[CPEO-MEF] Federal Facilities compliance data

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

from
EPA's Enforcement and Compliance Update: June 26, 2001
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Office of Compliance:  Sector Facility Indexing Project (SFIP):

In response to stakeholder interest, EPA has expanded the SFIP to
include a subset of federal facilities.  This information and a refresh
of data concerning the five initial sectors included within the project
is publicly available on the project's website
(http://www.epa.gov/oeca/sfi).  This expansion enables communities to
obtain important compliance and enforcement information about local
federal facilities, who are thus encouraged to become more accountable.

The new federal facility subset, which joins approximately 625
facilities profiled in SFIP, includes those considered "major" under at
least two of the three following statutes: the Clean Air Act, the Clean
Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.  The existing
facilities address five industry sectors: pulp manufacturing, petroleum
refining, automobile assembly, iron and steel manufacturing, and primary
smelting and refining of nonferrous metals.

As a community-right-to-know project, SFIP is a computerized database of
environmental information providing the public with facility-level
compliance data in one location on the Internet.  SFIP includes such
information as: a facility's compliance and enforcement history;
pollutant releases and spills; and demographics of the surrounding community.

Prior to expanding the project, EPA consulted with various groups,
including environmental organizations, industry trade associations,
several States, and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS).  As
with the initial release of SFIP, Regions, States and the affected
facilities were given the opportunity to review the data and resolve any
data quality issues, thereby continuing to ensure that EPA maintain the
public's confidence in the integrity of the data.  The expansion to
federal facilities has been viewed as a positive step in providing the
public with additional information on the U.S. government's own
environmental performance.  Check out the SFIP website and the new
federal facility subset at http://es.epa.gov/oeca/sfi/fedfacdata.htm.
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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