Owing to the amendment of the Water Pollution Control Act and relevant regulations, the meaning of “enterprises”, which must be governed by the Act, had been broadened. Therefore, there is a need to find out those “new enterprises” to fulfill the requirements of the laws. The main purposes of this Project are to enlist and inform those “new enterprises.” The followings are summaries of this Project’s major results: 1. The “Official Announcement of Determination of the Water Pollution Control Act Industry Classifications and Definitions” was issued in December 6, 2005. According to the said law, some enterprises must be governed by the law immediately after the regulation issued, but the others will not be regulated until July 1, 2007. The later is the so-called “new enterprises” by definition. There are 23 categories of new enterprises. 2. Since new enterprises within or outside the “drinking water source quality protection areas” may governed by different standards, the Project had classified all “drinking water source quality protection areas” in Taiwan province according to the Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of the Economic Affairs at the very first. 3. The Project had collected 30,386 new enterprises in the beginning, among them, mostly were “livestock industry” (comprises 60.9% of all new enterprises), “other industry” was second by 11.1%. 4. Enterprises enlisted as “new enterprises” are those with effluents exceed effluent standards, which are varied by industry categories. However, there are some industry categories with no specific effluent standards and which means if any enterprise falling into those industry categories it is enlisted as “enterprises” with no exceptions. Those industry categories are termed as “no requirements categories”, which include: ceramic industry, cement industry, ship cleaning industry, experimental/testing (chemical) and research laboratories, zoos, soil and gravel processing industry, soil and gravel storage (disposal) sites and construction sites. The Project had collected 2,962 enterprises of “no requirements categories” at first, after compared with the “Water System” and deducted some already enlisted, there are 2,111 new enterprises of the “no requirements categories” in the list. 5. After the first run of screening, there were 30,806 enterprises in total. By hading compared with the “Water System”, and deducted some already enlisted and the livestock industry, there were still 16,910 enterprises in the second run. Then deducted via further screening by questionnaires, the Project had submitted 11,243 enterprises in total. (If combined with 757 hot spring enterprises proposed by another project, there were 12,000 “new enterprises” in total.) 6. The Project team had faxed questionnaires to 3011 suspected “new enterprises”, but received only 95 reply (the returning rate was 3.16%). The Project also conducted 104 site audits to confirm the suspected “new enterprises” were sure targeted “new enterprises”. 7. If grouped by Counties, the Taipei County is toped by 19.18%, which has 2,302 “new enterprises” in total (among which, mostly are categorized as “other industry”); the Taipei City is the second, with 18.27% or 2,192 “new enterprises” (among which, mostly are “laundry industry”); the Taoyuan County is the third, with 1,193 or 9.94% “new enterprises” (among which, mostly are “other industry”). According to the final results of the Project, more than half (52.47%) of the “new enterprises” are located in the northern part of Taiwan, in the rest, 21.58% are located in the middle, 19.08% in the southern and of 6.87% in the eastern part of Taiwan. In terms of industry categories, the “other industry” is topped by 28.41%; “laundry industry” is second by 15.6% and “construction industry” is third by 11.47%. 8. The Project had set up 3 specific telephone lines (02-27555962、02-27026472 and 02-27026491) to answering questions about the new amendments of the Water Pollution Control Act and relevant regulations. Staffs engaged in this Project had all been trained before July 21, 2006. 9. After the “new enterprises” list had been established, the Project mail educational brochures to those 10,100 “new enterprises”.

Water Pollution Control Act, new enterprises, questionnaires, telephone interview