The achievement of this project focuses mainly on three areas, including wastewater regulations amendments, industrial wastewater management, and application of wastewater information database systems. About the achievement for wastewater regulations amendments, in response to Water Pollution Control Act Amendments (WPCA Amendments) of this year (2016), several related regulations have been amended accordingly, including Regulations Governing the Establishment and Management of Dedicated Wastewater (Sewage) Treatment Units or Personnel, Regulations Governing the Amount of Penalty Fines for Wastewater (Sewage) Treatment Specialist Staff in Violation of Water Pollution Control Act, Water Pollution Control Law Implementation Guideline, Water Pollution Control Plans and Permit Applications Review Procedures, and The Regulation for total Amount Control of Total Phosphorus in Reservoir and Prohibition of Behaviors Caused Water Pollution (Draft). About the achievement for industrial wastewater management, not only recycling and reusing of the livestock excreta was investigated, the requirement for the industry to install the continuous water monitoring system was amended to expand the scale of the candidate industries that need to install the system, but also the test for wastewater treatment technologies and the flexibility of treatment facility operation were permitted. In addition, the relevant permits and DMR are amended in response to WPCA Amendments and the propaganda materials and the relevant reference manual for promoting these amendments were also established and complied. About the achievement for the application of wastewater information database system, the systematic tool for calculating the benefits from violating the related regulations is created to lower the risk of miscalculating by human. In order to help Taiwan EPA to integrate the data of air pollution, water pollution, waste disposal and toxic materials into a big database, the function in the Environment Management System (EMS) is enhanced. In addition, due to the information disclosure regulation, five public hears for candidate industries were held before the water pollution disclosure platform was fully opened to the public, letting the public to search the related information. Last but not least, the associated administrative affairs are also completed, including conducting the water pollution assessment, hosting the information meetings for promoting each amended regulations, compiling the E-Newsletter for industrial wastewater management and replying the public inquire or request by email.

Industrial Wastewater；Permit Management；Database Management