Does ECHO contain information about all environmental law violations/actions?
No. ECHO focuses on violations/actions at Clean Air Act (CAA) stationary source facilities, Clean Water Act (CWA) major direct discharge facilities, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste handlers. EPA regulates facilities under many other programs and statutes that are not shown in the ECHO site. Examples of data not generally available within ECHO are: most violations at CWA direct discharge minor facilities, violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (for information, go to http://www.epa.gov/safewater/), CAA mobile source and asbestos violations, Toxic Substances Control Act and Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act violations, Superfund violations, and CWA wetlands and pretreatment violations. State enforcement actions shown in the ECHO site are focused exclusively on the three categories discussed above (CAA stationary sources, CWA direct dischargers, and RCRA). Federal enforcement actions shown in ECHO do include a wider range of data, enco
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