


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 5

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION.................................................................................................... 5

2.1. BRIEF DESCRIPTION ON NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF HA NAM

PROVINCE ............................................................................................................................... 5

2.2. PROJECT’S SCOPE........................................................................................................... 8

2.3. PRE-CONSTRUCTION AND WHILE-CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES IN

ACCORDANCE WITH IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES ........................................... 10

2.4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT ................ 11

2.5. EXPECTED MEASURES TO TRANSPORT MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT TO

THE SITE ................................................................................................................................ 11

2.6. EXPECTED IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD .................................................................. 12

3. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON THE PROJECT’S ENVIRONMENT IMPACT

ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................ 12

3.1 LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF VIETNAM ................................................................ 12

3.2 PROTECTION POLCIY OF THE WORLD BANK (WB) .............................................. 13

4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ................................................................ 15

4.1. TYPES OF IMPACTS ...................................................................................................... 15

4.2. DETERMINATION OF THE PROJECT’S POTENTIAL IMPACTS ............................ 16

4.2.1: Temporary and permanent occupation of land .............................................................. 22

4.2.2: Impacts on affected households ..................................................................................... 22

4.2.3: Impacts on biological resources ..................................................................................... 23

4.2.4: Solid waste arisen during earthworks ............................................................................ 26

4.3. IMPACT ON CULTURAL- HISTORICAL AREA (NONE) ......................................... 27

5. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE .................... 28

6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN ................................................................. 30

6.1THE PROJECT’S SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT: ................................................. 30

6.2. MITIGATION MEASURES ............................................................................................ 32

6.3. DISCOVERY PROCESS ................................................................................................. 38

6.4 MONITORING PROGRAM ............................................................................................. 39

6.5. IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORY PLAN ........................... 42

6.6. REPORTING PROCESS .................................................................................................. 44

6.7. COST ESTIMATES FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMP...................................................... 46

REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 48




APPENDIX 1: SAMPLE REPORTS ...................................................................................... 49

APPENDIX 2: ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSE OF THE PROJECT .................................... 56

APPENDIX 3: SAMPLE MINUTES OF THE PROJECT’S COMMUNITY

CONSULTATION ................................................................................................................... 59

APPENDIX 4: MAP OF PROJECT AREA ............................................................................ 73




List of Figures:

Table 2.1.1. Brief Description on Natural Conditions of Ha Nam Province ............................ 5

Table 2.2.1. Primary data table on project ................................................................................ 8

Table 2.2.2 Total stations and wireline length .......................................................................... 8

Table 2.2.3 Project communes .................................................................................................. 9

Table 4.2 Quick Impact Assessment of the Project ................................................................ 17

Table 4.2.1. Summary of land area occupied by the Project (m2) .......................................... 22

Table 4.2.2: Number of affected households .......................................................................... 22

Table 4.2.3a Permanently occupied land area by district (m2) ............................................... 24

Table 4.2.3b Temporarily occupied land area by districts (hectare) ....................................... 25

Table 4.2.4. Number of pylons to be built and expected volume of excavated soil ............... 26

Table. 6.2. Mitigation Measures applied for the project ......................................................... 32

Table 6.3: Cultural detecting process template during earthworks ......................................... 38

Table 6.4. Environmental Monitoring Plan ............................................................................ 39

Table 6.5. Implementation of Environmental Monitory Plan ................................................. 42

Table 6.6.1. Sample monitoring reporting process ................................................................. 44

Table 6.7.1. Cost estimates for capacity building training courses ........................................ 46

Table 6.7.2 Cost estimates of EMP performance (VND) ....................................................... 47




1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

The Rural Energy Project No. 2 (RE2) aims at facilitating the Vietnamese

Government to launch poverty elimination campaign in rural areas by providing key

infrastructures such as power and access to public services to improve life, production and

business performance.

The RE2- Additional Financing (Phase 4) Subproject shall continue supporting the

Vietnamese Government to:

- Develop a rural electrification strategy, specially focusing on power supply to

mountainous and remote areas.

- Rehabilitate, upgrade and expand the rural power system to satisfy power supply

demand for the future socio-economic development.

- Improve power supply reliability, reduce loss on power, and improve performance

for production and business activities.

- Re-unify the rural power grid system to improve reliability and power quality to be

provided, including reduction of power loss due to technical or non-technical failure. The

sub-projects are conducted in 40 communes (wards and towns) under 06 districts (cities) of

Ha Nam Province.

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

2.1. BRIEF DESCRIPTION ON NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF HA

NAM PROVINCE

Table 2.1.1. Brief Description on Natural Conditions of Ha Nam Province:

No. Features Description

1 Geological position Ha Nam is situated in the geological coordinates

of above 20 Northern latitude and between 105 – 110

Eastern longitude, in the Southeast of Hong River

Delta, covered by the Northern key economic

development area. Being over 50km far from Hanoi

capital, Ha Nam is the capital’s Southern gateway. Its

North borders with Hanoi, the East borders with

Hung Yen and Thai Binh, the South borders with

Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh, the West borders with

Nam Dinh and Hoa Binh.

Ha Nam is the home of 06 district-level

administrative units including Phu Ly city, Binh Luc

district, Duy Tien district, Kim Bang district, Ly

Nhan district and Thanh Liem district; 119

administrative units at commune, ward and town

level. Phu Ly city is the political, economic and

cultural center of the Province.

2 Topography Thanks to its bordering region between Hong

River Delta and sediment stone range in the East, Ha





Nam is characterized by diversified terrain with delta,

half-plain half-mountain and hollow area. The

mountainous terrain accounts for 25.7% of province’s

area, while delta makes up 74.3% of area.

3 Climate Ha Nam owns the monsoon, hot and wet tropical

climate. The average temperature is 23 – 240C.

Average number of sunlight hours is from 1,300 to

1,500 hours. The annual average rainfall is 1,900mm.

The annual average humidity is 85%. Climate has

temperature mode-based differentiation with two

opposite seasons, namely summer and winter and two

relatively transit seasons namely spring and autumn.

Summer lasts from May to September, while winter

lasts from the mid of October to the mid of March,

spring often lasts from the mid of March to the end of

April and autumn often lasts from October of the mid

of November. In the two main seasons in a year,

wind's prevail directions are: South, Southwest and

Southeast in Summer, North, East and Northeast in

Winter

4 Protected area N/A

5 Project communes in the

protected area

- No commune is situated in the protected area.

6 Land use mechanism - Total land area is 823.1 km2, in which

+ 27% of land for agriculture production

+ 38% of forestry land

+ 5% of non-agricultural land (land with houses)

+ 26% of unused land.

6 Air pollution signs N/A

(Source: Statistic yearbook 2010 of Ha Nam province)




Table 2.1.2. Some socio-economic conditions


1 Population - 785,057 persons

-Average population density in the province is 954

persons/km2

2 Ethnic Minority(s) - There are 27 ethnic groups, the largest group is Kinh,

accounting for 99%; other ethnic groups such as Tay,

Ngai, Thai and others account for 0.03%, 0.01%, 0.01%

and 0.05%, respectively.

3 GDP (VND/person/year) 9.175.000 VND/year

4 Poverty situation Up to 2010, basically no poverty households were

available; farming and handicraft village economic were

significantly developed in rural area; living standard

was remarkably improved.

5 Main income source - Cultivation of different types of food trees and crops

(soybeans, cassava, peanut), vegetables, etc.

- Farming: Pigs, cows, cattle and so forth.

- Handicraft villages such as: Silk, drum, woven

bamboo, fine art horns, ceramics, carpenter, lace

embroider and so forth are remarkable income source

6 Rural hygiene - Wastewater self treated by households (penetrated in

garden land).

- Solid waste: In the towns, solid waste collection

system is equipped in the towns. While in rural area,

farmers usually burn or bury in their garden campus.

- Local people are allowed to construct and use septic

toilet.

- Generally, rural hygiene is relatively good.

7 Traffic infrastructure - Through inter-district and inter-communal road

system.

8 National power grid Up to now, 100% districts in the Province successfully

access to the national power grid. However, power

quality in many areas is low; wirelines are not updated,

resulting in overload in many areas.

(Source: Statistic yearbook 2010 of Ha Nam province)




2.2. PROJECT’S SCOPE

The “Rural Energy- Additional Financing (Phase 4) Subproject in Ha Nam” is

launched in 40 communes (wards) under 06 districts and cities of Ha Nam Province.

Table 2.2.1. Primary data table on project

1. Project Title Rural Energy - Additional Financing (Phase 4)

Subproject in Ha Nam province

2. New Construction Project

or Rehabilitation Project

Construct new bypasses of MV wirelines, MV

substations and LV wirelines

3. Total stations and total

length of wireline Bảng 2.2.2

4. Name of communes to be

located with stations or

wirelines

Bảng 2.2.3

5. Width of ROW - Width of MV wirelines: 7m.

6. Transformer stations or ROW within the

radius of 3km to nature reserves or natural

forests

No

7. Are transformer stations or ROW available

within radius of 300m to historical relics,

pagoda, temple or other cultural structures?.

No

8. Are transformer stations or ROW available

within radius of 300m to communal center

(People's Committee, schools, markets, clinics)

or radius of 2km to the residential areas?

No

Table 2.2.2 Total stations and wireline length

No. District New MV

line (km)

Number

of MV

pylons

New LV

line (km)

Number

of LV

pylons

Number

of

stations

Total

capacity

(kVA)

1 Phu Ly city 0,11 1 1,394 46 4 750

2 Binh Luc district 5,983 90 17,689 304 18 3.020

3 Thanh Liem

district

6,776 98 10,579 208 15 3.020




No. District New MV

line (km)

Number

of MV

pylons

New LV

line (km)

Number

of LV

pylons

Number

of

stations

Total

capacity

(kVA)

4 Kim Bang district 6,935 96 15,688 356 14 2.510

5 Ly Nhan district 0,784 14 1,614 30 4 690

6 Duy Tien district 2,588 36 4,027 31 6 920

Total: 23,176 335 50,991 975 61 10.910

Table 2.2.3 Project communes:

1. Phu Ly City (04

communes and

wards)

: Thanh Chau commune, Phu Van commune, Chau Son

commune and Quang Trung ward

2. Binh Luc district (11

communes)

: Communes of Dinh Xa, Boi Cau, Don Xa, Bo De, An Lao,

Tieu Dong, Binh Nghia, An Ninh, Trinh xa, My Tho and La

Son

3. Thanh Liem district

(10 communes &

towns)

: Communes of Liem Tiet, Thanh Luu, Liem Tuc, Thanh

Hai, Thanh Tan, Thanh Nghi, Thanh Binh, Liem Can, Liem

Phong and Kien Khe town.

4. Kim Bang district

(07 communes and

towns)

: Communes of Dai Cuong, Thuy Loi, Kha Phong, Ngoc

Son, Van Xa, Tan Son and Que town

5. Ly Nhan district (04

communes and

towns)

: Communes of Nhan Binh, Bac Ly, Hop Ly and Vinh Tru

town

6. Duy Tien district (04

communes and

towns)

: Communes of Chau Son, Tien Hiep, Moc Nam and Dong

Van town




2.3. PRE-CONSTRUCTION AND WHILE-CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES IN

ACCORDANCE WITH IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES

- Site clearance method

Site clearance covers mainly cutting trees off and clearing structures situated in pylon

foundations, trees with height of over 4m and buildings available in the route.

- Buildings in the route not affected should not be cleared.

- Trees at pylon foundation positions are mainly crops (rice, maize, potato, and

cassava). Communal People’s Committees and district People’s Committees in the project

area agree to implement compensation and site clearance as stipulated to ensure power

construction and erection. If it is fallen in the harvest season of farmers, it is required to

calculate to compensate trees on land for farmers in accordance with the average

productivity.

Trees with height of over 4m available in the route may be cut down before wiring.

- Compensation is undertaken by Ha Nam Power Company. Therefore, Ha Nam PPC

should complete the land recovery procedures and grand land for construction so that site can

be handed over to builders.

- Camp construction:

In order to ensure the storage of materials, plants and equipment and houses for

workers, the temporary works to be built include:

+ Indoor storage for cement, equipment, electrical materials and accessories: 30m2 x

17 communes = 510m2.

+ Outdoor storage with fence to protect transformers, medium voltage conductors,

construction tools, beam, bracket and backstays: 40m2 x 58 communes = 2,320m

2.

+ Temporary buildings for workers during construction: 20m2 x 58 communes

=1,160m2.

+ Indoor warehouse and temporary buildings are made from bamboo frame with

fiberboard, its roofs are covered with fiberboard and roofing felt.

Transporting materials and equipment to the site

Different types of equipment and materials such as: Conductors and insulators are

bought in Hanoi and transported by trucks to the route center of each project component (site

storage).

Goods are transported from Hanoi to the site storage as follows:

+ Protection switchgear, insulators and cables with small packing, scattered goods

shall be transported to the site by trucks and manually unloaded.

+ Conductors with bulk quantity shall be transported to the site by the less than 5 ton

trucks and 5 ton cranes.

+ Centrifugal concrete pylon bought in Hanoi, Ha Nam or Ninh Binh shall be

transported to the site by KMAT 7.5 ton truck, each shipment delivers 6 pylon sections,

loaded by 5 ton cranes. Pylons are piled at the ending route and scattered transported to the

site by combining the manual and mechanical method.

+ Other materials such as beam, backstay, accessories, etc from Hanoi shall be

transported to the site by the 5 ton trucks and manually unloaded.




+ Cement bought in districts is transported by the 5 ton trucks and manually

unloaded.

+ Sand and stone bought at the project’s district, 10km distance, shall be transported

by the 5 ton dump trucks and manually unloaded.

2.4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT

Table 2.4. Different types of main construction plants and equipment:

No. Description Quantity Operation

capacity

1 KMAT truck 03 7.5 ton

2 Punching and Shearing Machine 03

3 Electric welding machine 03 21KVA

4 Generator 03

5 Pump 03 30kVA20m3/h

6 Concrete breaker 03

7 Gas welding machine 03

8 Vibrator 03

9 Concrete mixer 03 2501-5001

10 Hoists and pulleys 03 5 tons

11 Bleck truck 03 0.5

12 Caliper 03

13 High voltage detector 03

14 Gloves, boots and insulated mats 03

15 Cranes 03 10 tons

16 Fire extinguishers 03

2.5. EXPECTED MEASURES TO TRANSPORT MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

TO THE SITE

- Cement and various types of electrical materials and equipments are scattered

transported by trucks and workers to the indoor warehouses at the site along the route with

weighted average transportation distance of 100m.




- The centrifugal concrete pylons are transited by trucks and workers (the average

distance is equal to the distance of transporting cement).

- Sand and stone are transported by light trucks and workers with the same average

distance to the distance of transporting pylon).

- Others materials are transported from indoor warehouse by light trucks and workers

with the same average distance to the distance of transporting cement).

2.6. EXPECTED IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

The expected construction schedule for the works (for main works) is as follows:

No. Items Period (month)

1 2 3 4

A Medium & low voltage

wirelines:

1 Premise preparation

2 Digging and casting column

foundation

3 Erecting column and grounding

4 Erecting beam, insulator and

wiring

5 Completion and hand-over

B Transformer stations:

1 Site preparation

2 Construction

3 Electric installation

4 Completion and hand-over

The expected construction period is 03 months; the maximum expected numbers of

workers collected at each construction site are 15 persons.

3. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON THE PROJECT’S ENVIRONMENT IMPACT

ASSESSMENT

3.1 LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF VIETNAM

The Vietnamese Government promulgates some laws and regulations on

environmental protection. Such documents include:

- Legislation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (April 1992) specifies that the

State-own enterprises, governmental agencies, cooperatives and national defense bodies must




be responsible for fulfilling policies on environmental protection to ensure the proper use of

natural resources and environmental protection.

- Law on Environmental Protection approved by the National Assembly on 29th

November 2005 and valid since 1st July 2006, superseding Law on Environmental Protection

in 1993 which prescribes responsibilities of the central, locality, individuals and

organizations in environment degrading prevention and protection and implements specific

environmental protection functions.

- Law on Forest Protection (1992) specifies on managing, protecting, developing and

exploiting forest and preventing cutting trees downs and deforestation.

- Law on Protection of People's Health (11th

July 1989): Rights and obligations of

residents in health protection, guiding principles on health protection, sanitation education in

people; conduct the standby measures; rehabilitate and clean living environment; ensure

labor sanitation standards, food and foodstuff hygiene.

- Decree No. 80/2006/ND-CP dated 9th

August 2005 of the Government of Vietnam

on detail regulations and guidance on implementing some articles of revised Law on

Environment in 2005.

- Decree No 21/2008/ND-CP dated 28th

February 2008 of the Government on

amending and supplementing some articles of Decree No. 80/2006/ND-CP dated 9th August

2006.


August 2006 of the Government on

sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of environmental protection.


August 2005 of the Government detailing

and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the electricity Law on Protection

of safety of high-voltage power grid works.


October 2009 of the Government on

amendment and supplement of some articles of Decree No. 106/2005/ND-CP of the

Government on detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the

electricity Law on Protection of safety of high-voltage power grid works.

- Circular No. 12/2011/TT-BTNMT dated 14th

April 2011 on managing hazardous

waste.

- Decree No. 52/1999/ND-CP: Regulations on managing construction investment with

amendments on environmental issues in construction management.

- Circular No. 26/2011/TT-BTNMT dated 18th

July 2011 on prescribing details of

some articles of Decree No. 29/2011/ND-CP dated 18th April 2011 regarding regulations on

strategic environmental assessment, environmental impacts and environmental protection

commitment.

- The national technical codes: QCVN08: 2008/BTNMT - the national technical

regulations on quality of surface water; QCVN05: 2009/BTNMT – Air quality- Standards

on ambient air quality; QCVN 26:2010/BTNMT – National Technical Regulation on

Noise; QCVN 27:2010 – National Technical Regulation on Vibration

- EVN's guideline No. 2623/CV-EVN - KHCN & MT dated 28th

May 2007 on

managing and preventing pollution and contact with PCBs.

3.2 PROTECTION POLICY OF THE WORLD BANK (WB)

- OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment




- OP/BP 4.12 – Involuntary resettlement

- WB’s Policy on Information Access

Detail guidelines on evaluation method and general impacts on transmission wireline

projects may be found in

- The World Bank, 1991, Source Materials on Environmental Assessment, 3rd

edition.

- IFC, 2007. Guidelines on Environment, Health and Safety for power transmission

and distribution projects

- Framework regulations on environmental protection application for Rural

Distribution Grid Project




4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

4.1. TYPES OF IMPACTS

Environmental Impact Assessment focuses on main environmental issues in each

highest priority Solution of the Project. Potential impacts of preparation, construction and

operation phases are evaluated under four levels as follows:

i. NO IMPACT Potential impacts of project activities are evaluated as negligible if

such activities are naturally eliminated in terms of time and space from environmental

sections.

ii. SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS An impact is considered to be significant if the project

activities may affect environmental sections. Significant impacts may be “positive” or

“negative”. Following criteria is applied to determined a significant impact:

a) Spatial scale of the impact (at Site, in locality, area, or nationwide/global

scale);

b) Time interval of impact (short-term, medium- term or long-term);

c) Change level of environmental sections caused by project activities (small,

medium and significant);

d) Significance for local persons;

e) Compliance with the national, provincial or district laws, standards and

regulations on environment;

f) Compliance with Vietnam’s international commitments. Such commitments

include Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance,

especially living environment of water-bird species (RAMSAR), Convention

concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

(Convention on World’s Heritage) and Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species (CITES);

g) Compliance with WB’s guidelines, policies and regulations.

iii. NEGLIGIBLE IMPACTS If an impact appears but it is disqualified with a

significant impact, it shall be regarded as NEGLIGIBLE impact. Negligible impacts

may be “positive” or “negative”.

iv. MINIMIZED IMPACT The potential impacts of a project activity on environmental

sectors are considered to be minimized if the recommended mitigation measures and

methods for significant adverse impacts successfully prevent or reduce the impacts to

the acceptable level.




4.2. DETERMINATION OF THE PROJECT’S POTENTIAL IMPACTS

The Project shall pay an essential role in electrification and poverty elimination

program in 40 communes, wards and town in 06 project districts and cities. The Project also

facilitates the industrialization and modernization policy promulgated by the Government and

offers best opportunities for general socio-economic development to poor areas.

When distribution wirelines are constructed, local persons tend to move to live near

such wirelines. Local People’s Committee shall prepare a specific plan to support the

regional development. Such plans include: road, residential areas, industrial and agricultural

development, etc. Such district/commune or province shall divert the development as

sketched in these plans.

In addition to noticeable positive impacts, variety of adverse impacts may be posted

on environment and local socio-economics. By using the Checklist of Environmental Test

Data and Background Environment List as guided in the Guidelines, the environmental

protection measures are applied for the Rural Energy Project No. II. Quick impact assessment

of the Project is described in Table 4.2




Table 4.2 Quick Impact Assessment of the Project

Screening question Yes No Impact description

1. Project location: Is it near or within the

following environmental sensitive areas?

- Cultural sites No

- Reserve areas No

- Wetland No

Forest under the Program 661 No

- Estuary No

- Buffer area of the reserved area No

- Nature reserves: Mangrove and bird sanctuary No

- Rivers and reservoirs Yes Dinh Xa commune is situated near rivers and lakes. If

construction is conducted in rainy season, water impurity

may be available because soil runs with water flow into

rivers and lakes.

- Channels and irrigation system No

2. Potential environmental impacts





- Invasion of cultural/historical sites No

- Encroaching the ecosystem No

- Deforming landscape and increasing waste Yes - Land and construction materials may be left in the site.

See more in section 4.2.4

- Change of surface water or water flow quality Yes - Water impurity may be higher due to soil sediment from

column digging, discharging on springs, rivers, ponds

and reservoirs towards the water flow. Concretely, Dinh

Xa commune where wireline has pylon positions near

river (Day River) and lake. If construction is conducted

in rainy season, water impurity may be available because

soil runs with water flow into spring.

- Water impurity due to eroding by surface water

flow

No

- Does waste water from camps directly discharge

into water surface area?

Yes Wastewater from camps are mainly self penetrated into

land, a small part may be discharged into spring and

ponds when it rains.

- Does waste water from construction directly

discharge into water surface area?

Yes Waste water from construction mainly serves for

concreting pile foundation, hence, discharging into the

surface water source is negligible. It only exists in rainy

condition.

- Is dust level increased? Yes - Dust is caused by earthworks, especially in dry season





- Dust is caused by means of transportation of materials

and equipment during Project’s construction.

- Is noise and/or vibration increased? Yes - Noise during construction shall be complied with

Vietnam Standard TCVN 5949:1998. Use of construction

machines is insignificant because of small scope of the

project and short construction time.

- Noise and vibration is caused by Equipment, material

transportation, means of transportation of the project,

erection of column and wiring, generator (if any)

- Permanent land recovery Yes - Permanent land recovery for pile foundation, sleepers

and station construction positions. See more in section

4.2.1

- Temporary land recovery Yes - Some production land would be mobilized to serve for

construction in a short time See more in section 4.2.1

- - Is required to remove households? No - No households are required to remove by the Project.

- Risk for disease emission from construction

workers to local people (and vice versa)

Yes - Each worker group shall be hired when constructing

project in each commune including 15 persons. Disease

dissemination may be well prevented with local workers

and person if health examination and good qualification

are taken into consideration before they are allowed to

involve in construction.

- Potential conflict between construction workers Yes - Difference in income, culture and behaviors.





and local people

- Explosive substances or hazardous chemicals in

the project

No - Explosive substances and hazardous chemicals are not

used in the project.

- Previously, are there any accidents due to

unexploded ordinances or explosive materials left

from the war?

No - This area is highly used by the local people and

authority. No risks on unexploded ordinances or

explosive materials left from the war are found.

- Project construction causes the local traffic

disorder.

Yes - Activities of transporting materials, equipment,

earthworks and column erection affect the normal traffic

in the area within a short period of time.

- Project construction causes damages to the

available traffic road system

Yes - Heavy-duty means of transportation may make the

available roads degraded. Moreover, quality of the rural

roads is not so good in nature.

- Earthworks during construction cause erosion Yes - Pile foundation excavation.

- Vegetation area reduces due to ROW clearance and

construction of temporary path.

- - Regarding soil erosion, this impact is regarded as

negligible one due to small scale of related activities,

short-time occurrence and insignificant affected area.

Moreover, such impacts may be smaller when mitigation

measures are conducted.

- Is it required to open a new service road? No - MV and LV wirelines are completely constructed along

with inter-village and inter-communal roads.





Construction of temporary road is unavailable.

- Does the Project cause living environment break of

flora and fauna?

Yes - Some trees should be cut off. However, such trees are

general categories such as industrial trees and fruit trees.

- Some small insects and animals losing its living

environment are general species. The area of losing

ecology environment is smaller than that of entire

affected ecosystem. The main ecosystem affected by the

Project is agricultural area, industrial forestation and

brush along the road, etc. See more in section 4.2.3

- Does the project affect aviation traffic? No - Project construction position is not near any airports or

terminals. Construction height of pylon is less than 50m,

hence, airplanes are not affected.

- Does the Project cause any risk for people health

(electro magnetic field, Electric shock, etc)?

Yes - Accidents may be available if specific safety measures

are not properly concerned.

- With voltage of up to 35kV, no impacts of electric field

is found.




4.2.1: Temporary and permanent occupation of land

Table 4.2.1. Summary of land area occupied by the Project (m2)

Voltage

rate :

Temporarily occupied land (m2) Permanently occupied land (m

2)

Agricultural

land

Hill &

garden

land

Public

land Total

Agricultural

land

Hill &

garden

land

Public

land Total

MV & LV

wirelines;

transformer

stations

8,630 1,510 8,640 18,780 1,578 169 1,461 3,208

General impacts due to land occupation of MV and LV wirelines and transformer stations

are regarded as negligible one. Agricultural, forestry and public land area (unoccupied land area

along the inter-village and inter-communal roads) which is temporarily occupied is 18,780 m2

(4.6%). While the permanently occupied agricultural, forestry and public land area is 3,208m2

(0.43%).

Environmental impact due to route corridor clearance shall be minimized through

compensation plan and recovery measures as specified in the Report on Compensation and

Resettlement.

Land occupied by the Project (including medium voltage wirelines and transformer

station) does not affect great and important works (such as buildings and outlets) or auxiliary

works (such as cattle sheds, fence walls, garden and playground).

Trees which are higher than 4 shall be cut down; this impact is short term and negligible.

ROW shall be planted with trees for general vegetation with height of less than 4m.

The Project’s Compensation and Resettlement Plan also specifies that contractors must

return plane of temporarily occupied agricultural land lots to its origin status which can cultivate

for the land owners. The wirelines passing the agricultural land lots would cause no impact on

lower cultivation.

4.2.2: Impacts on affected households

Table 4.2.2: Number of affected households

District

Number of

communes &

wards

Number of affected

households

1. Phu Ly city 4 4

2. Binh Luc district 11 12

3. Thanh Liem district 10 52




4. Kim Bang district 7 45

5. Ly Nhan district 4 9

6. Duy Tien district 4 4

Total 40 126

4.2.3: Impacts on biological resources

The Project's impact on vegetation covers temporary and permanent impacts. No part of

power grid trespasses the well developed forest, poor forest, secondary forest or scattered forest.

MV wireline mainly passes paddy field along with inter-village and inter-communal roads.

Main impacts on ecology may be briefed as follows:

Impacts on ecological environment are negligible. The Project is designed to adhere along

inter-communal, inter-village and inter-district road axis. Wireline construction lays no

impacts on biological resource

See Tables 4.2.3a and 4.2.3b. for more details about occupied land and number of trees to

be cut down, etc.




Table 4.2.3a Permanently occupied land area by district (m2)

District

Total

permanently

occupied

land (m2)

Agricultural

land

(m2)

Forestry land

(m2)

Public land

(m2)

Residential

land

(m2)

Other lands

(m2)

Number of

cut

tress

(tree)

1. Phu Ly city 100 20 24 56 0 0 0

2. Binh Luc

district 884 191 0 693 0 0 0

3. Thanh Liem

district 858 404 145 309 0 0 23

4. Kim Bang

district 824 824 0 0 0 0 0

5. Ly Nhan

district 168 94 0 74 0 0 0

6. Duy Tien

district 374 45 0 329 0 0 0




Table 4.2.3b Temporarily occupied land area by districts (hectare)

District

Total

temporarily

occupied

land (m2)

Agricultural

land

(m2)

Forestry land

(m2)

Public land

(m2)

Residential

land

(m2)

Other lands

(m2)

Number of

cut

tress

(tree)

1. Phu Ly city 200 50 0 150 0 0 0

2. Binh Luc

district

4,470 970 0 3500 0 0 0

3. Thanh Liem

district

5,710 2,270 1,510 1,930 0 0 272

4. Kim Bang

district

4,420 4,420 0 0 0 0 0

5. Ly Nhan district 1,030 730 0 300 0 0 0

6. Duy Tien

district

2,950 190 0 2,760 0 0 0




4.2.4: Solid waste arisen during earthworks

Volume of excavated stone and soil closely relates to number of pylons to be constructed

within the project frame.

Table 4.2.4. Number of pylons to be built and expected volume of excavated soil:

District

Number

of

communes

Medium

voltage

wireline

(km)

Number

of MV

pylons

Low

Voltage

Wirelines

(km)

Number

of LV

pylons

Number

of

stations

Quantity

of

excavated

soil (m3)

1. Phu Ly

city

4 0,11 1 1,394 46 4

80

2. Binh

Luc

district

11 5,983 90 17,689 304 18

433

3. Thanh

Liem

district

10 6,776 98 10,579 208 15

318

4. Kim

Bang

district

7 6,935 96 15,688 356 14

451

5. Ly

Nhan

district

4 0,784 14 1,614 30 4

64

6. Duy

Tien

district

4 2,588 36 4,027 31 6

75

Total: 40 23,176 335 50,991 975 61 1420

Data given in the above table helps us to imagine about volume of surplus soil when

casting column foundation. Considering about project scale, numbers of project communes,

number of pylons to be built are 2172 pylons (both MV and LV wirelines) and 92 transformer

stations, it is found that project’s impacts on soil erosion, causing impurity in surface water

and dust are harmful to environment; such impacts are insignificant. Because with MV

wirelines, average interval among pylons is about 100m, at each position and volume of

excavated soil to concrete pile foundation is approximately 2-2.5m3; for LV wireline, average

interval among pylons is about 35- 40m and volume of excavated soil to concrete pile

foundation is approximately 0.8 - 1.0m3. Terrain to be constructed in project communes is

completely delta.




MV and LV wirelines mainly go along the inter-communal road and trespass paddy

fields. For positions in the fields, crop soil layer is aggrandized at site, the remaining is used

to embank foundation protection cover. Regarding positions within the unoccupied corridor of

inter-village and inter-communal roads, the surplus soil must be transported to the place as

directed by the CPC. Such impacts may be minimized if mitigation measures are strictly

adhered.

4.3. IMPACT ON CULTURAL- HISTORICAL AREA (NONE)




5. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

During preparing the Project (2011), following works were conducted:

Activity 1: Understand and discuss with the local authority about wiring position

Activity 2: Make a survey and statistics about impacts

Activity 3: Organize meetings with affected households

After finishing survey, the Consultant must notify the local persons and affected

communes about the project’s activities. Public notice form should be applied. Such notices

must be provided to the local persons with following contents, especially in the project

communes:

- General information about Project title, the Project Owner, project scale, names of

project districts and communes;

- Possible impacts on environment due to project’s activities;

- Applied mitigation measures to minimize impacts on environment;

- Project implementation plan

- Place to receive the community’s feedback on project-related environmental issues

This activity was launched from June to July 2011 in all project districts and

communes. Following representatives of organizations were invited and involved in the

community consultation meeting, concretely:

Affected households;

Fatherland Front Committee

Women Association;

Youth union;

Youth union;

Farmer association

People’s Committee;

Other concerned agencies and mass organizations.

Feedback received from the community consultation meetings was briefed as follows:

- Rural power grid quality in this area is very poor, not eligible to satisfy power

consumption of local persons, hence, they were very happy if the project was

launched. Local persons would completely support the Project Owner and construction

Contractors to fulfill the Project;

- The Project may cause some environmental impacts such as noise and dust but its

scale and level were negligible and acceptable;

- Local persons were available to cooperate with the Project Owner and construction

Contractors to manage the Project's environmental issues;

- The construction Contractors must commit to clear and return the plane for

temporarily employed land lots for Project performance;

- Recommended mitigation measures for noise and dust should be strictly adhered

during construction and transportation of raw materials.




Details of feedback received from the consultation are described in Appendix 3.

Activity 4: Continue receiving feedback from affected households.

Activity 5: Announce results and determine responsibility in EMP

The Project is only issued with the investment license after a proper adjustment on

design, position of wirelines, capacity and technology applied in the project is made in

accordance with requirements on immigration and environmental protection. In order to settle

requirements of WB’s OP 4.01, the Consultant and NPC must:

Provide copies of Report on Environmental Impact Assessment, preliminary

emigration plan and Executive Summary in Vietnamese to Communal People’s

Committees to Provincial People’s Committees in the project area.

Advertise on project in some series of main newspapers issued by the locality in 2

months. Notify in public about community opinion collection regarding the project’s

main activities, preliminary emigration plan, Report on Environmental Impact

Assessment in working hours in 2 months at following locations: 1) Provincial

People’s Committees; and 2) Communal People’s Committees.

Copies of EMP report in English and Vietnamese shall be submitted to Vietnam

Development Information Center at 63 Ly Thai To, Hanoi for access.

EMP in English shall be submitted to the World Bank to serve for WB’s publication.




6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN

6.1 THE PROJECT’S SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT:

Information and communication program:

Basic information includes:

a) Population survey and statistics include:

- Name and number of people in a household.

- Number, types and area of damaged houses

- Number, types and area of damaged residential land lot

- Number, types and area of affected agricultural land

- Number and types of affected crops and trees

- Affected business including architectural structures, land and other assets.

- Affected profitable assets: percent of total affected assets

- Quantity and classification of other fixed assets affected by each sub-project, and

- Temporary damages for profitable assets

b) Certain socio-economic survey of DPs: Age, gender, nation, qualification, occupation,

income source and total income of whole household.

c) Public news release at the Site regarding (a) bidding package, (b) contractor, (c) detailed

construction plan and (d) hotline to solve claims on social and environmental issues.

Public news release during project preparation through community consultancy meeting

and mass media.

Claim and compensation mechanism

Claims and questions relating to any aspects of RP, including determination of unit

price and quantity of lost assets shall be solved in accordance with following steps:

Step 1: If any person claims about any issue of the resettlement and life recovery

program, he may present directly or submit a written claim to authority persons of the

commune. The CPC shall settle such questions within 15 working days since the claim

is received.

Step 2: If claimer is not satisfied with decisions in Step 1, his claim may be submitted to

district People’s Committee or CRC within 15 working days since the date of receiving

the decision in step 1. The DPC or CRC shall make decision within 15 working days

since the date of receiving the claim.

Step 3: If the claimer is still dissatisfied with decision of the district authority, he may

lodge the appeal to the PPC or the district CRC within 15 working days since the date

of receiving decision of DPC or district CRC. Within 15 working days, PPC or PCRC

shall decide such claim.

Step 4: If he is still dissatisfied with decision released by the provincial authority, he may

file the appeal to the district court within 15 working days since the date of receiving

decision made by PPC or PCRC.

DPs are completely exempted from administrative and legal fees and charges.

Monitoring and evaluation system

Power companies and concerned PMUs work closely with corresponding DPCs/CPCs

at the management units and independent supervision unit to launch regular

monitoring of Compensation and Resettlement Plan Performance. Findings shall be

recorded in the quarterly report to submit EVN, power companies and concerned

provincial power companies.




Internal inspection and monitoring include:

- Verifying that basic information about DPs, evaluating lost or damaged assets,

compensations, benefits of resettlement and life recovery are conducted in accordance

with the regulations of the corresponding Policy Framework and RP.

- Monitoring that RP is conducted as designed and approved.

- Determining that financial resources to implement RP are provided to PMUs in due

date with full quantity to fufill the objectives; Such resources are properly used by

PMUs as prescribed in RP.

- Archiving all claims and questions and ensuring that such claims are solved as

scheduled.

Independent supervision: Independent units or independent consultancy units employed

by PCs under EVN shall conduct regular monitoring and external evaluation in addition

to RP performance. Independent organizations may be schools, research institutions,

NGOs or independent consultancy companies with professional staffs and Terms of

Reference (TOR) accepted by World Bank.

In order to verify information provided to internal control and supervision report of

corresponding power companies, employed external supervisors shall visit sample,

approximately 20% of affected households in the concerned province in 6 months since

RP is conducted to:

- Determine whether procedures on involvement of DPs, compensation work,

Rights of recovering new life are conducted in accordance with policy

framework or not; and

- Evaluating whether objectives of policy framework on improving or at least ensuring

living standards and income of DPs are satisfied or not.

- Collecting quality criteria of socio-economic impacts on DPs when the Project is

conducted.

- Recommending amendments during RP performance in case it is possible to put

forward principles and objectives of policy framework.




6.2. MITIGATION MEASURES

Table. 6.2. Mitigation Measures applied for the project

No. Impacts Impact

assessment Mitigation measures Expenses

Implemented

by

Pre-

construction

phase

1 Temporary or

permanent

occupancy of

land

Able to

minimize

- To thoroughly investigate construction site, consult the local persons to

find out the best wiring solution.

- To avoid areas with ecological value (forest, natural reserve area, wetlands,

etc)

- To apply proper compensation level.

The

Consultant

2 Households

affected by the

Project

Able to

minimize

- To require to select wiring solution to minimize housing removal of local

persons

- To increase distance between stations, increase height of the station, using

suspended stations and so forth to minimize impacts on households.

- To apply proper compensation for impacts.

The

Consultant

Construction

phase

3 Noise and

vibration

Negligible

impact

- Only construction machines with noise in the allowance limit can be used.

- Drivers should be reminded and encouraged not to use truck’s horn.

- Local community should be consulted when it is expected to construct at

Construction

unit




No. Impacts Impact


Implemented

by

night time. Construction at night-time is only conducted when approval is

released by the community and the community must be notified before

constructing at night-time.

4 Soil erosion Negligible

impact

- Soil excavation and transportation activities in often eroded and slide areas

or areas near rivers and lakes should be conducted in dry season, after

harvesting during the shortest time.

- Guide ways should be provided to drain water for construction areas in the

high erosive area.

- It is required to bank dykes and choke dikes to prevent erosion and

landslide.

- Plane should be restored after erecting piles.

Available in

bidding unit

price

Construction

unit

5 Air pollution Negligible

impact

- Minimizing construction period in all sites. It is required to usually water

and clean dirty columns or areas which may cause dust.

- Fences should be available in case of strong wind.

- Using diesel generators should be minimized.

6 Impacts on

agricultural

production due

to temporary

occupancy of

production land

Negligible

impact

- Construction should be conducted after harvesting crops if possible.

- Proper compensation for damages of agriculture should be applied.

- Intact status of agricultural land should be recovered for construction sites

after construction.

Available in

bidding unit

price

Construction

unit

7 Impacts on traffic Negligible - Construction activities should be minimized (excavation, cabling) in areas Contractor




No. Impacts Impact


Implemented

by

impact with high traffic density.

- Warning signs should be used for construction sites and workers should be

arranged to guide traffic when vehicles temporarily stop on road to load

materials and equipment.

- Local authority should be closely cooperated to arrange material

transportation.

- Areas with high traffic density should be avoided

8 Damages on

local road

system

Able to

minimize

- The contractor should commit not to use over-heavy duty trucks which can

damage the local road system.

- It is prohibited over- heavy duty trucks transporting construction materials

or equipment into roads. Vehicle loads should be divided and reduced so that

road is not damaged.

- It is required to repair roads damaged and degraded due to project’s

activities.

Available in

bidding unit

price

Construction

unit

9 Solid waste from

excavation and

construction

Negligible

impact

- The Contractor must commit to clean the sites and transport solid waste to

the required places.

- Local people are encouraged to use non-hazardous waste materials from

construction into useful works, such as using abundant soil and stone for

aggrandizement, using wooden core from large drum of electric wire as

home appliances, collecting recycle materials for sales, etc

Available in

bidding unit

price

Contractor

10 Impacts on

environment

caused by

Able to

minimize

- Impact on natural forest should be avoided: 1) firing in forest is prohibited;

2) it is not allowed to cut down trees or use natural products of forest as

wood for cooking; 3) workers are not allowed to hunt, harvest and encroach

Available in

bidding unit

Contractor




No. Impacts Impact


Implemented

by

construction

workers

animals and vegetable in the forest.

- Solid waste must be minimized: Solid waste must be discharged in

regulated landfill. It is possible to sign contract with the local sanitation and

environmental companies to collect solid waste.

- Mobile toilet should be used or toilet should be available for workers'

camps in the Site.

- Clean water supply system and waste water collection system should be

properly provided in workers’ camps in the Site.

price

11 Encroach the

living

environment of

fauna and flora

Negligible

impact

- Clearance area should be minimized by planning and constructing

wirelines in the available vegetation.

- It is supposed to apply manual clearance and keeping vegetation within the

allowable maximum scope.

- Plant should not be burnt right at clearance place. Plants should be

collected in an accepted place. Local persons are encouraged to use the cut

plants for useful purposes such as composting green manure or fertilizing.

12 Conflict

between

construction

workers and

local people

Negligible

impact

- Local persons should be employed for simple construction works at most

to avoid emigration phenomenon.

- In case worker camps are situated near the communal center, the Employer

should require the Contractor to provide fully and timely information about

such construction worker groups to the Communal People's Committee of

that area. By exchanging in an opened-hearted and bidirectional manner, the

CPC and the Contractor can arrange proper accommodation for this worker

group.




No. Impacts Impact


Implemented

by

- Clearance: In the general provisions of the Contract, it is required to

specify that: After finishing the Project, camps must be clearly removed and

camping area must be restored with its intact status.

13 Labor health and

safety

Able to

minimize

- Healthcare service should be offered to worker teams.

- Workers should be disseminated with regulations and procedures on labor

safety.

- Safety equipment should be provided to workers. Unauthorized persons are

not allowed to enter the construction site.

Available in

bidding unit

price

Construction

unit

Operation phase

14 Development

and poverty

elimination

Positive

impacts

- Mitigation Measures are not required for the project

15 Land

subdivision and

increase of

possibility to

penetrate into

wild regions

Negligible

impact

- Unused roads should be restored to its intact status.

- The local Department of Forest Natural Resources should be closely

worked with to check use of forest path of local persons at areas with forests

or remote areas.

- Local persons and technicians should be trained about animal protection

measures during clearing the ROW.

Operation

expenses

The Project

Owner

16 Labor health and

safety

Able to

minimize

- Power safety regulation should be popularized to the local persons.

- It is supposed to adhere to Decree No. 106 of the Government on power

Operation

expenses

The Project

Owner




No. Impacts Impact


Implemented

by

grid protection.

- Local persons and technicians should be regularly trained about labor

safety issues.

- It is not allowed to burn leaves recovered during ROW clearance.

(Ha Nam

power

company)

17 Reduction of air

pollution caused

by diesel

generators

Positive

impacts

- Mitigation Measures are not required for the project

18 EMF No impact - Mitigation Measures are not required for the project

19 Impacts on birds

and airplanes

No impact - Mitigation Measures are not required for the project

20 Hazardous

pollution due to

oil

Negligible

impact

- Change of transformer oil should be conducted in workshop.

- Oil with PCB is not used.

- Oil recovery methods should be applied during maintenance to avoid

impacts on environment.




6.3. DISCOVERY PROCESS

During construction and operation of the project, archaeology, injuries and electric shock, etc are

detected; it is possible to handle as follows:

Table 6.3: Cultural detecting process template during earthworks

No. Possible risks Solution Implementation

Responsibility

1 Find kinds suspected to

be archaeology during

excavation

Protect the site and notify the local

authority and cultural and museum

management agencies or Department

of Culture & Information.

Hand in the kinds to the competent

authority

Determine construction continuity

possibility of the works or suspend to

continue investigation

- Communal People's

Committee

- Department of

Culture and

Information

- Construction unit

- Project Management

Unit

2 Find tombs and remains

during earthworks

Protect the site and notify the local

authority

Determine person/method and time to

retrieve and recommend the next steps

Launch retrieval works

- Construction unit


Unit

- Local authority

3 Have claims of local

persons on

environmental pollution

Settle problems as soon as possible

Note it in the work log

Discuss with the Project Owner/ Local

authority about claim settlement

measures


Unit

- Construction unit

4 Accidents due to

unexploded ordinances

or explosive materials

left from the war

Conduct emergency treatment and

promptly move the victims to the

nearest clinical stations and hospital

Protect site and erect warning signs

Prepare the site minutes

- Construction unit


Unit

- Local authority

(commune and

province)

5 Detect explosive

materials

Protect the site

Report the competent authority

Contact with the nearest military unit

to receive necessary support

- Construction unit

- Military

headquarters of

commune, district

and province

6 Other emergencies Conduct emergency settlement as soon - Project Management




No. Possible risks Solution Implementation

Responsibility

(specify) as possible, report the concerned

agencies

Unit

- Construction unit

6.4 MONITORING PROGRAM

Table 6.4. Environmental Monitoring Plan

Environm

ental

impacts

Objects to be monitors Monitoring

location

Monitoring

methods Expenses

Monitor

ing

responsi

bility

1. Clearing

vegetation

/ cut down

trees

Clearance techniques

and scope

Along Right Of

Way

Observe Recorded

in the

Contracto

r’s

expenses

Contract

or

2. Rural

traffic

Traffic road surface

situation, traffic density

Quantity, load and

frequency of vehicles and

construction machines

available in road

Along the road Observe -

Available

in bidding

unit price

Contract

or

3. Surface

water

quality,

sediment

and

erosion

Water drainage system

from construction area

and silt pits

Weather when

excavating

Clearance level of

vegetation

Slope in construction

site

Within the

station campus

of route

corridor,

surface water

source near the

construction

site, stations

and pylons in

sloppy places

Observe N/A




4. Dust

and ar

pollution

Tightness of tank

bottom and canvas in

trucks transporting soil

and sand; Check dust

dispersing possibility

from soil and sand piles

Along the

transportation

road

Houses of

local persons

or works

nearest to the

site

Observe

5. Noise Noise from construction

vehicles and machines

and

preparation/construction

activities

Hours to conduct

construction activities

as well as raw material

loading

House of local

persons along

the route

Listen,

interview

local

persons

Available

in

bidding

unit price

Contract

or

6.

Sanitation

at the site

Domestic waste,;

construction waste and

waste water at the site

Water

drainage path,

camp, station

and waste

treatment

places

Observe Available

in

bidding

unit price

Contract

or

7. Safety

of worker

and local

persons

Meeting to disseminate

labor safety

First aid boxes, storage

place of dangerous

materials

Warning objects at

dangerous place

At station and

camps

Pile

foundation to

be constructed

and place

where wiring

is conducted

on road

Observe,

interview,

read site

diary

Contract

or

Operation

Electric

field and

magnetic

field

electric field intensity

and magnetic field

intensity

House of local

persons along

the route

Electromete

r/

magnetomet

er

-

Recorded

in the

operation

expenses

of

wirelines

Design

consulta

nt




Noise Noise and distance from

station to the nearest

house of local person

At the nearest

house of local

person

Use

measureme

nt device

Recorded

in the

operation

expenses

of

wirelines

NPC

Safety Inspection and

maintenance works of

the management team

in charge of transformer

station

Fire protection

equipment

Office of

station

management

team

At office of

station

management

team

Check

diary/plan

Observe

Recorded

in the

operation

expenses

of

wirelines




6.5. IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORY PLAN

Table 6.5. Implementation of Environmental Monitory Plan.

Roles Duties Organization

Environmental

official

Assist and provide contacts in case of

environmental problems.

Educator Be in charge of project performance on

daily basis. Including activities as follows:

i. Preparing plans and implementing

environmental management activities

during construction.

ii. Cooperating with other stakeholders

relating to the environmental

management activities.

iii. Conducting internal supervision and

independent control.

iv. Supervising and funding the

supervision activities.

v. Reporting environmental information

to the relevant stakeholders.

vi. Preparing environmental assessment

reports in accordance with safety policy

of WB and the Government of Vietnam

Project operation

agency

Be responsible for operating the project

including environmental management and

monitoring activities during operation.

Supervising

Contractor

Be in charge of supervising the Contractor

during construction including

implementation of environmental

management activities in EMP

Construction

Contractor

Be responsible for complying with the

technical requirement of the Environmental




Roles Duties Organization

Management Plan Including:

i. Apply the mitigation measures during

construction

ii. Ensure safety for construction workers

and local person during construction.

iii. Adhere policies of Vietnam and WB

about environmental protection during

construction.

SIMC Be responsible for monitoring EMP

performance

Community

involvement into

EMP

Involve in environmental monitoring and

management

Provincial-level

environmental

monitoring

Supervise the implementation of EMP

under the Environmental License




6.6. REPORTING PROCESS

Table 6.6.1. Sample monitoring reporting process:

No. Issues to be

reported

The first reporting

level

The second

reporting level

The third reporting

level (Some copies

submitted to

Department of

Natural Resources

and Environment)

Construction

phase

1 Implementing

mitigation

measures and site

environment

management plan

Prepared by: Contractor

Frequency: Monthly

Submitted to: PMUs


Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to:

Provincial People’s

Committees


Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to: WB

2 Environmental

monitoring Prepared by:

Technical supervisor of

PMU

Frequency: Monthly

Submitted to: PMU


Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to:


Committees


Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to: WB

Prepared by: SIMC

Frequency: Twice

during project

performance. One

during construction,

one after finishing

construction

Submitted to: WB and

PMUs of the Project

Owner

Operation phase

1 Environmental

monitoring

including safety

issuess

Prepared by: General

service cooperatives or

power sales

cooperatives

Prepared by: PMU

Frequency: Semi-

annual

Prepared by: Provincial People’s

Committees




No. Issues to be

reported

The first reporting

level

The second

reporting level

The third reporting

level (Some copies

submitted to

Department of

Natural Resources

and Environment)

Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to:

Regional power

company; Power joint

stock company

Submitted to:


Committees

Frequency: Annual

Submitted to: WB

Subproject : Rural Energy - Additional Financing - Phase 4 - Ha Nam Province Report : Environmental Management Plan (EMP) Report : Environmental Management Plan (EMP)


6.7. COST ESTIMATES FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMP

Table 6.7.1. Cost estimates for capacity building training courses

No. Training Expense (VND)

1 Train about safety

and mitigation

measures for workers

and contractor

Included in expenses of bid package

15 project officials to be attended

15 persons x 2 days x 100,000 VND/person = 3,000,000

VND

2 Train about EMP

management and

supervision for

PMU/PC officials

Included in expenses of the TCT agency


VND

3 Train about

community

monitoring for

representatives of

local persons

3 persons x 0 commune (ward) of the locality to be

attended

3 persons x 2 days x 40 x 200,000 VND/person =

48,000,000 VND

4 Train about

implementation of

environmental

management plan

2 project staffs of Ha Nam province to be attended.


VND

5 NPC’s training on

safety (regularly

conducted by the

provincial power

companies)

Included in operating costs of provincial power

company.

5 project officials to be attended

5 persons x 1 day x 200,000 VND/person =

1,000,000 VND

Total 53,600,000 VND



Table 6.7.2 Cost estimates of EMP performance (VND)

No. Items Construction Operation

1 Mitigation measures This expense is included in

the Contract signed with the

construction Contractor

This expense is included in

operating costs of provincial

power company.

2 Capacity building

supervision and

improvement training

expenses

5 persons – month x

10,000,000 = 50,000,000

3 Expenses for EMP

independent

supervision

consultancy

4 persons – month x

10,000,000 = 40,000,000 -

4 Additional provision 20,000,000 -

TOTAL 110,000,000

TOTAL EXPENSE

FOR ENTIRE

PROJECT

110,000,000 VND



REFERENCES

1 Report on Environmental Situation of Ha Nam province in 2008 - DoNRE

2 WB’s Source Materials on Environment Impact Assessment

3 Statistic Yearbook 2010 – Statistical Publishing House

4 Source materials on protective areas in Vietnam – Bird Life International

5 Policy Framework on Environment for Rural Energy Project No. II- Additional Sponsor



APPENDIX 1: SAMPLE REPORTS

Appendix 1.1. Sample data collected from communal authority

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SAMPLE DATA COLLECTED FROM COMMUNAL REPORT

Name of Project Commune:

Evaluation phase:

Environmental impacts:

Impacts/ Mitigation

Measures

Acknowledgement of the

local authority


community

Vehicles and project

activities cause dust in the

area

Vehicles and project

activities cause noise in the

area

Project activities cause river

and lake water pollution in

the area

Cutting trees of the project

affects environment

Project activities cause

impacts on agricultural and

residential land

Project activities cause

impacts on cultural and

historical relics

The Project’s construction

site affects local traffic

Solid or liquid waste is

discharged into environment

The Project’s workers lay

impacts on socio-economic



Impacts/ Mitigation

Measures


local authority


community

and health aspect in the area

Accidents

Dust mitigation measures

Erosion and sediment

mitigation measures

Construction material

collection place, etc, to avoid

consequences due to

waterlog or chemical

pollution, etc

Waste management

measures

Project activities affect

birds, animals or rare plants

Trucks transporting raw

materials damage road

system

Others

Recommendations

Construction activities near the hospital must be limited with working hours from 07:00 to

11:00 in the morning and from 14:00- 17:00 in the afternoon. The period from 11:00 to 14:00

is the tea break of officials and patients to be kept quiet.

More attention should be made when clearing construction camps

The Contractor must ensure to store columns and construction waste at required places

It is required to fully provide the safety equipment and training programs to workers to

minimize labor accidents, etc, especially for local workers because they are ignorant about

labor safety.

Signature of the local authority

Title:

Date:

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Appendix 1.2. Sample Report on Site Environmental Management Observation

(Applied for Contractor)

Project Title: Project site:

Contractor's name:

Project commencement report or monthly report:

Date of Report:

No. Impacts Implemented

mitigation measures Remarks

Construction phase

1 Water surface pollution

2 Noise and vibration

3 Soil erosion

4 Air pollution

5 Impacts on agricultural production due to

temporary occupancy of production land

6 Impacts on traffic

7 Damages on local road system

8 Solid waste from excavation

9 Impacts on environment caused by construction

workers

10 Conflict between construction workers and local

people

11 Labor health and safety

Prepared by:

Title:

Address: Telephone:



Appendix 1.3. Sample Report on Site Environmental Observation Parameters

(This Form is applied for Environmental Observation Report of the Construction

Supervision Consultant)

Project Title:

Project site:

Province:

District:

Commune:

Type of Report:

Monthly report (Yes/No):

Quarterly report submitted to WB (Yes/No):

Quarterly report submitted to WB (Yes/No):

Report by independent consultant (Yes/No):

Date of Report:

No. Parameters

Evaluation on

feedback of

supervisor and

community

Remarks/

Recommendations

During construction:

1 Water impurity and erosion phenomenon

2 Noise surrounding site and neighboring

residential areas

3 Dust

4 Management and control of cutting trees down

and temporary road for construction

5 Solid waste and sanitation clearance after

construction

6 Sanitation and labor safety equipment for

workers

7 Impacts on traffic



No. Parameters

Evaluation on

feedback of

supervisor and

community

Remarks/

Recommendations

8 Road damages

9 Situation of implementing labor safety

protection measures

10 Construction materials management

11 Impacts on wild animas and natural resources

12 Bio-diversification loosing signs (if any)

13 Signs of encroaching cultural and historical

relics

14 Others environmental issues (if any)

During operation:

15 ROW protection

16 Impacts on wild animas and natural resources



Appendix 1.4. Sample Report on Site Environment Management Plan

Construction Contractor

The Construction Contractor shall submit a monthly report on progress of implementing

the Site Environmental Management Plan to the Power Company in project provinces. This Site

Environment Management Plan Report must contain contents as follows:

Cover page

Table of Contents

Introduction

- A paragraph introduces about purposes of the Report

Updates of changes in preferences against the Final Report

- List preference issues of the Final Report

- List progress of settling each issue implemented by the Contractor

- List all unsolved issues and give out recommendations for such issues. If such issues are

not solved, reasons should be specified.

Results of environmental management activities in reporting phase

- Report mitigation measures in Site Environmental Management Plan (SEMP).

- Are set objectives satisfied by these mitigation measures? If not, why? Explanations

should be clear and complete.

Implemented by: Title:

Appendix 1. 5. Procedures on supervision report submission

No. Issues to be

reported

The first reporting

level

The second

reporting level

The third reporting

level (Some copies

submitted to

Department of

Natural Resources

and Environment)

Construction

phase

1 Implementing

mitigation

measures and site

By: Contractor

Frequency: Monthly

By: PMU

Frequency: Semi-

annual

By: Provincial

People’s Committees

Frequency: Semi-



No. Issues to be

reported

The first reporting

level

The second

reporting level

The third reporting

level (Some copies

submitted to

Department of

Natural Resources

and Environment)

environment

management plan

Submitted to: PMUs Submitted to:


Committees

annual

Submitted to: WB

2 Environmental

monitoring

By: Technical

supervisor of PMU

Frequency: Monthly

Submitted to: PMU

By: PMU

Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to:


Committees

By: Provincial


Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to: WB

Frequency: Twice

during project

performance. One

during construction,

one after finishing

construction

Submitted to: WB

and PMUs of the

Project Owner

Operation phase

1 Environmental

monitoring

including safety

issues

By: District power

companies

Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to: Local

PC (province)

By: PMU

Frequency: Semi-

annual

Submitted to:


Committees

By: Provincial


Frequency: Annual

Submitted to: WB



APPENDIX 2: ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSE OF THE PROJECT



APPENDIX 3: SAMPLE MINUTES OF THE PROJECT’S COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

SUMMARY OF MEETING CONTENTS

No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of

women/participants Opinions of local people Feedback of the Project Owner

1

Venue of Thanh Chau

commune People’s

Committee – Phu Ly

city

14/4/2011 3/10

- To request the Project Owner and

Designer to conduct a dedicated

survey and gave out designs to

minimize damages on trees,

crops for the local people

- The Consultant carefully selected

route direction with consultation of

the communal People’s Committee,

especially the communal land

surveyor to select the optimal route

direction to minimize the damages to

crops of the local people. If the lines

affect crops, the Project Owner

commits to make proper

compensation as detailed in the

Project's Resettlement Plan.

- To implement mitigation

measures to minimize pollution

such as dust and construction

materials scattered during

transportation and construction

- During construction, the Project

Owner must cover the construction

materials during transportation and

arrange his officials and sprinkler to

ensure the lowest dust level during

transportation and construction

without affecting local people. And

the above measures shall be put under

supervision of the Project Owner and

implemented by the builder.

- The Project Owner commits or

takes measures so that the

construction units must recover

the site to its intact condition

- If traffic roads of villages and

communes are damaged during

construction, its intact condition

should be recovered. The Project



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


when finishing the project (in

case of damages, road should be

repaired for the local people)

Owner shall take measures such as

not accepting or not paying till the

construction unit successfully

recovers its intact condition for the

site and traffic roads.

2 Venue of Boi Cau

commune People’s

Committee – Binh Luc

District

16/4/2011 2/8 - The construction Contractor must

take the fastest construction

method not to interrupt the

agricultural production of the

local people

- The Project Owner commits not to

interrupt the agricultural production

of the local people The proper

construction period is selected such

as after the harvest or concentrating

on constructing as soon as possible in

positions passing the rice paddy

fields.

- Mitigation measures are applied

to control air and dust pollution

during construction and

transportation.

- Refer Section 1

- Does the Project cause high noise

and what are the mitigation

measures?

- The Project uses no equipment

causing high noise, mainly due to

trucks transporting materials and

equipment to the site. The Project

Owner requests the construction unit

to prepare transportation plan to

avoid residential areas. Material and

equipment transportation is not

conducted at sensitive moment such

as nighttime, noon and early morning

and horns should be minimized to

affect the life of the local people.



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


- Intact conditions of site and road

should be recovered.

- Refer Section 1

- Commencement date and

completion date

- The commencement date starts at the

early of August 2012 and lasts about

3 months, i.e., the end of October

2012 and in the mid of November,

power can be switched on to

complete the project.

- To support the project

performance and wish the soon

completion to satisfy the power

consumption demand of the local

people.

- It wishes local people should support

and cooperate with the Project Owner

and construction unit during site

clearance so that the Project can be

completed as scheduled.

3 Venue of Kien Khe

town People’s

Committee – Thanh

Liem District

18/4/2011 0/8 - Mitigation measures are applied



transportation.

- Refer Section 1

- Waste treatment solutions (solid

waste and domestic waste) of

construction unit

- The Project Owner requests the

construction unit to equip dustbins to

contain solid waste and arrange it at

necessary places. Such dustbins

should not be leaked and affected by

weather. Such wastes shall be

collected and treated at the regulated

places.

- For domestic waste, the Contractor

shall not construct camps for workers

but hire accommodations from the

local people. Therefore, the domestic



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


waste shall be discharged into the

local system.

- Such activities shall be put under

supervision of the Consultant A in

combination with the local consultant

in accordance with the regulations on

waste disposal and treatment.

- Are chemicals used in the

Project?

- The Project does not use any

chemicals affecting environment or

health of the local people.



- Refer Section 1





people.






4 Venue of Que town

People’s Committee-

Kim Bang district

15/4/2011 2/12 - To request the Project Owner and





- Refer Section 1




transportation.

- Refer Section 1

- Are chemicals used in the - The Project does not use any



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


Project? chemicals affecting environment or


- Does it pollute the local water

resources?


chemicals; hence, it causes no local

surface water or underground water

pollution It only causes impurity of

surface water when it is rainy from

the construction positions of pile

foundation and sleepers due to

rainwater flowing into springs, ponds

and reservoirs in the area.



- Refer Section 1

- What potential accidents can be

available for local people during

construction?

- The Project Owner requests the

construction unit to comply with the

regulations on labor safety such as

erecting fence at Site, dangerous

warnings, assigning safeguard to

indicate potential dangers to local

people. And the Supervisor shall

conduct regular check whether the

Contractor complies or not.





people.






5 Venue of Hop Ly

commune People’s

6/4/2011 2/14 - To request the Project Owner and


- Refer Section 1



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


Committee –Ly Nhan

District







transportation.

- Refer Section 1


Project?





resources?












- Refer Section 1





people.






6 Venue of Dong Van

town People’s

21/4/2011 2/8 - Mitigation measures are applied


- Refer Section 1



No. Consultation

location

Consultation

date

Number of


Committee – Duy Tien

District


transportation.


Project?





resources?












- Refer Section 1

- Commencement date and

completion date

- Refer Section 2





people.








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