- Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) is a Web-based tool that provides public access to compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 EPA-regulated facilities. Anyone with access to the Internet can use ECHO.
ECHO allows users to find permit, inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information covering the past three years. The site includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste generators/handlers. The data in ECHO are updated monthly.
ECHO provides communities with important enforcement and compliance information about regulated facilities. ECHO integrates information about facilities from separate media-specific data systems. Much of this data has not been accessible in an easily understandable and searchable format, and users can now view this data in a comprehensive and organized manner. ECHO allows users to sort and analyze data in many ways, according to their needs. Now the public can monitor environmental compliance in communities, corporations can monitor compliance across facilities they own, and investors can more easily factor environmental performance into their decisions.
- Online Tracking Information System (OTIS)
The Online Tracking Information System (OTIS) is a collection of search
engines which enables EPA staff, state/local/tribal governments and federal
agencies to access a wide range of data relating to enforcement and compliance.
This Web application sends queries to the Integrated Data for
Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) system. IDEA copies many EPA and non-EPA databases monthly, and organizes the information to facilitate cross-database analysis. OTIS can be used for many functions, including planning, targeting, analysis, data quality review, and pre-inspection review.
In addition to performing database
analyses, benefits include:
- helping the regions and states to identify and clean up data
errors
- providing report information on a cross media basis, leading
to improved integration and targeting
- enabling other government agencies to more efficiently monitor their facilities' compliance records
Only government agencies have access to the OTIS data system. The public may access the Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) Web site, which provides similar data.
For additional information please contact Rebecca Kane at kane.rebecca@epa.gov.
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