This project had completed 100% up to December 31th, 2014. The tasks included to continue the operation of the Environmental Incident Specialist Teams (EIST) in the central Taiwan at the Central Taiwan Science Park (Taichung Team) in Taichung and the Douliou Industrial Park (Yunlin Team) in Douliou with 16 members each. All members were trained in 24 occasions with various types, such as regular and advanced courses hosted by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), self-trained and exchanging experience, etc. There were also 24 refresher trainings (including 7 air pollution related events). Our regular tasks included 11 workshops on regulation information, 81 on-site counseling visits, 47 unannounced tests on response plan (EP), 71 EP reviewing, 23 EP exercises for counterterrorism incidents and environmental disasters, 4 counties’ EP review and 516 toxic chemical operations in various industrial parks for EPA’s databank. Those efforts were to prepare for possible environmental disasters and to lessen the possible impacts. For our emergency tasks, we have responded to 30 incidents (including air pollution related events of 4 events in Taichung and 3 events in Yunlin) along with 6 self-EP responses. In order to strengthen the local response capacity in the region, we cooperated also with two mutual aid teams of the Formosa Petrochemical and the Chiang-Pen Transportation Corporation of 18 members each with 3 on-duty all year round. Those cooperation was on incident communication, on-site help, equipment/supply aids with 8 training course totaled 1332 man-hours. We also engaged actively in the international technology exchange to enhance our capacity and knowledge by sending one member to French for ocean oil and chemical pollution training in June, two members to Singapore for commander course of toxic chemical response in June, three members to the US for the 25rd Annual Continuing Challenge HazMat Emergency Response Workshop. We also hosted case-study workshop in October, two workshops for regional mutual aid member teams, and two workshops for governmental agencies training in April and October, respectively.

Keywords：Toxic Chemicals、Environmental Incidents Specialist Team、Central Region of Taiwan