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Production Data Flows
The final phase of the CDX Development cycle is Production. Data flows that have completed development and been authorized to receive data have their code migrated to the CDX production environment. CDX currently has 44 data flows that are receiving data from EPA, State, Tribal, and Industry users.
CDX also has many data flows in various stages of Development
Air
Quality System (AQS)
AQS is a national database that contains ambient air quality monitoring
data collected by State and local governments.
Brownfields Management System/ Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (BMS/ACRES)
In January 2002, the Brownfields Revitalization and Restoration Act (Public Law 107-118) was signed into law. The Brownfields Information Management System (BMS) will help to modernize, integrate, and streamline the agency’s national Brownfields program data. The initiative will support the core mission of the agency in two primary ways: (1) create a cutting-edge system to facilitate Brownfields grantee reporting and property-specific tracking, oversight activities, and (2) strengthen community and stakeholder input into the Brownfields assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment process.
Environmental Appeals Board
The Appeals Board is the final Agency decisionmaker on administrative appeals under all major environmental statutes that the Agency administers. CDX now provides an electronic method to submit appeals to the EAB
eBeaches
The eBeaches system allows state and local agencies subject to the
reporting requirements of the Beach Environmental Assessment
and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act to submit their annual beach water
quality and swimming advisory information.
NOTE: Data providers are strongly encouraged to visit eBeaches for important updates on information regarding data requirements, user guides, support contacts and other useful resources: Beach Standards, Monitoring & Notification
Electronic Inventory Update Reporting (eIUR)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated a rule in 1986, often referred to as the Inventory Update Rule (IUR), for the partial updating of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Inventory Database. The rule requires manufacturers and importers of certain chemical substances included on the TSCA Chemical Substances Inventory to report current data on the production volume, plant site, and site-limited status of these substances. Reporting under the Inventory Update Rule takes place at five-year intervals.
Electronic Discharge Monitoring Report (eDMR)
Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMR) are reports generated by permittees regulated under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and contain information pertaining to the self-monitoring of discharges into waters regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA). These reports must be approved by EPA and States.
EnviroFlash
EnviroFlash is a new program, sponsored by the EPA with State
and local air quality agencies. EnviroFlash Air Quality Monitoring provides important air uality information such as forecasts and action day notifications
via email or pager notification. The email includes the same local,
air quality forecast information that is coordinated through the
news media. EnviroFlash UV Monitoring provides notifications for Ultraviolet Light Indices for urban areas.
Facility
Registry System (FRS)
FRS is a national database that contains the facility identification
data which is collected from national systems, States, and Web resources.
Geo-Exchange with Region 5 and Wisconsin DNR
The Geo-Exchange Project is a joint effort between Region 5, the State of Wisconsin and EPA, that will provide the Exchange Network with the capabilities to search and discover geospatial metadata and to exchange geospatial data sets.
Great Lakes Node
The Great lakes Node Project will establish an Exchange Network Node for the Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO). The Great Lakes Node will be used to provide data from the Great Lakes Database to the Exchange Network.
Grants.gov-Integrated Grants Management
System/Grants Information and Control System (IGMS)/(GICS)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) IGMS/GICS is an Agency-wide information management system that provides administrative, project, and financial information on grants, loans, cooperative agreements, and Interagency Agreements (IAGs) administered by EPA. The system comprises many subsystems that support two major client organizations: Office of Grants and Debarment (OGD) for all non-construction programs, and the Municipal Support Division (MSD) of the Office of Water (OW) for the Construction Grant, State Resolving Fund (SRF), and Non-point Source (NPS) programs.
Integrated Compliance Information System National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (ICIS-NPDES)
Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) is a multi-statute system that tracks all federal enforcement and compliance data. ICIS–National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) is replacing EPA’s Permit Compliance System (PCS).
Interim Data Exchange Format (IDEF)
IDEF is an XML format for delegated States to submit National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) data to EPA's Permit Compliance System (PCS).
Institutional
Controls Tracking System (ICTS)
Institutional Controls are non-engineered instruments that help
minimize potential for human exposure to contamination and/or protect
the integrity of a remedy by limiting land or resource use.
Lead-based Paint Abatement Activities Certifications and Notifications
This site provides the public with information about rules, certifications
and training for the removal of lead based paint, as well as rules
and procedures for notifying EPA about lead paint related issues.
CDX maintains three lead flows: Lead Notifications of Abatement Activities, Lead Notifications of Abatement Training and Lead Certifications for Abatement Training which has been integrated with Pay.gov for automated
fee collection.
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2)
The LT2 rule is designed to reduce disease incidence associated with Cryptosporidium and other pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water. The rule applies to all public water systems that use surface water or ground water that is under the direct influence of surface water.
Minnesota Reach Access Database (MIN RAD)
This system will allow Minnesota to provide a workflow for integrated reports on water quality from the state, to EPA Region 5, and finally to the public.
National Emission Inventory (NEI)
NEI is a database containing data to help characterize emissions of criteria and hazardous air pollutants. Data is submitted by State and local governments tri-annually. The collection process also includes annual resubmissions and periodic corrections to the data.
National Environmental Methods Index for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Methods (NEMI CBR)
Office Of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ)-Fuels Reporting System
OTAQ Fuels Reportingallows for the collection of data pertaining to fuel formulations. This information includes registration data on producers and importers of reformulated gasoline, conventional gasoline, or applicable blendstocks and on the registration of fuel and fuel additives.
Ozone Depleting Substances Tracking System (ODS CBI)
The U.S. EPA’s Stratospheric Ozone Protection Program regulates controlled ozone depleting substances (ODS) under Title VI of the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA requires regulated entities to report data, such as the type and quantity of the ODS produced, imported, and/or exported. Entities submit this data, which contains Confidential Business Information (CBI), to EPA in reports on a quarterly, annual, and/or transactional basis. Data is then recorded and subsequently maintained securely in the ODS Tracking System, operated by EPA Headquarters.
Radiation Network(RadNet)
RadNet is a national network of monitoring stations that regularly collect air, precipitation, drinking water, and milk samples for analysis of radioactivity. The RadNet network, which has stations in each State, has been used to track environmental releases of radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests and nuclear accidents. Future uses of this network might include monitoring waste disposal and radioactive cleanup sites. RadNet also documents the status and trends of environmental radioactivity; these data are published by NAREL in a quarterly report entitled Environmental Radiation Data. Previously this was a paper only publication, but it is now being published online as well.
Region 4 /Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)
Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) are agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. Upon meeting a regulatory definition, an AFO can be designated as a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO). CAFOs are point sources, as defined by the CWA [Section 502(14)] and may be required to obtain a NPDES permit. This exchange network implementation will allow participating states to exchange information regarding CAFO facilities.
Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Info Version 3.0
RCRA is the national database containing data collected from delegated
States and Regions on hazardous waste.
Risk
Management Plan (RMP) Web Reporting Center
Risk Management Plan Web Reporting Center(RMP*WebRC) Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act requires that certain facilities maintain and submit a Risk Management Plan (RMP) to ensure that plans are in place to prevent and respond to chemical emergencies in those facilities. CDX hosts a web-based process for these regulated facilities to efficiently update their registration information.
Safe Drinking Water Access and Review System (SDWARS) / Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Regulation 2 (UCMR 2)
The Safe Drinking Water Access and Review System supports reporting requirements promulgated under the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Regulation. Labs submit their inventory for Public Water Supply (PWS) for approval. Upon approval, that data can be viewed by the States and EPA. The System is undergoing a redesign for a new cycle in the data collection.
Safe
Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) ODS
SDWIS supports the quarterly reporting requirements promulgated
under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Storm
Water Electronic Notice of Intent (eNOI)/Notice of
Termination (eNOT)
Storm Water eNOI and eNOT support electronic submissions for, and
terminations of, construction general permits under NPDES. Submitters on one acre or more certify they have met Storm Water
Pollution Prevention Plans, identified receiving water bodies for
discharges and met Endangered Species Act eligibility obligations.
Substance Registry System (SRS)
The Substance Registry System (SRS) provides information on substances and how they are represented in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and information systems.
Toxics
Release Inventory (TRI)
TRI is an EPA data collection that contains information on toxic chemical
releases and other waste management activities reported annually
by certain industry groups as well as federal facilities to EPA and States. The TRI State Data Exchange allows simultaneous electronic reporting to EPA and States using the Toxic Release Inventory-Made Easy (TRI-ME) software.
Underground Injection Control
Underground injection is the technology of placing fluids underground, in porous formations of rocks, through wells or other similar conveyance systems. While rocks such as sandstone, shale, limestone appear to be solid, they can contain significant voids or pores that allow water and other fluids to fill and move through them. Man-made or produced fluids (liquids, gases or slurries) can move into the pores of rocks by the use of pumps or by gravity. The fluids may be water, wastewater or water mixed with chemicals. Injection well technology can predict the capacity of rocks to contain fluids and the technical details to do so safely.
Verify
Verify Vehicle and Engines Compliance Information System is one part of the larger Compliance Information System (CIS) maintained by the Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ). It will consolidate information collected in separate legacy systems including the Certification and Fuel Economy Information System (CFEIS), the Motorcycle System, and the Engine Information Management System (EIMS). Data pertaining to engine emissions and fuel economy are submitted by motor vehicle manufacturers.
Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCIT)
The WCIT is an electronic database for tracking and managing current
information on priority, nontraditional water contaminants, such
as those that are not significant from a regulatory or operational
perspective, but which could have substantial adverse consequences
to the public and/or utility if accidentally or intentionally introduced
into the drinking water.
Water Quality Exchange (WQX)
WQX allows Network partners to share ambient water quality data with the U.S. EPA. The WQX System includes the following types of data: the physical conditions in the environment at the time of a site visit; the chemical and bacteriological make-up of the water sampled; and chemical analyses of fish tissue collected. WQX represents the next evolution for EPA's STORET model for sharing water quality data. EPA will transition away from a distributed database model towards the Exchange Network model for the sharing of data. This transition is expected to be fully completed in 2009.