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Continued compliance with regulatory requirements for pollution remediation
Following the promulgation of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act by the President in 2000, Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced related Enforcement Rules, subsidiary legislation, and related control standards for the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act. Many CPC plant locations have been listed as sites that require pollution response, control, or remediation. CPC has proposed appropriate and respective pollution response, control, and remediation plans, and the company has implemented related soil and groundwater pollution surveys and pollution remediation measures as per associated regulations. In 2022, CPC had four sites listed for response measures, 29 for pollution control, and eight for remediation. Meanwhile, remediation had been completed at 45 locations by the end of 2022.
Kaohsiung Refinery was officially decommissioned at the end of November 2015, and pollution remediation of the area caught considerable attention. CPC presented a pollution control plan to the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government for review, which the bureau approved on December 16, 2016. The overall pollution improvement period is 17 years. To speed up the contract entrusting Kaohsiung City Government to remediate and delist the polluted sites. CPC signed an administrative contract with the Public Works Bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government on May 13, 2021. Areas with soil and groundwater pollution in Zone 3 for remediation were delisted on March 28 and May 31, 2022, respectively. As of the end of 2022, the completion rate of pollution control and
