The project period was from Jan 12, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011. The tasks included auditing the air pollution control fee for non-stationary pollution sources based on the “Air Pollution Control Fee Collection Regulations”, inspecting the data and testing the quality of gasoline and diesel fuels in producers/importers’ refineries, storages, depots, retails and other distribution places based on the “Selling and Importing Permit Management of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels” and the “Standards for the Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”, and collecting and analyzing the foreign and domestic regulations of fuels(including bio-fuel). From January to December, the air pollution control fee of both gasoline and diesel collected was 2.916 billion NT dollars. The raising of the air pollution control fee was the result of stringent standards and fee rate changing from 3 differential rates to single rate 0.2 NT/liter. The monthly average reporting volumes of gasoline and diesel all increased comparing to 2010’s. Because gasoline and diesel fuels are people daily needs, their prices and reporting volumes are not positive proportional. About the web reporting system of air pollution control fees, the scanning results in third quarter showed four low severity vulnerabilities. The database had been reexamined and the links had been updated already. According to the satisfaction survey for the reporting system, the users of all refineries gave high praise. The refineries of Chinese Petroleum Corporation already reached the 2012’s new standard of the gasoline sulfur content. The Mai Liao refinery of Formosa Petrochemical Corporation also started running its desulfurization system in late October and the average sulfur content of its gasoline had been reduced to 7～8 mg/kg in November. The diesel sulfur content of all refineries reached the new standard from July to December. For the field inspection, the sampling and testing number of gasoline and diesel fuels was 155 for refineries, 187 for depots, and 68 for gas stations. All the testing results complied with the “Standards for the Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”. Besides, the field inspections of eight bio-diesel entities had been finished during April to May. In the aspect of foreign fuel regulations, the main purposes of the fuel quality regulations in European Union were leaded gasoline prohibited and lower sulfur content fuels. US Environmental Protection Agency promulgated fuel regulations based on the various evaluation projects including Reformulated Gasoline project, Tier 2 project, and Mobile Source Air Toxics project. The usage and regulated information of MTBE additive used in gasoline had been analyzed and therefore provided the suggestions of regulation standards, bio-fuels, and MTBE additive. The bio-fuel promotion council had been hold in Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration on 28th June. Also the fuel inspection task and achievements forum had been hold in Kaohsiung on 2nd December. For the domestic waste cooking oil collection, increasing the frequency of illegal collection auditing and enhancing the management should be considered. Encouraging and assisting bio-fuel entities to develop the high efficiency energy corps was another way. The unqualified rate of domestic illegal fuels from January to December was 0.10%. The municipals provided 30 illegal fuel samples for testing during the project time. After all the samples had been analyzed by GC/FID and GC/MS equipment, there found 10 abnormal samples which confirmed as fishing vessels fuels or contained specific solvents by the spectrum comparison.

air pollution control fee;reporting volumes;sulfur content;bio-fuel;illegal fuel