In response to the latest amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act that require all future water pollution control related applications to be submitted online, the EPA has preannounced amendments to the Regulations Governing Online Water Pollution Control Measures Submitting; Permits Applications, Modifications or Extensions; and Enterprises Required to Conduct Effluent Testing and Reporting and Related Procedures. On 31 March 2016, the EPA preannounced amendments to the Regulations Governing Online Water Pollution Control Measures Submitting; Permits Applications, Modifications or Extensions; and Enterprises Required to Conduct Effluent Testing and Reporting and Related Procedures. The amendments were made in response to amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act requiring information disclosure and online-only submission of applications and reports starting from 1 January 2017. The amendments will also strengthen the management and auditing of pre-submissions to eliminate data falsification and improve the quality of reported data. The main points of the amendments are as follows: 1. All wastewater related reports or applications can only be submitted online, starting from 1 January 2017. 2. The enterprises subjected to the regulations shall pre-submit 24 hours in advance to the central competent authority’s water pollution source information management system, before conducting water sampling and volume measurement. The name of the environmental inspection and testing institution that is commissioned to conduct the test, the items to be tested or measured, the name of the sampling and measuring technician, the date, and predicted sampling and measuring time for two-hour intervals should all be submitted online. The pre-submitted information should not be altered for the following 24 hours. Once sampling has been completed, the actual sampling/measuring information should be submitted within 24 hours. 3. Enterprises that do not conduct water sampling for quality tests or measure water volume in accordance with the pre-submission related provisions must redo the pre-submission, as well as conduct the water sampling and volume measurement procedures. 4. Enterprises that change pre-submitted information more than twice a year, or that are suspected by the competent authority to be not collecting samples for water quality tests, will be subject to priority inspections. 5. The online application or reporting form must be completed and submitted online. The digital or scanned files of all other required documentation or data must be submitted online as well. The EPA is keen to take advantage of internet technology and, in the interest of information disclosure, will soon begin to publish online information on permit applications and periodic wastewater testing from enterprises and operators of sewage systems. The EPA hopes that provisions making some enterprises – such as ones that change pre-submitted information frequently, or ones suspected of not collecting water samples for water quality tests – subject to priority inspections will help prevent the falsification of water quality test data.