XML Regional Data Exchange for Best Management Practices for the Chesapeake Bay States

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XML Regional Data Exchange for Best Management
Practices for the Chesapeake Bay States

• Orientation Meeting
• January 27, 2005
• Annapolis, MD

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2004 EPA National Environmental Information
Exchange Network Challenge Grant

• Challenge Grant Lead PA Department of
  Environmental Protection (PA DEP)
• 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

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Resident Agencies for State EPA Nodes

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

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State Agencies for 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 Chesapeake Bay
  Program Office (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 on
  Non-Point Source (NPS) Best Management Practices
  (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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To accomplish this

• will mean changes to jurisdiction business
  processes tools
• and network nodes

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Agenda

• NEIEN 101 What is it? What templates exist now?
  What exchanges are occurring?
• Brief explanation of the Chesapeake Information
  Management System (CIMS).
• What are Web Services?
• Review of CB jurisdictions proposal to EPA and
  its objectives.
• Why select 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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NEIEN -- What is it? What templates exist now?
What exchanges are occurring?

• Molly ONeil
• Environmental Council of States

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Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS)

• Brian Burch
• EPA, Chesapeake Bay Program, Data Center Manager

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What are Web Services?

• Brian Burch

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CBP States Proposal

• Nancie L. Imler
• Chief Information Officer, PA DEP

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Why 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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CB Business Requirements

• Standardize and move extracted BMP practice data
  from state to CBPO for use as input decks for
  calculations to the CBP Watershed Model
• Display BMP information from multiple sources,
  locations and environments via web tools to
  display regional data
• Demand for access to real-time regional bay
  information
• Need to aggregate or compare data from many
  sources.
• Required access to multiple, different, back-end
  data systems
• Need for personalized user functionality

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Opportunities!

• Model inputs
• Tributary Strategies
• TMDLs
• Nutrient Trading
• NRCS

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NRCS Partnership

• Name
• Title

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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 and 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

• Completion of a CB Jurisdictional joint report
  Lessons Learned for Determining NEIEN Project
  Readiness for other regional projects desiring
  to utilize the NEIEN.

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Scope of Work

• Build the Network Node at the CBPO to facilitate
  the exchanges from and to the CB states.

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Scope of Work

• 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

• Develop a Project Plan (purpose, scope,
  objectives, resources, roles, responsibilities,
  standards, communication, deliverables list and
  milestone list)

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Scope of Work

• Diagram of current data flows of BMP with list of
  problems and issues

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Scope of Work

• Design of the Data Exchange Template with Headers
  and Subsets for NPS BMPS

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Scope of Work

• QA functionality defined
• Test Plan and Results
• Use of Exchange Protocol

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Scope of Work

• 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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BMP Workgroup

• Identify and prioritize NPS BMPs for template
  development
• Identify common and unique data elements for NPS
  BMPs for headers and subsets
• Taxonomy
• Quality Assurance

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Technical Workgroup

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