ECMPS Support

CAMD is looking for Feedback from Data and Maps Users

The data which are submitted through ECMPS end up in two locations. The first place is the EPA Host System which is the production database for all CAMD Business System and ECMPS data. A copy of some of these data are also copied to another database. That database is a read-only database which is used by the Web-based application Data and Maps.

Data and Maps is a publicly-accessible Internet application that provides access to emissions, allowance, compliance, and other program data which have been submitted to the EPA Host System.

CAMD would like to get feedback from users regarding their use of Data and Maps. If you, or someone you know, uses Data and Maps and would be available to be contacted by CAMD in order to provide feedback on Data and Maps, please send an email to the Data and Maps technical support.

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As was noted in an earlier post, Data and Maps, is the Web site on which ECMPS data can be accessed after the data have been submitted to the EPA Host System. In the early hours of each morning, a database process is run which copies data from the EPA Host System to the Data and Maps database. After this process is complete, all of the data which were submitted the previous day have been copied from the EPA Host System to the Data and Maps.

Previously this was a manual process that occurred a few weeks after the end of a submission period. Now this process is automated, and it the process is run every day of the year in order to capture each submission from the previous day.

That means that the Data and Maps data are always up-to-data as of yesterday's submissions. The amount of emissions data which have been copied from the EPA Host System are indicated by the progress bar. The progress bar indicates the percentage of emissions data which have been received relative to the amount expected. Until all emissions data for a submission period have been submitted via ECMPS, the progress bar will not reach one hundred percent.

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Data and Maps is the Clean Air Market Division's (CAMD) publicly-accessible Web site for presenting emissions trading data. One of the types of data on the Web site is the emissions data which are submitted during each reporting period.

In the past, when data were submitted as EDRs, the emissions data for a quarter were moved over to Data and Maps approximately twenty days after the reporting period ended. Now, as part of the re-engineering work, the emissions data which are submitted as XML are being refreshed on a daily basis. That means that emission data which are submitted today are available to be viewed in Data and Maps tomorrow. (The data are actually loaded into Data and Maps around 4:00 a.m. ET. At that time, all emissions data are loaded into Data and Maps for all emissions data which have been submitted through ECMPS to the EPA Host System and have not already been moved to Data and Maps.) Note, the data are loaded as preliminary data. The data will remain preliminary until the data are finalized after compliance.

1. On the Data and Maps Web site, the data can be viewed by clicking on the Emissions image.


2. On the Emissions page, select the "Preliminary Unit Level Emissions" folder.


3. Select the "Quarterly" time frame.


4. Complete the Time Frame selection by selecting "2009" as the year and "Quarter 2" as the quarter and clicking the "Add Time Frame" button.


5. Select a program from the list and click the "Add Program" button. In this example, the "Acid Rain Program" is selected.


6. Note that your criteria are displayed below the tabs. Click on the "View Results" tab to query the database and return the results.


7. The results of the query are displayed in a table format on the Web page.



Questions about Data and Maps should be directed to Data and Maps Technical Support.

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