The project is in response to the 1999 amendment of the Air Pollution Control Act (APCA) regarding the addition of articles for the air pollution control districts (APCD) and the total capacity control (TCC) concepts. Major achievements are: 1. APCA amendments for TCC: (1) Local bureaus are given more responsibilities in carrying out local emission reduction and reporting periodically to the central government. (2) Regulations for emission trading can occur only in the same APCD under TCC mandate. 2. Emission capacity approval regulation The main purpose of the regulation is to mandate existing stationary sources over certain sizes to have their emission capacity approved within designated time period. (1) For existing stationary sources emission capacity approval : Emission factors were developed for 639 sources out of 180 processes, together with BACT effectiveness and operation scale definition. (2) For mobile sources emission capacity approval : Emission factors were calculated for vehicles according to made years, gasoline or diesel fuel, commercial or private use and vehicle types. (3) For public sectors: an emission calculation methodology was also developed for the public sectors. 3. Estimation of the Kaopin area emission inventory baseline Using the above mentioned to estimate the Kaopin area emission inventory baseline shows emissions from stationary sources to be 254,414 Tons of TSP, 464,796 Tons of SOx, 584,590 Tons of NOx, and 115,524 Tons of VOC. If fugitive sources and mobile sources are included, the total emission will be 299,628 Tons of TSP, 494,080 Tons of SOx, 647,402 Tons of NOx, and 241,751 Tons of VOC.

emission capacity approval,total capacity control, air pollution control district