Section 3 For people’s safety and environmental quality protection and conservation, a factory operator shall carry out a soil and groundwater inspection and assure that their contamination levels are not exceeding the soil and groundwater contamination criteria.
Section 4 A factory operator shall carry out the soil and groundwater inspection and shall keep the inspection report for an examination by the Department of Industrial Works prior to a commencement date of the factory.
The factory operator shall carry out the second soil and groundwater inspection after a period of 180 days from the factory’s commencement date has elapsed and shall submit the second inspection report to the Department of Industrial Works or its respective Provincial Industrial Office within 120 days of the second inspection’s due date. In this regard, the inspection report specified in the first paragraph shall also be enclosed.
Section 5 A factory operator who has engaged the factory business before the enforcement of this Ministerial Regulation shall carry out the first soil and groundwater inspection within 180 days following the enforcement date of this Ministerial Regulation and submit the inspection report to the Department of Industrial Works or its respective Provincial Industrial Office within 180 days of the first inspection’s due date.
The factory operator according to the first paragraph shall carry out the second soil and groundwater inspection within a period of 180 days following the inspection specified in the first paragraph has elapsed and shall submit the second inspection report to the Department of Industrial Works or its respective Provincial Industrial Office within 120 days of the second inspection’s due date.
Section 6 After the inspection period specified in the second paragraph of Section 4 and the second paragraph of Section 5, as the case maybe, are due, the factory operator shall constantly carry out the soil inspection every three years and the ground water every year and shall submit the inspection report to the Department of Industrial Works or the respective Provincial Industrial Office within 120 days of the inspection due date of each case.
In case where there are reasonable grounds to protect people’s safety or to conserve environmental quality or where soil and groundwater contamination in any factory area are exceeding the soil and ground water criteria, the competent official may order such factory operator to carry out the additional soil and groundwater inspection prior to the due date specified in the first paragraph.