notice on Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (March 2006 Version)” issued by State Environmental Protection Administration and “Implementation Opinion of Public Participation on Environmental Management for Guangdong Construction Projects (2007, No.99)”, this Project does not need to carry out public participation and survey.

6.2 Requirements of the World Bank

For the future activities on environmental investments of Category A and B, implementing agency should conduct public surveys on environmental and social issues with the affected populations and local NGOs. The opinions of the affected populations and NGOs should be taken into consideration. Besides, the implementing agency should carry out public participation as soon as possible and provide relevant materials to the public with understandable language and method before public participants in order to ensure that the public participation makes sense.

For Projects of Category A and B, implementing agency should provide the participants a copy of outline of conclusion of “Environmental Impact Assessment Report”. Additionally, implementing agency should disclose the draft report for the affected populations and local NGO to understand.

According to the classification of the World Bank, this Project is Category C.

6.3 Public Participation and Information Disclosure

This Project is the first project in Guangdong utilizing the loan of the World Bank for technical and vocational education and training. In order to avoid or minimize the negative environmental impacts from the Project, and ensure the success of reform on quality and correlation of this Project, promote economic and social sustainable development, public participation will be carried out for this Project and related information will be disclosed with the consent of the World Bank Working Group.

6.3.1 Procedures of information disclosure

Information of construction project will be disclosed twice. The first disclosure will be within 7 days after the environmental impact assessment agency is selected; the second disclosure will be in the course of preparation of environmental impact assessment report, and prior to submission for the approval of environmental protection administrative department or before re-approval. The contents and methods of disclosure are shown in Table 3.

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Table 3 Time, Contents and Method of Information Disclosure Specified by the State Environmental Protection Administration

Information Disclosure Time Contents Methods of

Disclosure

1st

Disclosure

In 7 days after the

environmental impact

assessment institute is selected

(1) Name and introduction of the proposed construction project; (2) Name of implementing agency and contact information; (3) Name and contact information of environmental impact assessment institute;(4) Procedures and main works of environmental impact assessment;(5) Major items of public consultation;(6) Major channels for public to make comments.

(1) Publicized on main local public media(2) Freely distribute brochure with information of the project; (3) Other channels convenient for public to understand the project.

2nd

Disclosure

Prior to submission of environmental assessment report for environmental protection administration’s examination and approval.

(1) Brief introduction of the project;(2) Summary of possible environmental impacts of the project;(3) Solutions and measures on prevention or mitigation of negative environmental impacts and the key points; (4) Key conclusions of environmental impact assessment report; (5) The manner and duration for public to review simplified environmental impact assessment report;(6) The scope and major items of public consultation; (7) Specific form of public consultation;(8) Schedule for submission of public opinions.

(1) Provide environmental impact assessment report (simplified copy) at specific locations;(2) Produce special webpage containing simplified environmental impact assessment report (3) Establish link to simplified environmental impact assessment report on public websites or the special webpage; (4) Other channels for public to obtain simplified environmental impact assessment report.

Implementing agency or the environmental impact assessment agency should conduct public consultation in terms of investigation of public comments, consultation with experts, forum and hearings after disclosing the information advertisement and publicizing simplified copy of

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environmental impact assessment report.

6.3.2 Methods of information disclosure

There are following methods to disclose information: Publish on local newspaper; Introduce the progress of this Project, conclusion of environmental impact assessment on

internet; Distribute brochures to NGOs and the public in project areas; Invite local NGOs and public to attend information releasing meeting; Display documents related to environmental assessment of the projects in local cultural

centers, libraries and the project management office; Disclose to public by local broadcast, TV and other media.

The information of environmental impact assessment of the three sub-projects will be disclosed on local newspaper, websites and other public media. The information of this Framework will be disclosed on relevant domestic websites and the World Bank website.

6.3.3 Public participation

Based on the World Bank safeguard policies, there are following methods for public participation: Questionnaire. According to different implementation contents in different cities, prepare

public survey questionnaires, which include the proposed major activities, potential environmental impacts and mitigation measures. The questionnaires will be distributed to project affected people with no less than 100 copies. Comments from all parties will be collected and summarized.

Consultation with experts. Invite experts on environmental protection, ecological protection, and cultural relic protection, to conduct the technical consultation and discussion on potential environmental impacts. Understand the potential impacts of this Project and the issues need to be paid attention to, and propose mitigation measures.

Consultation with NGOs. Consult with NGOs in Guangdong and project cities including environmental protection organizations and other social communities in terms of meeting, telephone interview and correspondence.

6.3.4 Information feedback

Provincial PMO and sub-project PMOs will take full consideration of public opinions, accept reasonable suggestions, make explanation to the public and NGOs that why some comments are not accepted till they are satisfied.

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7. Environmental Safeguard System

7.1 Organization arrangement

Sub-project PMOs are responsible for the implementation of environmental safeguard framework. Provincial PMO and different levels of environmental protection departments, the planning departments have responsibilities to supervise, manage, and assist the implementation of environmental management plan.

7.2 Allocation of Tasks

To ensure the implementation of this Project to be in line with government environmental regulations and avoid or mitigate negative environmental impacts, sub-project PMOs will be in charge of further review of the environmental impacts, while provincial PMO will be responsible for inspection and supervision. Details are as follow:(1) Conduct environmental impact assessment before construction, and disclose the scale,

purpose, potential pollutions and measures of prevention to public. (For details, please refer to Information Disclosure Procedures for public participation and information disclosure)

(2) Collect and record public comments and opinions on this Project.(3) Prepare an analysis report of public consultation and submit to provincial PMO within two

weeks.

7.3 Training

Environmental safeguard system of this Project will be covered in the project training program. Provincial PMO should train the persons in charge of each sub-project on relevant issues and give guidance to sub-project PMOs on carrying out environmental management plan.

7.4 Fund Arrangements

Allocate budget within the item of project management, monitoring and evaluation for project environmental safeguard system. The budget will be spent on implementation of the environmental safeguard plan, which includes expenditures for planning, training and monitoring.

7.5 Mechanism of Complain

As the affected populations participate in this Project at the very beginning, it is predicted that they may not make complains or raise different opinions on environmental impacts. However, in order to protect the interests of the affected population, unobstructed channels for complaints still need to be kept. The purposes for establishing mechanism of complaint are to effectively response to the complaints and resolve the issues not by complicated official channels.

Procedure of appeal is as follow: Any person affected by this Project can make oral or written complains to sub-project PMOs. Sub-project PMOs should resolve the problem within two weeks

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upon receiving the complaints. In case of disagreement of the complainer, he/she can appeal to local administrative department. The local environmental protection department will make a judgment. If the complainer still disagrees with the judgment of the 2nd phase, he/she can resort the case to the court by civil litigation procedures.

7.6 Public Participation

Through disclosing project activities and managing project funds, promote development of project implementation, management, and capability of monitoring to ensure the transparency of projects and fair and just allocation of the resources.

7.7 Environmental Monitoring and Environmental Management System

The monitoring of environmental impacts will be defined as internal and external monitoring. Internal monitoring, as a part of the project implementation plan will be implemented by sub-project PMOs. Internal monitoring includes: evaluation on environmental impacts and the mitigation measures during the process of entire project implementation and post assessment phase, making necessary revise on original plans. Internal monitoring report will be submitted to the World Bank regularly.

During implementation of project, PMO will authorize an independent and just third party to find out implementation of each plan and public satisfaction degree and propose improvement measures accordingly. External monitoring will be carried out once a year and the report will be submitted to sub-project PMOs, provincial PMO and the World Bank regularly.

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Figure 1 Chart of Environmental Management and Supervision Organizations

Table 4 Environmental Supervision Plan of this Project

Phase Units TasksDesign a. Provincial PMO

b. Sub-project PMOs;c. Planning Dept;d. Environmental

1. Review EA Report and Environmental Management Plan;2. Review preliminary design, including site selection, construction design, environmental protection investment, borrow sites and spoil disposal sites, etc.

Leading Group of World Bank loan for China Guangdong Technical and Vocational Educational Training Project

Provincial Project Management Office

World Bank

Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission

Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance

Sub-project PMO of YTS Sub-project PMO of GDCCSTS

Sub-project PMO of GDSTSLI

City

（district）Environmental

Monitoring Stations

EIA Institute

Design Institute

Contractor

Environmental supervision

Engineer

City

（district）Environmental

Monitoring Stations

Sub-project schools

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Phase Units TasksProtection Dept

Construction

a. Provincial PMOb. Sub-project PMOs;c. Environmental Protection Dept

1. Inspect borrow sites and spoil disposal sites, the balance of earthwork excavation and filling;2. Inspect and monitor the implementation of mitigation measures for noise and dust, referred to EA report;3. Inspect and monitor the discharges of wastewater and solid waste at construction camp;4. Inspect and monitor the implementation of environmental monitoring plan during construction period;5. Investigate and resolve the environmental issues during construction and adopt relevant measures accordingly.

Operation

a. Provincial PMOb. Sub-project PMOs;c. Environmental Protection Dept

1. Inspect and monitor the implementation of environmental monitoring plan;2. Inspect the implementation of pollution treatment facilities and other pollution prevention and control measures.

7.7.1 Environmental monitoring plan

This Project is in the category of education. The implementation of project will have certain impacts on environmental elements in the project area. Therefore, monitoring is necessary during the periods of design, construction and operation to provide a basis for environmental supervision and management for every phase.

The parameters, frequency, location and plan of environmental monitoring are shown in Annex 1.

7.7.2 Environmental management reporting system

Environmental Monitoring Report will be submitted by commissioned qualified agencies once a year. The content of the report mainly includes the time, sites, indicators, frequencies, monitoring conditions and analysis result of environment monitoring. Provincial PMO will be responsible for summarizing the annual report of environmental management during the period of project implementation, and submit it to the World Bank supervision mission.

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Annex 1

1. Environmental Monitoring Items(1) Water Environmental Monitoring Items

Surface water monitoring (pH value, Dissolved Oxygen, CODCr, BOD5, SS, NH3-N, total coliforms)

(2) Atmospheric Monitoring ItemsAtmospheric monitoring items (SO2, NO2, TSP, PM10)

(3) Noise Monitoring ItemsAcoustic monitoring items (set one monitoring point at one meter from each boundary (east, west, south and north) ) of construction site.

2. Environmental Monitoring PlanSee following Table 1 for main environmental monitoring items.

Table 1 Environmental Monitoring Plan of Construction and Operation

Period

Project Phase Environmental Elements

Monitoring Location Parameters Frequency

GDSTSLI

Construction

Air

20m away from the downwind of construction

area

TSP Once/Y, each time for 3 days continuously

Noise

Nearest residential area

from construction

sites

Serial Sound Level A

Four times/Y，each time for day & night

Water Environment Sewage outfall SS，Oil

Four times/Y, each time for 1 day

Operation

Water Environment Sewage outfall

pH value, Dissolved Oxygen,

CODCr, BOD5, SS, ,NH3-N

total coliforms

Twice a year, each time for 3 days continuously

Atmospheric Environment

20m away from the downwind of automobile comprehensive

function test room

TSP Twice a year, each time for 3 days

GDCCSTS Construction

Air

20m away from the downwind of construction

area

TSP Once/Y, for 3 days continuously

Noise Nearest residential area

Serial Sound Level A

Four times/Y，each time for day & night

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Project Phase Environmental Elements

Monitoring Location Parameters Frequency

from construction

sitesWater

Environment Sewage outfall SS, Oil Four times a year, each time for 1 day

Operation

Water Environment Sewage outfall

pH value, Dissolved Oxygen,

CODCr, BOD5, SS, NH3-N,

total coliforms

Twice a year, each time for 3 days continuously

Atmospheric Environment

Oil smokes outfall of the

kitchenOil smokes Twice a year, each

time for 1 day

YTS

Construction

Air

20m away from the downwind of construction

area

TSP Once/Y, each time for 3 days continuously

Noise

Nearest residential area

from construction

sites

Serial Sound Level A

Four times/Y，each time for day & night

Water Environment Sewage outfall SS, Oil Four times a year,

each time for 1 day

Operation

Water Environment Sewage outfall

pH value, Dissolved Oxygen,

CODCr, BOD5, SS, NH3-N,

total coliforms

Twice a year, each time for 3 days continuously

Atmospheric Environment

Tail gas of power generator

SO2, NOx, Blackness

Twice a year, each time for 3 days continuously

Exhaust gas of boilers SO2, NOx,

Blackness

Twice a year, each time for 3 days continuously

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