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Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2003-04 Reply Serial No. CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY TO INITIAL WRITTEN QUESTION ETWB(E)050 Question Serial No. Head : 44 Environmental Protection Department Subhead(No. & title): 0191 Programme : (2) Air Controlling Officer : Director of Environmental Protection Director of Bureau : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works Question : The Environmental Protection Department will assist owners of pre-Euro heavy diesel vehicles to install particulate removal devices in 2003-04. What are the details, the provision required and the estimated number of vehicles involved? Asked by : Hon. HO Chung-tai, Raymond Reply : The Finance Committee approved in May 2002 a commitment of $600 million for us to assist vehicle owners to install particulate removal devices in pre-Euro diesel vehicles of weight over four tonnes that are not required to undertake long idling duties. Gototop Eligible vehicles include about 31,000 non-cross-boundary vehicles and 10,000 cross-boundary vehicles. Cross-boundary vehicles require devices of higher fuel sulphur tolerance because of the need to be refilled in the Mainland, where diesel has a higher sulphur content. The installations for non-cross-boundary vehicles and cross-boundary vehicles are thus being done under separate programmes. The installation programme for non-cross-boundary vehicles was started in December 2002. Our target is to complete the installation by end June 2004. Up to 13 March 2003, 1,352 installations have been completed. We are now assessing the tenders for the installation programme for cross-boundary vehicles. If suitable contractors are found, our targets are to start the installation around this July and to complete the installation within 18 months. Our estimate is that about 24,000 non-cross-boundary and 6,000 cross-boundary vehicle will get their installations in 2003-04. For these installations, a provision of $276.152 million has been made. Signature Name in block letters ROBERT J. S. LAW Post Title Director of Environmental Protection Date 20 March 2003
Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2003-04 Reply Serial No. CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY TO INITIAL WRITTEN QUESTION ETWB(E)051 Question Serial No. Head : 44 Environmental Protection Department Subhead(No. & title): 0374 Programme : (2) Air Controlling Officer : Director of Environmental Protection Director of Bureau : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works Question : Provision for 2003-04 is HK$233.4 million (63.6%) higher than the revised estimate for 2002-03 which is mainly due to increased requirement for one-off grants to assist owners of pre-Euro diesel heavy vehicles to retrofit their vehicles with particulate removal devices and to encourage diesel public light bus owners to replace their vehicles early with ones that run on LPG or electricity. But, there is still a large amount of balance for these 2 items under the subhead 700-568 and 700-570 of the capital account. What is the reason for the dramatic increase of resource? Asked by : Hon. YOUNG, Howard Reply : Both subhead 700-568 (i.e. the particulate removal device installation programme) and 700-570 (i.e. the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or electric light bus programme) are new programmes started in 2002-03. They are still at their early implementation stages with a very small number of the eligible vehicles having received the one-off grants. The expenditures of the two programmes in 2002-03 are thus small and a large balance remains at the end of the fiscal year. Gototop The increase of the provision of $233.4 million in 2003-04 over the revised estimate for 2002-03 is mainly due to an additional expenditure of $314.5 million expected for the above two capital account items in 2003-04 (as analysed in the following paragraphs), partly offset by the reduced requirement of $84.2 million for the one-off grant for the LPG taxi programme under subhead 700-554. The requirement for the LPG taxi grant in 2003-04 is expected to be smaller because most of the diesel taxis have already been replaced by LPG taxis. There are thus fewer recipients for the grant in 2003-04. For subhead 700-568, we expect that about 29,000 additional eligible vehicles will receive the grant for the installation in 2003-04 as compared to 2002-03. Thus, the provision for the one-off grant payment will have to be increased by $261.2 million over the revised estimated expenditure for 2002-03. For subhead 700-570, about 900 additional diesel light buses are expected to be replaced under the programme in 2003-04 as compared to 2002-03. The provision for the payment of the grant has thus to be increased by $53.3 million over the one for 2002-03. Signature Name in block letters ROBERT J. S. LAW Post Title Director of Environmental Protection Date 20 March 2003
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