The National Environmental Information Exchange Network

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The National Environmental Information Exchange
Network Update National Congress of American
Indians Exchange Network Tribal
Meeting Albuquerque, NM March 24-25, 2009
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Todays Topics

• Regional Strategies for Exchange Network
  Implementation National System Flow Priorities
• Climate Change
• Node 2.0
• Tribal/EPA EIN Management Technology Council
  and Full EN Implementation

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Regional Strategies for Exchange Network
Implementation

• Vision for an Enhanced Regional Role with the
  Exchange Network
• EPA Regions will foster connections and
  communications with existing and potential
  Network customers and promote regional
  utilization of the Network.

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Exchange Network Regional Strategic Actions

• Engage in Programmatic Outreach and Communication
• Convene Network Partners
• Continue to Participate Actively in Governance
  and Administration
• Leverage the Unique Role of OEI Lead Region ENLC
  Delegate
• Support Regional Utilization of the Exchange
  Network
• Continue Supporting Exchange Network Grant
  Administration
• Leverage the Network for Other EPA Grant Program
• Establish Regions as Centers of Leadership
• Coordinate with Tribes and Engage Network Tribal
  Participation
• Work with Network Governance to Implement the
  Regional Strategy
• More Info
• http//www.exchangenetwork.net/operations/enlc/EN_
  RegionalPlan_v1.0.doc

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National System Flow Priorities

• EPAs reinforced emphasis to work with tribes
  states on concrete plans to flow data
• ECOS Resolution State/EPA Commitment to Full
  Implementation of EN Strategic Plan national
  system flows
• Facility ID
• Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS)
• Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
• Air Quality System (AQS)
• National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
• Beach Notification
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Air Facility System (AFS)
• Integrated Compliance Information System -
  National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
  (ICIS-NPDES)
• Water Quality Exchange (WQX)
• Tribal Resolution Tribal/EPA Commitment to
  implement targeted flows (i.e., FRS, WQX, AQS,
  Open Dump for HIS/EPA)?

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State-EPA EIN Management Technology Council?

• Collaborate on exchange of ideas/info to save
  agencies time money - more efficiently achieve
  future info management goals.
• Provide forum to discuss current-future business
  IT policy including BMPs, resources, training
  and other critical issues
• Participate in evaluation, funding, and
  development of new management programs,
  technologies and applications.
• Identify, discuss, and resolve key state and
  federal policy issues in info management.
• Solicit and provide input and recommendations
  into proposed guidelines, rules, and decisions.
• Engage broader group of organizations
  w/experience in environmental info to interact
  with state agencies with primacy for
  administering environmental programs and EPA

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Council Membership

• Council Members - IT Division Managers,
  Information Resource Division Managers,
  Information Systems Admins, CIOs, others
  w/similar decision-making authority in states and
  EPA.
• Council Membership with full voting privileges
  open to state agencies with primacy for
  administering environmental programs, EPA and
  tribes.
• Multiple members are permitted from each State
  and each program office in the EPA but voting is
  limited to
• Voting members should designate an alternate to
  attend Council meetings or vote in their absence.
• Non-voting membership status is created for
  senior info tech managers in other federal/state
  agencies, including, but not limited to
• State departments of health, natural resources,
  ag
• CDC, DOI, USGS and NOAA
• Non-profit orgs - Association of State Drinking
  Water Administrators (ASDWA), NCAI and
  Natureserve.

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Decision

• Do the tribes want to create something similar?
• Tribal-EPA EIN Management Technology Council
• Does NCAI want to serve as the sponsoring
  organization?

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Flow Costs Tools for Thought

• Return on Investment (ROI) and Business Process
  Analysis Project

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Flow Costs Tools for Thought

• Economic Baseline Project
• Example Data Flow Yurok Tribe
• More details on this tomorrow .

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Climate Change

• EPAs draft mandatory reporting rule for GHG
  reporting from large GHG sources to develop
  carbon regulations under either
• carbon tax, or
• market-based, cap-and-trade program
• The GHG gas emissions covered
• carbon dioxide (CO2),
• methane (CH4),
• nitrous oxide (N2O),
• hydrofluorocarbons (HFC),
• perfluorocarbons (PFC),
• sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as well as other
  fluorinated gases expressed mtCO2e

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Climate Change

• GHG emissions sources required for GHG emissions
  data collection to begin 1/1/2010, w/annual
  reporting to EPA starting 2011
• All suppliers of specified industrial gases
  fossil fuels.
• Manufacturers of vehicles and engines.
• Facilities emitting 25,000 mtCO2e or more GHG
  emissions/yr
• EPA estimates 13,000 facilities fall w/in rule
  scope, w/power plants mentioned specifically.
• Public hearings in April w/public comment for 60
  days.

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Climate Change

• EN working with TCR, California Climate Action
  Registry (CCAR), EPA, several states to pilot
  exchange of GHG data using Consolidated Emissions
  Reporting Schema (CERS)
• demonstrate data exchange of batch historical GHG
  data from CCAR to TCR using EN nodes client
  tools
• proof of concept for future flow of GHG emissions
  from States/Provinces/Tribes to TCR
• explore using this data exchange to support
  voluntary batch uploads data from business
  entities to TCR and EPA
• Windsor Solutions developed FCD, and has/will
  have contract w/CA for flow testing
• ECOS to provide some level of funding

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Node 2.0 Summary of Features
More on this topic tomorrow .
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More Info?

• Mike Beaulac
• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
• Lansing, MI
• beaulacm_at_michigan.gov
• 517-241-7808