Central News Agency
2010-09-01

Taipei, Sept. 1 (CNA) The construction of the Central Taiwan Science Park’s Houli branch is expected to resume soon, as the relevant authority on Tuesday “conditionally” approved the environmental impact assessment for the project.

Deputy Chairman of the National Science Council (NSC) Jou Jing-yang told CNA that the council, which proposed the project, hopes the work will resume within a week after the required administrative procedures have been completed.

The Houli Park in Miaoli County is the third phrase of a science park expansion project that has been in progress for years.

Most of the public facilities and infrastructure have been completed and some companies had started production at Houli Park.

But the Taipei High Administrative Court on July 30 ordered the suspension of the Houli project, saying that the environmental impact assessment had not been done properly.

The court injunction was automatically invalidated Tuesday when the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee (EIAC) gave conditional approval for the Houli project to proceed, said Stephen Shen, head of the Environmental Protection Administration under which the EIAC falls.    [FULL  STORY]

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