&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response
(5104)
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November 1997
550-F-97-010
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LandView™ HI is an innovative "Community Right-To-Know" software
tool and the most recent in a series of electronic tools developed by
EPA's Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
(CEPPO). It enhances community-based environmental protection by placing
a wealth of important environmental information at the fingertips of local
detisionmakers and the public. LandView™ III provides database extracts
from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Census, the U.S.
Geological Survey, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of
Transportation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These
databases are presented in a geographic context on maps that contain
jurisdictional boundaries, detailed networks of roads, rivers, and railroads,
census block group and tract polygons, schools, hospitals, churches,
cemeteries, airports, dams, and
other landmark features.
LandView software performs
display, query, and analysis of
maps and data.
ORIGIN
The need for LandView
originated during the Midwest
Floods of 1995. Nine states
were severely affected and EPA
recognized the need for an
easy-to-use tool to visualize
and identify hazardous
chemical sites and other
facilities from each of the major regulatory databases.
LandView™ III grows out of an ongoing joint venture among EPA, Bureau of
the Census, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to
develop a software tool to assist in planning for and responding to chemical
accidents.
LandView is unique in
many important ways
from other geographic
information systems
(GIS):
The most comprehensive
source of federal data cur-
rently available in one
package.
User-frfendly - No formal
training required to oper-
ate.
HELP screens and elec-
tronic tutorial provided.
CD-ROM version is less
expensive than other GIS
packages.
Download at no cost from
the Internet.
The software has been
developed in partnership
with EPA off ices and
other federal data
providers.
You can customize the
software to fit your own
data needs.
The software and data are
in the public domain and
can be copied and distrib-
uted freely.
Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
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The software in LandView is an adaptation of MARPLOT®, a
mapping component of the CAMEO® system (Computer-Aided
Management of Emergency Operations). The Bureau of Census
needed to display a detailed network of the country's physical
features (TIGER/Line files) and related demographic information.
Census's collaboration with EPA and NOAA resulted in LandView
I. LandView m is a continuation of this collaboration and is being
released as a Windows and Macintosh version with an expanded
set of EPA and federal databases.
Whaf s In LandView?
LandView contains the following information for the entire United
States, its territories, and Puerto Rico.
• Air quality information and point sources for pollutants
identified through the Clean Air Act taken from the Aerometric
Information Retrieval System (AIRS);
• Information on the treatment, storage, and disposal facilities and
major generators of hazardous waste taken from the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Biennial Reporting
System (BRS);
• The National Priority List and other sites taken from the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Information System (CERCLIS);
* Facilities holding NPDES permits for discharging wastewater
under the dean Water Act taken from the Permit Compliance
System (PCS); and
* Facilities reporting yearly estimates of emissions to air, water, and
land for over 300 toxic chemicals taken from the Toxic Release
Inventory (TRI).
New In LandView III
The new datasets in LandView in include:
• An index of watershed indicators (EPA Office of Water (OW));
* Air pollution non-attainment areas (EPA Office of Air Quality
Planning, and Standards (OAQPS));
• Schools, religious institutions, cemeteries, hospitals (US
Geological Survey (USGS));
• Dams (US Army Corps of Engineers);
• Nuclear Sites (Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRQ);
* Airports and runways (US Department of Transportation (DOT));
* Canada and Mexico boundaries and major roads;
• Expanded Bureau of Census data on income, poverty, education, housing.
Jurisdictional Boundaries
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Counties
Minor Civil Divisions (for 20 states)
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Census Tracts
Block Groups ,' ...
Congressional Districts
Indian Lands
Metropolitan Areas
Neighborhood Maps
Major Highways
Local Streets
Rivers, Lakes, Shorelines ;
Railroads
Schools
Religious Institutions
Hospitals '.".
Cemeteries
Airports
Dams
Environmental Sites
Demographic Statistics
total Population
Population by Age
Population by Race
Income
Housing
Education
Environmental Data
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Wastewater Discharges V
Toxic Release Inventory
Hazardous Waste
Superfund Sites
NuclearSites
Watershed Assessment
Air Quality Monitoring
Thematic Mapping
Shows Census boundaries, EPA sites, or
other map features, in various colors and
patterns based on database attributes
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LandView III: Now Even Easier to
Use
LandView is designed to be a self-taught, easy-to-use system on
standard IBM-compatible or Macintosh PCs with a CD-ROM
reader and VGA color graphics. The new interface is more :
user-friendly and allows for more powerful query functions.
HELP screens are available on the system along with an
electronic user's manual to help new users get started.
LandView III makes it easier to import new sets of information.
LandView III can use dBase/Foxpro database files, as long as
the file has fields for latitude and longitude. !
Availability:
LandView III is available on CD-ROM from the Bureau of
Census. Questions about purchasing LandView III or Census
data should be directed to:
Bureau of Census
Census webpage:
(301)457-4100
www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
Users can download (via the Internet) the software and one
county of information from RTKNet1 http://rtk.net/landview
Contacts:
For questions about LandView IE, the EPA databases in
LandView and emergency planning regulations, please contact:
Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Hotline:
Monday through Friday - 9 am to 6 pm EST
(800)424-9346
(703)412-9810
(800) 535-7672 TDD
For more information on the emergency planning,
preparedness, and prevention programs mentioned in this
factsheet, please visit the CEPPO website at:
http://www.epa.gov/ceppo
Current LandView
Applications
Community Right-To-Know
LandView III is now the most simple and
rapid way to locate and identify
important environmental information on
potential risk in a community. Pollutant
information and contact information is
provided in addition to facility or site
locations.
Emergency Planning
With the release of LandView III, an
expanded set of information is now
available to planners as they work to
identify the potential hazards in their
communities.
Risk Management Plans
Beginning in 1999, certain facilities will
be required to submit risk management
plans that characterize the potential
hazards posed by chemicals stored and
used in local facilities. LandView III will
assist facilities in identifying their site
locations and potentially vulnerable
populations. Members of the local
community can use LandView III to
better understand the information that
will be made available in facility risk
management plans.
Environmental Justice
By combining EPA-reguIated site
information with Census demographic
information, LandView 111 is a useful tool
to examine the relationship of
environmental sites to different
populations based on income, race, and
other demographic features.
Brownfields
LandView III has been provided to over
100 Brownflelds Pilot Projects across the
country to assist community planners in
redeveloping underutilized industrial and
commercial sites with potential
environmental contamination.
1 RTKNet (The Right-To-Know Network) is
an independent, non-profit organization—-
not part of the Environmental Protection
Agency.
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Other Landview Maps
LandView III has the capacity to display
multiple layers of information to help
emergency planners understand where
environmentally significant facilities are
located in relation to the different parts of an
area. In this picture, Prince William County,
Virginia is displayed with different "layers"
of information such as airports, Superfund
sites (S), wastewater discharge facilities (W),
hospitals, major roads, and many others.
Depending on the emergency planner's
needs, he or she can choose to display layers
pertinent to their planning and response
work and then zoom in on the map to view
more details.
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