Enforcement and Compliance
EPA’s Searchable Compliance and Enforcement Database
To Access the ECHO facility
search page
The ECHO website can be a very
useful tool for researching the compliance and enforcement histories of
regulated facilities. However, the compliance status of facilities, as listed in
ECHO, can be misleading. One frequent problem is that EPA and the states have
different definitions of what constitutes a formal enforcement action, and when
such cases are resolved. For example, if a facility has ever been subject to an
enforcement action, ECHO continues to show that facility as out of compliance
until the enforcement case has been formally resolved by EPA's standards,
regardless of the presence or absence of current violations.
As you use the ECHO searchable database, please keep in
mind that the site attempts to summarize complex issues, and may lead to
misinterpretations. To avoid any misinterpretations you may wish to
schedule a facility file review by contacting the ADEM Public Records
Officer at records@adem.state.al.us,
fax to 334-271-7950, or mail your request to P.O. Box 301463,
Montgomery, AL 36130-1463.
What is ECHO?
Although similar information already was available online through EPA's
EnviroFacts
warehouse, ECHO represents the next generation of improved access to
compliance and enforcement data in a more user-friendly format. Like
EnviroFacts, the data in ECHO is provided to EPA by the states.
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