DOCKET Standard Reports

This topic contains a number of "standard reports", types of searches that are often done on DOCKET data. The searches include:

Facility/Area
Selects a report that will give you data on cases filed on a particular facility or in a geographic area.
Example: You are interested in the Rhone Poulenc plant in your town.
Defendant
Defendant: Selects a report that will give you data on cases or administrative actions filed against a particular defendant.
Example: You are interested in all cases filed against Waste Management.
Case
Selects a report that will allow you to choose a list of cases based on which enivironmental laws have broken, which types of violation have occurred, or which types of pollutants were involved.
Example: You want a list of all cases involving Chromium pollution and the Clean Water Act.

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Facility/Area Search

Facility/area reports will let you find a list of cases filed against a single facility or all facilities in a geographic area determined by city, state, or zip code. Each case can have more than one facility involved in it.

Defendant Search

This report will let you search for cases filed against particular people or companies. You may wish to also check for cases against companies by searching the facility name field under the facility/area report. A single case or administrative action can have more than one defendant.

Case Search

This report will let you search on a wide range of miscellanious case information. You can search for cases involving a particular law, a particular type of violation, a particular type of pollutant, or a mixture of these. You can also search for a single case by its DOCKET case number if you want more detail on a single case you've noticed from a previous DOCKET search.

City and County Fields

Fill in the name of the county or city that you want - do not fill in the word "county" after counties. Some submissions have their county or city misspelled; others have two varient spellings for the same city or county. For instance, the city of St. Louis can be spelled either ST. LOUIS or SAINT LOUIS. If you think this may be a factor, you can either run your search twice or use "*" to represent any characters. In the case above you could enter "S*LOUIS" and find both spellings. Watch out for FORT/FT., SAINT/ST., and MOUNT/MT.

Level of Detail Field

This field selects the level of detail you want in your report:

LOW
: The report will produce all basic information for each case, but will only list the first defendant and the first facility in the case. If the case has more than one defendant, or more than one facility, the additional ones will not be listed but the report will tell you how many there were. for each facility. This information includes name, address, EPA ID and SIC codes. This level of detail should be used if all you want is a facility list.
HIGH
: The report will produce all information for each case, including a full list of defendants and facilities. Each case can have up to 505 defendants and 50 facilities.
If you need more detail then can be found through this High detail report, try the DOCKET Form Query (currently available only via telnet), which shows all DOCKET data fields.

Output Type Field

This field selects what output style your report will have:
Text
The report will produce human-readable ASCII text.
Comma-delimited ASCII
The report will produce a table of data with the columns separated by commas. Character fields will by surrounded by double quotes so that any commas in them won't be read as column delimiters. This style of output is suitable for loading into a database such as Dbase.
Tab-delimited ASCII
The report will produce a table of data with the columns separated by tabs. This style of output is suitable for loading into databases such as Excel.

Defendant Name Field

Fill in the defendant name that you are interested in. This can be either the name of a person or a company. A person's name will be listed as Last Name, First Name. So if you want to find all cases filed against people with the last name of Smith, enter SMITH*. Each case can have more than one defendant (up to 505). LOW detail searches will show you only the first defendant for the case (in alphabetical order); HIGH detail shows all defendants.

Environmental Law Field

You can search for cases or actions involving a particular environmental law: i.e., CAA, CERCLA, CWA, EPCRA, FIFRA, MPRSA, MWTA, RCRA, SDWA, or TSCA.

Violation Field

You can search for cases or administrative actions that involve a particular type of violation.

Pollutant Field

You can search for cases or administrative actions that involve a particular type of pollution.

Administrative Action Type Field

If you want to search only for administrative actions, you can choose a particular type of administative action from this code list.

DOCKET Case Number Field

If you want a single case, fill in its DOCKET case number. The only reason to search using this field is if there is a single case that you noticed in a large LOW detail search that you want HIGH detail on.

Facility Name Field

Fill in the facility name in this field if you know it.

Warning! Facility names are often misspelled when submitted to EPA. In addition, many facilities change their names from year to year. For these reasons, enter as few letters as are necessary to specify the facility, followed by a "*" to represent any number of letters. This will help you find the facility even if its name changes or is misspelled. Example: You want to find a Du Pont facility. Possible spellings of facility name:

  1. DU PONT CO.
  2. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMEURS
  3. DUPONT
  4. DU PONT MICHIGAN PLANT
If you entered "DU PONT" into the name field, you wouldn't have found any of these spellings. On the other hand, if you entered "DU PONT*", you would have found spellings 1 and 4. To find all of these you would need to enter "*DU*PONT*". If you're not very sure of the facility name it is often better to leave this field blank and get a list of all facilities in the city that your facility of interest is in.

State Field

If you wish to search on the entire US, select the "ALL" value for this field.

Zip Code Field

Fill in the zip code for the area that you want. If you fill in a 5-digit zip code, the program will automatically put a "*" after it. The "*" represents any number of characters and will let your search find 9-digit zip codes that start with the 5 digits you entered. Don't fill in dashes.
Example:
If you enter 20740*
this will find