ECMPS Support

The following applies to any ECMPS Stakeholders who have not worked with the Client Tool since its 2009 release on March 17th. If you have logged on to the EPA Host System from the ECMPS Client Tool since March 17, 2009, you do not need to anything else in order to comply with CROMERR.

The Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation (CROMERR) is the regulation which stipulates how electronic reporting must be performed for entities which report data to the EPA. Affected entities include regulated entities which must submit data to the EPA for regulatory purposes. This means that CROMERR (pronounced "chrome air"; really) affects ECMPS stakeholders.

Beginning in March, ECMPS stakeholders were affected by CROMERR in their use of both the CAMD Business System (CBS) and the ECMPS Client Tool. ECMPS stakeholders are affected in their use of CBS because several parts of CBS will be redesigned to comply with CROMERR. That redesigned sections are scheduled to be released by the end of June.

Regarding the Client Tool, CROMERR will affect the use of the Client Tool in two ways:

1. Beginning with the next release of the Client Tool (scheduled for March 17th), users must have completed a Subscriber Agreement in order to be able to log in to the EPA Host System.


2. In order to be able to submit data through the Client Tool, users must have selected five challenge questions and provided the answers to those challenge questions.
   
   During the submission of data, users will be asked to answer a challenge question in order to verify their identity. The challenge question is similar to questions asked on banking Web sites or other secure Web sites. (E.g., What is your mother's maiden name? or In what city were you born?)

ECMPS Stakeholders need to take the following steps:

1. Complete a subscriber agreement and send it via mail to the EPA. The Subscriber Agreement Form can be downloaded from here. Simply print it out, read and sign the form, and send it to the address on the form.


2. Log on to CBS and select challenge questions as well as provide answers for those questions.

Stakeholders should bear in mind they will not be able to use CBS or submit data through the Client Tool until they have submitted a subscriber agreement and selected challenge questions.

For more information about CROMERR, click here.

Any questions about CROMERR and completing the Subscriber Agreement Form should be directed to Karen VanSickle at EPA (vansickle.karen@epa.gov).

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