EPA RIDE Review

1. EPA RIDE Review Expanded Steering Committee Meeting December 11-12, 2006 Betsy Smidinger USEPA/OECA Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

2. Outline • Background on RIDE • EPA RIDE Review Process • Findings of EPA’s RIDE Review • Summary of EPA’s RIDE Review Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

3. Background on RIDE • Six NPDES Data Requirements Workgroups • 36 state participants representing 21 states • Identified: • Data Requirements for the modernized system. • Subset of data critical for each area considered in this effort. • Data Requirements Workgroup recommendations sent out for Regional and State review and comment (April 30, 2002). • Reviewed by PCS Steering Committee • Approved by PCS Modernization Executive Council • Process resulted in 332 required data elements for ICIS-NPDES. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

4. EPA RIDE Review Process • Program experts from the Office of Water and Office of Civil Enforcement reevaluated RIDE list from national CWA program management perspective. • Shared list of potential elements for deletion from RIDE with Regions for regional CWA program management perspective. • OW and OC Office Directors briefed on review findings. • List of RIDE under consideration for deletion distributed to Expanded Steering Committee on December 1, 2006. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

5. Findings of RIDE Review 65 elements may not be necessary for EPA national NPDES program management. • 41 elements EPA may consider not requiring to be entered in ICIS-NPDES. • These data element would still be available in ICIS-NPDES for optional data entry. • 24 elements that do not apply to states but are federal-only elements required to be entered by USEPA. • These data elements would not be required to be entered by the states. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

6. Findings of RIDE Review 24 Conditionally Required RIDE Elements • These data elements are only required to be entered under certain circumstances. • RIDE are separately listed since data entry is infrequent . • Example: When entering the type of animal for a CAFO permit, if “Other” is selected, then the type of animal must be entered in a separate field. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

7. Findings of RIDE Review 8 System Required RIDE may not be necessary for EPA national NPDES program management. • System required means the ICIS software requires the data to be entered for the record to be saved. • All system-required elements are included in RIDE. • ICIS software changes necessary to remove these from RIDE. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

8. Summary of EPA’s RIDE Review • Clarification on 24 conditionally-required data elements. • Additional 8 system required data elements which may not be necessary for EPA national NPDES program management but would need an ICIS software change to be dropped from RIDE. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements

9. Biosolids CAFOs CSO/SSOs 20 Pretreatment 22 Storm Water RIDE after EPA’s Review Core Data Requirements # of Data Elements Facility 25 Permitting 73(was 75) Compliance Monitoring 35(was 37) Enforcement 21(was 39) Total 154(was 176) NOTE: 145 RIDE elements are system required Additional 113 Special Regulatory Elements (was 156) 16 49 6 (was 57) (was 33) (was 39) (was 7) Total RIDE was 332, now is 267 for States

10. RIDE Review andData Entry Frequency

11. EPA RIDE Review • EPA has identified a significant portion of RIDE data elements for deletion consideration. • WENDB: 206 Data Elements • RIDE: 332 Data Elements – 65 proposed for deletion = 267 • Data entry estimate model will provide additional perspective on resources. Required ICIS-NPDES Data Elements