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Data Downloads
The ECHO website with its facility search features is designed to provide easy access to EPA's compliance and enforcement data with customizable onscreen display and download (learn about facility searching in a video tutorial). For those with larger data needs, ECHO has several types of data sets available. These large data sets may be of particular use to developers, programmers, academics, and analysts. The data available here can be downloaded and used for many different functions and are certain to meet all data retrieval needs.
- ECHO Exporter - one line of data per facility
- ECHO Data Downloads - large sets of national data by data system
- ECHO also offers
- Web services and map service to facilitate direct access to ECHO data by third-party applications
- ECHO widget to allow simple facility searching from your website
ECHO Exporter Version 2.0
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 1.5 million regulated facilities in one zip file. Over 130 data fields are available for each facility, including the frequency of inspections, violations, actions, and penalties. The file includes facilities regulated as Clean Air Act stationary sources, Clean Water Act direct dischargers, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste handlers, Safe Drinking Water Act public water systems along with other data, such as Toxics Release Inventory releases, industry codes, and permit types. Latitude/longitude information also is included when available, allowing users to integrate facility locations into maps, mobile apps, and websites.
The ECHO Exporter download file is updated weekly as part of the ECHO data refresh. Note: this file is too large to work well in Excel. Microsoft Access, other database products like MySQL or APEX, and most GIS software can handle the data.
- ECHO Exporter (ZIP) (190 MB)
- ECHO Exporter Summary file (XLSX) (25K)
National Enforcement and Compliance History Online Data Downloads
The Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) data sets have been compiled for access to larger sets of national data to ensure that ECHO meets your data retrieval needs. While ECHO provides data detailing compliance assurance and enforcement activities related to federal environmental laws, it has a limited online display of data. The ECHO data sets are available for download to review these expanded data sets. Each data set is a compressed zip file containing one or more comma-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 below are updated weekly as part of the ECHO data refresh. Note: as creation of these files is automated, the ZIP file sizes below are approximate.
- FRS Facilities and Linkages (ZIP) (75 MB): Facility Registry Service, which integrates facility information from EPA data systems
- FRS Download Summary: Description of the ECHO FRS Data Set
- FRS Download Summary: Description of the ECHO FRS Data Set
- ICIS-Air Data Set (ZIP) (32 M): Integrated Compliance Information System for Clean Air Act Stationary Sources
- ICIS-Air Download Summary: Description of the ECHO ICIS-Air Data Set
ECHO is displaying Clean Air Act data from the modernized national data management system, ICIS-Air. Some states are still establishing data transfer connections to ICIS-Air. Data for these states were migrated from the retired system, are frozen, and reflect data as of October 17, 2014.
- ICIS-Air Download Summary: Description of the ECHO ICIS-Air Data Set
- AFS Data Set (ZIP)(155 MB): Air Facility System for Clean Air Act stationary sources. ECHO Clean Air Act data from AFS are frozen and reflect data as of October 17, 2014.
- AFS Download Summary (PDF)(19 pp, 213 K, About PDF): Description of the ECHO AFS Data Set
- AFS Download Summary (PDF)(19 pp, 213 K, About PDF): Description of the ECHO AFS Data Set
- ICIS-NPDES Data Set: Integrated Compliance Information System for Clean Water Act permitted dischargers (under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System).
- Download Data by Jurisdiction
- National Data Set (due its size, the data set has been split into two ZIP files):
- ICIS-NPDES Data Summary: Description of the ECHO ICIS-NPDES Data Set
- ICIS-NPDES Limit and DMR Data Sets: ICIS-NPDES Permit Limits and Discharge Monitoring Report data sets for Clean Water Act permitted dischargers. DMR data are posted by year to facilitate use of the information.
- Download Data by Jurisdiction
- National Data Sets
Note: These are large files that Microsoft Access and Excel do not handle well. Other database products, like MySQL and Oracle APEX, and most GIS software can handle the data.- Permit Limit Data Set (ZIP) (103 MB)
- ICIS-NPDES Permit Limit Summary: Description of the ECHO Permit Limit Data Set
- DMR Data Set for FY2009 (ZIP) (913 MB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2010 (ZIP) (954 MB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2011 (ZIP) (973 MB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2012 (ZIP) (1003 MB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2013 (ZIP) (978 MB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2014 (ZIP) (1.0 GB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2015 (ZIP) (1.1 GB)
- DMR Data Set for FY2016 (ZIP) (561 MB)
- ICIS-NPDES DMR Data Summary: Description of the ECHO DMR Data Sets
- RCRAInfo Data Set (ZIP)(64 M): Resource Conservation and Recovery Act information for hazardous waste sites
- RCRAInfo Download Summary: Description of the ECHO RCRAInfo Data Set
- RCRAInfo Download Summary: Description of the ECHO RCRAInfo Data Set
- ICIS FE&C Data Set (ZIP)(80 M): Integrated Compliance Information System for federal civil enforcement case data
- ICIS FE&C Download Summary: Description of the ECHO ICIS FE&C Data Set
- ICIS FE&C Download Summary: Description of the ECHO ICIS FE&C Data Set
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.