The Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan (EPA) has launched “The 2018-2019 Project on Both the Industrial Waste Flow Controls and Management Review of Industrial Waste Disposal Plans” (hereinafter simply called the Project) which requires 14 project engineers respectively stationed in the environmental protection departments in all Taiwan’s cities and counties (except special Municipalities, Kinmen County and Lienchiang County) to assist government agencies in counseling the enterprises to be familiar with the standards and reporting obligations related to the storage, clearance, and disposal (reuse) of their industrial waste as provided in the Waste Disposal Act, thus highlighting the source responsibility and providing service in the industrial waste flow controls. So far this year, we have helped the compilation of the drafted amendments to the regulations of “The Industries Required to Submit the Industrial Waste Disposal Plan” and “The Industries Required to File Reports via Internet of their Waste Production, Storage, Clearance, Disposal, Reuse, Export and Import” through consultations. The EPA announced the compilation on August 24, 2018 and such regulations were promulgated on November 27, 2018. In addition, we have studied and helped the revision of the "Guidelines for the Review of the Industrial Waste Disposal Plans”, and examined the industrial waste disposal plans (IWDPs) approved by the environmental protection departments in cities and counties in order to conduct on-site inspections on how enterprises operate according to the approved IWDPs. All of these have aimed to improve the quality of IWDPs reported by enterprises and the quality of review for higher performance of the reporting mechanism. We also have helped the formulation of “The 2018 Work Plan to Review and Audit the Industrial Waste Disposal” and have done such auditing on-site. Through the Project, the benefits have been achieved, which include: 1. The research and review of the management mechanism on the industrial waste, the revision of the related management announcements, the formulation of the 12 volumes of "Operational Manual of Reporting the Industrial Waste Disposal Plans Required for Specific Industries and its Review Reference” and “Fees Collection Standards for Industrial Waste Disposal Plans” (drafted amendment) in response; 2. The enhancement of the basic database of the IWR＆MS for easy audits and comparisons by the local environmental protection departments for the waste flow controls. It is also planned that the relevant achievements can be used as a foundation for government agencies to assess the performance of their control strategy implementation and as reference material for regulations and law amendments as far as quantification is concerned; 3. The formulation of the "Review and Audit Plan for Industrial Waste Disposal”, and the compilation of implementation results achieved by the environmental protection departments at all levels to complete the tracking and auditing operation on the industrial waste flow reporting.

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