2006 Network Users Meeting Chesapeake Bay Program Regional Exchange for Non Point Source Best Manage

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2006 Network Users MeetingChesapeake Bay
ProgramRegional Exchange for Non Point
SourceBest Management Practices April 18,
2006Nancie L. ImlerPA DEP Chief Information
Officer
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Parts of the NHD
Waterbody
Watersheds
Streams
Junctions
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Benefits of the NHD

• The NHD eliminates competing stream layers.
• Commonwealth has streams outside of Pennsylvania.
• The NHD provides easier integration with Federal
  partners and surrounding states.
• The NHD is better at using the Geographic Names
  Information System (GNIS) to properly name stream
  segments.
• Data models utilizing the NHD can be used with
  limited additional development.
• PROVIDES THE FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATING LAND AND
  WATER ON SAME MAPS! Critical for water quality
  issues.

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Conflation Moving Existing Enterprise Data to
the NHD
NHD Locator Tool (tool for existing software
applications to call and provide visual of where
point is placed and then stored on NHD)
Instream Comprehensive Evaluation (ICE) Tool
(tool for data not normally in enterprise
applications to be enterprise and placed on the
NHD )
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Data Prioritized for Placement on the NHD
Framework

• 305(b) 303(d) Stream Impairment Data
• TMDLs
• MacroInvertebrates
• Fish
• Chapter 93 Water Quality Standards (Existing and
  Designated Uses
• Act 220 State Water Planning
• NPDES Permitting and electronic Discharge
  Monitoring Reports

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Tying Non-Point Source Best Management Practices
(BMPs) with NHD

• Chesapeake Bay Model
• Coastal Zone Management
• Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)
• Tributary Strategies
• EPA 319 Grants
• Growing Greener Grants
• Department of Agriculture Programs
• Private Conservation Programs
• Nutrient Trading

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• Implementation Occurs by Personnel at Many
  Organizational Levels
• County Conservation Districts (CCDs) Technicians
• NRCS State Conservationists
• River Basin Commissions
• Regional Office Teams
• Central Office
• Mineral Resources
• Local Watershed Groups

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• Implementation Occurs at Various Geographical
  Levels on Paper and Some IT Tools
• County
• Watershed
• Regional
• Tributary
• Commonwealth-wide

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2004 EPA National Environmental Information
Exchange Network Challenge Grant

• Challenge Grant Partners
• MD Department of Natural Resources
• MD Department of the Environment
• MD Department of Agriculture
• VA Department of Conservation and Recreation
• VA Department of Environmental Quality
• USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office
• PA DEP (challenge grant lead)

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Resident Agencies for State EPA Nodes

• PA PA DEP
• VA VDEQ
• MD MDE
• DC Department of Health

State Agencies Responsible for NPS BMP
Collection and Reporting

• PA PA DEP
• VA VDCR
• MD MDA, MDNR
• DC Unknown

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Grant Objectives

• Build an EPA Network Node at the CBPO to support
  environmental information exchanges in an
  automated fashion.
• Develop standard templates to be used on the
  NEIEN to move tabular and spatial data for NPS
  BMP.
• Map jurisdictional NPS BMP data from state
  sources into the templates.
• Transfer the NPS BMP data from the CB
  jurisdictions to the CBPO network node for
  assembly into the model deck and for use in
  Geographic Display Tools for the region.

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Orientation Meeting January 2005

• NEIEN 101 What is it? What templates exist now?
  What exchanges are occurring? (Molly ONeill)
• Brief explanation of the Chesapeake Information
  Management System.
• What are Web Services?
• Review of CB jurisdictions proposal to EPA and
  its objectives.
• Why select NPS BMPs ?
• NRCS as a Federal Partner for NPS BMP data
  standards.
• What will be the Governance Model for the Grant
  activities?

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Why NPS BMPs?

• the most difficult business process
• that has no set standard template to send to the
  Bay
• that has no set technology to deliver the data to
  the Bay and arrives in various file formats
• that requires manipulation prior to its use in
  the model due to disparate spatial scales and
  processing discrepancies
• that is not easily imported into regional
  graphical tools
• that has federal and state financial and business
  processes involved
• that could be reusable by all states and other
  regional groups

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Requested 2-Year GrantTotal Funds Requested
395,424Total Project Cost 395,424
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Breakdown of Funding

• PA DEP -- 111,576 for Travel Contractual
  Services for BMP repository work in state and
  regional node support at CBPO
• VA -- 141,924 for BMP and Node Personnel and
  Travel
• MD -- 141,924 for BMP and Node Personnel and
  Travel

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DEP Grant Agreement

• Between DEP and the Maryland Department of the
  Environment
• Between DEP and the Commonwealth of Virginia
  Department of Conservation and Recreation
• Scope of work and budget

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Scope of Work

• Each jurisdiction provides a Network Readiness
  Assessment Report
• Status of State Node, standards for building web
  services security and exchange tools and its
  ability to handle the BMP Flow
• AS IS business processes for BMP reporting to
  the Bay
• TO BE business processes for BMP reporting to
  the Bay

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Scope of Work

• Build the Network Node at the CBPO to facilitate
  the exchanges from and to the CB states.
• Modify the CIMS Memorandums of Agreement (MOA)
  with its partners to further define the standard
  node catalog of available information with its
  metadata. CIMS will need to have its enterprise
  architecture documented for the distributed data
  system and released to its partners. The MOA
  could be the Trading Partnership Agreement.

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Scope of Work

• Diagram of current data flows of BMP with list of
  problems and issues
• Design of the Data Exchange Template with Headers
  and Subsets for NPS BMPS
• QA functionality defined
• Test Plan and Results
• Use of Exchange Protocol
• Project Report
• Presentation Materials
• Updates to the DET Registry, DET Repository, Flow
  Configuration Document Registry and Service
  Description Repository

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Governance Model
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NPS BMP Workgroup

• Identify and prioritize NPS BMPs for template
  development
• Identify common and unique data elements for NPS
  BMPs for headers and subsets
• Determine vocabulary
• Develop the taxonomy
• Request review from ECOS/EPA

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Technical Workgroup

• Build the CBPO network node under EPA
  specifications
• XML technology applied to NPS BMP Workgroups
  templates taxonomy
• Support taxonomy
• Quality Assurance
• Training needs

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