Factories in Tainan with air pollution fee controlled are 1, 380 in total, among which there are 103 factories controlled and 272 gas stations in accordance with the EPA act. For specific legislation and regulations, the project team implemented the act and check inventory. Through controlling and supervising factories to improve their flaws at the rate of 93% with 5 remaining factories not improved. Besides, there are two factories were reported and punished because their industry equipment components exceed regulatory standards with the penalty fee 200,000 in total. Connecton- controlled factories are eligible for automatic continuous control monitoring facilities. With the function check and inspection of regulatory compliance, they all comply with regulations and standards, except only one factory with NO2 conversion rate less than 90% of the draft specification. This factory was counseled to improve; however, as to the monitoring data section, there were two factories didn't meet the due date so they were denounced and punished. 50 gas stations within its jurisdiction for the implementation of the GOR and gas station leak detection operations are in line with regulations and standards with no factories failing to complete and the oil gun have been full improved under supervision, with the reduction of pollutant by 13.15 tonnes.
In recent years, the project team recovered the amount of air pollution fee more than 58 million. In 2016, in response to the project control target, the implementation of reduction counseling and expert on-site audit have been done, combined with air pollution fee on-site audit, raw materials content sampling tests and other mechanisms. In total, recovery of the stationary source air pollution fee for 7.53 million dollars, which annually increased the city's air pollution fee by 2,13,00,000. In recent years, through various control and counseling, area air pollution fee reporting rate has increased from 77% in 2012 to 87%. And, we continue to meet air pollution fee reporting rate, Internet reporting rate and to pay rate at 100%.
In recent years, restaurants smoke gets more and more attention. In addition to promoting this year's repeated petitions outside inspections, we assisted the installation of control equipment among 75 factories with the petitions improvement rate 96%. As for the ones with the equipment but still get petition, we will include experts on-site counseling to improve the situation. In total, we have contributed to a total reduction of 9.1 tons of particulate pollutants, PM2.5 reduction of 6.8 tonnes, and volatile organic compounds reduction of 1.6 tonnes. This year, we first collaborate with the Economic Development Board and the Health Bureau to jointly control the new restaurant industry, through multiple controls, prompting the reduction of factories with repeated petitions from 160 factories in 2011 to 28 factories. It shows that the control effectively reduce the trouble of public petition and improve air quality.
In addition, during the project, with each sudden air quality emergency duties (including holidays and nights), press release writing, document submition, project checks and related meetings, we effectively help EPA enhance stationary air pollutant source control results.
