Federal Data Base

U.S. EPA (1992a). Accessing Federal Data Bases for Contaminated Site Clean-up Technologies, 2nd edn. EPA/542/B-92/002. 

Data is a driving force behind the Compliance, Safety, Accountabihty (CSA) enforcement program. Information is entered into a federal data base where it is evaluated. Previous to CSA, information on a specific carrier was filtered through SafeStat and scored. The system that replaced SafeStat is the Safety Measru-ement System (SMS). Unhke SafeStat, SMS will generate both a carrier and driver evaluation and score every roadside inspection violation, even those that did not result in an Out-of-Service order. 

Maintains a data base which collects and classifies all of the information about air toxics control programs submitted by federal, state and local agencies. The information is organized by agency, pollutant and emission source. Serves state and local agencies and the public. Monday through Friday, 7 30 a.m. - 5 00p.m., EST. 

NATICH. 1992. National Air Toxics Information Clearing House (NATICH) data base report of federal, state, and local air toxics activities. Research Triangle Park, NC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. EPA-453 R-92-008. 

P. Rudolph, Aquatic Toxicity Data Base, Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, 1989. 

Federal Agency Forum on Aging-related Statistics, Data base news in aging, Washington, D.C., 1997. 

Differences in data collection practices make reliance on federal figures problematic. For example, some data on African American chemists are reported for U.S. citizens and permanent visas for certain years, while other data are reported for U.S bom citizens for different years. Unfortunately, some data are reported for academic years, while others are presented for calendar years. Moreover, some data are aggregated as the physical sciences, while other data are disaggregated by discipline. Some professional societies report data based only on their membership. To the extent possible, 1 shall report the most recent, complete data available on U.S. bom citizens. 

In 1998 the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) was begun by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is an automated forensic data bank that contains DNA profile data related to most of the recent major crimes. It is also connected with state systems as well as similar worldwide data bases. 

NAT1CH. 1992. National Air Toxies Inventory Clearinghouse data base report of federal, state, and local air toxics activities. Enviromnental Proteetion Agency. 

TSTRAC. 1988. Summary of state and federal drinking water standards and guidelines. Chemical Communication Subcommittee, Federal-State Toxicology and Regulatory Alliance Committee (FSTRAC) data base, Washington, DC, March 1988. 

NATICH. 1992. National Air Toxics Information Clearinghouse, NATICH Data Base of Federal,... 

Unfortunately, federal regulators chose not to use a waste classification scheme in developing the national program. They cited the lack of a reliable technical data base as their reason. As a result, the public perceives all hazardous waste as equally threatening and lethal — even though this is far from the truth. Moreover, the public also cannot now distinguish very well among facilities, particularly between land disposal ones such... 

To achieve the goals of virtually every R D project, it is critically important to have accurate, pertinent data along with easy access to those data (i). Otherwise, progress stops until such data are obtained, or the goal is changed from one that must be achieved toward one that can be achieved. The productivity of the federal research investment in electrochemical research is critically dependent on development of an improved data base, including... 

The U.S. EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (7) reviewed and evaluated the toxicological data base submitted by Monsanto in support of a petition for tolerance levels for alachlor in or on raw agricultural commodities. Data considered in support of the petition and summarized in the Federal Register, included ... 

FEDRIP. 1996. Summary of federal research. Federal Research in Progress (FEDRIP) data base, 1996. 

In addition to the registry numbers, the material in the common data base includes information on molecular structure, official U. S. Pharmacopoeia and other names, known synonyms, and codes indicating the sources of information. The data have been worked into the computer systems of both FDA and NLM and have been reproduced in a six-volume Desktop Analysis Tool, which is available from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information (Springfield, Va.). The first output of the data base consisted of approximately 30,000 chemical substances and approximately 150,000 names and synonyms. 

Federal Index This data base covers virtually all federal documents issued between October 1976 and the present. Available from Capitol Services, Inc., Washington, D.C., the Federal Index covers proposed rules, regulations, speeches, bill introductions, congressional hearings, court decisions, executive orders, Washington Post articles, as well as all Federal Register documents. The cost for one hour of on-line connect time is 90.00 for subscribers to Lockheed s Dialog Information Retrieval Service. 

One of the few commercially available data bases with truly validated flash point data is CHEMSAFE , by the German DECHEMA e.V. [32]. The validation was undertaken by the Physical Technical Federal Institute in Braunschweig, Germany. 

EPA. 1986c. Inventory reporting regulations, partial updating of the inventory data base. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register 51 21447-21450 40 CFR 710. 

For this information, check with the suppHer, EPA lists, Federal Register notices or a commercial data base. 

The experience base for GCR fuel behaviour under accident conditions was reviewed at an IAEA Specialists Meeting in 1990 [Ref. 2], and a CRP on Validation of Predictive Methods for Fuel and Fission Product Behaviour in GCRs was initiated in 1993. Countries participating in this CRP include China, France, Japan, Poland, Germany, the USA and the Russian Federation. Within this CRP, participants are documenting the status of the experimental data base and predictive methods, cooperating in methods verification and validation and will identify and document the additional needs for methods development and experimental validation data. 

The data bases mentioned so far are readily available to the public. The Federal government alone has over 220 chemical data files in various agencies and in different forms, from file cards to computer files. Many of these are not open to the public, and those that are usually require a formal request for a data-base search. Often, access is limited to those employed in government or as contract researchers for the agency. 

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