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According to the Bank’s website, the Project Development Objective is to facilitate road transit through selected border crossings with the EU and to improve the quality of road connectivity that selected local communities have to international corridors.
Component A: Facilitating trade and expanding Solidarity Lanes (US$ 18.0 million)
Component B: Linking local communities with economic opportunities (US$ 77.8 million)
Component C: Building delivery capacity and project management support (US$ 4.2 million)
Component D: Contingent emergency response (US$ 0 million)
The environmental risks associated with the proposed project are assessed as Substantial. The project will provide a combination of investments in connectivity and rural roads rehabilitation on at least three main corridors (Component B), road safety, upgrade border crossing physical capacity and improve key roads level crossings by construction of short section of new access road, upgrading of an exiting road and expansion the capacity of existing parking (Component A), technical assistance and support for specific regulatory and institutional reforms. Although the long-term impacts of the project are likely to be positive, all anticipated civil works activities could, cumulatively, result in potential significantly environmental risks and adverse impacts that are mainly generated by the activities under Components A and B. Except the construction of a short (1 km) new access road to Ungheni bridge and a short (0.5 km) road widening in Leuseni, the proposed activities are essentially road rehabilitation and maintenance within the "Right of Way" (ROW) areas. Thus, the substantial environmental risk rating is justified mainly because the cumulative impacts related to air and water pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, labor security etc., may be significant, but site specific, mostly temporarily, predictable, and/or reversible and the magnitude and spatial extent are likely to be limited in geographic scope and within the technical footprint of the project. The impact on natural vegetation associated with operating the quarry and borrow areas and constructing detour and access roads to the borrow material pits and quarry sites, will not be applicable as there will be used the existing borrow/quarry sites which operate based on legal licenses and permits.
IBRD Commitment: 100.00
IDA Commitment: 5.98
World Bank
Elena Lungu, Dominic Pasquale Patella
Senior Transport Specialist
Borrower/Client/Recipient
Ministry of Finance
Veronica Sireteanu Vragaleva
Minister
veronica.sireteanu@mf.gov.md
Implementing Agencies
Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova
Igor Iurco
Head of Customs Control Division, Customs Service of the Rep
igor.iurco@customs.gov.md
State Road Administration
Sergiu Bejan
General Director
sergiu.bejan@asd.md
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