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EPA's Office of Information Collection (OIC) in the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) is developing the Facility Registry System (FRS), a centrally managed database that identifies facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest. FRS creates high-quality, accurate, and authoritative facility identification records through rigorous verification and management procedures that incorporate information from program national systems, state master facility records, data collected from EPA central receiving registrations and data management personnel. The FRS provides Internet access to a single integrated source of comprehensive (air, water, and waste) environmental information about facilities, sites or places.
For each facility of environmental interest, FRS contains facility identification, federal and state environmental interest, affiliated organization and contact, and industrial classification information. FRS is integrated with the Locational Data Improvement Project and the Error Correction Process, fully implements EPA's Facility Identification Data Standard, and is compliant with the
Facility Identification Template for States (FITS) Model. 
The FRS will:
- Reduce the long-term reporting burden for facilities, states and programs.
- Improve data quality by helping to reduce errors in state and Agency facility information.
- Provide better tools for cross-media environmental analysis.
- Provide better public access to the Agency's environmental information.
- Give facilities the flexibility to review and update their identification information.
The FRS site is the companion to the
FRS integrated searches in
Envirofacts, a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. Envirofacts provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
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