Open Government Directive Agency Geodata

An underlying goal of the Open Government Initiative is to change the culture of information dissemination, institutionalizing a preference for making Federal data more widely available in more accessible formats. As one of the flagships of the Open Government Initiative, Data.gov is designed to facilitate access to Federal datasets that increase public understanding of Federal agencies and their operations, advance the missions of Federal agencies, create economic opportunity, and increase transparency, accountability, and responsiveness across the Federal Government – i.e., "high value" datasets. The Open Government Directive specifically required agencies to register at least three new high-value datasets on Data.gov by January 22. While many of the datasets submitted to Data.gov both before and after the January 22 deadline are high-value, agencies have reported those datasets denoted by asterisks in the tables below as new "high value" datasets in accordance with Open Government Directive provisions.

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FEATURED DATASETS

Environmental Protection Agency

	Name (click for metadata and to rate geodata)	Rating	Agency/Sub-Agency	Category
*	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance New Mapping Tool for Enforcement Cases The new mapping tool shows facilities in the United States where the EPA concluded formal environmental enforcement actions between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009...	(4 votes)	EPA	Environment and Conservation

* Asterisks denote agency-reported high-value datasets.