EPA Adds 6,300 Chemicals and 3,800 Chemical Facilities to Public Database

EPA has announced that it added more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to a public database called Envirofacts.

The Envirofacts database is EPA's single point of access on the Internet for information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land in the United States and provides tools for analyzing the data. It includes facility name and address information, aerial image of the facility and surrounding area, map location of the facility, and links to other EPA information on the facility, such as EPA's inspection and compliance reports that are available through the Enforcement Compliance History Online database. EPA is also adding historic facility information for another 2,500 facilities.

EPA is interested in increasing the public's access to chemical information, including reducing confidentiality claims by industry and making the public portion of the TSCA inventory available free of charge on the Agency's website. EPA intends to take additional actions in the months ahead to further increase the amount of information available to the public.

May 18, 2010

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