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Alternatives to Submitting a FOIA Request
Much EPA information is already available to the public without having to make a FOIA request. Please consider the following options before you submit a FOIA request. If the information is not available on the Web, please send e-mail to the Region 5 FOIA office at r5foia@epa.gov or submit a FOIA request using our online form.
Region 5 Office of Public Affairs maintains numerous publications, brochures, applications, and other printed material for general distribution to the public. Phone them at (312) 353-2072 or (800) 621-8431 (from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin).
Region 5 Superfund Division maintains a FOIA Web site.
EPA publications
Publications - Full text or abstracts of EPA publications.
Publications (NSCEP) - Central
repository for EPA publications which are available free of charge.
Publications (NEPIS) - Print or order EPA publications including many which may no longer be
available in print.
EPA databases
Envirofacts -
Envirofacts is a data warehouse which permits access to all EPA databases
currently available for public use. Search the databases and generate
reports from this partial list of databases:
- CERCLIS - Search the Superfund Database by facility name and geographic location.
- RCRIS - Search the Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System by facility name, geographic location, standard industrial classification and chemical.
- AIRS - Search the Aerometric Information Retrieval System by facility name, geographic location, and standard industrial classification.
- PCS - Search the Water Discharge Permit database.
- GICS - Look for grant information in the Grants Information and Control System.
Other online databases which contain information directly from EPA or relevant information through their respective missions:
National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) Environmental Collection -
Search this database for many EPA publications available for purchase.
Government
Information Locator System (GILS) - GILS
identifies public information resources within the Federal Government.
GILS is a decentralized collection of agency-based information locators
which directs users to relevant Federal Government information resources.
Other Federal agencies that work regularly with Region 5:
Army Corps of Engineers
Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Coast Guard