The plan, which has been amended in accordance with the fees rules, continues to improve the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Fees Online Declaration and Inquiry System by adding new functions for supplementary application during non-application season, and system settings and identification of application season and non-application season time periods. The back-end of the system has added a list of payment vendors approved by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) as allowed to use the supplementary application zone. This helps facilitate fast completion of the supplementary application process. An exemption online application function has been added to the system. This comprises application review progress online management, proof document uploading, and review status click-and-sort functions. The upload function eliminates the problem of large amounts of paper for proof documents needing to be sent through the mail, which simplifies review procedures at the review unit and saves on printing and storage space. The customs import data supplementary application pre-filling function has been optimized. The system automatically compares all application data with the same company tax number from public and private payment vendors, and uses color-coding to indicate if the same item has been applied for by other subsidiaries. This avoids repeated applications, and reduces both problems in the subsequent reviewing process and overpayment. With regard to cross-season supplementary application itemized descriptions, the system has added a mechanism to automatically divide and import the information into the appropriate application season. This simplifies pre-processing review time spent dividing applications by season and improves efficiency. In order to help the remediation fee application review process move to a completely online, digitized format, functions have been developed and put in place for auto-comparison and exporting description differences; review data batch importing; and automatic division of applications by season. This will help the EPA to obtain data from each review process in a timely way. To promote online, digitized processes for insurance and engineering refund review, the back-end review function has been enhanced. Functions for saving and accessing relevant data and review process records have been added. Based on the complete review list auto-generated from the review results, operational units are able to use the platform to instantly access application progress, application type, and approved sums. Based on payers' historical application data, correlations between manufacturing and waste are used to establish decision-tree models; these allow analyzing the characteristics of the material correlations. Based on this, payer application data is audited; payers who apparently need to be included in the manufacturers levy monitoring list are selected. This list is provided to the reviewing unit for further monitoring and auditing. Analysis is made of the EPA database and the raw material, fabrication and product database. To this analysis is added the fixed air pollution source management information system; industrial waste application and management information system data; and correlations between product raw material codes and the collected material codes from the Annex I fee collection regulations. From all this, the data interface mechanism is established; auditing and comparison then produce a list of suspected manufacturing products. This process helps expands control over remediation fees and operations data related to the review process.
The current plan continues to strengthen the budget management system, and increases review and control functions for the budget spending progress chart. The function includes a post-review locking/unlocking function, and records update timestamps to ensure data timing and information consistency. The information is obtained and recorded in a timely manner through the EPA's BAF system interface. This saves management personnel from spending time every month on checking and confirming information in BAF. The check logic of each filling field has been strengthened, and a proactive audit alert mechanism has been added. These raise budget management quality and facilitate relevant operational units effectively keeping tabs on budget spending progress. Budgeting and spending status of the relevant plans has been consolidated. Search and export functions are now fully integrated, including the Commissioning Plan Outsourced Operation Monitoring Report, Compensation Plan Approval Operations Monitoring Report, and the External Information, Funding Source, Usage and Surplus Report. Statistical data is automatically consolidated, which also increases data accuracy. Furthermore, data from the budget control system and income/expenses for the ground-and-water pollution remediation fee application system has been integrated. The system performs cross-checking; it also provides relevant operational units with the ability to manage current status and forecasting indications for fund income/expenses, and to manage and track long-term fund implementation status.
