This Act is about the control and approval of measures affecting soil and water. It is enacted for the purposes of soil and water conservation treatment and maintenance (the application of engineering, agronomic or vegetative measures to protect soil and water resources, maintain natural ecology and landscape, and prevent erosion, landslide, debris flow, and other disasters), conserving soil and water resources, reducing the possibility of disasters, promoting the reasonable landuse, and enhancing people’s welfare. Large projects shall be planned, designed and supervised by soil and water engineers as specified. A management authority shall draft a long-term soil and water conservation plan with respect to a designated soil and water conservation area, and submit the same to the central level responsible authority directly or through the special municipality regulatory authority, for approval and implementation. With respect to the reservoir watershed that is delimited as a designated soil and water conservation area, the management authority shall establish a protection belt. Any forest above the protection belt of the reservoir watershed as mentioned in the first paragraph shall be designated as protection forest and governed by the applicable provisions of Forest Act.
Taiwan Province of China · 1994-05-27