Criticisms of The FRS
The role the FRS plays in EPA is as an accurate, authoritative facility record. The European model of environmental regulation is for facilities to be assigned a number when the plant created, and all permits are linked to that number. The American system has disparate EPA program offices—Office of Water, Office of Air, etc.--each contributing its separate permit information to a central system, which has to match based on the business rules outlined above. Further complicating the issue, many programs use self-reported information, which encourages gaming the system to reduce the apparent environmental impact of a production facility. One other structural problem is that many environmental programs are delegated to the States further complicating facility interaction at the federal level. These structural problems prevent EPA from having as complete a picture of American pollution as its European counterparts.
Another criticism of the FRS is the limited accuracy of the latitude and longitude data. While FRS has taken many new actions to improve locational values, with 2.1 million facilities which now have a latitude and longitude, it is hard to place them accurately on web maps which are not totally compatible either, such as MS-Bing and Google's Google Earth.
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