Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection and Development Project Environmental Impact Assessment Guiyang Hydropower Investigation Design & Research Institute China Hydropower Engineering Consultation Group Corporation September 18
Public Consultation and Information Disclosure
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- 9.6 Consultation Result Statistics
9 Public Consultation and Information DisclosureObjective and PrincipleAccording to the requirement of the environmental protection laws and regulations of China and the World Bank Operation Policy OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment, the public consultation and information disclosure should be included in the EIA progress. The public consultation of EIA is to help local residents to have timely and accurate knowledge of project information and potential impacts. It is important to realize the most concerned issues and the attitude of the public. Based on the comments and opinions of the public, measures should be designed and implemented to address the concerns of the public. Public consultation shall be organized by either the project proponent or the EIA institute by the means of: Public survey, such as questionnaire survey; Public meetings; Expert consultation; Workshops;and Public hearing. The first round of public consultation was carried out before the outline of the EA was prepared. According to the requests of Environmental Impact Assessment Law of People's Republic of China and the Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment and the World Bank Operation Policy OP 4.01, the EIA unit has prepared the booklets that decribes the project and the potential impacts and questionnaire based on the information and data of the proposals for the project, and carried out the first round of public consultation. In the first round during the EIA outline preparation, the EIA unit obtained opinions from relevant departments and individuals and NGOs through the forms of public meeting, questionnaires and interviews from April 24 to April 30 and May 11 to May 18 in 2007. A. Personal Interview The interview with residents affected is to understand their attitude and concerns towards the proposed project. The public concerns on environemntal impacts and their suggestions to improve the project were summarized for the preparation of the response in the second round consultation, with some information feedbacked to the owner and design unit for consideration in the design. The interviews with residents were carried out through public meetings with local residents and distribution of questionnaires. The survey covered Anshun City and Qiandongnan prefecture. 200 copies of questionnaires have been distributed and 196 copies recovered. B. Group Interview The EIA unit has visited the related regional authorities, such as local governments, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Tourist Agency, and NGOs. The people of each department seriously listened to the basic conditions of the project and gave their opinions and filled the questionnaire. The survey groups for first round public consultations are described in Table 9.2-1.
First Round Information DisclosureAccording to the requirement of Interim Procedures of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment, and in order to extensively get the public opinions for this project, the EIA unit promulgates the outline of EIA both in the local information bulletin board and the official website of GHIDRI (http://www.ghidri.com.cn) for the period from May 1 to November 1 in 2007. Figure 9.3-1 Information Disclosure 9.4 The Second Round of Public ConsultationThe EIA units carried out the second round of public consultation immediately after the draft EIA report was prepared.The EIA unit promulgated the draft of EIA report and obtained the opinions of relevant departments and individuals through public meetings, questionnaires and interviews during the period from November 26 to December 12 in 2007. A. Personal Interview The scope of the survey covered Guiyang City, Anshun City, Qiandongnan prefecture and Qianxinan prefecture. 300 copies of questionnaires were distributed and 291 copies recovered (result?). B. Group Interview The second round of public consultation was mainly carried out with the administration department of environmental sensitive regions such as scenic area, geological parks and heritage protection units. The departments are listed in the Table 9.4-1.
C. Public Meetings In order to better understand the public opinions, the EIA unit convened public meetings with local residents. The public meetings were held for six times and the number of participants was more than 10 people. Many local governmental staff joined the meetings. Figure 9.4-1 Public meeting 9.5 Scond Round of Information DisclosureA. Network The EIA unit promulgates the content of the draft of EIA and the summary of the assessment conclusions both at the local information bulletin board and at the official website of GHIDRI (http://www.ghidri.com.cn) for the period from November 26, 2007 to February 20, 2008. B. Newspaper The EIA unit also published the information of EA on newspaper so the public can better understand the project. The information was published in Guizhou Daily on January 30 2008, which is a major provincial newspaper. Figure 9.5-1 The Publication of the EIA Draft in Project Regions Figure 9.5-2 Information disclosure in Guizhou Daily C. Consultation with Local Tourism Agencies As most of the project components are located in ethnic minority areas where few people can get EA information via internet or newspapers, the EIA unit has sent the draft EIA report to the local Tourism Agency for the review by the public. Moreover, the EIA unit also published a public hotline telephone number to seek comments from the society for the project. 9.6 Consultation Result StatisticsThe typical examples of personal interview are listed in the following table. Table 9.6-1 Informations of Typical Examples of Personal Interview
The result of the group interview is list edin the table 9.6-2. Table 9.6-2 Main Result of the Group Interview
The information of the personal investigation result is list in the table 9.6-3.
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