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The objective of the Shanxi Coalbed Methane Development and Utilization Project for China is to develop a resettlement action plan for the people affected by the project to guarantee they can benefit from the project, improve their living standards or at least restore their living standards after the project is completed. The project will affect 14 village groups in 8 administrative villages in Zhengzhuang town and Duanshi town in Qinshui county. A total of 44.7 ha of land areas will be permanently acquired, including 10.9 ha dry farmland, 32.2 ha as unused land and 1.6 ha as scrub land. The temporarily occupied land of the project is 101.4 ha, including 24.9 ha dry farmland, 4.1 ha scrub and 72.4 ha unused land. The land acquisition and occupation will affect 333 households and 1131 people, including 107 households and 366 people affected by permanent land acquisition and 226 households and 765 people affected by temporary land occupation. In average, every affected people will lose 0.45 mu farmland, accounting for 14 percent of their existing farmland. All the affected land, trees and other assets will be compensated based on replacement cost. Mitigation measures include: for people who will be inevitably affected by the project, the resettlement objective is to restore or improve their income to their original levels in accordance to national laws and regulations, as well as the resettlement policy of the World Bank. The project owner will ensure that any person who losses land, other assets or income source will be assisted to fully recover their income and living levels. According to national laws and Shanxi implementation regulations, Qinshui County Land Resource Bureau has stipulated compensation rates for the project. For permanent land acquisition, the compensation will be set at 27 times of Annual Average Output Value (AAOV) in the past three years for farmland acquisition and 5-7 times of AAOV for non-farmland acquisition. For temporary land occupation, the compensation standards are set at 1,400 Yuan/mu for dry farmland, 2,800 Yuan/mu for vegetable plot, 700 Yuan/mu for unused land and 900 Yuan/mu for scrub land each year. In addition, the temporarily occupied land will be restored by the project owner; otherwise, the reclaiming deposit, which is set at Y 3,000 per mu for farmland , Y 1,500 per mu for non farmland and Y 2,000 per mu for scrub land will be used to rehabilitate the land into original conditions.
