Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for environmental clearance certificate from DoE for “1.5 million Consumer Connection through Rural Electrification Expansion in Bangladesh

This project will be implemented in 77 Palli Biddut Samity (PBS) of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) under Rural Electrification Programme (RE). Under this project 44,000 Km of electric lines, construction of 83 new sub-stations and augmentation of 35 sub-stations will be constructed. That will benefit 15,00,000 consumers by providing them electricity.

The scope of work of the EIA includes:

§  Review of relevant all documents and data/information from secondary sources, and identifies gaps to be filled, relevant to the environmental screening needs from field surveys.

§  Provide a description of the environmental baseline (such as baseline data on physical, biological/ecological and socio-economic characteristics of the subproject site along with area of influence).

§  Represent the field surveys where include baseline (air, noise, surface water and ground/drinking water) environmental quality monitoring at representative and sensitive locations, and identification of macro-level environmental issues within the Sub-project’s influence area.

§  Collect information on environmentally sensitive locations on and along the sub-projects as well as within the sub-project’s influence area.

§  Arrange consultation with the local people especially project affected persons (PAPs) to find out their opinions about the sub-projects.

§  Analysis of alternatives to the proposed sub-projects.

§  Identify and assessment of potential environmental impacts due to implementation of the sub-projects.

§  Conduct preliminary analysis of impacts and management measures of the nature, scale and magnitude of the impacts that the sub-project is likely to cause on the environment and classify the same using established methods.

§  Develop Environmental Management Plan (EMP) including Monitoring Plan for successfully implementing the mitigation/enhancement measures.

§   Assess PGCB’s institutional capacity to execute and monitor the EMP and recommend necessary institutional capacity building including additional professionals for environmental management.

§   Prepare an EIA report in accordance with the DOE safeguard policies and guidelines.

§  Assist the Client in coordination and liaison with the DOE to organize presentation and facilitate the process of EIA approval and thereby issuance of Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC).