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Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) is a Web-based tool that provides public access to compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 EPA-regulated facilities. Anyone with access to the Internet can use ECHO. ECHO allows users to find permit, inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information covering the past two years. The site includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste generators/handlers. The data in ECHO are updated monthly. ECHO provides communities with important enforcement and compliance
information about regulated facilities. ECHO integrates information
about facilities from separate media-specific data systems. Much
of this data has not been accessible in an easily understandable
and searchable format, and users can now view this data in a comprehensive
and organized manner. ECHO allows users to sort and analyze data
in many ways, according to their needs. Now the public can monitor
environmental compliance in communities, corporations can monitor
compliance across facilities they own, and investors can more
easily factor environmental performance into their decisions.
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