In a move to improve Chiayi City’s air quality for providing the citizens with a clean living environment, the Chiayi City Environmental Protection Bureau has adhered to the “Air Pollution Prevention Law’s” objectives and spirit to instigate audit control and improvement through adjustment and repair in the aspect of diesel vehicle pollution in order to effectively improve Chiayi City’s air quality, and to achieve the objective of pollutant reduction and environmental protection. The project focuses primarily on diesel vehicles operating in Chiayi City, and notices are given to diesel vehicles, through citizen tip-off and visual inspection of exhaust fume and such, within the jurisdiction to receive inspection at the inspection station; while the fuel screening is conducted via in-station fuel sampling and roadside random screening in order to regulate illegal fuel with a sulfur content exceeding the standards.
The report has the statistics dating from Mar. 10, 2008 to December 31, 2008, in which the various task implementation results and implementation yield are described as follows,
1.Diesel vehicle’s odometer inspection: with the project spanning from Mar. 10, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2008, a total of 2,247 diesel vehicles have turned out and completed the inspection, of which 54 vehicles have failed, or a failure ratio of 2.4%.
2.In fuel random inspection, the project has completed a total of 1,371 cases of fuel random inspections, with 181 cases sent for screening, and 181 cases undergone screening, where a total of 7 cases exceed the legally designated criteria, with a failure ratio of 3.87%.
3.The project has completed 515 cases of roadside spot inspection, and 101 vehicles have failed the inspection, with failure ratio at 19.6%.
4.The project has inducted four hours of holiday prearranged screenings in every two weeks in response to car owners’ service needs in this regard, and the station will continue to avail the public with holiday prearranged screening service.
5. In the visual inspection of exhaust rendering, which generates records of diesel vehicle exhaust rendering by visual inspection on 1,619 vehicles. Of screenings made to 1,505 vehicles notified to receive in-station inspection, among a total of 593 vehicles that undergo the station' s inspection, 53 have surpassed the reinspection following a failed inspection , measure 646 each altogether , 16 have been found to fail the inspection, with a failure ratio at a 2.5%.
6.In unveiling the Environmental Protection Administration’s inspection and screening data online system, the online database system has been installed and the data upload has begun.
7.One session each of the passenger and freight transport seminar has been staged on May 12, 2008 and Sep. 16, 2008, which focuses on campaigning EPA’s fuel policy, some new measures by the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau on diesel vehicle control audit, and the dual gas/fuel vehicles, drawing a turnout ratio of 75%.
8.Of the number of public tip-off, as measured by EPA’s 2008 public tip-off letter response ratio’s lead time and computation methods, for the period spanning from January 2008 to December 2008, Chiayi City has accepted a total of 130 cases of citizen tip-off, with a letter response ratio of 100%.
