The first four-week program involved 20 EPA officers and consisted of some 30 seminars/ lectures with a major emphasis on environmental management and auditing. It also included sessions on regulatory frameworks, pollution prevention and control, planning for sustainable development, ecosystem management, hazardous waste management, contaminated site remediation, monitoring, pollution control technologies, regional environmental planning and international environmental issues. The program included case studies, site visits and field trips in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver.

The subsequent two-week programs consisted of seminars, case studies and site visits in six cities and three Canadian provinces for 12 senior officials of the EPA and representatives of the Taiwan environment industry. In both cases, we worked closely with NIET staff to learn about program participants and their training needs; to match program to those needs; and to schedule a practical mixture of seminars, lectures, site visits and recreational activities.

We also ensured that participants received all the materials, contacts and support they needed to take maximum advantage of Canadian experience in environmental management.

Taiwan EPA officers had many opportunities to learn from Canadian environmental management experience.

Demonstrating

Canada's

environmental technology

and

regulatory framework