The purpose of this project is to strengthen air pollution incident response resources for Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and local Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB). The results of this project include: (1) The demands of accident prevention management are analyzed based on the information which collected from United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, as well as domestic air pollution response system. (2)The contact information of environmental agencies and other organizations have been updates with additional supporting information for two large industrial parks, i.e. Southern Taiwan Science Park -Tainan Park and Hsinchu Industrial Park, in this project. The evacuation plan for major air pollution incidents was developed by using Ren-Da Industrial Park as case and provided local EPB as reference. (3) 58 air pollution incidents were notified to local EPB by Air Pollution Team, in order to assist local EPA instant response. Moreover, we provides a set of air pollution equipment with3 team members for two Environment Incident Response Teams, respectively, to assist local EPB in air pollution sampling and monitoring during the air pollution incident. (4) No warning test was conducted to ensure the local EPB staffs will do emergency response immediately and quickly during an air pollution incident. (5) A workshop of air pollution incident emergency response was conducted on December 23, 2013. The purpose of this workshop is to enhance the ability of local EPB staffs on emergency response. The topics included emergency response status and future task of air pollution incidents of EPA, common problems of local EPB, operating instructions of the Air Pollution Incident Response System, as well as three case studies of local EPB.

Response mechanism of air pollution incidents, Prevention management, Emergency response, Response effectiveness of local EPB