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EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS): NPDES_MAJOR

Metadata Updated: May 3, 2024

This web feature service contains location and facility identification information from EPA's Facility Registry Service (FRS) for the subset of facilities that are Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) dischargers of pollutants into waters of the United States. These facilities are tracked in the NPDES module of the Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS). For Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs), Major dischargers include all facilities with design flows equal to or greater than one million gallons per day, or serve a population of 10,000 or more, or cause significant water quality impacts. Non-POTW discharges are classified as Major facilities on the basis of the number of points accumulated using a Rating worksheet, which evaluates the significance of a facility using several criteria, including toxic pollutant potential, flow volume, and water quality factors such as impairment of the receiving water or proximity of the discharge to coastal waters. FRS identifies and geospatially locates facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest. Using vigorous verification and data management procedures, FRS integrates facility data from EPA's national program systems, other federal agencies, and State and tribal master facility records and provides EPA with a centrally managed, single source of comprehensive and authoritative information on facilities. This data set contains the subset of FRS integrated facilities that link to NPDES Major Facilities once the ICIS-NPDES data has been integrated into the FRS database. Additional information on FRS is available at the EPA website http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/index.html.

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Dates

Metadata Date April 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date August 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 3, 2024
Reference Date(s) May 20, 2015 (publication)
Frequency Of Update weekly

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date April 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date August 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 3, 2024
Reference Date(s) May 20, 2015 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information (Publisher)
Contact Email
Guid C8E8427A-7ECD-4B74-80CB-917B055EF516
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Bbox East Long 145.75
Bbox North Lat 70.490861
Bbox South Lat -14.340056
Bbox West Long -170.722472
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update weekly
Harvest Object Id 87ab03c2-8f0e-418c-9ad4-c260634c1379
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence Unless otherwise specified, all data produced by the U.S EPA is by default in the public domain and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105. More details on the U.S. Public Domain license are available here: https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ Additionally, please be advised that although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. EPA, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data to evaluate data set limitations, restrictions or intended use. The U.S. EPA shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data.
Lineage
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 4269
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2015-05-20
Temporal Extent End 2015-05-20

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