E-Enterprise Project Success Stories - Final Video

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  E Enterprise for the environment project success stories.

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  E permitting return on investment or R O I calculator,

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  E Enterprise was exploring how to modernize

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  the permitting process through E permitting.

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  An E enterprise work group recommended that R Y metrics

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  be developed to enable state adoption of E permitting systems.

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  The E Enterprise Leadership Council suggested the creation of a tool for

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  states to estimate potential increased economic

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  activity and efficiencies from E permitting

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  E P S Office of Land and Emergency Management worked with States on an E Enterprise

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  team to develop a tool to determine the R O I for an E permitting system.

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  The result is an easy to use tool for any state

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  tribe or community to use to support transition to electronic permitting.

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  Arizona used the calculator to estimate over 100 and $45 million per

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  year in economic benefits to the state from their E permitting portal

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  quality assurance project plans or cop

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  tribes are having trouble getting their crops approved in a timely manner

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  and we're spending a significant portion of their grant funds on developing crops.

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  States were experiencing similar issues around long waits,

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  inconsistencies and a lack of Transparency.

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  States and tribes came together through e enterprise in

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  collaboration with the Office of Mission Support in the regions

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  to improve the timeliness, consistency and transparency of the process.

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  The result is that EPA States and tribes work together to improve the

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  process and procedures and optimize technology support.

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  The approval times for coops have been shortened and

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  are now monitored as a result of this initiative,

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  regulation, navigation or rig

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  nav

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  the regulated community and regulators wanted an easier way to

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  understand and navigate complex Federal Clean Air Act rule,

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  applicability and requirements.

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  E P S Office of Air and Radiation developed online

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  interactive tools using the Texas Commission on environmental qualities,

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  air quality regulation, flow charts for reference.

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  With these tools,

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  the regulated community answers successive questions resulting in personalized

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  documents outlining the regulatory requirements for specific circumstances.

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  This also provides a ready reference tool for code regulators.

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  The result is that these tools

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  reduce compliance assistance requests to government agencies

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  and simplify and encourage compliance with CAA regulations,

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  state planning electronic collaboration system or specs

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  under the Clean Air Act,

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  state and local air agencies are responsible for

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  developing and submitting state implementation plans to epa

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  the same agencies may also submit

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  exceptional event notifications and demonstrations,

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  both sip and exceptional event demonstration submissions are frequently

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  comprised of multiple documents containing tens or hundreds of pages

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  P S Office of Air and Radiation Built Reporting tools with

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  software that could also be used for other unstructured data like sips

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  in the spirit of build ones used many times.

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  This software was used to launch specs

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  a user-friendly web based system that enables state air agencies

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  to officially submit information electronically for review and approval.

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  The result is that currently all 50 states use specs

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  for reporting sips eliminating the need for paper submissions.

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  More than 1600 sips have now been submitted through specs

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  and approximately 100 and 25 exceptional events such as

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  for wildfires have also been submitted through the system

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  assessment total maximum daily load tracking

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  and implementation system or attains.

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  Tribes discussed challenges they were facing in reporting

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  their water quality assessment decisions to epa.

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  One challenge was the time it took to create lengthy reports.

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  The attains tribal pilot was started to provide a more streamlined way

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  for interested tribes to electronically submit

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  water quality assessment decisions to EPA

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  to prepare for submitting Du Attains.

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  EPA helped tribes create assessment methodology documents

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  improving tribal water quality assessments.

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  Having assessment data electronically maintains allows this data to

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  be shared to the public through house my waterway.

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  The result is that an increasing number of tribes

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  are using attains to submit their assessment data to EPA

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  attains is now an approved optional reporting mechanism under the Clean Water Act.

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  And finally, the tribal water quality data road map

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  tribes discussed challenges they were facing in

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  reporting their water quality monitoring data.

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  One challenge was a high turnover rate of staff and they felt like they were starting

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  over every two years as new staff learned

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  how to sample and report water quality data.

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  The tribal water quality data road map was developed to provide

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  a step by step guide to reporting water quality data.

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  The tools excel based and not solely web-based

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  since many tribes don't have reliable internet connections.

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  However, with an internet connection,

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  it also provided users access to past water quality reports

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  and analysis and trends for tribes water quality data.

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  The result is that tribes are using the road map to

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  prepare for water quality data submissions to the water quality exchange.

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  And the road map project sparked not only the development of the road map tool but

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  also the creation of new easy to understand

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  water quality exchange training documents and videos.