Environmental Management Plan - World Bank

1 Environmental Management plan Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHPP) Prepared by: Integrated Environments (2006) Ltd. Prepared for: Trung Son Project Management Board (TSHPMB) May 2010 Environmental Management plan TSHPP 2 | Page Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

2 16 2. INTRODUCTION .. 18 Background .. 18 EMP Structure and Organization .. 19 EMP Source Documents .. 20 3. PROJECT OVERVIEW .. 23 4. KEY Environmental IMPACTS .. 25 Construction Phase .. 25 Operation Phase .. 28 5. EMP ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES .. 30 Roles and Responsibilities for EMP Implementation .. 30 6. plan COMPONENTS AND STRUCTURE .. 32 EMP Responsibilities .. 33 EMP Structure, Organization and Content .. 33 7. Environmental AND SOCIAL IMPACT Management .. 46 Construction .. 46 Operation .. 55 8. Environmental SUPERVISION FRAMEWORK .. 61 Construction Supervision Framework.

3 61 Construction Supervision TSHPP Environmental Unit .. 61 Construction Supervision Contractor Responsibility .. 62 9. Environmental MONITORING FRAMEWORK .. 66 Monitoring Objectives .. 66 Monitoring Framework .. 66 Environmental Management plan TSHPP 3 | Page Construction Phase.

4 67 Operation Phase .. 70 10. COMMUNICATION AND REPORTING .. 74 Communication Process .. 74 Reporting .. 75 11. CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING .. 77 Trung Son Hydropower Project Management Board .. 77 Supervising Engineer .. 77 Construction Contractor .. 78 Independent Environmental Monitoring Consultant .. 79 Technical Assistance .. 79 12. EMP MONITORING AND REVIEW .. 80 Review of the EMP .. 80 Control and Update of the EMP .. 81 13. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE EMP .. 82 Additional Water Quality and Quantity Baseline Data Collection .. 84 Intact Rivers Management .

5 85 Cumulative Effects Assessment .. 85 14. IMPLEMENTATION plan AND 86 Implementation .. 86 Schedule .. 86 15. EMP COSTS .. 89 16. REFERENCES .. 91 17. ANNEXES .. 95 Environmental Management plan TSHPP 4 | Page List of Annexes Annex A: Bid Specifications: Construction and Worker Camp Management plan .

6 96 Annex B: Regional Health Management plan .. 116 Annex C: TOR for Environmental Supervision During Construction .. 120 Annex D: Guidelines for Safety and Community Relations Plans .. 124 Annex E: Chance Find Procedures .. 128 Annex F: Terms of Reference for Approach to Intact Rivers Management .. 129 Annex G: De-commissioning and Abandonment .. 134 Annex H: Camp Follower Management plan .. 135 Annex I: Cumulative Effects Assessment Framework .. 136 Annex J: Tiger Action plan .. 141 List of Tables Table 4-1: Summary of Key Environmental Construction Phase Impacts.

7 25 Table 4-2: Summary of Key Environmental Operation Phase Impacts .. 28 Table 5-1: Responsibility for EMP Implementation .. 30 Table 6-1: Primary Responsibilities of the TSHPP EMP .. 34 Table 7-1: Mitigation Standards/Measures for Minimizing Impacts During Construction .. 46 Table 7-2: Mitigation Standards/Measures for the TSHPP During Operation .. 56 Table 8-1: Construction Supervision Framework .. 63 Table 9-1: Construction Monitoring plan Framework .. 68 Table 9-2: Operation Monitoring plan Framework .. 71 Table 10-1: Communication Pathway .. 74 Table 10-2: Types of external reports.

8 76 Table 13-1: Additional information to the EMP required during construction .. 82 Table 13-2: Additional information to EMP required during operation .. 83 Table 14-1: EMP Implementation plan .. 87 Table 15-1: Preliminary Estimate of EMP Costs .. 89 List of Figures Figure 3-1: Schematic of the TSHPP .. 23 Figure 6-1: Organization of the TSHPP EMP .. 35 Figure 8-1: Supervision Structure for TSHPP .. 62 Figure 14-1: EMP Schedule .. 88 List of Maps Map J-1: Tiger Conservation Landscapes of Vietnam .. 142 Environmental Management plan TSHPP 5 | Page Abbreviations Abbreviation Description B/C Benefit-Cost BP Bank Procedure BOD5 Biological Oxygen Demand CEC Cation Exchange Capacity CLIP Community Livelihood Development plan COD Chemical Oxygen Demand DO

9 Dissolved Oxygen DONRE Department of Natural Resources and Environment DPA District Protected Area DSF Dam Safety Framework DWL Dead Water Level EA Environmental Assessment EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMDP Ethnic Minority Development plan EMP Environment Management plan EMPF Ethnic Minority Policy Framework EP Ethnic Minority plan EPC Environmental Protection Commitment ERR Economic Rate of Return ESF Environmental Safeguards Framework ESIA Environmental and Social Impact Assessment EVN Electricity of Vietnam FSL Full Supply Level FLMEC Forests of Lower Mekong Eco-region Complex GDP Gross Domestic Product GHG Greenhouse Gases HPP Hydropower Projects Environmental Management plan TSHPP 6 | Page Abbreviation Description ICB International Competitive Bidding IDA International Development Association IEBR Institute of

10 Ecology and Biological Resources IRR Internal Rate of Return IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources MASL Meters Above Sea Level MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MOF Ministry of Finance MoIT Ministry of Industry and Trade MOL Minimum Operating Level MONRE Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment MOU Memorandum of Understanding NBCA National Biological Conservation Area NGO Non-governmental Organization NOx Nitrogen Oxides NPA National Protected Area NPV Net Present Value NR Natural Reserves OM Operation Manual OP Operational Policy PB Participating Bank PHAP Public Health Action plan PIB Project Information Brochures PMB Project Management Board PMP Probable Maximum Precipitation PPA Power Purchase Agreement PPC Provincial People Committee QCBS Quality and Cost Based Selection RCC Roller-compacted Concrete Environmental Management plan TSHPP 7 |