Hoke, Kimberly, ECHO and the Path to Accuracy, Missouri Water Seminar, Sept.4-5, 2014, Columbia, MO

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ECHO and The Path To Accuracy Kimberly Hoke

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What's wrong with ECHO and what can be done to get it to report accurate enforcement information about Missouri NPDES permit holders.

Transcript of Hoke, Kimberly, ECHO and the Path to Accuracy, Missouri Water Seminar, Sept.4-5, 2014, Columbia, MO

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ECHO and The Path To AccuracyKimberly Hoke

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Overview

Permitted Entity State System EPA System ECHO

Data quality issues in ECHO are related to data quality issues in EPA system

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A Bit Of History…

Old State System

Old EPA System

New State System

New EPA System

Old State System

Old EPA System

New State System

New EPA System

Blue arrows represent how data is and was populated on a routine basis

Black arrows represented how the new systems were originally populated

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How Did We Get Here?

Old State System

Old EPA System

New State System

New EPA System

Old State System

Old EPA System

New State System

New EPA System

Red arrows represented where data errors have been introduced

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Each Issue/Circumstance Is Complex and Unique

Permit Document/State

SystemEPA System

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Other States Have Similar Issues• Resolutions vary

– “Live with it”–Dedicate Staff to manually check and

confirm data in federal system (several FTE)

–Complex IT solution to the state to EPA data transfer process

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What Can We Do?“Going Forward” Fix

Don’t let this happen in the future

Clean Up “Old” Issues

Untangle the current problems

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What’s Next?

State System

EPA System

Identify what is causing new problems and put changes in place to prevent more

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Information Technology Governance

Program Applications

Water Protection Data

Geological Survey Data

Solid Waste Management

Data

Hazardous Waste Data

Air Pollution Control Data

Environmental Services Data

Land Reclamation

Data

SharedServices

Services

Fees & Billing

Permitting Registration Inspection Enforcement

Planning & Prioritization Data Standards & Quality Management Data StewardshipMaster Data Management

Improve operational efficiency Data Integration

Improve efficiency * Increase consistency and accountability * Improve service

CROMERR Public Interface

Electronic Filing

Master Data

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