This project attempts to deliver specific and feasible suggestions for the amendment on the soil and groundwater pollution remediation fees levy system in Taiwan. Chapter 1 describes the background and aims of this project. Chapter 2 explains the background and the principles of the revised system. Chapter 2 also shows the proposed adjustment on the current remediation fee system as well as the impacts from the adjustment. Then in addition, for the amendment, Chapter 2 elaborates the talking points for future public communications. Chapter 3 describes the proposed amendment in details and discusses the revised principles of reviewing, execution and administration corresponding to the amendment. Moreover, Chapter 3 analyzes the impacts on the soil and groundwater pollution remediation fund caused by the introduction of other environmental taxes and the Soil Pollution Management System. Chapter 3 also makes comments on the current management rules of the revenue and expenditure of soil remediation fund. Chapter 4 summarizes previous public communications with industries including questions and answers. The questions and answers are also presented online. Chapter 5 is mainly the collection of information of actual expenditures for remediation, used to establish a database containing the data of unit prices for remediation for estimating future costs of remediation. Chapter 6 is the conclusions from this project.

soil and groundwater pollution remediation fees, justification and legal status, cost and benefit analysis, economic impact analysis, system dynamics