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Enforcement and Compliance History Online Data Download |
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ECHO has several types of data sets available to those with larger data needs. These larger data sets are available to developers, programmers, academics, analysts, and the public. The data available here can be downloaded and used for many different functions and are certain to meet all data retrieval needs.
ECHO widgets are available on the Developer Tools page.
ECHO Exporter
The Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) Exporter is a pilot project that takes a massive data set from ECHO and compresses it into one line of data for each facility. This one-line version of data is useful for programmers and the IT community developing web and mobile applications. The pilot version of the ECHO Exporter includes enforcement and compliance data for air, water, hazardous waste, compiled for the Toxic Release Inventory's (TRI) myRTK application.
- ECHO Exporter myRTK New!(.zip file, 4 MB)
- ECHO Exporter myRTK Summary New! (.xls file, 69 KB)
National IDEA Data Downloads
The Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) data sets have been compiled for access to larger sets of national data to ensure that ECHO meets your data retrieval needs. ECHO is a website that draws data from IDEA, which integrates facility data from different EPA databases, but is not readily accessible to the public. While ECHO provides data detailing compliance assurance and enforcement activities related to federal environmental laws, it has a limited display of data. The IDEA data sets are available to download to review these expanded sets of data. Each data set is a compressed zip file containing one or more pipe-delimited (|) text files. The download summary documents posted after each data set contain a file listing and definitions of included data elements.
The data sets are from the August 2011 IDEA refresh. The ICIS FE&C uses data from the September 2011 IDEA refresh.
- Data Key - FRS Linkage : (.zip file, 10 MB)
FRS KEY Download Summary : (pdf, 132 KB) Description of the IDEA FRS KEY Data Set. - AFS Data Set : (.zip file, 77 MB) Air Facility System for Clean Air Act stationary sources
AFS Download Summary : (pdf, 442 KB) Description of the IDEA AFS Data Set. - PCS Data Set : (.zip file, 11 MB) Permit Compliance System for Clean Water Act permitted dischargers (under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
PCS Download Summary : (pdf, 163 KB) Description of the IDEA PCS Data Set. - ICIS-NPDES Data Set : (.zip file, 43 MB) Integrated Compliance Information System for Clean Water Act permitted dischargers (under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
ICIS-NPDES Download Summary : (pdf, 179 KB) Description of the IDEA ICIS-NPDES Data Set, and summary of states that have migrated from PCS to ICIS-NPDES. - RCRAinfo Data Set : (.zip file, 44 MB) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act information for hazardous waste sites
RCRAinfo Download Summary : (pdf, 183KB) Description of the IDEA RCRAinfo Data Set. - ICIS FE&C Data Set : (.zip file, 29 MB) Integrated Compliance Information System for federal enforcement data
ICIS FE&C Download Summary : (pdf, 271 KB) Description of the IDEA ICIS Data Set.
Correction: The data contained in the Penalties/Relief Values file (ICI03.TXT) were updated on October 19, 2011 to correct an issue where compliance action and cost recovery awarded amounts did not match the sum of those contained in the Case Conclusion file (ICI10.TXT). The updated file uses the same September refresh data as the other ICIS FE&C files; only the selection criteria were changed to correct the issue.
Please note that each level of government has been working together for many years to ensure that information in national systems is accurate. However, while increased scrutiny has been given to the quality of data in the national systems in recent years, the data quality before November 2000 has not been assessed and should be considered unknown.