The document summarizes data and services provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support health initiatives. It describes EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment. It then provides an overview of various EPA data assets and systems, including the EPA Data Finder, System of Registries, Environmental Dataset Gateway, Substance Registry, and the Facility Registry System. It also describes the National Environmental Information Exchange Network for exchanging data.

1. 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1 EPA Data and Services to Support Health Initiatives David Smith 202-566-0797 SmithG.David@epa.govTwitter:@druidsmith

2. EPA Mission EPA’s Mission, Summarized: Protecting Human Health and Safeguarding the Environment EPA’s Strategic Plan, Summarized: EPA's Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect from EPA and describes how we intend to achieve those results http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/whatwedo.html 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2

3. EPA Data Assets EPA Organization Aligned to regulatory drivers, e.g. Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, et cetera 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 3 ?

4. EPA Data Finder Curated Listing of Datasets https://epa.gov/data 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 4

5. EPA System of Registries http://epa.gov/sor 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 5

6. EPA Data Assets Environmental Dataset Gateway https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/ 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 6

7. EPA Web Services Reusable Components and Services https://epa.gov/rcs 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 7

8. EPA Web Services Substance Registry https://epa.gov/srs 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 8

9. Data Integration at EPA Envirofacts Data Warehouse http://epa.gov/enviro 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 9

10. Data Integration at EPA Facility Registry System FRS is a centrally managed database which aggregates data about facilities, sites, or places of environmental interest from 32 Federal databases and EPA program offices as well as 57 States, Tribes and Territories FRS assigns a unique, persistent identifier to each facility and aggregates environmental interests, geospatial data, industrial classifications, and affiliation data FRS provides geospatial services (geocoding, indexing) and serves as the enterprise component for many EPA applications http://epa.gov/frs 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 10

11. FRS Data Aggregation All underlying information from programs is retained, to include locational data For any given facility, there may be multiple individual locations that have been gathered, e.g. an associated air stack location, water outfall location, front gate location, et cetera http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/locational/lrt_viewer.html

12. Data Exchange at EPA National Environmental Information Exchange Network (NEIEN) Robust, mature exchange network, utilizing state and federal nodes which regularly exchange a wide variety of data via web services. http://exchangenetwork.net 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 12

13. Developer Challenge! http://epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment 6/9/2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 13

14. NextSteps Data.GovSocrata Platform Linked Data