From: jkh3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry K Huang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Taiwan's Budget IV
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:31:31 GMT
Organization: Columbia University

Table 5 : Budget In Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) By FUNCTION,
          1989-1993 Fiscal Year. (% in a year)
                                                        Unit: NT $1,000
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FUNCTION                  |1989     |1990     |1991     |1992     |1993
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1.Personnal               |141,026  |145,038  |186,414  |228,042  |307,150
                          |(2.85%)  |(2.80%)  |(4.58%)  |(2.69%)  |(3.48%)
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2.Administration          |170,296  |318,319  |446,426  |652,709  |671,355
                          |(2.23%)  |(57.59%) |(37.76%) |(27.81%) |(47.34%)
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3.Maintenance             |16,452   |21,574   |47,991   |45,864   |51,758
                          |(0.33%)  |(0.42%)  |(1.18%)  |(0.54%)  |(0.59%)
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4.Transportation          |35,133   |33,040   |40,206   |51,782   |65,797
                          |(0.71%)  |(0.64%)  |(0.99%)  |(0.061%) |(0.75%)
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5.Materail                |15,825   |20,608   |51,794   |37,028   |20,456
                          |(0.32%)  |(0.40%)  |(1.27%)  |(0.44%)  |(0.23%)
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6.Equipment & Investment  |106,612  |523,544  |389,297  |246,812  |80,573
                          |(2.16%)  |(10.10%) |(9.57%)  |(2.92%)  |(0.91%)
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7.Allocation              |4,456,267|3,076,988|1,940,690|6,296,643|7,012,588
                          |(90.10%) |(59.38%) |(47.71%) |(74.38%) |(79.43%)
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8.Contract-out            |X        |1,038,749|957,885  |898,914  |577,868
                          |         |(20.05%) |(23.55%) |(10.62%) |(6.55%)
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9.Other                   |4,056    |4,056    |6,680    |8,080    |40,980
                          |(0.08%)  |(0.08%)  |(0.16%)  |(0.10%)  |(0.46%)
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  TOTAL                   |4,945,667|5,181,916|4,067,437|8,465,874|8,828,525
                          |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)  
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Note:
(1) Actually, the expenditure on the personnel is starkingly low in EPA.
(2) WIth the above fact in mind, it is hard to correlate the association
between the expenditure of administration with that of the personnel.
(3)Most of the budgets being used were for the "allocation" and
"contract-out". Combining with the breakdown in Table 4, it is very likely
that the EPA was acting as a donator in the government side to distribute
money to other environmental related business and governmental agencies.
It is even more obvious given the item 6's numbers, which are not showing
that the EPA was in fact monitoring the environment.

Table 4. Budget In Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) By SUBJECT,
         1989-1993 Fiscal Year. (% In A Year.)

                                                              UNIT: NT $1,000
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SUBJECT 	           |1989     |1990     |1991     |1992     |1993     
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1. Administration          |117,464  |138,109  |190,374  |238,578  |229,695
                           |(2.38%)  |(2.67%)  |(4.68%)  |(2.82%)  |(2.60%)
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2.General Planning         |110,311  |2,984,075|1,536,036|2,354,472|4,179,426
                           |(2.23%)  |(57.59%) |(37.76%) |(27.81%) |(47.34%)
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3.Air Quality Protection   |52,931   |561,661  |261,578  |156,836  |115,001
  and Noise COntrol        |(1.07%)  |(10.84%) |(6.43%)  |(1.85%)  |(1.30%)
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4.Water Quality Protection |38,936   |157,515  |116,823  |144,265  |235,191
                           |(0.79%)  |(3.04%)  |(2.87%)  |(1.70%)  |(2.66%)
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5.Waste Management         |166,673  |229,587  |198,445  |263,944  |331,963
                           |(3.37%)  |(4.43%)  |(4.88%)  |(3.12%)  |(3.76%)
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6.Environmental Health and |26,048   |103,291  |295,542  |203,678  |182,948
  Toxicant Management      |(0.53%)  |(1.99%)  |(7.27%)  |(2.41%)  |(2.07%)
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7.Control, Evaluation and  |15,744   |32,021   |48,343   |57,292   |181,371
  COnflict Management      |(0.32%)  |(0.62%)  |(1.19%)  |(0.68%)  |(2.05%)
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8.Environmental Monitoring |71,167   |160,457  |269,022  |232,891  |193,486
  Information and Tests    |(1.44%)  |(3.10%)  |(6.61%)  |(2.75%)  |(2.19%)
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9.Re-enforcement of        |4,256,300|808,000  |880,670  |4,623,600|3,166,444
 Environmental Protection  |(86.06%) |(15.59%) |(21.65%) |(54.61%) |(35.87%)
 Construction and Equipment|
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10.General Construction and|87,093   |4,200    |265,604  |185,318  |8,000
   Equipment               |(1.76%)  |(0.08%)  |(6.53%)  |(2.19%)  |(0.09%)
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11.First Emergency Fund    |3,000    |3,000    |5,000    |5,000    |5,000
                           |(0.06%)  |(0.06%)  |(0.12%)  |(0.06%)  |(0.06%)
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   TOTAL                   |4,945,667|5,181,916|4,067,437|8,465,874|8,828,525
                           |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)   |(100%)
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Note: This is the breakdown of the EPA budget by SUBJECT.


*Merely from the figure shown above, several interesting points can be
addressed. 
(1) The original function of the EPA is supposed to be a regulatory and a
problem-finding body in a government. It is not supposed to be a
policy-making institution. In other words, the most important things as
regard to what the EPA can do is testing, measuring, identifying, and
removing the RISKs, or HAZARDs, by its empowered capacity of re-enforcing
the laws. We see from the figure that, for the past few years, Taiwan's
EPA was focusing their work, by measure of the money allocated, on
re-enforcement, whereas largely neglecting the investigation and research
for backup of that re-enforcement. Pleae also check the item 8.
(2) The prominent allocation of the money to the subject of "general
planning" from 1990-1993 should be realized in terms of the "function" of
the budget, which is shown on Table 5 that follows this one.
(3) 86.06% of the budget was used to re-enforce environmental protection
construction and equipment in 1989. The number is so distinctively large
that reminds us of what had happened around 1988-1990 that were
environmentally conflicting.
(4) One more question to be asked regarding the item 9: Why is the EPA
responsible for that stuff? That is, WHO are supposed to pay for that cost?
that the EPA was in fact monitoring the environment.
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