Decision No. 1076/QD-TTg approving the master plan on construction of Vung Ang economic zone, Ha Tinh province, up to 2025

Issue no01/September 2007 (C6ng Bao nos 632-633/September 1, 2007) OFFICIAL GAZETTE 13 DECISION No.1076/QD-TTg OF AUGUST 20, 2007, APPROVING THE MASTRR PLAN ON CONSTRUCTION OF VUNG ANG ECONOMIC ZONE,HATINHPROVINCE, UP TO 2025 THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization ofthe Government; Pursuant to the November 26, 2003 Construction Law; At the proposal ofthe Minister ofConstruction in Document No. 41fITr-BXD ofJuly 27,2007, and the president of the People's Committee of Ha Tinh provincemLJocumentNo.1U6ln:UBNLJoj'June 1':), 2007, DECIDES: Article 1.- To approve the master plan on construction of Vung Ang economic zone, Ha Tinh province, up to 2025, with the following principal contents: 1. Nature Vung Ang economic zone of H" Tinh province has an independent economic space, is a multi purpose economic zoneof various sectors, including induatrics, trade, services, tourism, urban centers, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, in which the development of metallurgy industry, industries in association with the exploitation of seaports, labor intensive industries andexport-processing industries will be promoted. 2. Scopeandboundary atPlanning scopeand landarea The zone embraces nine communes of Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh province, namely Ky Nam, Ky Phuong, Ky Lai, Ky Long, Ky Lien, Ky Thinh, Ky Trinh, Ky Ha and Ky Ninh,covering a land area of 22,781 hectares and bordering on: TI,eEastSea to the north; QuangBinhprovince to the south; Ky Khang, Ky Tho, Ky Hai and Ky Hung communes and Ky Anh township, Ky Anh district, to the west; and The EastSea to the east. bl Population About99,000 by 2015. About 180,000 by 2025. c/Land area The totalconstruction land area of t:h,g econemic zone is 10,151 hectares, in which: Bonded warehousing zones (non-tariff zone) occupy about 730 hectares, including Son Duong seaport (410 hectares) and a trade-servi ce industrial center in the land area behind the port (320 hectares). Thetariffzoneoccupies about9,421 hectares, in which: + Land for construction of ports, industrial land and warehousing land cover about 2,960 hectares, including 2,145 hectares of industrial land and warehousing land, 190 hectares for construction of thermoelectric powerplantsI andII,250hel:tares for construction ofVungAngportanda logistics service center, 15hectares foran oil andpetroldepotand90 hectares for cleanindustries. + Land for tourist resorts covel'S about ;:17.5 hectares. + Land for construction of urban residentia:l quarters coversabout2,060hectares. + Land for centers covers about 1,113 hectares, including 128 hectares forurbanspecialized centers, 425 hectares for trade, financial and multi-purpose service centers, and560hectares foreducation centers and hi-tech parks. + Land for traffic covers about 1,250 hectares, including 913hectares formainurhan road. and117 hectares for external roads. + Land for electricity transmission corridors and coal residues yards is about874 hectares. © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM 14 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue noaI/September 2007 (C6ng Biio nos 632-633lSepfember 1, 2007) + Other land in the tariff zone covers about789 hectares. Other land in the economic zone (12,630 hectares), including rural residential land, military land, religious land, agricultural land, water surface andecological greenery. 3. Functional quartersand spatial arrangement aJ The non-tariff zone includes: Son Duong port anda trade-tourist-industrial centerintheareabehind theport. b/The tariffzone Port and industrial clusters, including: +Vung Ang portcluster; +Asteel-refining, -rolling, -processing andpost rolling complex (about 1,300 hectares) which will be locatedadjacent totheship-building plant, seaports and national highway IA; a ship-building cluster (about 320 hectares) which will be located adjacent to SonDuongdeepwater seaport. +Thermoelectric powerplantT(ahout 50hectares) of a capacity of 1,200MW, whichwillbe located in Hai Phong village, Ky Loi commune, and thennoelecuic powerplant TI (about 140hectares) of a capacity of 1,200 MW, whichwillbe located in Ky Phuon~ commune. + Multi-purpose industrial parks (about 320 hectares) whichwillbe arranged alongbothsides of national highway 1Aandtheexisting roadleading to the port; and a clean industrial park (about 90 hectares), which willbe situated in the area west of the steelindustrial clusterin Ky Liencommune. Civilquarters +Resettlement quarters: Households notengaged in marine fishing activities will be intermingledly arranged in new urbancenters; households engaged inmurine fishing activities, inareas along Quyen river in Ky Ha commune and west of Ban Do mountain while agricultural households at the foot of Hoanh Son mountain, south of the redirected national highway lA, +Rural residential quarters willbekeptintactand investment will be made to improve their technical and social infrastructure systems and createjobs for residents of working age. + Newurbancenters: Sevenurbancenterswillbe arranged in areas with favorable construction conditions and good living conditions. +Humanresource training centerswillbebuilt to meet development requirements of Vung Ang economic zone and the South Ha Tinh and North Quang Binh region; financial, trade and service centers willbe arranged adjacent to Son Duongport and industrial parks while administrative, medical, cultural and physical training and sport centers will be arranged in newlydeveloped urbancenters. + Tourist resorts will be exploited rationally to ensurerequirements of sustainable development and environment andnatural landscape conservation. + Greenery, parks and coastalprotective forests will be arranged WIth a viewto ensunng lifequality and preventing and controlling natural disasters for urban residents and functional quarters. 4. Orientations on development of technical infrastructure systems Modern technical infrastructure systems will be designed andbuilttomeetthedevelopment objectives oftheeconomic zoneanduserequirements, ensuring landscape, safety andenvironmental sanitation. a/Traffic: . External roads: + To redirect the national highway IA section towards westofKyAnhtownship, witha totallength of 17.6km and a road limit of 32.5 m; for sections running through urban centers alongthenorth-south coastalroute, it is necessary to build approach roads and spatial junctions in order to ensure high-speed traffic safety. t-Tobuilda special-usc railway routelinkingthe national railway to Vung Ang port,Son Duong port andCha Lo border-gate; to buildtwo cargostations, one of 200 m x 2,000m in area in Son Duong port cluster and the other of 100 m x 1,000 m in Vung Ang port. © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM Issue no 01/September 2007 (Gong Bao nos 632-633lSeptember 1, 2007) OFFICIAL GAZETTE 15 + To make investment in increasing the capacity of Vung Ang multi-purpose port cluster to accommodate shipsof up to 50,000 DWT, and Son Duong port in service of steel and ship-repair industries. Internal roads + Northwest-southeast roads witha road limit of 60 m lying 1,000-1,500 meters far from national highway lA will serve as mainroutes linking new urban centers with industrial parks; to upgrade the existing lA route into a main urban road of a road limit of 50 meters; to build routes of a road limit of 30meters linking tourist resorts along KyNinhbeach to Vung Ang port. + Crossroads: Tobuilda roadof a length of 4.84 kin anda road limitof 84meters linking thenational highway lA bypass tocoastal roads, aroadofa length of 6.4 Ian and a road limit of 50 m linking coastal roads to Vung Angportandroadslinking functional quarters of theeconomic zone. + Traffic facilities: Tobuild and upgrade bridges spanning Quyen river; to organize traffic junctions of different heights, car terminals and parkinglots. + Mass transit: To organize seven mass transit routes linking functional quarters and urban centers m the economic zone. + Total land area for traffic will be about 1,250 hectares. accounting for 12.3% of construction land, including 913 hectares for internal roads and 337 hectares for external roads. bl Construction landpreparations: To take advantage of the natural geographical terrain so as to minimize ground leveling. The construction height will be limited at the level of + 3m or higher and + 2.5m or higher for industrial quarters andcivilquarters, respectively. Rainwater drainage: Tobuildseparate rainwater drainage systems for discharging water to Quyen river, Tri river and Vinh river, then to the East Sea throughKhauestuary. Othertechnical solutions: Tobuild avalve system for water discharge in the rainy season and water detention inthedryseason inordertoimprove micro climate; toperiodically dredgeandbuilddikes along rivers and ponds in the region and determine safety distances for coastal facilities. c/ Water supply: By 2015: Waterwill be supplied from KimSon lakeandTririver's upperreservoirfor urbancenters, tourist resorts and industrial parks. Thermoelectric power plants and the construction steel industrial complex will have separate water supply systems using recycled waterfor their technology chains. By2025, waterwill be additionally suppliedfrorn RaoTrolake reservoir andRaeriver'sreservoir when necessary. Total watersupplydemand: + By 2015: 49,000 m3/day. By 2025: 109,000m'/day. dI Electricity supply: Electricity willbe supplied totheeconomic zone mainly fromthenational electricity systeminCentral Vietnam through the 500 kV and 220kV grids with single-circuit lines running from Ha 1i nh to Dong Hoi; by2015, these lineswill be upgradedintodouble circuit lines. Thermoelectric power plants will be built in accordance with the electricity industry planning already approved by thePrimeMinister in Hai Phong andKyLoicommunes in thefirstphase(ofacapacity of 1,200 MW)andtheareasoutheast of the economic zoneinthesecondphase(ofacapacity of 1.200 MW). The total electricity demand will be about 319 MW by 2015 and about592 MW by 2025. e/ Water drainage and urban environmental sanitation: Tobuildseparate wastewater drainage systems; in urban centers, to build 4 wastewater-treatment stations corresponding to 4 wastewater drainage basins with a total capacity of 18,630 m'/day. In industrial parks, to build 8 wastewater treatment stations with a total capacityof 53.800 m3/day. © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM 16 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue no01/September 2007 (C6ng Baa nos 632·633lSeptember I, 2007) To collect and treat solidwastes: In residential quarters. solid wastes will be sorted at source. Inorganic solid wastes will be transported to a solid wastetreatment site ofabout 30hectares; waste dumps of thermoelectric powerplants and the steel-refining and -rolling industrial complex willcoverabout100 hectares each. Cemeteries will coverabout 20 hectares in Ru Dat Ky Tancommune. fl Synchronous andmodemtelecommunications infrastructure mustbe developed up to international standards, gI EnvIronmental impactassessment: On the basis of the assessment of environmental impacts of investment in the development of functional quarters in theeconomic zone, to propose measures to restrict andminimize airpollution, noise, warerponuuon andsolidwastes; to identify solutions toprotectsolienvironment andwater sources; tobuild an environment observation system and work out plans on rranagement, observation and supervision of environmental impacts of investment projects. hi Firiftd;>hase construction plan: • In the first phase, the population will be about 90,000 and the construction land area about 5,100 hectares. • Prioriry investment projects: Steel industrial COmplex, Y\mg Ang port shipbuilding and service industrial park, professional training centers and touristresorts in Ky Ninhand Ky Nam. Tobuildresettlement quarters in the areaeastof Ky Trinh urban center, to build residential quarters In serviceof tourism andrenovate andupgrade some existing residential quarters in KyLongandKy Lien communes. Article 2.- Organization of implementation ThePeople's Committee ofHa Tinhprovince shall coordinate with Vung Ang Economic Zone Management Boardin: Publicizing the master plan on construction of Vung Angeconomic zoneup to 2025andmanaging construction according to the plan and law; Making detailed construction plannings and construction investment projects in orderto develop Vung Angeconomic zone in line withthe approved master planonconstruction andcurrent relevant legal documents. Article 3.-ThisDecision takes effect15daysafter its publication in "CONGBAO." The Ministers of Construction; Planning and Investment; Transport; Finance; Industry andTrade; Agriculture and Rural Development; and Culture, Sports and Tourism; heads of concerned agencies, the president of the People's Committee ofHa Tinh province, andthedirector oftheVungAngEconomic Zone Management Board shall implement this Decision. <0 VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM