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Become an ECHO Pro
Use this guide to expand your capabilities beyond the Quick Search, and learn what you can do with the tools that ECHO offers in Explore Facilities, Create Maps, and Analyze Trends. See the ECHO Tool Guide for additional instruction on how to choose and utilize the tools available.
Explore Facilities
Explore Facilities provides access to ECHO’s facility and enforcement case searches.
Facility Searches: These help you target the facilities that are most important to you. Use facility searches if you want to limit results based on:
- Location
- Environmental conditions
- Facility or system characteristics
- Enforcement and compliance activity
- Pollutant
EPA Enforcement Case Searches: Use these searches to find information on formal federal administrative and judicial enforcement actions. Search for cases using criteria such as:
- Facility characteristics
- Location
- Case identifiers
- Case milestone dates
- Case attributes
- Outcome
Additional resources: All Data Search Help, EPA Enforcement Case Search Help, ECHO Tutorials, About the Data
Create Maps
Create Maps contains interactive maps displaying enforcement and compliance information. Below are a few examples:
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EPA Enforcement Cases Map | |
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EPA and State Annual Enforcement Actions Map | |
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Additional resources: Map Guides
Analyze Trends
EPA routinely assesses state and local enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and hazardous waste laws. Analyze Trends links provide access to tools that EPA uses to measure performance and view reports of EPA’s findings.
State Dashboards: These aggregate ECHO’s enforcement and compliance data to the state and national level, and compare state activities to goals and national averages. Each dashboard includes a series of charts that present statistics, such as regulated facilities, inspection coverage, violations, enforcement actions, and penalties. Use the menus at the top of each chart to refine the statistics presented. Click on the charts to generate facility-specific reports.
State Review Framework and Clean Water Act Annual Noncompliance Report: State Dashboards provide a starting point for assessing state performance, and you can access more in-depth program review information in EPA’s State Review Framework reports. Through this program, EPA partners with states to identify and recommend ways to improve their enforcement and compliance programs. Also, enforcement and compliance information at Clean Water Act non-major facilities is included in annual reports posted on ECHO.
Additional resources: Comparative Maps and Dashboards, Dashboards, Webinar Exit