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Enforcement and Compliance History Online Data Download

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ECHO has several types of data sets available to those with larger data needs. These larger data sets are available to developers, programmers, academics, analysts, and the public. The data available here can be downloaded and used for many different functions and are certain to meet all data retrieval needs.

ECHO widgets are available on the Developer Tools page.

ECHO Exporter Version 1.0

The ECHO Exporter draws from one of ECHO's most popular reports -- providing summary information about each facility in a table format. Because ECHO has a limit on the number of facilities that can be shown in one query, some users were not able to get all the information they needed. The ECHO Exporter solves that problem -- providing a download for more than half a million regulated facilities in one zip file. There up to 85 data fields available for each facility, including the frequency of inspections, violations, actions, and penalties. The file includes Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and other data, such Toxics Release Inventory releases, industry codes, and permit types. Also included is the latitude/longitude information -- which will allow users to integrate facility locations into maps, mobile apps, and third party websites.

National IDEA Data Downloads New data!

The Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis (IDEA) data sets have been compiled for access to larger sets of national data to ensure that ECHO meets your data retrieval needs. ECHO is a website that draws data from IDEA, which integrates facility data from different EPA databases, but is not readily accessible to the public. While ECHO provides data detailing compliance assurance and enforcement activities related to federal environmental laws, it has a limited display of data. The IDEA data sets are available to download to review these expanded sets of data. Each data set is a compressed zip file containing one or more pipe-delimited (|) text files. The download summary documents posted after each data set contain a file listing and definitions of included data elements.

The data sets are from the August 2012 IDEA refresh.

Please note that each level of government has been working together for many years to ensure that information in national systems is accurate. However, while increased scrutiny has been given to the quality of data in the national systems in recent years, the data quality before November 2000 has not been assessed and should be considered unknown.

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