Major environmental facility indicator
Whether a facility is classified as major under an applicable environmental regulatory program.
Sources that carry it
7 sourcesCDPHE Water Quality Control Division spreadsheet of Colorado Discharge Permit System permits and certifications, organized by sector and including permit, facility, receiving-water, outfall, and status details.
Statewide point layer of Massachusetts facilities subject to air source registration, greenhouse-gas reporting, or air operating permit requirements.
EPA ECHO public national facility-level compliance and enforcement data delivered through live REST services, generated query CSVs, the ECHO Exporter full ZIP, and coordinated national download dictionaries. Covers CAA, CWA/NPDES, RCRA, SDWA, and federal enforcement records; this bounded Source excludes TRI release quantities and other emissions inventories.
Active Indiana NPDES-permitted wastewater discharge facilities, including permit terms and receiving waters.
WVDEP's statewide All Permits ArcGIS registry as used for NPDES wastewater-discharge permits, filtered by the verified integration to Industrial and Sewage permit types. It includes active and historical records, facility and responsible-party identity, permit dates and status, coordinates, flow and receiving-stream context.
Statewide registry of North Carolina NPDES wastewater discharge facilities and permits, including permit type and dates, facility and owner, major status, and design flow.
EPA PFAS Analytic Tools 'Industry Sectors' layer (PAT_Industry_Sectors, layer 3 of the public PFAS_Analytic_Tools_Layers ArcGIS FeatureServer) -- facilities with federal CAA/CWA/RCRA permits operating in industry sectors that literature review indicates may handle or release PFAS, per EPA's ECHO methodology. This is the live feed backing the interactive PFAS Analytic Tools dashboard's Industry Sectors tab. 714 facilities as of 2026-08-12, dominated by Part 139 airports (536) plus smaller NAICS/SIC-driven categories (waste management, chemical manufacturing, printing, metal coating, etc.). Note: this live layer is significantly narrower than the ~120,000-facility figure cited in EPA's marketing description of the tab's methodology -- see the Source .md for full reconciliation.
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