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INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATASHEET

APPRAISAL STAGE
I. Basic Information
Date prepared/updated: 10/28/2009

Report No.: AC4420

1. Basic Project Data

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project ID: P090675
Project Name: Municipal Development Project
Task Team Leader: Jonathan S. Kamkwalala
Estimated Appraisal Date: October 23,
Estimated Board Date: December 22, 2009
2009
Managing Unit: ECSSD
Lending Instrument: Specific Investment
Loan
Sector: Sanitation (100%)
Theme: Access to urban services and housing (90%);Municipal governance and
institution building (10%)
IBRD Amount (US$m.):
35.00
IDA Amount (US$m.):
0.00
GEF Amount (US$m.):
0.00
PCF Amount (US$m.):
0.00
Other financing amounts by source:
Borrower
2.00
2.00
Environmental Category: B - Partial Assessment
Simplified Processing
Simple []
Repeater []
Is this project processed under OP 8.50 (Emergency Recovery)
Yes [ ]
No [X]
or OP 8.00 (Rapid Response to Crises and Emergencies)
2. Project Objectives
The Project Development Objective (PDO) of MDP is to improve the living conditions of
people in the areas covered by the Sarajevo Water and Waste Water Utility and in
downstream riverside communities by (a) reducing the people#s exposure to, and reliance
on highly polluted water from the Miljacka and Bosna river; and (b) improving the
efficiency of the waste water collection network in the Sarajevo Kanton. The project aims
to achieve this objective through financing investments in the rehabilitation of the
Sarajevo waste water treatment plant (WWTP) and sewerage network in the Sarajevo
Kanton.
3. Project Description
The Municipal Development Project will primarily finance priority investments for
rehabilitation of the Sarajevo wastewater treatment plant, but will also provide support to
the Sarajevo water and waste water utility (ViK) to improve financial management
capacity and operational efficiency, and help preparation of follow-up investments in
water and waste rehabilitation.

As such, the wastewater treatment rehabilitation will aim to reduce the pollutant load
and the risk to human health associated with the present releases of untreated municipal
wastewater from an estimated population of 450,000 in Sarajevo. In addition, the Project
will also aim at improving the amount of wastewater collected through reconstruction of
selected portions, not to exceed a total length of 12.5 kilometers, of the sewage collection
network. The investments will result in improved surface water quality in the Miljacka
River, the recipient, and further downstream in the Bosna and Sava river. The project
would improve the living conditions of neighborhoods in the vicinity of the Sarajevo
WWTP and in the downstream riverside communities by reducing their exposure to, and
reliance on, highly polluted river water and improving the efficiency of the waste water
collection network.
The proposed Project will involve the following activities:
(a) Rehabilitation of sand grit removal facilities either throughout the network or at
the intake of the plant.
(b) Rehabilitation of a pump station for raw waste water, screening station, aerated
grit chamber, substation, and air blower room.
(c) The rehabilitation of primary sedimentation, primary sludge pumping station,
sludge thickener, and sludge pumping station, and,
(d) Rehabilitation of sludge digestion, sludge holding tank, sludge pumping station,
and sludge dehydration.
In addition, the project will also finance rehabilitation of selected portions of the
existing sewerage network in Sarajevo, not to exceeding a total length of 12.5 kilometers.
The Project will additionally provide technical assistance to ViK Sarajevo for capacity
building and institutional strengthening. This technical assistance would also support
project documents such as feasibility studies for investments that could possibly be
financed at a later date. All such project documents in their Terms of Reference would
include safeguard requirements of the World Bank.
4. Project Location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard
analysis
Sarajevo Kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Project is aimed at specific reconstruction-rehabilitation activities of the Butile
wastewater treatment plant for Sarajevo, located in the Butile-Stup area. The Project will
entail works within the property of the Waste water treatment plant. Reconstruction
works on the sewage collection network will be aimed at reconstruction or replacement
of sections of the existing sewage collection network, also within Sarajevo Kanton. The
works on rehabilitation of the network will focus on large secondary sewer pipes, and all
of them located on public routes and right-of-way, will not require land acquisition,
resettlement or have an impact on exsisting activities. All rehabilitation will be
conducted in accordance with the Environmental Management Plan.

5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists

Ms Paula F. Lytle (ECSS4)
Ms Esma Kreso (ECSS3)
6. Safeguard Policies Triggered
Environmental Assessment (OP/BP 4.01)
Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04)
Forests (OP/BP 4.36)
Pest Management (OP 4.09)
Physical Cultural Resources (OP/BP 4.11)
Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10)
Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12)
Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37)
Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP 7.50)
Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP 7.60)

Yes
X

No
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X

II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management

A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues
1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project.
Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts:
The Environmental Assessment document for this Project has been prepared and
disclosed in country by the Consultant - Bosna-S Oil Services Company from Sarajevo.
The Environmental Assessment and the Environmental Management Plan as an integral
part of this document will address all relevant environmental impacts and applicable
mitigation and monitoring measures.
The Project will help improve the current environmental situation in Kanton Sarajevo
and within Bosnia and Herzegovina through establishing treatment of waste waters that
are at present released directly from the collection network into the rivers.
The Project has triggered OP 7.50 on International Waterways, with an exception
granted based on the overall outcome of the Project - that is improvement in the water
quality in the river Bosna and consequently Sava watersheds.
2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future
activities in the project area:
The Project will have overall positive impact by improving the water quality of the
recipient rivers, Miljacka and Bosna. Potential minor negative impacts of the Project are
small-scale and typical for reconstruction and operation of a wastewater treatment plant,
including dust, noise, soil excavation, storage of hazardous materials, management of
construction wastes, storage of chemicals, sludge management and disposal. These
potential negative impacts can be mitigated through good operational practices and by
adhering to the requirements of the environmental legislation in place in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and the World Bank#s social and environmental safeguards requirements.

3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize
adverse impacts.
The Environmental Assessment report has addressed the issue of sludge generation and
its management, and the issue of incoming sand and grit by offering different alternatives
and comparing these alternatives to the associated environmental impact. The
alternatives, analyzed in the EA include Preliminary Treatment options for sand-grit
removal facility and its location; the Pre-Treatment Phase where the options include
installation of new pumps versus old; Reconstruction of Secondary Treatment with or
without Nitrogen and Phosphorus removal; while the Sludge Treatment line is compared
with the additional sludge drying beds. The key alternative is the one associated with
sludge treatment, as untreated sludge (without drying or dewatering) cannot be disposed
of at the Sarajevo municipal landfill. The drying beds, as a proposed alternative are
however more susceptible to the weather conditions in Sarajevo, and may pose a threat to
the quality of soil and groundwater, coupled with odor and insects.
4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide
an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described.
The Borrower has hired a Consultant to prepare the Environmental Assessment report,
and has actively participated in providing technical information and input to the
Consultant. The project would be implemented under the overall responsibility of the BH
Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations (MoFTER). A Project Implementing
Team (PIT) would be located at the Sarajevo Water and Sanitation Utility - KJKP
Vodovod i Kanalizacija to handle day-to-day implementation of the project. Both, the
PMT and the PIT have experience in implementing World Bank financed projects,
namely the Urban Infrastructure and Service Delivery Project for the PMT and the GEF
Water Quality Protection Project for the ViK Utility. The PMT is knowledgeable of
implementing proper environmental mitigation and monitoring measures, as indicated in
the Environmental Monitoring Plans and working with PITs towards successful
implementation, as indicated in their reports and during the environmental specialists
visit to the PMT. Vodovod i kanalizacija, as a PIT is knowledgeable of the adequate
mitigation measures and of the requirements of the World Bank, and also the local
legislation. In addition, the PIT has already taken steps towards obtaining an
environmental permit in accordance with the local legislation in force.
5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and
disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people.
An updated Environmental Assessment (EA) document including Environmental
Monitoring Plan (EMP) has been prepared and was disclosed in local language to the
public in Kanton Sarajevo prior to a two-step public consultation meeting on October 13
and 26, 2009 in Sarajevo. All key issues and findings from the consultations have been
incorporated into the final version of the Environmental Assessment report before it was
submitted to the World Bank#s Infoshop for disclosure on October 26, 2009.

B. Disclosure Requirements Date

Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other:

Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal?
Yes
Date of receipt by the Bank
10/26/2009
Date of "in-country" disclosure
10/19/2009
Date of submission to InfoShop
10/26/2009
For category A projects, date of distributing the Executive
Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors
Resettlement Action Plan/Framework/Policy Process:
Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal?
Date of receipt by the Bank
Date of "in-country" disclosure
Date of submission to InfoShop
Indigenous Peoples Plan/Planning Framework:
Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal?
Date of receipt by the Bank
Date of "in-country" disclosure
Date of submission to InfoShop
Pest Management Plan:
Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal?
Date of receipt by the Bank
Date of "in-country" disclosure
Date of submission to InfoShop
* If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Physical Cultural Resources,
the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental
Assessment/Audit/or EMP.
If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please
explain why:

C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level (to be filled in when the
ISDS is finalized by the project decision meeting)
OP/BP/GP 4.01 - Environment Assessment
Does the project require a stand-alone EA (including EMP) report?
If yes, then did the Regional Environment Unit or Sector Manager (SM)
review and approve the EA report?
Are the cost and the accountabilities for the EMP incorporated in the
credit/loan?
OP 7.50 - Projects on International Waterways
Have the other riparians been notified of the project?
If the project falls under one of the exceptions to the notification
requirement, has this been cleared with the Legal Department, and the memo
to the RVP prepared and sent?
Has the RVP approved such an exception?
The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information

Yes
Yes
Yes

No
Yes

Yes

Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the World Banks
Infoshop?
Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public place in a
form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected
groups and local NGOs?
All Safeguard Policies
Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional responsibilities
been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard
policies?
Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included in the project
cost?
Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project include the
monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies?
Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed with the
borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal
documents?

Yes
Yes

Yes

Yes
Yes
Yes

D. Approvals
Signed and submitted by:
Task Team Leader:
Environmental Specialist:
Social Development Specialist
Additional Environmental and/or
Social Development Specialist(s):

Name

Date

Mr Jonathan S. Kamkwalala
Ms Esma Kreso
Ms Paula F. Lytle
Ms Ruxandra Maria Floroiu

10/28/2009
10/26/2009
10/28/2009
10/26/2009

Mr Manuel G. Marino

10/28/2009

Approved by:
Sector Manager:
Comments: