This project included three categories: “Establishing and amending regulations for stationary pollution sources in Class 3 control regions and promoting regulation enforcement”, ”Grinding and promoting total quantity control and related regulations”, and “Reviewing emission standards of boiler and promoting related regulation”. Main results are listed as follow:
1. Establishing and amending regulations for stationary pollution sources in Class 3 control regions and promoting regulation enforcement
Pursuant to Article 6, Paragraph 4 of the Air Pollution Control Act., this plan assisted in augmenting regulations including types and scales of specific large pollution sources within Class 3 control regions, lowest achievable emission rate (herein referred to as LAER) and reasonably available control technology (herein referred to as RACT). To optimize regulations of control technology of stationary source and promote the regulation, this plane collected ＆ reviewed the regulations of control technology from domestic and international area and analyzed the emission data of stationary pollution source in our country. Forty field surveys were conducted to grasp the current the state of emission-decreasing technology of stationary pollution source. This plan expected to provide a reference for the formulation of control technical regulations and control planning for stationary pollution sources in Class 3 control regions and established related technologies for apply. This plan assisted in drafting of the LAER for the power industry and set the RACT in NOx emission for the existing pollution sources, and in addition, in response to the ozone trend, proposing plans in advance for the reduction of VOCs emissions. Reviewed and compared current the best available control technology for stationary sources of pollution (herein referred to as BACT) to give the amending suggestions.
2. Grinding and promoting total quantity control plan and related regulations
The second phase of Kao-Pin air total quantity control plan was replace with transitional implementation principles of pre-termination proceeding of Kao-Pin air pollutant total quantity control plan (herein referred to as transitional implementation principles). In accordance with transitional implementation principles, this plan collected ＆ reviewed the promotion process and quota-trading system of RECLAIM in Southern California, USA as the reference to be the keynote to promote total quantity control plan. Based on the first phase total quantity control plan, this plan reviewed corresponding implementation effect to explore and promote the follow-up total quantity control plan, assisted in the revision of the relevant sub-laws of total quantity control plan and modified the corresponding supporting tools.
In view of Kao-Pin total quantity control plan, there were some problems such as the emission quota held in certain corporations and the lack of quota in the competent authority which affected market liquidity and practical applications. To optimize exchange ＆ transactions problems and correspond to the modification of authorization in Article 8, Paragraph 5 of the Air Pollution Control Act., this plan assisted EPA in drafting emission reduction recognition reserve exchange ＆ transactions and proposing some suggestions to boost the market activity.
3. Reviewing emission standards of boiler and promoting related regulations
This plan assisted EPA to optimize emission standards of boiler and reviewed the result of reduction emission from boiler. This planed analyzed the data from 2015 to 2018 in integrated management system of air pollution fee and emission declaration for stationary pollution source which showed the emissions of SOx and NOx were decreasing and inferred the past regulations and emission reduction counseling were effective. This plan also assisted EPA to amend the provisions in emission standards of boiler which was promulgated on July 8, 2020. This planed also involved to follow the status of industrial and commercial boiler subsidy, improvement progress and application standard extension. At present, our country has improved 4,981 industrial boilers, 1,212 commercial boilers and 1,058 boilers applied for standard extension. This plan collected the current implementation problems and emission standards of our country's boiler control and reviewed the international emission standards and subsidy system of boiler to propose recommendations for the management of boiler high-efficiency ＆ low-emission certification and energy-efficiency emission standards that benefit the environment and energy.
