RCRA Enforcement Response Leads — find facilities with fresh action + unresolved linked violations

For environmental compliance consultants, remediation vendors and environmental BD teams who need fresh hazardous-waste response opportunities. One run returns EPA ECHO RCRA enforcement actions, deduplicated and joined to their linked evaluations and violations, with actions flagged where a linked violation has no source return-to-compliance date. Pay-per-result: $0.02 per delivered action — 100 leads = $2.00. Try it free with Apify's monthly platform credit.

That unresolved-linked-violation signal is the commercial shortcut: consultants, remediation/compliance vendors and environmental BD teams can focus research on recent enforcement events where the linked source record does not yet show a return-to-compliance date. It is deliberately named derivedUnresolvedLinkedViolationCount—it is a workflow signal, not a claim that a facility is currently out of compliance.

Quick start (2 minutes)

1. Open the Input tab (no EPA account or key needed — the source is public).
2. Use this prefill for recent Texas/Louisiana actions with unresolved linked violations:

{"lookbackDays":30,"states":["TX","LA"],"requireUnresolvedLinkedViolation":true,"minPenaltyUsd":5000,"maxItems":100}

3. Click Start. Export the resulting shortlist to CSV/JSON, or pull it via the API into your CRM.

Why this is different

Most EPA ECHO Actors are facility searches, flat violation feeds or generic change monitors. This Actor is RCRA-specific and action-first: it joins EPA's evaluation → violation → enforcement linkage, collapses duplicate action rows, counts linked violations missing a source return-to-compliance date, and can filter to only those events. You get a shortlist for response research rather than another facility dump.

Use cases

• Weekly consulting lead feed: schedule after EPA's weekly refresh and keep only recent actions with linked violations lacking ACTUAL_RTC_DATE.
• Remediation/compliance BD triage: rank action-level records by unresolved-linked-violation count, recency and source-reported penalty.
• Territory monitoring: watch selected states for new RCRA enforcement response work.
• Evidence-backed account research: open the ECHO facility link with action, evaluation and violation context already joined.
• Legal/risk research: analyze recent RCRA actions without mistaking a facility-level summary for the underlying linked event evidence.

How it works

EPA publishes separate RCRA Pipeline evaluation, violation and enforcement tables linked by ISN_RCR_EVAL. The Actor downloads the official ZIP, validates product-critical columns, joins those tables, groups repeated enforcement rows by ENF_KEY (with a deterministic source-fact fallback), derives unresolved-linked-violation signals from blank ACTUAL_RTC_DATE, sorts the most actionable records first, then returns at most maxItems rows.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
lookbackDays	90	Enforcement action lookback, 1–3650 days.
states	[]	Up to 15 two-letter activity states; empty = nationwide.
minPenaltyUsd	0	Minimum source-reported penalty. Positive values exclude missing penalties.
requireUnresolvedLinkedViolation	false	Keep only actions linked to ≥1 violation whose source ACTUAL_RTC_DATE is blank.
maxItems	250	Hard result and billing cap, max 5000.

{"lookbackDays":30,"states":["TX","LA"],"requireUnresolvedLinkedViolation":true,"minPenaltyUsd":5000,"maxItems":100}

Output

Commercially useful fields include source facts (facilityName, rcraFacilityId, enforcementActionType, enforcementActionDate, penaltyAmountUsd, linked violation/evaluation types and dates) plus explicitly derived workflow fields: derivedUnresolvedLinkedViolationCount, derivedHasUnresolvedLinkedViolation, derivedViolationCount, derivedEvaluationCount, derivedDaysSinceEnforcement, and derivedLatestEvaluationDate. Every row also carries source/provenance links and the ECHO refresh key.

Illustrative only:

{"opportunityId":"example-action","rcraFacilityId":"TXD000000001","facilityName":"EXAMPLE FACILITY","activityState":"TX","enforcementActionType":"Notice Of Violation","enforcementActionDate":"2026-09-10","penaltyAmountUsd":12500,"violationTypes":"262.A; 265.B","returnToComplianceDates":null,"derivedViolationCount":2,"derivedUnresolvedLinkedViolationCount":2,"derivedHasUnresolvedLinkedViolation":true}

Field	Value (illustrative)
facilityName	EXAMPLE FACILITY
activityState	TX
enforcementActionType	Notice Of Violation
enforcementActionDate	2026-09-10
penaltyAmountUsd	12500
violationTypes	262.A; 265.B
derivedUnresolvedLinkedViolationCount	2
derivedHasUnresolvedLinkedViolation	true

Source facts vs derived signals

penaltyAmountUsd, action/evaluation/violation types and dates, and ACTUAL_RTC_DATE originate in EPA data. derivedUnresolvedLinkedViolationCount counts distinct linked violation records whose source ACTUAL_RTC_DATE is blank. Blank does not prove ongoing noncompliance; it may reflect reporting timing or data quality. The Actor does not infer severity, revenue, propensity to buy, legal status or remediation need.

API usage

$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"lookbackDays":30,"states":["TX"],"requireUnresolvedLinkedViolation":true,"maxItems":100}'

Run it weekly

EPA documents the RCRA Pipeline as weekly refreshed, with the refresh run date embedded in ISN_RCR_EVAL, so this is built for a weekly cadence:

1. Set your states/requireUnresolvedLinkedViolation/minPenaltyUsd filters, then click Schedule on the run page (or create one under Schedules in the Apify Console).
2. Run it weekly with a short lookbackDays (7-30) to surface fresh response-research candidates each time.
3. Use opportunityId as your dedupe key when routing the flat output to CRM, Sheets or downstream automation.

Data source and trust

Official source: EPA ECHO RCRA Pipeline bulk download. EPA documents that the pipeline explicitly links evaluations to violations and enforcement actions through ISN_RCR_EVAL, and that the national ECHO downloads refresh weekly. Required columns are asserted so schema drift fails loudly.

Reliability

Bounded 429/5xx retry/backoff, HTTP timeout, archive byte cap, ZIP validation, strict CSV/schema checks, action deduplication and hard result cap. A zero-result run fails loudly before delivery and billing.

Pricing and cost control

One pay-per-event charge of $0.02 per delivered, deduplicated enforcement action row (enforcement-opportunity). Benchmarked 2026-09-24 against comparable EPA ECHO/RCRA Store Actors (data/market/store-2026-09-21.jsonl.gz): EPA RCRA Hazardous Waste Generator Rollup ($0.008), EPA ECHO Enforcement Scraper ($0.008), EPA ECHO Scraper - Facilities, Violations & Compliance Leads ($0.005), EPA Facility & Enforcement Scraper ($0.00999) and EPA ECHO Enforcement Scraper - Violations API ($0.05). $0.02 sits above the median of that set to reflect the multi-table join, deduplication and derived-signal work this Actor does that a flat facility/violation feed does not. Delivery is budget-aware: each batch is cut to what the run's spending limit still covers before it is pushed, so a row is never delivered without being billed for (see src/charging.js). maxItems caps output and requested billing. A zero-result run fails loudly and charges nothing.

Limitations

Public regulatory data, not legal advice. EPA/state reporting can lag. A missing ACTUAL_RTC_DATE is a source-data condition, not proof of present noncompliance. Missing penalties are null, not zero (verified live 2026-09-24: penalty amounts are populated on a small minority of rows in a typical run). Live end-to-end validation performed 2026-09-24 from GitHub Actions (this dev environment has no general egress): the EPA ZIP is reachable (~53 MB), all three pipeline tables parse with every required column present, and prefill-shaped queries return rows nationwide over 7/30/90-day windows.

FAQ

Is this another EPA facility scraper? No. The product object is a recent RCRA enforcement action with its linked evaluation/violation evidence and an optional unresolved-linked-violation workflow filter.

Does derivedHasUnresolvedLinkedViolation mean the facility is currently violating RCRA? No. It means at least one linked violation record has no source ACTUAL_RTC_DATE in the downloaded EPA data.

Why not use EPA ECHO directly? You can. This Actor is for buyers who want the multi-table join, action deduplication, commercial filtering, flat export and scheduled automation already done.

What if nothing matches? The run fails loudly and charges nothing.

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