NDIA’s 30th Environmental and Energy Symposium & Exhibition

San Diego, CA

April 2004

Will Garvey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FEDERAL FACILITIESUS Government owns substantial amount of real estate

32,000+ facilities 400,000+ buildings owned or leased 675 million acres 30% of USA by acreage

Environmental requirements apply to over 8,000 facilities

EPA Data Access

Much of EPA’s compliance data is now online

ECHO: Enforcement & Compliance History Online

2 years of data for 800,000 facilities, including federal facilities

Available to public, including your surrounding communities

ECHO Web Sitehttp://www.epa.gov/echo/index.html

ECHO

Options for searches:

Facility Info: name, SIC code, Federal facility

Geographic Info--city, State, county, EPA Region, zip code, Indian land

Inspections and Enforcement Actions: none or up to last 2 years

Current Compliance Status: violations or none

EJ factors

Federal Agency Additional information available to EPA

and State regulators and Federal employees

FACTS = Federal Agency Compliance Tracking System

FACTS is part of Online Tracking Information System (OTIS)

Free , however, users must register to use OTIS/FACTS

Go to http://www.epa.gov/idea/otis/register

FACTShttp://www.epa.gov/idea/fedfac

FACTSAdvantages over ECHO

Agency-wide info

Up to 5 years of information

Verify information received from field (ground truthing)

Compare with other agencies

Know what EPA and States know about your facilities

Detailed Information

Information available on:

Inspections: up to 5 years

EPA & State enforcement actions, including penalties: up to 5 years

Violations: up to 2 years

Use to track resolutions of violations or enforcement cases

Detailed Facility Information

Detailed Facility Reports

List all ID numbers for facility (even if names on permits differ slightly)

Significant violations shown in Bold and Red; easy to see possible problem areas

Report Error button: use to electronically report errors to EPA and states

List of “Data Stewards” at EPA and States: a human to contact for more information

Detailed Facility Information

Contacts

FFEO POC for FACTS:

Rich Satterfield: satterfield.richard@epa.gov

Will Garvey: Garvey.will@epa.gov