Data Use Policy

By accessing, copying, and/or downloading data or information from this website, you agree to this Data Use Policy.

Data and information are provided as a public service; most at no cost, but some for a fee. Much of the data collected and reported by the National Biosolids Data Project are free to access and use with appropriate citation and acknowledgment. However, there are limitations on the use of documents that are accessed and/or downloaded from this website for a fee.

Recommended acknowledgement / citation. The format may be adjusted to meet publication requirements:

Beecher, Ned.; Juliana Beecher; Janine Burke-Wells; Maile Lono-Batura; Nora Goldstein; Greg Kester; and Bill Toffey. 2022. National Biosolids Data Project: Biosolids management in the U. S. https://www.biosolidsdata.org, accessed [date]

Data and information that are provided for download for a fee are for the sole use, analysis, and reporting (with citation to the NBDP) by the individual who paid the fee and their work team (<10 individuals) and are not to be shared or distributed further. Contact NBDP for further authorizations for additional uses of downloaded documents for which a fee is charged. Documents downloaded for a fee and any public reporting derived from them should include citations as shown above.

Content of this website is by the National Biosolids Data Project (NBDP), administered by NEBRA, which bear sole responsibility for any errors, omissions, or misrepresentations.

Waiver of liability. Your use of any of the information or data contained on this website or downloaded from it is at your sole risk and responsibility. By accessing and using the information and data on this website, you agree to hold harmless the National Biosolids Data Project, NEBRA, and the project team members, their organizations, and the Project’s partners and funders, all of whom provide no warranty and assume no liability related to this website’s information and data or the use of this information and data.

No endorsements or permissions granted or implied. Mentions on this website and in NBDP documents of any particular company, organization, service, system, operation, or technology does not imply endorsement or imply permission to use intellectual property owned by those mentioned. Links to webpages outside of the NBDP domain (biosolidsdata.org) do not imply endorsement or permission for use of the property of those linked webpages and organizations. Photographs on this website are used with permission, and that permission does not extend to any additional uses beyond this website and the documents this website provides.

Website administered by NEBRA. —April 2021, updated February and June 2022