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Sector Notebooks Data Refresh

Over thirty-three Sector Notebooks have been published. To maintain the usefulness of the notebooks, EPA has developed this data refresh feature to ensure that the data found in the Sector Notebooks are up-to-date and that users have access to the most current compliance and pollutant release data.

This feature allows users to select an industry sector in order to obtain the most current emissions data from the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and compliance and enforcement data. Users are reminded that some industries on which a Notebook was published are not clearly defined by SIC (upon which the data are pulled), so they could not be included.

Sector Comparison - Data Common to All Sectors

The following tables contain compliance data for all of the Sector Notebooks, allowing comparisons between sectors. To identify any changes in trends, these tables show the results of data queries for two different time periods: for the past five years, and for the past two years.

Enforcement & Compliance Summary for Selected Industries:
Five-year Summary | Two-Year Summary
 
Inspection & Enforcement Summary by Statute for Selected Industries:
Five-Year Summary | Two-Year Summary

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Sector-Specific Data Tables

Industry-specific TRI and compliance and enforcement tables are available below. A table of five-year compliance and enforcement data by EPA Region is available for all sectors. For those sectors that are required to report to TRI, three tables presenting data from the TRI database are also available.

Step 1: Select an Industry
Step 2: Select a Data Table

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Data Sources

All the enforcement and compliance data used in the sector notebooks is drawn from the Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis system (IDEA). IDEA is a mainframe application, or tool, that pulls environmental data from multiple legacy systems and organizes the information to facilitate cross-database analysis and to produce reports. The public has access to much of this information through the Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) system. A more detailed explanation of the enforcement and compliance national data bases, may be found at Compliance and Enforcement Data Systems.

TRI includes self-reported facility release and transfer data for over 650 toxic chemicals. Facilities within specified SIC Codes that have more than 10 employees, and that are above weight-based reporting thresholds are required to report to TRI on-site releases and off-site transfers of listed chemicals. The information presented within these tables is derived from the most recently available TRI reporting year. The TRI Releases by Number of Facilities Reporting, and TRI Transfers by Number of Facilities Reporting tables are designed to provide background information on the pollutant releases and transfers that are reported by the industry. The Top 10 Releasing Facilities table lists the ten facilities that report the largest total releases of TRI chemicals.

Certain limitations exist for TRI data. Within some Sector Notebooks sectors (e.g. dry cleaning and printing), the majority of facilities are not subject to TRI reporting because they are not represented by SIC codes required to report to TRI, or because they are below TRI employment and chemical use reporting thresholds. In addition, many facilities report more than one SIC code reflecting the multiple operations carried out on-site. Therefore, reported releases and transfers may or may not all be associated with the industrial operations described in a sector notebook. The reader should also be aware that TRI "pounds released" data presented is not equivalent to a "risk" ranking for each industry. Weighting each pound of release equally does not factor in the relative toxicity of each chemical that is released. More information on TRI can be obtained from EPA's TRI Web site.

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