Disclaimer, Privacy, and Security Notice

1. This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by the Technology Innovation Program of the Environmental Protection Agency. It is operated under contract by Environmental Management Support, Inc.
2. Information presented on this WWW site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. The U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. These documents may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial, scientific, and educational purposes. Commercial use of the documents available from this server may be protected under U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. When individual documents on this server have different copyright conditions, it will be noted in those documents.
3. Links to Web sites outside the U.S. EPA Web site and non-EPA documents are for the convenience of the user. The Standards of Ethical Conduct do not permit the U.S. EPA to endorse any private sector Web site, product, or service. The U.S. EPA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find on these web sites and within these documents. These links are being provided consistent with the intended purpose of this Web site.
4. When you come to this web site to browse, you do so anonymously. By default, EPA does not collect personally identifying information about you. We collect only summary information [see below] about the numbers of individuals who visit our web site and what those individuals look at. This computer system uses industry-standard software to create summary statistics, which are used for assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
5. The information above is also collected by Google Analytics on behalf of EPA. Google Analytics uses first-party persistent cookies, which the government classifies as Tier 2 persistent cookies. Tier 2 persistent cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information, but only those metrics listed above. In addition, persistent cookies can identify return visitors to www.frtr.gov by setting a small file in internet Web browsers. Unless you first opt-out (see below), the Google Analytics code used will automatically set a persistent cookie in the browser of the computer you are using to access www.frtr.gov.
   
   Traffic statistics for www.frtr.gov are only reported to us anonymously and in the aggregate, and no information provided by Google Analytics is traceable to any specific individual. We use the information that we automatically collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our sites, and to help us make our pages more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing Web traffic to determine the types of devices and browsers that view web pages most often and the level of demand for specific pages and topics of interest.
   
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6. Where identifying information is asked of you (such as to respond to an information request) that information is provided voluntarily by you. It is used only for the stated purpose and is not made available for other purposes. By providing this information voluntarily, you are consenting to its collection for the stated purpose. See our notice of use and Privacy Impact Assessment (175KB/11pp/PDF) for more details.
7. Unauthorized access to or unauthorized use of this website is subject to criminal, civil, administrative, or other lawful action. For site security and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the U.S. Government may for any lawful government purpose, without notice, monitor, intercept, search, and seize any authorized or unauthorized communication to or from this website or information used or stored on this website at any time. Any communications or information used, transmitted, or stored on this website may be used or disclosed for any lawful government purpose, including but not limited to, administrative purposes, penetration testing, communication security monitoring, personnel misconduct measures, law enforcement, and counterintelligence inquiries.
8. No additional attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
9. For more information about the U.S. EPA privacy program and current contact information for the U.S. EPA Senior Agency Official for Privacy (SAOP), please refer to EPA's Implementation of the Privacy Act.
10. If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, or would like to view all personally identifiable information that is in your name and currently stored in support of this website for review and possible correction, please contact us through our Comments Page. You may also contact the EPA Privacy Hotline at 202-566-1668 or privacy@epa.gov.

Example of Information Collected for Statistical Purposes

Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document:

Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying information is collected.