Standards for Determining Specific Items and Scope of Environmental Impact Assessments for Development Activities. Article 29

Where one of the following circumstances applies with respect to the development of energy or power transmission/transformation, an environmental impact assessment shall be required:I. The construction, additional generating units or decommissioning of the nuclear reactor of a nuclear power plant.II. The construction or additional generating units of a power generator for a thermal power plant that meets one of the following conditions:A. The site is located in a national park.B. The site is located in a wildlife refuge or a major wildlife habitat.C. The site is located in an important wetland.D. The site is located in a nature preserve approved and announced under the Taiwan Coastal Area Natural Environment Protection Plan.E. The site is located at an elevation of over 1,500 meters.F. The site is located in a reservoir watershed.G. The site is located in a water quality and quantity protection area.H. The site is located in a slopeland where a dam (weir) whose height is at least five meters is installed.I. Installed or cumulative installed capacity is 20 MW or greater.III. The construction or additional generating units of a thermal power plant. However, this restriction shall not apply when black start units are added, or when the generating units are not located in the main island of Taiwan and not located in the areas specified in items (a) through (e) of the foregoing subparagraph, and gas-fired installed capacity or cumulative gas-fired installed capacity is less than 100 MW, or installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units or cumulative installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units is less than 50 MW.IV. The construction or additional generating units of a power generator for a thermal power plant or of a cogeneration plant, and one of the following conditions applies:A. The site is located in a national park.B. The site is located in a wildlife refuge or a major wildlife habitat.C. The site is located in an important wetland.D. The site is located in a nature preserve approved and announced under the Taiwan Coastal Area Natural Environment Protection Plan.E. The site is located at an elevation of over 1,500 meters.F. The site is located on urban land, gas-fired installed capacity or cumulative gas-fired installed capacity is 100 MW or greater, or installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units or cumulative installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units is 50 MW or greater.G. The site is located on urban land, gas-fired installed capacity or cumulative gas-fired installed capacity is 200 MW or greater, or installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units or cumulative installed capacity from oil-fired, coal-fired, or other fuel generating units is 100 MW or greater.V. Installation of an offshore wind power generating system.VI. The installation of wind power generation units and one of the following conditions applies:A. The site is subject to the provisions of items (a) through (e) of Paragraph 2.B. The site is located in a general protected area approved and announced under the Taiwan Coastal Area Natural Environment Protection Plan, the application calls for installation of five or more generating units, or the sum of the number of generating units in the same protection area called for by the application and the number of generating units already approved by the industry competent authority is 10 or more.C. The site is located in a conservation forest area.D. The straight-line distance between the center of any wind generating unit and the edge of the nearest building (this refers to a third-party building that had received a use license or address number at the time the wind power generation development plan was submitted to the industry competent authority for permit application) is less than 500 meters. An exception shall apply where the building is a water-pumping station or the electrical room of power facilities.VII. Installation of a photovoltaic power generation system shall be handled pursuant to Article 5, Paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Act.VIII. Installation of a tidal, tidal current, ocean current, wave, or thermal differential generating unit. However, this restriction shall not apply when the industry competent authority has approved an experimental project.IX. Installation of a geothermal generating unit that meets one of the following conditions:A. Located in a national park, with the installed or cumulative installed capacity attaining 10 MW or more, unless with the approval from the national park competent authority.B. The site is located in a wildlife refuge or a major wildlife habitat and the length is one kilometer, with the installed or cumulative installed capacity attaining 10 MW or more, and the requested installed or cumulative installed dimension attaining 2 hectares or more.C. The site is located in an important wetland, with the installed or cumulative installed capacity attaining 10 MW or more, and the requested installed or cumulative installed dimension attaining 2 hectares or more.D. The site is located in a nature preserve approved and announced under the Taiwan Coastal Area Natural Environment Protection Plan, with the installed or cumulative installed capacity attaining 10 MW or more, and the requested installed or cumulative installed dimension attaining 2 hectares or more.E. The site is located on one parcel of land reserved for Indigenous people, with the installed or cumulative installed capacity attaining 10 MW or more, and the requested installed or cumulative installed dimension attaining 2 hectares or more.F. The site is located at an elevation of over 1,500 meters.G. Installed or cumulative installed capacity is 50 MW or greater.X. Installation of power transmission lines, where the transmission lines of more than 161 kV meet one of the following conditions:A. The overhead line passes through one of the areas specified in Items (a) through (d) of Subparagraph 2.B. The overhead line passes through the land reserved for indigenous people.C. The straight-line distance between the projected edge of the overhead line, its circuits, or its pylons and the edge of a public elementary school or middle school (including designated land) is less than 50 meters.D. The straight-line distance between the projected edge of the overhead line, its circuits, or its pylons and the edge of a hospital is less than 50 meters.E. An overhead or underground transmission line with a length of 50 kilometers or more.XI. Construction or expansion of a marine substation or a land-based substation whose voltage is more than 161 kV, unless the straight-line distance between the boundaries of an indoor type substation and an elementary school or hospital is less than 50 meters.Where the installed or cumulative installed capacity of the construction or additional generating units of a hydroelectric power plant referred to in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph is less than 20 MW and intended for small hydropower, and one of the following conditions is met, the environmental impact assessment may be exempted:A. Use of existing irrigation channels or other water facilities;B. The volume of pumped surface water or downstream of water point remains 2 cubic meters or greater per second during the water pumped for power generation, and the tail water reinjection into the formation after power generation upon review and approval by the industry competent authority.Where the power generator of a thermal power plant or a cogeneration plant is located in the type of zone specified in Item (f) or (g) of Subparagraph 4 of the Paragraph 1, and is a multiple cycle generating unit without auxiliary fuel, installed capacity shall increase by 1.5 times; where an advanced clear fossil energy system has been added with approval from the industry competent authority, the installed capacity shall increase by 2 times; where the industry competent authority determines that the amount of fuel has not increased, exemption from an environmental impact assessment may be granted, and the installed capacity will not be included in the calculation of the cumulative installed capacity.Where the development activity in Paragraph 1, except for the installation of a photovoltaic power generation system stipulated in Subparagraph 7, meets one of the following conditions, the environmental impact assessment may be exempted:A. Involve a power generator using renewable energy and whose installed capacity is below 2,000 kW.B. An experimental project approved by the industry competent authority.
中文原文 開發行為應實施環境影響評估細目及範圍認定標準第29條
能源或輸變電工程之開發,有下列情形之一者,應實施環境影響評估:
一、核能電廠興建、添加機組工程或其核子反應器設施之除役。
二、水力發電設施興建或添加機組工程,符合下列規定之一者:
(一)位於國家公園。
(二)位於野生動物保護區或野生動物重要棲息環境。
(三)位於重要濕地。
(四)位於臺灣沿海地區自然環境保護計畫核定公告之自然保護區。
(五)位於海拔高度一千五百公尺以上。
(六)位於水庫集水區。
(七)位於自來水水質水量保護區。
(八)位於山坡地,設置攔水壩(堰)高度五公尺以上。
(九)裝置或累積裝置容量二萬瓩以上。
三、火力發電廠興建或添加機組工程。
但添加全黑啟動機組者,或位於臺灣本島以外地區,且非位於前款第一目至第五目規定區位,其燃氣裝置或累積燃氣裝置容量十萬瓩以下者,或燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置或累積燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置容量五萬瓩以下者,不在此限。
四、火力發電之自用發電設備或汽電共生廠興建或添加機組工程,符合下列規定之一者:
(一)位於國家公園。
(二)位於野生動物保護區或野生動物重要棲息環境。
(三)位於重要濕地。
(四)位於臺灣沿海地區自然環境保護計畫核定公告之自然保護區。
(五)位於海拔高度一千五百公尺以上。
(六)位於都市土地,燃氣裝置或累積燃氣裝置容量十萬瓩以上,或燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置或累積燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置容量五萬瓩以上。
(七)位於非都市土地,燃氣裝置或累積燃氣裝置容量二十萬瓩以上,或燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置或累積燃油、燃煤、其他燃料裝置容量十萬瓩以上。
五、設置風力發電離岸系統。
六、設置風力發電機組,符合下列規定之一者:
(一)第二款第一目至第五目規定之一。
(二)位於臺灣沿海地區自然環境保護計畫核定公告之一般保護區,設置五座機組以上,或同一保護區內,申請設置之機組數目與已取得目的事業主管機關許可之機組數目合計達十座以上。
(三)位於保安林地。
(四)任一風機基座中心與最近建築物(指於風力發電開發計畫向目的事業主管機關申請許可時,領有使用執照或門牌號碼之他人建築物)邊界之直線距離五百公尺以下。
但建築物屬抽水站或發電設備之電氣室等設施,不在此限。
七、設置太陽光電發電系統,依本法第五條第三項及第四項規定辦理。
八、設置潮汐、潮流、海流、波浪或溫差發電機組。
九、設置地熱發電機組,符合下列規定之一者:
(一)位於國家公園,裝置或累積裝置容量一萬瓩以上。
但經國家公園主管機關同意者,不在此限。
(二)位於野生動物保護區或野生動物重要棲息環境,裝置或累積裝置容量一萬瓩以上,且申請設置或累積設置面積二公頃以上。
(三)位於重要濕地,裝置或累積裝置容量一萬瓩以上,且申請設置或累積設置面積二公頃以上。
(四)位於臺灣沿海地區自然環境保護計畫核定公告之自然保護區,裝置或累積裝置容量一萬瓩以上,且申請設置或累積設置面積二公頃以上。
(五)位於原住民保留地,裝置或累積裝置容量一萬瓩以上,且申請設置或累積設置面積二公頃以上。
(六)位於海拔高度一千五百公尺以上。
(七)裝置或累積裝置容量五萬瓩以上。
十、輸電線路工程,一百六十一千伏以上輸電線路符合下列規定之一者:
(一)線路架空通過第二款第一目至第四目規定區位之一。
(二)線路架空通過原住民保留地。
(三)架空之線路,其線路或鐵塔投影邊界與國民中小學(含編定用地)邊界之直線距離五十公尺以下。
(四)架空之線路,其線路或鐵塔投影邊界與醫院邊界之直線距離五十公尺以下。
(五)架空或地下化線路鋪設長度五十公里以上。
十一、海上變電站或陸域電壓大於一百六十一千伏之變電所興建或擴建。
但屋內型變電所邊界與國民中小學(含編定用地)、醫院邊界之直線距離五十公尺以上者,不在此限。
前項第二款水力發電設施興建或添加機組工程,裝置或累積裝置容量未達二萬瓩,屬小水力發電且符合下列規定之一者,免實施環境影響評估:
一、利用既有圳路、管渠或其他水利設施。
二、引取地面水,引水點下游水量於引水發電期間維持每秒二立方公尺以上且發電後尾水放回原地面水體,並經目的事業主管機關審核確認。
火力發電之自用發電設備或汽電共生廠位於第一項第四款第六目或第七目區位之一,且為不加輔助燃料之複循環機組者,其裝置容量增為一.五倍;加裝先進潔淨化石能源系統,經目的事業主管機關認定者,其裝置容量增為二倍;屬不增加燃料,經目的事業主管機關認定者,免實施環境影響評估,且不納入裝置容量累積計算。
第一項開發行為,除第七款規定之設置太陽光電發電系統外,符合下列規定之一者,免實施環境影響評估:
一、屬利用再生能源之發電設備,其裝置容量未達二千瓩。
二、屬試驗性計畫,且經目的事業主管機關核准。

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