Facility Registry Service (FRS)

Facility Registry Service (FRS)

The Facility Registry Service provides quality facility data to support EPA's

mission of protecting human health and the environment. Learn more about

facilities, sites, or places of environmental interest that are subject to regulation.

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Last updated on October 27, 2015

FRS Data Sources

ACES | ACRES | AFS | AQS | AZURITE | BIA INDIAN SCHOOL | BR | BRAC

| CA­CERS | CA­ENVIROVIEW |CAMDBS | CASWIS | CDAFLP | CEDRI |

CEDS | CERCLIS | CIM | CNFRS | CWNS | DEN | DTSC­ENVIROSTOR |

ECOMAP | ECRM | E­GGRT | EGRID | EIA­860 | EIS | FDM | FARR |

FFDOCKET | FIS | GEIMS | HI­EHW | HWTS­DATAMART | ICIS | IDDEQ |

IDNR_EFD | IN­FRS | IN­TEMPO | ISD | KS­FP | KY­TEMPO | LANDFILL |

LA­TEMPO | LMOP |LUST­ARRA | MA­EPICS | MD­EPSC | MD­PEMIS |

MD­RCRA | MD­TEMPO | ME­EFIS | MN­DELTA | MO­DNR | MS­ENSITE |

MT­CEDARS | NCDB | NC­FITS | ND­FP | NDEQ | NH­DES | NJ­NJEMS |

NM­TEMPO | NNEMS | NPDES | NV­FP | OH­CORE | OIL | OK­FMS | ORDEQ | OTAQREG | PA­EFACTS | PDS | PERMIT TRACKING | RADInfo |

RBLC | RCRAInfo | REGION | RFS | RI­PLOVER | RMP | SC­EFIS | SFDW

| SEMS | SIMS | SRPMICEMS | SSTS | STATE | TRIS | TSCA | TX­TCEQ ACR

| UORS | UST | WA­FSIS | WI­ESR

Air Facility System (AFS)

AFS contains compliance and permit data for stationary sources of air pollution

regulated by the EPA, State, and Local air pollution agencies.

Air Quality System (AQS)

AQS contains ambient air pollution data collected by EPA, State, Local, and

Tribal air pollution control agencies from thousands of monitoring stations.

Arizona Unified Repository for Informational Tracking of The

Environment (AZURITE)

AZURITE is the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)

database that is used for environmental enforcement and compliance reporting to

the Permit and Compliance (PCS) system and to the Air Facility System

Universal Interface (AFS­UI).

Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System

(ACRES)

ACRES stores information reported by EPA Brownfields grant recipients on

brownfields properties assessed or cleaned up with grant funding as well as

information on Targeted Brownfields Assessments performed by EPA Regions.

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
BRAC is a process used to close excess military installations and realign the total

asset inventory in order to save money on operations and maintenance.

Biennial Reporters (BR)

All generators and treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities who handle

hazardous waste are required to report to the EPA Administrator at least once

every two years. The data collected is used to create the National Biennial

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Hazardous Waste Report. This

data is processed within the RCRA Information (RCRAInfo) database.

Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian School (BIA INDIAN SCHOOL)

BIA Indian schools, which are located on Indian Land, collected by the Bureau of

Indian Affairs (BIA). BIA is responsible for the administration and management

of 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American

Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. BIA provides education services to

approximately 48,000 Indian students.

CA­California Environmental Reporting System (CA­CERS)

The California Environmental Reporting System (CERS) is a statewide webbased user and information exchange system to support over 140,000 regulated

businesses and over 130 local agencies in electronically collecting and reporting

significant hazardous materials, hazardous waste and compliance and

enforcement data as mandated by California law. Under oversight by Cal/EPA,

certified local governing agencies (Unified Program Agencies ­ UPAs)

consolidate, coordinate and provide consistent regulatory activities for six state

and federal environmental programs.

California ­ Department of Toxic Substances Control­EnviroStor

System (DTSC­ENVIROSTOR)

DTSC EnviroStor is an online search and Geographic Information System (GIS)

tool for identifying sites that have known contamination or sites for which there

may be reasons to investigate further. The EnviroStor database includes the

following site types: Federal Superfund sites (National Priorities List (NPL));

State Response, including Military Facilities and State Superfund; Voluntary

Cleanup; and School sites.

California Enviroview (CA­ENVIROVIEW)

The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) has recently

implemented a new data warehouse system (“nSite”). This data warehouse

combines and merges facility and site information from five different systems

managed within CalEPA. The five systems are: California Environmental

Reporting System (CERS), EnviroStor, GeoTracker, California Integrated Water

Quality System (CIWQS), and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).
California ­ Hazardous Waste Tracking System ­ Datamart

(HWTS­DATAMART)

HWTS­DATAMART provides California with information on hazardous waste

shipments for generators, transporters, and treatment, storage, and disposal

facilities.

California ­ Solid Waste Information System (CASWIS)

The CASWIS database contains information on solid waste facilities, operations,

and disposal sites throughout the State of California. The types of facilities found

in this database include landfills, transfer stations, material recovery facilities,

composting sites, transformation facilities, waste tire sites, and closed disposal

sites. For each facility, the database contains information about location, owner,

operator, facility type, regulatory and operational status, authorized waste types,

and local enforcement agency.

California ­ Used Oil Recycling System (UORS)

The UORS is managed by the California Waste Management Board (CIWMB).

The CIWMB helps communities establish and promote convenient collection

opportunities for used oil and used oil filters.

Cherokee Nation Facility Registry System (CNFRS)

CNFRS is a data flow system that validates existing FRS data and exchanges data

about open tribal dump sites in the Cherokee Nation.

Clean Air Markets Division Business System (CAMDBS)

CAMDBS is a national information system that supports the implementation of

market­based air pollution control programs administered by the Clean Air

Markets Division, within the Office of Air and Radiation. These programs include

the Acid Rain Program, established by Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments

of 1990, and regional programs designed to reduce the transport of ozone. These

emissions trading programs allow regulated facilities (primarily electric utilities)

to adopt the most cost­effective strategies to reduce emissions at their units.

Additional information on the programs is available on the Clean Air Markets

site.

Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS)

The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) is a comprehensive assessment of

the capital needs to meet the water quality goals set in the Clean Water Act. Every

four years, the states and EPA collect information about publicly owned

wastewater collection and treatment facilities, stormwater and combined sewer

overflows control facilities, nonpoint source (NPS) pollution control projects,

decentralized wastewater management, and estuary management projects.
Information collected includes estimated needs, including costs and technical

information, to address a water quality or water­related public health problem,

location and contact information, populations served, flow, effluent, and unit

process information, and NPS best management practices. This information is

used by EPA to document national needs in a report to congress, which assists in

budgeting efforts. The data are also used to help measure environmental progress,

contribute to academic research, provide information to the public, and help local

and state governments implement water quality programs.

Coeur D'Alene Facility Location Program (CDAFLP)

The Coeur D'Alene tribe was awarded a grant to collect locational information for

facilities found within current reservation boundaries and for facilities outside

reservation boundaries within the Coeur D'Alene aboriginal territory. Using field

maps as a reference guide, each site was visited to acquire accurate Lat/Long

coordinates at the entrance of the facility, using a high precision hand­held GPS

unit (Sub Meter Accuracy).

Colorado (ECOMAP)

ECOMAP, Colorado's web­based facility master database, managed by the

Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) allows environmental

program managers to edit their facility locations and allows users to view this

information read­only.

Compliance and Emissiions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI)

CEDRI is a web application used by EPA programs and various stakeholders to

manage environmental data transmitted to EPA in order to meet EPA's reporting

requirements.

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and

Liability Information System (CERCLIS)

CERCLIS is EPA’s inventory of abandoned, inactive, or uncontrolled hazardous

waste sites regulated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). It records information about all

aspects of hazardous waste sites from initial discovery to listing on the National

Priorities List (NPL).

Additional sources of information:

CERCLIS Overview

Superfund Information

Connecticut ­ Site Information Management System (SIMS)
The SIMS system is part of a suite of web­based applications designed to allow

the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) staff to

harmonize environmental interest information from disparate systems in a single

agency­wide data repository (known as CFI). SIMS provides tools for identifying

and resolving duplicate data, querying data (using both tabular and geospatial

methods), and viewing/maintaining documents associated to the data.

Delaware ­ Delaware Environmental Navigator (DEN)

The Delaware Environmental Navigator (DEN) contains almost all of

environmental data other than ambient air and water monitoring results. DEN

contains facility, program interest, location, owner, permittee, project officer,

permit, inspection, violation and enforcement data.

Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (E­GGRT)

(E­GGRT, accessible through an EPA web page, is used to submit annual reports

in support of the EPA rule for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases (GHG)

by large GHG emissions sources. Implementation of 40 CFR part 98 is referred to

as the greenhouse gas reporting program (GHGRP). This comprehensive,

nationwide emissions data will provide a better understanding of the sources of

GHGs and will guide development of the policies and programs to reduce

emissions. The publically available data will allow reporters to track their own

emissions, compare them to similar facilities, and aid in identifying cost effective

opportunities to reduce emissions in the future.

Emission Inventory System (EIS)

The Emission Inventory System (EIS) maintains an inventory of large stationary

sources and voluntarily­reported smaller sources of air point pollution emitters. It

contains information about facility sites and their physical location, emission

units, emission processes, release points, control approaches, and regulations.

Facility inventory data are kept separate from the emissions data and have stable

identifiers to improve continuity from year to year and to help identify duplicate

or missing facilities.

Emissions & Generation Resource Database (EGRID)

The EGRID contains data on emissions and resource mix for virtually every

power plant and company that generates electricity in the United States.

Energy Information Administration­860 (EIA­860) Database

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is an independent agency within

U.S. Department of Energy that develops surveys, collects energy data, and

analyzes and models energy issues. The EIA­860 database supports the annual

electric generator report and contains electric utility and non­utility (including
independent power producers, combined heat and power producers, and other

industrials) generator­specific plant data, including county and state location and

ownership information.

Enforcement Criminal Records Management System (ECRM)

The ECRM, now called the Criminal Case Reporting System (CCRS), is the

Criminal Investigation Division's (CID) "official record" of all criminal

investigation activities. The system maintains and tracks case­specific program

and investigative information on over 8,200 active and archived criminal cases.

CCRS is an EPA­only system and data entry is performed directly by CID

employees. The Public is allowed to obtain only select defendant data fields for

closed, convicted cases via the Freedom of Information Act.

Environmental Protection Computer System (MA­EPICS)

The MA­EPICS is the central repository for all environmental protection data for

the State of Massachusetts.

Federal Air Rules for ReservationsRegistration Program (FARR)

The Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR) requires persons who own or

operate certains sources of air pollution on indian reservations in Idaho, Oregon

and Washington to register those sources with the EPA and to report air pollutant

emissions annually.

Federal Facility Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (FFDOCKET)

Section 120 (C) of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and

Liability Act (CERCIA) Requires EPA to establish a listing, known as the Federal

Facility Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (DOCKET), of Federal facilities

which are managing or have managed hazardous waste; or have had a release of

hazardous waste. thus, The Docket Identifies all Federal facilities that must be

evaluated to determine whether they pose a risk to human health and the

environment.

Florida ­ Fiesta Data Maintenance (FDM)

The Florida Environmental System Today Application (FIESTA) Data

Maintenance (FDM) system maintains entity, environmental interest and

affiliation data for the State of Florida.

Georgia ­ Geographic Environmental Information Management

System (GEIMS)

Georgia's GEIMS provides the EPA and the public a single point of access to core

data for all facilities and sites regulated or monitored by the EPA and a single

system for the reporting of all environmental data for the State of Georgia.
Hawaii ­ Environmental Health Warehouse (HI­EHW)

The Environmental Health Warehouse (EHW) contains the Hawaii Department of

Health ­ Environmental Health Administration's (HDOH­EHA) environmental

data. The web­based application allows EHA to inquire about sites in Hawaii that

are regulated by the administration due to activities that affect the environment,

regardless of the regulation or program that directly monitors those activities. The

system allows users a consolidated view of sites without disrupting the underlying

source systems or the staff involved as they process their day­to­day workload.

The EHW offers geo­spatial and tabular inquiry, mapping, reconciliation/data

consolidation, and GIS services.

Idaho ­ Department of Environmental Quality (IDDEQ)

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) provides a means to

query and display data maintained by the Department of Environmental Quality.

The system contains key information for each facility/site that is currently, or has

been, of interest to the departments environmental programs.

Illinois ­ Agency Compliance and Enforcement System (ACES)

The ACES supports the compliance and enforcement activities that exist primarily

within the Illinois Bureaus of Air, Water, and Land, the Division of Legal

Counsel, and the Office of Chemical Safety. The intent of the system is to track

compliance and enforcement processes and to share the information throughout

the agency, the public and with other entities.

Indiana ­ Facility Registry System (IN­FRS)

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) implemented the

IN­FRS, which provides the interface and processes to link facility data monitored

by multiple State and EPA program systems. In addition, IN­FRS enables IDEM

to reconcile environmental data and exchange it with EPA FRS using the

electronic data exchange over the Network Node.

Indiana ­Tools for Environmental Management and Protection

Organizations (IN­TEMPO)

Indiana's Tools For Environmental Management and Protection Organizations

(IN­TEMPO) is Indiana's integrated environmental management system.

Industrial Siting Division (ISD)

The ISD administers the Wyoming Industrial Information and Siting Act, which

requires permits for all projects with construction costs of $168 million or more

and for certain business types regardless of cost. This includes waste incineration

or disposal facilities capable of receiving greater than 500 short tons per day of

household refuse or mixed household and industrial refuse, commercial facilities
which incinerate or dispose of regulated quantities of hazardous wastes subject to

hazardous waste shipping manifest requirements under subtitle C of the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act, and commercial radioactive waste management

facilities.

Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS)

ICIS provides a database that, when complete, will contain enforcement and

compliance information across most of EPA's programs. The vision for ICIS is to

replace EPA's independent databases that contain enforcement data with a single

repository for that information. Currently, ICIS contains all Federal

Administrative and Judicial enforcement actions and a subset of the Permit

Compliance System (PCS), which supports the National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System (NPDES). This information is maintained in ICIS by EPA in

the Regional offices and at Headquarters. A future release of ICIS will completely

replace PCS and will integrate that information with Federal actions already in the

system. ICIS also has the capability to track other activities that support

compliance and enforcement programs, including incident tracking, compliance

assistance, and compliance monitoring.

Iowa ­ Department of Natural Resources Environmental Facilities

Database (IDNR_EFD)

The IDNR_EFD system is a data warehouse which integrates environmental

information based on facilities in Iowa.

Kansas ­ Facility Profile (KS­FP)

The Kansas Facility Profiler (KS­FP) is a geographically­based data warehouse

that presents information about facilities and locations of interest to the Kansas

Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). It has in excess of twenty

environmental interests which contain information on closed facilities, completed

cleanups, and past operations, as well as data on current operations and activities.

Kentucky ­ Tools for Environmental Management and Protection

Organizations (KY­TEMPO)

KENTUCKY­ Tools for Environmental Management and Protection

Organizations (KY­TEMPO) is Kentucky's central repository for facility data and

includes permits, surveillance, enforcement, and remediation information.

Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)

EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is a voluntary assistance

program that helps to reduce methane emissions from landfills by encouraging the

recovery and use of landfill gas (LFG) as an energy resource. LMOP forms
partnerships with communities, landfill owners, utilities, power marketers, states,

Project Developers, tribes and nonprofit organizations to overcome barriers to

project development by helping them assess project feasibility, find financing, and

market the benefits of project development to the community.

Landfill (LANDFILL)

The Landfill data set provides detailed operating statistics, geographic locations,

and facility information for waste processing and disposal operations in the

United States, compiled by the Waste Business Journal, Directory of NonHazardous Waste Sites. (Date Published: November 5th, 2007)

Leaking Underground Storage Tank ­ American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act (LUST­ARRA)

The Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) ­ American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) system collects data on LUST releases that are tracked

by ARRA performance measures or for which ARRA funds are being spent. Data

is collected for each release, including identification, performance measures,

reference information, and location information.

Louisiana ­ Tools for Environmental Management and Protection

Organizations (LA­TEMPO)

The Louisiana ­ Tools For Environmental Management And Protection

Organizations (LA­TEMPO) is Louisiana?s central repository for all facility data

and includes permits, surveillance, enforcement, and remediation information.

Maine ­ Environmental Facility Information System (ME­EFIS)

The ME­EFIS, managed by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP),

integrates information on environmental facilities, permits, violations,

enforcement actions, and compliance activities needed to support regulatory

requirements and target environmental quality improvements for the water, air,

solid waste, and hazardous waste program areas.

Maryland ­ Environmental Permit Service Center (MD­EPSC)

The MD­EPSC, managed by the Maryland Department of the Environment

(MDE), promotes multi­media pollution prevention and provides permit

assistance to business and industry. An online permit guide is available and lists

all permits, licenses and approvals that are issued by MDE.

Maryland ­ Permanent (Air) Emission (MD­PEMIS)

The MD­PEMIS, managed by the Maryland Department of the Environment

(MDE), is a database to house data related to Air Emissions.
Maryland ­ Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Information System (MD­RCRA)

The MD­RCRA is Maryland’s database which houses state information relating to

hazardous waste regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

(RCRA).

Maryland ­ Tools for Environmental Management and Protection

Organizations (MD­TEMPO)

MD­TEMPO is Maryland's central repository for all facility data and includes

permits, compliance, enforcement activities information needed to ensure the

quality of Maryland's air, water, and land resources.

Minnesota ­ Permitting, Compliance, And Enforcement

Information Management System (MN­DELTA)

The MN­DELTA is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA)

permitting, compliance, and enforcement information management system, which

facilitates the issuance of permits and manages compliance.

Mississippi ­ Tools for Environmental Management and

Protection Organizations (MS­ENSITE)

MS­ENSITE, maintained by the Mississippi Department of Environmental

Quality (MDEQ), Office of Pollution Control (OPC), is an electronic

Environmental Site Information System that regulates compliance assurance,

permitting, activity tracking, and maintenance of a single agency interest­link to

master file.

Missouri ­ Department Of Natural Resources (MO­DNR)

The MO­DNR includes a Resource Assessment and Monitoring Program,

biological criteria development, monitoring of targeted sites to determine

compliance with the designated use of aquatic life protection in the standards,

monitoring for 303(3) purposes, and the development of a stream classification

framework.

Montana ­ Consolidated Environmental Data Acquisition and

Retrieval System (MT­CEDARS)

The MT­CEDARS is the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ)

consolidated system that allows facilities throughout the state to quickly and

easily report daily air and water quality data.

National Compliance Data Base (NCDB)
NCDB supports implementation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The

system tracks inspections in regions and states with cooperative agreements,

enforcement actions, and settlements.

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

The NPDES module of the Compliance Information System (ICIS) tracks surface

water permits issued under the Clean Water Act. Under NPDES, all facilities that

discharge pollutants from any point source into waters of the United States are

required to obtain a permit. The permit will likely contain limits on what can be

discharged, impose monitoring and reporting requirements, and include other

provisions to ensure that the discharge does not adversely affect water quality.

Navajo Nation Environmental Management System (NNEMS)

The NNEMS contains facility information for the Navajo Nation.

Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ)

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) maintains the EPA

facility files.

Nevada Facility Profile (NV­FP)

The NV­FP system contains facility based, integrated environmental information

for the State of Nevada.

New Hampshire ­ Department of Environmental Services (NHDES)

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) ensures

high levels of water quality for water supplies, regulates the emissions of air

pollutants, and fosters the proper management of municipal and industrial waste.

New Jersey ­ New Jersey Environmental Management System

(NJ­NJEMS)

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) maintains

NJEMS, an system that manages large databases of environmental information.

New Mexico ­ Tools for Environmental Management and

Protection Organizations (NM­TEMPO)

NM­TEMPO is New Mexico’s environmental management system.

New York ­ Facility Information System (FIS)
The FIS, managed by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation

(DEC), houses all information about facilities that are regulated or of

environmental interest to the state of New York.

North Carolina ­ Facility Identification Template For States (NCFITS)

The NC­FITS, managed by the North Carolina Department of Environment and

Natural Resources (NCDENR), provides a common facility identifier to improve

accessibility to comprehensive information about environmental regulated entities

in the state of North Carolina.

North Dakota ­ Facility Profile (ND­FP)

The ND­FP contains facility based, environmental information for the State of

North Dakota.

Office of Transportation and Air Quality Fuels Registration

(OTAQREG)

In accordance with the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA establishes fuel quality

standards to help protect public health and the environment from harmful gas and

particulate matter emissions from motor vehicles and engines. The Office of

Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) has developed the registration and DC

fuels online applications, implemented through EPA's Central Data Exchange

(CDX), which provides online applications to assist the fuel manufacturing

community with registration and compliance with reporting requirements.

Ohio ­ Core (OH­CORE)

The OH­CORE database contains information commonly shared among the Ohio

EPA environmental programs. The information is facility­based, general in

nature, and used to support specific programmatic systems while simultaneously

maintaining an inventory of common facility­related data. Specific programmatic

details are maintained in programmatic databases.

OIL Database (OIL)

The OIL database contains information on Spill Prevention, Control and

Countermeasure (SPCC) and Facility Response Plan (FRP) subject facilities to

prevent and respond to oil spills. FRP facilities are referred to as “Substantial

Harm” facilities due to the quantities of oil stored and facility characteristics.

Oklahoma ­ Facility Management System (OK­FMS)

The OK­FMS is an Oklahoma State application, used primarily by the Land

Protection Division, and secondarily by the Water Quality Division, to track

environmental compliance activities.
Oregon ­ Department of Environmental Quality (OR­DEQ)

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is a regulatory agency

whose job is to protect the quality of Oregon's Environment. DEQ uses a

combination of technical assistance, inspections and permitting to help public and

private facilities and citizens understand and comply with state and federal

environmental regulations.

Pennsylvania – Environmental, Facility, Application, and

Compliance Tracking System (PA­EFACTS)

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) eFACTS is a

Department­wide database that provides a holistic view of clients and sites

(including facilities) that DEP regulates.

Permit Data System (PDS)

PDS is an Arkansas system maintaining data on air quality, mining, tires, solid

waste, tank, water and hazardous waste, as well as inspections, invoicing and

complaints.

Permit Tracking

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) Permit

Tracking system provides data entry, retrieval and accounting functions and

includes general data about facilities, their ADEM permits, and fees owed and

paid.

RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse (RBLC)

The RBLC database contains case­specific information on the "Best Available"

air pollution technologies that have been required to reduce the emission of air

pollutants from stationary sources (e.g., power plants, steel mills, chemical plants,

etc.). RACT, or Reasonably Available Control Technology, is required on

existing sources in areas that are not meeting national ambient air quality

standards. BACT, or Best Available Control Technology, is required on major

new or modified sources in clean areas. LAER, or Lowest Achievable Emission

Rate, is required on major new or modified sources in non­attainment areas.

Region (REGION)

A collection of information about similar facilities existing in an EPA region for

specialized purposes, one of which may be improving geospatial information.

Radiation Information Database (RADINFO)

RADINFO contains basic information about certain facilities that the EPA

regulates for radiation and radioactivity.
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)

The RFS Program encourages the blending of renewable fuels into our nation's

motor vehicle fuel by establishing annual renewable fuel standards,

responsibilities of refiners and other fuel producers, a trading system and other

compliance mechanisms, and recordkeeping and reporting requirements. In

addition to the rule, EPA has published a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA),

which contains analyses of the economic and environmental impacts of the

expanded use of renewable fuels under this program. A renewable fuel is defined

as a motor vehicle fuel that is produced from plant or animal products or wastes,

as opposed to fossil fuel sources. Renewable fuels include ethanol, biodiesel and

other motor vehicle fuels made from renewable sources. Currently, FRS only

includes facilities using ethanol fuels from the RFS registered facility list.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information

(RCRAInfo)

RCRAInfo is EPA’s comprehensive information system that supports the

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 and the Hazardous

and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984 through the tracking of events

and activities related to facilities that generate, transport, and treat, store, or

dispose of hazardous waste. RCRAInfo allows RCRA program staff to track the

notification, permit, compliance, and corrective action activities required under

RCRA. RCRAInfo also supports generation of the National Hazardous Waste

Biennial Report. All generators and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities who

handle hazardous waste are required to report to the EPA Administrator at least

once every two years to support creation of the Biennial Report.

Additional sources of information:

RCRAInfo Overview

Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

Rhode Island ­ Permits, Licenses and Other Vital Environmental

Records (RI­PLOVER)

The RI­PLOVER is the Rhode Island Department of Environmental

Management’s regulatory programs’ information management system.

Risk Management Plan (RMP)

The Risk Management Plan (RMP) database stores the risk management plans

reported by companies that handle, manufacture, use, or store certain flammable

or toxic substances, as required under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Salt River Pima­Maricopa Indian Community Environmental

Management System (SRPMICEMS)
The SRPMICEMS contains facility information for the Salt River Pima­Maricopa

Indian Community.

SDWIS Federal Data Warehouse (SFDW)

The Safe Drinking Water Information System Federal Data Warehouse contains

information about public water systems and their violations of EPA's drinking

water regulations.

Section Seven Tracking System (SSTS)

SSTS tracks the registration of all pesticide­producing establishments and tracks

annually the types and amounts of pesticides, active ingredients, and related

devices that are produced, sold, or distributed.

South Carolina ­ Environmental Facility Information System

(SC­EFIS)

The SC­EFIS is the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental

Control (DHEC) Environmental Facility Information System that integrates

information on environmental facilities, permits, violations, enforcement actions,

and compliance activities needed to support regulatory requirements and target

environmental quality improvements for the water, air, solid waste, and hazardous

waste program areas.

State Environmental Programs (STATE)

The STATE system acronym is used for facilities entered manually through the

FRS Linkage Application, used primarily by State users for a variety of state

programs.

Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS)

The Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) integrates multiple

legacy systems into a comprehensive tracking and reporting tool, providing data

on the inventory of active and archived hazardous waste sites evaluated by the

Superfund program. It contains sites that are either proposed to be or are on the

National Priorities List (NPL) as well as sites that are in the screening and

assessment phase for possible inclusion on the NPL.

Texas ­ Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ­ Agency

Central Registry (TX­TCEQ ACR)

The TX­TCEQ ACR is a computer application that allows the Texas Commission

on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to use a single, centralized area to record

common information, such as the company names, addresses, and telephone

numbers of those the TCEQ regulates. It also contains additional IDs (permits,

registrations, authorizations, etc) and their status.
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

The database that supports the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976,

which provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record­keeping and

testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or

mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded from TSCA, including,

among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides. TSCA addresses the

production, importation, use, and disposal of specific chemicals including

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, radon and lead­based paint.

Toxics Release Inventory System (TRIS)

TRIS is a publicly available EPA database reported annually by certain covered

industry groups, as well as federal facilities. It contains information about more

than 650 toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported,

or released into the environment, and includes information about waste

management and pollution prevention activities.

Additional sources of information:

TRI Overview

Underground Storage Tank (UST)

UST is a State of Tennessee system for managing information on underground

storage tanks and any underground piping connected to the tanks that have at least

10 percent of its combined volume underground.

Utah ­ Common Identifier Mechanism (CIM)

The CIM is the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s (UDEQ) data

system for compliance and permitting data.

Virginia ­ Comprehensive Environmental Data System (CEDS)

The CEDS is the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ)

electronic data system for maintaining data on sources of pollutants in all media.

Washington ­ Facility / Site Identification System (WA­FSIS)

The WA­FSIS provides a means to query and display data maintained by the

Washington Department of Ecology. This system contains key information for

each facility/site that is currently, or has been, of interest to the Air Quality, Dam

Safety, Hazardous Waste, Toxics Cleanup, and Water Quality Programs.

Wisconsin ­ Environmental System Registry (WI­ESR)
The WI­ESR is a database that contains core information about facilities,

organizations, and people related to Wisconsin's DNR (Department of Natural

Resources).

Facility Registry Service Links

FRS

Facility Registry Service (FRS) Overview

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EZ Search

Organization Search

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Exchange Network

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RADInfo

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Last updated on December 28, 2015