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Query Form User's Guide

CERCLIS is the official repository for site and non-site specific Superfund data in support of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). It contains information on hazardous waste site assessment and remediation from 1983 to the present.

This is a brief user's guide to the Superfund Query Form. Select from a variety of different query options and output options as detailed below. Contact us if you have any suggestions for improvements to these pages.

Select more than one query option at a time to speed up the query and make the retrieval more focused. Only those facilities matching all specified criteria will be retrieved.

Facility Identification Search Option

Facility Name

Enter the official or partial site name to retrieve all facilities with that name. Select the "Containing" option when entering a partial name for a better retrieval the first time you access the data.

Site EPA ID

Enter the complete (12-character) or partial Site EPA ID (typically the same as the Facility ID) to retrieve all facilities with that ID. If it is more than 12 characters, an error message will appear. Select the "Containing" option when entering a partial ID for a better retrieval the first time you access the data. When an "Exact Match" option is specified for a Site EPA ID, do not specify another option; only one facility will be retrieved.


Geography Search Option

Select from five geographical search options: ZIP Code, City, County, State, and EPA Region.

ZIP Code

The ZIP code entry can be five digits or fewer.

Address

Enter a complete or partial street address.

City

Enter a complete or partial city name.

County Name

Enter a complete or partial county name. If your county name has an apostrophe ('), enter a partial county name with the "Containing" option; often the apostrophe has not been included in the original mainframe field entry.

State

Enter a two-character state postal abbreviation. A list of the postal abbreviations and the state names is provided below:

AK = Alaska AL = Alabama AR = Arkansas
AS = American Samoa AZ = Arizona CA = California
CN = Canada CO = Colorado CT = Connecticut
DC = District of Columbia DE = Delaware FC = Other Foreign Countries
FL = Florida FM = Federated States of Micronesia GA = Georgia
GU = Guam HI = Hawaii IA = Iowa
ID = Idaho IL = Illinois IN = Indiana
IQ = Misc. U.S. Pacific Islands IT = All Indian Tribes KS = Kansas
KY = Kentucky LA = Louisiana MA = Massachusetts
MD = Maryland ME = Maine MH = Marshall Island
MI = Michigan MN = Minnesota MO = Missouri
MP = Northern Mariana Islands MQ = Midway Island MS = Mississippi
MT = Montana NC = North Carolina ND = North Dakota
NE = Nebraska NH = New Hampshire NJ = New Jersey
NM = New Mexico NV = Nevada NY = New York
OH = Ohio OK = Oklahoma OR = Oregon
PA = Pennsylvania PR = Puerto Rico PW = Palau, Republic of
RI = Rhode Island SC = South Carolina SD = South Dakota
TN = Tennessee TX = Texas UT = Utah
VA = Virginia VI = Virgin Islands VT = Vermont
WA = Washington WI = Wisconsin WQ = Wake Island
WV = West Virginia WY = Wyoming

Region

Enter the two digit numeric value for the EPA Region. A list of the EPA Regions and the states in those regions is provided below:

REGION STATES
Region 01 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Region 02 New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Region 03 Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Region 04 Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Region 05 Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
Region 06 New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana
Region 07 Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
Region 08 Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado
Region 09 California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii
Region 10 Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska


National Priority List (NPL) Sites Only

Check this option to retrieve those sites which are proposed, currently, or previously on the NPL.


Search Values Option

Click on "Use Multisystem facility information to perform facility search" to identify facilities, using facility information from all program systems. Click on "Use CERCLIS facility information to perform facility search" to identify facilities, using only CERCLIS facility information.

Output Selection Search Option

Basic Facility Information

The Basic Facility Information that you will receive with this query consists of the following variables below:

Facility Detail Information

The Facility Detail Information that you will receive with this query consists of the following variables:


Usage Constraints

Information in the CERCLIS database can be freely accessed through the use of this query. The complexity of the query is up to the user. Queries that return a large volume of data may terminate prematurely due to system limitations. The constraints established for the enviro user account (the query uses this to connect to the Oracle database) are:

Develop queries that return small batches of data and terminate the session as soon as the queries have been executed, so that others can access the database.

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