6/13/2016 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1 Starting a Facilities Flow Lee David Aaron

Agenda What does FRS do? Benefits of Using FRS FRS - The Basics – FRS Processing – FRS Data Pipeline – The Business Case Resources – Exchange Network Grants – Contractor & Staff Support – Documentation – Knowing Our Partners Next Steps 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency2

What does FRS do? FRS is a centrally managed database identifying facilities, sites, or places of environmental interest from 22 program offices as well as 57 States Tribes and Territories FRS assigns a unique identifier to each facility and aggregates (not edits) environmental interests, industrial classifications, and affiliation data FRS provides geospatial services (geocoding, indexing) and serves as the enterprise component for many EPA applications 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency3

Benefits of FRS FRS improves program facility data validity from 40—95% by selecting best location information from multiple data sources Allows EPA, public, academic, and investment communities to evaluate compliance with environmental regulations Provides robust, complete view of facility information, facilitating cross-media analyses: – Community-based initiatives – Environmental justice analyses – NEPA assessments – Emergency response – Other mission needs (TMDL program, climate change analysis, etc.) 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency4

FRS – The Basics 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency5

FRS Processing States CDX Programs FRS EDG to Data.gov External Applications Envirofacts Enterprise Applications (e.g. My Environment) Program and Regional Applications Data Collection Q/A Enhancement Data Publishing FRS receives locational data updates and edits from regional data stewards as needed. Envirofacts pulls data from the program offices, taking in parametric data and sending locational data to FRS. FRS serves as the geospatial component of FRS For Title 40 regulated programs, CDX collects locational and parametric data for the program offices, and facility data goes to FRS. Several program offices have their own systems that collect and manage locational and parametric data – Envirofacts pulls data from these, and FRS serves as the locational component for Envirofacts FRS contains many data enhancement, lookup and validation services that aid and assist other CDX flows. At the publishing stage, extracts of the FRS geospatial database are provided as geospatial downloads The FRS geospatial database provides web services, database connections and spatial queries for a wide variety of web mapping applications, for example MyEnvironment, Cleanups In My Community IDEA/ECHO/OTIS and many others

FRS Data Pipeline Clean & Validate Geo-codes & parses addresses Integrate & Match Assigns a unique ID to each facility record Select Best Pick Uses business rules to select the best address & location

The FRS Business Case Everyone benefits from EPA using high quality integrated facility data toward enforcement, compliance, analysis, assessment and community impact – Monthly calls are held so that states and EPA can further contribute to FRS data Quality. State stakeholders benefit by how the EPA does business with regulated entities – How do Program Offices use FRS data? – What would happen if it was not available? States could benefit from the use of FRS data – Is there a need for a facility master? – Can EN partners benefit from indexing facilities to HUCs, census blocks, or other geographies – How can a state benefit from geocoding, or getting back results of Q/A?

Resources 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency9

We Encourage you to apply! More information can be found at: – ft_2012_Exchange_Network_Solicitation_Notice_v.2.pdf ft_2012_Exchange_Network_Solicitation_Notice_v.2.pdf – Expect the solicitation notice to be out by mid-August – Due date of November 4 th – for more information contact Ryan S. Humrighouse 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency10 Exchange Network Grants

6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency11 Contractor & Staff Support In addition to inbound and outbound services, the FRS team provides the following support to state partners and program offices on the data exchange: Provides technical support to new states (that are entering FRS dataflow for the first time) and to inactive states that are becoming active again on the data flow and helps them make their submission successful in both test and prod nodes. Provides technical support to states that are upgrading their node or are migrating to a different FACID Schema version. Helps them with their testing on different environments. Integrates State and National extracts into FRS promptly and links them to existing FRS facilities, so that submitters can retrieve all other program linkages for the facilities they have submitted. This helps them get additional information that they are missing.

6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency12 Contractor & Staff Support Contacts State partners through if there are any data issues with their submissions like mapping, data quality issues, etc and provides support on resolving the issues. Sends follow up notification to new states regarding counts and integration status of their submissions for FRS. Follow up notification is also sent to existing states when full extract is made. Works with Program offices on the data mapping of National programs in order to get all required data elements for FRS. Performs data extraction for program offices when it gets ad-hoc requests.

Implementation Resources – lity.htm lity.htm Data flow implementation guide – – D_flow%20implementation.pdf D_flow%20implementation.pdf 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency13 Documentation

Questions & Answers 6/13/2016U.S. Environmental Protection Agency14 Knowing Our Partners

Next Steps Individual assistance is available. Metrics that may lead to a decision to flow? What other forms of outreach for beginners that you would like to see?