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WHAT IS SFIP?
The Sector Facility Indexing Project (SFIP), is a computerized
database that integrates and provides public access
to facility-level environmental information in one location
on the Internet.
SFIP profiles individual facilities in five industry
sectors: automobile assembly, pulp manufacturing, petroleum
refining, iron and steel production, and the primary smelting
and refining of aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc (nonferrous
metals). SFIP also includes a subset of major federal facilities.
These facilities belong to a variety of federal agencies including
the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE),
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), and
the Department of the Interior (DOI), among others.
SFIP provides environmental data about each facility, such
as the number of inspections, compliance with federal regulations,
enforcement actions taken, chemical releases, and spills.
SFIP also includes background information on the location
of each facility and its environmental conditions, as well
as information on the population of the surrounding area.
Production capacity is provided for industry facilities but
not for federal facilities, due to the diversity of their
operations.
HOW DOES SFIP WORK?
SFIP does not rank or order the information in SFIP,
but users can view and sort the data in a number of ways.
Users can select standardized report formats or create their
own analyses. For example, they can check on a particular
facility’s record of compliance with environmental regulations,
compare the performance of one facility to other similar facilities
in that sector, look at data across an entire sector, or analyze
the environmental performance of the facilities in a given
state.
Prior to the release of this facility-level information on
SFIP, EPA works to identify the correct universe of facilities
to be included and ensures the accuracy and usefulness of
the data. As part of this effort, all facilities have an opportunity
to review the data. EPA and the states then review the responses
and make changes to the data as appropriate.
Anyone with Internet access can log onto the SFIP website.
The Internet address is:
http://www.epa.gov/oeca/sfi
For more information or for other requests, call SFIP’s
Hotline at 617-520-3015.
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