Hazardous Waste Facilities

Hazardous Waste facility information in LandView comes from the Biennial 
Reporting System (BRS). The BRS system contains information from reports 
submitted to States and EPA Regional Offices every other year by facilities 
regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Data 
have been submitted biennially since 1985. EPA's Office of Solid Waste 
and Emergency Response is responsible for the system. BRS data in LandView III 
are from the 1993 reporting year and represent treatment, storage and disposal 
(TSD) facilities and major generators of hazardous waste. Major generators are 
defined as facilities generating over 100 kg of hazardous waste in any calendar 
month. EPA provides this information to the public in summary of the biennial 
reports. The information in this system is represented in LandView III by the 
symbol "H" for hazardous waste. There are three databases for the BRS data. 
BRS_1.DBF contains the basic facility description; BRS_2.DBF contains a list 
of waste systems managed at each facility; and BRS_3.DBF is a table of waste 
system codes and descriptions. The database structure, including field names, 
data types, field lengths, number of decimal places, and field descriptions 
for file BRS_1.DBF are as follows:

EPA_ID C 12
EPA ID NUMBER

NAME C 40
NAME

LQG_FLAG C 3
LARGE QUANTITY GENERATOR FLAG

TONS_GEN N 13 3
TOTAL TONS GENERATED

TSD_FLAG C 3
TREAT/STOREAGE/DISPOSAL FLAG

TONS_MGMT N 13 3
TOTAL TONS MANAGED

ADDRESS1 C 30
ADDRESS LINE 1

ADDRESS2 C 30
ADDRESS LINE 2

CITY C 25
CITY

STATE C 2
STATE ABBRIEVIATION

ZIP C 9
ZIP CODE

CONTACT_FN C 14
CONTACT FIRST NAME

CONTACT_LN C 15
CONTACT LAST NAME

CONTACT_TI C 15
CONTACT TITLE

CONTACT_PH C 10
CONTACT PHONE

CONTACT_EX C 4
CONTACT EXTENSION

YEAR C 4
YEAR

LAT_DMS C 7
LATITUDE, degrees, minutes, seconds

LONG_DMS C 8
LONGITUDE, degrees, minutes, seconds

ST_COUNTY C 5
FIPS STATE_COUNTY CODE

LATITUDE C 10
LATITUDE, decimal degrees

LONGITUDE C 11
LONGITUDE, decimal degrees

LL_METHOD C 2
Latitude and Longitude collection method

LL_ACCURAC N 7 1
Accuracy in meters associated with the Latitude and Longitude collection method

LL_DESCRIP C 2
Description of the Latitude and Longitude collection point

See Latitude & Longitude Collection Methods for a description of the lat/long collection fields.
The database structure, including field names, data types, field lengths, number of decimal places, and field descriptions for file BRS_2.DBF are as follows:

EPA_ID C 12
EPA ID NUMBER

SYSTEM C 4
SYSTEM CODE

TONS_MGMT N 13 3
TOTAL TONS MANAGED

The database structure, including field names, data types, field lengths, number of decimal places, and field descriptions for file BRS_3.DBF are as follows:

SYSTEM C 4
SYSTEM CODE

DESCRIPT C 60
DESCRIPT