The primary use of the pollutant fingerprints database is to provide a practical tool to track the origin of illegal dumping activities and responsible parties. Strategy and scope of the database establishment are based on easing the identification of favorable environmental forensic techniques, generating and maintaining knowledge, and providing useful details for investigating polluting parties. 1. Establishment of Fingerprints-tracing Environment The goal is to build a complete database that would facilitate the investigation process through judicial and executive efforts and regular review of regulatory procedures. The database should be based on the following: (a)Adjustments of the reporting system – Regulations or executive orders are used to ensure the target fingerprints data are included in the required reports. (b)Creation and maintenance of the source database – The formation of the source database is done under the framework of the existing database infrastructure and should incorporate essential forensic techniques and know-how, standard operating procedures, etc. (c)Prioritization of the industrial categories based on pollution analysis for database establishment (d)Establishment of an expert consulting system 2.Establishment of Environmental Forensic Techniques (a) Incorporation of an identification techniques knowledge base to the fingerprints database (b)Formation of a database for the relationship between the environment and representative pollutants (c)Establishment of statistical analysis methods and their application 3.Verification of the Applicability of the Database and Case Study (a)Tracking and verification of pollution cases with established databases (b)Preparation of standard operating procedures for tracking and forensic analysis (c)Personnel training program:

Fingerprints 、Data-base 、Environmental Forensic Techniques