State Record Reporting

Community Lattice created the Platform for Exploring Environmental Records (PEER) to offer the public a portal to access publicly available environmental records to inform brownfields redevelopment decisions.

Of particular interest is the EPA’s Facilities Registry Service (FRS) database, as it pulls together and synthesizes datasets from over 100 state and federal programs, and it supplies the vast majority (71%) of all data presented in PEER. While the FRS contains comprehensive coverage of sites subject to federal reporting requirements, facilities that are subjected to state reporting requirements are not required to report the FRS, resulting in widely varying coverage between states.