In response to the revision of the regulations governing the collection of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fees, the work undertaken under the 2017 Plan included improvement of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fees Online Declaration and Inquiry System functions, and System updating. The relevant management architecture and data were established for 151 substances that are subject to Fee collection and their respective code numbers, and 66 waste item code numbers and their corresponding tables were added to the System; in addition, data linkage with the Industrial Waste Declaration and Management System was adjusted, and adjustments were made to inquiry functions in line with the revisions to the relevant regulations. With the number of registered Fee payers increasing by at least 2,800, a number of new digitalization measures were implemented with respect to declaration operations, including self-management of Fee payer accounts, self-directed data registration by non-registered Fee Payers, and the addition of a supplementary information inputting function for declaration details, an online declaration function for insurance and construction refunds, a digitalized online registration system, and optimization of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fees Online Declaration and Inquiry System user experience on mobile devices. The automated review ancillary function has been strengthened, along with the Big Data cross-checking and comparison capability, so that, prior to the implementation of review, the handling agency can implement batch-processing screening and labeling functions, thereby making it possible to rapidly identify abnormal cases, and thus streamlining and simplifying the review process. The system has also had progress monitoring and reporting functions added for both preliminary review and secondary review, along with warning and ancillary management mechanisms, with the aim of ensuring that the review-implementing agencies will be able to issue warnings in regard to cases where progress is behind schedule, thereby facilitating the rapid completion of such cases. By examining trends in past years' declaration data, it is possible to implement cross-checking in relation to abnormal cases, including cases where there are discrepancies in the amounts declared, excessively high surplus payments, an excessively large number of instances of submitting supplementary information, etc., so that early-warning lists can be provided and so that the reviewing agencies can implement follow-up review or follow-up auditing, thereby facilitating the early provision of guidance so that the firms in question can complete the declaration process properly. Regarding the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fund Budgeting Management System, development and testing of the "Budgeting Chart Management" function was completed in September 2017; in addition, data specification linkage has been realized with the EPA's "BAF" budget and accounts management data integration platform, and formal environmental data linkage has been completed. The System has already been installed on official computers, making it possible for budget control personnel to implement batch-processing updating of uploaded and collated data, with the System automatically generating a monthly "Budget Implementation Progress Monitoring Chart" so that the personnel responsible for plan implementation can report on budget implementation progress on a monthly basis, thereby helping budget control personnel to monitor budget allocation status and implementation status. As of May 2018, the development of various budget and expenditure status monitoring functions in relation to relevant plans had been completed, so that personnel can now output the "Tendering Operations for Outsourced Projects - Registration Form," "Fund Budget Retention and Implementation Master Table," and "Historic Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fund Funding Sources and Implementation Status Table," to facilitate management of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fund and follow-up of Fund operations implementation by senior EPA officials.
