Due to the need to improve our national environmental sanitation and visual esthetics, EPA has realized that all related governmental agencies of national level as well as at local level have to work together diligently and adjust their internal operational procedures in order for our society as a whole to meet our common national goals, sparkling clean and visually pleasant environment. The goal of this project is assist EPA to formulate 「National Environmental Sanitation and Esthetic Quality framework program and plan」, and to coordinate related governmental agencies of all levels to enhance environmental sanitation , esthetical and visual quality which are the results of execution their legally authorized duties. The contracted period of this project started in April of 2010, and will be finished before the end of December of the same year. The major accomplishments of this project include as follows: (1)After reviewing and analyzing information related to environmental sanitation and esthetic improvements and related management and maintenance methods from US, England, Germany, Japan and Singapore, feasible strategies and related plan to improve our national sanitation and visual qualities have been proposed. (2)Methodologies related to existing station inventory of environmental sanitation and esthetic quality have been suggested. Sample sites located at the north, central and south part of Taiwan have been used to test our suggested methodologies, issues related to each classification area have been analyzed, and problem solving methods have also been proposed. (3) Related governmental agencies, NGOs, academic units, opinion leaders and related bodies are invited to participate at sixteen related meetings located at north, central, south and east part of Taiwan. All their opinion have been called, analyzed and if possible, included into our report. (4) proposed criteria related to the draft of 「National Environmental Sanitation and Esthetic Quality Framework Plan」(to be carried out by lead agency at national level), 「Environmental Sanitation and Esthetic Quality management Plan」(to be carried out by local government), 「Environmental Sanitation and Esthetic Quality Improvement Plan」(to be carried out by related agencies at national level) have also been submitted.

Environmental Sanitation;Environment Aesthetics;Framework