In order to ensure the effective supervision of the management of refuse incineration plants, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has conducted following tasks and prepared relevant laws, regulations and systems from year 2001: 1. The propagation of ‘The implementation guidance for operation, examination and performance appraisal of the operated refuse incineration plants’ on April 20, 2001. (amended on April 18, 2002) 2. The propagation of ‘The essentials of the examination and appraisal of refuse resource recovery from incineration plants for the EPA’ on April 13, 2004. (amended on July 13, 2004) The main purpose of this project was to assist the EPA in the promotion of management affairs of refuse incineration plants in accordance with the EPA’s policy, and to expand the effectiveness of the examination and appraisal work based on the findings of this project. The major tasks in the first year of this three-year project included: 1.To review and evaluate the management methods of refuse incineration plants 2.To conduct an examination, appraisal and improvement of the supervision of the management of refuse incineration plants (including small and large size) 3.To prepare the annual report on the operating status of refuse incineration plants 4.To expand the functions of the management information systems of refuse incineration plants, and to assist in the data input and maintenance 5.To establish the public engineering maintenance and management systems in refuse incineration plants in accordance with the guidance of the Public Construction Committee 6.To carry out pollution inspections and measurements of small sized incinerators (including the inspection and measurement of gas emissions, Dioxin, bottom ash and fly ash) 7.To assist in the review of the transportation plans of refuse incineration plants, and construction inspection 8.To convene symposiums on related treatment techniques for refuse incineration 9.To assist refuse incineration plants in the management of incoming waste, outgoing ash management and execution status tracing 10.To check the supervision status of incinerator’s operation, which assisted and implemented by the public, as specified in relevant regulation’ 11.To make a survey of factories on the ‘Use of Refuse Derivative Fuels as Auxiliary Fuels’

Refuse Incineration Plants, Efficiency Evaluation Criteria, Valuation and Appraisal, Maintenance and Management, Pollution Sampling and Analysis, Refuse Transport Station