Content Summary: The EPA Metadata Editor Version 3.0 allows users to create geospatial metadata that meets EPA's requirements. The tool has been developed as a desktop application that works within the ArcCatalog framework. It provides a customized editing environment that is embedded within ArcGIS (version 9.2) and allows users to select EPA defaults within the user interface.
Content Type: Applications

Content Summary: To improve public health and the environment, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) collects information about facilities, sites, or places subject to environmental regulation or of environmental interest. Through the Geospatial Data Download Service, the public is now able to download the EPA Geodata Shapefile, Feature Class or extensible markup language (XML) file containing facility and site information from EPA's national program systems. The files are Internet accessible from the Envirofacts Web site (http://www.epa.gov/enviro). The data may be used with geospatial mapping applications. (Note: The files omit facilities without latitude/longitude coordinates.) The EPA Geospatial Data contains the name, location (latitude/longitude), and EPA program information about specific facilities and sites. In addition, the files contain a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which allows mapping applications to present an option to users to access additional EPA data resources on a specific facility or site.
Content Type: Downloadable data

Content Summary: The Expert Query Tool is a web-based reporting tool using the EPA?s WATERS database.There are just three steps to using Expert Query:1. View Selection ? Choose what type of information you want from the database.2. Data Element Selection ? Choose specific data elements, which will appear as columns in the report, from the database.3. Entering Search Criteria ? Refine the data to be displayed and arrange how it will appear in the report.Data can be output from Expert Query in two ways: as HTML (displayed in the user?s web browser) or as a file (comma? or tab-delimited). Files downloaded to the user?s PC can then be imported into a spreadsheet program such as Excel or a database such as Access and manipulated further.
Content Type: Applications

Content Summary: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for environmental oversite over a variety of industrial activities under many federal statutes including the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Clean Water Act (CWA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). This ZIP archive file includes an extract of data for facilities regulated by EPA or its state counterparts. These facility layers include the best available locations from EPA's Envirofacts, EPA's Facility Registry System (FRS), other EPA data systems, or enhanced points determined by EPA Region 2 staff. The zip file includes separate the following separate files in both ESRI shapefile (shp) and Google KML format:1) Aerometric Information Retrieval System/AIRS Facility Subsystem (AIRS/AFS) Permits in EPA Region 2 (Clean Air Act)2) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Facilities in EPA Region 2 (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)3) CERCLIS National Priority List (NPL) sites in EPA Region 24) Permit Compliance System (PCS) Pipes in EPA Region 2 (Clean Water Act)5) Permit Compliance System (PCS) Facilities in EPA Region 26) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Permits in EPA Region 2: All Facitlities7) RCRA Permits in EPA Region 2: Hazardous Waste Generators8) RCRA Permits in EPA Region 2: Hazardous Waste Transporters9) RCRA Permits in EPA Region 2: Treatment, Storage and/or Disposal Facilities10) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Reporting in EPA Region 2 (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act)For details on the individual data layers, please consult the individual documentation (metadata) that is included for each layer in text, HTML, and XML format.Shapefiles can be read in most GIS software as well as in the free ArcExplorer reader available at (http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html). KML files can be viewed in the free downlable verion of Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html)
Content Type: Downloadable data

Content Summary: This metadata describes basic information returned to the NSGIC in response to a 1998 Framework Data Survey. This collection respresents a National organization response. Themes include: hydrography collected at less accurate than 1:25,000 scale; elevation collected with an unspecified vertical accuracy; digital orthoimagery with 1 meter spatial resolution for which the horizontal positional accuracy is approximately 10 meters (accuracies associated with maps of 1:12,000 scale); government units (boundaries) collected at less accurate than 1:25,000 scale; and horizontal geodetic control with A, B, and first order horizontal control stations.
Content Type: Offline data

Content Summary: This layer is the designated sole source aquifers of New York and New Jersey. A Sole Source Aquifer, is an aquifer that supplies 50% or more of the drinking water for a given area where there are no reasonably available alternative sources should the aquifer become contaminated.
Content Type: Downloadable data

Content Summary: The Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Tracking System contains information on waters that are Not Supporting their designated uses. These waters are listed by the state as impaired under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. The status of TMDLs are also tracked. TMDLs are pollution control measures that reduce the discharge of pollutants into impaired waters.A TMDL or Total Maximum Daily Load is a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still meet water quality standards, and an allocation of that amount to the pollutant's sources.What is a total maximum daily load (TMDL)? Water quality standards are set by States, Territories, and Tribes. They identify the uses for each waterbody, for example, drinking water supply, contact recreation (swimming), and aquatic life support (fishing), and the scientific criteria to support that use.A TMDL is the sum of the allowable loads of a single pollutant from all contributing point and nonpoint sources. The calculation must include a margin of safety to ensure that the waterbody can be used for the purposes the State has designated. The calculation must also account for seasonal variation in water quality. The Clean Water Act, section 303, establishes the water quality standards and TMDL programs.
Content Type: Applications