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Detailed Facility Report Data Dictionary
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This data dictionary describes the data elements that are presented in the Detailed Facility Report.
The Detailed Facility Report is organized into six primary sections:
Air Compliance Status (CAA)
Water Compliance Status (CWA/NPDES)
Hazardous Waste Compliance Status (RCRA)
Drinking Water Compliance Status (SDWA)
Consider the following as you evaluate the data:
The Detailed Facility Report is an aggregate report; therefore, some data are displayed differently due to differences in tracking methods and indicators used in the source databases.
Each facility may not have data for every report section. If no relevant data exist for a given report section, a note is displayed explaining that no information exists for a facility.
Compliance and enforcement data are separate from other environmental information which is included to provide context for analyses (e.g., chemical release and demographic data).
The age of the data presented varies and is dependent on when data were last updated from the source database. The dates of the last updates made in ECHO are shown in About the Data.
Date ranges referenced in the Detailed Facility Report are defined as follows:
Quarter – Any of the following three-month periods: January-March, April-June, July-September, or October-December.
Last Three Years – The twelve most recently completed quarters, plus data from the current quarter up until the refresh date.
Last Five Years – The twenty most recently completed quarters, plus data from the current quarter up until the refresh date.
Violation, noncompliance, significant noncompliance, significant noncomplier, serious violator, and high priority violation are all terms used by the ECHO website to describe the facility’s status in regard to compliance with the law. In many cases, these terms reflect determinations made by EPA or states when conducting inspections or reviewing facility self-reports. These determinations assist the government in tracking resolution of violations through the enforcement process and do not necessarily represent a final adjudication by a judicial or administrative body. In such cases, these characterizations should be considered alleged violations. Additional information on how to interpret a facility’s compliance status is available on ECHO’s Frequently Asked Questions page.
The duration of violations shown on this report is an estimate of the actual duration of the violations that might be alleged or later determined in a legal proceeding. For example, the start date of the violation as shown in the ECHO database is normally when the government first became aware of the violation, not the first date that the violation occurred, and the facility may have corrected the violation before the end date shown. In some situations, violations may have been corrected by the facility, but EPA or the State has not verified the correction of these violations. In other situations, EPA does not remove the violation flag until an enforcement action has been resolved.
ECHO includes data from the following national program databases:
Facility Registry Service (FRS)
ICIS-Air - ECHO is displaying Clean Air Act data from the modernized national data management system, ICIS-Air. Some states are still establishing data transfer connections to ICIS-Air. Data for these states were migrated from the retired system, are frozen, and reflect data as of October 17, 2014. For more information on the transition to ICIS-Air, see How New National Air Data System Affects ECHO Data Display.
Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) Federal Enforcement and Compliance (FE&C) for the following environmental laws:
Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo) System
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data
Emission Inventory System (EIS) Database
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHG)
Clean Air Markets Division Business System (CAMDBS)
Assessment, TMDL Tracking, and ImplementatioN System (ATTAINS)
Reach Address Database (RAD)
BEach Advisory and Closing Online Notification (BEACON)
This section presents a general, high-level summary of the selected facility, including a map of the facility location, basic facility identification information, regulatory interests (e.g., facility permits and other program identifiers), and a snap-shot of the facility's current enforcement and compliance record.
Location of the facility based on latitude/longitude coordinates displayed on a map. Other nearby facilities also will display. Only those facilities with available geographical data are mapped. The symbols used are described in detail below:
Stripe color corresponds to the statute under which the facility is regulated.
Multimedia (multiple statutes)
None of the above (Facility Registry Service (FRS)-only facility)
Body color corresponds to compliance status of the facility.
Facility is in serious noncompliance
Facility has no violations in database
Facility is in noncompliance
Facility whose compliance information is unavailable
Icon numbering corresponds to the number of years since the facility was last inspected.
Icon size differentiates between major and minor facilities.
Minor facility
Facility Information included in this section is associated with a particular FRS ID. FRS links together all regulatory program database records (such as permit IDs and facility IDs that facilities use in reporting to EPA).
Company or permit holder name, as maintained in FRS. The facility name may differ across EPA databases due to differences in reported information, change in ownership, use of parent or subsidiary name, etc.
Street address, city, state, and zip code where facility is located, as maintained in FRS. Certain data systems also maintain mailing address information, which is not used in this report. The street address may differ across EPA databases due to differences in reported information (e.g., use of mailing address), change in ownership, use of parent or subsidiary address, etc.
The identification number that is assigned to a facility by FRS to uniquely identify a facility site.
The EPA region where the facility is located. EPA has 10 regional offices that execute programs within several states and territories.
The facility or permit holder's latitude and longitude coordinates.
Locational Data Source
The source database of the facility's latitude and longitude location data.
The description of the first 3 digits of the 6-digit NAICS code associated with the facility. NAICS codes may differ between program data systems, so the NAICS description is chosen from one data system in the following preferential order: TRI, GHG, ICIS-Air, RCRA, ICP. If no NAICS code exists, the SIC code description is displayed. This field may be blank if there are no NAICS or SIC codes associated with the facility. See the Facility/System Characteristics section to view additional Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes associated with the facility.
A value of "N/A" (Not Available) indicates this information is not maintained in the program data system. "N" indicates the facility is not in Indian country, and a value of "Y" indicates the facility is in Indian country according to EPA's Facility Registry Service. Indian country is defined by statute at 18 U.S.C. 1151 and includes all lands within Indian reservations, dependent Indian communities, and allotted lands.
Enforcement and Compliance Summary Table
Violation, noncompliance, significant noncompliance, significant noncomplier, and high priority violation are all terms used by the ECHO website to describe the facility’s status in regard to compliance with the law. In many cases, these terms reflect determinations made by EPA or states when conducting inspections or reviewing facility self-reports. These determinations assist the government in tracking resolution of violations through the enforcement process and do not necessarily represent a final adjudication by a judicial or administrative body. In such cases, these characterizations should be considered alleged violations. Additional information on how to interpret a facility’s compliance status is available on ECHO’s Frequently Asked Questions page.
Identifies the environmental statute associated with each of the permits and identifiers linked to the facility:
CAA — Clean Air Act
CWA — Clean Water Act
EPCRA — Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, Section 313 (i.e., the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program)
FIFRA — Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SDWA — Safe Drinking Water Act
TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act
Inspections (Insp) (5 years)
The number of inspections/compliance evaluations, under the corresponding statute, occurring at the facility within the last five years. This count only includes inspection types that are counted as inspections in official counts. See Compliance Monitoring History for a list of inspection types counted.
The date on which the most recent inspection of the facility took place. For the Clean Air Act, the date on which a Full Compliance Evaluation (FCE) was completed. This date may or may not correspond to an actual site visit. A series of partial on- or off-site inspections may have been conducted during the fiscal year as part of an FCE.
Displays an indication of the most recent compliance status for each statute under which the facility is regulated. The date of the information reflecting the most recent status is listed in the Compliance Summary Data table.
Status codes include:
No Violation – Blue
Noncompliance - Yellow-orange
High Priority Violation (CAA)/ Significant Noncompliance (CWA)/ Significant Noncomplier (RCRA)/ Serious Violator (SDWA) – Red
No Information/Unknown/Not Available - Gray
Quarters in Noncompliance (Qtrs in NC) (of 12)
Count of the number of quarters, out of the last twelve official quarters and the 13th unofficial quarter*, in which the permit or site is considered either with violations, in Noncompliance (NC) status, in Significant Noncompliance (SNC), or High Priority Violation (HPV) status. Additional information on how to interpret compliance status information can be found on ECHO's Frequently Asked Questions page.
* In the event that all thirteen quarters are in violation, Qtrs in NC will display "12" and not count the 13th unofficial quarter.
Quarters (Qtrs) in Significant Violation
The number of quarters (of 12) in significant violation by statute. Additional information on how to interpret compliance status information can be found on ECHO's Frequently Asked Questions page.
The number of informal enforcement actions taken against the facility, under the corresponding statute, within the last five years.
The number of formal enforcement actions taken against the facility, under the corresponding statute, within the last five years. This count only includes enforcement actions that have been entered in the national program databases: ICIS-Air, ICIS-NPDES, and RCRAInfo. Federal CAA and RCRA enforcement actions that have been entered into ICIS are not included in this section to avoid duplicative counting. (Please note that all actions at NPDES facilities in states using ICIS-NPDES are counted.) Please refer to the Formal Enforcement Actions section to determine which actions qualify.
The total dollar amount of either assessed or final penalties resulting from formal enforcement actions. This count only includes penalties that have been entered in the national program databases: ICIS-Air, ICIS-NPDES, and RCRAInfo. Refer to the Formal Enforcement Actions table for more information.
The number of EPA enforcement cases in ICIS FE&C. Refer to the Formal Enforcement Actions table for more information.
The total dollar amount of either assessed (or final) penalties. This count only includes penalties that have been entered in the national program databases: ICIS-Air, ICIS-NPDES, and RCRAInfo. Federal CAA and RCRA penalties that have been entered into ICIS Federal Enforcement and Compliance are not included in this section to avoid duplicative counting. This count does not include proposed penalties in RCRAInfo or the cost of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs).
If the facility has any related reports available in ECHO, the Related Reports section will appear below the Enforcement and Compliance Summary table with hyperlinks to all available reports, as described below. If multiple reports are available for a particular report type, clicking on the report hyperlink will open an overlay window with hyperlinks to available reports.
Opens the Facility's Air Pollutant Report page. The Air Pollutant Report page presents information about air emissions from large stationary sources from four EPA air programs and presents facility-level emissions data for the previous ten years.
Opens the facility's DMR Pollutant Loading Report in EPA's Water Pollutant Loading Tool. The Pollutant Loading Report displays information about the facility, NPDES program information, permit limits, calculated annual pollutant discharges, receiving water information, and wastewater treatment technology information.
Opens the facility's Effluent Charts page. The Effluent Charts page presents dynamic charts and tables of permitted effluent limits, releases, and violations over time for Clean Water Act (CWA) wastewater discharge permits issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).
CWA Effluent Limit Exceedances Report
Opens the facility's Water Pollutant Loading Tool Effluent Limit Exceedances Report page. The Effluent Limit Exceedances Report displays detailed information about effluent exceedance (E90) violations under the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program for a single permit from January 1, 2007 to present.
Provides link(s) to EPA reports containing additional information pertaining to some Clean Water Act program areas. Currently, where applicable, ECHO provides access to the following reports:
Sanitary Sewer Overflow Event Report
Biosolids Facility Report
The Enforcement Case Report presents information from EPA's Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS). A Case Report summarizes federal administrative or judicial civil enforcement actions taken by the U.S. EPA, as well as state formal enforcement actions taken pursuant to delegated authority to implement the Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program.
Provides link(s) to documents such as permits, reports, notifications, or other information about facility compliance under CAA, CWA, and RCRA. The types of documents and date ranges available may differ between facilities.
Note: Document links are currently available only for programs administered by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Exit, water programs administered by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Exit, and individual NPDES permits administered by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality Exit. EPA plans to expand the facility document linkages to other states in the future.
EPA Facility Documents
EPA Inspection and Permit Documents — Provides access to EPA documents (PDFs) related to inspection, enforcement, and environmental assessments (EAs) and environmental impact statements (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Currently, documents are limited to EPA Region 6.
Facility-Reported Clean Air Act Compliance Documents (CEDRI) — Provides access to documents (PDFs) submitted to EPA using the Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI), such as air emission reports (AERs), performance evaluations (such as Relative Accuracy Test Audits (RATAs)), and notification of compliance status (NOCs). For more information, see WebFIRE.
Provides links to EPA's Envirofacts website for additional information related to FRS, NPDES permits, and TRI facility and pollution prevention information. Note that by navigating to Envirofacts, the user will leave the ECHO website.
For each of the following four environmental laws, displays key identification information for the facility where applicable:
Clean Air Act: Facility activity and operating status (e.g., Operating Major)
Clean Water Act: Major/non-major status, permit status and NPDES Permit ID(s) (e.g., Major, Permit Effective (DC0000019, DC0000018))
Safe Drinking Water Act: Owner, water source type, system type, facility activity status, and SDWA ID (e.g., OWNER: Private SOURCE: Ground water TYPE: Community water system, Permit Active (CA1000267))
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act: Facility activity status and type (e.g., Active Small Quantity Generator)
Where applicable, displays information about related environmental emission reporting programs, including hyperlinks to other data system reports, including:
Air Emissions Inventory (EIS): The Emissions Inventory System contains information on stationary and mobile sources that emit criteria air pollutants and their precursors, as well as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). The database includes estimates of emissions, by source, of air pollutants in each area of the country, on an annual basis.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions (eGGRT): Links to the facility report for the most recent available reporting year in EPA's Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool (FLIGHT).
Toxic Releases (TRI): Lists all TRI IDs associated with the facility.
This section provides additional detailed facility identification information that is tracked in EPA's Facility Registry Service (FRS), including: geographic location information, program-specific facility ID numbers, permit IDs and related status information, standard industrial classification code(s), etc.
Facility/System Characteristics Table
The data source associated with the additional facility information.
AIR ICIS-Air
EIS Emissions Inventory System
FRS Facility Registry Services
GHG Greenhouse Gas Emissions
ICP ICIS National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (ICIS-NPDES)
RMP Clean Air Act Risk Management Plan Program
SDWIS Safe Drinking Water Information System
TRI Toxics Release Inventory
Identifies the environmental statute associated with each of the permits and identifiers linked to the facility. Only CAA, CWA, RCRA, and EP313 are displayed in this section. The first row of this table is typically FRS data, which are not associated with a particular statute.
EP313 — Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, Section 313 (i.e., the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program)
RMP - Risk Management Plan Rule
CAMD - Clean Air Markets Division
An alphanumeric field that displays the source database abbreviation and the unique value assigned for each record/permit/site within each data system. These identifiers are for tracking purposes in the individual data systems. The identifier used in the federal ICIS-Air database is typically different from the permit number issued to the facility.
This field provides further description on type of permit or record for each data system as follows. Read ECHO's Guide to Regulated Facilities for more information about the types of facilities tracked in EPA's data systems.
CAA - The plant-level classification of a source's emission status. ECHO displays the highest emission level classification across active Air programs and pollutants regulated. Emission status may include: Major Emissions, Synthetic Minor Emissions, Minor Emissions, Classification Unknown, Other, or Not Applicable. Who has to obtain a Title V permit?
The program office defines each CAA Source ID and the associated permits as being Federally Reportable or Non-Federally Reportable. Under the CAA, federally reportable sources include majors, synthetic minors, NESHAP Part 61 minors, minors with an unresolved High Priority Violation (HPV), with recent enforcement actions, or included on a Compliance Monitoring Strategy plan. The Clean Air Act requires that delegated agencies and EPA track all federally reportable sources in the ICIS-Air database.
GHG "Direct Emitters" are facilities that combust fuels or otherwise put GHGs into the atmosphere directly from their facility. GHG "Suppliers" are those entities that supply certain fossil fuels or fluorinated gases into the economy which, when combusted, released or oxidized emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Learn about the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP).
CWA - Each CWA Source ID or National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit is defined by the program office as a Major or non-major discharger. Unlike major permits, states are not required to enter monitoring data into the EPA national data system for most non-major permits. This field also indicates the permit type.
RCRA - Indicates the type of hazardous waste activity at the facility, including Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility (TSDFs), Large Quantity Generator (LQG), Small Quantity Generators (SQG), Conditionally-Exempt Small Quantity Generator (CESQG), and Transporters. Operating TSDFs are noted as such (other TSDFs are inactive but haven’t completed all regulatory requirements for closure).
SDWA - Indicates the type of owner, water source, and system for each unique ID for systems and facilities regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which are tracked in the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) database.
Water system owner type (e.g., Public or Private)
Surface water (SW) - All water naturally open to the atmosphere (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries, etc.) and all springs, wells, or other collectors that are directly influenced by surface water.
Ground water (GW) - The supply of fresh water found beneath the Earth's surface, usually in aquifers, often used for supplying wells and springs.
Ground water under direct influence of surface water (GU) - Any water beneath the surface of the ground with:
significant occurrence of insects or other macroorganisms, algae, or large-diameter pathogens such as Giardia lamblia; or
significant and relatively rapid shifts in water characteristics such as turbidity, temperature, conductivity, or pH that closely correlate to climatological or surface water conditions. Direct influence must be determined for individual sources in accordance with criteria established by the State. The State determination of direct influence may be based on site-specific measurements of water quality and/or documentation of well construction characteristics and geology with field evaluation.
Each of the source water types shown above may be preceded by the word “Purchased”, indicating that some or all of the water has been purchased from another public water system (PWS).
Public water system (PWS) - A system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption, which has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals at least 60 days out of the year.
Community water system (CWS) - A public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
Non-community water system (NCWS) - A public water system that is not a community water system.
Transient non-community water system (TNCWS) - A public water system that provides water in a place such as a gas station or campground where people do not remain for a long period of time. Specifically, a non-community water system that does not serve 25 of the same nonresident persons per day for more than six months per year.
Non-transient non-community water system (NTNCWS) - A public water system that regularly supplies water to at least 25 of the same people at least six months per year, but not year-round. Specifically, a non-community water system that regularly serves at least 25 of the same nonresident persons per day for more than six months per year. Some examples are schools, factories, office buildings, and hospitals which have their own water systems.
The status assigned to the facility by each national program database, as applicable.
CAA program status codes represent the operational condition of the facility:
NESHAP Spraying
NESHAP Renovation
NESHAP Demolition
GHG displays whether a facility with a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program ID number is subject or no longer subject to reporting its greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP).
CWA designates a permitted facility as Active or Inactive. Under the CWA, all facilities discharging pollutants from a point source (e.g., a pipe) to surface waters must have a NPDES permit. For CWA, ICIS-NPDES designates a permit as Effective, Administratively Continued, Expired, Not Needed, Pending, Retired, or Terminated.
RCRA facilities ("sites") are designated as Active or Inactive. Active means a site has activities occurring that are regulated under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Subtitle C, or an authorized state's hazardous waste management regulations/statutes; or a site which has not been determined to be inactive for such regulated activities.
Activity status definitions are intended only for the purposes of data management and providing the public with information about hazardous waste or other RCRA Subtitle C activities. Activity status is determined from the information most recently submitted by a site's representative or determined by EPA or state authority. The designation of a site as "active" or "inactive" and the subcategories below have no legal or regulatory significance.
When a site is shown as Active on the Detailed Facility Report, one to five characters in parentheses will indicate the activities that led to the Active designation. The following list provides a definition for each character that may be displayed:
H - Handler activities (activities found on the federal SI form or a state-equivalent form) (Corresponds to subcategory 1 below.)
P - Permitting activities (site has at least one unit that is "active" according to RCRAInfo Legal/Operating Status) (Corresponds to subcategory 2 below.)
A - Corrective Action activities (site is in the RCRAInfo Corrective Action Workload Universe) (Corresponds to subcategory 4 below.)
C - Converter (the site has at least one unit that is a converter according to RCRAInfo Legal/Operating Status) (Corresponds to subcategory 3 below.)
S - State-specific activities (site has state-defined activities in the RCRAInfo Permitting or Handler module which the state wants included in the activity status calculation) (Corresponds to subcategory 5 below.)
RCRA site activity status definitions and site activity status designations are described below.The overall activity status of a site is Active if the site has activities from any of the five subcategories below, otherwise the site is deemed Inactive.
RCRA Activity (Based on Most Recent RCRAInfo data)
Site Identification (SI) Activities Regulated activities reported in Section 10 on the federal RCRA Subtitle C Site Identification (SI) Form (or 8700-12) or state-equivalent form. Only current activities (as determined by the RCRAInfo universe calculations) are considered. If any of these activities are checked as present at a site, then the site is considered to have SI activities. Excludes TSD and "Other" Universal Waste ("Other" Universal Waste is considered a State-Specific Activity
Treatment, Storage, Disposal (TSD) activities Activities for which EPA may enforce federal RCRA TSDF regulations, permits, and orders or a state may enforce regulations, permits, and orders under its authorized hazardous waste management plan. A site is considered to have TSD activities if one or more of its TSD units have a current Legal/Operating status code combination indicating it is in the Regulated ("R") Universe This definition may be revised.
Converters Converters are former TSD units that "converted" to hazardous waste activities not requiring a permit, but have not been closed by the site as required by EPA or a state. A site is considered to have Converter status if one or more of its units have a current Legal/Operating status code combination indicating it is in the Converter ("V") Universe This definition may be revised.
Corrective Action (CA) activities Corrective Action activities for which a site is subject to enforceable RCRA obligations. The presence of the site in the RCRAInfo Corrective Action Workload Universe is the method by which a site is determined to be active. This definition may be revised.
State-specific Activities Activities, other than those listed under the previous four subcategories, which a state regulates and tracks in RCRAInfo and whose presence at a site the state considers sufficient reason to determine the site to be "active." These additional activities may be "same as," "more stringent than," or "broader in scope" than federal regulations. They are generally state variants of SI or TSD activities.
Federal regulations do not require a subsequent notification if a non-treatment, storage, or disposal facility (TSDF) changes its status (requirements vary from state to state); however, TSDFs are required to notify when owner/operator information changes. Therefore, non-TSDF data may show a site activity status that is no longer current at the site.
SDWA systems are designated as Active or Inactive. SDWA systems activity status definitions are described below.
Active - A system is active if it produces drinking water on a regular basis. A seasonal water system may also be considered active if it is expected to resume operation within the year.
Inactive - Not active. This includes systems that have gone out of business or been merged into other drinking water systems.
Displays Clean Air Act stationary source program code, Clean Water Act-NPDES permit component(s), and/or other Resource Conservation and Recovery Act designations, if any. For SDWA, displays the estimated average daily population served by a water system. For GHG, displays a list of the industries under which the facility is subject to report as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Review a list of covered types of industrial operations and informational resources.
Permit Expiration Date (CWA only)
Date on which a given Clean Water Act-NPDES permit is scheduled to expire. An expired date does not mean the facility is operating without a permit. In most cases, the facility has applied for a permit renewal, but the responsible authority (local, state, or federal) has not completed the re-issuance. Typically facilities operate under the conditions of the expired permit until the renewal has been processed. Some states are experiencing a backlog in issuing permit renewals, particularly under the Clean Water Act. EPA suggests contacting the relevant state agency for more information about permit renewal status. In these situations, the expired permit is normally administratively extended and kept in effect until the new permit is issued.
A value of "N/A" (Not Applicable) indicates this information is not maintained in the program data system. "N" indicates the facility is not in Indian Country, and a value of "Y" indicates the facility is in Indian Country according to the source database.
The latitude and longitude of the facility or permit holder as maintained in each data system.
Facility Address Table
Identifies the environmental statute associated with each of the permits and identifiers linked to the facility. The first row of this table is typically FRS data, which are not associated with a particular statute.
Company or permit holder name, as maintained by each data system. The facility name may differ across EPA databases due to differences in reported information, change in ownership, use of parent or subsidiary name, etc.
Street address where the facility is located, as maintained by each data system. The street address may differ across EPA databases due to differences in reported information (e.g., use of mailing address), change in ownership, use of parent or subsidiary address, etc.
Facility SIC Codes Table
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes, as maintained by each data system. Some SIC codes may reflect historical activities at a facility. SIC codes were established by the Census Bureau to identify processes, products and services. Each data system has different criteria for incorporating this information.
Description of the associated SIC Code.
Facility NAICS Codes Table
All NAICS codes associated with the facility, as maintained in each data system. Some NAICS codes may reflect historical activities at a facility. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. For detailed information about NAICS and for a crosswalk between NAICS and SIC codes, please check the U.S. Census Bureau NAICS page.
Description of the associated 6-digit NAICS Code
Facility Tribe Information Table
The Facility Tribe Information table displays the tribes or tribal territories located within 25 miles of the facility's location. EPA compares the facility location in its Facility Registry Service to the U.S. Census Bureau 2010 tribal boundary layer data for tribes in the lower 48 states and Bureau of Land Management Alaska State Office data for tribes in Alaska. The tribal boundary locations identified are suitable only for general spatial reference and do not necessarily reflect EPA's position on any Indian country locations or boundaries, or the land status of any specific location.
Name of the Indian country reservation that the facility is located on or near.
Name of the tribe located within the boundary locations that the facility is located on or near.
ID given by EPA to identify the tribe.
The facility's distance in miles to the tribe or tribal territory.
Data Quality Caveat: EPA makes no claims regarding the accuracy or precision of data concerning Indian country locations or boundaries on the ECHO website. EPA has simply attempted to collect certain readily available information relating to Indian country locations. Questions concerning data should be referred to the originating program or Agency which can be identified in the Envirofacts tribal query metadata files Lower48 Tribal Areas, Alaska Reservation, Alaska Native Villages, or Alaska Native Allotments. The Indian country locations shown here are suitable only for general spatial reference and do not necessarily reflect EPA's position on any Indian country locations or boundaries or the land status of any specific location. The inclusion of Indian country information on the ECHO website does not represent any final EPA action addressing Indian country locations or boundaries. This information cannot be relied upon to create any rights, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party in litigation with the United States or third parties. EPA reserves the right to change information on ECHO at any time without public notice.
EPA uses the U.S. Census Bureau 2010 tribal boundary layer data when developing environmental data query responses for tribes in the lower 48 United States and Bureau of Land Management Alaska State Office when developing environmental data query responses for tribes in Alaska. The tribal boundary locations identified are suitable only for general spatial reference and do not necessarily reflect EPA's position on any Indian country locations or boundaries, or the land status of any specific location. EPA seeks to use the best available national federal data and may refine the tribal boundary layer in the future as more accurate national federal data becomes available.
This section summarizes the history of enforcement and compliance activities.
Radio buttons allow you to restrict the data displayed in each of the Enforcement and Compliance tables to a particular statute (CAA, CWA, RCRA, or SDWA). The number in parentheses after each statute indicates the number of compliance monitoring activities listed in the Compliance Monitoring History table for that statute.
The table below indicates the availability of enforcement and compliance data for the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act. Select an "X" to jump to the statute-specific help documentation for each table in this section of the DFR.
CAA X X X X X
CWA X X X X X
RCRA X X X X X
SDWA X X X X X X X
Violation, noncompliance, significant noncompliance, serious violator, and high priority violation are all terms used by the ECHO website to describe the facility's status in regard to compliance with the law. In many cases, these terms reflect determinations made by EPA or states when conducting inspections or reviewing facility self-reports. These determinations assist the government in tracking resolution of violations through the enforcement process and do not necessarily represent a final adjudication by a judicial or administrative body. In such cases, these characterizations should be considered alleged violations. Additional information on how to interpret a facility's compliance status is available on ECHO's Frequently Asked Questions page.
The Compliance Monitoring History table lists inspections/compliance evaluations that have occurred under the following environmental statutes over the past five years.
Inspections include all federal and state inspections that are reported into federal data systems using federally-designed codes. Unofficial inspections include various compliance monitoring activities that do not qualify as inspections under EPA's official Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance performance measures.
An alphanumeric field, which is a unique value for each record/permit/site within each data system. These identifiers are for tracking purposes in the individual data systems.
RCR Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo)
A description of the type of inspection undertaken. The Detailed Facility Report includes official and unofficial inspections which were conducted within the last five years. The last five years will include data from the twenty most recently completed quarters, plus data from the current quarter up until the refresh date.
A Full Compliance Evaluation (FCE) includes comprehensive paperwork review and often, but not necessarily, an on-site inspection. Compliance evaluations that do not qualify as FCEs are characterized as "partial." Partial means that some compliance monitoring was done, but all requirements were not met to receive credit for a Full Compliance Evaluation. Checked inspection types indicate inspections that are included in official counts.
CAA Official Inspections
CST - Stack Test
FCE On-Site (EPA or State conducted) ✓
FCE Off-Site (EPA or State conducted) ✓
PFF - PCE Off-Site
PCE - PCE On-Site
POI - PCE On-Site Interview
POM - PCE On-Site Monitoring/Sampling
POR - PCE On-Site Record/Report Review
POV - PCE On-Site Visible Emission Observation
TVA - Title V Annual Compliance Certification (TV ACC) Receipt/Review
Stack Tests: Following a Clean Air Act source or performance stack test listed in the Compliance Monitoring History table, the "Finding" column includes the result of the stack test (Pass, Fail, Pending, or Blank) along with the pollutant tested, if it is reported. Please note that the pollutant tested is not required to be reported, although it is recommended.
A stack test, also referred to in EPA regulations as a performance or source test, measures the amount of specific regulated pollutant(s) or surrogates being emitted; demonstrates the capture efficiency of a capture system; or determines the destruction or removal efficiency of a control device used to reduce emissions at facilities subject to the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Stack tests are discussed in the Clean Air Act Stationary Source Compliance Monitoring Strategy (CMS), which provides recommendations to state and local environmental agencies to encourage national consistency in developing stationary source air compliance monitoring programs.
Title V Annual Compliance Certification (TV ACC Receipt/Review): Following a Title V Annual Compliance Certification Review or Title V Annual Compliance Certification Due/Received action, the Finding column includes the result of the review (In Compliance, In Violation, or Unknown), as well as whether any deviations were reported (Yes or No). Note: These actions may be performed and reported by a state permit authority or an EPA regional office, which also receives these documents from the permitted facilities as required in the permit and EPA Title V regulations. The CAA Stationary Source CMS provides details.
The results of performance stack tests conducted and of Title V Certification Reviews are required to be reported to the national program database, ICIS-Air (AIR), based on the Information Collection Request. Regarding stack test results, as noted above, EPA does not require that the pollutant tested be reported. However, a violation of a major facility's allowable emission limit detected during a stack test may trigger a high priority violation status, according to the policy on the Timely and Appropriate Enforcement Response to High Priority Violations (HPV Policy).
Detailed information is available from the following links/documents:
EPA Air Enforcement Policy, Guidance, and Publications
CAA Stationary Source Compliance Monitoring Strategy
HPV Policy
Federally-Reportable Violations Guidance
CAA National Stack Testing Guidance
Information on additional CAA inspections: In addition to the compliance evaluations from ICIS-AIR, the national database for the stationary source program, EPA inspections under the following CAA sections are displayed when recorded in the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS): 112(r), 118(d), 202, 203, 207, 208, 211, 213, and 219.
Clean Water Act (CWA) - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program (NPDES)
Checked inspection types indicate inspections that are included in official counts. The CWA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Compliance Monitoring Strategy lists the acceptable ICIS-NPDES compliance monitoring types for different types of facilities in a traditional Compliance Monitoring Strategy plan.
Information on additional CWA inspections: In addition to the NPDES inspections from ICIS-NPDES, the national database for the CWA direct discharge program, EPA inspections under the following CWA sections are displayed when recorded in the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS): 311 and 404.
NPDES Official Inspections
Biosolids Program Official Inspections
ADR - Asbestos Demolition and Renovation
AER - Aerial Photography
AFD - AFO Defined ✓
AFN - AFO Designation ✓
AU1 - Audit ✓
AU2 - Audit ✓
CAI - Compliance Assistance Inspection
CBI - Biomonitoring ✓
CCP - Citizen Complaint
CDI - Case Development
CEF - Full Evaluation
CEI - Evaluation ✓ ✓
CEP - Partial Evaluation
CE2 - Evaluation
DIA - Diagnostic ✓
DSA - Desk Audit ✓ ✓
FLP - Follow-Up ✓
FOC - Focused ✓
OPM - Operation and Maintenance ✓
OSN - Noncompliance Rate
OSV - On Site Visit
OVS - Oversight ✓
PIU - Non-Sampling ✓
PRV - Plan Review
PSI - Sampling ✓
RMT - Remote Sensing
ROS - Reconnaissance without Sampling ✓
RWS - Reconnaissance with Sampling ✓
SA1 - Sampling ✓ ✓
SCE - Schedule Evaluation
TX1 - Toxics ✓
TX2 - Toxics ✓
WIT - Witness Response Drill
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Hazardous Waste Inspection Types
Checked inspection types indicate inspections that are included in official counts. RCRA inspection types are further described in the Nationally Defined Values for Evaluation Type file (3 pp, 12 K, About PDF) from the source data system, RCRAInfo. RCRA "official" inspections are those that tend to take place on site. Financial Record Reviews and Non-Financial Record Reviews are evaluations of compliance, but they typically take place in the regulatory agency office.
Information on additional RCRA inspections: In addition to the RCRA hazardous waste (Subtitle C) inspections from RCRAInfo, the national database for hazardous waste data, EPA inspections under the following RCRA sections are displayed when recorded in the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS): 9002, 9003, 9005, and 9006.
RCRA Official Inspections
CAC - Corrective Action Compliance Evaluation ✓
CAV - Compliance Assistance Visit
CDI - Case Development Inspection ✓
CEI - Compliance Evaluation Inspection ✓
CSE - Compliance Schedule Evaluation ✓
FCI - Focused Compliance ✓
FRR - Financial Record Review
FSD - Facility Self Disclosure
FUI - Follow-Up Inspection ✓
GME - Groundwater Monitoring Evaluation ✓
LBN - Land Ban Restrictions Inspection
NIR - No 3007 Information Request Received
NRR - Non-Financial Record Review
OAM - Operation and Maintenance Inspection ✓
Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) Section 313
EEA - EPCRA, Enforcement, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) Conducted
EEF - EPCRA, Enforcement, Federal Conducted
EDA - EPCRA, Data Quality, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) Conducted
EDF - EPCRA, Data Quality, Federal Conducted
13I - Section 13 Importer Inspection
2XP - Section 12 Export
4CI - Section 4 Inspections
4LP - Section 4 Good Laboratory Practices
5CE - Section 5 Chemical Substance Exemption
5CI - Section 5 Inspections
5CF - Section 5 Order
5FN - Section 5 Failure to Notify
5PM - Section 5 Premanufacture Notice
5SU - Section 5 Significant New Use Rule
5TM - Section 5 Test Marketing Exemption
6AA - Section 6 Asbestos Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) Conducted
6AF - Section 6 Asbestos Federal Conducted
6CI - Section 6 Inspections
6DR - Section 6 Hexavalent Chromium
6DX - Section 6 Dioxin
6PA - Section 6 Polychlorinated Biphenyls Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) Conducted
6PF - Section 6 PCB Federal Conducted
6WA - Section 6 Asbestos Worker Protection Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
6WF - Section 6 Asbestos Worker Protection Federal
8CI - Section 8 Confidential Inspections
8CR - Section 8C Records Rule
8HS - Section 8D Health and Safety Studies
8LA - Section 8A Level A Rule
8NV - Section 8 Inventory Rule
8SR - Section 8E Substantial Risk
ACO - Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA) Close Out
AEA - Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), Enforcement, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) Conducted
AEF - Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), Enforcement, Federal Conducted
AMA - Asbestos, Model Accreditation Plan (MAP) Enforcement, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
AMF - Asbestos, Model Accreditation Plan (MAP) Enforcement, Federal
AON - Asbestos, Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act Ongoing
APA - Asbestos, Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA) Pre Award
AUN - Asbestos, Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA) Unfunded
L2A - Lead, Section 402, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
L2F - Lead, Section 402, Federal
L4A - Lead, Section 404, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
L4F - Lead, Section 404, Federal
L6A - Lead, Section 406, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
L6F - Lead, Section 406, Federal
L8A - Lead, Section 408, Senior Environmental Employee (SEE)
L8F - Lead, Section 408, Federal
6AS - Section 6 Asbestos State Conducted
6CS - State Hexavalent Chromium
6PS - Section 6 PCP State Conducted
6WS - Section 6 Asbestos Worker Protection State
AES - Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), Enforcement, State Conducted
AMS - Asbestos, Model Accreditation Plan (MAP) Enforcement, State
L2S - Lead, Section 402, State
L4S - Lead, Section 404, State
L6S - Lead, Section 406, State
EUP - Experimental Use Permit
FTR - Section 7, Failure to Report
MPT - Import
RGA - Use Restricted/General Agriculture
RGN - Use Restricted/General Non-Agriculture
RRV - Records Review
UGA - Use General Agriculture
URA - Use General Non-Agriculture
URN - Use Restricted Non-Agriculture
XPT - Export
CCR - Consumer Confidence Report Rule
CHRD - Chem/Rad, part of the Phase II/V Rules
DBPR - Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
IESW - Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
LEAD - Lead and Copper Rule
NITR - Nitrate, part of the Phase II/V Rules
PNR - Public Notification Rule
SWTR - Surface Water Treatment Rule
TCR - Total Coliform Rule
UNRG - Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule
Additional information on SDWA inspections: EPA inspections under the following SDWA sections are displayed when recorded in the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS): 1412, 1414, 1415(b)(1), 1416, 1417, 1421, 1422, 1423, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1441, and 1445.
Identifies the lead agency (e.g., EPA, State) conducting the inspection.
The calendar date of the listed inspection.
CAA: includes results of source or performance stack tests or Title V certification review results, when applicable.
CWA and RCRA: includes whether violations or compliance issues were found during an inspection, if entered into an EPA system.
SDWA: includes whether violations or compliance issues were found during a sanitary survey or other kind of site visit.
Includes occurrences of sanitary surveys and other kinds of site visits, including technical assistance, sample collections, and site inspections.
The calendar date (MM/DD/YYYY) of the listed site visit.
A description of the type of site visit conducted.
The lead agency that conducted the site visit.
Every public water system is required to be evaluated by a sanitary survey every three to five years. A sanitary survey is an on-site review of a system's water source, facilities, equipment, operation, and maintenance, intended to point out sanitary deficiencies and assess the system's capability to supply safe drinking water. Systems are evaluated on 11 different aspects of public water system (PWS) operation, and the results are recorded using the following codes:
M Minor Deficiencies
N No Deficiencies or Recommendations
R Recommendations Made
S Significant Deficiencies
X Not Evaluated
-- Not Reported to EPA
Includes inspections/compliance evaluations that have occurred over the past five years.
The current Significant Noncompliance (SNC) or High Priority Violator (HPV) status for the facility during the most current quarter reflects the time the records were extracted from the program data systems. SNC is used for RCRA and CWA, and HPV is used for CAA. Each program has its own specific criteria for making this determination. The value of "Yes" indicates the facility is in SNC or HPV for the permit or site in question and may pose a more severe level of environmental threat. The value of "No" indicates the permit or site is not considered in SNC or HPV.
If the facility is Non-Federally Reportable within ICIS-Air, the field reads "N/A". The value of N/A in this field indicates Not Applicable because compliance data for these facilities are not required to be reported to the national program database. When data are available, this field will indicate the compliance status for some minor facilities in ICIS-NPDES. For minor facilities in ICIS-NPDES, N/A indicates that EPA's data system is not able to determine the facility-level compliance status based upon the information available. For the RCRA program, some hazardous waste facilities have activities in multiple states. When the SNC activity location is not the same as the state where the facility is located, the state of the SNC activity location is displayed in parentheses. A "Yes" by itself indicates that the facility has a SNC activity location in the state where the facility is located. A brief summary of each program's definition is shown below. However, these summaries are not meant to substitute for the complete definition, which can be found in the relevant guidance documents for a given program.
Significant Noncompliance Definitions by Statute
Air High Priority Violation (HPV) Definition
The Air program uses the term HPV. HPV designations are made according to the Issuance of Policy on Timely and Appropriate Enforcement Response to High Priority Violations.
The following criteria can trigger HPV status for a violation that occurs at a Title-V major source or a non-Title-V major source subject to a Compliance Monitoring Strategy (CMS) plan:
Failure to obtain a New Source Review (NSR) permit and/or install Best Available Control Technology or Lowest Available Emission Reductions for any new major stationary source or major modifications at a major stationary source.
Exceedance of a major stationary source annual emission threshold, as defined in the NSR regulations, by a synthetic minor stationary source.
Violation of the any emission limitation, emission standard, or operating parameter that has continued for at least seven days, but not necessarily continuous, according to:
Title I, Part C or D, of the Clean Air Act and implementing regulations,
Standards of Performance for New Sources (NSPS) Part 60, or
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Parts 61 and 63.
Violations of federally enforceable work practices, testing requirements, monitoring requirements, recordkeeping or reporting that substantially interferes with enforcement or determination of a facility’s compliance requirements.
Violations specifically identified and communicated to enforcement agencies by the U.S. EPA Air Enforcement Division Director, or as mutually agreed upon between the enforcement agency and corresponding EPA Region.
The HPV designation is removed for a given source when all federal and state administrative and judicial action against the source is complete, the source has completed all requirements under the consent decree or final order including payment of all penalties and completion of supplemental environmental projects, and the source has been confirmed to be complying with the CAA.
The High Priority Violation (HPV) flag is reported in ICIS-Air, as of the last update. A 'Yes' appears in the column to indicate that the facility has HPV status. Below is a list of violation codes within ICIS-Air that translate to HPV status.
Addrs-EPA - Addressed, EPA Lead
Addrs-State - Addressed, State Lead
Addrs-Local - Addressed, Local Lead
Unaddr-EPA - Unaddressed, EPA Lead
Unaddr-State - Unaddressed, State Lead
Unaddr-Local - Unaddressed, Local Lead
The status of "Addressed" indicates that a formal enforcement action has been taken against the facility but its violations have not yet been resolved, or that a decision not to take a formal action has been made. For the CAA, violations are not considered resolved until the source is in full physical compliance and all penalties are paid. "Unaddressed" indicates that the facility's violations have not yet been addressed with a formal enforcement action or the decision to do so has not yet been made.
CWA Significant Noncompliance (SNC) Definition
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program uses the term SNC. SNC designations are made in accordance with the December 12, 1996 guidance document: General Design for SNC Redefinition Enhancement in PCS (PDF) (27 pp, 2.8 MB, About PDF). Most SNC designations are based on an automated analysis of Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) that facilities with NPDES permits are required to submit on a monthly basis. The compliance designation of a facility in the ICIS-NPDES database is done using a mathematical formula that takes into account the amount, duration, and frequency of discharges in comparison with permit levels. In some instances facilities may be manually designated as SNC, even if the ICIS-NPDES data system does not automatically designate them as such. Examples of events that could result in the manual generation of a SNC code for a facility include: unauthorized discharges; failure of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) to enforce its approved pretreatment program; failure to meet a construction deadline; failure to file a DMR; filing a DMR more than 30 days late; or violating any judicial or administrative order. Manually entered compliance data, if present, override machine-generated compliance data.
A facility may have multiple discharge points and different designations for each point. If any of these points show a SNC type code, then the overall facility status is listed as SNC, even if other discharge points are in compliance.
Removal of the SNC designation occurs once the facility's DMR reports show a consistent pattern of compliance with permit limits, or if EPA or a state agency issues a formal enforcement order to address the violations that resulted in the SNC designation and the facility has returned to compliance.
The most recent quarter for ICIS-NPDES is the most recent official quarter for which the quarterly status is available. This is usually 2 1/2 months after the quarter has ended. Thus, the most recent quarter in ICIS-NPDES is often not the same quarter as that for ICIS-Air and RCRAInfo.
The following are NPDES Quarterly Noncompliance Report (QNCR) codes that translate to SNC status (from most to least important):
QNCR Code
SNC Status Description
S An enforcement action has been issued, and the facility is not meeting its compliance schedule
E Effluent violations of monthly average limits (Technical Review Criteria and chronic)
X Effluent violations of non-monthly average limits (Technical Review Criteria and chronic)
T Compliance schedule reporting violation
D Reporting violation - non-receipt of DMR
RCRA Significant Noncomplier (SNC) Definition
The RCRA program uses the term SNC. Any determination to classify a site as a SNC is made using the guidelines set forth in the December 2003 Hazardous Waste Civil Enforcement Response Policy (PDF) (14 pp, 145 K, About PDF). A site can be designated as a SNC if any of the following are found to exist: the site has been determined to cause actual exposure or has a substantial likelihood of causing exposure to a hazardous waste or constituent; is a chronic or recalcitrant violator; or deviates substantially from the terms of a permit, order or agreement, or from RCRA statutory or regulatory requirements. Under the RCRA program, the SNC designation is removed for a given site when the site is in full physical compliance with statutory and/or regulatory requirements.
SDWA Serious Violator Definition
In the Safe Drinking Water program, a Serious Violator is a public water system with unresolved serious, multiple, and/or continuing violations, as identified by the quarterly application of EPA's Drinking Water Enforcement Response Policy (PDF) (16 pp, 952 K, About PDF), that must either return to compliance or be addressed by a formal enforcement action within six months.
EPA designates serious violators so that the drinking water system and the primacy agency will act quickly to resolve the most significant drinking water violations. Many public water systems with violations, however, are not serious violators. Operators and the primacy agencies are expected to correct the violations at non-serious violators as well, but without the more strict requirements and deadlines applicable to serious violators. If the violations at a non-serious violator are left uncorrected, that system may become a serious violator. When a serious violator has returned to compliance, it is no longer designated a serious violator. EPA updates its serious violator list on a quarterly basis.
The most recent date or official calendar year quarter of record maintained in the data system for which the Current SNC/HPV status applies. For CAA and RCRA, the current as of date reflects the most recent data refresh.
Count of the number of quarters, out of the last twelve quarters, in which the permit or site is considered either with violations, in noncompliance (NC) status, or in Significant Noncompliance (SNC) or High Priority Violation (HPV) status, as shown in the following section. Further violation and detailed compliance information can be found on ECHO's Frequently Asked Question page.
Date Last Refreshed
The most recent date that the data were extracted from the source data system. The complete list of data sources and dates of last updates made in ECHO are shown in About the Data.
Violation, noncompliance, significant noncompliance, and high priority violation are all terms used by the ECHO website to describe the facility's status in regard to compliance with the law. In many cases, these terms reflect determinations made by EPA or states when conducting inspections or reviewing facility self-reports. These determinations assist the government in tracking resolution of violations through the enforcement process and do not necessarily represent a final adjudication by a judicial or administrative body. In such cases, these characterizations should be considered alleged violations. Additional information on how to interpret a facility's compliance status is available on ECHO's Frequently Asked Questions page.
The Three Year Compliance Status by Quarter section of the Detailed Facility Report displays compliance status data over the last three years of available data. Information is broken down into quarterly periods listed as QTR1 through QTR12 (most recent). The quarter is used as the measurement period because it is the shortest measurement period across all three statutes for which EPA receives noncompliance data from states.
Violation information is displayed in a different manner for each statute. This is due to differences in how violations are tracked within each data system.
Violation – Defined as noncompliance with one or more legally enforceable obligations by a regulated entity, as determined by a responsible authority. Included in this category are violations of legally enforceable obligations under pre-existing Final Orders (e.g., violations of compliance schedules included in enforcement orders). What does it mean if a facility is in violation?
The quarterly status measure may not reflect all actual noncompliance events in some cases. For example, EPA does not require national reporting for facilities with "minor" permits; thus, noncompliance at these facilities may not be completely shown in ECHO. For minor facilities, the authorized state may have information on violations not found in ECHO. Also, delays sometimes occur in entering noncompliance determinations into the database. Alternatively, in some cases, a facility may be shown to be in noncompliance while the facility has already remedied the underlying violation; this may occur because EPA or the state has not yet verified this. In other cases, the state or EPA may change its initial determination of noncompliance based on additional facts or discussions with the facility. Site users may report possible errors concerning noncompliance status from the facility report screen.
Notice About Duration of Violations - The duration of violations shown on this report is an estimate of the actual duration of the violations that might be alleged or later determined in a legal proceeding. For example, the start date of the violation as shown in the ECHO database is normally when the government first became aware of the violation, not the first date that the violation occurred, and the facility may have corrected the violation before the end date shown. In some situations, violations may have been corrected by the facility, but EPA or the State has not verified the correction of these violations. In other situations, EPA does not remove the violation flag until an enforcement action has been resolved.
Identifies the environmental statute associated with each of the permits and identifiers linked to the facility. Select a statute below to read about the detailed information on program, pollutant, violation type and compliance status designations:
CWA — Clean Air Act
Quarters (QRT)
A quarter is any of the following 3-month calendar periods: January-March, April-June, July-September, or October-December. Because quality assurance protocols differ among the data systems, the dates of the last twelve complete quarters of record may differ across EPA data systems.
Facility-Level Compliance Status by Quarter
Displays an indication of the compliance status for each statute under which the facility is regulated by quarter. Status codes include:
No Violations – Blue
Significant Noncompliance (SNC) (CWA and RCRA), High Priority Violation (HPV) (CAA), or Serious Violator (SDWA) – Red
No Information/Not Available - Gray
HPV History - The High Priority Violation (HPV) flag as reported in ICIS-Air. A blank in this column means that the facility is not currently a High Priority Violator (HPV). If more than one flag applies to a facility during a quarter, a prioritization is used to determine which code appears. The order of precedence is as follows:
"Addressed" indicates that a formal action has been taken against the facility but its violations have not yet been resolved, or that a decision not to take a formal action has been made. For the CAA, violations are not considered resolved until the source is in full physical compliance and all penalties are paid. "Unaddressed" indicates that the facility's violations have not yet been addressed with a formal enforcement action or the decision to do so has not yet been made.
Violation Type - Indicates whether a violation is a High Priority Violation (HPV) or a Federally Reportable Violation (FRV). HPVs are violations of the CAA that meet the criteria in EPA's Enforcement Response to High Priority Violations Policy. The Guidance on Federally-Reportable Violations for Stationary Air Sources outlines the types of violations that state, local, and tribal agencies are to report to EPA.
Programs/Agency/Pollutants - For Clean Air Act (CAA) permits, the table provides quarterly status information for each air permit, and within each permit, the programs to which the facility or operation is subject. Within each CAA program, individual pollutants for which the facility is in current violation are listed on a separate line. The table also identifies the environmental agency addressing the violation. For a list of state environmental agency websites, see Access State Websites. In general, data relating to federally-reportable facilities is considered more complete.
CAA programs include:
CAAAR - Acid Rain Deposition Control (CAA Title IV)
CAABAC - Best Available Controls
CAACCP - Consumer or Commercial Products
CAACFC - CFC Tracking (CAA Title VI)
CAAEP - Emergency Powers
CAAFENF - Federally-Enforceable Requirement, Non Specified
CAAFESOP -Federally-Enforceable State Operating Permit - Non Title V
CAAFF - Federal Facilities
CAAFIP - Federal Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
CAAGACTM - 40 CFR Part 63 Area Sources
CAAGHG -The Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule
CAAHAPS - Hazardous Air Pollutants
CAAIRM - Information Requests, Monitoring, & Recordkeeping
CAAL - Labeling
CAAMACT - MACT Standards (40 CFR Part 63)
CAAMRR - Monitoring, Reporting
CAAMS -Mobile Sources
CAANAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
CAANAM - Tribal Rule Not Otherwise Covered
CAANEP - Non Essential Products
CAANEPA - National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
CAANESH - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (40 CFR Part 61)
CAANFRP - Not defined as federally-reportable
CAANSP - Nonattainment/SIP Provisions
CAANSPS - New Source Performance Standards
CAANSPSM - New Source Performance Standards (Non-Major)
CAANSR - New Source Review Permit Requirements
CAANVCO - Notices of Violations & Compliance Orders
CAAOP - Operating Permits
CAAOTH - State or Local rule or regulation that is not federally-enforceable
CAAPARGDC - Prevention of Accidental Release/General Duty Clause
CAAPR - Permit Requirements
CAAPSD - Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality
CAAPSDPR - PSD Preconstruction Requirements
CAARERP - Recycling & Emission Reduction Programs
CAARMP - Risk Management Program
CAASIP - State Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
CAASMVA - Servicing Motor Vehicle ACs
CAASO - Stratospheric Ozone Protection
CAASPP - State Permit Programs
CAASWFC - Solid Waste Fuel Combustion
CAATIP - Tribal Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
CAATVP - Title V Permits
CAATVS - Tank Vessel Standards
Quarterly Status (CAA)
Dates - High Priority Violations (HPV) are listed with the beginning and return-to-compliance dates across the twelve quarters. A report showing a right arrow with no closing date (e.g., →) means that the violation has not been resolved and continues to be active in the data system. If the violation started before the last three years of data and continues into the last three years, the beginning date is listed in QTR1. Federally Reportable Violations (FRV) are listed with the determination date or date reported in the appropriate quarter.
CAA Violation Code
CAA Violation Description
V = Violation. The following codes indicate that an alleged violation of a CAA permit or regulatory program has been found by a delegated agency or the EPA:
V-NO SCH In violation, no enforcement action has been issued specifying a compliance schedule
V-N SCH In violation, an enforcement action has been issued, and the facility is not meeting its compliance schedule
V-UNKNOWN In violation, unknown w/regard to schedule
V-EM&PRO In violation, with regard to emissions and procedure (reporting requirements)
V-PROCED In violation, with regard to procedural compliance (reporting requirements)
S = Compliance Schedule. The following code indicates that a CAA source is operating under the requirements of an enforcement schedule.
S-MSched Meeting compliance schedule
The following codes are used in ICIS-Air as placeholders:
SEE Other Present, used to avoid situations where the EPA provides a value but the state or delegated agency has not supplied a value.
No St Reg No applicable state regulation. The air program is not delegated.
CWA/NPDES Compliance Status
The compliance status for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) dischargers is normally determined by the electronic comparison of discharge monitoring reports (DMRs) submitted by major facilities to permitted discharge limits. Both permit limits and discharge data must be present for the system to generate an accurate compliance status. EPA's data system uses a sophisticated algorithm looking at severity and duration of violations when determining whether a facility is considered to be in significant noncompliance (SNC). A permit-level compliance status is generated after every quarter and then reviewed before becoming "official" as part of the "Quarterly Noncompliance Report", or QNCR.
A discharge measurement received after the last QNCR is noted as being in violation if the measurement is not within permitted limits. Discharge data shown on the Detailed Facility Report in the 13th (most recent) quarter were reported anytime after the last official quarter, and a permit-level compliance status has not yet been generated. Until the next QNCR becomes official, these data are considered draft, have not been fully quality assured, and are subject to change. The more recent data can assist ECHO users by providing more real-time information and allowing permitted facilities to see if a data error needs to be corrected. Suspected data errors can be reported by clicking on the "Report Data Error" link at the top of the Detailed Facility Report and then on the Report Error symbol next to the data in question.
Noncompliance indicates whether one or more violations occurred during a quarter. Noncompliance can results from any noncompliance event/violation from the four types described below.
Additional information on NPDES regulated facilities may be available in the following related reports:
1. SNC/RNC History (Significant Noncompliance/Reportable Noncompliance Status) for major facilities (or Facility Status for minor facilities)
EPA's official quarterly determination of whether violations at the facility warrant EPA/state review.
Note on terminology of significant violations: The national program database calculates the severity of violations according to the Clean Water Act regulations, which have specific criteria specifying the duration, severity, and type of violations that rise to the level of Significant Noncompliance (SNC). SNC can occur at major facilities. The calculation of "Category I" violations is equivalent to the SNC calculations, but because the violations occur at smaller dischargers (non-major), EPA does not classify the violations as "SNC". Whether a violation is SNC or Category I has some bearing on the government response used to address the violation(s). Repeat SNC occurrences normally are addressed through formal enforcement actions, while Category I violations are often addressed via informal processes.
The codes in the table below are used on the Quarterly Noncompliance Report (QNCR) to indicate the facility's SNC/Category I or RNC/II status.
SNC/Category I categories are shown in RED, RNC/Category II categories are shown in ORANGE, and On Schedule categories are shown in BLUE (these facilities are considered in compliance). A CWA permit is considered noncompliant in a given quarter if a D, E, S, T, X, or N is presented in the SNC/RNC Status field. A code of P or R indicates the facility is not considered in RNC or SNC (in addition to the automatically generated blank field).
Facility-level (SNC/RNC) status is automatically generated based on DMR data. However, state or EPA manually entered compliance data, if present, override system-generated compliance status. If more than one code applies to a facility, a prioritization is used to determine which code appears for the overall facility status. The order of precedence from most to least important is as follows:
CWA Category
CWA Description
1 Compliance/Permit Schedule - Violations SNC/Category I Noncompliance An enforcement action has been issued, and the facility is not meeting its compliance schedule
2 Effluent - Monthly Average Limit SNC/Category I Noncompliance Effluent violations of monthly average limits (Technical Review Criteria and chronic)
3 Effluent - Non-monthly Average Limit SNC/Category I Noncompliance Effluent violations of non-monthly average limits (Technical Review Criteria and chronic)
4 Compliance/Permit Schedule - Reporting SNC/Category I Noncompliance Compliance schedule reporting violation
5 Failure to Report DMR - Not Received SNC/Category I Noncompliance Reporting violation - non-receipt of DMR. Note: For non-major facilities, the system replaced D (non-receipt of DMR) with W, except for facilities in Arkansas and Louisiana, for monitoring period end dates before July 1, 2017.
6 Failure to Report DMR - Missing Data RNC/Category II Noncompliance Reportable noncompliance
7 Other Violations non-RNC violations The facility has effluent, compliance schedule, permit schedule, or single-event violations in the current quarter, however, is not considered to be in RNC or SNC
N/A Violations Manually Overridden N/A Violations that have been manually overridden
N/A Resolved - Pending N/A An enforcement action has been issued, and facility compliance with the action is pending final completion
N/A Resolved N/A The facility has returned to compliance with its permit conditions, either with or without issuance of an enforcement action
N/A Undetermined N/A EPA's data system is not able to determine the facility-level compliance status because the system has not been set to track it or because the data haven't been entered. This information may be available from a state database.
2. Effluent Violations
Effluent Violations by Pollutant (NPDES Parameter) are listed for which the facility has exceeded its permitted limit once or more during the twelve listed quarters. Effluent exceedances are listed for the NPDES Parameter by Discharge Point (Disch Point). Only violating parameters are shown. Note: Discharge data shown in the 13th (most recent) quarter were reported anytime after the last official quarter and are considered draft.
Effluent violations are indicated by displaying the highest percentage by which the permit limit was exceeded for the quarter. Bold, large print indicates Significant Noncompliance (SNC) effluent violations. For unresolved SNC violations (e.g., violations with no government action against the facility), the table cell is shaded gray. It is possible for a facility to have effluent violations that do not rise to the SNC/RNC level. This occurs if the exceedances are not significantly over permit limits.
Frequency (Freq): To the right of each parameter/chemical shown with a discharge violation, there is an indicator of what type of measurement was used to determine the violation.
"Mnthly" stands for monthly. This means that the exceedance shown in that row was based upon a monthly average of readings submitted by the permittee. EPA generally believes that monthly averages are the most important, because the exceedance represents an average of many readings.
"NMth" stands for non-monthly. This is generally a "maximum" amount read during the reporting period (and could indicate a spike that is not continuous). "Neither" denotes other measurements such as a minimum (e.g., pH could be in violation if below the permitted level). Please note that the exceedances shown in the table are the "worst" value within the quarter. Generally the permittee will report three times within the quarter (each month).
3. Compliance or Permit Schedule Violations
If a facility has been issued an enforcement action and is on a compliance schedule, all noncompliance events related to violations of that schedule in the past three years are listed under the Compliance Schedule Violations section with an associated Violation ID. Text descriptions of the violation(s) are presented below the section heading (e.g., ACHIEVED LATE; NOTICE OF VIOLATION). If the facility is not on such a schedule or is on a compliance schedule but has no schedule violations, this section is not presented.
Schedule violations are listed with the beginning and return-to-compliance dates across the twelve quarters. A report showing a right arrow with no closing date means that the violation has not been resolved and continues to be active in the data system. If the violation started before the last three years of data and continues into the last three years, the beginning date is listed in QTR1. The most recent official quarter for ICIS-NPDES is usually available 2 1/2 months after the quarter has ended.
While facility-level compliance status and effluent violations are displayed based on that schedule, compliance schedule violations are displayed as they are reported. Therefore, occasionally the compliance schedule event date will fall outside the date range of the final quarter displayed. For ICIS-NPDES data, please note that violations on the same day may be related to each other (for example, a violation for failure to file a report may be followed by a violation for late filing, which could be followed by a violation for failure to achieve schedule).
4. Single Event Violations
If the facility is identified as being in violation of CWA requirements, but this violation is not captured in the effluent exceedance section, these violations are presented in the section titled Single Event Violations. Single event violations are often the result of inspection findings. Text descriptions of the violation(s) are presented below the section heading (e.g., DISCHARGE WITHOUT A VALID PERMIT). If the facility has no single event violations in the past three years, this section is not presented. If the single event violation has been entered after the permit level-compliance status has been generated as part of the Quarterly Noncompliance Report, which is run about two and a half months after the end of the quarter, this change will not be reflected in the facility-level status. However, the date and description of each single event violation is listed in the table. Note: Violations reported on the 2016 Biosolids Annual Report are not updated with the weekly data refresh and may not be representative of a facility's recently submitted or updated report.
RCRA Compliance Status
RCRA Quarterly Status - All reported noncompliance events that would cause the RCRA site to be in noncompliance at some time in the past three years are listed under the Type of Violation section. A RCRA site is considered out of compliance for any quarter in which there is a violation date and no corresponding return-to-compliance date and is considered out of compliance for each quarter thereafter until there is a return-to-compliance date. Violations are listed with both the determined and return-to-compliance dates across the twelve quarters. A report showing a right arrow with no closing date (e.g., →) means that the facility has not been returned to compliance and continues to be active in the national program data system. If the violation started before the last three years of data and continues into the last three years, the beginning date is listed in QTR1.
At the Facility Level Status, a site can be designated as a "Significant Noncomplier" or "In Violation". Some hazardous waste facilities have activities in multiple states. When the SNC activity location is not the same as the state where the facility is located, the state of the SNC activity location is displayed in parentheses. It is possible for the facility to have a SNC activity location in more than one state.
A RCRA site is considered to be a Significant Noncomplier in the most recent compliance quarter of record when there is actual exposure or a substantial likelihood of exposure to hazardous waste/constituents, is a chronic or recalcitrant violator; or a substantial deviation from the terms of a permit, order, agreement, or RCRA statutory or regulatory requirements.
Violation: The RCRAInfo system uses codes that designate many different types of violation, depending on both the type of facility and the part of the site that had the violation. The violation types are nationally defined and the short description provided indicates the type of violation that allegedly occurred. RCRA violation types are listed in the Nationally Defined Values for Violation Type (PDF) (7 pp, 16 K, About PDF); from the source data system, RCRAInfo.
Agency: The state environmental agency or EPA. For a list of state environmental agency websites, see Access State Websites.
Data Quality Alert - If a violation was entered into the national program data system many years ago but a return-to-compliance date has not been entered by the EPA or state, the violation will continue to appear on this report. If you suspect a resolved violation needs a return-to-compliance date, please report the suspected error.
SDWA Compliance Status
States report information about SDWA violations quarterly to EPA. After a violation has been reported, there is typically a three-to-six month review period before the official quarterly status of the PWS is updated. The most recent "official" compliance status is displayed in the 12th quarter on the Detailed Facility Report. If states have provided new violation information for the next quarter, these violations are displayed in the 13th quarter. Until the next quarter becomes official, these data are considered draft, have not been fully quality assured, and are subject to change. The more recent data can assist ECHO users by providing more real-time information and allowing permitted systems to see if a data error needs to be corrected. Suspected data errors can be reported by clicking on the "Report Data Error" link at the top of the Detailed Facility Report and then on the Report Error symbol next to the data in question.
Violations are listed with both the beginning and return-to-compliance dates across the twelve quarters. A report showing a right arrow with no closing date (e.g., →) means that the facility has not been resolved and continues to be active in the program data system. If the violation started before the last three years of data and continues into the last three years, the beginning date is listed in QTR1.
One or more of the following descriptions may apply to a given system.
Serious violator - A public water system with unresolved serious, multiple, and/or continuing violations, as identified by the quarterly application of EPA's Drinking Water Enforcement Response Policy (PDF)(16 pp, 952 K, About PDF), that must either return to compliance or be addressed by a formal enforcement action within six months.
EPA designates serious violators so that the drinking water system and the primacy agency will act quickly to resolve the most significant drinking water violations. Many public water systems with violations, however, are not serious violators. Operators and the primacy agencies are expected to correct the violations at non-serious violators as well, but without imposition of the deadlines applicable to serious violators. If the violations at a non-serious violator are left uncorrected, that system may become a serious violator. When a serious violator has returned to compliance or has been addressed by a formal enforcement action, it is no longer designated a serious violator. EPA updates its serious violator list on a quarterly basis.
Health-based violations - Violations of maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) or maximum residual disinfectant levels (MRDLs), which specify the highest concentrations of contaminants or disinfectants, respectively, allowed in drinking water; or of treatment technique (TT) rules, which specify required processes intended to reduce the amounts of contaminants in drinking water. MCLs, MRDLs, and treatment technique rules are all health-based drinking water standards.
Monitoring and reporting violations - Failure to conduct regular monitoring of drinking water quality, as required by SDWA, or to submit monitoring results in a timely fashion to the primacy agency.
Public notice violations - Violations of the public notification requirements of SDWA, which require systems to immediately alert consumers if there is a serious problem with their drinking water that may pose a risk to public health.
Other violations - Violations of other requirements of SDWA, such as issuing annual consumer confidence reports or maintaining required records.
Violation-Addressed - Violations that have been addressed by one or more formal enforcement actions.
No violations - EPA does not know of any unresolved violations for this system.
Undetermined - A compliance status has not yet been generated for the 13th (most recent) quarter. Data were reported after the last official quarter and are considered draft, have not been fully quality assured, and are subject to change.
Identifies the source database of the informal enforcement action:
ICIS ICIS Federal Enforcement and Compliance (ICIS FE&C)
OTHER Other database
The table below identifies the type of informal enforcement action taken by statute. The type of action and description are designated differently in each system, but may be equivalent.
CAA DAWL Warning Letter
CAA IRL Information Request Letter
CAA LRE Letter to Regulated Entity
CAA SCL Show Cause Letter
CAA, CWA LOVWL Letter of Violation/Warning Letter
CAA, CWA NOV Notice of Violation
CWA NONC Notice of Noncompliance Issued
RCRA 120 Written Informal
RCRA 130 Notice of Determination
RCRA 140 Letter Of Intent To Initiate Enforcement Action
RCRA Note: The types of action noted above are nationally defined by EPA. Other types of action that may be shown in the Detailed Facility Report are defined and maintained by EPA regions or state agencies. RCRA enforcement action types are further described in the Nationally Defined Values for Enforcement Type (PDF) (3 pp, 12 K, About PDF) from the source data system, RCRAInfo.
SDWA Informal Enforcement Actions (Safe Drinking Water Information System):
An enforcement action that is intended to bring a system back into compliance, but doesn’t meet the definition of a formal action. Informal enforcement actions include notices of violation, site visits, compliance meetings, injunctions, and public notifications.
St/Fed Boil Water Order
St Case appealed
St Case dropped
St/Fed CCR Follow-up Notice
St Civil Case under development
St/Fed Compliance Meeting conducted
St/Fed Default Judgment
St/Fed Formal NOV issued
St Hook-up/Extension Ban
St/Fed Injunction
St Intentional no-action
St/Fed No additional Formal Action needed
St/Fed Other
St/Fed Public Notif issued
St/Fed Public Notif received
St/Fed Public Notif requested
St/Fed Show-cause Hearing
St/Fed Site Visit (enforcement)
St/Fed Tech Assistance Visit
St/Fed Temp Restrain Order/Prelim Injunc
St/Fed Turbidity Waiver issued
St/Fed Unresolved
St/Fed Variance/Exemption issued
St/Fed Violation/Reminder Notice
Referred for Higher St/Fed Level Review
The lead agency responsible for issuing the notice of violation.
The date of the notice of violation or informal enforcement within the last five years.
Additional EPA Case Information
Enforcement Basic Information
EPA Administrative Settlements
The Formal Enforcement Actions section of the Detailed Facility Report provides the federal and state formal enforcement actions that have been entered into national data systems for each facility over the past five years (including data from the twenty most recently completed quarters, plus data from the current quarter up until the refresh date).
For EPA, formal enforcement action is (1) a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for the commencement of a civil action in the appropriate U.S. District Court, or (2) the filing of an administrative complaint, or the issuance of an order, requiring compliance and a sanction.
For states, formal enforcement action is (1) a referral to the State’s Attorney General for the commencement of a civil or administrative action in the appropriate forum, or (2) the filing of an administrative complaint, or the issuance of an order, requiring compliance and a sanction.
Enforcement actions and penalties from the Federal Enforcement Docket, as maintained in EPA's Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS), as well as state enforcement actions from ICIS-NPDES, are displayed in the ICIS Case Report section. The Formal Enforcement Actions section does not include data regarding enforcement referrals or criminal enforcement actions.
Designation of the primary statute associated with the case and cited in the action:
CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
MPRSA — Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
Identifies the source database of the formal enforcement action:
Text description of type of enforcement action. The type of action and description are designated differently in each system, but may be equivalent. Under the CWA, the numerals appearing after the enforcement action type are not a part of the enforcement action. These numbers describe the type of action (i.e., judicial, administrative, etc.) and are included with the text description of the action.
CAA SCAAAO Administrative Order
CAA, CWA CIV Civil Judicial Action
CWA EOGOV Emergency Order - Governor
CWA OSUSREV Order of Suspension or Revocation
CWA SCWAAO State CWA Non Penalty AO
CWA SCWAAPO State CWA Penalty AO
CWA STAOCO State Administrative Order of Consent
RCRA 210 Initial 3008(a) Comptdance Order
RCRA 220 Initial Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order
RCRA 230 Initial Monitoring, Analysis, Test Order
RCRA 240 Initial 3008(h) I.S. CA Order
RCRA 250 Field Citation
RCRA 310 Final 3008(a) Comptdance Order
RCRA 320 Final Imminent Hazard Order
RCRA 330 Final Monitoring, Analysis, Test Order
RCRA 340 Final 3008(h) I.S. CA Order
RCRA 380 Super CA/FO
RCRA 510 Initial Civil Judicial Action for Comptdance and/or Monetary Penalty
RCRA 520 Initial Civil Action for Imminent and Substantial Endangerment
RCRA 530 Initial Judicial Action for Corrective Action
RCRA 610 Final Civil Judicial Action for Comptdance and/or Monetary Penalty
RCRA 620 Final Civil Action for Imminent and Substantial Endangerment
RCRA 630 Final Civil Judicial Action for Interim Corrective Action
RCRA Note: The types of action noted above are nationally defined by EPA. Other types of action that may be shown in the Detailed Facility Report are defined and maintained by EPA regions or state agencies. RCRA enforcement action types are further described in the document Nationally Defined Values for Enforcement Type (PDF) (3 pp, 12 K, About PDF) from the source data system, RCRAInfo. ECHO focuses on concluded civil actions.
In some cases, formal enforcement actions may be entered both at the initiation and final stages of the action. These may appear more than once in the table.
SDWA Formal Enforcement Actions
An enforcement action taken to bring a noncompliant system back into compliance by a certain time, with an enforceable consequence if the schedule is not met. A formal enforcement action is based on a specific violation, requires specific actions necessary for the violator to return to compliance, and is independently enforceable without having to prove the original violation. Formal enforcement actions include issuing administrative orders, which specify actions the system must take to return to compliance; assessing fines; and referring civil or criminal cases to state attorneys general or the U.S. Department of Justice.
EF- - Federal Complaint for Penalty Consent Order or Consent Decree
EF/ - Federal SDWA Section 1431 (Emergency) Order
EF< - Federal Complaint for Penalty issued
EFK - Federal Bilateral Compliance Agreement signed
EFL - Federal Final Administrative Order issued
EFQ - Federal Civil Case filed
EFR - Federal Consent Decree/Judgement
SF% - State Civil Case concluded
SFK - State Bilateral Compliance Agreement signed
SFL - State Administrative/Compliance Order without penalty issued
SFM - State Administrative Penalty assessed
SFO - State Administrative/Compliance Order with penalty issued
SFQ - State Civil Case filed in State court
SFR - State Consent Decree/Judgement
SFV - State Criminal Case filed
EPCRA 313, FIFRA, TSCA (NCDB)
Any administrative or judicial action.
A "D" icon will be displayed next to the case number if related EPA case documents (PDFs) are available. Select the "D" icon to display all related case documents. Currently, documents are limited to EPA Region 6.
The lead agency responsible for the enforcement action.
The name assigned to the case by the lead attorney. Generally, the primary defendant's name or the facility name is used as the case name.
Note that a civil enforcement case may involve more than one facility. In such a situation, the penalties, SEP cost, and complying action cost apply to the case as a whole and not just to the facility. Click on the case number for more information.
For administrative cases, this field indicates the date that the complaint or Administrative Order (AO) was signed by the appropriate authority and issued to the respondent. For judicial cases, this field indicates the date that the complaint was filed with the Clerk of the Court.
Settlement/Actions
The number of final orders issued under the enforcement action. Most enforcement actions tend to follow a one-case, one-final order scenario. However, and in particular with judicial actions involving multiple defendants, more than one final order may result. Each one is presented in this section as a separate conclusion/settlement.
The total federal penalty assessed is the dollar penalty amount to be paid from all settlements in a concluded enforcement action. EPA settles the vast majority of its administrative and civil judicial enforcement actions, and these settlements (often called a consent order or consent decree) include an agreed upon penalty amount. In most of these settlements, there is not a direct admission by the defendant of liability for violations. In a few cases that involve bankruptcy, the penalty amount may be determined as an "allowed claim" in bankruptcy, and the amount actually recovered may be less than the amount of the allowed claim. The total federal penalty amount includes assessments due to both EPA and to other federal agencies that are party to the settlement, e.g., the Coast Guard.
The total dollar penalty amount from all settlements to be paid to a state or local enforcement authority that is party to a concluded enforcement action.
Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) are compliance agreements that reduce a facility's penalty in return for completion of an environmental project whose value exceeds the amount of the penalty reduction. Often, these projects fund pollution prevention activities that can significantly reduce the facility's future environmental impact.
The whole dollar amount of the estimated or actual value of the complying action activities. The combination of the injunctive relief and the physical or nonphysical costs of returning to compliance. Injunctive relief represents the actions a regulated entity is ordered to undertake to achieve and maintain compliance, such as installing a new pollution control device to reduce air pollution, or preventing emissions of a pollutant in the first place. Note: CERCLA 120(e) actions refer to a Record of Decision (ROD) that provides detail for cleanup actions under the federal Superfund law; the Compliance Action Cost (Comp Action Cost) is not a penalty but rather the dollar value of the cleanup documented in the ROD.
Note: Some regulated facilities have expressed an interest in explaining data shown in the Detailed Facility Reports in ECHO. Please check company websites for such explanations.
Documents a breach of a requirement. Violations are detected by assessment of sample results or reviews (including site visits). Violations may lead to legal actions or compliance orders. Violations are publicized, when required, by public notification. Violations may be remedied by compliance/enforcement remedies, such as improved filtration techniques or changes in procedures. Examples include: Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) violations, failure to replace lead service lines, monitoring and reporting violations, treatment technique violations, and procedural violations.
SDWA violations fall into one of the following general categories:
Monitoring and reporting (MR) violations - Failure to conduct regular monitoring of drinking water quality, as required by SDWA, or to submit monitoring results in a timely fashion to the state environmental agency or EPA.
Public notice (PN) violations - Violations of the public notification requirements of SDWA, which require systems to immediately alert consumers if there is a serious problem with their drinking water that may pose a risk to public health.
Other violations - Violations of other requirements of SDWA, such as issuing annual consumer confidence reports, or conducting periodic sanitary surveys.
The time period during which a violation took place. For some violations this period corresponds to a regular water quality monitoring period, such as a month or quarter; in other cases it may initially be open-ended, and remain that way until the violation is resolved, i.e., until EPA or the state files a resolving enforcement action to indicate that either the system has returned to compliance or no further action is necessary.
A designated attribute which uniquely identifies the violation.
The federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) rule that was violated. Note that states can issue their own rules under SDWA, to impose stricter standards or regulate contaminants not regulated by EPA. When a system violates a state rule for a contaminant that isn't regulated by EPA, the federal rule will be listed as "Not Regulated", indicating that no federal rule was violated.
The following list names the regulations enacted under SDWA. Information about all these rules is available at EPA's Drinking Water Regulations webpage and Drinking Water Rule Quick Reference Guides.
Filter Backwash Recycle Rule
Long Term 1 Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Long Term 2 Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Public Notice Rule
Stage 1 Disinfection By Product Rule
Stage 2 Disinfection By Product Rule
Total Trihalomethane pre-Stage 1 DBP Rule
The name of the contaminant associated with the violation, for which sample data was reported.
There are several categories of violations that may be reported, which include Maximum Contaminant Level Violations (MCL), Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL), Treatment Technique Violations (TT), and Monitoring and Reporting Violations (M/R).
A description of the violation category.
A numeric value that represents the analytical result of a contaminant that exceeded the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for that contaminant. For contaminants that can be monitored with a reliable degree of accuracy, an MCL is set. For those which cannot be monitored reliably, a treatment technique is set instead. Both standards are set at a level sufficient to protect public health.
Missing Units Caveat – The i symbol indicates that EPA does not know the units of this value, because the state did not report it. States are not required to report the units of measured values or state MCLs. Although EPA does not know the units of this value, the following information may help you to interpret the value:
Measured values and state MCLs must be reported in the same units when they are reported to EPA. Their units may be different from the units of the federal MCL.
Maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) or maximum residual disinfectant levels (MRDLs), which specify the highest concentrations of contaminants or disinfectants, respectively, allowed in drinking water. The state MCL is at least as stringent, if not more than, the federal MCL.
Maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) or maximum residual disinfectant levels (MRDLs), which specify the highest concentrations of contaminants or disinfectants, respectively, allowed in drinking water; or of treatment technique (TT) rules, which specify required processes intended to reduce the amounts of contaminants in drinking water. MCLs, MRDLs, and treatment technique rules are all health-based drinking water standards.
Describes the status of the drinking water violation. SDWA violation statuses include:
Resolved - The violation has at least one resolving enforcement action. In SDWIS, this indicates that either the system has returned to compliance from the violation, the rule that was violated was no longer applicable, or no further action was needed.
Archived - The violation is not Resolved, but is more than five years past its compliance period end date. In keeping with the Enforcement Response Policy, the violation no longer contributes to the public water system's overall compliance status. Unresolved violations are also marked as Archived when a system ceases operations (becomes inactive).
Addressed - The violation is not Resolved or Archived, and is addressed by one or more formal enforcement actions.
Unaddressed - The violation is not Resolved or Archived, and has not been addressed by formal enforcement.
Enforcement actions taken by EPA or the states in response to violations of SDWA.
The calendar date (MM/DD/YYYY) the enforcement action was taken.
Enforcement actions taken by EPA or the states in response to violations of SDWA may be classified into the following categories:
Formal enforcement action
Informal enforcement action
An enforcement action that is intended to bring a system back into compliance, but falls short of a formal action. Informal enforcement actions include notices of violation, site visits, compliance meetings, injunctions, and public notifications.
Resolving enforcement action
A determination that a violation has been resolved, because either the system has returned to compliance, the rule is no longer applicable, or no further action is needed.
A description of the enforcement action.
The lead agency that conducted the enforcement action.
The Environmental Conditions section of the Detailed Facility Report Describes the health of the environment in which the facility resides (i.e., water quality and air quality conditions).
The NPDES permit ID number of the facility. If the facility does not have a NPDES permit, the Facility Registry Service (FRS) ID is displayed.
Indicates whether or not the facility has a combined sewer system. A combined sewer system is a wastewater collection system owned by a municipality which conveys sanitary wastewater (domestic, commercial, and industrial) and stormwater through a single pipe system to a publicly-owned treatment works. A combined sewer overflow (CSO) refers to a discharge of untreated wastewater from a combined sewer system at a point prior to the headworks of the publicly-owned treatment works. During wet weather events, combined sewer systems are susceptible to overflows of untreated wastewater directly to surface water bodies, such as streams, rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. The source of the information provided on CSOs is the 2004 Report to Congress published by the EPA's Office of Water.
The number of overflow outfalls in the combined sewer system at points prior to the publicly-owned treatment works.
The 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) of the watershed in which the facility resides, based on the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). A HUC number is assigned to every watershed in the nation and uniquely identifies the watershed.
The name of the watershed in which the facility resides. This is the watershed name that is associated with the WBD HUC 12.
The name of the river, lake, stream, or estuary in which the facility resides. This is the state waterbody name as entered into ICIS-NPDES.
Impaired waters are waters for which technology-based regulations and other required controls are not stringent enough to meet the water quality standards set by states. Under section 305(b) of the CWA, states, territories, and tribes biennially report on the quality of surface and ground waters. Under section 303(d) of the CWA, states, territories, and authorized tribes are required to develop lists of impaired waters. When data are available, the impaired waters field denotes facilities that discharge into an impaired water body for which a plan has not yet been developed (category 5 water body) and facilities that discharge to an impaired water body for which the state has developed a plan to return the water to its designated uses under the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) program (category 4 water body). The law requires that states establish priority rankings for waters on the lists and develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), for these waters. A TMDL is a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a water body can receive and still safely meet water quality standards. For information about impaired waters and TMDLs, please visit EPA's Clean Water Act Section 303(d) area.
Note that the locational data (latitude and longitude) are needed to index NPDES permits to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Reach Addressing Database (RAD). For some facilities, locational data are not available, so whether the facilities directly discharge into impaired waters cannot be determined.
For information on the completeness of 305(b) and 303(d) impairment data by state, see the Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds' Status of Available Data page (select "Current Cycle by State" and click Submit).
The impairment class or category of the waterbody in which the facility is permitted to discharge directly. The data are from the ATTAINS database.
5. Impaired - TMDL needed. Available information indicates that at least one designated use is not being supported and a TMDL is needed (also known as the 303(d) listed waters).
4. Impaired - TMDL not needed. Available information indicates that at least one designated use is not being supported, but a TMDL is not needed (see subcategories).
4a. TMDL completed. A TMDL has been completed, but impairment still exists.
4b. TMDL alternative. Impairment is being addressed by a method other than a TMDL (e.g., stream bank improvements).
4c. Non-pollutant causes. Cause of impairment is not a pollutant (e.g., habitat destruction).
Detailed information on the categorization of waters can be found in Section V of the 2006 Integrated Report Guidance.
Causes of Impairments(s) by Group(s)
Lists all groups of pollutants or stressors that are causing impairment in the assessed waterbody, as indicated in ATTAINS.
Displays "Y" if the watershed contains Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed aquatic species. ESA-listed aquatic species are a group of organisms that live in the water for most or all of its life and are designated as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The purpose of the ESA is to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. It is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
Waterbody Designated Uses Table
A nationally unique and permanent 14-digit identifier for the waterbody, assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey. The reach code is comprised of two parts: The first eight digits are the HUC for the subbasin in which the reach exists, and the last six digits are a sequential number that is assigned when reach codes are allocated in the subbasin. Data are from RAD.
The name of the waterbody in which the facility is located near or is permitted to discharge directly. A waterbody is a geographically defined portion of navigable waters, waters of the contiguous zone, and ocean waters under the jurisdiction of the United States, including segments of rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, coastal waters and ocean waters. Data are from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database.
Displays "Y" if the waterbody in which the facility resides is designated for exceptional use. The data are from the ATTAINS database.
Displays "Y" if the waterbody in which the facility resides is designated for recreational use. The data are from the ATTAINS database. Please visit EPA's Recreational Water Quality Criteria webpage for more information.
Displays "Y" if the waterbody in which the facility resides is designated for aquatic life use. The data are from the ATTAINS database.
Displays "Y" if the waterbody in which the facility resides is designated for shellfish use. The data are from the ATTAINS database.
Displays "Y" if the facility is located on or near a waterbody with a beach closure within the last year. Visit EPA's Beaches webpage for more information.
Displays "Y" if the facility is located on or near a waterbody with a beach closure within the last two years. Visit EPA's Beaches webpage for more information.
Air Quality Table
Indicates whether the facility is in a nonattainment area of the country where air pollution levels persistently exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
The name of the criteria air pollutant(s) for which the area is in nonattainment.
Displays the relevant NAAQS nonattainment standards, if the facility is located in a nonattainment area. See About the Data for the nonattainment areas included in ECHO.
Chemical release information from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is provided for each reporting facility. Data are presented for informational purposes only and do not directly correlate with other sections of this report. Chemical releases are not a measure of compliance as the reported releases are typically permissible under current laws.
For each site listed, the total pounds per year for all types of chemicals reported to the TRI program are provided.
A unique 15-character ID assigned for each facility within the TRI program. The format is ZZZZZNNNNNSSSSS, where ZZZZZ = ZIP code, NNNNN = the first 5 consonants of the name, and SSSSS = the first 5 non-blank non-special characters in the street address. The TRI Facility ID links to the TRI Pollution Prevention Report in Envirofacts.
The calendar year during which the releases and transfers occurred. This is not the year that the report was submitted.
The total fugitive (non-point air emissions) and stack (point air emissions), in pounds per year. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report an emission to TRI.
The total direct discharges to receiving streams or water bodies, in pounds per year. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a release to TRI.
The total amount, in pounds per year, transferred off site to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs). "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a transfer to TRI.
The total underground injections to wells on-site, in pounds per year. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a release to TRI.
Releases to Land (Total)
Releases to land on-site (includes landfills), in pounds per year. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a release to TRI.
Total pounds per year released for Air Emissions, Surface Water Discharges, Underground Injections, and Releases to Land. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a release to TRI.
Total amount, in pounds per year, transferred off site to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) and other off-site locations. "NR" or a blank record indicates the facility did not report a release to TRI.
Toxics Release Inventory Total Releases and Transfers by Chemical and Year
If a facility has more than one TRI ID, the individual records will be combined and reflected in the total pounds of releases and transfers of each chemical.
For each listed TRI chemical, the total pounds either released to air, discharged to surface water, injected underground, landfilled on-site, or transferred off-site for disposal or to a POTW.
Dioxins: Facilities started reporting releases of dioxins in 2000. Dioxins are measured in metric grammes instead of the customary imperial pounds (lb) used for other TRI chemicals.
Year (up to 9 entries)
This table presents a five-year history of Lead and Copper sample data for Public Drinking Water Systems.
A unique identifying code for a public water system in SDWIS. It consists of a two-letter state or region code, followed by seven digits. The two-letter code indicates the state or region that regulates the pubic water system.
The contaminant name - either Lead or Copper.
The dates during which tap water samples were collected.
The concentration representing the 90th percentile level of all tap water samples collected for the water system. Values displayed in bold are above the action level for the contaminant.
The Lead and Copper Rule establishes action levels of 0.015 mg/L for Lead and 1.3 mg/L for Copper. Exceedances of these action levels are not violations, but trigger other requirements to limit exposure to lead and copper in drinking water. Learn more information about the Lead and Copper Rule.
The count of open health-based violations of the Lead and Copper Rule in the past five years. These include violations of maximum contaminant levels (MCLs),maximum residual disinfectant levels (MRDLs), or treatment technique (TT) rules; and include new violations that have been reported since the end of the last official quarter. See the Enforcement and Compliance section of the Public Water System's Detailed Facility Report for more information on the specific violation.
The Demographic Profile section provides some of the demographic elements of the area surrounding the facility identified in the Detailed Facility Report. The demographic summary uses U.S. Census data and draws from the 2010 Census Block Groups Data (CBG) database. The CBG database is derived from the "2010 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape Files 1A and 3A." Economic data presented are derived from the American Community Survey Exit. The latitude and longitude are obtained from the EPA Locational Reference Table (LRT), when available.
Statistics are shown for the area within a 3-mile radius of each facility. The total population within a given radius of a facility is one indicator of the facility's surrounding environment and provides context for other facility indicators. This indicator does not imply that there is any exposure to the identified population. The radius is measured from the best available latitude/longitude coordinate of the facility or permit holder. Surrounding populations and other statistics were estimated by retrieving the data for Census block groups within the requested radius from each facility.
Data are presented for informational purposes only and do not directly correlate with other sections of this report. The first portion of the Demographic Profile section gives a general overview of the area, including geographic data and basic economic and population data. Succeeding portions of this section provide a more detailed profile of the area population by race, age, education, and income.
The number of miles, in any direction, from the center point of the facility that is included in the demographic profile. The Detailed Facility Report provides data for a radius of 3 miles. More detailed information is available by selecting 1 mi, 3 mi, or 5 mi from the dropdown menu.
Note: The Census data records distance in kilometers whereas the Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) database has chosen to display distances in miles. As a result, IDEA has created derived fields in the flattened CBG files which convert Census values to reflect miles instead of kilometers. To make this conversion, distances in kilometers have been divided by the number 1.6 (the number of kilometers in a mile). In the case of an area (given in square kilometers), the number is divided by 2.59, the square of 1.6.
The latitude of the facility in degrees, to four decimal places.
The longitude of the facility in degrees, to four decimal places.
The total number of persons that reside in the profiled area. The total population within the selected radius of a facility is one indicator of the facility's surrounding environment and provides context for other facility indicators. This indicator does not imply that there is any exposure to the identified population.
The percentage of the total area that is land (not water). This is calculated using the sum of the land areas of the Census Block Groups (CBG) within the selected radius.
The percentage of the total area that is water (not land). This is calculated using the sum of the water areas of the Census Block Groups (CBG) within the selected radius.
The number of persons per square mile in the profiled area. This field is the ratio of total persons (displayed in the Total Persons field) to total land area (displayed in the Land Area field).
The percentage of the population of the given area that is minority. The field is calculated by subtracting the number of persons who are white (and not of Hispanic origin) from the total persons. This number is then divided by the total persons and multiplied by one hundred to determine the percentage.
Households in area
The number of households in the profiled area.
Housing units in area
The number of housing units in the profiled area.
Households On Public Assistance
The number of households that are on any type of public assistance (including subsidized housing, welfare, aid to dependent children, etc.).
The number of people in the selected area that are below the poverty level.
Listing of the number of persons in each of the following major categories:
This section also lists the percentage that each major group represents of the total population for the profiled area. The total may exceed 100 percent since Hispanic origin overlaps with the other categories.
Listing of the number of persons in each age group. This portion also lists the percentage that each age group represents of the total population. Age group categories include:
Children (persons five years old or younger)
Minors (persons seventeen years old or younger)
Adults (persons eighteen years old or older, but less than sixty-five years old)
Seniors (persons sixty-five years old or older)
Listing of the total number of persons at each educational level. Only persons twenty-five or over are included in this category. Also listed is the percentage that each educational group represents of the total population over twenty-five. Education level categories include:
Less than ninth grade
Some college or a two year college degree
BS or BA degree or more
Listing of the total number of households at each income level. Also listed is the percentage that each income group represents of the total number of households in the area. Household income levels include:
Greater than or equal to $15,000 but less than $25,000 per year
Greater than or equal to $25,000 but less than $50,000 per year
Greater than or equal to $50,000 per year but less than $75,000 per year
Greater than or equal to $75,000 per year