The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and the National Science Council yesterday filed several appeals on the Taipei High Administrative Court’s ruling on the third and fourth phase expansion of the Central Taiwan Science Park.
National Science Council Deputy Minister Jou Jing-yang (周景揚) told a press conference that the EPA, the council and the science park were appealing three specific rulings issued by the court.
ASSESSMENT
Jou said that in its ruling on July 30, the court said the EPA must order the science park administration, within seven days of receiving a copy of the ruling, to stop development work on the Phase 3 zone until an environmental impact assessment review is approved by the EPA.
The EPA and the science park have jointly filed an appeal on this ruling, he said.
Jou said the EPA and the science park also jointly appealed the court’s ruling on the science park’s Phase 4 Zone, which states that the EPA must stop development because of a pending lawsuit against the conditional approval it issued.
DEVELOPMENT PERMIT
The council, for its part, appealed the part of the ruling stating that the Central Taiwan Science Park Administration must stop acting on the development permit issued by the council, he said.
Jou said the council expected the appeal would be completed within three to six months, adding that Phase 3 would be able to continue if the environmental impact assessment review is passed by the end of this month.
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