Environmental & Health Data Integration for Homeland Security Support Exchange Network Users Meeting Hilton San Francisco Hotel, Continental Ballroom April 18-19, 2006

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Discussion Topics Project Overview Project Products Project Update Future Activities

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Overview Objectives Identify key environmental data flows helpful to support HLS emergency responses Leverage EN technologies to develop a data exchange mechanism among environmental, health, and law enforcement agencies Pilot data exchange in 4 states Provide reusable products for other EN partners Project Approach 3-phase Technology & business process research Infrastructure & system design Data flow implementation

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Overview – The Team Project Team Team Web site: OrganizationAgencies Michigan (Lead) DEQ, DIT, EOC, MDCH New Jersey DEP, OIRM, LPS New Hampshire DES, BIS, DHHS Maine HETL, BIS, DHHS EPA Region I, II, V, Headquarters, CDX Consultants enfoTech & Consulting Inc., Ross & Associates

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Overview – Team Website Project Team Website (communication is Key to success) WebEx Meetings & Minutes Phases & Deliverables Documents

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Overview - Products PhaseHighlights of Deliverables Phase A: Technology & Business Process Research Project Plan Project Team Website Technology/Security Compatibility Assessment Report Candidate List of Environmental Data Flows Report Technology Compatibility Recommendations Report Phase B: Infrastructure & System Design State Data Flow Readiness Assessment Reports Environmental XML Schema for Homeland Security Schema Conformance Reports (3 new schemas) Environmental HLS Data Flow Configuration Template Infrastructure and System Design Meeting (2 F2F) Phase C: Data Flow Implementation Data Flow Implementations (4 states) Lessons Learned Report Outreach: Internet-base video of project results

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Initial Business Questions … Who are the HLS participants? What are the participants roles (data provider, user)? What data elements are of interest? What are the data use requirements (i.e., geo-spatial coordinates, db update rates)? Who are the data owners? How can providers provide & users get access?

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Emergency Operations Centers

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Overview - Data Flows StateData Flows Michigan Drinking Water Infrastructure Hazardous Waste Facilities Lab Analytical Data Storage Tank Information Tier II Facilities New Jersey Air Quality Data Community Right to Know Facility Data Environmental Incident Data New Hampshire Environmental Incident Data Facility Registry System Data Lab Analytical Data Storage Tank Information Maine Lab Analytical Data

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Update – XML Schema XML Schema Facility data: FRS 2.3 Ambient Air Quality: AQDE v. 2.0 Water supply/lab data: e-DWR 2.0 Environmental Incident: Env. Incident 1.0 (new) Storage Tank: Storage Tank 1.0 (new) EHS Inventory (Tier II): Tier II 1.0 (new) New schemas leverage existing data standards & SSCs

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Update – Common Tools Purpose: Facilitate data discovery for data consumers Major components Flow Registry Flow Registration Flow Discovery Data Display Address “privacy”, “security” needs Data Filter feature Data format converter (csv, html, GML) Interface w/ GIS using GML Interface w/ CDX central Registry

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Output Results

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Output Results Option 1 Filter XML Instance File Convert File Formats XML Excel (CSV) HTML Option 2 Convert to GML Format Display Data Points from Multiple Flows on a Map with Drill-down Capabilities

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Homeland Security – Common Tool

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Project Update – Preliminary Feedback Extending EN technologies beyond environmental reporting Environmental data for emergency response is valuable Provide timely and accurate data to data consumers 24/7 Improve business process/collaboration Collaboration is key to project success Environmental, IT, emergency responders, health professionals Core EN technologies contribute to project results Node, SCCs, data standards, web-services, FCD, security, etc. Sharing results with other EN partners XML schemas (new: Env. Incident, Storage Tanks, Tier II) The Common Tool for data discovery, retrieval, and display Data flow implementation documents Knowledge transfer

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Future Activities Currently in Phase C - Data Flow Implementation Major Milestones Implementation Plans: 1/2006 to 4/2006 System Design: 4/2006 to 5/2006 System Development: 5/2006 to 7/2006 Testing/Deployment: 7/2006 to 9/2006 Final Report: 8/2006 to 9/2006 Knowledge Sharing: after 9/2006

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 More Info? Michael Beaulac Executive Division MI Department of Environmental Quality Lansing, MI Douglas Timms enfoTech & Consulting, Inc. Lawrenceville, NJ , ext. #129

San Francisco EN Meeting – 4/ of 11 Questions and Answers