Environmental education and promotions

• Accommodate the central government in its environmental protection and educational promotion projects.
• Assist governmental institutions and private organizations in the County in holding environmental protection and educational promotion events.
• Regularly visit elementary schools and public and private kindergartens for environmental protection promotions.
• Print promotional items relating to environmental protection to enhance promotional efforts.
• Select schools and teachers from among elementary and junior high schools in the County that have contributed to environmental protection efforts.
• Assist social organizations in the County in holding environmental protection promotional events.

Environmental impact assessment

• Establish the Nantou County Environmental Impact Assessment and Review Commission.
• Accept petitions for reviews of environmental impact assessment cases.
• Fully implement the work in environmental impact assessment and monitoring.
• Enhance promotions of laws relating to environmental impact assessment.
• Conduct environmental impact assessment for various developmental actions.
• Accept environmental impact assessment case applications for the establishment and modification of factories.

Promotion and facilitation of recycling

• Use educational activities to raise public awareness of the concepts of trash reduction and recycling.
• Improve the implementation of the central government’s environmental protection recycling four-in-one
work plan.
• Promote recycling efforts by village and township offices, governmental institutions, and schools in
the County.
• Advise businesses in the County listed in the announcement of general waste recycling control to arrange for recycling.

Environmental sanitation agent management

• Evaluation of suitability and efficacy in environmental sanitation agents.
• Review of applications for licenses to sell environmental sanitation agents.
• Review of applications for licenses to engage in the environmental sanitation agents and pest control business.
• Review of applications for the placement of professional technicians working with environmental sanitation agents.

Environmental analysis laboratory work

• Industrial waste water testing.
• Laboratory work on drinking water.
• Accepts applications from the public for laboratory work on drinking water.
• Laboratory work on water quality in rivers.
• Laboratory work on air quality.
• Sensory detection of odors and smells in the surrounding air.

Water pollution control

• Delineate and announce water pollution control areas in the County.
• Control and examination of water pollution sources.
• Monitoring of water quality in rivers, reservoirs, and underground water.

Air pollution control

• Publically announce noise control regions according to law.
• Control and examination of noise pollution sources.
• Ambient noise level monitoring.

Noise control

• Publically announce noise control regions according to law.
• Control and examination of noise pollution sources.
• Ambient noise level monitoring.

Soil pollution control

• Investigation of soil pollution in the County.
• Establish data on heavy metal content in the soil of the County.

Control of toxic chemical substances

• Investigation and management of toxic chemical substances based on regulations by the Environmental Protection Administration.
• Audit operations involving toxic chemical substances.
• Review of applications for the placement of professional technicians working with toxic chemical substances.
• Arrange for disaster prevention and rescue, emergency response simulation drills, and disaster prevention and rescue coordination team meetings relating to toxic chemical substances.

Industrial waste management

• Industrial waste management
• Management of institutions that remove and dispose of public and private industrial waste.
• Management of medical waste.

Pest control

• Clearing and prevention of sources for dengue fever mosquitoes.
• Control of Forcipomyia taiwana (biting midge).
• Control of flies.

Environmental sanitation management and control

• Management of illegally posted advertisements.
• Supervision of public toilet management departments to improve cleaning and maintenance.
• Accommodation of local cleaning teams for thoroughfares in the County.
• Sanitation management and control of vacant lots.
• Clearing of gutters.
• Towing of abandoned vehicles.
• Catching and management of stray dogs. (In 2002, this work item has been under the control of the Nantou County Animal Diseases Control Center.)

Garbage disposal

• Supervise villages and townships in establishing garbage sanitation landfills to properly dispose of garbage and prevent public nuisances.
• Plan the establishment of BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) or BOO (Built-Operate-Own) garbage incineration plants, with the advantages of reduced garbage, stability, sanitation, recycling, usage years, and smaller floor ground.

Hotline for reporting public nuisances

• Department in charge: Information Management Section
• Address: No. 660, Zhongxing Road, Nantou City
• Service line: (049)2234685, 0800-066666
• Fax: (049)2238684
• The hotline accepts petitions from the public and immediately queues them for processing. A director will dispatch specialists to investigate emergency cases.

Environmental protection volunteers

• Establish organizations for environmental protection volunteers.
• Operations of environmental protection volunteer organizations.