2006 Network Users’ Meeting2006 Network Users’ Meeting

Chesapeake Bay ProgramChesapeake Bay ProgramRegional Exchange for Regional Exchange for

Non Point SourceNon Point SourceBest Management PracticesBest Management Practices

April 18, 2006April 18, 2006

Nancie L. ImlerNancie L. ImlerPA DEP Chief Information OfficerPA DEP Chief Information Officer

Parts of the NHD

Streams

Watersheds Waterbody

Junctions

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.

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 )

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

Data Prioritized for Placement on the NHD Framework

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

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

Implementation Occurs at Various Geographical Levels on Paper and

Some IT Tools

County

Watershed

Regional

Tributary

Commonwealth-wide

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)

Resident Agencies for State EPA Nodes

PA – PA DEPVA – VDEQMD – MDEDC – Department of Health

State Agencies Responsible for NPS BMP Collection and Reporting

PA – PA DEP VA – VDCRMD – MDA, MDNRDC – Unknown

Grant Objectives:

1. Build an EPA Network Node at the CBPO to support environmental information exchanges in an automated fashion.

2. Develop standard templates to be used on the NEIEN to move tabular and spatial data for NPS BMP.

3. Map jurisdictional NPS BMP data from state sources into the templates.

4. 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.

Orientation Meeting January 2005

NEIEN 101 – What is it? What templates exist now? What exchanges are occurring? (Molly O’Neill)

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?

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

Requested 2-Year Grant

Total Funds Requested: $395,424Total Project Cost: $395,424

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

Breakdown of Funding

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

DEP Grant Agreement

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

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.

Scope of Work

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

Governance Model

N P S B M P W orkg ro upC h a ir

Ju risd ic tio n R e psC B P O S ta ff

T e ch n ica l W orkg ro upC h a irIM S

Ju risd ic tio n R e ps

P ro jec t M a n ga e m e n t T e amG ra n t P ro jec t M a na g e r, C h a ir

C h a irs o f N P S B M P a n d Te ch n ica l w o rkg ro u psC B P O S ta ff

Identify and prioritize NPS BMPs for template development

Identify common and unique data elements for NPS BMPs for headers and subsets

Determine vocabularyDevelop the taxonomyRequest review from ECOS/EPA

NPS BMP Workgroup

Technical Workgroup

Build the CBPO network node under EPA specifications

XML technology applied to NPS BMP Workgroup’s templates taxonomy

Support taxonomy Quality Assurance Training needs

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