For the purpose of balancing long term development interest and the environmental protection issues, the EPA of Taiwan has published the “Environmental Impact Assessing Law” in December of 1994 and has gone through 3 revisions. And this law now has profound impact on the protect of the environment. And this project called “The study of the reviewing process of the noise and vibration issues of development projects” is aimed to set up a standard reviewing procedure for the noise and vibration issues raised in the development process. It includes SOP noise and vibration assessment and SOP for the reviewing process.

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