EPA's Facility Registry Service integrates location and identification data for sites subject to environmental regulations. This subset contains facilities linked to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools on 55.7 million acres of trust land. The FRS provides a centrally managed source of facility information, verified from EPA systems, other federal agencies, and state/tribal records.
Use Cases
- Map environmental facilities relative to BIA schools based on geospatial location data.
- Analyze regulatory oversight patterns for facilities on indigenous trust lands.
- Cross-reference facility data from EPA and other federal/state sources for integrated reporting.
Strengths
- Data is integrated from EPA's national program systems, other federal agencies, and state/tribal master records.
- Focuses on a specific subset of facilities linked to BIA schools serving approximately 48,000 students.
- Uses vigorous verification and data management procedures according to the EPA description.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified despite the listed update date of 2026-03-23.
Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Collection Method
- Integrated from EPA's national program systems, other federal agencies, and State and tribal master facility records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-23 14:31:47.590081
- Geography
- Facilities linked to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools on U.S. trust lands (55.7 million acres).