The chapter VI, VII and VIII have presented in detail the requirements of environmental mitigation, monitoring, auditing and management for the KAHEP project. Non-action on mitigation, monitoring and auditing for the project environmental management will have an adverse effect on the project area’s natural environment. The cost of the adverse effects will be borne by the project area communities in the long run. Since the impacts to the project area resources are the result of the project implementation, the project has to internalise the cost of environmental mitigation, monitoring and auditing for the project environmental management in the project costs.
This section presents the required costs for the project environmental mitigation, monitoring and auditing for environmental management of the project, which the project will ensure to invest as part of the project costs.
9.1 Cost for Environmental Mitigation
Table 9.1 presents the project environmental mitigation cost for construction and operation periods. The cost items presented in the table are only for the items which are not customarily included in the civil costs of a project. The mitigation measures presented in Chapter VIII are not listed in the Table 9.1, as these are the measures for which the costs are internalised in the project civil costs. The project has estimated a cost of NRs 152,058,935 as a part of civil environmental costs excluding the project environmental and social management costs of NRs 30,223,575.
Table 9.1: Environmental Mitigation Cost
SN
Mitigation Action
Estimated Cost (NRs)
Remarks
A
Primary Environmental Impacts
1
Construction Phase
i
Compensatory afforestation as per the Forest Guideline, 2006, calculations as per forest norms
936,250.00
ii
Lease compensation to the lost forest area for 30 years as per the Forest Act.
278,915.00
iii
Clearance and stockpiling of the felled forest products
467,000.00
iv
Joint supervision with the official of DFO to mark the trees and poles for felling
225,000.00
v
Technical and financial assistance to the affected community and leasehold forest user group
1,100,000.00
vi
Compensation to the timber and fodder loss to community and leasehold forests based on the production loss of the forest for 5 years
1,586,012.00
2
Operation Phase
i
Assistance for on-site sanitation management and in the use of agrochemicals to watershed communities @ rate of 1,50,000/year for 30 years
Temporary water supply arrangements in the event of the effect on use springs
600,000.00
B
Operation Phase
I
Provision for water supply arrangements in the event of affects to on use water sources on permanent basis
3,500,000.00
Sub-Total of B
4,315,000.00
C
Other Issues
1
Construction Phase
i
Prior survey of house structures along the tunnel alignment
500,000.00
Ii
Provision of compensation in the event of damage to structures
3,000,000.00
Iii
Assistance to the local authorities in the protection works of the forest areas close to the construction sites
1,536,000.00
Iv
Hoarding boards costs at critical location of the access road on the preventive actions to control the forest fire
100,000.00
V
Public awareness programs to prevent the forest fires in the local area
300,000.00
2
Operation Phase
I
Hoarding boards at critical locations and their maintenance to generate awareness to the visitors on the significance of forests and wildlife of the area @ 1,00,000/year for 30 years
3,000,000.00
Ii
Assistance to Leasehold forest user groups and community forest user groups for the protection and conservation of the forested areas @ 20,000/year for 30 years
600,000.00
Sub-total C
9,036,000.00
D
Additional Studies
I
Baseline information on aquatic ecology Kabeli/Tamor River and fish hatchery
