EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online

Description

The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) website provides customizable and downloadable information about environmental inspections, violations, and enforcement actions for EPA-regulated facilities related to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act. These data are updated weekly as part of the ECHO data refresh, and ECHO offers many user-friendly options to explore data, including: • Facility Search: ECHO information is searchable by varied criteria, including location, facility type, and compliance status. Search results are customizable and downloadable. • Comparative Maps and State Dashboards: These tools offer aggregated information about facility compliance status, regulatory agency compliance monitoring, and enforcement activity at the national and state level. • Bulk Data Downloads: One of ECHO’s most popular features is the ability to work offline by downloading large data sets. Users can take advantage of the ECHO Exporter, which provides summary information about each facility in comma-separated values (csv) file format, or download data sets by program as zip files.

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8 The ECHO Exporter draws from one of ECHO's most popular reports - providing summary information about each facility in a table format. Because ECHO has a limit on the number of facilities that can be shown in one query, some users were not able to get all the information they needed. The ECHO Exporter solves that problem - providing a download for more than 1.5 million regulated facilities in one zip file. Over 130 data fields are available for each facility, including the frequency of inspections, violations, actions, and penalties. The file includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste handlers, Safe Drinking Water Act public water systems along with other data, such as Toxics Release Inventory releases, industry codes, and permit types. https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip

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  • resource-conservation-and-recovery-act
  • enforcement
  • violations
  • environmental-performance
  • epcra
  • clean-air-act
  • oeca
  • emergency-planning-and-community-right-to-know-act
  • comparative-maps
  • rcra
  • sdwa
  • cwa
  • caa
  • penalties
  • echo
  • compliance-history
  • state-review-framework
  • inspections
  • enforcement-actions
  • safe-drinking-water-act
  • state-dashboards
  • clean-water-act
  • detailed-facility-report
  • epa-data-download
  • permit
  • compliance

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