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Emissions Inventory System (EIS) Overview andExporting Data from the EIS

Sally DombrowskiEPA–OAQPS

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Registering for the EIS• Join the EIS Community on the EPA Portal

• http://portal.epa.gov • Complete profile on the EIS

• https://eis.epa.gov/eis-system-web • READ, WRITE, SUBMIT• Approval

• Instructions located at • http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/eis/index.html

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Select Criteria to Search for a facility or all facilities in your Tribe.

To find a single facility, provide your Tribal identifier for that facilityand/or the facility name. If looking for all facilities proceed to the Tribal name selection box.

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Next select your Tribes name in the selection box and select “Search” at the bottom of the page..

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Select a link for one facility

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This page gives you all of the information about a facility as well as linksWhich allow you to edit data, delete a facility, merge a facility or view the Current years emissions. There are also tabs across the top which will drillDown to the release point, emission unit or process level. If you select theProcess tab…

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…you will receive a list of all of the processes under that facility. If youselect a link to a single process…

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…you receive the detailed information about that process to include releasepoint apportionment, controls and regulations. You may also view or edit/deleteemissions from this page without having to resend your file.

11Exporting Data from eis into teiss

Emission Inventory System

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Exporting Data for TEISS

• EIS will allow exports of YOUR data• State data requires state permission

for READ access

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A snapshot (facility and emissions) gives you detailed information to include units, processes and release points in a format to import into TEISS

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First select the Facility Snapshot bar.

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For a facility snapshot, select the agencyof interest. I am signed on as North Carolinabut notice that I have access to additionalagencies which have allowed me to READtheir data.

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Next select the data category.In this case it would be Facility Inventory.

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There are two links available, request and download. If request is selecteda new snapshot will be generated overnight. If you select Download, you will download the latest snapshot generated on the Last Generation Date.

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When you select “Download”, a box will open with a link to the file.Select that link and the File Download box will open. Select “Save” andselect the location for the file. Files are downloaded in a zipped file format.To import these files into TEISS, the files must be unzipped and thexml file extracted to your directory.

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An emissions snapshot is done the same way except you need to select a dataset under the Emissions Snapshot filter and select Point in the Data Category filter. In this case, select the appropriate inventory year for your agency.

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Exercise – Facility Snapshot• Sign on to the EIS Gateway• Select “Request Reports” on the left-hand

sidebar• Select “By Responsible Agency” under Facility

Snapshot• Select the State Agency under Facility Snapshot

filter• Select “Facility Inventory” under Data Category

filter• Select “Search” and then “Download”

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Exercise – Emissions Snapshot• Sign on to the EIS Gateway• Select “Request Reports” on the left-hand sidebar• Select “By Responsible Agency” under Emissions

Snapshot• Select the 2008 State Agency under Emissions

Snapshot filter• Select “Point” under Data Category filter• Select “Search” and then “Download”• This may be repeated for nonpoint, onroad and

nonroad.

23Overview (cont.)Emissions Inventory System

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Emissions Summary by Geography• Used to look at point, nonpoint, onroad, and

nonroad• Runs every 15 minutes and downloads in .csv• Reports can be done on a national, regional,

state/tribe, or county level• Reports can be done by Data Category (Point,

Nonpoint, etc); Sectors (Ag, Fires, Dust, etc); or by SCC

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There are additional reports which can be used for analysis. Thesereports cannot be uploaded into TEISS, but open in Excel. Oneof the best reports is the emissions summary by geography report.

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At the top of the page are highlighteditems which are required to be selectedto run the summary report. For this examplewe will use the State/Tribal by SCC

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Next you need to select the datasetthat you wish to summarize. You caneither select what your agency has submitted,or you may select the dataset representingwhat EPA will publish on our public website.These selections will be a combination of bothagency data and EPA data.

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Next you are required to select either a specific pollutant code by usingthe search box; or you may use the preselected groups represented byActive CAPS; Active HAPs, etc. For this example we have selected NOx.Next you have additional filters, such as a specific agency, data category,sector, or SCC. When selections are done, select Run Report or RequestDownload.

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If you select “Run Report”, reportis returned to screen where you candownload immediately by using:Download Results: CSV. If your selectionis too large; you will receive a messagethat you must Request a Download.These reports are generated overnight.

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Reports may be downloaded the next day from the “ReportsDownload” link. If you select the magnifying glass, you are ableto see the specific filters for the report being downloaded.

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Emissions Summaries by Facility• A report that gives you emissions summed to

facility, unit, process or release point level• Reports run every 15 minutes, available in .csv

format under Report Downloads on sidebar.• .csv may be imported easily into Excel

spreadsheet or Access database• Reports can also be done by Facility Type, NAICS

or SCC• Cannot be imported into TEISS

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Select “By Facility” under Emission Summaries.

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Required filters are highlighted. Forour example, we will select a facilitylevel report.

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Next, a dataset needs to be selected.similar to the emissions summary. You mayselect a specific inventory year for youragency or EPA’s public selection.

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The last required filter is pollutant code.Additional optional filters are then availableto refine your selection. Then selectRun Report or Request Download.

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Submitting Your Data• In TEISS, indicate if you are sending data to QA Environment or

Production before exporting• What is the QA Environment?

– Codes– Required Data Elements– Ranges– Conditional Checks

• What is the Production Environment?– Official submission– Same checks as the QA Environment

• Zip your exported xml file from TEISS• Open the Web Client

– https://nodewebrss.epa.gov/user/Login.aspx

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Use your same login and passwordthat you use for the EIS Gateway. Change the Domain to “IAMLdap”

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Select “EIS” on the sidebar.

40Browse for the zipped xml file which you exported from TEISS. Alsoadd your email address to the Notify box. Then click Submit.

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Notifications• Two emails from CDX

• Pending• Processed or Failed

• Validation of File Format

• One email from “noreply”• Notification that file has gone through QA

and feedback report is available for review

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Feedback Reports• Important sections

• Statistics• Critical Errors

• Informational• Warning Errors

• What do you do if you receive critical errors?• Correct them in TEISS• Export a new xml file• Zip the file• Send again

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The statistics page is one of the most importantpages of the feedback report. The number of addsshould equal the number of records submitted. Another important page is the Critical Errorsworksheet. All errors on this page must be rectifiedprior of submission to Production.