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Home News Free GIS Community Forums Download Projects About Contact On This Page: Toxic Release Maps - Federal & Indian Lands Maps Learn2Map Tutorialal - Partner With Us Knowledge is Power: Explore the hazardscape of potential toxic risks where you work, live and play Jump to pollution maps of your state: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, 2000 Toxic Release Inventory Data Release (important note about data) EPA released the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data files on May 23, 2002. The data includes some exciting new additions. Read more about Dioxin, Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) chemicals and other additions to TRI data for 2000. NO MAPPING OR GIS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! Each map comes bundled with easy to follow instructions, state boundaries, highways, lakes, rivers, cities and and access to Arcexplorer, a free and easy to use map viewer. One Good Reason for Knowing More About Chemical Facilities in Your Neighborhood In Reflections on Homeland Security and American Federalism (Click here for entire report) Pietro S. Nivola, Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institute says: Yet, the chances that a terrorist attack could turn any U.S. nuclear installation into a Chernobyl are practically nil. Concern would be better directed at hardening other sites, like commercial chemical plants. (About as many people died in 1984 when methyl isocyanate leaked from a plant in Bhopal, India, as perished in the World Trade Center.) You can find out more about the risks chemical facilities in your neighborhood pose by clicking here and requesting a copy of the executive summary of the Risk Management Plan (RMP). Accidental or intentional major releases of chemicals can cause instant death and injury. The threat of terrorism at a chemical facility, though very serious, is not the only threat these facilities pose. The TRI data tells us about slow regulated releases of the same chemicals over long periods of time. These chemicals often buildup in our environment and in our bodies causing chronic health problems and possibly death. The human and ecological consequences of these "monitored" releases may be just as catastrophic over time as a single release. Consider this. The TRI accounts for only 667 of the tens of thousands of chemicals in our environment, does not account for accumulative effects, does not account for the combined effects. Yet, each year billions of pounds of just these chemicals are legally released to the environment adding upon the sum of the billions of pounds from previous years and all those chemicals that are not accounted for at all. Other useful resources to check Check our Worst Case Scenarios web page and our Toxic & Nuclear Risks In Your Backyard? for links for other resources that you can use to identify potential risks. Also, the U.S. Pirg and RTK Net have each provided preliminary analysis of the 2000 TRI. Check 2000 Toxic Release Inventory data to hightlight persistent ttent toxics, document the need for stronger environmental protections instead of Bush administration rollbacks and EPA releases national toxic pollution data: new report reveals dioxin and mercury pollution. Ideas for using the TRI data and maps Here are some ideas for using the TRI data and maps with your GIS program or with Arcexplorer, the free GIS, and our Learn2Map tutorial: Find the largest polluters in your neighborhood and ask them what steps they are taking to reduce their pollution. Do environmental justice research. Publish a toxic atlas of your neighborhood, county or state. Do relocation investigations. Do local facility audits. As a catalyst for forming a local toxic watch group. Distribute printed toxic maps at local events. Use as an aid in landuse planning. Identify potential security-related vulnerabilities. Do habitat and ecological assessment and planning. Assess potential health risks. Study the relationship between health effects and releases. Track offsite transfers of toxics. Do industrial ecology research -- waste from one facility may be "raw" material for another. Discover inaccuracies in reporting and/or location. I am sure that you can think of other ways of using the TRI maps and data to empower yourself and your community. If you do, please let me know and I will add them here. If you put your maps online, we will add them to the growing number of web-based toxic and pollution maps linked from our Global Environmental Risk Map Network. Using the TRI maps with a GIS program Our TRI (read more about TRI) shapefiles work with the free ArcExplorer GIS viewer, ArcView GIS, and many other GIS and mapping programs. Includes easy to follow instructions that show you how to add streets, highways, census tracts and much more to your maps plus how to use the free ArcExplorer GIS. If you are new to GIS, see our free MapCruzin MapTutorial. Check our free GIS and free GIS data pages for more information. You may also use the data in an Excel spreadsheet. For those new to GIS, we have created ArcExplorer projects for each of the TRI Pollution map sets. Each set includes a your-map.AEP file (for example: the Kentucky-Tennessee map includes a file named KY_TN.AEP). With a click on the AEP project file all of your layers (TRI pollution facilities, roads, cities, rivers, lakes and states) are loaded into ArcExplorer ready for you to explore. Here is a sample showing the Kentucky-Tennessee TRI pollution map when first opened in ArcExplorer. Once your map is opened like this you can zoom-in, move around, click on features for more information, change colors, add labels and add more detailed layers such as streets, railroads, etc. for free. Full instructions for doing this and more are available to you in our free MapCruzin MapTutorial. New additions to the TRI for 2000 include: Facilities were required to report the release of Dioxins and Dioxin-like compounds. A new caA new categorization field was added to the state data files also. It is called "Classification" and will be used to identify which general category a chemical belongs to. TRI chemicals can be classified as either a Dioxin or Dioxin-Like compound (Dioxin), a Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) chemical or a general EPCRA Section 313 chemical (TRI). This field will contain one of 3 values {Dioxin, PBT or TRI}. The "GOCO" check box was added to clearly indicate if a facility is a Government Owned, Contractor Operated (GOCO) facility. In conjunction with the Federal Facility check box, a clear determination can be made as a whether a facility is a GOCO facility, a pure federal facility or neither. A new field was also added to the state data files to more accurately represent the mailing address of a facility if it is outside of the United States. The “Mailing Province” field was added to state data files 1 and 4 to represent the province of a facility’s mailing address. A new data item was added to Part II, Section 3.2 of the Form R. In this section, the “Process the Toxic Chemical” section, the “As an Impurity” field was added. This is reflected in the state data files in the new field entitled “As a Process Impurity”. Another thing to be aware of in the reporting year 2000 State Data Files in the precision of all quantity values. In the past chemical quantities for release, transfer or source reduction were measured in only whole numbers. Now, with the advent of the dioxins and the additional reporting accuracy of PBT chemicals, numbers with up to seven decimal places will be used to represent quantities. PBT chemicals will be expressed with an accuracy of .1 pounds. Dioxins and Dioxin-like compounds are measured in grams and can be represented with up to seven decimal places. Each location's data includes: Full facility location information. Full facility contact information. Amount of toxics released to air, land, and water. Amount of toxics transferred offsite. Chemical amounts released. Amount of chemicals stored on site. Amount of Dioxin or Dioxin-Like compounds and Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) chemicals. Much more (click here for a full list of the over 200 data fields included). Note that the entire list along with full descriptions is included with each or our TRI 2000 map layers. Each year thousands of mining operations, power plants, chemical manufacturers, petroleum terminals and many other (over 23,000) facilities in the U.S. must report their toxic releases to EPA. There is about a 15 month delay between the end of the reporting year and the time that EPA releases the data to the public. Click here to go to EPA's TRI 2000 website. Once you view and explore the map you will see that there are some facilities that appear to be located incorrectly. These are the result of the facilities in question providing inaccurate locational data (longitude and latitude) to EPA and EPA not double-checking the data. Locationalcational data, like all other self-reported TRI data, is supposed to be accurate -- it is required by law. EPA provides a "how-to" so that facilities can locate themselves using USGS maps. GPS is another relatively easy way that facilities could employ to provide accurate data, yet many facilities do not report their locational data accurately. A small number of facilities had no locational data whatsoever. These were extracted from the map file and are included in Excel spreadsheet format with each map layer download. But why (you should ask) are there facilities on the map that are mislocated? The bottom-line is that TRI is self-reported data and there is little enforcement done by EPA to assure that the locational information and the rest of the data reported is accurate. The larger question to ask is if something as simple as getting the locational data right is not accomplished by the facility and is not checked by EPA, what does this say about the accuracy of the balance of the information reported in the TRI data? What can be done to improve the accuracy? The database can be geocoded using address, city, county, state and zip to generate a correct longitude and latitude. This process usually misses many locations. At the local level citizens can "reality check" the data to determine if facilities are missing from their communities or if there are facilities on the map that don't belong. Citizens can determine locational data by using a handheld GPS or noting the location on a paper map (if you have better locational data for any facility please contact me). Really, though, it is the legal responsibility of each facility to provide data that is accurate, including locational data. Contact EPA (tri.us@epa.gov) and ask them what steps are being taken to insure that ALL the information in the TRI data is reported accurately. More information about the Toxic Release Inventory is available at http://www.epa.gov/tri/. Lifetime Guarantee Your purchase is guaranteed for life. If for any reason you are unhappy with your purchase or if it does not fill your needs, let me know. I'll do whatever it takes to make it right including refunding your purchase price. Occasional updates may become available. I will send you an email in this case, advising you about the details of the update and telling you how to obtain it. We have prepared a free sample for you to download and try out if you haven't quite made up your mind. Click here for instructions and a link for downloading the sample TRI 2000 map of South Dakota (1.2MB). The TRI 2000 maps are available in the groups listed below. Each group is $17 and may be downloaded immediately. Scroll down and click on the group of map layers you wish to order to download immediately. You can purchase access to all the TRI map layers on this page for $47. Click Here to pay using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics and you can download all the maps now. Included With Each Layer Along with each map layer we include EPA's documentation which provides detailed information about the various fields in the database, EPA state fact sheet(s), a spreadsheet including the records of the handful of facilities that we were unable to map because they did not provide locational data, instructions for using the map layer with ArcExplorer, a free GIS and how to obtain more map layers for free and add them to your map. We also include basic layers (highways, state boundaries, cities, rivers and lakes) with each map group. Click here for a sample README.TXT that is included with each download: Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi -- 6,323 records mapped, 9 not mapped, file size=2.2MB Arkansas and Oklahoma -- 2,888 records mapped, 5 not mapped, file size=1.7MB Texas -- 7,918 records mapped, 54 not mapped, file size=2.2MB Group 2 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands -- 944 records mapped, 0 not mapped, file size=1.9MB Group 3 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah -- 2,604 records mapped, 11 not mapped, file size=1.8MB California -- 4,673 records mapped, 5 not mapped, file size=1.8MB Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state -- 2,964 records mapped, 2 not mapped, file size=1.8MB Group 4 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) -- 4,163 records mapped, 4 not mapped, file size=2.2MB Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia -- 4,095 records mapped, 9 not mapped, file size=2.0MB New Jersey and New York -- 5,149 records mapped, 9 not mapped, file size=2.0MB Group 5 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Florida and Georgia -- 4,651 records mapped, 15 not mapped, file size=2.0MB Kentucky and Tennessee -- 4,799 records mapped, 2 not mapped, file size=1.9MB North Carolina and South Carolina -- 5,052 records mapped, 3 not mapped, file size=2.0MB Group 6 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska -- 5,497 records mapped, 20 not mapped, file size=2.2MB Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming -- 948 records mapped, 0 not mapped, file size=1.5MB Minnesota and Wisconsin -- 4,304 records mapped, 16 not mapped, file size=1.9MB Group 7 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Illinois -- 4,979 records mapped, 33 not mapped, file size=1.9MB Indiana -- 4,005 records mapped, 17 not mapped, file size=1.7MB Mi chigan -- 3,654 records mapped, 1 not mapped, file size=1.7MB Group 8 - Click Here to purchase securely using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Ohio -- 6,524 records mapped, 12 not mapped, file size=2.1MB Pennsylvania -- 5,160 records mapped, 3 not mapped, file size=1.9MB Save Money - Dowload All the Maps You can purchase access to all the TRI map layers on this page for $47. Click Here to pay using our merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics and you can download all the maps now. Data Source and Geographical Locations We derived the geographical locations of these facilities using the longitude and latitude that are included in this public data release of the TRI data. The EPA public release also includes such information as amount and name of chemical released, amount of chemical stored on site and other useful information. We have provided the complete data along with the maps. To download the public data yourself (without our maps of course), go to http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri00/data/index.htm. Federal & Indian Lands Arcview GIS Shapefiles Coverage: All U.S. including Hawaii and Alaska. Recently updated Winter 2004 maps These GIS shapefiles work with the free ArcExplorer GIS viewer, ArcView GIS, and many other GIS and mapping programs. Each layer includes easy to follow instructions that show you how to add streets, highways, census information and much more to your maps for free. We have included national level base maps with each map archive listed below. Also, check our free GIS and free GIS data pages for more information. No Experience Required The maps come with instructions for downloading ArcExplorer, a free GIS map viewer. We provide step-by-step instructions to that you can easily learn to use and view the maps. For more help, take advantage of our free MapCruzin MapTutorial. Each map layer costs $17. Click next to the map you wish and you will have immediate access to it using our secure merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics. Other Federal Lands (details) This map is included free with your purchase of any of the above maps. Get all of the maps: Additional Map Layers Included Each of the above map archives also includes the following national base map layers: Cities Roads Rivers States Water Bodies And each map ach map archive includes complete instructions for downloading and adding free highly detailed additional base map layers to your mapping project. Lifetime Guarantee Your purchase is guaranteed for life. If for any reason you are unhappy with your purchase or if it does not fill your needs, let me know. I'll do whatever it takes to make it right including refunding your purchase price. Theme Descriptions: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) - 542 polygons - Download Now Indian Reservations Burea of Land Management (BLM) - 21,044 polygons - Download Now Forest Reserves National Conservation Areas National Monuments National Recreation areas Public Domain Lands Wilderness Wilderness Study Areas Other BLM Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) - 545 polygons - Download Now Bureau of Reclamation Department of Defense (DOD) - 897 polygons - Download Now Air force Army Army Corps of Engineers Department of Defense Marine Corps Navy Forest Service (FS) - 2,384 polygons - Download Now National Forests National Grasslands National Monuments National Recreation Areas National Scenic Areas Purchase Unit Blocks Wilderness Wilderness Study Areas Fish & Wildlife Service (FS) - 1,726 polygons - Download Now National Fish Hatchery National Wildlife Refuge Waterfowl Production Area Wilderness Wilderness Study Area Wildlife Management Area National Park Service (NPS) - 897 polygons - Download Now National Battlefields National Battlefield Park National Capital Parks National Historic Parks National Historic Sites National Lakeshores National Mall National Memorials National Military Parks National Monuments National Parks National Parkways National Preserves National Recreation Areas National Reserves National Rivers National Seashores National Wild and Scenic Rivers Wilderness Wilderness Study Areas Other Federal Lands - 87 polygons - Included free with any of the above maps Agricultural Research Service ARS Bureau of Prisons DOJ Central Intelligence Agency CIA Department of Energy DOE Department of Transportation DOT General Services Administration GSA Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Tennessee Valley Authority TVA U.S. Coast Guard DOT United States Department of Agriculture USDA Map Creation Each map layer was created by extracting federal land polygon features from the individual 1:2,000,000-scale State boundary Digital Line Graph (DLG) files produced by the U.S. Geological Survey. These files were then appended into a single coverage. Individual layers (above) were extracted from this coverage. (Source: USGS). This data may come from a variety of U.S. government and self-reporting private sources. While we try to assure the accuracy of this material, we cannot promise that it is absolutely accurate. We do promise that using the map layer will be fun, entertaining or educational. Beyond this, we make no guarantee as to its suitability for any purpose. We assume no liability or responsibility for errors or inaccuracies. Please understand that you use these map layers and data at your own risk. Learn2Map GIS Tutorial & Atlas Find Out More, Click Here Business | Health & Fitness | Money & Employment | Computing & Internet | Home & Family | Society & Culture | Fun & Entertainment | Marketing & Ads | Sports & Recreation | Software