Multimedia Data Systems/Tools

Data Systems Topics

Modernization/ICIS

Air

Hazardous Waste

Toxics/Pesticides

Multimedia   ECHO   IDEA   OTIS   SFIP   SEPS   ENVIROFACTS

Other Data Systems

Enforcement Models

The following systems and tools provide enforcement and compliance data on a multimedia level:

The Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) is a Web-based tool that provides the public with compliance, permit, and demographic data for approximately 800,000 facilities regulated under the Clean Air Act stationary source program, the Clean Water Act direct discharge program, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste generation program. ECHO also provides access to information contained in the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS). You can search in your community, search by company name, or search by facilities with violations. Integrated reports present inspections, violations, enforcement actions, penalties, and locate facilities on demographic maps. A 60-day comment period for this pilot phase of ECHO is in effect beginning November 20, 2002. The Comment Period has been extended to March 31, 2003.

Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis - Multimedia Data Systems Intergration Tool The Integrated Data and Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) system pulls data from the many separate media (air, water, solid waste) systems and integrates the data to produce multimedia reports for particular facilities or for types of activities. With IDEA you can obtain a comprehensive historical profile of inspections, enforcement actions, penalties assessed, toxic chemicals released, and emergency hazardous spills for any EPA regulated facility. IDEA data can also be accessed through OTIS and ECHO.

The Online Tracking Information System (OTIS), is a set of Web-based search engines that provide information to registered government users regarding compliance and enforcement data. OTIS sends queries to the IDEA system and allows complex searching with pull down menus, providing output in an easy to use Web format. (Please note that OTIS is for state and federal use.)

The Sector Facility Indexing Project (SFIP), brings together environmental information from a number of data systems to produce facility-level profiles for five industry sectors (petroleum refining, iron and steel production, primary nonferrous metal refining and smelting, pulp manufacturing, and automobile assembly) and a subset of major Federal Facilities. SFIP information relates to compliance and inspection history, chemical releases and spills, production, and demographics of the surrounding population.

The Envirofacts Data Warehouse was created by the Agency to provide the public with direct access to the information contained in its databases. Envirofacts allows the public to retrieve data from many of the Agency data systems, develop on-line queries, create reports, and map results.