Sector
Facility
Indexing
Project
February
24,
2003
The
Sector
Facility
Indexing
Project
(
SFIP)
is
a
product
of
the
Office
of
Enforcement
and
Compliance
Assurance
(
OECA).
It
is
a
computerized
database
that
integrates
and
provides
public
access
to
facility­
level
environmental
information
in
one
location
on
the
Internet.
Data
available
from
SFIP
include
compliance
and
inspection
history,
chemical
releases,
pollutant
spills,
production
or
production
capacity
data,
and
demographics
of
the
population
surrounding
facilities.

Purpose:
SFIP
brings
together
environmental
and
other
information
from
a
number
of
data
systems
to
produce
accessible,
WEB­
based
facility­
level
profiles
for
five
industry
sectors.

Chemicals:
The
five
industries
included
in
SFIP
are
petroleum
refining;
iron
and
steel
production;
primary
nonferrous
metal
refining
and
smelting;
pulp
manufacturing;
and
automobile
assembly.
A
subset
of
major
federal
facilities
is
also
included.
In
order
to
be
included,
federal
facilities
must
be
classified
as
a
"
major"
facility
under
at
least
2
of
3
statutes:
the
Clean
Air
Act,
the
Clean
Water
Act,
and
the
Resource
Conservation
and
Recovery
Act.
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.

Sample
Locations:
This
is
a
compilation
of
existing
data
and
information.

Sample
Design:
This
is
a
compilation
of
existing
data
and
information.

Time
Period
Covered:
As
of
January
2002,
the
SFIP
website
presents
"
current"
data
from
EPA's
Integrated
Data
For
Enforcement
Analysis
(
IDEA)
system.
Because
IDEA
is
updated
monthly,
SFIP
now
presents
more
timely
data
than
when
it
was
limited
to
quarterly
updates.
The
date
of
the
IDEA
data,
for
the
data
being
displayed,
appears
at
the
top
right
hand
of
each
facilitylevel
statistics
report
and
sector
summary.
Dates
for
the
individual
media
databases
being
used
(
e.
g.,
PCS,
TRI)
appear
at
the
bottom
of
each
Detailed
Facility
Report.
The
TRI
data
currently
being
used
is
from
1999.
A
facility
can
now
submit
general
or
line­
specific
comments
directly
to
EPA
by
using
the
"
Report
Error"
function
of
the
system.

Evaluation
Method:
SFIP
uses
the
following
data
elements
or
"
Indicators":


Inspections:
the
number
of
state/
local
and
federal
inspections
that
have
occurred
at
each
facility
examined
under
the
project
during
the
last
2
years.
For
water
this
information
come
from
the
Permit
Compliance
System
(
PCS).


Historical
Noncompliance:
the
number
of
quarterly
periods
with
one
or
more
identified
violations
or
noncompliance
during
the
eight
quarterly
periods
over
the
last
2
years
for
each
facility.
Underlying
information
is
available
for
each
facility,
which
can
be
used
to
determine
the
type
of
violation
or
noncompliance
that
is
counted
in
the
aggregate
statistics,
and
whether
multiple
events
occurred.

Permit
Exceedances
 
Clean
Water
Act:
the
number
of
times
facilities
report
their
water
discharges,
and
how
often
these
discharges
exceed
permitted
levels.
Depending
upon
the
reporting
period
specified
in
the
facility's
permit,
the
facility
may
be
required
to
submit
monthly,
bimonthly,
quarterly,
semi­
annual,
annual,
or
biannual
monitoring
reports
for
a
parameter.
Different
reporting
periods
may
be
specified
for
a
single
permitted
parameter
based
on
locations
within
single
or
multiple
discharge
pipes.
SFIP
tracks
four
indicators
for
pollutant
releases
that
exceed
permitted
levels:

#
the
total
number
of
PCS
parameters
monitored
across
all
pipes
and
NPDES
permits
maintained
by
a
regulated
facility
#
the
total
number
of
those
parameters
for
which
there
is
at
least
one
exceedance
of
the
permitted
limit
in
the
past
two
years
#
the
total
number
of
reports
submitted
in
the
past
two
years
#
the
total
number
of
those
events
which
exceeded
the
permitted
limit

Closed
Enforcement
Actions:
closed
administrative
or
civil
judicial
government
actions
that
have
been
taken
at
a
facility
for
violating
environmental
laws.
This
information
does
not
include
notices
of
violation,
referrals
and
informal
enforcement
actions.


Production
or
Production
Capacity:
production
or
production
capacity
of
a
facility
(
e.
g.,
tons/
year),
except
federal
facilities.
SFIP
matches
the
production
data
year
to
the
year
of
frozen
TRI
data
presented
in
the
TRI
comparative
spreadsheets,
currently
1999.


TRI
Releases:
total
pounds
of
TRI
chemicals
released
to
air,
discharged
directly
to
water,
land
filled
on­
site
or
injected
underground.


TRI
Off­
site
Transfers:
total
pounds
of
TRI
chemicals
either
discharged
to
a
sewer
system
or
shipped
off­
site
for
disposal
or
treatment.


Ratio
of
Chemicals
Released
and
Transferred
to
Production
Capacity:
pounds
of
TRI
chemicals
released
and
transferred
offsite
divided
by
facility
production
or
capacity
(
units
differ
by
sector).


TRI
Releases
­
Carcinogens:
pounds
of
known
or
suspected
carcinogens
released
to
the
air
or
water,
disposed
of
via
underground
injection,
or
land
filled
on­
sites.


TRI
Releases
and
Transfers­
Metals:
pounds
of
metals
and
metal
compounds
(
only
the
metal
portion
of
metal
compounds)
which
were
either
released
or
transferred
off­
site.


TRI
Production­
Related
Waste:
pounds
of
TRI
chemicals
contained
in
productionrelated
waste
prior
to
recycling,
treatment,
energy
recovery
or
disposal.


Pollutant
Spills:
on­
site
chemical
or
material
spills
within
the
past
two
years.
The
information
is
taken
from
the
Emergency
Response
Notification
System
(
ERNS)
database,
administered
by
a
number
of
different
federal
agencies.


Estimated
Surrounding
Population:
estimated
population
living
within
three
miles
of
a
facility
and
associated
demographics.
This
information
is
from
the
Bureau
of
Census.


Estimated
Surrounding
Minority
Population:
the
percentage
of
the
population
of
the
given
area
that
is
minority.
Minority
population
is
estimated
by
subtracting
the
number
of
persons
who
are
white
(
and
not
of
Hispanic
origin)
from
the
total
number
of
people.


Estimated
Percentage
of
Surrounding
Population
Living
in
Poverty:
the
percentage
of
people
in
the
selected
area
that
are
below
the
poverty
level.

Results:
The
SFIP
does
not
rank
or
order
the
information
it
contains,
but
users
can
view
and
sort
the
data
in
a
number
of
ways,
using
standardized
report
formats
or
creating
their
own
analyses.
Attachment
I
shows
the
information
available
on
the
"
Sector­
Level
Data
Summary"
report.

Contact:
SFIP
Hotline
(
617)
520­
3015.

Short­
term
Followup:
None.

Long­
term
Followup:
Information
may
be
useful
for
a
more
detailed
look
at
specific
industries
in
the
Tier
2
analysis.
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1
of
2
Attachment
I
Sector­
Level
Data
Summary:
Petroleum
Refineries
Data
Refresh:
January
2003
The
following
tables
present
average
values
per
facility
for
SFIP
indicators.
For
example,
of
the
163
Petroleum
Refineries
included
within
the
SFIP
database,
an
average
of
6.0
inspections
(
for
CAA,
CWA,
RCRA)
were
conducted
at
each
facility
over
the
last
eight
quarters.
In
2000,
Petroleum
Refineries
released
an
average
of
485,321
pounds
of
TRI
chemicals,
of
which
29,652
pounds
were
carcinogens.
For
a
definition
of
any
of
the
facility­
specific
indicators
listed
in
the
table
below,
click
on
the
highlighted
header.

Inspections
(
2
years)
Historical
Noncompliance
(
Quarterly
periods
with
1
or
more
violations
or
noncompliance
events)
Permit
Exceedances
­
Clean
Water
Act
(
2
years)

Air
Note
1
Water
Note
1
RCRA
Note
1
Total
Note
1
Air
Note
1
Water
Note
1
RCRA
Note
1
Air/
Water
/
RCRA
Note
2
#
of
Pollutants
Over
Limit
Note1
#
of
Pollutants
Regulated
Note
1
#
of
Reports
Over
Limit
Note
1
#
of
Reports
Submitted
Note
1
1.9
2.3
2.2
6.0
2.8
2.3
3.1
4.9
2.6
23.6
6.7
749.2
Current
Significant
Noncompliance
Note
1
Closed
Enforcement
Actions
(
2
years)

Air
Water
RCRA
Air
Note
1
Water
Note
1
RCRA
Note
1
Total
Note
1
%
of
Facilities
Note
3
%
of
Facilities
Note
3
%
of
Facilities
Note
3
47.8
4.3
9.3
1.1
0.2
0.2
1.5
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Sector­
Level
Data
Summary:
Petroleum
Refineries
(
continued)

Production
Capacity
TRI
Releases
TRI
Off­
site
Transfers
Ratio
of
Chemicals
Released
and
Transferred
to
Production
TRI
Releases­

Carcinogens
Barrels/
Day
Note
4
2000
Pounds
Note
1
2000
Pounds
Note
1
Note
5
2000
Pounds
Note
1
105,040
485,321
134,266
9.3
29,652
TRI
Releases
and
Transfers­
Metals
Total
Waste
Generated
Pollutant
Spills
(
last
2
years)
Estimated
Surrounding
Population
(
1990
Census)

2000
Pounds
Note
1
2000
Pounds
Note
1
%
of
Facilities
with
Spills
Spills
per
Facility
Note
1
Pounds
Spilled
per
Facility
Note
1
Residents
within
3
Miles
Note
1
31,473
6,719,423
80.4
22.8
87,513
42,686
Note
1:
Average
for
values
of
0
or
greater
Note
2:
Average
quarters
with
a
violation
or
noncompliance
event
in
any
of
the
three
programs
(
Clean
Air
Act,
Clean
Water
Act,
or
RCRA)

Note
3:
Average
for
facilities
with
permits
in
relevant
program
Note
4:
Not
comparable
across
industry
sectors
Note
5:
Not
comparable
across
industry
sectors.
Average
is
calculated
for
each
sector
using
only
those
observations
with
nonzero
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2
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2
values
for
BOTH
production
and
TRI
Releases
and
Transfers.
