The C ent ral

Pro bl em

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Financial community tracks
companies

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EPA tracks facilities, sites,
and accidents
 So me m ajor EPA Da ta
Colle ctio ns
Dataset Parent company identifiers
parent company name, parent company D&B number,
TRI (toxic releases)

RMP (chemical accidents) parent company name, facility name

RCRAINFO (hazardous waste) owner name, handler name

CERCLIS (contaminated Potentially

sites) Responsible Party (PRP) nam

ERNS (chemical accidents) discharger name

ECHO (enforcement / penalties)facility name

Data Qu ality :
Ho neywe ll D &B s Number
of
Parent D&B Name of entity (from D&B lookup) facilities
139691877 Honeywell International Inc. (HQ) 47
NA Invalid 10
1325240 Honeywell Inc. (HQ) 2
2948623 Invalid 1
801239559 Honeywell International Inc. (BR) 1
263753543 Invalid 1
194387957 Ademco Distribution Inc. (HQ) 1
184108637 Honeywell International Inc. (BR) 1
48794986 Invalid 1
2081230 Honeywell International Inc. (BR) 1
948373204 Southwest Microelectronic Materials, Inc. (HQ) 1
763954618 Invalid 1
198061848 UOP L.L.C. (HQ) 1
192062008 Honeywell International Inc. (BR) 1
168790137 Texas Ultra Pure Inc. 1
54332192 Honeywell International Inc. (BR) 1
Data Qu ality :
Ho neywe
Parent Name
ll p arents
Number of facilities
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. 23
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL 18
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 15
HONEYWELL 6
NA 3
HONEYWELL INC 2
HONEYWELL MORRISTOWN 1
UOP LLC 1
HONEYWELL,INTERNATIONAL,INC. 1
HONEYWELL INC. 1
HONEYWELL INTERANATIONAL 1
Te chn ic al Ste ps

Program assigns a regularized parent
name to each facility, and groups facilities
by regularized name.


Program groups together groups of
facilities by common parent D&B number.
Te chn ic al Ste ps

Check over the resulting groupings
manually.

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Either assign an overall parent company
name to a group, or the most common
parent name of facilities in the group will
be chosen.
Defin itio n o f pa re nt
com pany

If an entity owns 51% of a facility, that
entity is the parent company


If two entities each own 50% (a joint
venture), the joint venture is the parent
company
Defin itio n o f pa re nt
com pany

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If one entity owns 50% and no single
entity owns the other 50%, that entity is
the parent company

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If no single entity owns 50% of the facility,
the facility is its own parent company
Tim e I ss ues

Ownership is not tracked year by year.
The latest owner of the facility is assumed
to have responsibility for all past pollution
by the facility.

Ownership is as of when PERI does its
analysis, not as of the latest TRI year. In
other words, the latest information within
TRI may be out of date (e.g. 2007 data
are released in 2009)
Wha t c ould b e d on e?

Reporting guidance to TRI respondents

TRI-ME data checking

New data fields with EPA parent
assignments

Replace D&B numbers with publicly
accessible ID system

Data users could share their TRI parent
company assignments
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