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NSGIC Meeting
EPA Geospatial Initiatives
Wendy Blake-Coleman U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
March 21, 2006
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GIS Background at EPA Baseline

• Study conducted in 2000
• Hundreds of internal EPA staff utilizing GIS
• Thousands of public users access EPA web based
  GIS
• GIS is applied to 19 core agency activities
• Regions and Office of Research Development
  have
• been the major GIS users
• 8 of 12 Programs utilizing GIS
• Millions were being spent
• EPA could leverage Geospatial resources better
• Data Gaps inhibited implementation of EPA
  business

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Planning For Growth in the use of GIS at the EPA
- The Blueprint

• The Geospatial Road Map - streamline GeoService
  efforts in EPA business areas
• Public health
• Environmental media
• Emergency response
• Enforcement and compliance
• Collaborative approach to acquisition, management
  and use of geospatial data and tools
• Standardize GIS efforts
• Reduce costs in state-of-the-art hardware,
  software, and data resources
• Participate in Inter Agency Geo One Stop
  activities
• Create new and updated standards

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EPA GIS Workgroup

• 10 years
• 10 Regions and Many Program Offices participate
• Rotating Chair/Co-Chair
• Recognized as the Agency Geospatial Experts by
  EPA Senior Managers
• CRITICAL Enterprise Resource!

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National Geospatial Data Policy
EPA has a National Geospatial Data Policy that
addresses
Entire data life cycle
Program-specific data priorities
Incorporates eGov initiatives
Location integrated into EPAs enterprise
architecture
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Geospatial Data and Metadata Services
Architecture Current Status as of 1/10/2006
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Geospatial Data and Metadata Services
Architecture Why does this matter?
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Geospatial Data and Metadata Services
Architecture Target Architecture/EA Overlay
Conceptual Diagram
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Geospatial Data and Metadata Services
Architecture What are the next steps?

• Katrina Lessons Learned Meeting at Emergency
  Operations
• Center- March 27 2006
• Joint meeting with EA Portfolio Managers
  April 2006
• Dialogues with Program Offices and
  Regions-April/May 2006
• Dialogues with State and Federal Partners May
  2006
• Complete Cost Benefit/Value Proposition
  Analysis May 2006
• Complete sequencing Plan Summer 2006

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ESRI ELA Cost Savings
Savings of _at_1.8 million
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Academia and Training Plans FY06

• GIS for Managers Course
• GIS Intern Program
• GIS Jump School

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National Environmental Exchange Network

• Grant Program- Geospatial Projects
• About 18 of 90 grant Proposals
• Range of existing Grant projects
• Minnesota NHD Event
• Nature Serve
• Combined Animal Feedlot
• Wisconsin CDX Pilots
• Support Machine to Machine Exchanges of Polygons,
  Lines Features
• Leverage Web Service Security to facilitate
  secure discovery of data
• Integrate GIS with mainstream web service
  architecture
• Outcome
• Developed reusable geo toolkit add-on to
  existing web service nodes, begun testing
• Publish toolkit for other Exchange Network
  partners to use

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Geospatial Data Partnerships Watersheds

• 12 digit HUCs will be reporting units for
  watershed water quality improvements under the
  new EPA Strategic Plan-starting in FY 2008
• EPA has committed 1.5 million for FYs
  2005-2007 to expedite completion-Target October
  2007
• Funds Partnerships and contractual work
• Partnerships States, USGS, USDA, EPA Regions,
  BLM
• Contracts with the private sector and
  universities

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Geospatial Data Partnerships National Mapping
Standard for Wetlands

• Purpose
• To develop and finalize a national standard for
  mapping wetlands at multiple, compatible scales,
  and in multiple time-frames
• To facilitate mapping by various entities and
  integrate data into the NWI Geodatabase and
  delivery to the National Map
• To ensure consistency in updating wetlands maps
  while preserving availability of older, historic,
  baseline wetlands maps for change assessment
• Scope
• Federally funded mapping efforts required to use
  standard
• Other mapping efforts strongly encouraged to use
  standard

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Geospatial Data Partnerships National Mapping
Standard for Wetlands

• Why?
• No FGDC-approved standard for wetland mapping
• FWS doe not have resources complete and sustain
  wetland mapping
• Need Fed, State, Tribal, Local Partnership to
  sustain through a mapping funding coalition
• Next steps
• Present proposal to stakeholder groups (i.e.
  ASWM, NaCO, NSGIC, etc.)
• Begin drafting standard-l year to proposal
• Post standard on web and solicit comments
• Contact
• Margarete Heber (U.S. EPA Wetlands Division)
• 202-566-1189

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Geospatial Data PartnershipsNational Land Cover
DataBase

• Landcover Data is critical to EPA
• Report On The Environment
• Many Business Areas
• EPA contributes 500,000 annually to the MRLC
  consortium
• In FY 2006
• Initiating work on internal strategy to sustain
  funding for NLCD
• Participating in inter-agency effort to develop
  strategy to sustain a 5 year production cycle
• Interested in NOAA efforts to develop high
  resolution land cover in selected strategic areas
  and better links to local land use data

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Questions?
Wendy Blake-Coleman blake-coleman.wendy_at_epa.gov
202.566.1709