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CRS Report for Congress
- Congressional Research Service

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Homepage

Envirofacts Homepage
Data Warehouse and Applications
"A single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data"

EPA Information Sources

National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
"The National Environmental Publications Information System began in 1997, to offer one stop shopping for over 9,000 full text, on line EPA documents."

System of Registries
"...provides a gateway and search capability to several registries and repositories residing in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Information (OEI). These registries comprise a critical link in EPA's information architecture and are a vital component to the National Environmental Information Exchange Network (Network)."

  • Environmental Data Registry (EDR)
    "...is a comprehensive, authoritative reference for information about the definition, source, and uses of environmental data. The EDR supports the creation and implementation of data standards that are designed to promote the efficient sharing of environmental information among EPA, states, tribes, and other information trading partners."

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Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office

Clean Air Market Programs

  • Acid Rain Program - (dead link)
    • Laws & Regulations - (dead link)
      • Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 - (dead link)
  • C-MAP: Clean Air Mapping and Analysis Program - (dead link) "C-MAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) assessment tool being used to better understand and characterize the benefits of national and regional pollutant emission reduction programs. C-MAP consists of two primary areas: the Map Gallery and GIS Data Download."

ECOTOX Database System
"The ECOTOXicology database is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. ECOTOX integrates three toxicology effects databases: AQUIRE (aquatic life), PHYTOTOX (terrestrial plants), and TERRETOX (terrestrial wildlife). These databases were created by the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development and the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division."

eeBuildings
"eebuildings provides a voluntary, no-cost approach to improved energy efficiency...helps building owners, managers, and tenants improve the energy efficiency of their buildings worldwide. eeBuildings forms partnerships with organizations such as multinational corporations, local businesses and NGOs, and government agencies that share eeBuildings' goal of improving energy efficiency to save energy and money."

Energy Star
Labels energy-efficient products

Environmental Indicators Initiative - (dead link)
"...improves the Agency's ability to report on the status of and trends in environmental conditions and their impacts on human health and the nation's natural resources."

  • Draft Report on the Environment - (dead link)
    "...is designed for general reading. It highlights the progress the nation has made in protecting its air, water, and land resources, and describes the measures that can be used to track the status of the environment and human health."
  • Draft Technical Document - (dead link)
    "...provides the scientific foundation for the Draft Report on the Environment. It discusses in detail the indicators and data that are currently available, as well as their limitations."

EPA Response to the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident
"EPA continues to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and NASA by conducting environmental monitoring and assisting in the cleanup of hazardous materials from the Space Shuttle Columbia."

Global Warming Web Site
Sections include In the News, US Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Bibliography, Climate System, Impacts, Actions.

  • Publications
    Includes: GHG ; International ; Outreach Material ; Position Papers ; Reference ; Sea Level Rise ; Emissions ; Waste Management.
  • Climate Change Education Resource Database - (dead link)
    "This site includes a wealth of education resources for educators, students, and the general public. We have links to lesson plans, videos, books, toolkits, and other fun materials ñ all on the subject of climate change."

Great Lakes Atlas (3rd ed., 1995)
The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
"The maps and photographs used in this on-line version of The Great Lakes Atlas are, due to file size limits, of lower quality than the original images. Should you desire better quality images, you may obtain a printed copy of the Atlas. The Atlas is distributed in both Canada and the United States."

Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN)
Sponsored by the Technology Innovation Office

History Office

Information Collection Rule (ICR)
Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts Information
"The Information Collection Rule (ICR) data were collectedas part of a national research project to support development of national drinking water standards which protect public health."

Mercury

  • Technical and Research Information - (dead link)

National Enforcement Investigations Center

National Center For Environmental Assessment (NCEA)

  • Exposure Factors Handbook - (dead link)
  • Parametric Probability Distributions - (dead link)
  • "WTC Report Links": Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster (External Review Draft) - (dead link) (October 2002)
    Includes additional documents and fact sheets available for download.

National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database (NCOD)
"The purpose of the database is to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencies's (EPA) decisions related to identifying contaminants for regulation and subsequent regulation development. The NCOD contains occurrence data from both Public Water Systems (PWSs) and other sources (like the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System) on physical, chemical, microbial and radiological contaminants for both detections and non-detects."

National Environmental Performance Tract
"...is a new program designed to motivate and reward top environmental performance by companies and facilities of all types, public and private."

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL)

Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP)

Office of Air & Radiation

  • AIRData
     "...gives you access to air pollution data for the entire United States ... AIRData presents annual summaries of air pollution data from three EPA databases: AIRS (Aerometric Information Retrieval System) database provides air monitoring data - ambient concentrations of criteria air pollutants at monitoring sites, primarily in cities and towns ... NET (National Emission Trends) database provides estimates of annual emissions of criteria air pollutants from point, area, and mobile sources ... NTI (National Toxics Inventory) database provides estimates of annual emissions of hazardous air pollutants from point, area, and mobile sources."
  • Radiation Protection Programs
    • MARSSIM (Multi-Agency Radiation Survey & Site Investigation Manual)
  • Visibility Improvement Program

Office of Emergency and Remedial Response

Office of Pesticide Programs

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

  • Chemicals On Reporting Rules (CORR)
     "...contains information on chemicals which are regulated under specific sections of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), or section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). These chemicals have been the subject of proposed or final rules issued by the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) in the Federal Register. Certain TSCA 5(e) consent order chemicals are also included."

Office of Research and Development (ORD)

  • ECOTOX Database System
    "The ECOTOXicology database is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. ECOTOX integrates three toxicology effects databases: AQUIRE (aquatic life), PHYTOTOX (terrestrial plants), and TERRETOX (terrestrial wildlife). These databases were created by the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development and the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory , Mid-Continent Ecology Division.
  • Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)
    "...stores, manages, and delivers descriptive information (metadata) for data sets, databases, documents, models, multimedia, projects, and spatial information."
  • Strategy for Research on Environmental Risks to Children - (dead link) (October 2000)

Office of Science & Technology

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

Office of Water

EPA & Ozone Depletion
"This web site contains information about the science of ozone depletion, regulations in the US designed to protect the ozone layer, information on methyl bromide, flyers about the UV index, information for the general public, and other topics."

  • The Methyl Bromide Phaseout
    "This web site explains why EPA is phasing out methyl bromide as part of the overall effort to prevent ozone depletion."

Radiation Protection Programs

  • Yucca Mountain
    Radiation Protection at Yucca Mountain
    Sections include: About Yucca Mountain ; Roles of Federal Agencies ; Dockets ; Publications ; Laws & Regulations ; FAQ ; Links.

Region 9 [Southwest]

Salton Sea Database Program (SSDP)
"...an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded project at the University of Redlands to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data research technologies to support the effort to save the Salton Sea from ecological collapse. The mission of the SSDP is to establish an on-line data resource clearinghouse and provide ecosystem decision support."

Science Policy Council (SPC) - (dead link)

Smart Growth
"This web site provides public resources to help create communities that promote the sustainability of America's environment, economy, and quality of life."

Superfund Program

System of Registries
"...provides a gateway and search capability to several registries and repositories residing in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Information (OEI). These registries comprise a critical link in EPA's information architecture and are a vital component to the National Environmental Information Exchange Network (Network)."

  • Environmental Data Registry (EDR)
    "...is a comprehensive, authoritative reference for information about the definition, source, and uses of environmental data. The EDR supports the creation and implementation of data standards that are designed to promote the efficient sharing of environmental information among EPA, states, tribes, and other information trading partners."

Technology Innovation Office

Terms of Environment
Glossary, abbreviations, and acronyms.

Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program

  • TRI Data
    "...is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities."

See also

CRS Report for Congress
- Congressional Research Service

National Academy Press (free online versions)


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