Standard Industrial Classification (code)

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-026553",
  "term": "Standard Industrial Classification (code)",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definitions": [
    "The Department of Commerce economic end-product identifier, which has been replaced by NAICS.",
    "1. A method of grouping industries with similar products or services and assigning codes to these groups.\n\n2. A code number system used to identify various types of industries. The code numbers are published by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. A particular industry may have more than one SIC code if it conducts several types of commercial or manufacturing activities onsite.\n\n3. Also known as SIC Codes, a method of grouping industries with similar products or services and assigning codes to these groups.\n\n4. A code number system used to identify various types of industries. A particular industry may have more than one SIC code if it conducts several types of commercial or manufacturing activities onsite. An online version of the 1987 SIC Manual is available courtesy of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA).\n\n5. Code that describes the primary activity of the facility. The two-digit code defines a major business sector, the four-digit code contains two additional numbers that denote a facility's specialty within the major sector. See the U.S. Department of Labor website for more information. Search Considerations: For SIC code searches, the Loading Tool identifies matching facilities based on their permit SIC code in ICIS-NPDES. If the permit SIC code is blank, the Loading Tool uses the primary facility SIC code. Note that SIC codes are not required to be reported in ICIS-NPDES. Searching on SIC code will only return records for facilities that have either a primary permit or facility SIC code in ICIS-NPDES that matches the specified SIC code for the search. These data are from ICIS-NPDES.",
    "Standard Industrial Classification codes classify a business or facility according to its primary kind of activity, such as chemical manufacturing or electricity generation. Two-digit codes are the most general, four-digit codes are the most specific (although some unofficial sources use codes up to eight digits); RSEI uses two-digit and four-digit codes."
  ],
  "abbreviation": [
    "SIC",
    "SIC Code",
    "SIC codes"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Air",
    "Water",
    "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Emissions Inventory System Glossary",
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms; Pesticides Glossary",
    "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "NPDES Permit Writers Manual Glossary",
    "Glossary of Frequent Terms in the Loading Tool",
    "Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/standard-industrial-classification-code/"
}