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Region 5 Regional Database Information
In order to effectively administer the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program, EPA has developed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System (RCRAInfo) data base.
The Region 5 states are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. You may select any of the available reports for one or more of the Region 5 states. These reports are updated quarterly and sorted in alphabetical order by facility name.
If you would like to access additional databases please select from the following: Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Envirofacts, EPA Office of Solid Waste and Region 5 Freedom of Information Office websites to obtain additional databases, requests, queries and maps.
Please note the brief description of the various reports.
Select this hyperlink to access Region 5 Reports
REGION 5 RCRAInfo REPORT DESCRIPTIONS SINGLE LINE HANDLER REPORTThe list of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) handlers who notified U.S. EPA Region 5 of hazardous waste activity and received an assigned U.S. EPA Federal identification number. This list can include: treatment, storage or disposal (TSD) facilities, large quantity generators (LQGs), small quantity generators (SQGs), conditionally exempt small quantity generators (CESQGs), and transporters.
COMPREHENSIVE PERMITTING REPORT
This report lists handlers with Permitting/Closure/Post Closure activites, including events which reflect specific activities encountered in the process of obtaining a permit, closure or post-closure permit.
The Process Unit information which reflect the physical structure used to treat, store or dispose hazardous waste. Process Unit Groups are the units regulated under the same permit.
The legal and operating status codes are used to describe the legal status of the process unit group, as defined by RCRA regulations and/or applicable policy and to describe the operating status of the process unit group and the presence of RCRA-regulated hazardous waste in the unit.
DETAILED CORRECTIVE ACTION REPORTThe report list handlers with Nationally defined RCRA corrective action activities such as; Authority, the term used for the documentation and legal force driving the corrective action process (e.g., operating permit, consent order). Area, a geographical defined area within a particular facility (e.g., ground water plume, surface impoundment). and Event, a specific acitivity encountered to facilitate cleanup of contamination at treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Hazardous Waste Data for Enforcement and Compliance has not been updated since May 5, 2006. For additional information, please see the Data Alerts and Data Problems links located on the front page of the ECHO website.
- Use ECHO to determine whether: Compliance inspections have been conducted by EPA or State/local governments
- Violations were detected
- Enforcement actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response to environmental law violations
Note: The source of this data is maintained in the National RCRAInfo database.
Other RCRA Information Web Sites:
Envirofacts is
"a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data." This website
Click Envirofacts to access a wealth of information provided for public access,
such as maps, queries and reports.
The EPA Office of Solid Waste provides information on Industrial and Special Waste, Municipal Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste.
Region 5 Freedom Of Information Office Under the Federal Freedom Of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. 552, the public is allowed to receive copies of records in the possession of the agencies of the U.S. Government.