FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2006
TITLE: US EPA REGULATED FACILITIES LOCATIONS
Geodataset Name: EPARF Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the point locations of EPA regulated facilities.
DATA SOURCE(S): Environmental Protection Agency SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: Not Applicable DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: 1997 GEODATASET EXTENT: State of Florida
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES
Datafile Name: EPARF.DBF
NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION AREA 18 DECIMAL 5 PERIMETER 18 DECIMAL 5 EPARF_ 5 DECIMAL EPARF_ID 5 DECIMAL SYSTEMCODE 2 CHARACTER ID 30 CHARACTER MAD_ID 12 DECIMAL 0 LOC_REF_ID 12 DECIMAL 0 FAC_ID 12 CHARACTER NAME 60 CHARACTER LONG_DMS 18 DECIMAL 6 LAT_DMS 18 DECIMAL 6 BND_FLAG 1 CHARACTER NPLSTAT_IND 1 CHARACTER COORD_SRC 10 CHARACTER BVFLAG 1 CHARACTER EDITED 2 CHARACTER DESCRIPT 60 CHARACTER
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
SYSTEMCODE Source of record
ID Unique ID from respective program system
MAD_ID Assigned sequential reference number
LOC_REF_ID Assigned sequential reference number
FAC_ID EPA Facility Index System (FINDS) identifier
NAME Name of the facility or site
LONG_DMS Longitude of facility, or site in degrees, minutes and seconds
LAT_DMS Latitude of facility, or site in degrees, minutes and seconds
BND_FLAG Boundary Flag (Y indicates an NPL site exists for this id)
NPLSTAT_IND Item not defined. May stand for National Priority List Status
Indicator.
COORD_SRC Source for latitude and longitude coordinates
BVFLAG Indicator of most accurate location for an EPA facility as
defined by FINDS
EDITED Item added by FGDL. A value of 'Y' indicates that points were
were edited. (See 'FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS' below.)
DESCRIPT Item added by FGDL based on NAME item
USER NOTES:
The Envirofacts point coverage provides Geographic Information System (GIS) applications with a valuable data layer for base mapping offacilities regulated by EPA. Facility locations areused in numerous types of analysis, e.g., proximity ofpopulations to one or more facilities. Currently, EPA's Gateway/GIS subsystem, Ecological Sensitivity Targetingand Assessment Tool (ESTAT), and various EPA publicuse webbasedGIS applications utilize this data set.
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
-Set tolerances to FGDL standards.
-Reprojected from Dat83, Spheroid GRS1980, to FGDL standard projection.
-Relocated 49 points from the ocean to 1) the original lat/long coordinates
(as defined in LONG_DMS and LAT_DMS), or 2) to the nearest land feature,
or 3) to the point location of the facility as defined in other FGDL
datasets (sewtrt, pwrplts). Each relocated point has an EDITED value of 'Y'.
Original lat/long coordinates were in decimal degrees, Datum83, GRS1980. They
were reprojected to Datum27, degrees/minutes/seconds.
-Dropped the following "REDEFINED" items:
SYSTEM_ID Unique ID from respective program system; equal to the first
15 characters of ID item.
CER_FAC_ID CERCLIS unique ID name; equal to the first 12 characeters
of the ID item.
HANDLER_ID RCRIS unique ID name; equal to the first 12 characeters of
the ID item.
TRI_FACILITY_ID TRIS unique ID name; equal to 1st 15 characters of ID item.
EF_AFS_ID AFS unique ID name; equal to the 1st 9 characters of ID item.
NPDES PCS unique ID name; equal to the 1st 9 characters of ID item.
ERN_ID Not defined; equal to the first 9 characters of ID item.
NCDB_ID Not defined; equal to the first 11 characters of ID item.
FFIS_ID Not defined; equal to the first 12 characters of ID item.
PADS_ID Not defined; equal to the first 12 characters of ID item.
SITE_ID Unique ID for Envirofacts point coverage; equal to the
SYSTEMCODE plus the first 15 characters of the ID item.
REFERENCES:
"Envirofacts Database Description Document Version 2.0," SDC0055051MA5031, Environmental Protection Agency, September 30, 1996.
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Facility data from various EPA program system tables were converted into a point coverage. Only coordinate pairswith the highest accuracy values represent each facility.The Envirofacts point coverage contains data from the following EPAprogram systems:
AFS Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) Facility Subsystem
PCS Permit Compliance System
TRIS Toxic Release Inventory System
CERCLIS Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Information System
RCRIS Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System
The latitude/longitude attribute values come from the program systemdatabases and may or may not be populated. For facilities with Latitude/longitude values ofzeros, coordinates were obtained from the EPA program systems named in COORD_SRC.
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS
Projection ALBERS Units METERS Datum HPGN Spheroid GRS1980 1st standard parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd standard parallel 31 30 0.000 central meridian -84 0 0.000 latitude of projection's origin 24 0 0.000 false easting (meters) 400000.00000 false northing (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Abbr.name: EPA
Address: 401 M. Street SW
Washington, DC 20460
Web site: www.epa.gov/enviro
Ftp site: ftp.epa.gov
Email: nsdi@epamail.epa.gov
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
Abbr. Name: FGDL
Address: Florida Geographic Data Library
431 Architecture Building
PO Box 115706
Gainesville, FL 326115706
Web site: http://www.fgdl.org
Contact FGDL:
Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html
FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html
FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html
For FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html