Region III StateEPA Exchange Network Meeting

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• Region III State/EPA Exchange Network Meeting
• Fall 2005
• Presented By
• Marc Chambers, VADEQ Project Lead
• Phani Eturu, VADEQ Senior Technical Lead

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State of our Node

• First production node activated in January 2005.
• Since then, we have implemented production flows
  for FRS, NEI and TRI data.
• We are the only state from Region 3 that
  participated in the pilot phase of the TRI data
  flow.

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Secrets to our success...

• Management Commitment
• Business Programs and IT partnership
• EPA Exchange Grants. The grants helped us to
  build up our infrastructure and acquire much
  needed programming resources.

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment Funding

• One Stop Grant (FY2001)
• Increased capacity of our Comprehensive
  Environmental Data System (CEDS) to serve as a
  secure one-stop repository of critical data
• Readiness Grant (FY2003)
• Upgraded technical infrastructure (network
  switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) in order to
  ensure a stable node environment
• Readiness Grant (FY2004)
• Purchased and installed a storage area network
  (SAN) to increase data storage and backup
  functionality
• Purchased and installed an IBM Blade Center

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment Funding (contd)

• Implementation Grant (FY2004)
• Purchased, installed, and configured node
  development application (XAware)
• Activated VADEQ node and began flowing data (FRS,
  NEI, TRI)
• Miscellaneous
• First state to flow PCS/IDEF data (2001)
• Received two STAG Awards (FY2002, FY2004) for
  work on PCS Modernization

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment Infrastructure

• Node Application XAware
• Database Oracle 9i
• Node Servers IBM Blades
• Operating System Linux
• Web Server Tomcat Apache
• 1 Production Server, 1 Primary Development
  Richmond Central Office
• 1 Backup Server Piedmont Regional Office

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment FRS Flow
CEDS
Retrieve FRS data from CEDS
Create XML-FRS file and upload to node server
Submit XML-FRS file to CDX
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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment NEI Flow
Data dump from MS Access to Oracle
Create XML-NEI file and upload to node server
Submit XML-NEI file to CDX
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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment TRI Flow (Phase I)
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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Node
Deployment TRI Flow (Phase II)
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Virginia Department of Environmental
Quality Future Node Deployments

• AQS production flow in development
• e-DMR product in pilot phase
• Used COTS package
• Incorporates electronic signatures
• Meets CROMERR standards and received Virginia OAG
  approval

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Can we repeat our success??

• We believe that we can continue on our path to
  success path using the road map laid out by
  earlier accomplishments.
• We continue to have management support and enjoy
  a cohesive partnership with the business
  programs.

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Are we missing anything to repeat success??

• We are missing one key component for the next
  round of data flows.
• We applied for FY2005 Exchange Network grants and
  missed out on getting them.
• Exchange Network grants are a very important part
  of our continued success.
• Hopefully we will be luckier in the upcoming
  cycle of Exchange Network awards.

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• The End
• Any Questions??