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EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS): ER_CERCLIS

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Environmental Information (OEI) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2016-06-29T00:00:00.000+00:00
This web feature service contains location and facility identification information from EPA's Facility Registry System (FRS) for the subset of facilities that link to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) non-NPL sites. Superfund is a program administered by the EPA to locate, investigate, and clean up the worst hazardous waste sites throughout the United States. Before Superfund, Americans were less aware of how dumping chemical wastes might affect public health and the environment. Hazardous wastes were often left in the open, where they seeped into the ground, flowed into rivers and lakes, and contaminated soil and groundwater. Consequently, where these practices were intensive or continuous, there were uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. These sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills. Citizen concern about the extent of this problem prompted Congress in 1980 to establish the Superfund Program to eliminate the health and environmental threats posed by hazardous waste sites. EPA administers the Superfund program in cooperation with individual states and tribal governmentsFRS 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 CERCLIS non-NPL facilities once the CERCLIS data has been integrated into the FRS database. Additional information on FRS is available at the EPA website https://www.epa.gov/enviro/facility-registry-service-frs. These data are considered sensitive and are restricted to internal use only. The download file and map service are accessible only on the EPA intranet. EPA Category: Mission Sensitive, NARA Category: Critical Infrastructure.

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