The Environment Protection Administration (EPA) in Taiwan has initiated “The Evaluation of Technical Consulting Firms on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)” since 1997. The evaluation takes place every two years, and the result is announced on the website of EPA once the evaluation is completed. The developers can refer to the result of evaluation to choose the appropriate technical consulting firms to work with. As a result, the technical consulting firms in Taiwan always try their best to improve their quality on EIA, so that they can receive a good result of evaluation. Based on this influence, the EPA has been trying to build up a good model of evaluation, and make the evaluation objective and impartial. The process of this year’s evaluation of technical consulting firms on EIA includes 4 parts, which are “basic information of the technical consulting firms”, “Quality of Reports Reviewed by the Evaluation Committee of EPA”, “Quality of Reports Reviewed by the EIA Evaluation Committee”, and “Quality of Reports Reviewed by the Environment Protection Administration (EPA) or the Environment Protection Bureau (EPB)”. This evaluation also includes “Neglect of Reports” if there is any falsification in the final report of EIA of the technical consulting firm. There are 37 technical consulting firms that signed up this year’s evaluation. 7 of the 37 technical consulting firms are A-grade, 3 of them are A-to-be, 16 of them are B-grade, 10 of them are C-grade, and 1 of them received D-grade. On the other hand, there are another 27 technical consulting firms that should participate in this year’s evaluation but reject to be evaluated are N-grade. In order to make the evaluation more and more authentic, which may promote the participation of evaluation, we also arranged the experiences of project implementation and oral reports of technical consulting firms for future improvement.

Environmental Impact Assessment;Evaluation of Technical Consulting Firms