E4075 V10 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND Road Asset Management Project ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIALMANAGEMENT PLAN PROJECT: CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR AXEL LOAD STATIONS. III- AL RAYAN SITE - HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE 8 June 2014 0 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND Road Asset Management Project ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN PROJECT: CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR AXEL LOAD STATIONS. III- AL RAYAN SITE - HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE 8 June 2014 Prepared by: RMFIU Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works & Highways (MPWH) Rural Report For 1 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 SOCIAL CONSULTATION 5 1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 8 1.1 PROJECT OBJECTIVES 8 1.2 SCOPE OF WORKS 10 1.3 ES TIMATED COS T 12 2. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 13 2.1 YEMEN ENVIRONMENTAL PO LIC IES AND LEGIS LATION 13 2.2 WORLD BANK EN VIRONMENTAL AND S OCIAL S AFEGUARD POLICIES 13 3. BASELINE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 15 3.1 LOCATION AND S ITE DES CRIPTION 15 3.2 LAND ACQUIS ITION 15 3.3 LAND US E 16 3.4 HYDRO LOGY 16 3.5 CLIMATE 16 3.6 DEPTH AND QUALITY OF GROUND WATER 16 3.7 NOIS E AND AIR QUALITY 17 3.8 ECOS YS TEM 17 3.9 TRAFFIC 18 3.10 SOCIO-ECONOMIC 18 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS. 19 4.1 IMPACT S COPING 19 BASED ON THE SCOPING AND FOLLOW UP ANALYSIS, THE EXPECTED ENVIRONM ENTAL AND SOCIAL NEGATIVE IM PACTS DURING CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION PHASES ARE OUTLINED BELOW IN SECTION 4.2. 19 4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS DURIN G CONS TRUCTION PHAS E. 21 4.2.1 LAND RESOURCES 21 4.2.2 NOISE LEVEL 21 4.2.3 AIR QUALITY 21 4.2.4 ECOSYSTEM 21 4.2.5 SOCIAL 21 5. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MITIGATION MEASURES. 22 5.1 LAND RES OURCES 22 5.2 AIR QUALITY 22 5.3 ECOS YS TEM 22 5.4 WAS TE MAN AGEMENT 22 5.5 SOCIAL 22 6. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN 24 7. ENVRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MONITORING PLAN. 26 8 SOCIAL CONSULTATION 28 ANNEXES 30 2 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ List of Figures and Photos FIGURE (1-3) DESIGN LAYOUT OF AL RAYAN AXEL LOAD ST ATION..................................................................................... 11 FIGURE (1-4) DESIGN PLAN FOR THE ST ATION OFFICE BUILDING OF ALRA YA N AXEL LOAD ST ATION ........................ 12 PHOT O (3-1) A L RAYAN ST ATION SITE...................................................................................................................................... 15 PHOT O (3-2) A L RAYAN ST ATION LOCATION SITE................................................................................................................... 16 A-VEGET ATION IS VERY LIMITED ............................................................................................................................................... 17 B- SMALL T REES............................................................................................................................................................................ 17 C- SMALL SHRUBS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 PLATE (3-3) GENERAL VIEW OF VEGETATION COVER AROUND THE PROPOSED SIT E ........................................................ 17 FIGURE (4-1) IMPACT SCOPING MAT RIX FOR T HE CONST RUCTION PHASE OF THE AL RAYAN PROJECT ........................... 20 List of Tables TABLE 1 SUMMARY OF GENERAL M IT IGATION M EASURES APPLICABLE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL M ANAGEMENT PLAN DURING CONST RUCTION OF A L RAYAN AXEL LOAD STAT ION.................................................. 6 TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF GENERAL M ONIT ORING ACT IVITIES APPLICABLE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL M ANAGEMENT PLAN DURING CONST RUCTION OF A L RAYAN AXEL LOAD STAT ION.................................................. 7 TABLE (1-1) EST IMATED COST.................................................................................................................................................... 12 TABLE (2-1) A PPLICABLE SAFEGUARDS POLICIES................................................................................................................... 13 TABLE (3-1) TARGET TRAFFIC VOLUMES.................................................................................................................................. 18 TABLE (6-1) SUMMARY OF GENERAL M IT IGATION M EASURES APPLICABLE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL M ANAGEMENT PLAN DURING CONST RUCTION OF A L RAYA AXEL LOAD ST ATION. ................................................. 24 TABLE (7-1) SUMMARY OF GENERAL M ONIT ORING ACT IVITIES APPLICABLE T O T HE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL M ANAGEMENT PLAN DURING CONST RUCTION OF A L RAYAN AXEL LOAD STAT ION................................................ 26 TABLE (8-1) SUMMARY OF BENEFIT S EXPECTED BY ST AKEHOLDERS................................................................................... 28 TABLE (8-2) POT ENTIAL IMPACT S FROM THE STAKEHOLDER'S PERSPECTIVE ...................................................................... 29 3 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Axel load stations are located at bottleneck points on the national road network to control vehicle loads. This should avoid damages to roads and keep roads to good conditions and increase its lifetime. The Al Rayan axel Weigh Station will consist of load station pathway, loading area, administrative office and small emergency repair workshop. The total area of the project site is 40,000 square meters according to the land transfer shown in annex 1. The contactor will have a ready built office and accommodation for about 20 labors close to the project site area. The permanent land taking is for the load project area mentioned above and the temporary land taking is for the contractor site estimated for about 500 square meters. According to contract documents, the duration of implementing the Weigh Station is eight months. The location of the weigh station has been selected carefully at which most trucks and tankers are passing by from Al Mukalla to inside the country. The loaded vehicles carry various goods and fuel from the Mukalla port to different cities in Yemen. The Environment Protection Law (EPL) number 26 of 1995 legislate the protection of the environment, and permits Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The provisions of this law are implemented through Executive Regulations (By-Law 148-2000), issued by a decree of the Council of Ministers to protect the Environment, Natural Resources, Society, and Health. Al Rayan Axel load station is a small project with the estimated cost of civil works of 240,000US$. It is located in a remote vacant area on Mukalla- Say'un road. Nearby this location there are no commercial or industrials activities. The land for Axel load station was transferred officially on the 13th of August 2008 by the governorate of Hadramout to the RMF free of charge (see the transfer agreement in Annex 1). The project surrounding land is also owned by the government. From the date of land transfer to date no individual or community complains were recorded. The land is free of any squatters/encroachers. The Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 is not triggered. Keeping current situation without axle load control may have many significant irreversible negative impacts on roads and socio-economic issues, such as:  Damages to roads, bridges and culverts.  Damages of vehicles by overloading  Accidents due to difficulty to control over loaded vehicles, articulated type in particular. Construction and implementation of this station may have minor environmental and social negative impacts, but the expected positive impacts are very high due to the improved road conditions and increased lifetime of roads. An initial evaluation of potential impacts associated with this project was carried out during screening and scoping phase. No major potential environmental or social impacts are expected, but only minor impacts associated with site preparation, earth works, waste generation, dust due to traffic and safety which are localized and reversible. The potential negative impacts of attention are: 4 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬  Increased level of noise and dust during the preparation of site, excavation, paving and trucking materials, as heavy machinery will be involved in the construction works.  Generation and disposal of construction waste and domestic waste from the labor camp.  Contamination of soil and groundwater by stored fuel, lubricants, paints, and refueling of vehicles.  Safety of labors during the construction phase in site and around it. The mitigation measures are proposed to address the potential negative impacts. These include:  Storage of fuel and lubricants in sealed containers.  Refueling of diesel and oil should be conducted only on paved areas to avoid contamination.  Spraying of water during excavation, site preparation and paving works.  Restriction of earthworks during strong wind periods.  Restriction of use of noisy equipment to the daytime business hours.  Preparation and implementation of Environmental health and safety plan for workers. Environmental and Social Management Plan table was prepared to mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive impacts. It includes Environmental and Social Mitigation Measures, and Environmental and Social Monitoring Activities (see tables 1 and 2). The bidding documents will include the table of mitigation measures so that the contractor will have to cost and implement them. The estimated total cost of implementing the mitigation measures is expected to reach USD 2,700 (see table 1). Environmental and social monitoring plan was prepared to specify monitoring arrangements, frequency and responsibilities. The plan will allow effective monitoring of the contractor’s performance against the environmental and social mitigation measures. It is envisaged that the monitoring activities will be carried out by monitoring specialist that will devote about 15% of his time to monitoring compliance of the Al Rayan Weigh Station with the ESMP. The expected monitoring costs will include also vehicle, fuel and camera. They are expected to reach about USD 2,200 (see table 2). SOCIAL CONSULTATION Consultations were held with locals including car drivers, local council representative and the local citizens. The results of the interview from social perspectives in the region showed that the expected positive benefits of the project (see table below). Results of social consultations: summary of expected project benefits. Statement Large Medium Low Maintaining the infrastructure of the road 93% 7% 0 Maintain vehicles from overloading 80% 15% 5% Revitalization of commercial business 75% 10% 15% Create business opportunities by opening new shops in the area 60% 15% 25% 5 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table 1. Summary of General Mitigation Measures applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of Al Rayan axel load station. Environmental Implementation and social Impacts Mitigation measures Cost responsibility aspects - Import soil from authorized borrow-pit - Maintain earth work and open cuts wet by water Will be part of the Soil erosion, spraying Contractor in contract. degradation of - Planting and Vegetation. coordination with Additional agricultural soil expected cost: - Adequate surface water drainage from site. supervisor and landscape USD 500 - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be conducted only on paved areas.  Adequate liquid waste collection and disposal. Ditto Pollution of - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be USD 400 Physical aspects groundwater conducted only on paved areas. - Spraying of water during excavation and site Ditto Will be part of the Deterioration of preparation works. contract. air quality by dust - Restriction to works during strong wind periods. Additional emissions expected cost: USD 300 - Limiting working hours to the day time business Ditto Will be part of the hours. contract. Bidders Noise pollution - Use of well maintain equipment. will cost this item in their bids. - Avoid damage to flora and fauna by machinery Ditto Will be part of the and workers by restricting the movement around contract. Ecological Damages to the site and raise the awareness among staff. Additional aspects Ecosystem expected cost: - Planting of vegetation. USD 500 - Shortening the construction works period Ditto - Provision of work opportunities for the local None Restriction of community. socio-economic - Maintain good cooperative relation with locals. activities - Application of Chance Find Procedures to assess RE, Contractor, requirements and propose mitigation (Annex 2). Beneficiary None Committee -Proper solid and liquid waste collection, storage Ditto and disposal to the appropriate site defined by the Storage and local authority and community disposal of -Provision of garbage tanks and sanitation facilities 500 USD construction and for contractor camp. domestic waste Social aspects -Disposal of construction materials in designated sites agreed with the local community Safety, Accidents - Compliance with contract General Health, Safety, Ditto and injuries and Environment Regulations. - Traffic management, speed control, warning Will be part of the contract. signs, etc. Additional - Safety plan, traffic management plan including expected costs: emergency action plan. USD 500 - Installation of temporary sign posting - Safety training for workers. Enhance positive impacts by introducing a clause RMFIU Generation of in the bidding documents on equal opportunities. None local employment Total expected mitigation costs: USD 2,700 6 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Table 2. Summary of General Monitoring activities applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of Al Rayan axel load station. Environmental Measurements Implementation Indicator Frequency Cost & social aspects (incl. methods & equipment) responsibility -Site inspection and photographic -Once before - E&S specialists, Soil erosion, documentation of excavation, earthwork commencement RMFIU degradation of and land disturbing activities. -Once during agricultural soil -Photographic documentation of planting construction and landscape and re-vegetation activities -Once after completion Physical aspects - Visual observation and photographic -Once during earth Ditto documentation of equipment induced works. emissions and dust clouds during -Once during Deterioration of excavation activities asphalt works. air quality by -Site supervision/inspection and -On any dust emissions documentation to ensure the complaint. implementation of noise mitigation measures -Once during site Ditto Damage to - Site inspection and photographic preparation and Ecological aspects vegetation and documentation of excavation and re- -Once during animals planting activities planting activities Cost of hiring - Site inspection and documentation of -Once before Ditto monitoring community activities and complaints commencement specialist nearby site. -Once during Restriction of (15% of time construction input), socio-economic -Once after vehicle, fuel activities completion and camera. In case of chance E&SU Equivalent of Follow the chance find procedures. finds USD 2,200 Maintaining a record of solid and liquid Continuous: Ditto waste generation from :- monthly Construction, machinery and labor camp. Storage and Temporary storage of constriction waste disposal of in designated area agreed with the local Social aspects construction and community. domestic waste Storage of domestic waste in containers. Final disposal of waste in designated area agreed with the local authority. Continuous Ditto - Inspection and photographic monthly Safety, accidents documentation and injuries - Maintaining a record of injuries and accidents specifying cause and location Generation of -Maintaining records of employee Continuous Ditto local specifying area and duration of each monthly employment employees Total expected costs of monitoring activities: USD 2,200 7 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1.1 Project Objectives The project objective is to build Al Rayan Axel Weigh Station, which will consist of load station pathway, loading area, administrative office and small emergency repair workshop. The total area of the project site is 40,000 square meters according to the land transfer shown in annex 1. The contactor will have a ready built office and accommodation for about 20 labors close to the project site area. The permanent land taking is for the load project area mentioned above and the temporary land taking is for the contractor site estimated for about 500 square meters. According to contract documents, the duration of implementing the Weigh Station is eight months. The location of the weigh station has been selected carefully at which most trucks and tankers are passing by from Al Mukalla to inside the country. The loaded vehicles carry various goods and fuel from the Mukalla port to different cities in Yemen. The proposed location is shown in the aerial photograph below. Figure (1-1) Aerial Photograph of Al Rayan Station Site Layout (200mx200m) Figure 1-2 shows the location of the four axle load stations projected in the national road network. ALRAYAN axle load station is located along the international road Mukalla-Say'un- Sana'a. 8 ‫)‪Road Maintenance Fund (RMF‬‬ ‫‪Axle Weigh Stations ESMP‬‬ ‫)‪Road Assets Management Project (RAMP‬‬ ‫‪AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE‬‬ ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫‪Figure 1-2 Map of the Al Rayan and Broom axle load station locations projected in the road network‬‬ ‫‪9‬‬ Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 1.2 Scope of works The scope of work for this project includes:  Earthworks (total volume of excavated materials: 240m3 ).  Site separation works by clearing, leveling, compacting: 10,000m2 .  Embankment 1.9m thick.  Application of base and sub-base materials. Total volume 600m3 .  Application of asphalt layer. The total paved area is 3,000m2 , volume of asphalt 150m3 .  Construction of administration building (40m2 ).  Construction of repair garage (40m2 ).  Traffic signs approximately 8 signs and total road marking of 675 L.M with width of 12 Centimeter and thickness of 2 millimeters and a number of about 600 cat eyes.  The construction camps and the temporary storage of materials may be included in the project site.  Site fencing.  Construction of drainage system. The contractor will use construction machines including: dozer, excavator, grader, compactor and paver. The expected duration of the project (construction phase) is 8 months. The proposed layout of the station is shown in the figure (1-3) below. 10 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Figure (1-3) Design Layout of Al Rayan axel load station Also the proposed design of the station office buildings is shown in the figure (1-4) below. 11 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Figure (1-4) Design Plan for the station office Building of ALRAYAN axel load station 1.3 Estimated cost The total cost of construction is estimated to be (240,000US$ for civil works and 100,000US$ for mechanical works). The breakdowns of the above estimated costs are shown in table (1-1) below: Table (1-1) Estimated Cost Estimated cost Activities Items US$ Site works 180,000 Civil works Construction works 60,000 Equipment installation Weighing installations 100,000 Total 340,000 12 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 2. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 2.1 Yemen Environmental policies and legislation The Environment Protection Law (EPL) number 26 of 1995 legislate the protection of the environment, and permits Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The provisions of this law are implemented through Executive Regulations (By-Law 148-2000), issued by a decree of the Council of Ministers to protect the Environment, Natural Resources, Society, and Health. The law equally stipulates the incorporation of environmental considerations in economic development plans at all levels and stages of planning for all sectors. It also, requires the preparation of EIAs for projects proposed by the public and private sectors. 2.2 World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies The World Bank has ten operational safeguard policies, which apply to various development projects that the Bank is either implementing or funding. The purpose of these policies is to ensure that social and environmental risks are prevented or at least minimized while increasing socio-economic benefits of the approved projects in addition to preserving the environment. These policies have been a means to increase the effectiveness and positive impacts of development projects and programs supported by the Bank (see table 2-1). Table 2-1. World Bank Safeguard Policies Applicability Policy Reference to RAMP 1 Environmental Assessment OP 4.01 Yes 2 Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 No 3 Natural Habitats OP 4.04 No 4 Physical Cultural Property OP 4.11 No 5 Pest Management OP 4.09 No 6 Indigenous Peoples OP 4.10 No 7 Forests OP 4.36 No 8 Safety of Dams OP 4.37 No 9 Projects in Disputed Areas OP 7.60 No 10 Projects on International Waterways OP 7.50 No The scale of the project is very small and the environmental and social impacts are expected to be minor. Hence, the project is categorized as B. The project triggers only the Bank Safeguards Policy on Environmental Assessment OP 4.01. The land of the project site was transferred on the 13th of August 2008 by the Governorate of Hadramout to the RMF free of charge. The surrounding land is also owned by the government. Hence, the Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 is not triggered. From the date of land transfer in 2008 no individual or community complains were recorded. The land is free of squatters/encroachers. (See the transfer agreement in Annex 1). Useful guidelines and manuals that need to be considered during the ESMP phase of the project include: 13 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬  The World Bank Participation Sourcebook  Safeguard Policy Basics – Redbook  Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) General Guidelines issued by the World Bank  Roads and the Environment. A Handbook. World Bank Technical Paper 376. Doing Better Business through Effective Public Consultation and Disclosure – A good Practice Manual, issued by IFC. 14 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 3. BASELINE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 3.1 Location and site description Al Ryan Weigh Axel Station is located about 25 km east of Mukalla City. The project site is located on important link between northern and southern cities of Yemen. Al Rayan station is located beside a two-way road after Al Rayan roundabout in a sparsely populated area. Cultural and heritage sites are not reported in the vicinity of the site. The site is flat characterized by hard soil gravel surface. Photo (3-1) Al Rayan Station Site 3.2 Land Acquisition The land of the project site was previously owned by a government agency, called the Department of land and Real Estate of Hadramaut Governorate. The land is vacant and it was planned to be used for commercial purposes. The land was transferred on the13th of August 2008 by the Governorate of Hadramout to the RMF free of charge (see the transfer agreement in Annex 1). The surrounding land is also state owned. From the date of signature of the land transfer in 2008 no complaints from any person or local community were raised. The land is free from any squatters/encroachers. The Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12 is not triggered. 15 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 3.3 Land Use The land in the surrounding area is mostly arid – desert to semi-desert. The economic activities in the area include as small shops and vehicles oil change and tire repairs. Near the site there are no settlements. The distance to the nearest service center is about 200m. The service center includes small shops and oil change and tire repairs mentioned above. 3.4 Hydrology No remarkable hydrological features exist. No wadis or wells are present in the site vicinity. Photo (3-2) Al Rayan Station location Site 3.5 Climate The Governorate of Hadramout is generally hot and dry (semi-arid to arid). The temperature during the summer is high temperatures and may exceed 100°F (37.8°C). During the winter, the average temperature occasionally falls below 70°F (21.1°C). The average rainfall is approximately 2.9 inches (73 millimeters) per year. 3.6 Depth and quality of ground water The site survey and consultations carried out on 29-30/1/2014 revealed that the groundwater can be found at the depth of 8-12m and that the water is good for drinking and irrigation. In locations with deeper water table the groundwater becomes of even higher quality. The local residents are provided with water by water-pipe and generally do not use groundwater in the vicinity of the project location. About 5 km from the project site permanent hot sulfurous springs are found (they are not used for consumption or irrigation by the local community). 16 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 3.7 Noise and Air Quality The current noise levels near the site (along the road) do not exceed 75dB. The ambient air quality is good. Concentration of dust and fine particles is high during periods of strong winds. 3.8 Ecosystem There are very limited wild scattered plants around the Al Rayan site including small trees and shrubs as shown in photo (3.3). A A-Vegetation is very limited B- Small trees C- Small shrubs PLATE (3- 3) General view of vegetation cover around the proposed site 17 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 3.9 Traffic Target traffic volumes that are expected to be subject to axel load control are as shown in table 3-1. Table (3-1) Target Traffic Volumes Vehicle per day Average Trucks and tankers VPD monthly traffic Average daily traffic 2010 98 2156 Projected daily traffic 2015 125 2751 3.10 Socio-economic Al Rayan axle load station is located at a remote area where only scattered settlements and low human activities exist. The economic activities in the area are commercial. They include three small shops and vehicle repair shops. The land is mostly vacant. No resettlement is required. The site is located within the territory of Al Mukalla, one of the districts of the governorate of Hadramout, according to the administrative division in the Republic of Yemen and thus the population of the district of Al Mukalla is considered direct beneficiaries of the project. The district population is 19,081 people according census projected for the year 2013. In addition, drivers of large trucks and the owners of these trucks are considered among the direct beneficiaries. The project is located on important link between northern and southern provinces. Residents of Hadramout, Mareb and Sana'a governorates are all indirect beneficiaries from the road condition improvement. Construction of the station will limit overloaded trucks. It may affect the profit of drivers and owners of large trucks by limiting the load from 60 tons to 40 tons and as a result the loading rate will be reduced. 18 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS. 4.1 Impact Scoping An initial identification of potential impacts caused by the project was carried out using the Leopold Matrix. This matrix was used to identify and scope key environmental and social impacts associated with Al Rayan axel load project. It addresses three aspects (Physical, Ecological and Social) against the construction activities for the magnitude of impacts. The Leopold matrix indicates that the expected negative social and environmental impacts associated with the construction and operation of Al Rayan axle load station are minor and local (see figure number 4-1). All impacts identified were scored as minor. The potential negative impacts of attention are those related to the excavation and site preparation impacts, noise levels and air quality (dust generation) and labor safety. The potential positive impacts of attention are the impacts of the excavation and site preparation works on local employment. Based on the scoping and follow up analysis, the expected environmental and social negative impacts during construction and operation phases are outlined below in section 4.2. 19 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) AL RAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUTGOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Physical Aspects Ecological Aspects Social Aspects local K. Protected/Endangered Species P. Historical/Cultural Sites R. Road and Labor Safety E. Surface Water Quality A. Erosion/Land stability H. Grassland Ecosystem F. Groundwater Quality S. Integrity of the M. Land Acquisition G. Landscape Value B. Agricultural Soil L. Protected Areas Construction Activities N. Employment D. Noise Levels O. Land Value C. Air Quality community Comments 1.Excavations 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 +1 0 0 -1 0 2.Site Preparation 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 +1 0 0 -1 0 3.Paving 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0 0 -1 0 4.Installation of weighbridge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 5.Trucking materials 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.Storage of diesel/oils 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.Waste management 0 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.Water use 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9.Workers Camp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 Legend: 0 = no impact; -1= Minor negative impact; -2= Significant negative impact; +1= Minor positive impact; +2= S ignificant positive impact Sensitive environmental and social aspects, most disturbing construction activities Negative or positive impacts of particular attention Figure (4-1) Impact scoping matrix for the construction phase of the Al Rayan project. 20 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 4.2 Environmental and social impacts during construction phase. The environmental and social impacts during construction phase are the following: 4.2.1 Land resources The project is located in sparsely populated area of low sensitivity to environmental disturbance. The main environmental impacts are associated with the following activities: 1) Construction and domestic waste generation (solid and liquid), storage and disposal. 2) Disposal of cutting materials 3) Borrow pits These impacts are related to soil erosion and visual quality. However, all these impacts are minor and reversible. 4.2.2 Noise Level The most sensitive environmental aspect is predicted to be the noise level. The heavy construction machines such as bulldozers, leveling graders, roller compactors, loaders, trucks, water tanks and pavers will cause short term increase in noise level. 4.2.3 Air quality The main impacts on air quality are associated with machinery and earthwork. This impact is dust nuisance and exhaust emissions. However, all this impacts are minor, short-term and reversible. The activities causing dust nuisance are caused by excavations, loading fill materials from borrow pit locations, site preparation and building construction layers. These activities are short term. They generate dust by destroying the soil structure. 4.2.4 Ecosystem Construction of Al Rayan axel load stations may have negligible impacts on ecosystem. These impacts are associated with site disturbance, earth works, paving, storage of diesel/oils, waste management and worker behavior. However, these impacts are minor and reversible. 4.2.5 Social The expected negative social impacts are associated with the operation of construction machinery, traffic accidents, and interaction between workers and locals. They include:  Safety and health risk for workers.  Public safety at the site. These impacts are minor and reversible. Whereas, many positive socio-economic impacts are expected from the project construction such as:  Provision of jobs during the construction, about 20 job opportunities for unskilled labor (temporary impact).  Improving economic conditions, which will have a positive impact on the living conditions of the drivers and the people of the region (long term impact) . 21 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 5. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MITIGATION MEASURES. 5.1 Land resources The Contractor, under THE RMFIU supervision, should take necessary actions to avoid excessive soil erosion, and maintain visual quality through:  Import granular material from authorized borrow-pit.  Spray with water earth works and open cuts.  Avoid earthworks and site preparation works during strong winds.  Avoiding damages to existing vegetation.  Provide adequate drainage works. 5.2 Air quality The contractor, under RMFIU supervision, should reduce dust generation during construction activities like excavations, site preparation and paving. Through the implementation of the following mitigation measures:  Spraying of water during excavation and site preparation works.  Restriction to works during strong wind periods. 5.3 Ecosystem The contractor, under RMFIU supervision, should avoid intrusion with natural biodiversity. He should manage work compound and workers behavior properly, avoiding damages and pollution to nearby habitats and vegetation by solid and liquid waste. 5.4 Waste management The contractor, under the RMFIU supervision, should maintain clean work environment and leave site clean after completion. Both construction and domestic waste should be collected and stored in containers/designated sites, and disposed of in designated disposal sites. The contractor should prepare and implement waste management program with provision of sanitary facilities, garbage containers, liquid wastes from machinery to be stored in tanks and removed from site. Construction wastes should be stored in designated area agreed with the local community, and ultimately removed from site. 5.5 Social Socio-economic activities: The contractor, under the RMFIU supervision, should maintain good cooperative relation with the local community. He should provide work opportunities to local work forces, manage behavior of project staff, and avoid social tensions of any kind with local people. In addition, the contractor should complete the construction period within 8 months as stated in the contract documents. 22 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Safety and Traffic Management: The contractor, under the RMFIU supervision, should ensure safety of his workers, visitors and local community. Safety hazards are expected from construction activities, and due to traffic accidents. Main safety measures are:  Preparation and implementation of safety plan, including emergency action plan.  Preparation and implementation of traffic management plan inside construction site and at access points at the intersection with main roads.  Installation of temporary sign posting.  Making safety meeting for workers.  Making safety induction for visitors and local community where feasible. 23 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 6. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN The environmental and social management plan summarizes findings of this report (see table 6- 1). It consists of the following main components:  Environmental and social mitigation measures.  Environmental and social monitoring plan. Due to the limited and short term scope of works, and minor impacts predicted, no major mitigation measures are required. In many cases, good practice will suffice. The RMFIU is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the mitigation measures during construction and operation phases. The total estimated cost of implementing environmental and social mitigation measures is 2,700 USD (see table 6-1). Table (6-1) Summary of General Mitigation Measures applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of Al Rayan axel load station. Environmental Implementation and social Impacts Mitigation measures Cost responsibility aspects - Import soil from authorized borrow-pit - Maintain earth work and open cuts wet by water Will be part of the Soil erosion, spraying Contractor in contract. degradation of - Planting and Vegetation. coordination with Additional agricultural soil expected cost: - Adequate surface water drainage from site. supervisor and landscape USD 500 - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be conducted only on paved areas.  Adequate liquid waste collection and disposal. Ditto Pollution of - Storage and refueling of diesel and oil should be USD 400 Physical aspects groundwater conducted only on paved areas. - Spraying of water during excavation and site Ditto Will be part of the Deterioration of preparation works. contract. air quality by dust - Restriction to works during strong wind periods. Additional emissions expected cost: USD 300 - Limiting working hours to the daytime business Ditto Will be part of the hours. contract. Bidders Noise pollution - Use of well maintain equipment. will cost this item in their bids. - Avoid damage to flora and fauna by machinery Ditto Will be part of the and workers by restricting the movement around contract. Ecological Damages to the site and raise the awareness among staff. Additional aspects Ecosystem expected cost: - Planting of vegetation. USD 500 - Shortening the construction works period Ditto - Provision of work opportunities for the local None community. Restriction of - Maintain good cooperative relation with locals. Social aspects socio-economic - Application of Chance Find Procedures to assess RE, Contractor, activities requirements and propose mitigation (Annex 2). Beneficiary Committee None GOAMM (Contractor/Project) 24 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Environmental Implementation and social Impacts Mitigation measures Cost responsibility aspects -Proper solid and liquid waste collection, storage Ditto and disposal to the appropriate site defined by the Storage and local authority and community disposal of -Provision of garbage tanks and sanitation facilities 500 USD construction and for contractor camp. domestic waste -Disposal of construction materials in designated sites agreed with the local community - Compliance with contract General Health, Safety, Ditto and Environment Regulations. - Traffic management, speed control, warning signs, etc. Will be part of the contract. Safety, Accidents - Safety plan, traffic management plan - including emergency action plan. Additional and injuries expected costs: - Installation of temporary sign posting - Making safety meeting for workers. USD 500 - Making safety induction for visitors and local community where feasible. Enhance positive impacts by introducing a clause RMFIU Generation of in the bidding documents on equal opportunities. None local employment Total expected mitigation costs: USD 2,700 25 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 7. ENVRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MONITORING PLAN. The monitoring activities will be the responsibility of the environmental and social specialists at the project’s implementation unit. The monitoring activities aim to ensure compliance with, and to follow up the implementation of mitigation measures. Table (7-1) presents the monitoring plan, which specifies monitoring activities, indicators, frequency, responsibilities and costs. Monitoring activities will rely primarily on field observations, feedback from stakeholders and other affected people, and documentation of their reactions to the project works and their perception of the adequacy of the mitigation measures. Photographic documentation will be also required. It is envisaged that the monitoring activities will be carried out by monitoring specialist that will devote about 15% of his time to monitoring compliance of the Al Rayan Weigh Station with the ESMP. The expected monitoring costs will include also vehicle, fuel and camera. They are expected to reach about USD 2,200 (see table 7-1). Table (7-1) Summary of General Monitoring activities applicable to the Environmental and Social Management Plan during construction of AL RAYAN axel load station. Environmental Measurements Implementation Indicator Cost Frequency & social aspects (incl. methods & equipment) responsibility -Site inspection and photographic -Once before - E&S specialists, Soil erosion, documentation of excavation, commencement RMFIU degradation of earthwork and land disturbing -Once during agricultural activities. construction soil and -Photographic documentation of -Once after landscape planting and re-vegetation activities completion Physical aspects - Visual observation and photographic -Once during Ditto documentation of equipment induced earth works. Deterioration emissions and dust clouds during -Once during Cost of of air quality excavation activities asphalt works. hiring by dust -Site supervision/inspection and -On any monitoring emissions documentation to ensure the complaint. specialist implementation of noise mitigation (15% of time measures input), -Once during site Ditto vehicle, fuel Damage to - Site inspection and photographic preparation and and camera. Ecological vegetation and documentation of excavation and re- -Once during Equivalent aspects animals planting activities planting of USD activities 2,200 - Site inspection and documentation -Once before Ditto of community activities and commencement complaints nearby site. -Once during Restriction of construction Social aspects socio-economic -Once after activities completion In case of chance E&SU Follow the chance find procedures. finds 26 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Environmental Measurements Implementation Indicator Frequency Cost & social aspects (incl. methods & equipment) responsibility Maintaining a record of solid and liquid Continuous: Ditto waste generation from:- monthly Construction, machinery and labor Storage and camp. disposal of Temporary storage of constriction waste construction and in designated area agreed with the local domestic waste community. Storage of domestic waste in containers. Final disposal of waste in designated area agreed with the local authority. - Inspection and photographic Continuous Ditto Safety, documentation monthly accidents and - Maintaining a record of injuries and injuries accidents specifying cause and location Generation of -Maintaining records of employee Continuous Ditto local specifying area and duration of each monthly employment employees Total expected costs of monitoring activities: USD 2,200 Reporting After each inspection, a report shall be compiled that is location and activity specific. This shall identify areas of contractor’s non-compliance with the ESMP and provide guiding remarks on actions to be taken. The significance of the non-compliance shall also be noted. The E&S specialists shall prepare these reports and follow-up with the contractor‘s compliance with the ESMP or otherwise corrective actions should be taken. 27 Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ 8 SOCIAL CONSULTATION Social consultations were conducted with representatives of the local community and through field interviews that were conducted by the team. The consultations reached 15 interviewees including car drivers, local council representative and local people in the area as in photo (8-1). All interviewed people near the weigh station site stressed the benefits that will be achieved by the project (see table 8-1 below): Table (8-1) Summary of Benefits expected from the project. Statement Large Medium Weak Maintaining the infrastructure of the road 93% 7% 0 Maintain vehicles from overloading 80% 15% 5% Revitalization of commercial business 75% 10% 15% Create business opportunities by opening new shops in the 60% 15% 25% area The local interviewees had minor concerns regarding negative impacts associated with the construction of the weigh station. Please see the table below for the responses obtained. Table (8-2) Potential impacts from the stakeholder's perspective Negative impacts High Average Low –No impact Load station construction will lead to remove some 0 3% 90% 7% trees, forests and grasslands Load station construction will affect the water tanks, 0 4% 6% 90% water network or electricity poles Load station construction will affect the traffic or will 0 8% 12% 80% cause any harm to humans, animals or property Load station construction will affect the women's 0 2% 3% 95% movement during grazing, logging, or water transportation Load station construction will affect nearby agricultural 0 10% 10% 80% land 28 ‫)‪Road Maintenance Fund (RMF‬‬ ‫‪Axle Weigh Stations ESMP‬‬ ‫)‪Road Assets Management Project (RAMP‬‬ ‫‪ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‬‬ ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫‪Photo (8-1) Social Consultation with truck drivers and affected people.‬‬ ‫‪29‬‬ ‫)‪Road Maintenance Fund (RMF‬‬ ‫‪Axle Weigh Stations ESMP‬‬ ‫)‪Road Assets Management Project (RAMP‬‬ ‫‪ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE‬‬ ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫‪Annex 1‬‬ ‫‪Land Transfer Agreement‬‬ ‫‪30‬‬ Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) Axle Weigh Stations ESMP Road Assets Management Project (RAMP) ALRAYAN SITE- HADRAMOUT GOVERNORATE ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Annex 2 Archaeological Chance Find Procedures The construction contracts (COPA) contains procedures for archaeological “chance finds” during the course of construction activities. The Government (Ministry of Culture) makes available (on demand) a qualified archaeologist to conduct field investigations when important search work and new materials sites are opened. The archaeologist would be paid by RAPCMO and be attached temporarily to the construction manager's team and provided with logistical support when necessary. The following procedures should be executed whenever archaeological relic, antiquity or any other object of archaeological importance is discovered during road construction: (i) Halt construction activities. (ii) Delineate the discovered site area. (iii) Secure the site to prevent any damage or loss of removable objects. In case of removable antiquities or sensitive remains, a night guard should be present until the responsible authority takes over. (iv) Notify the responsible foreman/archaeologist, who in turn notifies the GOAMM, the Environmental and Social Management Unit (ESMU) of RAPCMO and the local authorities (within less than 24 hours). (v) GOAMM would be in charge of protecting and preserving the site before deciding on the proper procedures to be carried out. (vi) GOAMM evaluates the importance of the finding according to criteria relevant to cultural heritage, as aesthetic, historic, scientific or research, social and economic values. (vii) Decision on how to handle the finding is reached based on the above assessment and could include changes in the project layout (in case of finding an irremovable relic of archaeological importance), conservation, preservation, restoration or salvage. (viii) Implementation of the GOAMM decision concerning the management of the finding. (ix) Construction works should resume only when permission is given from GOAMM after the decision concerning the safeguard of the heritage is fully executed. 31