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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.

Please send us your comments and thoughts about the ECHO Exporter Pilot and how it might be improved.

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.

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.

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