Summary for the following Regions

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Summary for the following Regions

• Region 2
• Region 4
• Region 6
• Region 8
• Region 10

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EPA Region 2

• Robert Simpson
• Regional Exchange Network Coordinator

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2008 EPA Region 2 Exchange Network Activity

• New York and New Jersey, two proven Network
  partners with multiple production data flows,
  have invited Region 2s participation in vanguard
  Network projects awarded as cooperative
  agreements. Two of the grants are still active
  with clear paths to full performance. The
  recently closed and highly successful New Jersey
  Air Quality Data Exchange cooperative agreement,
  received the ECOS Innovation Award. The Virgin
  Islands will be closing out their first Network
  grant, also a cooperative agreement this year.
  We think it will help define the small partner
  business case for participating in the Exchange
  Network. Region 2 is honored to have been at the
  table with each of these talented teams who took
  on the following challenges

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• New Jersey, New York, and Delaware in strong
  collaboration with EPAs Air Program (thank you
  Phil Dickerson and Nick Magnus) delivered a
  national AQDE/AQS XML Schema with unified data
  structure for multiple uses. It has been adopted
  by the EPA for regulatory reporting of AQS data
  and for the reporting of hourly air quality data
  to the national AIRNow website. The schema can
  also be used by states to support a variety of
  near real-time inter-State and intra-State
  ambient air quality data sharing needs.

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• The New Jersey DEP Water Quality Data Exchange
  Challenge has the participation of nine project
  partners who together comprise New Jerseys
  primary ambient water quality data consumers and
  producers. Under this grant New Jersey will
• make innovative use of outbound EPA and USGS
  ambient water quality web services
• Reuse and extended their E2 electronic
  reporting system with improved access for EPA to
  their water quality data
• Streamline the processes that govern how ambient
  surface water quality data is shared and managed
  in New Jersey

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• New York DECs current Electronic Laboratory Data
  Exchange Grant has been strategically followed by
  their Ground Water Exchange Network project the
  NY Department of Health is participating. These
  projects will develop and extend an enterprise
  environmental management system for sampling data
  and implement a SDWIS data flow. These efforts
  reflect how environmental managers in NYDEC now
  look at partnerships in a different way because
  of the well thought out initial Network Node
  implementation at DEC.

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• US Virgin Islands will coordinate deliverables
  with other EPA funded Water Pollution Control and
  Beach Program efforts to implement an efficient
  ambient water quality data management process. A
  WQX staging database will be populated as a
  result.

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EPA Region 4

• Rock Taber
• Regional Exchange Network Coordinator

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R4 Summary

• Project Officer for 28 Exchange Network Grants
• Contract Officer Rep for several In-Kind Services
  projects
• Region 4 Exchange Network Partners Meeting to be
  held May 13-14, 2008
• Application and Data Exchange for Environmental
  Protection Southeastern States Indian Tribes
• Discuss accomplishments, challenges, and
  successes.
• Identify future goals or objectives in developing
  spatial applications/data flows that support
  environmental decision making

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REGION 6 CDXExchange Network National
MeetingMay 1, 2008
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Node Status

• 8 nodes in Production
• Cherokee Nation Oklahoma
• Oklahoma Dept. of Environmental Quality
• Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture/Food/Forestry
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• New Mexico Dept. of Environmental Quality
• Arkansas Dept. of Environmental Quality
• Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality
• Louisiana Dept of Health and Hospitals

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Collective Data Flow Status

• In Production 14
• Oklahoma (4)
• Texas (3)
• New Mexico (3)
• Louisiana (2)
• Arkansas (1)
• Projected 2010 Total - 30

• In Development 5
• NetDMR (1)
• NEI (2)
• ICIS-NPDES (1)
• AEI (1)
• In Planning 11
• AQS (2)
• NetDMR (2)
• RCRAInfo (2)
• SDWIS (1)
• eDMR (1)
• ICTS (1) Institutional Control
• ICIS-NPDES (1)
• Open Dump (1)

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Common Flows

• FRS
• All States and the Cherokee Nation
• NEI
• Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico
• SDWIS
• Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana

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Regional Challenges

• Regional RPO is not a full time position - RPO
  wears many hats
• CDX RPO Since 2004 (minus a year hiatus during
  Katrina)
• Records Manager
• Record Center Contract Manager
• IT Manager
• WCF IT Budget Analyst
• Remote Access Manager
• PC Site Coordinator
• Logistics Strike Team (Emergency Responder)
• Tribal participation Only 5 of 64 are
  participating
• Travel budget woes Worse in FY09
• Programs arent as actively engaged as needed
• Regional Conference is overdue

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Summary

• Currently, there are 8 nodes and 14 flows with 30
  total flows expected by 2010.
• Tribal participation needs to improve.
• Despite significant challenges Region 6 EPA, our
  core CDX partners have been major players in the
  network. This reflects their commitment to CDX
  and the environment overall.

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Region 6 RPO Contact Info

• Jim Poindexter 214.665.8586
• Poindexter.jim_at_epa.gov

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Region 8Exchange NetworkSummary
Josie Lopez Regional Exchange Network Coordinator

• May 1, 2008

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R8 Exchange Network Partners
Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe
WA
MT DEQ MT DNRC
ME
ND
Wind River EQC Eastern Shoshone Tribe N.
Arapaho Tribes
OR
MN
OR
NH
ID
WI
SD
NY
WY
MI
IA
PA
PA
NE
UT DEQ UT AGRC UT DOH UT DWS
NV
OH
IN
IL
CO
WV
WV
CA
VA
KS
MO
KY
NC
TN
OK
AZ
NM
NM
NM
SC
AR
GA
AL
MS
MS
TX
LA
S.Ute Tribe R8 Tribal Storet Warehouse Challenge
Grant for 24 Region 8 Tribes
FL
FL
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EPA Region 8 Exchange Network GrantProject
Management Team
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Region 8 State Tribal Data Exchanges
AK
WA
MT
ME
VT
ND
Wind River EQC Eastern Shoshone Tribe N.
Arapaho Tribes
OR
MN
OR
NH
NH
ID
WI
SD
NY
MA
WY
MI
RI
IA
CT
PA
PA
NE
NJ
NV
OH
IN
IL
UT
DE
HI
CO
MD
WV
WV
CA
VA
KS
DC
MO
KY
NC
TN
OK
AZ
NM
NM
NM
SC
AR
1 Exchange
GA
AL
MS
MS
2 Exchanges
TX
LA
FL
3 Exchanges
FL
4 Exchanges
5 or more
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National UIC Database- Project Management and
IPT (as of 4/2008)
Core Project Management Team Project Manager
Carl B. Reeverts Alternative Project
Manager Trang Le USER Access, Data
Security Towana Dorsey UIC Program
Contact Robert Smith IT Support
Pong Heilian IT Team Leader (vacant)
Associate Branch Chief Leslie
Cronkhite, Roy Simon
Integrated Project Team
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Region 8 EN Coordinator Activities

• Utah Collaboration Meeting - Feb 08
• Multiple Utah EN Grantees and EPHT Project
  Manager
• Tribal Water Quality Meeting Mar 08
• Discuss WQX activities amongst R8 Tribes
• Regional Annual Exchange Network Meeting
• 2003 - EPA Region 8 (All R8 States Meeting)
• 2004 - Montana DEQ
• 2005 - Utah DEQ
• 2006 - Wyoming DEQ (All R8 States and Tribes)
• 2007 - South Dakota DENR (All R8/R7 States and
  Tribes)
• 2008 - Colorado DPHE (All R8/R7 States and
  Tribes)
• Developing Internal EN Communication Strategy
• To educate EPA R8 Program Managers Staff

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EPA Region 10

• Dave Tetta
• Regional Exchange Network Coordinator

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