The goal of this project is to assist the EPA in establishing technical teams for northern Taiwan environmental accidents. The environmental accident technical teams established at Taipei, Yilan, and Hsinchu contained 16 individuals each, and had at least three persons available at all times. The teams were ready round-the-clock to support accident response activities at accident sites, including support of response monitoring, sampling, and clean-up and recovery work., boosting the promptness and versatility of environmental accident response. The three teams had participated in a total of 50 on-site response actions (26 accidents) and 3 no-warning response tests、3 drills (Total of 56 times), have implemented installation, calibration, and maintenance work involving EPA instruments, and have updated basic response data within their assigned areas. In their routine prevention and readiness work, they have completed 185 in-plant assistance sessions at toxic chemical substance handling facilities, 77 in-plant no-warning response tests, 18 explanatory meetings concerning laws and regulations, two mobilization workshops, four group training sessions for joint response task forces, 54 exercises with local environmental authorities, implementation of mobilization, anti-terror, and environmental accident exercise simulations assigned by the EPA, and assistance to bureaus of environmental protection in review of 141 hazard prevention and emergency response plans. One expert and agency case review conference was held to prevent the same accidents from recurring.

Toxic Chemicals, Emergency Response, Environmental disasters accident