Federal Facilities by Industry in the 2015 TRI National Analysis
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The following pie chart shows the number of federal facilities reporting to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program by industry in 2015.
For the year 2015, 449 federal facilities in 39 different types of operations (based on their 6-digit NAICS codes) reported to the TRI Program. Almost two-thirds of these facilities were in the National Security sector, which includes Department of Defense facilities such as Army and Air Force bases. All federal facilities are subject to TRI reporting requirements regardless of their sector. Therefore, for some industry sectors, the TRI database only includes data from federal facilities. More than three-quarters of federal facilities are in National Security, such as military bases (63%); Correctional Institutions (13%); and Police Protection, such as training sites for Border Patrol stations (5%).
As with non-federal facilities, activities at federal facilities drive the types and quantities of waste managed that is reported. Some of the activities at federal facilities that are captured by TRI reporting are similar to those at non-federal facilities, such as hazardous waste treatment. In other cases, federal facilities may report due to a more specialized activity not usually performed by non-federal facilities. For example, all of the federal facilities included under Police Protection and Correctional Institutions only reported for lead and lead compounds, likely due to the use of lead ammunition on firing ranges at these facilities.
This page was published in January 2017 and uses the 2015 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2016.