On 19 January 2016, the EPA promulgated revisions to the Water Pollution Control Measures and Permit Application Review Regulations, renaming it as the Water Pollution Control Measures and Permit Application Review Management Regulations. Several changes have been made in response to the 2015 amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act and the collection of water pollution fees. The revision came in response to the 4 February 2015 amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act in order to comply with the implementation of significant measures such as pollutant disclosure and risk assessment, information disclosure, total effluent quantity controls to protect farmland water bodies, the use of slurry from anaerobic livestock manure fermentation as fertilizer, and the strengthening of management for permit application procedures. The major amendments are outlined below: 1. Announced industries applying for water pollution control measures or discharge permits should disclose pollutant types, concentrations and quantities. For categories of pollutants not covered under the Effluent Standards, but suspected by the competent authorities to be harmful to the ecosystem or human health, industries must submit a risk assessment or management report within 18 months. An enterprise applying to resume work or operation shall submit its water pollution control measures and waste sludge treatment improvement plan, upon which the competent authority shall convene a review meeting with experts and scholars as well as stakeholders or public interest groups. The minutes and content of this review meeting shall be made available to the public. To protect specified farmland waterbodies by diminishing the risks of contaminating irrigation canals with wastewater, it was also added that permit issuance by the local competent authority must adhere to the total quantity control management measures for the announced effluent total quantity control zones. 2. To simplify the permit application process, the submission of water pollution control measures and the application for a discharge permit are not necessary if all slurries from anaerobic fermentation of livestock manure are used as fertilizer. 3. To make actual permit management more flexible and practical, details are now to be given in the water pollution control measures and permit application documents. This includes the scale of manufacturing equipment, production or services related to wastewater and sludge generated, data showing that original wastewater quality is improved or that original wastewater quantity is low, or descriptions of treatment procedures in special circumstances such as rainstorms or blackouts. 4. It has been added that if any change made to the water pollution control measures or related permits or documents require enterprises to carry out improvement work or to test system functions, the period of validity of the water pollution control measures or permits shall be recalculated up to a maximum period of five years, after review and approval by the issuance agency.