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Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI)

Metadata Updated: May 20, 2022

EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a geographically-based, multimedia model and prioritization tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities quickly analyze large amounts of data on Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) listed toxic chemicals. RSEI incorporates information from EPA’s TRI database, which tracks certain toxic chemical releases and waste management activities at federal facilities and larger industrial facilities across the United States and its territories. RSEI incorporates over 30 years of TRI data, three U.S. censuses, toxicity and physicochemical properties for more than 400 toxic chemicals, and geographical information for more than 50,000 facilities and thousands of streams and other water bodies. All of this information is used to model and map the environmental fate and transport of each toxic chemical through the environment and the potential impacts that may result. The RSEI model calculates numeric results that are designed to be compared to other RSEI model generated results. These RSEI results are designed to help users contextualize, understand, and better communicate the relative hazards and potential for risks posed by certain waste management activities of TRI chemicals (e.g., from releases to the environment). RSEI results and custom analyses can be used for screening-level activities such as trend analyses that compare potential risk-related impacts from year to year, or for ranking and prioritizing toxic chemicals, facilities, industry sectors, or geographic regions for strategic planning. RSEI can also be used in conjunction with other data sources and environmental information, to help policy makers, researchers, and communities establish priorities for further investigation and to look at changes in potential health impacts over time.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

Downloads & Resources

References

https://www.epa.gov/rsei/rsei-documentation-and-help

Dates

Metadata Created Date January 11, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 20, 2022
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from OCSPP-OPPT RSEI Records

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 11, 2021
Metadata Updated Date May 20, 2022
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
Maintainer
Identifier BE851217-F268-4F01-8394-BF47F7F3ED0B
Data First Published 2016-12-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2015-11-10
Category environment
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
Bureau Code 020:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BBE851217-F268-4F01-8394-BF47F7F3ED0B%7D
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary https://www.epa.gov/rsei/rsei-data-dictionary
Harvest Object Id f8443c2d-07c6-4a0a-b2d3-403b6f08c845
Harvest Source Id 3f8a39f6-c8ca-4654-a83b-63f668a64dd2
Harvest Source Title OCSPP-OPPT RSEI Records
Homepage URL https://www.epa.gov/rsei
License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Old Spatial -80.542601,36.666691,-74.580735,42.987042
Program Code 020:117
Related Documents https://www.epa.gov/rsei/rsei-documentation-and-help
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 8cf9442fc159ad1e180988d198a5f4706ba8b2c1
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 1988-01-01/2014-12-31

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