Rehabilitation Program (ARP) I#Contaminated Sites Rehabilitation

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The First ARP/Contaminated Sites Rehabilitation Project for Azerbaijan development objective is to support the Environmental State Program (ESP) to curtail environmental degradation in the Absheron Peninsular, by assisting in decontamination of former iodine production sites and the development of a strategy for remediation/containment of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) contaminated sites. The project will also support in developing institutional capacity for the cleanup of former oil production sites and for developing rehabilitation and redevelopment plans for a specific oil production site. There are five components to the project. The first component of the project is clean-up and rehabilitation of two former iodine sites. This component will develop immediate cleanup activities to decontaminate two former iodine production sites in Surakhani and Ramani. The second component of the project is construction of a dedicated NORM storage facility. This component will finance development and construction of a dedicated facility to store radioactive waste from the two former iodine sites to be decontaminated under component first, and NORM from former oil production sites. The third component of the project is National Mapping and Remediation Program for NORM contaminated sites. This component will enable ministry of emergency situations (MES) to execute an extensive national-level survey to map NORM contaminated sites and investigate them to determine contamination levels, priorities, and remediation or containment actions to produce a national phased mitigation program. The fourth component of the project is Remediation Program for the 1,000ha site. The objective of this project component will be to develop efficient approaches for remediation and returning to alternative productive reuse of polluted former oil production sites by a comprehensive plan and partially cleaning-up approximately 1,000 hectares of oil polluted land with 350 wells between the Buzovni and Mashtagi settlements. The fifth component of the project is Capacity Building, Public Audit and Project Management. This component will provide financial support for project management and performance monitoring and technical assistance for institutional and strategy development and planning.