H eartland E mergency R esponse E xchange

 Effectively manage and proactively exchange information  Enhance decision-making and risk assessment  Inform emergency planning and response procedures

 Securely share available environmental, health, and natural resource information  Leverage the Exchange Network for dynamic transmission of information  Enhance the decision-making and risk assessment processes

 Iowa Department of Natural Resources  Kansas Department of Health and Environment  Missouri Department of Natural Resource  Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality  Nebraska Health and Human Services  EPA Region 7

 EOC agency/staff in each state  Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)  MO Emergency Response Commission (MERC) & State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)  Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management  Kansas Division of Emergency Management  Local Emergency Planners  EPA

 Partners working together to improve information sharing with EOCs:  A standardized way  Better documentation  Better understanding  Leverage existing integration work  Acquiring data from external agencies  improve relationships between all agencies  Previous grant products

 Reuse existing products:  Use existing Schema, Shared Schema Components and EN tools when possible, develop new when necessary  Produce re-usable products:  Expansion into future identified flows  Use by other data producers or consumers  Create EOC-applicable and relevant products:  Ensure relevant information is exchanged  Useful interpretive products are developed  Cross-state/Cross-agency Collaboration:  Improve data sharing and collaboration across state and agency lines

 Secure, timely, cross-agency exchanges of information  A collaborative process of interoperable, sharable and secure technologies and tools  Draw from other EN products and lessons learned  Pacific Northwest Water Quality Exchange  Health and Environmental Data Integration Project for Homeland Security  Incorporate and expand upon EN efforts by:  Focusing on inter-state as well as inter-agency data transactions  Product reuse  Developing interpretive products

 Develop a web service based exchange  Data Flow Specification and Documentation  Partner Nodes  Client Application  Supplemental e-Documentation

Data of interest Event Tornado Flood / Icejam Wildfire Earthquake Nuclear plant Animal disease Icestorm Pipeline rupture ResponseLivestock operations Wastewater treatment facilities Public water supply infrastructure Tanks Chemical storage (Tier II) Agricultural chemicals RecoverySolid Waste Facilities Others RMP, Air Quality, Haz waste fac's...

 Aggregation Service  Combines data from multiple sources into a single merged data view  Used for queries, spatial views, maps, reports and documents  Offline Data Cache  A locally cached replica of aggregated data to support off-line use

 eDocumentation  Aggregated data presented to the user in a form of report augmented with other available contextual information  Synchronization Engine  Keeping the locally cached data up-to-date  Incremental data update – can continue to work while updates in progress

 Map Viewer  Spatial representation of data providing an interface:  To display an already cached data  To perform queries based on spatial data parameters  Data Export  Export cached data in multiple formats to augment external systems such as EOP GIS systems

 Automatic application updates via EN nodes  Client will check to see if a new version of the application is available each time it connects to receive data  If so, the client will be updated seamlessly, thus ensuring all users can easily stay current with the latest application features

Common TermExamples AirAir facilities, SPARS Major/Minor, ISTEPS Chemical StorageSARA 312a, Tier II, Title 3, Right-to-know Hazardous WasteResource Conservation Recovery (RCRA) LivestockCAFO, Animal Feeding Operations Public Water SupplySDWIS, Drinking Water System RemediationSuperfund, Brownfields, Leaking Tanks Solid WasteLandfills, Sanitary Disposal Project Permits Tanks Above-ground storage tanks (AST), Underground storage tanks (UST) Wastewater NPDES Permits and Compliance, Municipal Treatment Plans, Lagoons

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