# How to read EPA compliance records — facility-compliance-records

> What ECHO counts, over which period, and what an absence of records means.

## How to read these records

### The programs

- **Air** — Clean Air Act permits and evaluations.
- **Water** — Clean Water Act discharge permits (NPDES), including stormwater permits for
construction sites.
- **Hazardous waste** — RCRA handlers: generators, transporters, treatment and disposal facilities.
Their EPA ID is on every hazardous-waste manifest.
- **Drinking water** — public water systems under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

### The counts

Inspections, informal actions, formal enforcement actions and penalties cover the **last five
years**, as ECHO computes them. Quarters in non-compliance cover the last twelve quarters. The quarterly
history is ECHO's own code, quarter by quarter.

### What the records cannot tell you

- A violation or an enforcement action is the agency's record at a date — not a finding by this site. Agencies
correct records; the EPA's current data prevails.
- An absence of records is not proof of compliance: many programs are run by states, which report to the EPA
unevenly.
- This site ranks no one. Lists are alphabetical.
- Facilities whose name designates a private person (a residence, for example) are searchable but not listed on
any page.

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Página: https://facility-compliance-records.pages.dev/how-to-read/
Fonte: https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads
Recolha: 2026-09-27