Mini-Case / Quiz Topic: EA Categorization and EMP Requirements

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Mini-Case / Quiz Topic EA Categorization and
EMP Requirements
Discussion Material For the Moldova Safeguards
Training Workshop October 28-31, 2008
By Victor B. Loksha ECA Safeguards Team Europe
and Central Asia Region The World Bank
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Mini-Case

• Please review carefully the following three
  slides. Make sure to assess each of the
  situations and statements critically. Remember
  that some of the characters involved in the case
  may be incorrect in their assumptions

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• Darko Juzhek, the PIU director of the Slovonia
  Coastal Environment Improvement Project, is
  giving the following instructions to Elvira
  Zagogullina who has just joined the PIU as the
  environmental specialist Our project has
  several investment components, including the
  construction of new public sewerage systems,
  wastewater treatment plants, and submarine
  outfalls in seven locations. An environmental
  specialist from the World Bank has told us that
  the project will likely fall into the
  environmental Category B according to the
  Banks classification. However, our project is
  beneficial for the environment as its very name
  indicates. Therefore, we would like to request
  the Banks TTL to give our project the category
  FI (Financial Intermediary) instead of Category
  B.

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• Juzhek goes on, We have discussed the
  applicability of the Environmental Impact
  Assessment (EIA) requirement with the Ministry of
  Environment. The Ministry requires the EIA only
  for one location the town of Zador where the
  treatment plant capacity exceeds 50,000 PE
  (population equivalent). We have a preliminary
  (feasibility phase) EIA report for Zador, which
  should get you started on the EMP. The rest of
  the project sites will be exempt from EIA. Since
  EIA for them is not required, we dont need to
  prepare EMPs for them.

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• Next week, a World Bank mission visits Slovonia
  and Ms. Zagogullina discusses the scope of the
  EMP with the Banks environmental specialist
  Steve Cohen. Mr. Cohen mentions that the only
  certain way to secure compliance of the project
  with the Banks EA requirements under OP 4.01 is
  to implement site-specific EMPs for all seven
  locations. The TTL is present in the meeting but
  leaves the issue for Cohen and Zagogullina to
  sort out.

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Quiz

• Question 1 Which one of the statements below is
  correct?
• a) Category FI is not an available choice under
  OP 4.01 on Environmental Assessment.
• b) Environmental assessment does not need to
  reflect beneficial impacts of the project on the
  environment, focusing only on its possible
  adverse impacts and their mitigation.
• c) The choice between environmental categories
  B and FI depends on the extent and nature of
  the projects environmental impacts.
• d) EA for Category FI projects requires a
  detailed description of the process followed by
  the borrower in implementing environmental
  assessments.

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Quiz

• Question 2 Which one of the statements below is
  correct?
• a) Since the project is World Bank financed, the
  requirements of the Slovonian Ministry of
  Environment are irrelevant and OP 4.01
  requirements must be applied instead.
• b) Juzhek is correct that EMPs are not required
  for the subprojects for which the Slovonian
  legislation does not require an EIA.
• c) Juzhek would be correct to say that it is not
  necessary to prepare EMPs for the subprojects for
  which national legislation does not require an
  EMP.
• d) An EMP may be prepared by the borrower and
  accepted by the World Bank even if the EIA report
  is not considered final in Slovonia.

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Quiz

• Question 3 Which one of the statements below is
  most accurate?
• a) If the project is assigned category FI,
  site-specific EMPs for all seven subproject
  locations need to be implemented to meet the
  World Banks EA requirements.
• b) If the project is assigned category FI, one
  comprehensive EMP for the project as a whole is
  sufficient to meet the World Banks EA
  requirements.
• c) Site-specific EMPs need to be implemented for
  all seven locations if project activities with
  potential adverse environmental impacts are
  expected in all seven locations.
• d) One site-specific EMP for the town of Zador is
  sufficient to meet the World Banks EA
  requirements because it is the only site for
  which the Banks environmental category B is
  appropriate based on the size of the treatment
  plant.

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• Thank You!