Environmental Checklist: 26 Other Infrastructure Projects (Page 3 of 3) in pdf

Environmental Checklist: 26. Other Infrastructure Projects（3）

Category

Environmental Item

Main Check Items

Confirmation of Environmental Considerations

① Does the project comply with the country’s laws for rights of ethnic minorities

(5) Ethnic

and indigenous peoples?

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Minorities and

② Are considerations given to reduce the impacts on culture and lifestyle of ethnic

Environment

Indigenous Peoples

minorities and indigenous peoples?

① Are adequate measures considered to reduce impacts during construction (e.g.,

noise, vibrations, turbid water, dust, exhaust gases, and wastes)?

② If construction activities adversely affect the natural environment (ecosystem),

are adequate measures considered to reduce impacts?

(1) Impacts during

③ If construction activities adversely affect the social environment, are adequate

Construction

measures considered to reduce impacts?

④ If necessary, is health and safety education (e.g., traffic safety, public health)

provided for project personnel, including workers?

① Does the proponent develop and implement monitoring program for the

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environmental items that are considered to have potential impacts?

② Are the items, methods and frequencies included in the monitoring program

judged to be appropriate?

③ Does the proponent establish an adequate monitoring framework (organization,

(2) Monitoring

personnel, equipment, and adequate budget to sustain the monitoring framework)?

④ Are any regulatory requirements pertaining to the monitoring report system

identified, such as the format and frequency of reports from the proponent to the

regulatory authorities?

① Where necessary, pertinent items described in the Roads and Railways checklist

should also be checked (e.g., projects including access roads to the infrastructure

facilities).

Reference to

② For projects, such as installation of telecommunication cables, power line

Checklist of Other

Sectors

towers, and submarine cables, where necessary, pertinent items described in the

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Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Lines, and Oil and Gas Pipelines

checklists should also be checked.

① If necessary, the impacts to transboundary or global issues should be confirmed

Note on Using

(e.g., the project includes factors that may cause problems, such as transboundary

Environmental

waste treatment, acid rain, destruction of the ozone layer, or global warming).

Checklist

* For the communication infrastructure projects, applicable items are １(1)(2), 3(1)(2), ４(1)-(5) and 5(1)(2), and only these items should be checked.

1) Regarding the term “Country’s Standards” mentioned in the above table, in the event that environmental standards in the country where the project is located diverge significantly from international standards, appropriate

environmental considerations are made, if necessary.

In cases where local environmental regulations are yet to be established in some areas, considerations should be made based on comparisons with appropriate standards of other countries (including Japan' experience).

2) Environmental checklist provides general environmental items to be checked. It may be necessary to add or delete an item taking into account the characteristics of the project and the particular circumstances of the

country and locality in which it is located.

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