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A Center for Best Practice January 10, 2001 Charleston, South Carolina National Environmental Information Exchange Network Kim Nelson Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protectio Wendy Cleland-Hamnett U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Bob Zimmerman partment of Natural Resources and Environmental Con
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NGA Center for Best Practices National Environmental Information Exchange Network A National Network that Enables States and EPA to Share and Exchange Data Electronically
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January 10, 2001 Charleston, South Carolina
National Environmental Information Exchange
NetworkKim Nelson
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ProtectionWendy Cleland-Hamnett
U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBob Zimmerman
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
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kThe State/EPA Shared Vision
The States and EPA are committed to a partnership to build locally and nationally
accessible, cohesive and coherent environmental information systems that will
ensure that both the public and regulators have access to the information needed to
document environmental performance, understand environmental conditions, and
make sound decisions that ensure environmental protection. (March 1998)
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kA National Network that Enables States and EPA to Share and Exchange Data Electronically
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The Network• Is standards-based
– technical and data• Leverages State and EPA investments• Provides flexibility
“The core of the Network is not technology. . .it is a commitment to change the way data is exchanged.”
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States and EPA have created a Blueprint that
• Refines the network vision• Describes its components• Identifies
– technical issues and options– critical policy and political issues
• Describes specific, visible benefits the network will produce as it is implemented
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Member InfrastructureCapacity to participate
Data StandardsCommon way to
define shared terms
Data Exchange Templates
Common way to package shared data
Trading Partner Agreement
How information flows between
partners
ExchangeNetwork
Components
Network Administration
Registration, process support, communication
Technical InfrastructureUses standard Internet tools
Network Principles Implemented through
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Network is Based on Four Principles• Stewardship of specific data established by
mutual agreement between two or more trading partners
• Stewards are responsible for the quality and availability of their data
• Network members are responsible and accountable for ensuring the integrity and currency of those copies
• Network members agree to use the network technology standards
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kNetwork Benefits• Delivers reliable, standardized and consistent
data to the public, government officials, industry, environmental groups and others
• Uses a data-centric approach focused on data and data quality
• Reduces reporting burden• Enhances potential for data integration• Gives agency more control over its own data
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kCurrent Work: Three Essential Elements
• Build States’ capacity to construct a Network node and to participate in Network data exchanges
• Create the infrastructure to support the Exchange
• Build EPA’s capacity to construct a Network node (Central Data Exchange) and to participate in Network data exchanges
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kRelated State/EPA Activities• State/EPA Information Management
Workgroup (IMWG)– Established an Environmental Data Standards
Council• Developed facility identification data exchange standard • Adopted additional data standards
– Facility Registry System Action Team– Network Blueprint Team– Prototype Network DET Registry Test Bed
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kRelated State/EPA Activities continued
• Central Data Exchange Action Team– CDX Rollout– Security – Active Data Retrieval– CDX Design
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kNear-Term NetworkInvestment Priorities
• Implementing Flows (air emissions, permit compliance, drinking water, facility data)
• Data Standards Development• Data Exchange Template Development • CDX Technical Infrastructure• Network Steering• Security• Outreach
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kTimeframes and GoalsEnd of 2001 • Test the major data exchange infrastructure
elements • States and EPA prepare to make major network
infrastructure decisions and investmentsFirst Half of 2002• Network supports official flows across program
areas with a stable, secure infrastructure
