Base on the two-staged revise the stationary pollution sources permit
management in 2020 and 2021, we comprehended and evaluated county (city)
permit reviewing agencies, public and private premises’ implement suggestions
and encounter problems. Meanwhile, we summarized horizontal connection of
various regulation of stationary pollution sources, such as being in line with the
revision of management regulation of periodic inspection and strengthen the
quality, evaluating of hazardous air pollutant integrated with stationary sources
pollution permit system, air pollutant collection facilities and control facilities
management, the management of permit applicants and reviewing personnel, check
of technician visa, and updated the expand functions of stationary pollution
sources management information system and database quality inspection.
According to our goals, the project was divide into 5 major parts, including 1)
stationary pollution sources permit management, 2) periodic inspection control,
3)air pollutant control facilities management, 4)permit regulation personnel, 5) system supporting tools. The following work respectively according to the content
of the project descriptions are as follows:
We analyzed the stationary pollution sources permit application and issuance
of each reviewing agencies, some counties or cities exceeded the legal review days,
and about 30% of the overall review case did not qualified. Therefore, the
planning of expansion of the third-category of permit management for simplified
administration, introduction of reduction incentives and horizontal connection of
permit regulation amendment was necessary since amended in 2019; In addition,
due to the U.S. federal government and Southern California have established
classification of permit management, and incorporated hazardous air pollutant
management and risk assessment for many years. As a consequence, we have
compiled and compared domestic and foreign related permit management system
and planned the methods of the whole plant, process and verification.
Also, based on the revision of permit management regulations of stationary
sources pollution this year (2022), we revised the revise guidelines for permit
reviewing, the permit application documents, and the course materials for
dedicated air pollution control personnel to adjusted content.
In the announcement conditions part, we responded to the addition of
third-category stationary pollutions sources in the permit administration, we
analyzed the current control state of the first to eighth permit batches. The results
revealed that there were about 1,782 permits’ operations using non-toxic
substances with annual emission of particles, SOx, NOx and VOC all less than 1
metric ton. The added third-category permits are mainly located in Taoyuan City,
Taichung City, Changhua County, Tainan City and Kaohsiung City. To increase
permit reviewing efficiency, simplified procedures such as combining installation
and operating permit application, simplifying the technician visa and supplying
alternative plan for commissioning and inspection are available. in the permit
management of volatile organic compound part, the current organic solvent
operation procedures are based on the use of full amount management. In order to
make the emission calculation consistent with the permit management measurement method and avoid the doubt of small and large expansion, the
annual consumption of the 9 batch of organic solvents over 5 metric tons should
apply for a permit, excluding organic solvent content less than 10%.261 new
processes are expected to be managed. Regarding boiler management for the
whole plant, after involving boilers with the total steam evaporation more than 5
metric tons/hour in the whole plant, regardless of fuel type, and eliminating
natural gas boilers with the total steam evaporation less than 20 metric tons/hour
in the whole plant.
To revise periodic inspection regulation continuously and planned two-staged
inspection management regulation, the first stage remained the current
independent management system for public and private premises, and provides
better self-management frequency adjustment specifications to reduce the
inspection word load. Furthermore, to enhance the representativeness of testing
and encourage public and private premises to maintain more autonomously, the
connection between revised inspection regulation and permit air pollution
emission test plan and the regulation that premises’ dedicated personnel were
asked to perform supervision during inspection were set. In second stage, the new
functional evaluation system is added to randomly check and coordinate the
inspection time of public and private premises. Besides verifying the
autonomously maintenance of premises, the system can also provide the solution
for the implementation issue of audit. Meanwhile, we planned the construction of
the inspection management system and with the function of warning the inspection
exceeding emissions standard.
Coordinating with the revised inspection regulation, the 1 and 2 batches of
inspection announcement conditions were also revised and integrated with object
announced with periodic inspection and regulations for the inspection period
authorized by Air Pollution Act Article 22. Stationary pollution sources of
periodic inspection and reporting management regulation amended and the
announcement conditions of the public and private premises with stationary pollution sources shall perform periodic inspection are released on June 6th, 2022
and conducted education and training meeting.
In the air pollutant control facilities management part, we statisticized the
current stationary pollution sources of air pollutant collection facilities and air
pollutant control facilities.
In twenty thousand public and private premises, we grasped approximately
eight thousand public and private premises were under permit management,
approximately twelve thousand valid permits, about forty thousand sets of control
facilities’ are installed, and 33% of the air pollution collect type is still dispersed
into air. We inventoried the stationary sources shall be installed air pollution
collection facilities and air pollution control facilities and evaluated the stationary
the sources without air pollution control facilities. Finally, integrating the
stationary sources that are installed air pollution control facilities, we planned the
basic air pollution control facilities management regulation, developed the
operation conditions of air pollution control facilities, parameter recording of
instrumentation and maintenance service.
To promote the implementation of various regulation of stationary pollution
sources, we statisticized continuously the turnover and qualifications of reviewing
personnel in the stationary pollution source permit management system, and
provided the functions such as applicant personnel information and publication.
Moreover, 3 education and training meeting about permit common cases, system
functions and execution performance were held to enhance the professional ability
and the quality of management of reviewing personnel. In the part of management
and implementation of performance appraisal to local authorities, 150 cases of
permit on-site verification operation and 30 cases of verification of technicians
visa were performed, furthermore, the permit application and issuance of public
and private premises transferred from the temporary factory registration or the
unregistered factory to the specific factory registration were also grasped.
Stationary pollution sources management information system included permit
application and issuance, periodic inspection declaration and the update and operation of the big data database of permit control. To strengthen the information
management of stationary pollution sources, this year (2022) we integrated the
connection with the information system, expanded the function of being recorded
the factory has established health risk assessment personnel, added prompts to
adjust the detection frequency, and perform functional inspections, provided the
reviewing personnel grasped the reasons for not being online-notified before the
inspections, and added the record of inspection copied by permit application.
Beside, Cooperate with the Ministry of Finance has expanded for the unified
numbering operation requirements, revised the inspection logic of the unified
numbering in advance; Furthermore, in data quality improvement part, a total of
18,890 factories were under management, and more than 7,000 public and private
premises have been managed. To maintain the system and data quality, we
performed 9 times of data checking operation till September, 2022. The average
corresponding rate of data is 92.8%.
