Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project

4 Scoping and prioritization of impacts/risks4.1 Scoping Framework4.1.1 Methodology1. The objectives of the scoping process are to identify significant (i) environmental and socialissues early enough to feed them back to the planning team before engineering decisions aremade, (ii) environmental components that will be affected during pre-construction, construction,and O/M stages of the Project, and (iii) environmental impacts during various stages of the Projectthat need to be thoroughly assessed and addressed for mitigation and management. The scopingframework for the Project has been developed based on the detailed review of all the proposed Project activities and civil works, detailed review of pre-feasibility and feasibility study reports of the Project, experience gained from past similar large bridge projects in Bangladesh, stakeholder and public consultations, collection and analysis of baseline environment of the Project area, anticipated induced development in the region after the Project completion, and Catering to harmonized environmental safeguard requirements.Harmonized EnvironmentalSafeguard RequirementsProject InformationPrevious Environmental Studies& Past ExperiencesPublic/StakeholderConsultationsBaseline InformationScoping for the ProjectFigure 4-1: Environmental Scoping Framework for the Project2. The framework of the scoping procedure is shown in Figure 4-1. The scoping frameworkconsists of five major steps (a) harmonized environmental safeguard requirements, (b) projectinformation, (c) review of previous environment studies, (d) public and expert consultations, and (e)collection of baseline information. A brief description of each of these steps is given in the followingsections:4-1