Administrative regulations and economic incentive programs are both implemented to control fugitive particulates in Taiwan. For administrative regulations, a construction company is responsible for construction supervision and management and building pollution control facility because it owns and benefits from the construction. It also has to allocate the budget for pollution control measures or facilities before construction is started according to Management Regulations for Construction Project Air Pollution Control Facilities issued in 2003. In accordance with Management Regulations for Facilities to Control Fugitive Dust Air Pollution from Stationary Pollution Sources enforced in 2009, a construction company has responsibility for building pollution control facilities. In addition, construction companies should pay air pollution control levy based on the polluter pays principle and Construction Project Air Pollution Control Fee Rate determined in 1997. If a construction company demonstrates more effective air pollution control, the lower rate will be applied in order to encourage construction companies to utilize more effective air pollution facilities. The main objectives of this project are perfecting the policies and mechanisms pertaining to fugitive particle emission source control, promoting fugitive particle emission control measurements as well as assisting local authorities in executing fugitive particle emission control measurements and respective performance evaluations.
This project has collected data from developed regions like USA (air quality authority in Utah and Southern California), EU, Australia and neighboring countries or regions (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore) on the trend of their fugitive particle emission controls and measurements including policy planning, regulation content and pertinent measurements, and comparing them to our current compatible regulations. Revised air pollution prevention measurements for civil construction sites with respect to the targets set forth in the clean air act passed in 2015 and tightened restrictions of 3rd class suspended particle control area and air pollution preventive measurements of 2nd class civil construction sites. Required the administrator of 1st class civil construction site to establish air pollution prevention plan before the start of construction works and strengthen administrator’s capacity and due diligence in preventive measures.
This project is based on “air pollution control act for fixed source of fugitive particle emission” passed this year to establish “fixed source of fugitive particle emission control information system” providing a platform of file creation and management for each local EPA so that results of implementing pertinent regulations and operating status of each pollutant source could be systematically organized. The system is to integrate national data, provide corresponding data analysis that could be used as basis for revising pertinent regulations in the future.
This project assists EPA in carrying out performance evaluation on local EPA agencies, completed follow-ups on 7 ports, examined construction status of 10 dredging sites, assessed current state of 15 foundries, checked 1,155 Km of roadways in 22 municipal areas, conducted dust inspections at 50 roadways, evaluated 79 private locations and 82 civil construction sites for regulation compliance. Research results show, for the ports, common shortfalls include the process of transporting fugitive particle emission to transportation vehicle, storing substance of fugitive particle emission and dust on roadways of passing traffic; no sign of shortfall at dredging sites; at foundry sites, it was found to have incidents of fugitive particle emission during storing, packing and loading process. Shortfalls in air pollution prevention measures at 79 private locations were mainly roadways of passing traffic, accounting for 39.4%, followed by storing substance of fugitive particle emissions, accounting for 29.4%, followed by transporting substances of fugitive particle emission, accounting for 11.9%. From the investigations at 82 civil construction sites, shortfalls in air pollution prevention were mainly located at site perimeter, accounting for 34.5%, followed by roadway of passing traffic, accounting for 29.3%, followed by exposed street surface, accounting 17.2%; inspections for cleanness around each municipal area, total inspected distance was 1,155 Km, a total of 144 violations were reported, local authority in each reported area had been notified for improvement.
