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What is the Exchange Network?. A partnership of states, tribes, and territoriesCommon language by which environmental information can be shared, integrated, analyzed, and reported without having to take possession of the dataInternet- and standards-based method for securely exchanging information between partnersData standards build efficiencies within business processes to reduce operational costs and allow for disparate data to be integrated, regardless of the technology usedUses data road9453
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1. Participating in the Exchange Network Karl Alvarez
National Exchange Network Program Manager / Tribal Liaison
September 9, 2009
3. Who Participates in the EN? 50 States / 56 Tribes / 5 Territories have received funding to participate in the Network
50 States / 8 Tribes / 1 Territory have exchanged data via a node or node client on the Network
EPA
Central Data Exchange (CDX)
Technical Assistance
Program Office support
Performance Measurement
Environmental Council of the States
Governance Support
National Congress of American Indians
Tribal Baseline Survey
4. What does the EN Accomplish? Yurok Tribe: “Sharing Data for a Healthy River”
Intrastate data sharing in Pennsylvania
Integrating data from 84 local agencies and 140,000 facilities in California
Water Quality Exchange (WQX)
Homeland Emergency Response Exchange (HERE)
Climate Change / Greenhouse Gas Emissions
TRI Data Exchange
Hurricane Ike Response
5. How Does the EN Accomplish This? Shared Services
Nodes and Infrastructure
Data Standards and Metadata
Data flows and data publishing
NEIEN grants program
6. EN Grants Program in FY 2010 $10 Million requested for FY 2010
10% minimum award to tribes
Applications deadline: November 20, 2009
Review Panel in January
Funding notifications to be sent in March 2010
Finalized awards to be completed in August 2010
7. What are the Priorities of the EN? Stronger Decision-Making
Improved data quality
Increased timeliness
Returns on Investment
“Build once, use many”
Data integration
Broader Access
Inter- and Intra-Tribe exchanges of environmental data
Tribe-to-Tribe and public access to broader data sets
Timely data to assist first responders and local organizations
8. How Can the EN Help Tribes? Access to environmental and health information
Provide evidence to Congress to obtain needed funds to address environmental issues
Share information with other agencies
Compliance with federal regulations
9. Opportunities for Tribal Participation Tribes have significant business drivers which may encourage Network participation
Facility and geo-spatial data sharing
Protection of cultural assets and lifeways
Tribal program implementation
Tribes can come into the Network at various levels
Network applications
Network desktops
10. Areas of Consideration What business need do I foresee for using the Network?
What data needs must be addressed given the business need?
Has my system solution been built before?
Can I build the solution to be usable by others?
Am I supporting the over-arching priorities of the Network?
Is an Exchange Network Grant the mechanism needed to realize the full potential of the solution?
How will I fund needed Operations and Maintenance of the solution?
11. The Continuum of Participation
12. Simplest Solution
13. Node Client Simple Option
14. Relational Capacity Option
15. High Technology Solution
16. Alternatives to Facilitate Participation Consider EPA’s Web Client
All Nodes
All Exchanges
News Channels to Publish
Return on Investment Calculator
Report from Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington
Spreadsheet tool, with guide, to assist
17. Frequently Asked Questions Do I want to use an EN Node as a way to emphasize the Government-to-Government relationship between tribes and EPA?
How much time do I want to invest in building internal capacity – either IT or Programmatic?
If I don’t want to build internal capacity, do I have enough stable, long-term funding to continue to purchase contractual support?
Do I want to write another Quality Assurance Project Plan?
Is there local or regional technical assistance readily available – tribal, tribal consortia, state, or EPA?
Other questions?
18. FY 2010 Solicitation Notice Karl Alvarez
National Exchange Network Program Manager / Tribal Liaison
September 9, 2009
19. Changes to 2010 SN? New this Year.
Newly tiered prioritized activities to receive support in FY 2010. Scoring will also be structured to favor national/regulatory and priority data flows which appear in Tier 1.
Stipulation that previous awardees must detail their activities to achieve maximum use of all national/regulatory dataflows by 2012.
Formalized emphasis on grant funding support to CROMERR system implementation.
Grants threshold reduced to $200,000 for single recipients and $350,000 for partnerships.
Two mechanisms to apply: hardcopy and electronic mail. Grants.gov will not be used this year pending improvements.
Expanded this Year.
Reporting requirements on project activities and unliquidated obligations.
Requirement to tie projects to environmental results, not only technology results.
Clearer, more objective evaluation criteria to recognize and reward proposed work in areas of programmatic priorities (e.g., national and regulatory system flows).
Programmatic Changes this Year.
Climate Change / Greenhouse Gas Emissions projects will be prioritized in Tier 1.
Legacy systems currently projected for replacement at dates beyond 2012 are no longer be reflected in Appendix A. This currently includes AFS and ICTS.
CROMERR and new, Node 2.0-compliant nodes are prioritized in Tier 2.
20. What Makes a Good Application? Evaluation Criteria:
Expected Environmental Outputs, Outcomes, and Environmental Results
Project Feasibility and Approach
Exchange Network Priorities
Budget Resources and Key Personnel
Past Performance
Project workplan and budget should recognize support for Priorities within the Solicitation Notice
Project should be of a scope and size to be finished in the two-year project period
Reusable project deliverables will score higher than single entity improvements
21. What Makes a Good Proposal? Review Panels will score and rank proposals based on compliance with Solicitation Notice, especially the evaluation criteria.
Proposals should demonstrate outputs in support of the strategic targets of the Network
If building a flow that already exists, consider using the benefits of previously built systems and schema
If building something new, build it a way that it can be used by other EN partners in the future
22. Bottomline If the Solicitation Notice calls on applicants to demonstrate, comply, or commit, provide clear statements
If the applicant does not have anything to say regarding a specific element of the evaluation criteria, provide a clear statements that the requirement does not apply with clear justification of the statements
23. EN Points of Contact Karl Alvarez, 202.566.0989, alvarez.karl@epa.gov
Edward Mixon, 202.566.2142, mixon.edward@epa.gov
Regional Coordinators
R1: Ken Blumberg -- R6: Jim Poindexter
R2: Bob Simpson -- R7: Maryane Tremaine
R3: Joe Kunz -- R8: Josie Lopez/Christine Vigil
R4: Rock Taber -- R9: Pat Eklund
R5: Gigi Zywicki/Zenny Sadlon -- R10: Dave Tetta
Angie Reed, 207.817.7360, angie.reed@penobscotnation.org
Robert Holden, NCAI