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United States-Mexico Border
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 United States-Mexico Border Program
 Municipal Support Division
 Office of Wastewater Enforcement and Compliance (WH-547)
 Office of Water
 United States Environmental Protection Agency
 401 M Street, S.W.
 Washington, D.C. 20460
This catalog is a preliminary list of water-related geographic information systems along4 the U.S.-
Mexico Border.  Its aim is to acquaint GIS users and system developers with information on some
existing systems identified by various organizations that either have GISs or may want to develop
them. Catalog entries represent material submitted voluntarily by organizations wishing to have their
systems included.  Descriptions of GISs listed in this catalog were provided by the system developers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not responsible for the accuracy, adequacy, efficacy, or
applicability of the systems described.
Project Manager:  Eliot F. Tucker (202-260-5842);
Project Coordinator and Writer:  Betty B. Ford (202-260-8510);
USEPA Region 6 Coordinator and GIS Technical Adviser: David A. Parrish (214-655-8352).

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                                                                        Attachment 32
                           U.S. Geological Survey, Texas District
                           USGS Water Resources Division GIS
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      ensuring that agency programs are in concert with other state  and
      federal agencies.

      Developing  a  business  plan  to prioritize and  schedule  the
      development of public-funded  programs for the  acquisition of
      geographic information of common interest, and to seek partners in the
      public sector for data development.

      Identify agencies to serve as data custodians and define the roles and
      responsibilities for the agencies' data steward-ship.

Participation as part of this'cojjncil will ensure  that the CIS format  used for the
Environmental Atlas of  the Border Area is compatible with  that of other  state and
federal  agencies and that the Atlas can  take advantage of other GIS work being
accomplished by the State in this area.
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 the Border Area. The Computer Resources section supports programming, data base
 applications, statistical and graphic analysis of data, and computer mapping and
 modeling  on the Bureau's computer system and on the University's IBM,  VAX,
 CONVEX, and Cray computer systems.

 The Bureau's computer system consists of a Local Area VAX Cluster (LAVC) with a
 VAX 4000 as a boot node. Three VAX  3100s and a MicroVAX II  serve as satellite
 nodes in this LAVC. Additional nodes include a DECstation 5000, a Silicon Graphics.
 Inc. (SGI)  Personal Iris workstation, and two SGI Indigo workstations. All workstations
 are accessible through the Bureau's Zyplex terminal server. A  print server provides
 network accessibility to a line-printer and laser printer. An Ethernet  network is the in-
 house connection for all workstations (fig. 2). Additional computing capabilities include
 72 Macintoshes, 19 IBM-compatible PCs, 15 Apple LaserWriters, 5 pen plotters, an
 electrostatic plotter, 108 DEC terminals,  and 5 digitizing tablets. All Macintoshes are
 networked into  a LocalTalk network that connects to the Bureau's Ethernet. The
 Bureau's  local  networks are connected to UTs broad-band Ethernet system, which
 allows  high-speed communications with computer systems on campus and at the
 Center for High  Performance Computing. Internet and BITNET provide worldwide
 networking capabilities.

 In  addition to providing VAX VMS, ULTRIX, UNIX, DOS, Windows,  and Macintosh
 operating systems, software capabilities include third- and fourth-generation data base
 tools, word processing,  spreadsheet,  and  statistical  packages.  Graphics  and
 environmental modeling capabilities include graphics programming  libraries, contour
 mapping, image processing, and data plotting in two and three  dimensions. Seismic
 data display,  interpretation,  and modeling  capabilities are provided on  both
 workstations and Macintoshes. Additional capabilities include water flow modeling,
 reservoir modeling, and well log interpretation.

 Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities have been expanded to  include
 ARC/INFO and ArcView software, and a DECstation 5000 workstation. IBM-compatible
 PCs, Macintoshes, and X-terminals will  serve as additional "seats" on the system.
 Output capabilities will consist of both color and black-and-white  electrostatic plotters.
 GIS capabilities currently include PC ARC/INFO installed on two  IBM-compatible PCs.
 Data input is through digital files, keyboard, and Calcomp digitizers. Hard-copy maps
 are generated  using  Hewlett Packard DraftPro plotter, 7475 plotter, and LaserJet
 Series  II printer. Staff training specific to GIS includes courses in PC ARC/INFO,
 Introduction to Workstation ARC/INFO, and Customizing ARC/INFO with AML Our GIS
 specialist has a degree in Cartography and Photogrammetry. The BEG computing staff
 includes six full-time professionals and additional support staff.

 The head  of our computing staff also serves  on the Texas Geographic Information
 Systems  Planning Council as a   member of the  GIS Base  Map Requirements
 Definition Team. This Council was charged  by Governor Ann Richards with the
 responsibility of:

      Planning for the  most cost-effective  means  of acquiring and
      distributing geographic information to the state as a  whole and
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Excellence for GIS, will be helpful in this effort. Geographic data bases will be created
in an ARC/INFO GIS format. Each  layer will have both a Spanish and an English
language annotation layer, or perhaps  a single bilingual annotation layer, with
explanatory information. The finalized layers can be manipulated by ArcView software,
but the user will be precluded from editing the finalized data.  Procedures will be
established that describe when and  how a layer can be edited and how those
changes will be documented.  Hard copies of layers may be  plotted  using a color
electrostatic plotter that produces very high quality (400 dots per inch) graphics.

In summary, Year One results wi& produce (1) examples (preliminary maps) of some
of the principal types of data that can  be compiled,  (2) an assessment of data
availability for a variety of potential layers, (3) identification of potential sources of
data, and (4) standardized procedures for ARC/INFO data base creation. The Year-
One pilot study will demonstrate the utility of the GIS approach to formation of an
environmental data base for planning and  decision making and will provide a realistic
example of the potential of the Environmental  Atlas.of the Rio Grande/Rio  Bravo
Border Area.

            V. Capabilities of the Bureau of Economic Geology

The Bureau of Economic Geology is a geologic and hydrogeologic research group at
The University of Texas at Austin with an international reputation for multidiscipiinary,
basic and applied research in the geosciences.  Since 1909, the Bureau has carried
out the functions of a State Geological Survey. Bureau studies include a wide range of
topics in diverse settings both in the  United States and in other countries. The Border
Area has been a focus for Bureau studies since the early decades of this century. This
long tradition of investigations of the geology, hydrology, and resources of the Border
Area continues today with currently  active projects in the  western Trans-Pecos, Big
Bend area, South Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Bureau of Economic Geology has  been  involved in studies  in  the  broad
disciplines of environmental geology and hydrology  for  many  years, and is a
recognized leader in  the compilation of regional data sets. The "Environmental
Geologic Atlas of the Texas Coastal  Zone," "Submerged Lands of  Texas,"
"Atlas  of Major  Texas OH  Reservoirs," "Atlas  of  Major  Texas Gas
Reservoirs," and  the "Geologic  Atlas of Texas"  are nationally known
publications that have established the Bureau  as a leader in the  compilation and
presentation of regional studies. Several of these publications will be primary sources
of data for the Environmental Atlas of the Border Area.

The Bureau of Economic Geology has a large full-time research staff of experienced
earth scientists and engineers with diverse interests and an excellent support staff of
professional editors, cartographers, and computer scientists. Our modem facilities and
state-of-the-art equipment can address  a wide range of investigations. We are
experienced in managing large multidiscipiinary projects that require coordination with
state and federal agencies and industry both in the United States and internationally.

The capabilities of our computer staff and our computing hardware and software are of
particular importance  to the GIS applications planned for the Environmental Atlas of
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 data (especially from Mexico), establish contacts with the key individuals or agencies
 that have relevant information, and establish protocols for efficient data acquisition,
 data entry, and data analysis that will guide all future work on the project.

 Data available from  Mexico will be less extensive than that from the United States.
 However, it is important that all relevant data be included in the Atlas. One purpose of
 the Atlas is to portray the available data so that areas of inadequate information can be
 recognized and, if the data are critical to analysis of a particular issue, the data gap
 can be rectified. For example, on the U.S. side of the border, there are areas where the
 basic data on water wells (locationr depth to the static water level, and basic chemistry)
 are likely incomplete. Compilation of available data will indicate places where testing
 of a few wells will provide sufficient supplementary information to adequately describe
 the characteristics of aquifers under consideration for development.

 To assist in the gathering of information on Mexico, we may draw on other components
 of the University of Texas System located near the border, e.g., El Paso, Pan-American
 at Edinburg,  Brownsville, or San Antonio. Many o? the scientists at these universities
 conduct research in  Mexico and have contacts at Mexican universities and with
 Mexican officials. Internships or assistantships will be provided to students, some of
 whom  may be  Mexican nationals, to compile and analyze data on Mexico. This
 approach not only will be in the best interests of the project, but also it will help train
 future environmental scientists. Identification  of Mexican data sources and acquisition
 of published reports or other information will be a challenging activity during year one.

 Ground water, environmental geology,  and perhaps surface water or energy resources
 will be the focus of Year One activities. Locations of water wells, elevation of the water
 table, and water chemistry are of special interest for the ground-water data base. The
 Texas Water Commission, Texas Water Development Board, U.S. EPA, SEDUE, U.S.
 Geological Survey,  local water districts, and  previous  studies by the  Bureau of
 Economic Geology are  sources of data. Geologic units,  active geologic processes,
 soils, geohydrologic units, and other geologic factors important for land use planning
 of the area being studied would be emphasized as part of the environmental geology
 compilation. Geological data are available from the Bureau of Economic Geology, U.S.
 Geological Survey, professional journals, and various Mexican sources such as the
 Sociedad Geologica Mexicana and publications of geological institutes at the northern
 Mexico universities. Data for the surface water map will include perennial streams and
 rivers, springs, floodplains, wetlands,  and water and sediment analyses.  FEMA and
the International Boundary and Water Commission have determined floodplains for
 much of the  Border Area, and some data  are available on surface water quality.
 Energy  resources, especially important in the Matamoros-Brownsville area, will be
compiled if the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo is part of the focus of year one activities.
 Previous compilations of the United States portion of the Border Area by the Bureau of
 Economic Geology will provide a major part of the data; publications by the Asociacion
 Mexicana de Geologos Petroleros and other professional literature will provide
information on Mexican energy resources.

Critical GIS procedures and protocols that will guide future activities on this project will
be established during Year One. Contact with the EPA's Environmental Monitoring
 Systems Laboratory in Las Vegas and their  Spatial Analysis Laboratory, a Center of
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          somewhat unique compared to other sister-city areas. The Gulf Coast-Rio
          Grande/Rio Bravo Delta and Lower Rio Grande/Bajo  Rfo Bravo host large
          wetlands, active coastal processes, areas subject to coastal flooding due to
          tropical storms and hurricanes,  and aquifers subject  to  salinization by
          seawater intrusion. There is also a threat of environmental contamination
          due to the inadvertent release of petroleum or other hazardous chemicals
          as a result of a marine accident. The special character of this environment,
          and the importance  of its ecosystems, will require an  extra level of care in
          assessing risks associated with development.

          The Matamoros-Brownsville area, at least on the north  side of the Rio
          Grande/Rio Bravo, has a head start in the compilation of the environmental
          data base due to previous work by the Bureau  of Economic Geology. As
          culmination of work extending from 1969 to the late 1970's, the Bureau
          published a series of maps and accompanying texts, the "Environmental
          Geologic Atlas of  the Texas Coastal Zone," that addressed many of
          the environmental issues of the Texas Gulf Coast.  This work was divided
          into 7 segments, and the maps and related products for the final segment—
          Brownsvllle-Harllngen—was published  in 1980.  Although some  of the
          information is dated (man-made features and current land use), much of the
          basic data are still valid. Information on the environmental geology maps
          (physical properties, land-surface subsidence, faulting), active processes
          map (hurricane flooding, shoreline processes, other active  processes),  and
          the topography and  bathymetry map can be utilized with little modification.
          Other  characteristics (mineral and energy resources, construction  raw
          materials, water systems, coastal wind regimes, tidal currents, and river
          discharge) can be updated with current data. Additional data sets  in the
          coastal atlas will be extremely useful as indicators of environmental change
          (distribution  of  wetlands  and  marshes,  subaqueous   and  subaerial
          environments and biologic assemblages).

          Further, a companion set of studies to the Atlas, the "Submerged  Lands
          of Texas," was prepared by the Bureau of Economic Geology based on
          extensive data gathered and sampled in the same time frame as the Atlas.
          The Brownsville-Harllngen set was  published in  1986.  It includes
          detailed  information  on  the  geochemistry,  sediments,  benthic
          macroinvertebrates, and wetlands of the  coastal areas and is a premier
          data set for  evaluating environmental changes over  the past decade.
          Together, the Coastal Atlas and the Submerged  lands volumes  are an
          outstanding example of the utility of compilation of basic data and will be an
          invaluable resource for  the Matamoros-Brownsville  portion  of  the
          Environmental Atlas  of the Border Area.

B. Objectives and Approach

Year One will produce a clear template for future work on the Atlas regardless of which
area is selected as a starting point (or if it is determined that some work should occur
in each area). Preliminary maps of selected  critical elements that will  be of immediate
benefit to the study area(s) will be  produced. Other goals are to assess availability of
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                 IV. Scope of Work, Year-One Pilot Study

A. Area of study

Six sister city pairs astride the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo would be accorded priority status:
(1)Ciudad Juarez-El  Paso,  (2) Ciudad Acufta-Del Rio, (3) Piedras Negras-Eagle
Pass,  (4) Nuevo Laredo-Laredo,  (5) Reynosa-McAllen,  and  (6) Matamoros-
Brownsville. We propose that initial efforts be focused on either the twin-city area at the
upper end of the  Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, Ciudad Juarez-El Paso, or the Lower  Rio
Qrande/Bajo Rio Bravo including Reynosa-McAllen and Matamoros-Brownsville.
                              /•
       1. Ciudad Juarez-El Paso:  The Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area is a critical
         area because  it contains the majority of the maquiladoras  of the  Rio
         Grande/Rio Bravo  Border Area and is subject to a host of environmental
         concerns. Water quality and water resources for these cities are issues
         involving both surface and ground water and are international in  scope.
         Both cities obtain most of their water supplies from a shared, transboundary,
         ground-water aquifer in the Hueco Bolson, a finite resource that is already
         over-produced. The  cone of depression  associated with  the  Juarez
         production wells has crossed the border into the United States, and  El Paso
         is so concerned about future water supplies that  it has recently purchased
         water rights to an area over 140 mi (225 km) to the southeast in northern
         Presidio County, Texas.

         The shallow Rio Grande/Rio Bravo aquifer, a local source of water for
         colonias on both sides of the border, and the surface waters of  the  Rio
         Grande/Rio Bravo  are under threat of contamination by up to 30 million
         gallons  a day  of untreated industrial and municipal waste waters.  The
         surface  and shallow subsurface waters are also subject to contamination by
         agrichemicals, especially  pesticides  and  perhaps defoliants,  and
         salinization is effecting the soils of agricultural areas, but the extent of these
         problems has not yet been documented.
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         Air quality in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area is a major problem currently
         being investigated. To help improve air quality, new gas pipelines are being
         built from El Paso to Juarez to provide a cleaner burning fuel  for both
         power plants and industry. An additional pipeline  to carry 105 MMcf/day to
         the  Samalyuca  power plant  complex will   be  needed  by  1994.
         Industrialization and urbanization of the  Ciudad Juarez-El Paso  area is
         continuing  at  a rapid pace.  The  information  to  be provided  in the
         Environmental  Atlas will  be of fundamental importance  in planning  for
         responsible development and in monitoring the environmental conditions of
         the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area,

      2. Lower Rio Grande/Bajo Rfo Bravo:  The Matamoros-Brownsville,  and
         nearby  Reynosa-McAllen, sister cities  have a  litany of environmental
         concerns similar to those of other developed areas along the border. In
         addition, however, the location of this area, adjacent to the Gulf of  Mexico,
         and the  presence of large petroleum resources and related industry make it
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 Mineral Resources

 The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area has numerous occurrences of metallic and
 nonmetallic  mineral commodities,  including  raw  materials  of  value for local
 construction, e.g.,  sand and gravel,  limestone, crushed  rock  and asphalt. Some
 deposits may also be contributing trace amounts of  metals or other ions to surface or
 ground waters that may cause elevated levels  of these chemicals in  soils, surface
 waters, or ground water. The presence of these resources-should be considered as
 part of any comprehensive plan for development. Production of these resources may
 result in environmental issues that will have to be addressed. The Bureau of Economic
 Geology will be a principal source of information for mineral  occurrences in the Border
 Area in the United States. The U.S. Geological SOrvey has a digital data base of some
 of the  mineral occurrences in Mexico. The locations of mineral prospects and deposits
 will  be compiled for each map unit. Each location will be annotated to  indicate
 commodities present and whether or not  the  commodity has been  commercially
 produced.

 Meteorologlc  Data

 The climate of the  Rio Grande/Rio  Bravo Border Area ranges from the semiarid of
 upstream areas to the tropical of the Gulf Coast. Climate and meteorological factors
 influence not only such things as agricultural practices, but also quantity and quality of
 surface waters, dispersion of air-borne pollution, rates of  recharge, and geological
 processes. Meteorologic data compiled as part of the Environmental Atlas will include
 wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, precipitation, and pan evaporation
 data, where available for those map units that have meteorological stations.  Data on
 air quality are a related environmental attribute that can be included for those places
 where monitoring stations have  been  established, such as in the Ciudad Juarez-El
 Paso airshed. This information will be useful to those seeking to develop  climate-
 sensitive industry,  such as aquaculture  or greenhouse agriculture,  and for those
 charged with environmental monitoring.
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 Cultural and Biologic Data

 The above-mentioned types of data will serve as the fundamental layers in the GIS
 Atlas upon which other equally important layers can be built. Such information as
 ranges of plants and  animals, occurrences  of  endangered species  or fragile
 ecosystems, or sites of historic or archaeological importance can be readily built  into
 the data base. Further, a striking feature of GIS is that it enables a scientist trained  in a
 single  discipline to examine the interrelationships among different layers that may not
 otherwise be readily apparent. A particular plant community, for  example, may occur
 only in areas underlain by a specific geologic unit. This will also  permit a comparison
 of the environmental  monitoring data,  such  as  heavy  metal concentrations in
 sediments or soils, with biologic data.
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The U.S. and Mexico oil and gas resources within the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border
Area are primarily linked  by the petroleum  resource characteristics of the Gulf of
Mexico Basin (GOM). In general, these petroleum resources are dominated by gas
over oil. The GOM petroleum subprovinces of the border region include the onshore
Burgos-Sabinas basins and Maverick basins of Mexico, and the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
Embayment of the onshore and  offshore Gulf Coast of the U.S. The Reynosa field,
which produces mostly from the Frio trend  in the  Burgos basin, is the only giant field
(>1>00 million BOE known recovery) that directly straddles the-border. Estimates of gas
resources in northern Mexico vary from 7.3 Tcf to 36 Tcf. Adjacent giant fields in the
U.S.  include Stratton-Agua Dulce,  Borregos-Seeligson-T.C.B. and  La Gloria.
Petroleum resources outside of the GOM basin but within 100 km of the border occur
in carbonate reservoirs of  West Texas, but none'of the major oil resources of West
Texas occur within the Border Area

An accurate assessment of the  petroleum resources in the  Rio  Grande/Rio Bravo
Border Area will require analysis of trends and  plays containing  multiple fields and
reservoirs. Tasks will include (1) compiling a data base of individual plays within each
subprovince, (2) documenting the location and status of producing and abandoned
fields,  and  (3) classifying  the reservoir types, depth range, reservoir quality, and
cumulative  production for each product type  (crude oil,  natural gas, and natural gas
liquids). Final products would include  GIS maps at the scale of 1:100,000 showing
trends, plays, fields,  and reservoir types within each petroleum subprovince and the
delineation  of the current and proposed pipelines, interconnects, and refineries in the
border region.

Energy Resources—Coal and Geothermal

The Rio Grande/Rio  Bravo Border Area also  contains coal and lignite resources and
areas favorable for the development of geothermal energy. In this  area, coal, ranging
in rank from lignite to bituminous,  occurs in lower Tertiary and  Upper Cretaceous
strata. Deposits of commercial size and quality are present on both sides of the border.
The Eagle  Pass coal field was-one of the most productive in Texas, having major
production  between the  1880's and  1920's. Coal currently mined  near Piedras
Negras, Coahuiia,  is burned to generate  electricity. The  increase  in industrial
development along the Border Area may result in an increase in coal production. The
Environmental Atlas will include data on the many locations of known coal resources
and occurrences in the Border Area and an assessment of potential areas that  may
host undeveloped coal deposits.

Substantial  geothermal resources are present in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border
Area, particularly in  South Texas,  where  the resources are geopressured, and in
Trans-Pecos Texas. Although less well known, these favorable environments for
geothermal energy  also continue  into adjacent areas of Mexico. These resources are
too low temperature, in general, for the economic generation of electricity, but they are
of sufficient quality for other commercial uses such as space heating, aquaculture,
greenhouses, and  drying  of agricultural crops.  The  location of known geothermal
resources and the temperature and quality  of the geothermal waters will be compiled
as part of the Atlas.
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Subdivision of the bedrock units will  reflect geotechnical characteristics,  major
lithologies, and units having features of  special importance for recharge or land use
planning (such as karst terrains). Soils and sediments will be subdivided according to
their geotechnical, chemical, or grain size characteristics. In most cases, both rocks
and sediments will first be mapped based on well-established geologic principles and
then reclassified into units appropriate for planning purpose?. Particular attention will
be given to units that host aquifers or are  the major recharge zones for aquifers.

Other geologic attributes, in addition to the character of the soils, sediments, and rocks,
will also be addressed. The physiography of the land and the analysis of slopes and
topographic gradients will be important in some areas. Active geologic processes are
present, or the potential for active processes exists,  throughout the region. Active
fluvial erosion,  coastal processes, channel migration, flash floods, wind erosion or
deposition, landslides, subsidence, and  earthquake-induced faulting have all locally
occurred, or are now active, in pans of the Border Area.

Much pertinent information is available  from the Bureau of Economic Geology, the
U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and other agencies and
published sources but has not been critically compiled to meet Atlas objectives. In
addition, interpretation of aerial photographs will  be used to  supplement published
sources or to map features and units of particular concern to the Border Atlas. Some
field work will be needed to verify interpretations and to collect samples for analysis.

Energy  Resources—Petroleum

Mexico and the United States have many interrelated concerns regarding energy and
the environmental impact of its development and use on the Border Area. These
issues include  environmental concerns related to  the  air emissions produced by
burning of fossil fuels, availability of  energy supplies,  transportation of energy
resources and products (by land and by  sea), development of new energy resources
(petroleum, coal, lignite, and geothermal), and refining of hydrocarbons.

The U.S. is Mexico's major market for oil exports, accounting for more than 56 percent,
or 720 million bbl, of the 1,277 million bbl  produced in  1990.  Recently Mexico has
experienced  an increased internal demand coupled with inadequate current  and
future refining capacity. Mexico's Ministry of Energy, Mines,  and State Owned Industry
indicates that levels of per capita oil consumption in Mexico will increase from 10.1
barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in 1990 to 10.6 BOE in 1992 to 11.3 BOE in 1994, and
will require a doubling of the current refining capacity from  1.5 million  b/d to 3 million
b/d by the year 1994.

Increased industrial activity in the  Border Area, decreased exploration  and production
expenditures by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the onshore Sabinas Basin, and
decreased prices for  U.S. gas, which has provided a cheap source of more
environmentally benign energy for the maquiladoras, has  shifted northern Mexico from
a net exporter of natural gas to the U.S. to a net importer. At the end of 1991, Mexico
was importing approximately 300 million cubic feet  per day (MMcfd)  of U.S. natural
gas; current  U.S. gas exports to Mexico are 350 MMcfd through interconnects at
Reynosa, Piedras Negras, Ciudad Juarez, and Naco.
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 is  broad.  Characterizing  natural  TDS and major ionic  composition  can  be
 accomplished using relatively sparse data because the natural geologic controls tend
 to be regional in character; characterizing contaminants requires much more specific
 data because the  sources  tend to be  localized. Publicly available data  on
 contaminants should, however, be included in the Atlas as it becomes available to
 indicate the current state of the environmental quality of the aquifers.

 Year One efforts  will emphasize  obtaining  and  collating  extant records and
 reconnaissance work to characterize well development, typical well construction, and
 an evaluation of the feasibility of measurement, sampling and testing to supplement or
 create the needed  data  base. Preliminary compilations of hydrologic maps  of the
 major aquifers will be based on existing data. Much of the required data are available
 for the Texas side of the  border. Well locations, water-level measurements, chemical
 analyses, stratigraphic characteristics, and hydrologic property tests can be found in
 the publications and files of various state and federal agencies. Archived state records
 probably include information on over 80 percent of the wells over 50 ft in depth but
 likely less than 20 percent of the shallow  hand-dug wells serving rural homesites and
 ranches. The availability of  comparable data in Mexican government files must  be
 determined.

 The text that will accompany the maps will discuss recharge, flow, and discharge of the
 major aquifers, and  chemical  composition as it relates to human,  agricultural, and
 industrial uses. It will also identify areas for potential aquifer development and typical
 well construction that would  be required for a range of yields in the various aquifers.
 Other more difficult issues, such as extent of aquifer development  and potential  for
 expansion, and ground-water contamination, could also be addressed via products
 such as aquifer vulnerability maps. Information from  the Texas Water Development
 Board, which tracks historical and future water demands, together with historical
 hydrographs  of water-level change will give some indication of the potential for safe
 expansion of aquifer production relative to recharge rates. Eventually, ground-water
 flow models  should be  developed to  quantitatively  assess  impacts of  water
 development throughout the  Border Area,  and to address  how aquifers are
 interconnected across the border and how they interact with surface waters of the Rio
 Grande/Rio Bravo.

 Environmental  Geology

The  attributes of the environmental geology layers  will reflect the heterogeneous
characteristics of the  soils, sediments,  rocks, physiography,  and active geologic
processes that are present in the Border Area. Geologic data are an essential part of
the Atlas as the characteristics of the surface and upper crustal levels of the earth
determine such things as how and where structures are built, where agriculture is
possible, how recharge of aquifers occurs, the productivity of aquifers, and the ability
of the  natural environment  to retard transport of contaminants from landfills and
repositories.  Units will be selected  and features will be portrayed  that are most
 relevant to the land use and environmental issues of a particular geographic area.

The  two major categories of geologic units will be  those that are subdivisions of
consolidated  rock types and those related to unconsolidated sediments  and soils.
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Ground Water

Ground water is one of the most critical resources of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border
Area. The quality and quantity of available ground  water is a major constraint on
development of the region. As all available surface waters are allocated, additional
demands can only be met by increasing development of ground water. It is limited in
supply  and  is subject to contamination if industrialization, urban growth,  and
agricultural practices are not carefully managed. In areas of shallow ground water and
locations of ground-water discharge, it is also a critical factor in maintaining many of
the native plant communitiesjand the wildlife that is dependent upon them. For all of
these reasons, ground water wilLbe a central issue in the Atlas. Furthermore, the Atlas
will enhance EPA's support of integrated state ground-water information management
systems.

Four major aquifers lie in the region: the alluvial/bolson aquifer in the Ciudad Juarez-
El Paso area, the-Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer in the Nuevo  Laredo-Laredo area, the Gulf
Coast aquifer in the Matamoros-Brownsville area, and the Edwards-Trinity aquifer,
which underlies much of the  middle third of the region. Each of these may to some
extent be a transboundary aquifer. Elsewhere most  ground-water  resources are
limited to local, shallow aquifers or to relatively small aquifers of limited extent such as
those present beneath some of the smaller bolsons.

The ground-water component of the Atlas will include maps of saturated thickness of
the  aquifers (mainly for unconfirmed portions), depth  to  the base of the aquifers,
potentiometric surfaces,  total dissolved solids,  hydrochemical  facies  (concisely
depicting dominance of cation and anion pairs),  recharge potential, recharge  and
discharge areas, and delineation of confined versus unconfined parts  of the aquifers
(important for wellhead protection). Other data specific to environmental monitoring of
aquifers, such as analyses of agricultural or industrial chemicals or other constituents,
might also be included. Maps of factors that will or may change over time, such as
saturated thickness, for example, must be dated. The maps will be supplemented with
historical hydrographs and other data to the extent  possible. The potential yield of
wells in major aquifers  will be indicated by tables of typical hydrologic properties such
as hydraulic conductivity and storage coefficients.

Water quality issues are  primarily related to either salinization or humanly induced
contamination. Salinization occurs as a result of
  (1)   seawater intrusion (Gulf Coast aquifer)
  (2)   recharge of evaporatively concentrated saline  irrigation waters (alluvial  and
        bolson aquifers)
  (3)   brines from oil  and gas wells or improper disposal of related brines.
  (4)   water wells drilled into salt water zones and improperly sealed, and
  (5)   natural discharge of saline waters.
The interpretation of processes that control salinization in data-rich areas can be used
to predict the potential for salinization in areas of sparse data. Aquifer contamination
can also occur as a result of human, municipal, industrial, and agricultural  wastes
being dissolved or suspended in waters that recharge aquifers. The range of possible
contaminants, metals, bacteria, viruses, and various organic and inorganic chemicals,
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 unueo states, i ne i :iuu,ooo scale is of obvious benefit for conversion to metric units
 and is a very convenient scale for land use planning and policy analysis.

 The data to  be included in the Atlas will be divided into several  major categories:
 ground water,  surface water,  environmental  geology,  energy resources, natural
 resources, and meteorology.  Each  of these will  have  many kinds of detailed
 information and will serve  as  the  foundations on  which to  build data  bases for
 environmental monitoring and baseline data and for  such attributes as, for example,
 ranges of plant and animal communities, endangered  species, critical ecosystems, soil
 types, and  archaeological  sites.  Derivative-maps  for  land use  planning  and
 combinations-of specific attributes-for policy analysis can be readily produced that are
 tailored to specific- regions within the  Border Area. In  a  given portion of the Border
 Area, for example, floodplains, aquifer recharge zones, and  steep slopes may be
 considered to be the most important attributes in land use planning; in another area,
 expansive soils, areas of active erosion, and wetlands may be the critical attributes.

 The following paragraphs  summarize the kinds of data planned for inclusion  in
 the major levels of the  GIS compilation. Because of  the diversity of environments in
 the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area, each map unit will be  tailored to portray the
 specific attributes that are most relevant-for environmental and planning issues of a
 given geographic area.

 Surface  Water

 Surface water resources  are vital  for both the human and the plant and animal
 inhabitants of the border region. The major bodies of  surface water are the Rio
 Grande/Rio Bravo, Rio Conchos, Pecos River,  Amistad Reservoir,  Falcon  Lake, and
 the Gulf of Mexico and  associated coastal wetlands. There are  about 30 sources that
 contribute  measurable amounts of surface water  to the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo.
 Secondary surface waters include the Arroyo  Colorado System and irrigation and
 drainage canals, many of  which are connected to the  Rio Grande/Rio Bravo. Other
 surface  waters are only episodically present in  ephemeral streams and desert lakes
 (playas). Important surface-water attributes include chemical data on both waters and
 modern sediments, floodplains, distribution of  wetlands, springs, limits of drainage
 basins, and characteristics of surface-water flow (rates and volumes) and other data
 from monitoring sites, especially of water quality.  Man-made structures that impact
 surface-water flow, such  as dams, dikes, and areas where channelization  have
 occurred, should also be mapped. In the coastal areas, additional factors such as tidal
 currents and bathymetry may also be included.

 The GIS surface-water  layer is interrelated to attributes that will be included in other
 sets such as the distribution of wetland ecosystems and active surficial processes.
 Surface waters are also important as a source  of irrigation waters and are important
 considerations for land  use planning as well as environmental  monitoring.  Data from
 state and federal agencies, including EPA, the International  Boundary and Water
 Commission,  USGS, FEMA, Texas  Water Commission, Texas Department  of Health,
 Texas Water Development Board, and Mexican agencies will be compiled  as part of
the surface water layer.
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    scientists and engineers with expertise in the several different areas needed for this
    work.

                                   II. Introduction

    The population of the Rio Grande/Rfo Bravo Border Area is growing rapidly and with
    this  growth has come  urbanization of the  major sister  cities and  increased
    industrialization (about 670 maquiladoras are now located in this area). Growth has
    produced major environmental  problems: overproduction of limited water resources,
    and pollution of surface waters,-ground waters,  soils,  and air. It is estimated,  for
    example, that 22 to as much as 30 million gallons of untreated industrial and urban
    waste waters are produced daily by Ciudad Juarez; another 27 million gallons per day
    may  be contributed to the Rio  Grande/Rio Bravo  valley by Nuevo Laredo. Further,
    industrial and hazardous waste management  practices and abandoned  waste
    disposal sites are of major concern.  Water-related diseases  are  endemic to some
    areas of the border. Air  pollution is  especially acute in the  El Paso-Juarez area.
    Potential health effects of industrial, municipal,  and agricultural contaminants are of
    increasing concern. An area of special interest to both SEDUE and the EPA is the Gulf
    of Mexico; the effects of commercial and industrial activity on the land, the Gulf, and the
    critical wetlands require monitoring and evaluation.

    NAFTA is expected to accelerate development  in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border
    Area. This growth will place additional pressure  on the environment and increase the
    potential  for irreparable  damage to fragile ecosystems.  Clearly, policy  makers,
    regulators, and  decision makers at all levels of government and  industry,  who are
    responsible  for guiding the future of the Rio  Grande/Rfo Bravo Border Area, from El
    Paso del Nprte to the Gulf of Mexico beaches, must have  reliable information on which
    to base their actions.

    The Environmental Atlas of the  Rio Grande/Rfo Bravo Border Area, as an information
    source and analytical tool, is designed to  address  many of these informational needs.
    Importantly, the Rio Grande/Rfo Bravo data base will be binational, encompassing
    both sides of the border. To allow formulation of environmental criteria, the data base
    will be comprehensive yet capable of  being modified so that new information can  be
    readily added. The data itself will be analyzed and  interpreted so that its application is
    readily apparent to users  at all levels. Further,  and vitally so, the data base will  be
    presented in both Spanish and English versions so that decision makers on both sides
    of the border can address common issues from a common set of  information. Once
    compiled, the data base will serve as a source of baseline environmental data and as
    an innovative template for a data base for the entire international border.

       III. Attributes  of the Atlas of the  Rio Grande/Rfo Bravo  Border Area

    Four  priority areas with four fundamental map units per  area are shown on figure 1.
    Each fundamental map  unit will have an east-west  dimension  of  one degree
    (longitude) and a north-south dimension of one-half degree (latitude). Each map unit
    will be designed to be plotted  at a scale of 1:100,000.  These dimensions and this
    scale correspond to the new set of base maps that the U.S. Geological Survey is in the
    process of producing for the entire United States;  these  maps will have much higher
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Desarrollo y Ecologia (SEDUE) as well as provide an opportunity for technical training
of Mexican scientists interested in environmental studies.

In short, our goal is to produce a product usable by environmental regulators and land-
use  planners at all levels of government, as well as industry. The Atlas will provide
vital data  compilations and analyses of environmental parameters  critical to resolving
ground-water and  surface-water issues, solid and hazardous waste siting, industrial
siting, infrastructure enlargement, e. g., sanitation facilities, roads and bridges (both for
sources of construction materials, such as  sand, gravel, and  limestone, as well as
impact assessment),  and creation of refuges, parks, and recreational areas.

Preparation of the Atlas will entail compiling a substantial amount of environmental
data. We will compile the best existing  data on the quality and quantity of ground-water
and  surface-water resources,  energy resources (oil, gas, lignite,  coal, geothermal),
and  mineral resources. The Atlas will delineate regional ground-water flow systems,
water quality, recharge areas, discharge areas, drainage basins, wetlands, and
floodplains. The distribution of  bedrock units and  sediments or soils will be subdivided
according to their engineering characteristics. Features of special interest that are
common only to  portions of the Rio Grande/Rio  Bravo region (e.g., earthquake-induced
faulting, caves  and  collapse  features, landslides,  expansive soils, active coastal
processes or erosion) will also be portrayed. In sum, all characteristics and attributes
that  may be important indicators or constraints on where and how the border region
can  be responsibly developed or that are part  of environmental  monitoring will be
compiled in the Atlas.

The Atlas will  be produced  in both digital  and  hard-copy formats. The  digital
Geographic Information System (GIS) presentation facilitates ready  addition and
updating of information and will enable  users to select and display parameters of
particular  importance to their special interests.  The maps, which form the core  of the
Atlas, will be accompanied by an interpretive text and  relevant data tabulations that
analyze and explain the various environmental parameters.  For example,  a full
understanding of ground-water systems is critically  important to those attempting to
remediate existing  problems and to those  attempting  to prevent future degradation and
ensure  potable water supplies. Under our approach, maps of hydrologic parameters
will be interpreted so that users understand prevalent  flow rates  and directions, the
significance of  the  water-quality patterns, and the locations of  recharge  areas.
Compilation of existing data will allow recognition  of those areas where  additional
data points or refinements of existing information can significantly add to the reliability
and utility  of the product.

In compiling the Atlas, priority will  be given to those areas where the pressures of
development are the most intense: the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez-El Paso, Ciudad
Acurla-Del Rio,  Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass,  Nuevo Laredo-Laredo, and  Reynosa-
McAllen and Matamoros-Brownsville in the Lower Rio Grande/Bajo R(o Bravo. These
sister cities are included  in four high-priority  areas each of which will require four
fundamental map units for data compilation.

Atlas preparation will involve a multiyear effort. An  illustrative budget for a Year-One
Pilot Study is  enclosed.  Also enclosed are  professional summaries of Bureau
USEPA Office of W«ter (WH-547). US-Madco Border OtS Cttalog attachment July 1983.                   Pig, 275

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            PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL ATLAS OF THE
               RIO GRANDE/RIO BRAVO BORDER  AREA


                           I. Executive Summary

 Concern by the United States and Mexico over the environment of the border region,
 manifested in 1983 by the bilateral Border Environmental Agreement, has been given
 added impetus by the ongoing  negotiations of the North American Free Trade
 Agreement (NAFTA). Pursuant to the 1983 Agreement, an "Integrated Environmental
 Plan  for the Mexican-U.S.  Border Area  (First Stage  1992-1994)" (the  Border
 Environmental  Plan  or "BEP")  was issued  February 25,  1992, which describes
 measures to be taken on both sides of the border to clean up existing problems and
 prevent or reduce future environmental degradation.

 The BEP is designed to solve environmental  problems in the Border Area, which is
 defined  as a 100-km-wide area on either side  of the  2,000-mile  (3,200-km)
 international boundary. For nearly  1,200  miles (1,920km) of its total  length, the
 Border Area corridor forms a sinuous swath from El Paso/Ciudad Juarez to the Gulf of
 Mexico with the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo at its center. This portion of the Border Area is
 the subject of this proposal by the Bureau of Economic Geology.

 Focus on the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and the land and environment extending 100 km
 on each side is appropriate, for it is the site  of concentrated industrial, agricultural, and
 urban activity. Moreover, substantial growth is projected for this area independent  of
 NAFTA, and this agreement could lead to a substantial acceleration of activity. With
 development comes added population density and ever-increasing demands for clean
 air, land, potable water,  and energy. Careful planning  is  needed to meet these
 challenges. Otherwise, the current struggle to deal with today's environmental
 problems may be only an initial skirmish compared to the effort and cost of combating
 problems that will occur if industrial development and the predicted doubling or more
 of the border population occurs over the next few decades.
                            •
 Border environmental initiatives—whether for  remediation or long-term protection—
will be critically dependent on sound data,  clearly and accurately analyzed. We
propose  to develop  an Environmental  Atlas  of the Rio  Grande/Rfo  Bravo
 Border Area that responds to these informational and analytical needs.

The Atlas will address the water, land, and natural resources of the Rio Grande/Rfo
 Bravo  Border Area, providing planners, policy  makers, and developers with
information and data they need to wisely assess and guide development. The Atlas
will have a variety of uses and users. A major  product of this work will be  data bases
forming an environmental baseline of the Rio  Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area, which
will enable regulators and others to assess the impact of development over time. The
Atlas will serve both as a data base for land use planning and as a convenient tool for
portraying information on the environmental  status of the land, air, and water.  In
addition, it will  support  policy development and analysis  and prioritization  of
enforcement activities, and it will be a valuable resource for environmental education.
 It should also serve as a focus for technology transfer between EPA and Secretaria de
  P«9«274

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                   A Proposal
                     to the

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VI
       Environmental Atlas of the
 Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area
                     by the

           Bureau of Economic Geology
                W. L. Fisher, Director
            The University of Texas at Austin
               University Station, Box X
              Austin, Texas  78713-7508

                   August 1992
USB* OWc«o« Water (WH-M7).US-M«dco Border OB Catalog attachment. July 1M3.           Pag* 273

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                               PREFACE
'The following proposal for an environmental atlas for a -portion of the United
 States-Mexico Border Area was prepared by the Bureau of Economic Geology
 in the summer of 1992 and submitted to the U.S.  Environmental-Protection
 Agency, Region 6, in August 1992. Since then we have discussed the proposed
 environmental atlas with additional potential users, and several events have
 transpired that require minor changes in this document. SEDUE, for example,
 has evolved into SEDESOL, and the North American Free Trade Agreement
 has been signed. In addition, the Texas Water Development Board, through the
 Texas  Natural Resources Information  System  (TNRIS),  has submitted a
 proposal to  Region 6 that complements this proposal and enables TNRIS to be
 a state clearinghouse for data pertaining to the Texas-Mexico border.

 More substantive additions should also be  made. For example, Region 6 has
 suggested that any project of this kind be expanded to include both the Texas
 and the  New Mexico segments  of  the United  States-Mexico  border.
 Furthermore, although the emphasis of the current proposal is on sister city
 pairs along  the Rio Grande, a revision would expand the scope to include a
 major effort of data compilation and analysis at a more regional scale. This is
 needed  to  address those features,  such as regional aquifers  or major
 watersheds, that extend beyond the 100-km-wide swath that defines the Border
 Area, and to benchmark data sets or parameters that have regional impacts.

 In short, this foundation document illustrates the parameters to be addressed
 and the methodologies to be employed by the Bureau of Economic Geology in
 compiling an environmental atlas of the Border Area. It can be readily modified
 to accommodate  changes in the scope of work as may be determined to be
 appropriate during discussions regarding this important environmental initiative.


                                         Bureau of Economic Geology
                                         The University of Texas at Austin
                                         December 21,1992
                     USEPAOfno«cfW«tor(WH«47).US4««dooBordOTQISC«dogaIteehiMnLJuly1903.

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                  rroposai
 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VI
     Environmental Atlas of the
       Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
              Border Area
                    by the
           Bureau of Economic Geology
           The University of Texas at Austin
                     UNITED STATES
                             r
                            TAMAULIPA
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                                                                     Attachment 31
                        University of Texas at Austin
                        Bureau of Economic Geology
                        •Border Environmental Atlas: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area*
                        Project Description.
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            TABLE  OF CONTENTS
             WICHITA CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
             WILBARGER CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             WILLIAMSON CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             WILLIAMSON CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             WILSON CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             WILSON CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             WISE CNTY DEMS 1:24,000
             YOUNG CNTY OEMs 124.000
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS
 SDHPT DISTRICTS
 SENATE 1990
 SHACKELFORD CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 SHELBY CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
 SHERMAN C* 'TY OEMs 1:24.000
 STEPHENS CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 STONEWALL CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 SUTTON CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
 SWTSU CAMPUS
 TARRANT CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 TAYLOR CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 TERRELL CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
 TEXAS A&M CAMPUS
 TEXAS A&M EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 THROCKMORTON CNTY OEMs 124,000
 TIGER
 TITUS CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
 TOM GREEN CNTY OEMs 124,000
 TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE INVENTORY
 TRAVIS CNTY OEMs 124,000
 TRAVIS CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
 TRINITY CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
 TYLER CNTY OEMs 124.000
 UPTON  CNTY OEMs 124,000
 VEGETATION - ROSILLOS MOUNTAINS
 VEGETATION - SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 VEGETATION TYPES
 WALKER CNTY OEMs 124,000
 WATERSHED PROTECTION ZONES
           USEPA 0«io» ol Water (WH«7). US-M«doo Border OIS Cctelog •UaohmwiL July 1883.

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           TABLE OF  CONTENTS
             NACOGDOCHES CNTY OEMs 124.000
             NAVARRO CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             NEWTON CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
             OIL & GAS WELLS
             OLDHAM CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             OUTLINE
             PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE
             PALO PINTO CNTY OEMs 1:24.0QO
             PANOLA CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             PARKER CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             PECOS CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             POLK CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             POPULATION
             RAILROADS
             RAINFALL
             REAGAN CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             RED RIVER CNTY OEMs .1:24.000
             RIVER REACH
             RIVERS
             ROBERTSON CNTY DEMs 124.000
             RUNNELS CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             RUNOFF
             RUSK CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             SABINE CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             SAN AUGUSTINE CNTY DEMs 124.000
             SAN JACINTO CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             SAN SABA CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
             SAN SABA CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             SCHLEICHER CNTY DEMs 124.000
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          TABLE OF  CONTENTS
           JACK CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
           JASPER CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
           JEFF DAVIS CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
           JEFFERSON COUNTY
           JONES CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
           KENT COUNTY DLGs 1:24,000
           KING CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
           KNOX CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
           LAKE MEREDITH N. R. A.
           LAKES
           LAMAR CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
           LAND USE/LAND COVER
           LAVACA CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
           LEE CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
           LEON CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
           LIMESTONE CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
           LLANO CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
           LUBBOCK CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
           LYNN CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
           MACROSITES
           MAJOR AQUIFERS
           MATAGORDACNTY DEMs 1:24.000
           MATAGORDACNTY DLGs 1:24.000
           MILAM CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
           MILITARY
           MILLS CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
           MINOR AQUIFERS
           MONTAGUE CNTY DEMs 124.000
           MONTGOMERY CNTY DEMs 124.000
           MORRIS CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
Page 284
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            TABLE OF  CONTENTS
              FANNIN CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
              FAYETTE CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
              FOARD CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
              FORT BEND CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
              FREESTONE CNTY OEMs 124,000
              GALVESTON CNTY OEMs 124,000.
              GALVESTON CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
              GARZACNTY DLGs 1:24.000
              GLO SURVEYS
              GONZALES CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
              GRAY CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
              GRAYSON CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
              GUADALUPE CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
              HARDEMAN CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
              HARRIS CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
              HARRIS CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
              HARTLEY CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
              HASKELL CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
              HAYS CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
              HAYS COUNTY
              HENDERSON CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
              HIGHWAYS
              HOOD CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
              HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1990
              HOUSTON CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
              HUDSPETH CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
              HYDROLOGIC UNIT MAP-1974
              INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS
              IRION CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
	         IRRIGATED FARMLANDS
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          TABLE OF  CONTENTS
            CHAMBERS CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
            CHEROKEE CNTY OEMs 124.000
            CLAY CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
            COLEMAN CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
            COLEMAN CNTY DLGs 1 :.?4.000
            COMANCHE CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
            COMANCHE CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
            CONGRESS U.S. 1990
            CONGRESS U.S.FHA
            CONGRESS U.S.SDHPT
            COOKE CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
            CORYELL CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
            COUNTIES FHA
            COUNTIES SDHPT
            COUNTIES USGS
            CROCKETT CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
            CROSBY CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
            CULBERSON CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
            DALLAM CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
            DAMS
            DAVY CROCKETT NATL FOREST
            DENTON CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
            DICKENS CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
            DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS
            DLGs 1:100,000
            DONLEY CNTY DEMs 124.000
            EASTLAND CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
            ECOREGIONS
            EL PASO CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
            ERATH CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
Pag«262
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           TABLE  OF CONTENTS
             AIRPORTS
             ANGELINA CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             ARANSAS CNTY DLQs 1:24,000
             ARMSTRONG CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             ATASCOSA CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             ATASCOSA CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
            -BASTROP CNTY OEMs 1:24,000
             BASTROP CNTY DLGs 1:24000
             BAYLOR CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BELL CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BEXAR CNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT
             BEXAR CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BEXAR CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK
             BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE
             BLANCO CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             BRAZORIA CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BRAZORIA CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             BREWSTER CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BROWN CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BROWN CNTY DLGs 1:24,000
             BURNET CNTY OEMs 1:24.000
             BURNET CNTY DLGs  1:24,000
             CALHOUN CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             CALLAHAN CNTY DLGs 1:24.000
             CAMP CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             CARSON CNTY DEMs 1:24,000
             CASS CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
             CENSUS
             CHAMBERS CNTY DEMs 1:24.000
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                      Digital Cartography/GIS
                      File Description
                                  INTRODUCTION
         This catalog contains a list of digital cartography/geographic information system-
  compatible data available for Texas.  It will be updatad four times each yaar. If you have
  additions, delations, or changes to any of the listed files please contact:

                     A. Kim Ludaka, Ph.0.
                     Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
                     P.O. Box 13231
                     Austin, TX 78711-3231

                     Phone (512) 463-8338
                     FAX   (512) 475-2053

         A more frequently updated version of the catalog Is available through an on-line
  bulletin board developed in cooperation with the Department of Information Resources. To
  access this bulletin board your software  package must  emulate VT52/VT100. Dial up using
  2400 baud. The number is (512) 475-4766.  When the screen displays "connect," press
  RETURN one or two times until the screen gives the "usemame" prompt. At this prompt enter
  GIS.INFO and press the RETURN key.  The GIS/1NFO program will then be accessed.

         The following software packages have been tested and are supported by dialup access
  to the bulletin board:

     PROCOMMV2.4 2400.E.7.2  (2400 baud, even partly, 7 bits. 2 stop bits)
     KERMIT
2400.NA1  (2400baud.no   parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit)
     SMARTCOMM   2400,N,8,1  (2400 baud, no   parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit)

         Before requesting data from either the catalog or the bulletin board check to see that
  your software can work with the available data formats and that you have sufficient storage
  and data processing capacity to work with the files.

         It Is also important that you have an understanding of basic mapping concepts such as
  map scale, map accuracy, and map projections.  When overlaying maps of different scales
  and accuracies It is critical to remember that the resulting map will be only aa accurate aa
  the least accurate initial map.  Also, when overlaying maps be sure that the mapa are in the
  same geographic projection.

         This catalog provides some background information about each file. For each file that
  you select be sure that you understand its appropriateness for your specific needs.
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  DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY / GIS*
           DATA CATALOG
                Summer 1992
               * Geographic Information System
USEPA Office of Water (VVH-547). US-Mexico Border QIS Catalog attachment July 1993.
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                                                                   Attachment 30
                             Texas Water Development Board
                             Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
                              •Digital Cartography/GIS Data Catalog (Tble of Contents +
                              sample page)
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                                                                             1999
 GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT CIS

 TNRJS staff are developing the expertise to answer queries from various users about CIS systems
 and data. These questions range from basic information to very specific technical issues
 concerning hardware, CIS software, and data bases. Staff can give information about products
 known to them and provide addresses and phone numbers of suppliers.

 CIS SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPATING AGENCY PILOT PROJECTS

 If an agency participating in TNRIS wants to evaluate the potential of CIS for some particular
 problem. TNRIS may provide CIS support for a pilot project involving a small portion of the area
 in question. If the pilot project results look promising, the participating agency can apply the
 technique to the enure area of interest by contracting with a commercial vendor or by developing
 an in-house capability. Pilot projects are undertaken only after approval by the Task Force and
 are generally reviewed and recommended by the RSCC before Task Force consideration.

 FACILITIES AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR SMALL-CIS PROJECTS

 It is the objective of TNRIS to provide the necessary training and support so that, whenever
 possible, users can do their own CIS projects. These projects ordinarily use data supplied by the
 agency or data that are on-hand at TNRIS; staff do not generate data through fieldwork, TNRIS
 policies on equipment use by participating agencies and charges for use may limit the scope and
 size of projects that can be undertaken.

 LARGE CIS PROJECTS WITH PARTICIPATING AGENCIES

 TNRIS may actively take pan in large CIS projects that require significant effort by TNRIS staff
 members. TNRIS participation in these types of projects shall generally require the following
 conditions: the project must have significant benefits for a participating agency and its mission
 for the state; the project must have direct benefits for TNRIS; there must be a dear statement of
 the reason TNRIS is uniquely suited to contribute to the project; and, in most instances. TNRIS
 must receive significant financial assistance for additional personnel and expenses so that
 dedication ot start and facilities to the project does not adversely affect the other functions of the
 organization. Large CIS projects are undertaken only after approval by the Task Force and are
 generally reviewed and recommended  by the RSCC before Task Force consideration.

 1990 CENSUS MAPPING AND STATISTICS

 Government agencies already are frequent users of existing automated and tabular Census
 information. The 1990 Census has a major emphasis on'computer mapping; the union of CIS
 technology and Census statistics makes the supply of Census information in a graphic form a very
 important task for TNRIS. The CIS software (ARC/INFO) purchased by TNRIS is well suited for
 the analysis and display of Census data. When Census information becomes available in map
 format. TNRIS will be prepared to supply the information with the hardware and software that
 has been acquired and the expertise that is being developed by its staff.
USEPAOffic*of W«lw(WKW47).US4««dcoBofd«QISCatalog «ttochm«nt July 1993.                    Pag«257

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                                                                           • I *M9.
        GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT:
                               ROLE FOR TNRIS

CUSTODIAN AND SUPPLIER OF DIGITAL DATA BASES

TNRIS is a custodian and supplier of digital data bases in the same manner that it maintains and
supplies other natural resource information. It indexes and keeps a catalog of public and private
geographic files that can be read by mapping and CIS software. This catalog, which is a
specialized version of the TNRIS File Description Report, includes: the name of the organization
providing the data base; a description of the graphic and nongraphic data types; a description of
the geographic area covered by the data base; information about the data sources and scales used
in creating the data base; size of files and format of data storage; availability of files and type of
media for transfer; and name of contact person and telephone number.

TNRIS keeps and distributes copies of some public files. These are limited to data bases that are
static or come from public organizations which are not able or prefer not to handle requests for
their files. TNRIS's ability to distribute digital data of this kind is restricted by the availability of
tape drives and storage area for tape archives.

CIS EDUCATION COORDINATION

The TNRIS staff organizes and coordinates workshops, seminars, and conferences related to
geographic information systems. This is done in response to requests and expressions of interest
from system users, and with the recommendation of the Remote Sensing and Cartographic
Committee (RSCC) and approval of the TNRIS Task Force.

FILE INTERCHANGE SOFTWARE COORDINATION

Converting files and whole data bases from one format to another for use on various mapping
and CIS systems is complicated by the many different data storage formats available. To facilitate
file conversion TNRIS provides the-following information to users whenever possible: data
storage formats; availability of public domain and commercial file conversion software; and
names of private-sector firms that provide file conversion services.

TNRIS distributes some public domain conversion software and offers staff expertise gained
through experience in converting files. TNRIS provides limited file conversion service, usually
restricted to the kinds of geographic files that it supplies or are used on its CIS system.

COORDINATION OF CIS ACTIVITIES AMONG PARTICIPATING AGENCIES

The TNRIS staff keeps abreast of participating agency activities involving projects of mutual
interest and the possible purchase of CIS hardware, software, or data. Staff are  aware of
opportunities for coordination among the agencies in these efforts.

Some examples of coordination of CIS activities are: arranging the demonstration of hardware.
software, or data of mutual interest; coordinating joint purchase or licensing of hardware.
software, or data where multiple-purchase discounts apply; and tracking present and planned
digitizing efforts by agencies to encourage cooperative  efforts.
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                                                                   Attachment 29
                               Texas Water Development Board
                               Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
                               •Geographic Information System Development Role for TNRIS'
USEPAOffic«ofWiter(WH447). US4todoo Border QIS Catalog •ttachnwnt July 1«W         .           P«fl«2S5

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   V.   COMPUTER GRAPHICS
        .  Generation of Maps and Graphs for Member Agencies and Others
        .  Instruction in the Use of the System


   VI.  GEOGRAPHIC NAMES COORDINATION
        .  State coordination for U.S. Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic
          features, mediating name disputes.            _           —
   VIL  EDUCATION
        .  Workshops and Conferences
          (Remote Sensing,, Air Photo Interpretation, Geographic Information Systems,
          Census. Others tailored to meet specific agency needs).
        .  Presentations to agencies, university classes and other groups.
        .  Tours of TNRIS facilities.
        .  TNRIS Newsletter and other publications.
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                           DATA AVAILABILITY
                             THROUGH THE
          TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEM
 I.   COMPUTERIZED NATURAL RESOURCES FILES
     .  Water
     .  Weather
     .  Geology
     .  Biology

 II.   MAP DATA
     .  USGS Topographic Maps
       (124,000; 1:250,000; 1:100,000)
     .  Historic Topographic Maps
       (1880*8 to Present)
     .  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wetland Maps
     .  USGS Land Use Maps
     .  Nautical Charts
     .  Geodetic Data
     .  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Ecological Inventory Maps
     .  County Maps
     .  Forest Service Maps
     .  Texas Base Maps

     NB:  USGS products are free to governmental entities.  Other maps are for
          in-house use or reproduction.

IIL  AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS/SATELLITE DATA
     .  Black-and-White Prints
       (Over 500,000 prints covering most of Texas; varying sources, dates, and scales.
      . For loan).
     .  Color and Color Infrared Positive Film Rolls
       (Over 2,000 rolls covering large areas of Texas. Mostly high-altitude, varying
       scales. For use in-house).
     .  Landsat Images and Digital Data
       (False color and black-and*white of entire State. Varying scales. Black-and-
       White for loan. Color for in-house use.  Landsat computer tapes for most of the
       State available for duplication).
     .  Assistance in locating imagery not available at TNRIS.
       (Indexes, ordering information, price lists).

 IV.  CENSUS DATA
     .  1970 U.S. Census Data and Maps
     .  1980 U.S. Census Data and Maps
     .  Special Census Reports
     . Population Estimates/Projections


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                  THE TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEM

Introduction

The Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) Is the State's clearinghouse for natural resources
data. Its primary purpose is to make data available to data users quickly and reliably. TNRIS was originally
established by the legislature in 1968 as the Texas Water Oriented Data Bank. In 1972, after four years of
growth and diversification, tt was designated the Texas Natural Resources Information System. In a more
recent legislative mandate, Senate  BIN 325 of the 70th Texas State Legislature refers to TNRIS as "a
centralized information system incorporating all Texas natural resource data, socloeconomlc data related
to natural resources, or indexes related to data that are collected by state agencies or other entitles.'

TNRIS Is an operational unit of the Texas Water Development Board and for all administrative and managerial
purposes it is a part of that agency. Its policies and guidelines, however, are set by an interagency task
force composed of representatives from 15 of the State's natural resource agencies. Funding for TNRIS Is
provided by the State Legislature through the Water Development Board  A seven-member staff, known as
TNRIS Systems Central, conducts the  day-to-day activities of the System handling requests for data and
implementing new capabilities to support the participating State agencies. The staff includes individuals
trained in the natural and computer sciences.  TNRIS supplies data to  government,  academia, and the
private sector.  Systems Central offices are located on the fourth floor of the Stephen F. Austin State Office
Bidding, 1700 North Congress Avenue in Austin.


Data inventories/Data Library

Through the years, the TNRIS staff has conducted Inventories of computerized and non-automated natural
resource data housed in Texas State agencies. These inventories nave been compiled into the TNRIS Re
Description Report which describes over 350 individual data files. Inventories of aerial photography and map
holdings of private companies, universities, libraries, and other entities have been an important part of this
activity.  The staff Indexes the data into TNRIS for use in supporting user requests. The Indexes refer users
to data  which  is housed in  other agencies as well as to data files available in-house.  Over 50 of the
computerized files are available through a remote terminal access system.


Tvoes ef Data and Other Services

In addition to providing information about data availability, TNRIS maintains a library of data which can be
accessed directly. For example, the System has a lending library of remotely sensed data which includes
aerial photography and satellite imagery of the entire State. TNRIS also serves as a distribution center for
U.S. Geological Survey maps (for government entities only) and has (.utnerous other map collections
available for  in-house use or reproduction.  Computerized files available through TNRIS pertain to water
resourcesrmeteorology, biological resources, geology, and Census  data.

TNRIS fills a  number of additional roles such as serving as Geographic Names Coordinator for the State.
providing staff  support for the Texas Mapping Advisory Committee, offering technical support for State
agency projects, and sponsoring symposia and workshops.  In addition, TNRIS operates a geographic
information system, primarily for support of participating agency mapping requirements. The core of the
System's responsibBities, however, is data inventory, indexing, and retrieval.
          TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEM

                                   P.O. Box 13231
                              Austin, Texas 78711-3231


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                                                                    Attachment 28
                               Texas Water Development Board
                               Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
                              _ Description: Texas Natural Resources Information System*
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             Rather than making broad generalizations about the entire state, it allows us to  .
             address a diversity of issues pertaining to smaller geographic regions, to account
             for differences between regions, and to assess cumulative pollutant impacts
             throughout watersheds.  Land, water, and coasts are treated as a single functional
             unit with interlocking terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.  Assessments
             conducted under the SB818 program will form the basis for a comprehensive   -
             approach to water resource management that will enable the commission-to
             establish risk-based priorities to address under-Chapter 26 of the  Texas Water
             Code and under the federal Clean Water Act.

             Tnis report marks the first summary of the assessments performed under SB818.
             It reflects some of the complex and interrelated technical and social issues which
             combined to require a new  approach to water quality management in the State.  It
             details the limitations brought about by the unsystematic and single-objective
             programs which have historically been the management strategy for the State.
                                                   xiii                 SB818 SUMMARY REPORT
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      routinely monitor and model for toxic materials and nutrients, routinely assess the
      impacts of water quality and water supply simultaneously, or assess the cumulative
      water quality impacts on human health, regional ecosystems, aquatic life, critical
      habitats and wetlands.

      Concerned with the historically fragmented approach to management of water
      quality and quantity issues, the 72nd legislature passed the Texas Clean Rivers Act
      (SB818), an approach to water quality planning on a watershed basis . The act
      requires that each river basin in the State be assessed individually, and reports be
      provided to the Texas Water Commission (TWC) every even numbered year.  The
      commission is  directed  to compile a summary of these reports to the Governor,
      Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
      December 1 of each even numbered year;

      In creating and mandating a new, integrated approach to water quality
      management, SB818 details some specific guidance in accomplishing the water
      quality assessments, namely:
                    Comprehensively assess water quality on a watershed basis with
                    special emphasis on assessment of nonpoint source pollution,
                    nutrients and toxic materials.
                    Delegate responsibility for waer quality assessm-ns to river
                    auxnontiss or other sppropriacs enrtries.
                    Allow for public input and access to the assessment process
                    ~.rcu£r. fsrn^^cn of river zasin saeriss :crnrnic±is.
                    Permit on a basin-wide basis to  the extent possible.
                    Fund for assessment through fees charged to wastewater and water
                    rights permittees.

      Through this new approach, we can assess the  ability of a river system, from
      headwaters to  the coast, to absorb and support the results of human activity.
      SB8J8 SUMMARY REPORT                 xii
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                                                SENATE BILL 818 Summary Report

        I.     INTRODUCTION
        Texas.  The name evokes thoughts of varying landscapes-vast, open spaces and
        vibrant, bustling metroplexes, sub-tropical and desert climates, rolling hill
        country, imposing cliffs and sweeping lowlands.  The waters of Texas are equally
        diverse, from the salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico, to pristine fresh waters; the
        twisting bayous of the southeast, to the parched, intermittent streams in the west.
        This diversity is both desirable and challenging, for with each of these waters
        comes specific, varying demands. These waters are critically  needed to provide
        recreation, nourishment, irrigation, transportation, and economic growth. Yet,
        Texas waters face adversity daily:  threats from contaminated  wastewater
        discharges, contamination from nonpoim  source pollution, overloading of
        nutrients,  intrusion of toxic materials, stresses on water supply, increased
        sedimentation, excessive aquatic vegetation and destruction of habitat.

        A.     Summary of the Texas Clean Rivers Act of 1991
        Texas watersheds serve more than 16.5 million people, and the state population is
        expected to expand in the next 50 years to 30-35 million. Current demand for
        water is 75% of existing capacity.  We expect that, even with conservation
        efforts, water demands in the state will eventually exceed existing water supplies.
        Clean useable water  is,  and will continue to be, a priority for our state.
        Therefore, it is imperative  that the limited supplies of water we do have remain
        unpolluted and available for drinking, recreation, and economic development.

        Assessment and planning for the management of the diverse set of water quality
        issues the State faces has proven difficult, for each river basin experiences its own
        specific set of circumstances. While the  existing water quality program effectively
        addresses wastewater discharges from municipal and industrial point sources,
        many additional water quality issues remain and are in need of attention.  The
        State's current program does not adequately address nonpoint source pollution,
                                              »                 SB818 SUMMARY REPORT
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                                                                  Attachment 27
                              Texas Water Commission
                              TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
                               Summaiy of Texas Clean Rivers Act of 1991. • Senate Bill 818
                               Summary Report"
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       estimate.

  PROJECT MILESTONES: Phase 1 milestones are:

            Installation of hardware and software - the peripherals
            have been delivered to Shoal Creek.  The workstation is
            at SFA.  As" soon" as" it is "Helivered to__Shoal Creek  the
            (peripherals can b"e Installed and other tasks initiated.

            Training - ARC/INFO training  (5 day intro class)  has been
            completed by Margaret Hart.  She is also scheduled for an
            intro UNIX class taught by TWDB  for next month.   Further
            training in UNIX and GeoVision is required for completion*
            of this task.

            Evaluation of software *.

            Development of  application package/process - a  DRASTIC
            application package  exists  already in ARC/INFO.   The
            application needs to be evaluated and perhaps modified to
            suit the needs of the project et TWC.

            Evaluation  of data availability - a search for  most of
            the available  data layers has been carried out  by  Bob
            Elodgett.   The  data  sets  still  need to be evaluated to
            determine applicability to the DRASTIC mapping program.
                                                              r
            Data  collection  and digitizing  -  data  sets  must  be
            collected  (free or purchased) and non digital data roust
            be digitized before it is useful for the project.

            Pilot  project  map production  -  it is  hoped  that  a
            prototype DRASTIC map will be produced by end of FY  92.
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         arc
                        TEXAS WATER COMMISSION
                     INTEGRATED  INFORMATION SYSTEM
                       INITIAL GIS APPLICATIONS
  APPLICATION:
  BACKGROUND:     DRASTIC mapping is currently carried  out manually.
       Maps are produced by collecting data,  transfering information
       for each  layer onto mylar film/  and creating  a  final DRASTIC
       map by overlaying the layers.   The current process is slow and
       time consuming.   It is estimated that at the  current rate of
       approximately  5 to  7  county maps per year/ the  project  will
       take nearly 50 years to complete.  Many population centers in
       Texas are  in desperate need of the information carried "in -the
       DRASTIC  maps,  but  manual  production  limitations   prohibit
       creation of maps  for these areas.  It  is  estimated that  fully
       automating  the  process  through  a  GIS  should   increase
       production to perhaps four  maps per month,  resulting  in  a
       completion of  the project in ten years or  less.

  BENEFITS:

  REFERENCES:

  GIS SUPPORT HEEDED:
       *    PHASE 1:   Current   (FY92)  needs  to  support   DRASTIC
       include   digitizing  data   layers,  integrating  data  sets;
       calculation  of the  DRASTIC  indices (modeling);  and  providing
       access to other users of the DRASTIC maps in the agency and
       throughout the state.  .

       *    FUTURE:    It is envisioned that the DRASTIC maps  will
       become  part  of  an interactive  model:    a vulnerability or
       suitability  tool for others  at the  TWC  to use  in  specific
       programs   that  evaluate ground water  pollution potential.
       Support for other users through software such as ARC/VIEW will
       be required  to make DRASTIC an accessible tool for  decision-
       making at the TWC.

  TARGET  DATE:

  H/S REQUIREMENTS:

        *    DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM;  The basic  requirements include the
       RS-6000  workstation  (currently at  the  SFA Building)  and
       peripherals   (currently  located  at   Shoal  Creek),  linked
       together;  and the appropriate software  (UNIX, Geovision, and
       ARC/INFO)  installed for evaluation.

        *     INITIAL PRODUCTION PLATFORM:

   STAFF REQUIREMENTS:. Phase 1 requirements  (in FTE's) are envisioned
        as 1.5 Ground Water Section staff, 0.5 GIS staff (from the GW
        section), and 1 admin, production staff.  This is a very rough
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                                         Attachment 26
     Texas Water Commission
     TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
     Project Description: Integrated Information System:
     Initial GIS Applications.*
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Geographic Information System

     *  EPA Data General Aviion 412 workstation with:
          1.  Dual 20MHZ CPU's, 32 MB memory & dual  1.06  GB hard
               disk drives
          2.  16" Sony Trinitron color monitor with  8  bit/pixel
               color frame buffer
          3.  DG/UX UNIX operating system software
          4.  X.400 graphics user interface
          5.  FORTRAN compiler
          6.  PCSoft MS-DOS environment software
          6.  Framemaker desktop publishing software

     *  Standalone expansion cabinet with peripherals:
          1.  590 MB optical disk drive
          2.  CD-ROM reader
          3.  150 MB 5.25" magnetic cartridge tape drive
          4.  1.44 MB 5.25" MS-DOS floppy disk drive
          5.  2 GB 8mm magnetic tape-backup drive

     *  Altek 36"X45" freestanding digitizing table

     *  Geographic information system software:
          1.  Workstation ARC/INFO, v. 6.0.1 for  map making
          2.  TIN, v. 6.0.1, for surf ace-modeling
          3.  NETWORK, v. 6.0.1, for address-matching

     *  Seiko Colorpoint B-Size Thermal Transfer  Printer (on
          order)
STAFF
     Primary:
          Robert E. Blodgett,  Geologist and Coordinator
          Kurtis S. Wagner,  GIS Analyst and Systems Administrator
          Jeff L. Blass,  Geologist (part-time,  summer)
          Chock J.R.  Bailey,  Geology Intern (part-time, summer)
          Edward F. Block, Geography Intern (part-time, summer)

     Technical Support:
          Sheila A. Hoffpauir, Computer Support Specialist and*
                                    Systems Administrator

     Collaborators  -  University of Texas at Austin
                      Center  for Research in Water Resources:
          David R.  Maidment,  Professor
          Tom Evans,  Ph.D. candidate
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Texas Hater Commission                              July 29,  1992
Water Utilities Division
Monitoring and Enforcement Section
                  PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
                VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM


Scope
     *  Established in 1991 to meet EPA Phase II drinking water
          rules.

     *  Provides technical support for issuing contaminant
          monitoring waivers to public water supply systems.

     *  Collaboration with the Univ. of Texas Center for Research
          in Water Resources to develop a GIS expert system.


Objectives & Methods
     *  Map locations of over 15,000 public water supply wells,
          springs, and over 600 surface water intakes.
               Methods:  TWC Field Operations inspectors map
               sources and TWC Ground Water Section digitizes
               locations.

     *  Determine aquifers being used as public drinking water
          sources and evaluate their susceptibility to
          contamination.
               Methods:  TWDB Major and Minor Aquifer GIS map
               layers and modified DRASTIC data from the TWC
               Ground Water Section.

     *  Delineate the Zone of Contribution for each public water
          supply well and the contributing drainage basin for
          each intake.
               Methods: EPA wellhead protection computer codes
               with a 40-year time of travel, and the USGS
               Eydrologic Unit GIS map layer.

     *  Determine potential sources for 38 regulated and 27
          unregulated chemicals in the zone or basin of
          contribution.                •
               Methods:  Attribute data bases from the Toxic
               Release Inventory, wellhead protection, leaking
               underground storage tank, municipal solid waste,
               RCRA, and Superfund programs, and the Texas
               Agricultural Extension Service.

     *  Determine the transport characteristics of selected
          chemicals at designated sites.
               Methods:  Use RUSTIC solute transport model.

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                                                                  Attachment 25
                               Texas Water Commission
                               TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
                               •Public Drinking Water Supply Vulnerability Assessment
                               Program*
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   was estimated at 943,778 for 1990 (TWDB, 1990).  Of this amount,
   the majority,  or 591,610, lived in El Paso County.  Webb, Val
   Verde,  Starr,  and Pecos counties followed in population size with
   131,833,  38,721, 38,548, and 36,037 people, respectively.
   Between them,  these five counties accounted for 836,749 people,
   or 88.7 percent of the Basin's population. The largest city was
   £1 Paso,  with 515,342 residents.  Laredo is the second largest
   city in the study area, with 122,899 people.  Most of the major
   population centers are located on the Rio Grande, with a -few
   located on the Pecos.  In northern Mexico, ciudad Juarez is the
   second  largest city after .Monterrey.                   _
        Population projections for the Texas part of the B'asin,
   using the high series of the Texas Water Development Board—which
   bases population estimates on high growth rates of the past
   twenty  years—detail a tremendous growth in population.
   Including the cities of McAllen and Brownsville, the population
   of the  Rio Grande Basin, estimated at 1,337,492 in 1990, should
   increase  to 1,577,014 by 2000 and 2,440,211 by 2030  (Texas Water
   Development Board, 1989).  Doubling of basin population should
   occur within fifty years of 1990, with many border cities
   doubling  in population even sooner.
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  waters comprise almost all of the perennial water* within the
  basin.  Other streams that are known and nay possibly be
  perennial include Terlingua Creek in Brewster County which flows
  into Segment 2306 - Rio Grande Above Aaistad Reservoir, Cienegas
  Creek in Val Verde County which flows into Segment 2304 - Rio
  Grande Below. Amistad Reservoir, and Elm Creek in Maverick County
  which flows into Segment 2304 - Rio Grande Below Amistad
  Reservoir.  TWC monitoring stations are located on Terlingua
  Creek and Elm Creek and Cienegas Creek has been sampled and
  assessed by the TWC in response to a waste discharge permit
  action.
       Cienegas Creek is located on the western edge of the City of
  Del Rio and base flow is provided by Cienega Spring.  A five per
  cent cumulative probability flow of 10.2 cfs was calculated from -
  data provided by an IBWC gaging station below the spring.  Based
  on physicochemical, benthic macroinvertebrate and fish data, the
  TWC has assigned high quality aquatic life uses to the stream
  from the confluence with the Rio Grande to the headwater spring
  source.
       Brief descriptions of each sampled stream modified from
  Bayer, et al. (1992) is included in the segment-specific
  discussion, in this report.  Complete listings of benthic
  macroinvertebrates, abundances and calculated metrics and fish
  species assemblages are included in the report by Bayer, et al.
  (1992) for each of the streams sampled.


  BoeioecoBomie Characteristics of the Basin

       The Rio Grande Basin is an international basin with people
  living in the United States and Mexico.  The study area, the Rio
  Grande Basin in Texas, is one of the poorest regions in the
  United States.  The counties in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are
  the poorest in the U.S.  The per capita income in 1989 for Texas
  was 12,904 dollars, while for the counties in the Basin it ranged
  from a low of 5,386 dollars in Dimmit County to a high of 12,482
  dollars in Loving County  (Bureau of the Census, 1992).
       Another measure of poverty is the percentage of all families
  with incomes below poverty level.  For the state of Texas, this
  figure is 14.1 percent.  Excluding Loving County  (1990 population
  107), which had no families below the poverty line, families with
  incomes below poverty level ranged from 9.1 percent in Reeve.s
  County to 56.5 percent for Starr County.  However, many of the
  Rio Grande counties have numbers for this index in the 30 to 40
  percent range.  For example, Budspeth, Edwards, Webb, Jim Hogg,
  Zapata, Presidio, Ector, and Maverick Counties all had a third
  or more of their families living below the poverty line.  For El
  Paso, the largest metropolitan area in the Basin, the figure is
  22.4 percent.  A total of 25 of the 31 counties in the Basin have
  poverty rates greater than the statewide rate.
       The population of the Rio Grande Basin in Texas, excluding
  the portion nearest the mainstem in Hidalgo and Cameron  Counties,
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Central Texas Plateau
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Texas Bloddond Prairies
East Central Texas Plains'
Western Gulf Coastal Plain
South Central Plains
                                                        Figure 2
                                                 Ecoregioru  of Texas
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factors.  These factors included land surface form,  land use,
soil types and potential natural vegetation.   The nap is intended
to provide a geographic framework for resource managers to
determine attainable ranges of chemical quality,  biotic
assemblages, and trophic states of aquatic ecosystems.  Omernik
and Gallant (1987)  developed larger scale regional maps which
delineate most typical areas within each ecoregion.   Figure 2
depicts the-12 Texas ecoregrons as extracted (and reduced) from
the regional map.
     The TWO has undertaken an ambitious project to  determine the
physical, chemical and Biological characteristics of selected
streams within the ecoregtons in order to establish  appropriate
uses and water quality criteria for the various areas .of the
state. This project is also intended to provide information
necessary to develop biocriteria and to establish least disturbed
reference streams which can*provide a bench mark for determining
attainable ranges of chemical quality and biotic assemblages.
(Twidwell and Davis, 1989; Bayer,- et al., 1992).   The basic
premise is that stream water quality and biotic assemblages
within ecoregions should fee similar since the acquired water
quality characteristics are derived from similar watershed
components within each ecoregion.  The information from a few
streams can then be reasonably extrapolated to other streams
within the ecoregion.
     Five of the 12 Texas ecoregions are contained wholly or
partially within the Rio Grande Basin (Figure 2). Table 1
contains the combination of physical features that were used to
delineate each ecoregion within the basin.  Ecoregion 23 -
Arizona/New Mexico Mountains is only represented in  Texas by. the
Guadalupe Mountains in a relatively small area of the basin along
the Texas/New Mexico border.  Ecoregion 24 - Southern Deserts is
also wholly contained within the basin and represents the vast
majority of the drainage area of the Rio Grande in Texas.  This
ecoregion encompasses the area commonly known as the Trans-Pecos
region of Texas, although the ecoregion boundary extends to the
east of the Pecos River from the border with New Mexico down to
the vicinity of Del Rio.  Ecoregion 25 - Western High Plains
occupies a relatively narrow band of the basin from the New
Mexico border in Loving County southeastward to the northern
portion of Crockett County.  Ecoregion 30 - Central  Texas Plateau
occupies a small portion of the basin from the southwestern
portion of Schleicher County southward along the western border
of Sutton County, then south along the eastern border of Val
Verde County to near Del Rio, then southeast to Brackettville.
The remainder of the basin southeast of Del Rio is located in
Ecoregion 31 - Southern Texas Plains.
     Eight streams located within the Rio Grande Basin were
sampled for the TWC ecoregion project (Bayer, et al., 1992), four
each in Ecoregions 24 and 31.  Because of the arid conditions in
this part of the state, it is not surprising that documented
springs provided base flow in the majority of the streams.
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  impacts in the Basin.  This assessment describes the watershed
  within Texas.  Although some of the elements will consider
  Mexican influences on the water quality, this report will largely
  consider only the watershed within Texas.  As information becomes
  available, it will be integrated into the ongoing biannual
  regional assessment program.  A major aspect of future
  information gathering will focus on joint U.S.-Mexico agreements
  for data-sharing and monitoring.


  geography and Climate

       The water quality in the Rio Grande Watershed, like all
  watersheds, is defined by the geography and climate within the
  watershed.  The river originates in the Rocky Mountains of
  southern Colorado at an elevation of 12/000 feet.  It then flows
  south from Colorado through New Mexico for 600 miles, in a
 ."shallow valley about 250-500 feet below the high desert plains
  of the area.1* (Schmandt and Ward, 1991).  The river enters Texas
  at an elevation of 3800 feet.  About 100 miles south of El Paso
  the river cuts through a plateau, forming deep canyons and
  gorges.  After flowing through this, area for about 480 miles, the
  final 680 miles of the Rio Grande flows through plains.  The
  geography of the Rio Grande Basin within the study area can be
  classified as tropical or subtropical desert  (Eaton and Anderson,
  1991).
       The northern portion of the Basin in Texas is mostly desert,
  but the climate becomes less arid and more tropical as the river
  flows south.  In general, the region is hot, warm and windy
  (Schmandt and Ward, 1991).  The Basin averages more 100* F days
  than any other part of Texas for the months of May through
  September (Bomar, 1983).  Temperatures are higher in the southern
  basin than in the northern basin, on the whole.
       The northern basin has less precipitation than the southern
  basin.  For example, average rainfall ranges from 7.82 inches at
  El Paso to 12.21 inches at Fort Stockton in the upper and middle
  portions of the basin, respectively, to 20.14 inches at Laredo
  and 25.44 inches at Brownsville in the southern portion  (Bomar,
  1983).  The Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande receive flow from
  snowmelt, but below £1 Paso most water in the river comes from
  thunderstorms and hurricanes  (Schmandt and Ward, 1991).


  Regional Ecosystems

       Texas is a large state with many distinct natural land forms
  and vegetational areas.  Streams that traverse these natural
  areas tend to be just as distinct since water flowing  over  and
  through the land to stream channels acquires  and integrates
  characteristics from the soils and vegetation (Hynes,  1970).
  Omernik  (1987) developed an ecoregion map of  the conterminous
  United States based on perceived patterns in  a combination  of
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     Senator Bentsen's Office: Kathy Little
     Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: Larry McKinney
     Texas Department of'Health: Sally Gutierrez
     Texas Hater Development Board: Todd Chenoveth
     Texas state Soil and Water Conservation Board: James Moore
     United States Fish and Wildlife Service': Pat Connor
     United States Geological Survey: Frank Wells
     International Boundary and Water Commission, United States
          Section: Ozzie Linguist
     UT Center for Research in Water Resources: George Ward
     UT School of Public Health: Zrina Cech
     Texas Center for Policy Studies: Mary Kelly
     Environmental Defense Fund: .Jim Marston
     Texas Railroad Comission: Windle Taylor
     Texas Department of Agriculture: Steven Bearden

     Regional Steering Committee meetings will be held this
autumn in these regions of the Basin:  £1 Paso-Presidio; the
Middle Rio Grande; and the Lower Rio Grande Valley .from Falcon
Dam to the Gulf.  The first of these meetings will be primarily
informational—to introduce the objectives of the assessment and
mechanism for local involvement.  The meetings are scheduled for
£1 Paso on September 22nd and Laredo on September 25th.  State
and local officials, environmental groups, university
representatives, and their Mexican counterparts will be invited
from throughout the Basin.  A similar meeting has already been
held for the Lover Rio Grande by the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Development Council.


Geographic Focus ef Assessment

     From the headwaters in Colorado in the Rocky Mountains, the
Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo in Mexico) flows 3100 kilometers (tan) to
the Gulf of Mexico, first passing south through New Mexico.  The
Rio Grande enters Texas some twenty miles north of £1 Paso and
forms the border between Texas and Mexico as it flows from £1
Paso to the Gulf of Mexico.  The Rio Grande Watershed drains an
area of 355,500 square miles in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and
Mexico, of which about 88,968 square miles in the United States
and 87,365 square miles in Mexico contribute streamflow to the    v-
Rio Grande; the remaining area drains internal basins  (Eaton^^--^
1987).  The Rio Grande Basin is depicted in Figure l^r~PrTncipal
tributaries in Texas are the Pecos River and the Devils River,
and in Mexico the Rio Conchos, the Rio Salado, and the Rio San
Juan.
     The international nature of the Rio Grande River complicates
a water quality study of the Rio Grande.  Major tributaries drain
into the Rio Grande from Mexico; the Rio Conchos provides most of
the flow of the Rio Grande below Presidio.  The lack of water
quality data in the Mexican portions of the Rio Grande Basin make
it difficult to make a thorough assessment of water quality
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                            INTRODUCTION

  Directive and Purpose of this Assessment

      The Texas Clean Rivers Act, Senate Bill  818,  72nd
  Legislature, 1991  (SB 818), requires that the Texas Water
  Commission  implement a regional water quality assessment program.
  The Commission has, determined that the assessment  program for the
  Rio Grande  Basin would best be accomplished by  using  designated
  funds to prepare a report  in-house and carry* on other activities
  described in Sections 320.1-320.9 of the Texas  Water  Commission
  Permanent Rules.   The staff-of the Standards  and Assessments
  Division will coordinate this task.  This is  the first of the
  biannual assessments and addresses the elements specified in
  these rules (see Appendices 1 and 2 for SB 818  and related TWC
  rules).
      The assessment report documents the extent and causes of
  water quality impacts using existing data.  Response  to water
  quality concerns will be developed by the ongoing  biannual water
  quality assessment program as'mandated by SB  818.  These will
  include identifying additional information needs' and  suggesting
  how these needs can be met, and proposing specific actions by
  entities with regulatory authority.


  Entities and Participating Agencies

      This assessment report has been prepared with the
  participation of representatives from state agencies, political
  subdivisions, and  other governmental bodies and individuals or
  entities with an expressed interest in water  quality  natters in
  the watershed.  These members represent a diversity of interests.
  In order to encourage public participation at all  levels, there
  will be two tiers  of committees for the Rio Grande River Basin:
  one Oversight -Committee which will meet in Austin  five or six
  times over  the next several years, and various  Local  Committees
  which will  meet with similar frequency in the border  towns of £1
  Paso, Laredo or Del Rio, and Brownsville or McAllen to discuss
  regional concerns.
      The Oversight Committee serves an advisory role.  The
  members will help  identify water quality issues which are
  significant to the watershed.  Additionally,  the agencies and
  organizations which have representatives on the committee will
  provide any relevant water quality data to the  Water Commission
  for use in  the basin assessments.
      The first of  the Oversight Committee meetings was held in
  Austin on August 19, 1992. The members of the  Rio Grande River
  Basin  Oversight Steering Committee  are as  follows:

      TWC: Barbara  Britton, John Hinojosa,  Laura Koesters, James
                Kowis, Hector Villa,  and Kendall Moss
      Governor's Office: Frank  Fuller,  Andrea Abel
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SEGMENT 2313: San Felipe Creek                                 ice
SEGMENT 2314: Rio Grande above International Dan               let
BIBLIOGRAPHY  (Rule Element 25)                                  J.78
APPENDICES                                                      185
     1.   Texas  Clean Rivers Act,. Senate Bill 818
     2.   Texas  Water Commission Permanent Rules,
          Chapter 320.1—320.9 (SB 818 Rules)
     3.   An  Investigation of a Cluster of Neural Tube Defects in
          Cameron County, Texas. July 1992. Summary and Conclusions
          Only.  (Rule Element 15)
     4.   Rio Grande Toxic Substances Study (Rule Element  15)
     5.   Water  Rights Holders in the Rio Grande Basin Authorized
               to Withdraw Greater than 10,000 acre-feet per year
                (Rule Element 11)
     6.   Bilingual  Newsletter Investigation (Rule Element 6)
     7.   An  Inventory of Public Involvement in the
          Rio Grande Basin (Rule Element 7)
     8.   Municipal  Wastewater Permits (Rule Element  8)
     9.   Industrial Wastewater Facilities (Rule Element 9)
                                vi
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   SEGMENT-SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY                    55

   Method  and Organisation of Segment-Specific Assessment          55
   Water Resources                                                 55
   Flow                                                            55
   Water Quality Impacts                                           55
   Municipal Wastewater Disposal (Rule Element 8)                  55
   Industrial Wastewater Disposal (Rule Element 9)                 56
   Water Quality Monitoring                                        56
   Surface Water Monitoring (Rule Element 1)                       56
   Water Quality Status                                            56
   Standards Compliance (Rule Element 19)                          56
   Toxics  (Rule Element 15)                                        58
   Vonpoint sources of Pollution (Rule Element 17)                 58
   Ecoreaion Characteristics                                       58
   SEGMENT 2301: Rio Grande Tidal                                  59
   SEGMENT 2302: Rio Grande below Falcon Reservoir                 65
   SEGMENT 2303: International Falcon Reservoir                    75
   SEGMENT 2304: Rio Grande below Amistad Reservoir                79
   SEGMENT 2305: International Amistad Reservoir                   98
   SEGMENT 2306: Rio Grande above Amistad Reservoir               102
   SEGMENT 2307: Rio Grande below Riverside Diversion Dam         113
   SEGMENT 2308: Rio Grande below International Dam               130
   SEGMENT 2309: Devils River                                     138
   SEGMENT 2310: Lower Pecos River                                144
   SEGMENT 2311: Upper Pecos River                                147
   SEGMENT 2312: Red Bluff Reservoir                              163
                                   v
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  Colo&ias                                                         15
  Impacts of Underground  and Petroleum                            17
       Storage Tanks  (Rule Element 13)
  Impacts of Solid Waste  Management Facilities                    17
       and Superfund  Sites (Rule Element 12)
  Wells as Potential  Pollution sources (Rule Element 7)           19
  Spills and Unpermitted  Releases                                 20
  Water Quality Status                                             22
  Water Quality Standards                                         22
  Evaluation of Water Quality Conditions (Rule Element 19)        22
  Toxics  (Rule Element  15)                                         26
  Health and Integrity  of Aguatic Life (Rule Element 16)          27
  Aguatic Vegetation  (Rule Element 18)                             33
  Waters of Concern and High Quality (Rule Element 24)            33
  Other Water Quality Problems (Rule Element 23)                  36

  Water Quality Management                                        37
  Water Quality Planning                                           37
       in the Rio Grande  Basin (Rule Element 22)
  Wasteloads                                                       40
  Household and Agricultural Hazardous                            42
       Waste Management (Rule Element 20)
  Water Conservation  Initiatives (Rule Element 26)                43
  Ambient Monitoring  Programs (Rule Element 1)                    43
  Public Participation  in Water                                   46
       Quality Issues (Rule Element 3)
  Citizen Monitoring  (Rule Element 2)                             49
  Enforcement and Regulatory Effectiveness  (Rule Element  21)      53

                                   iv
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                               CONTENTS





  PREFACE



  LIST OF TABLES                                                 vii



  LIST OF FIGURES                                             .  viii



  INTRODUCTION                                                     1



  pirective  and  Purpose of The Assessment                          1





  Entities and Participating Agendas                              i





  Geographic Focus cf The Assessment (Rule Element  5)              2





  Geography  and  Climate                                            3





  Regional Ecosystems                                              3





  Soeioeeonomic  Characteristics of the Basin  (Rule  Element 4)     5





  BASIN-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY                           7





  Water Resources                                                  7



  Hydrology  and  Hydrologic Modifications                           7



  Kajor Aquifers and Their Uses (Rule Element 6)                   8



  Recent History of Water Use                                      8



  Water Rights (Rule Element 11)                                  10



  Potable water  Quality and Health Effects                     '   10



  Climate change and Water Supply                                 11





  Water Quality  Impacts                                           12



  Konpoint  Sources of Pollution (Rule Element 17)                 12
                                                                     •


  Stormvater Permits (Rule Element 10)                            12



  On-Site Disposal of Wastewater  (Rule Element 14)                13
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                             PREFACE

     The focus of this assessment is surface water quality and the
identification of potential sources that influence water  quality.
We have given only mention to ground water resources, solid waste
management, and human health risk in this year's assessment.
     The Texas  Clean Rivers  Act, SB 818,  calls for  an ongoing
regional assessment  process.   This offers  the  opportunity for
investigating the sources  and impacts  of additional pollution
sources.   Information  on  Mexican  water  quality and pollution
loading from tributaries is largely unavailable at this time.  We
have made  a  request through  the  IBWC for ambient  water quality
monitoring data from Mexico.  It is also possible that estimates of
pollution  loading from wastevater and  air emissions  in Mexican-
cities and factories can be inferred from industrial activity and
land use as this information becomes available.
     There is considerable  concern about the effects the pending
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would have on air and
water quality along the U.S.-Mexico border.  Several other studies
are under way, each focusing on environmental conditions likely to
be aggravated by  NAFTA.  The  Texas Department of Health  recently
completed  an investigation  of possible causes  of neural  tube
defects  in  the  Lower  Rio  Grande  Valley.    The  Texas  Water
Commission, with the IBWC, USEPA, Texas Department of Health, and
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, will be conducting a  toxicity
survey of  the entire  Rio Grande in Texas this  autumn.   The U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation is conducting a study of water resources in
and along the Rio Grande.   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is
conducting an assessment of toxic impacts on the Atascosa  Wildlife
Refuge along  the Arroyo Colorado.   The U.S.  EPA is  planning a
multi-media environmental  monitoring  and risk  assessment in the
Br owns vi lie-Mat amor os area.   Our  goal is to have this assessment
contribute   significantly   to   our   understanding  of   present
environmental conditions in the Basin.
Pag«228
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                  REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY
                          THE RIO GRANDE BASIN
         TEXAS WATER COMMISSION, ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SECTION

                     PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH
                       THE TEXAS WATER COMMISSION
                    UNDER THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE
                            CLEAN RIVERS ACT

                     Draft Report, August 31, 1992
                                 s-   a          rr
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                                                                        Attachment 24
                                    Texas Water Commission
                                    TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
                                    Excerpts from 'Regional Assessment of Water Quality:
                                    The Rio Grande Basin.* Texas Water Commission,
                                    Environmental Systems Section.* Draft Report August 1992.
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          4.2.8 PC'S (2)

                80386-based computers capably of running both DOS and UNIX operating
                systems, and including 8 MB of RAM, 100 MB hard disk, token ring board (and
                possibly ethemet), and software necessary for x-terminal emulation. These PC'S
                will be used to develop methods to allow users to access certain GIS functions
              .  from their normal desktop pc's.


          4.3  GIS Software Configuration  :

                The GIS  software  package to be used  by TWC must function  in the
                integrated TRACS  environment. It  must  be UNIX-based and  support
                all the  open  systems  standards  described  in  the  TRACS  Systems
                Requirements document.  It must be  a  full-featured  system, including
                support  for  simultaneous   raster/vector  processing  and   three-
                dimensional analysis. It must  store  attribute  data  in an  external
                INGRES  relational  database  located  on a remote server and  support
                full  bi-directional  access  between the  two  platforms.  The  user
                interface  must  be easy  to  use  and it must  allow  direct access by
                end-users   to  all  GIS  functions.  It  must provide  the  means  to
                maintain  database security  and  integrity:
                      •
                Section 2.4.1 describes the  vendor evaluation  study  conducted  by the
                GIS  Design Team. The  design  team feels, that  at  least  four  vendors
                offer  GIS  solutions  that meet TWC's  requirements. TWC  should
                complete the GIS  software  selection process in early  calendar  1991.
                               bt,™  u*
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                        A.color electrostatic plotter capable of plotting on multiple media up to
                        44" wide. The resolution should be variable from 200 to 400 dots per
                        inch. Includes a controller and sufficient memory for high speed, high
                        volume plotting. To be used primarily for output products.
                        Medium Plotter (1)

                        A black & white electrostatic (ef other perilcsa  teehnolpuy)  plotter
                        capable of plotting on multiple media up to 36" wide at a resolution of
                        300 dpi. Includes controller and sufficient memory for high speed, high-
                        volume  plotting. To be used primarily for check plots and black & white
                        output products.
                        Small Plotter (13)

                        A color, penless printer/plotter that sits on a desktop and provides output
                        on 8.5"xir and B.5"xl4" paper. The resolution should be at least 200
                        dpi. This device is intended to be set up in QIS workgroup ares to provide
                        a quick, easy means for users to obtain nardcopy of graphics generated
                        on workstation screens.
            4.2.7 Scanners

                  Two types of scanning devices will be required:


                        Large Scanner (1)   iTan^-ervt"

                        A device that can scan existing paper maps, producing a raster file that
                        can digitally processed and loaded into the CIS. The scanner should
                        accept maps up to	wide, allow resolution settings from 200 to 400
                        opt, and recognize colors, grayscales, and black & white.


                        Page Scanner (\fy   ^  rn\cvoWVi.

                        A smaller scanner that accepts up to 8.5"x14" paper, and supports black
                        & white at 300 dpi This scanner is intended primarily for inputing norv
                        georeferenced raster images to be accessed through GIS and TRACS,
                        and to support temporary, ad hoc entry of spatial data needed by users.
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                        Level 2 — Low-end UNIX Workstation (10)        (eg, SUN IPC)

                        A desktop UNIX workstation running GIS software locally. The station is
                        also capable of running GIS or other applications off a workgroup server.
                        This station has 16 MB of RAM.  a 19" high resolution color graphics
                        monitor, 500 MB of disk storage, and runs at	MIPS.  A digitizing
                        table can be attached H needed. This level of workstation is appropriate
                        for analytical applications and for routine GIS database updates (such as
                        adding a new facility during a permit approval  process).
                        Level 3 —Mid-size UNIX workstation (6)          (eg,  SPARCJI)

                        A desktop UNIX workstation running GIS software locally. The station is
                        also capable of running GIS or other applications off a workgroup server.
                        This station has 16 MB of RAM. a 19" high resolution color graphics
                        monitor, 2 GB of disk storage, and runs  at	MIPS. A digitizing table
                        can be attached if needed. This level of workstation is  appropriate for
                        heavy duty analytical applications that would run too slowly on a level 2
                        station, for full time  data conversion/production use.  for input and
                        processing of raster data, and for applications development
            4.2.5 Digitizer
                  There are two basic categories of manual digitizers appropriate for use in the
                  GIS:                               i  ,        ,     ...              '     •
                                                     i  Lar^<   ba.cJuiT
                         Large Digitizer

                         This is a digitizing table with adjustable base, 44"x60" active area, .001"
                         resolution, and a free-floating cursor. This device is appropriate for full
                         time data conversion and production use. (Investigate voice commands,
                         and wireless cursor)
                         Small Digitizer (         «-\
                         This is a table-top digitizing tablet with a 20"x24" 'active area,- .001"
                         resolution, and a free-floating cursor. It is appropriate for lower volume
                         digitizing from documents and maps up to the size of a 7.5 minute quad.
             4.2.6  Plotters

                   Three types of plotters will be required to support TWC's GIS activities:
                                                 •


                         Large Plotter (1)
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      to the database server will be transparent to 6IS users, via a workgroup server.
      Since tne database server will not be required to support individual users, h wil!
      be able to manage and provide access to  GIS files much more efficiently than
      otherwise possible.


      Raster Data Server (1)

      A central, UNIX-based computer that will  specialize in handling graphic data
      stored in raster form. Due to: the large size of these files, optical 'jukebox*
      storage will be employed instead of conventional magnetic storage. Optical
      storage is much more economical, but at. some expense in access time. Two
      types of raster data will be stored on this server. Gee-referenced raster images
      will comprise certain layers of the GIS, such as U.S. Geological Survey quads.
      Non-georelerenced raster images are scanned documents, field inspector
      sketches, etc that are logically associated with TWO regulated facilities and can
      be accessed by both TRACS and GIS users. As with the GtS Database Server.
      access to this server by users will be transparent via intermediate servers.
   v^

4.2.3 GIS Workgroup Server (12)

      A UNIX computer running a complete GIS software package and capable of
      supporting a number of workstation users over a network. X Windows software
      will provide a common, graphic user interface for all users. The server should
      contain 24 MB of RAM to support 3 users, or 32 MB to support 5 to 7 users.. The
      server should  run at 25 MIPS and include 2 GB of disk storage.


4.2.4. GIS Workstations

      Three levels of workstation are proposed.for GIS use. All three are expected to
      fully  access all functions of  the GIS software package and will include high
      resolution graphics; they will differ in processor  power and  flexibility, tn
      acquiring GIS workstations,  division management should choose the lowest
      level that supports the intended application.


            Level 1 — X Station (35)

            A terminal  capable of delivering full GIS workstation functions  when
            connected to a  GIS workgroup server. Each station has 16 MB of RAM
            and 319" high resolution color graphics monitor.  This is the appropriate
            level for query-intensive applications.
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A 2   GIS Hardware Configuration

      The initial GtS hardware configuration should include components necessary to
      implement  a complete set of GtS tools and to build high priority TWC/GIS
      applications. Additional stations and input/output devices will be procured as
      required in the future to support increasing GtS utilization in the agency.

      Figure 4-2 gives an overview of the proposed TWC/GIS configuration. A central
      GIS  database server will hold all standard graphic GIS data and manage
      access by multiple users. A central raster data server will use a large capacity
      optical 'jukebox" storage device to store all raster images used by the GIS. GIS
      workgroups are distributed throughout the agency and connected to the central* *
      servers via an enhanced TWO network.

      Each of  TWO'S program divisions has identified potential GIS applications.
      Many of the larger field offices woufd also benefit from access to GtS. it is logical
      and  economical to provide GIS access at a workgroup level; that is, each
      program division  and  larger field office would maintain a separate work area
      where GIS workstations and peripheral equipment are bcated. The proposed
      workgroup  configuration is shown in Figure 4-3.

      The  number of stations could vary initially from. 1  to 4, and some workgroups
      may not require a page scanner, digitizer or plotter initially. The overall network
      and  GIS structure will  be such that each workgroup can be incrementally
      expanded to meet growing needs. The workgroup hardware need not be all'
      located in the same room.

      The  Administrative Services Division will be expected to support the agency's
      GIS in a  number of areas such as  digitizing .services, high Quality map
      output/publishing, applications development, special projects, training, common
      workstation access,  database  administration,  and systems support.  The
      proposed initial hardware configuration for this division is shown in Figure 4-4.

      ... refer to need for the GIS  configuration to  fit  into the general TRACS
      configuration...

      In its initial release, it is proposed that all GIS users work from a full workstation
      platform. As TWO builds and refines applications using TRACS and GIS, It looks
      promising that PC platforms may be utilized for some routine GIS tasks!   '

      Following are brief descriptions of the hardware components shown in Figures
      4-2 through 4-4.


 4.2.1 GIS Database Server (1)

       A central, UNIX-based computer on which all agency-wide graphic GIS data will
       reside. The server should run at 25 MIPS,  have 32 MB of RAM. 20 GB of disk
       storage, and the  capability to expand diSK storage to 50 GB in the future. Access
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              V«ter CornmtMirm
                        Rwff
                                             1-4
                              Overview of Proposed Ideal Architecture
                                          .1-13
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        4     CONFIGURATION


        4.1   TRACS Configuration
              TWC is in the process of procuring appropriate hardware and systems software
              to develop and test TRACS, as well as to provide a platform tor expansion of
              hardware capabilities to support TRACS  production. Figure 4-1 gives an
              overview of the proposed architecture.

              Major components of the initial TRACS configuration include:

              TRACS  Database Server (1) — oooo   32.0
                                                       .  Sz-o H-
               Remote Office Workstations/Servers (3) — /cs/koos  320


               PC Compatible Workstations (50)


               Network  —  NFS
               ^

               Relational Database Software —
               TWC has placed a strong emphasis on adhering to the latest standards for
               hardware,  software, data communications, data management, development
               tools, and user interface in the TRACS Request For Quotation (RFQ)...


               Note that a subsequent procurement will be necessary to provide additional
               hardware, software and network components needed to support an operational
               TRACS system.
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Integrated TRACS System
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                   Figure 2-1.  Components of the TRACS Integrated System
                 A great number of federal, state and local agencies  are working  to
                 implement  GIS technology,  for  reason   very  similar  to  TWC's.
                 However  with  TRACS,  TWC  has the rare  opportunity  to .formally
                 introduce  GIS  technology  in concert with the design and  development
                 of a  unified,  agency-wide relational  database  management  system
                 (RDBMS). TWC may  be one of the first agencies to deploy the latest
                 in RDBMS and GIS technologies  in a  complementary mode from  the
                 ground up.  This  concept directly  supports the information  access
                 needs  expressed in Framework For the  Future.
           2.2   Prior Use of GIS at TWC

                 In  the  mid  1970*s,  the  Texas  Department  of  Water Resources
                 assembled  one  of  the first  GIS  systems  operating at  the state
                 government level.  Most  basic  computer mapping  functions were
                 supported,  and  over  several   years  powerful   spatial  analysis
                 functions  were added.  This system is currently  managed by  TWC's
                 Data  Processing  Services  section,  and  it  still  supports  a  small
            Dratt - TWC/GIS  Conceptual  Design Report   December 20,  1990   page  2-2
Pag* 218
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               BACKGROUND
         2.1    TRACS Project

               Over the past several  years, a number of surveys and studies have
               been conducted which  related to the Information Management  needs
               of  the  Texas  Water  Commission  (TWC).  In  an  agency report,
               Framework  For  the  Future,  published  in  December   1987.   an
               Information  Processing Task Force established by  the  Executive
               Director documented its findings regarding  information  needs  in  the  -
               agency.  A very  significant need  expressed by a  large percentage of
               staff interviewed  during  the needs  study  was  for a  comprehensive,
               integrated and flexible  system  to manage,  analyze  and generate
               reports from  the vast amounts of data  and information  collected  and
               used by agency staff. This need  was included in the subsequent TWC
               Strategic .Plan  and the  Long-Range  Automated  Information  and
               Telecommunications  Systems (AITS) Plan.

               In the AITS  Plan,  TWC proposed to address  this need by  designing a
               new system,  called the  TWC  Regulatory  and  Compliance System
               (TRACS), that would replace  scores'  of existing  systems. TRACS
               would   take  advantage  of  the  latest  database  design   principles,
               recent  dramatic advances  in  hardware  and  software technologies,
               and extensive  involvement  by'  program  area staff  throughout   the
               development  phase.

               As  discussions  about TRACS  continued,  it  became  apparent  that
               some of the key  requirements for improved  information access were
               geographic  in nature. TWC manages  and  uses vast  amounts of
               information  on  paper  maps,  including  environmental   data  and
               locations  of regulated   entities.  Recent  advances  in  Geographic
               Information  System  (CIS)  technology have  made .it  practical to
               process  maps by computer. One of the most  significant contributions
               of TRACS would be to put TWCs  maps on-line and to  provide support
               for management, analysis and viewing of map  information. CIS  has
               thus been established  as a  key  conceptual component of TRACS  (see
               figure 2-1).
          Dran • TWC/GIS Conceptual Design Repon   December 20.  1990   page 2-1
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                                                                    Attachment 23          I
                                 Texas Water Commission
                                 TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
                                 •Excerpts from TRACS program description.1
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          7.1    information Resources Manager's Certifiration
          7.2    Standards Compliance Reporting and the Peer Review
          7.3    Waiver Applications
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   Appendix A

   Appendix B-l

   Appendix B-2

   Appendix JW

   Appendix B-4

   Appendix B-S

   Appendix C
Quality and Accuracy Report
   Appendix D
    Appendix £

    Appendix F
Entity Report

Battty Rrourt Fields Deicoptk
Attribute Report

Attribute Report Fields Prscription

Sample Rqxjrts .
Quslity ffl^ Accuracy Report y^Tpp^ 1
Quality and Accuracy Report Sample 2
Entity and Attribute Report Sample

Figure 1 - Latitude-Longitude (Geographic Coordinates)
Figure 2 - State Plane Coordinate System Zones
Figure 3 - Universal Transverse Mercatnr (U1M) Zone
Figure 4 - Texas Statewide Mapping System

Glossary of GIS terms

GIS Standards Committee Membership List

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             3.4.8  Syinbology Key  .................. .............. 19
             3.4.9  PiCTPPtiipn/ffifosofaUtfrtflin  ......I.........*......... 19
             3.4.10 Grid Lines or Intersecttan Ucks  ..................... 19
       3.5   Standard Haidcopy Offlpnt Scales  ........ . .................. 20
             3.5.1  Site Specific Scales .............................. 20
             3.5.2  1:24,000  .................................... 20
             3.5.3  1:25,000  .................................... 20
             3.i.4  1:15,840, 1:31,680, awl 1:63,300 ..................... 20
             3.5.5  1:63.360, 1:126,720, and 1;253,440  ................... 20
             3.5.6  1:62,500  ................. ................... 20
             3.5.7  1:100,000  .......................... , ........ 20
             3,5.8  1:250,000  ................................... 20
             3.3.9  1:300,000  ................................... 21
             3.5.10 1:1,000,000, 1:1,250,000, 1:1,500,000, and 1:2,000,000 ......  21

 4.0    Data Capture .......................................... 22
       4.1   Map Precision .............. . ...................... 22
             4.1.1 LatlTiitlc and Luugimde Values .................. , . . . .  22
             4.1.2 X.Y or X,Y,Z Coordinale Values  .....................  22
       4.2   Map Accuracy ..................................... 22
             4.2.1 Horizontal Accuracy  ............ ... ..............  22
             4.2.2 Vertical Accuracy ...............................  23
       4.3   Scale Abuse .......................... ., ............  23
             4.3.1 ScaleModng , .................................  23
             4.3.2 Scale Misrepresentation  ...........................  23
       4.4   Sources for Map Compilation ............................  24
             4.4.1 Easting Digital Maps  ............................  24
             4.4.2 Original Digitizing .............................. 24
                   4.4.2.1 Digitizing From Other Than Hardcopy Maps  ........ 24
                   4.4.2.2 Digitizing From Hardcopy Maps (7.5' USGS Quads)  ... 25
                         4.4.2.2.1  Generational Slippage ................. 25
                         4.4.2.2.2  Manuscript Media . . , ................. 25
                         4.4.2.2.3  Registration. Ticks  ................... 25
                         4.4.2.2.4  Edgematdiing .............. '. . ...... 26

5.0    Data Interchange Standards  .............. , ................. 27
       5.1    Files Transferred .................................... 27
       5.2    Native and Direct Data Interchange Formats ................... 27
       5.3    Neutral Data Interchange Formats ........... . .............. 27
       5.4    Data Interchange .................................... 28

6.0    Metadata  ............................................ 29
       6.1    Quality and Accuracy Report  ............................ 29
       6.2    Data Dictionary  .................................... 29
       1991
                             	
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                              Table of Contents
                     ..«......••«••••••••.»-•••--••••«•«••««»..  4
        1.1   Texas Geographic Informatioii Systems (GIS) Standards Comp^rtcs .....   5
        1.2   Update Process .....................................  6
        1.3   AJpticahflily  ...... ........... •• ....................  6
  2.0   Data. Layer Classification  ..................................  7
        2.1   fflengyftfoat Scheme  . , ....... . ............. . .........  7
        2.2   Database O^M^gfag ............... • .................. 14
        2.3   Naming Conventions  ................................. 14

  3.0   Cartography  .......................................... 15
        3.1   Datums / Hydrogiaphic Standards  ................ . ...... . . 15
              3.1.1 Hoffonpffll Damns ....... . ...................... 15
              3.1.2 Vertical Damms ..................... ........... 15
              3.1.3 Hydrogtaphic Standards ....... .................... 15
        3.2   Projections and Coordinate Systems ........................ 15
              3.2.1 T^ilitiv^'- - Longitude (Geographic Coordinates) ........ ..... 15
              3.2.2 State Pl2nc Cuanfinatc Systems (1927 and 1983 daturas) ...... .. 16
              3.2.3 Universal Transverse Mercator (OTM) .................. 16
              32.4 Texas Statewide Mapping System ............ ; . . . ..... 16
                    3.2.4.1  Map Projection .......................... 16
                    3.2.4.2  Ellipsoid  .............................. 16
                    3.2.4.3  Dauuii ........ . ........... . ........... 16
                    3.Z4.4  Longitude of Origin ....................... 17
                    3.2.4.5  infante of Origin  ........................ 17
                    3.2.4.6  Swndaid Panflel 1 ...... .................. 17
                    3.2.4.7  Standard Paianel 2 ........................ 17
                    3.2.4.8  Fabe-Eastinj  ........................... 17
                    3.2.4.9  False Northing  ................. .- . . ...... 17
                    3.2.4.10 Unit of Measurement  ...................... 17
        3.3   Map Transformations ............ , .................... 17
        3.4   Map Legend and Supplemental Information  ............ . ...... 17
              3.4.1  Map Title ................................... 18
              3.4.2 Scale Representation ............................. 18
              3.4.3 Map Dates ............................ ....... 18
              3.4.4 Author  ................................. ____ 18
              3.4.5 Disclaimer ................................... 18
              3.4.6 Sources) ......................... ........... 19
              3.4.7 North Anow .................................. 19
  AUJU« It, 199J
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                     STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
                                 FOR
                 GEOGRAPHIC INTCHRMAI3DN SYSTEMS
                               IN THE
                           STATE OF TEXAS
                               Developed by;
                         Texas Geographic Information
                         Systems Standards Committee
                                Published by:
                      Department of Information
                                Austin, Texas
                                August 1992
P*g«212
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                                                                       Attachment 22
                                              State of Texas
                                              Department of Transportation
                                              Texas Road Inventory Mapping System
                                              •Standards and Guidelines for Geographic
                                              Information Systems in the State of Texas:
                                              Table of Contents'  August 1992.
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Daw ....................... - ................................................ 46
Blanfc [[[ 47
Esearoment, Bluff .............................. ............................ 48
Mountain Range 4 Prominent Elevation  (Symools) ............................. 49
Hitcn poi nt [[[ ... so
State Lint Monument [[[ 51
Boundary Lines [[[ 52
Airfield:  Synools 4 Runways ............................................... S3
Public Facility Symbols ................................. . .................. 54
Blank [[[ 55
Government Symbol s ............. , ........................................... 56
Town Symbols. Names, Population I State  Capitol ............................ 57
City Units ............................................ i ................... SB
Bubble Inset [[[ 59
Asterisks i Mileage Between Points ......................................... 60
ATI the above are In Files  Ident1f1td!   (5 DWts) U.06N er tS Digits) B.QGN

Feature                                                                    Lev


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                                                                           4-7-52
                               COUHTY MAP FEATURES
                       Texas Road Inventory Mapping System
                                     "TRIMS"
Feature                                                                    Levtl

Highway Nwmoer i Shield (Annotation)	1
Highway Boulevard	Z
Frontage Road/Ramp.	3
Grid Identification & Grid Crossing	4
rflgnway 1n City	5
Pedestrian Overpass	.6
Blank	«7
Hi ghway Rural	3
Br1 ages on Boulevard	9
Blank	10
Bridge:  Highway in city	-.•	11
Bridge:  Highway Rural	•	12
Blank	13
Culture Names	14
Blank	15
Blank	16
concrete Ford (crseks)	17
City Streets/Street Boul evards	18
Street Names (Ctty version only)	19
Co Road Bridges	20
Rural SuDdivi sion Streets	21
County Road (Earth)	22
County Road (All weather)	23
County Road (Paved)	24
Blank	25
Rural Subdi vi sion Boul evards	26
Railroad:  Main Line & Station  Symool,  Nane	27
Slant	28
Railroad:  Spur Line	29
Blank	30
Railroad Bridge	31
Blank	32
Blank	33
water Feature Naaes	34
Fluae	35
Blank	36
Intermittent Streams	37
$treans/Ri vers  (Flowlng)	38
Lakes	39
Stream  Medium,	40
Stream  Large	41
Intermittent Lake	....42
Inundation Line	43
Ship i  Barge Symbol  i  GIWW Canal (water) i (names)	44
      (Canal)(Lane)	45
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                                                                  Attachment 21
                                          State of Texas
                                          Department of Transportation
                                          Texas Road Inventory Mapping System


                                          •County Map Features'
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 wetlands are being interpreted and classified from Landsat thematic
 mapper imagery, and  change analysis will be performed for habitat
 features  over  the  period  from  1988  to  1992.  Protocols  and
 methodology developed  by the CoastWatch Mapping Program  are  being
 applied  in a pilot  study to  discriminate between  the  following
 habitat  classes:  open  saltwater;  open  freshwater;  riverbeds;
 saltmarsh  (low  and high); tidal flats;  palustrine marsh; coastal
 prairie;  coastal uplands;  and coastal  land use in  the adjacent
 uplands  (eg. -agriculture,  native forest, urban, etc.)- A subscene
 test area  in lower Gal vest on Bay (Chocolate-Christmas-West Bays),
 equivalent to  about  four  (4)  7.5  min  quad  sheets,   is   being
 investigated by conducting  detailed ground  surveys  and accuracy
 assessment. Global Positioning Satellite technology is being used
 to establish known geo-referenced ground locations.
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          Coastal Wetlands Habitat Monitoring in Texas


                        Warren Pulich Jr.
                Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
                     4200 Smith School Road
                       Austin, Texas 78744


       Historical inventories  and trend analyses of coastal wetlands
 have been poorly documented for  Texas,  perhaps moreso  than any
 other state with a similar magnitude of coastline. Since 1988,  the
 Texas Parks  & Wildlife Dept.,  Resource Protection Division, has
 pursued the objective of building a digital map database of coastal
-wetlands, associated  habitats  and  land use for its  resource
 management and  assessment  programs.  Ba'sed on  historical aerial
 photography and digital remote sensing data, the wetlands database
 would start  in the mid  1970' s,   and achieve the  accuracy  of  a
 1:24000 map scale.   The habitat classification scheme adopted has
 been developed by the NQAA CoastWatch Change Analysis Program and
 comprises a hybrid  system with the  Cowardin  U.S.F.W.S.  National
 Wetlands   Inventory  classification.   This  information  will  be
 applicable to:  habitat  and  land  use  inventories  of the  Texas
 coastal zone;  trend analysis of  habitat changes over time;  and
 environmental impact assessment during regulatory reviews.

       These   goals present an enormous task for a mapping program
 considering there are some 407 U.S.G.S. quads (7.5 min  area)  in
 just the  18 coastal  counties  from Brownsville to east of Galveston
 Bay.   Such obvious program limitations have led to organizing the
 scope of  work into manageable phases based on priority of resource
 information needs.

      1)   Cartographic  mapping of  submerged vegetation has  been
 targeted  for  the entire Texas coast.  Previous  qualitative studies
 have  indicated  that   this  coastal   habitat   is   decreasing
 dramatically.  Recent quantitative  mapping has been completed  on
 this habitat  component for the San Antonio  Bay System, Galvester.
 Bay System, and parts of the  Corpus Christi-Nueces Bay System.

      2) In order to address  specific resource management issues,
 wetland habitat mapping and change analysis has been performed for
 certain key sites or entire  bays. This was'recently done for one
 of the TPWD  Coastal Preserve management areas  (Welder  Point,  a
 Whooping  Crane sanctuary))  and the Nueces Bay  System as part of a
 study to  evaluate impacts of altered freshwater inflows  from the
 Nueces River.  Wetlands have been compared over a ten  year period
 representing  before  and after the  Choke Canyon  Dam was built on the
 Nueces River.

      3) Cooperative arrangements  are  being developed with federal
 programs  to complement ongoing, national mapping efforts.  Recent
 cooperation with the NOAA/CoastWatch CCAP Program  has dealt with
 a  pilot project  on the Galveston  Bay  region of Texas.  Emergent
Pag«206
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                                                                        Attachment 20
                                              State of Texas
                                              Parks and Wildlife Dept
                                              Coastal Wetlands Habitat Monitoring
                                              Quality and Accuracy Reports
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                                :-*&«"piat». developed, hi part
          through the efforts of this project Tbe GLO, by way of this report recommends that the
          data dictionary template be evaluated as a potential reporting requirement for future GIS
          data submitted to EPA Region 6 by contractors or cooperating agencies. Consistency
          with this data format would greatly facilitate die exchange of GIS data between state and
          federal agencies in Texas and, it is hoped, throughout the region.


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                                                      -^Executive Summary
     Executive
     Summary
I
n Texas, most major state agencies ""^ universities Hthy have, or are in die process
of acquiring, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Daily interactioo
between these state agencies and their federal counterparts would be greatly
           existing ***** were readily available wfl easily transferable in
                                format Unfortunately, this is not the case, The majority of data now boosed in state and
                                federal agencies is not available in CHS format, and the small percentage of information
                                that has been converted to CHS digital format has been prepared on a project-by-project
                                basis, with little regard to future data transfer or sharing needs. The absence of national
                                or statewide GIS data standards has perpetuated mis problem.

                                Recent advancements fa CHS technology have produced a unique tool capable of rapidly
                                accessing large quantities of data, transforming the data into easily understood graphic
                                images, and allowing its manipulation to illustrate existing or proposed conditions. One
                                of die fundamental buQdtng blocks upon which a successful CHS must be constructed is
                                the "data dictionary." The CHS Data Dictionary, as defined by the Texas Department of
                                Infonnation Resources (DIR), provides a "description of the information contained in a
                                Hafa coverage, e.g., format, definition, structure, and usage."
                                Recognizing a need to improve information exchange capabilities of *W and federal
                                agencies in Texas, staff of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) and the U: S.
                                Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 initiated a cooperative project under
                                the State/EPA Data Management (SEDM) Financial Assistance Program to assist with
                                the development and testing of a prototype CHS Data Dictionary.

                                Unknown to GLO and EPA collaborators, two other initiatives which would become
                                intimately linked with die project were under way. While discussions were being held
                                regarding development of a cooperative  project, new state  legislation was  adopted
                                designating GLO as dte lead agency in Texas for oil spin response and prevention. This
                                new mandate earned with it die need for immediate development of a comprehensive
                                statewide ofl spill response and prevention  program and die technical support necessary
                                to facilitate such a program. It was apparent from die outset of oil spill response planning
                                within toe GLO t^at hnTTiCTCf quantities of ^atfl from a variety of disciplines would be
                                required to meet die needs of the program. For dus reason, a high priority was placed
                                upon acquiring  state-of-the-art  GIS capability for die Texas General Land Office  Ofl
                                Spin Prevention and Response Program (OSPRP) at die earliest possible opportunity.
                                Although a sense of urgency existed to 'develop this new oil spill GIS. planners within
                                GLO were  aware  from previous experience  that (1) die  most  costly part of GIS
                                development is data acquisition, (2) die oil  spill GIS would be a long-term commitment,
                                and data entered into die system would have to be useful for many years, and (3) most of
                                die data entered into die system would come from external sources. As these factors were
                                considered,  GLO staff agreed  that, regardless of die urgency, careful* planning was
                                needed to ensure that data acquired for die oil spill GIS was properly documented.
                                Without dus documentation, little confidence  could be  placed upon the accuracy or
                                reliability of die Aats\  The implementation of GIS data standards was recognized,
                                therefore, to be a critical component of die oil spill GIS development.
                                During this same period, DIR, die Texas state agency charged widi providing leadership
                                and coordination of information resource management within state government, created a
                                subcommittee of die Texas GIS Standards Committee to  develop comprehensive
                                standards and guidelines for GIS used in state governmental agencies and universities.
                                These standards and guidelines  would promote higher levels  of data compatibility
                                between state agencies, thereby facilitating easy transfer of GIS data between users and
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                 Development of a
    Geographic Information System (GIS)
            Prototype Data Dictionary
        for Oil Spill Response Activities
Page 202
                    Project   Report
                Written by: C. Bruce Smith and Scot B. Friedman
                      Texas General Land Office
               \  Texas General Land Office
               "" f  Garry Mauro, Commissioner
                  November 1992
                  Funded through a cooperative agreement with the
                \ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 6
                  State/EPA Data Management Financial Assistance Program
                  Contract #X2006639-01-1
                   USEPA Offio* of W«t»r (WH*»7). US4tadco Border O1S Catalog ittachiMnt July 1983.

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                                                                         Attachment 19
                                        State of Texas
                                        Texas General Land Office (GLO)
                                        •GIS Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill Response
                                         Activities: Executive Summary of Project Report
                                         November1992.
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     INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
            UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
UNITED STATES SECTION

 NARENDRA N. QUNAJI
     Commissioner
  4171 North Mesa Street
   El Paso. Texas 79902
                                              MEXICAN SECTION

                                           J. ARTURO HERRERA SOUS
                                                ' Commissioner
                                              Apanado Postal 1612D
                                              Cd. Juarez. Chihuahua
            WATER BULLETIN NUMBER 60
      Flow of the Rio Grande
                     and
              Related Data
         From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico
               to the Gulf of Mexico
                    1990
           STORAGE IN MAJOR RESERVOIRS
             SOURCES OF RIVER FLOW
                  DIVERSIONS
               QUALITY OF WATER
             CLIMATOLOG1CAL DATA
       DRAINAGE BASIN AND IRRIGATED AREAS
USEPA Offic. of Wttr 
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                                                                       Attachment 18
                            International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)
                            Excerpt: •Water Bulletin Number 60: Flow of the Rio Grande and
                            Related Data1 IBWC. 1990.
Pag* 196
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identify and write directory entries for the major environmental-change related data
sets in the Mexican-U.S. border area.

Deliverables (Task 7):

Year one: Compendium of Data Custodians with brief descriptions of data held.
The Compendium will be published in both paper and electronic formats. Annual
updates.

Year two:  Prototype Regional environmental Information system.  Inventory of
waste disposal sites. Inventory of shared water resources.

Year three:  Operational Regional Environmental Information System.  Report on
environmental quality in the border area.
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success of environmental protection efforts, and on the direction of future efforts.  A
regional environmental information system would provide input into the U.S.
effort to ensure that domestic trade policies are environmentally sensitive and that
the U.S. environmental programs support free trade and sustainable growth.

Approach to Task 7:  This task will follow the model for the creation of a Regional
Directory, Data Sharing Network and Information System for the U.S.-Mexico
Border Region.  Development in FY 1993 will be limited  to initiation of the survey
of appropriate regional EPA and non-EPA data sets.

      Associated activities in  the out-years will include:

    •  CIESIN will act as a gateway between the participants in the Environmental Plan for
      the Mexican-U.S. Border Area  and CIESIN's Information Cooperative members,
      providing for the exchange of border-area related data and information.

    •  The participants in the Environmental Plan for the Mexican-U.S. Border Area will
      have access to remote sensing data through CIESIN's Socioeconomic Data and
      Applications Center (SEDAC).

    •  CIESIN will assist in the identification, collection, archiving, and dissemination of
      specialized information relevant to environmental change investigators,
      environmental change policy analysts, and the integration of interdisciplinary data
      in the border area.

    •  CIESIN will serve as a point of access to border-area data and information for those
      who are outside of the area, especially for the domestic and international
      environmental change science  community.

    •  CIESIN will be a source of remote sensing expertise, Geographic Information System
      (CIS) capability, data harmonization, and data integration capability for the
      participants in the Environmental Plan for the Mexican-U.S. Border Area.

    •  CIESIN will work with the participants in the Environmental Plan for the Mexican-
      U.S. Border Area to develop and host a large interdisciplinary database of data sets
      and related contextual information for the whole border area, including Mexico.
      This database will allow investigators to easily access data for any part of the area,
      across state and international boundaries.

    •  The participants in the Environmental Plan for the Mexican-U.S. Border Area will
      assist CIESIN in obtaining major policy documents, as well as other information, for
      CIESIN to put on-line, and will assist with the identification of data resources.

      The primary task in the out -years of the project is to find more data sets
relevant to the  Environmental Plan for  the Mexican-U.S.  Border Area that can be
usefully harmonized and integrated so as to shed light on a health, land-use, or
industrial metabolism issue; conduct the harmonization and integration of the data;
and then analyze and archive the  results. In the process there will be an effort to
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conservation, and to promote environmentally sustainable development  Some say
that the trade accord could lead to increased pollution along the U.S. Mexican border
and the lowering of U.S. environmental and food safety standards.  However,
William K. Reilly, while EPA Administrator, said that NAFTA would encourage
the trade-pact parties to harmonize their standards upwards to increase protection of
the environment and health.

      At the present time, based on the available data, the most serious
environmental concerns are related to the concentrations of people  and industry in
the fourteen border-area sister cities. Congestion, uncontrolled urban development,
and lack of basic public health and sanitation facilities have become significant
problems in many communities. At many places on the U.S. side of the border,
unincorporated communities, called colonias, have  sprung up adjacent to towns
and cities. These colonias are characterized by substandard housing, inadequate
roads and drainage, and barely adequate water and sewer systems, if such systems
exist at all. For example, less than one percent of Texas colonias are  served by
wastewater treatment systems.  Most waste water from colonias goes into closed-end
ditches, pits, or outhouses. Groundwater contamination is therefore more likely to
occur than surface water contamination, except under high rainfall  conditions.
When high rainfall conditions occur, contaminated  waste water is likely to affect the
water quality downstream of the effluent.

      Air quality in the border area is affected by agricultural activities and use of
pesticides and fertilizers, urban traffic congestion, toxic pollutants emitted from
small industries along both sides of the border, and open burning of solid wastes,
primarily on the Mexican side of the border.  In addition, many people heat their
homes with wood- or refuse-burning stoves that emit toxic air pollutants.

      It is difficult to quantify the extent to which these different sources of
pollution are contributing  to exposure of the residents along the border, since the
existing monitoring is inadequate for this purpose  (ref.: U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologia, Integrated
Environmental Plan for the Mexican-U.S. Border Area {First Stage, 1992-1994]). In
the Environmental Plan for the  Mexican-U.S.  Border Area, the need for increased
understanding of the environment was identified.  One of the major objectives of
the first stage of the Environmental Plan (1992-1994) is to gain environmental
information, including quality of environmental resources, such as airsheds and
ground water, and the amount, concentrations, and sources of pollution in the area.

Purpose of Task 7:  The goal of the task is to provide a regional environmental
information system capable of addressing targeted issues related to what has been
and is currently being done to characterize the exposure of the people living within
the Mexican-U.S. border region, and the extent to which people are being exposed,
the most significant routes of exposure, the sources of exposure, and the
relationship of these exposures to health risks. Communities need, and have a right
to know, that information, because it is the basis for informed judgments on the
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   Figure 7. PERT chart for development of Regional Environmental Information System.
   Numbers upper right = duration (months).
   Task 7:  Inventory and integration of available information in the
   Mexican-U.S. border area (September 1993 Implementation)

   Background: The border area between Mexico and the United States is defined as
   the zone within 100 km on either side of the political boundary of each country.  It
   stretches nearly 3200 km, or about 2000 miles, between the Gulf of Mexico and the
   Pacific Ocean.  More than 9.5 million people live in the border area, however over
   95% of these people live in fourteen pairs of sister cities (Tijuana/San Diego,
   Mexicali/Calexico, San Luis Rio Color ado/Yuma, Nogales/Nogales, Agua
   Prieta/Douglas, Naco/Naco, Las Palomas/Columbus, Ciudad Juarez/El Paso,
   Ojinaga/Presidio, Ciudad Acuna/Del Rio, Piedras Negras/Eagle Pass, Nuevo
   Laredo/Laredo, Reynosa/McAllen, and Matamoros/Brownsville).

         Even though the  border area is divided into different political units,
   including two countries, six Mexican states, and four U.S. states, it is—from many
   perspectives, including  the environmental—an undivided area. It will require an
   integrated and coordinated approach to protect its future environmental quality and
  ^its future quality  of life. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
   states that one of its  main purposes is  to promote economic development and trade
   expansion in a manner consistent with environmental protection  and
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      Definition of the data integration demonstration consists of defining the
information requirements, what data sets will be integrated, and how they will be
integrated. This demonstration project will be defined in conjunction with the
selection process of prototype network members with guidance from an EPA User
Working Group.

Data  Development

      Data development entails the activities of categorization of data for data
retrieval; data conditioning, putting the data into usable formats; and integration of
data and development of integration products. This work will be done in
conjunction with the development of a Regional Environmental Information
System,

Development of  Regional Environmental Information  System

      Development of this system will allow users to utilize data archived at other
network locations for specific applications. The development process includes
system functional definition in response to EPA regional and local needs;
architecture and operational definition; system design; system development; test,
verification and installation; and demonstration.  This  development will build
upon available  Environmental Information Systems such as CIESIN's Saginaw
Valley Watershed Regional Prototype.

      All regions will not be developed concurrently.  The Great Lakes region will
be used as a regional prototype, where most development activity will occur in FY
1993. The Chesapeake Bay and the Mexican-U.S. Border region development will be
initiated in FY 1993 with greater emphasis given to Chesapeake Bay.  In FY 1994 the
Great Lakes region will be expanded, tested, and refined; the Chesapeake Bay and the
Mexican-U.S. regions will be prototyped; and network development in two
additional regions will be implemented.  In FY 1995 continued expansion, testing
and refinement will be made of the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay and Mexican-U.S.
Border regions, the regions initiated in FY 1995 will be prototyped, and additional
regional development will be initiated. This, as all development, will be guided by
EPA User Working Groups. As systems for data access and integration are
developed for the Great Lakes and subsequent regions, they will be installed in other
regions where relevant.
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development, (f) data integration demonstration definition, (g) data development,
and (h) development of the regional distributed data application system (Figure 7).
A brief discussion of these activities is as follows:

Survey of Regional Data Sets

      A survey will be performed of non-EPA data sets of regional and local
significance. (EPA data sets will have been surveyed in Task 1.) Information
obtained from this survey will (a) provide input to regional directory development,
(b) help establish the scope  of the regional network, and (c) provide input to the
definition of the regional distributed data application-specific archive system and
data integration demonstration.

Documentation  of Survey

      Results of the survey will be entered into a "tracking" database. This database
will be designed to facilitate the development of directory entries.

Development  of Prototype  Network  Organizations

      Regional data holders will be prioritized as potential regional network
members with guidance from EPA User Working Groups.  Once identified as
relevant,  contact will be established, and details of network membership will be
worked out.

Regional Directory System  Prototype Engineering and Architecture

      This involves the definition of the regional network operations, and defining
the architecture of the system.  This engineering work will precede actual
development of the Regional Directory System Prototype.

Prototype  Development

      Development activity includes establishing network connectivity; developing
directory entries, including  the establishment of a controlled  vocabulary, and the
writing of directory entries; installation and demonstration of the distributed
directory prototype between the region's central node and a member node;
investigation of level 0 inventory access potential; development of a file transfer
system for level 0 inventory access; installation and demonstration of level 0
inventory access with file transfer from the region's central node to a member node;
the investigation of level 3 inventory access potential; development of level 3
system compatibility; installation and  demonstration of level 3 inventory access
between the region's central node and a system at a member node; and training for
the installed systems.

Data  Integration Demonstration Definition
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Tasks 4 -10: Regional Environmental Information Systems

Overview:  This task proposes the development of regional, computer-based
environmental information systems.  These systems will offer a regional network
for data sharing and application-specific archives and functions on a regional and
local basis.  They will be connected to the national-level EPA Directory and Data
Access System, as well as EOSDIS, SEDAC, and the QESIN's Information
Cooperative.

      CIESIN will establish a Users Working Group to provide advice on
prioritization of data and services to help ensure that investment into data access is
driven by a broad spectrum of science and policy needs—both EPA and non-EPA
alike. The Users Working Group will include representatives from both the Federal
and non-Federal scientific, engineering, and policy communities.  A goal of the
Working Group will be to encourage the identification, assembly, documentation,
and preservation of environmental data, and to help enable EPA to present to the
scientific and policy communities an integrated, comprehensive view of the
Agency's collective holdings, supporting policies and services to users.

      The Regional  Environmental Information Systems will be developed on a
regional basis and will consist of networks of data holders, EPA and non-EPA alike,
that maintain data archives  pertinent to EPA regional and local concerns.  These
data archives will be networked in a directory and information access system
architecture similar to the national-level EPA system that will be prototyped in Task
2. Directory as well  as inventory access functions will be available. An EPA regional
program office will serve as a central node for the regional  network, providing its
members connectivity to the national-level EPA system along with its extended
network. This relationship is presented in Figure 5 (page 25).

      Within each region, an application-specific distributed data archive and
information system will be defined and developed. These systems will provide
access to application-specific archives distributed within each region. In this
concept, individual data holders develop and maintain their own data archives.

      The ultimate  functionality of the regional environmental information
systems will be driven by regional and local EPA information requirements, and
subject to data availability.  They potentially could present users a directory of
available data and information, a means of access to that data, tools for data
manipulation and analysis,  and the capability to display the resultant information.
Geographical or spatial context will be maintained for analysis and display by the
incorporation of Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities.

      A common development model will be used in the prototyping of all
regional systems.  This model incorporates (a) survey of regional data sets, (b)
documentation of the survey, (c) development of regional  network organizations,
(d) directory system prototype engineering and architecture design, (e) prototype
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           INTEGRATION AND USE OF INFORMATION
                      REGARDING THE
      HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
          An Unsolicited Cooperative Agreement Proposal To:


          THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                Grants Operations Branch (PM-216F)
                  Grants Administration Division
                        401 M Street, SW
                      Washington, DC 20460
                         Submitted By:
                           CIESIN

                CONSORTIUM FOR INTERNATIONAL
              EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION NETWORK
         PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ROBERTA BALSTAD MILLER
                        2250 Pierce Road
               University Center, Michigan 48710 USA
                    Phone:   (517) 797-2700
                    FAX:     (517) 797-2622
                          March 1993
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                                                                       Attachment 17
                                       Consortium for International Earth Science
                                       Information Network (CIESEN)
                                       Excerpt from draft work plan:
                                       •Integration and Use of Information Regarding the
                                        Human Dimensions of Environmental Change1
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COUNTY. 1982-1989

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SCCNTFIC BY COUNTY. 1982-1989

ANNUAL AVERAGE COVERED WAGES: MFG.. TRANSPORTATION
EQUIPMENT BY COUNTY. 1982-1989

ANNUAL AVERAGE COVERED WAGES: RETAIL TRADE. EATMG ft
DRMKMG BY COUNTY. 1982-1989

ANNUAL AVERAGE COVERED WAGES: SERVICES. LODGING BY
COUNTY. 1982-1989

AVERAGE WAGE & SALARY EARNMGS BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU
1989

BUSMESS ESTABLISHMENT PAYROLL BY COUNTY. 1983 THRU
1989

PER CAPITA MCOME BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1989

PERSONAL MCOME BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1989

NUMBER OF BUSMESS ESTABLISHMENTS BY COUNTY. 1983
THRU 1989

NUMBER OF BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS WITH 1-4 EMPLOYEES
BY COUNTY. 1983 THRU 1989

NUMBER OF BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS WITH GREATER THAN
50 EMPLOYEES BY COUNTY. 1987 THRU 1989

NUMBER OF BUSMESS ESTABLISHMENTS WITH LESS THAN 50
EMPLOYEES BY COUNTY. 1983 THRU 1989

POPULATION ESTIMATES BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1986

FARM RECEIPTS:  ALL COMMODITIES BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU
1989

GROSS RECEIPTS BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: AGRICULTURE BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 199V

GROSS RECEIPTS: CONSTRUCTION  BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU
1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: FMANCE.  MSURANCE ft REAL ESTATE  BY
COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: GOVERNMENT BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: MANUFACTURING BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU
1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: MMMG BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: RETAIL TRADE BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

GROSS RECEIPTS: SERVICES BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991
               GROSS  RECEIPTS:  TRANSPORTATION. COMMUNICATION ft
               UTILITIES BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1991

               GROSS RECEIPTS: WHOLESALE TRADE BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU
               1991

               FOOD  ASSISTANCE: AVERAGE  MONTHLY REdPCNTS BY
               COUNTY. FY8S-89 THRU FY89-90

               MEDICAL ASSISTANCE: AVERAGE MONTHLY RECIPCNTS BY
               COUNTY. FY85-M THRU FY 89-90

               B9VTH RATES BY COUNTY. 1982 THRU 1990

               DEATH RATES BY COUNTY. 1982  THRU 1990
                                                       Resource Geographic Information System. December 1992
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                     Universtiy of New Mexico
                     Technology Application Center
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                     List of RGIS Clearinghouse Coverages
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                         Technology Application Center
                         Resource Geographic Information System Clearinghouse
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                             MEMORANDUM



         TO:      John Peterson - GIS Coordinator

      FROM: £jQ_--Richard G. Chavez - Community Planner

      DATE:      February 1, 1993

  SUBJECT:      Present Activities in southern New Mexico
Through the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) I  am currently working
with five communities in southern New Mexico.

The communities in question are Truth or Consequences, Garfield, SaJem, Lordsburg,.
and Hanover.

T or C and Lordsburg are the only incorporated communities that I am assisting.  My
assistance with  these two  communities consist of inventorying their  water and
wastewater facilities for current and future facility needs, technical assistance will also
include identifying federal and state funding sources, and a review of the user rates in
order to asses user contributions for any loans that might need to be secured.

The technical assistance for Garfield and Hanover will be quite similar in that we will be
identifying current and future needs of their water system, funding  sources,  and user
rate reviews.

My work with Salem will involve trying to identify water and wastewater needs, services
and facilities in addition to a more broad perspective of community development, which
would  include community organization for the purpose of identifying and prioritizing
community facility needs.

Another major project will involve  the coordination  of  a workshop on  "Alternative
Wastewater Treatments for Small Systems'.  This workshop will involve approximately
six communities which mostly likely will be colonies.- Material will also be provided in
Spanish for the participants.

At this point in time, these are the only project I have going in southern New Mexico.
    P«g«180

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   eligibility  rules,  application  procedures,  deadlines,  and  other
   requirements.
         The   Aceouia   Sourcebook is available  at  no charge to the
   community  ditch associations of New Mexico  as long as  copies  on
   inventory continue to last.  Reprints at a nominal cost can  always  be
   arranged after  the  initial  supply is exhausted.   In addition,  the
   sourcebook  can  be shared with  larger  audiences  such  as  at
   workshops  organized by  local,  regional  and statewide  acequia
   organizations.  For  assistance in this regard or for more information
   about the  sourcebook, please write  to: Jose A. Rivera,   Southwest
   Hispanic  Research  Institute,  University of  New Mexico-,  87131.   If
   you  prefer to call by telephone, the  number in Albuquerque is  277-
   2965.
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                                 PREFACE

           The  Acequia   Sourcebook  was  made  possible  by the
      Infrastructure' Development  Assistance Program  at  the  New Mexico
      Engineering  Research  Institute,  University  of New  Mexico.   The
      purpose  of  the  sourcebook   is  to  assist the  community  ditch
      associations of  New  Mexico  locate  sources of funding, technical
      assistance and  information   regarding  infrastructure  problems,
      water resources  management,  and  conservation  planning.   The
      sections in the sourcebook  were designed in a manner  which allows
      the  associations to  add,   update or  delete information  as the
      assistance programs and their requirements change year to year.
           The  sourcebook contains information  on the various  federal,
      state,  and regional  assistance  programs available to New  Mexico's
      acequia  associations.   Major and widely known sources as  well as
      dozens of related, and  perhaps underutilized, sources  were included.
      The  descriptive  information  regarding  each of the  sources  was
      derived  from  agency  materials such  as annual  reports,  pamphets,
      program  annoucements,  application  kits, project plans  and  other
      public  information  documents.   Where  necessary,  telephone or
      personal  interviews  were  conducted  to  amplify   the  printed
      materials or to clarify  specific points.
           Care was taken to  make the sourcebook entries as  accurate and
      updated as possible through  the  summer of 1990.   In  all cases,
      however, the users  of the sourcebook should contact  the  designated
      office  or  agency  for  more information,  especially   regarding
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   Federal  and State Cooperative Programs                      11-4
         Cooperative  Extension  Service                         II -4
         Agricultural  Experiment  Stations                      II-6
         Resource Conservation  and Development Areas          II-7

   State  and Regional Programs-                               II-9
         Office of the State Engineer                           II-9
         Soil  and Water Conservation Districts                  11-10
         New Mexico State University                          11-12
         Water Resources  Research  Institute                    H-13
         University of New Mexico                             11-14
         Acequias  Organizations                               11-16
   ACEQUIA BIBLIOGRAPHY                                  III-l

         Articles                                             III-l
         Books and Monographs                                 II1-2
         Reports and Manuals                                  Hi-3
         Miscellaneous                                        III-4
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                         CONTENTS



 Preface                                                    i

 Introduction                                              ill



 SECTION ONE:  FUNDING PROGRAMS

 ASCS Agricultural  Conservation Program                     1-1

 State  Engineer Grants-ln-Aid                                1-4

 Interstate Stream  Commission                              1-6
       Irrigation Works  Construction  Fund                    1-6
       Regional Water Planning Grants                       1-7
       Water Research,  Conservation and Development Fund     1-9

 Army Corps of Engineers Acequia Restoration  and Rehabilitation
 Program                                                  1-12

 DFA  State Programs                                       1-17
       Community Assistance and CDBG  Programs              1-17
       Acequia and Community Ditch Fund                     1-18

 USDA-Related Programs                                    1-20
       Soil and Water Loans                                 1-20
       Association Loans for  Irrigation and  Drainage           1-21
       Small Watershed Projects/Watershed Loans            1-22

 NMSU Water Resources Research  Institute                    1-24
 SECTION TWO: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION
                SOURCES

 Federal Agencies                                          ii-l
       United States Geological Survey                       H-l
       Soil Conservation Service                             11-2
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                            Written and Compiled For:

                   Infrastructure Development Assistance Program
                    New Mexico Engineering Research Institute
                            University of New Mexico
                                       By:
                               Jose A. Rivera, Ph.D.
                    Associate Professor of Public Administration
                   Director, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute
                                 September 1990
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              Through presentations with the Municipal League and increased referrals,
              cooperation, and coordination with the NM Environment Department, we
              have begun to do more work with smaller incorporated communities by
              proving specific assistance in the area of inventory and prioritizing
              enterprise systems physical infrastructure  needs, also conducting water and
              wastewater rate analysis in1 addition to suggesting improved management
              accountability structures for these municipalities. We have worked with
              are in the process of working with the following incorporated communities
              in the area of water or wastewater.
                              /•
                    Belen                   Jemez Springs
                    Bernallillo               Lordsburg
                    Chama                  Truth or Consequences-
                    Hatch                   Wfflard
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                                     Specific Goals

               Assist with implementation of state solid waste plan
                   •-,
               Assist with source reduction and recycling regulations

               Assist with development of solid waste districts

               Continue :         Tri-County Regional landfill assistance
                                  SNMEDD general planning and recycling assistance
                                  Lincoln/Otero County regional landfill

               Make landfill costs, recycling and regional transportation, analysis model
               available for use by local governments

               Permit calls from priority listing begin September 1993. Many local
               governments will require assistance in regulatory permits, RFP, and
               contracting negotiations.

               Conduct a one day workshop for approximately six small communities on
               the Safe Drinking Water Act Regulations and impact  A component of
               that workshop will consist of financial management and long term
               planning  for the physical facilities of the systems.

               Conduct a one day workshop in southern New Mexico on alternative waste
               water systems for small communities  and improved onsite management of <
               septic systems.  Approximately six colonias will be targeted for this  •
               workshop. The information provided will include Spanish translations.

               Target one designated colonia for special assistance. The special
               assistance may require some community development activities such as
               identifying and prioritising primary infrastructure needs of the community.
               This may involve a great deal of liaison activities between the community
               and various government entities,

               Complete Guide Book for management of small water systems.

               Continue assistance to small incorporated communities in the area of
               enterprise fund  management  It is our experience that the fragmented
               decision making process in small municipalities tends to inhibit sound
               management practices, both financial, and operational.
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                                    PLANS FOR FY 93-94

                                   Overall Program Objectives



            •     Improve maintenance and management techniques
                    >
                        through working with additional communities and small water and '
                        wastewater systems


            •     Improve capital investment planning and funding

                        through expansion  of direct community assistance for enterprise
                        fund management

                        through expansion  of assistance to municipalities and counties by
                        workshops and development of additional training materials and
                        analysis tools


            •     Improve regulatory response

                        through expansion  of assistance to communities and counties in
                        development of regional authorities for solid waste management


            •     Support appropriate technology development and transfer

                        through newsletter  and appropriate workshops


            •     Encourage better community development strategies

                        through continued work with  COG's and LCD, and development of
                        additional workshops
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                        PLANS FOR REMAINDER OF FY 92-93
               Provide assistance to additional communities in the review of
               their current and future capital improvements, needs, user
               rate charges and schedules, and potential funding sources

                           Garfield                 Lordsburg
                           Hanover                 Tecolotito
                           Jemez Springs            Truth or Consequences
               Provide assistance to communities which are potential
               violators with their wastewater treatment facilities

                           Bernalillo                Hatch
               Presentation to the Government Finance Officers
               Association and Clerk/Treasurers Association sponsored by
               the New Mexico Municipal League in December on how to
               calculate wastewater rates and overall financial management
               of enterprise fund operations
               Conduct Wastewater Treatment Alternatives workshop for
               six colonias which have been designated communities
         •     Provide on-going assistance to the Tri-County Regional Solid
               Waste Authority.  GO bonds were recently issued for a
               regional landfill.
         •     Continue work with Local Government Division on training
               local government officials in capital improvements
               programming.  Refine and redistribute "Cost Estimating
               Guide for Capital Improvements Projects"
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       Technical assistance is being provided to Eight Northern
       Indian Pueblos to help define job responsibilities for an
       environmental specialist to be located in each pueblo.
       Assistance is also being provided in the training that will be
       necessary and development of a job career series
 Capital Investment Planning and Funding
       Conducted three GIF workshops for municipalities and counties.  103
       attendees from 130 local governments.
       Assistance was provided to COG's and individual
       communities for preparation of CD? to support DFA/Local
       Government Division programs
       A "Cost Estimating Guide for Capital Improvements
       Projects"  to support Local Government Division program
       was developed and distributed. The guide gives approximate
       construction costs for various capital improvements projects.
      Assistance is being provided to Taos County in the
      development of a county master plan
Additional Related Projects
      Received grant from W. K. Kellogg Foundation to develop
      the Western Infrastructure Leadership Institute in a joint
      venture with Arizona State University.  This is an executive
      development program to build regional infrastructure
      management capability.

      Received grant from US EPA to develop training materials
      for Public-Private Partnerships for environmental facilities.
      Training for local government officials will be conducted in
      EPA Region VI in mid 1993.
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        Enterprise Fund Management
              Work with the Rural Community Assistance Corporation has
              been on-going for three years.  Assistance in the review of
              current and future capital improvements, needs, user rate
              charges and schedules, and potential funding sources has
              been provided to:

                           Berino                        Tecolitito
                           Chama                        Vado
                           Pie Town
              Assistance has been given to small incorporated communities
              that have been identified by the Municipal Water Pollution
              Prevention Coordinator, MM Environment Department, as
              potential or current compliance violators with their
              wastewater treatment facility:

                           Chama                  Truth or Consequences
                           Lordsburg               Willard
              A one-day workshop in conjunction with RCAC on financial
              management and the Safe Drinking Water Act; communities
              attending:

                           Chacon                  Springer
                           Holman                 Tecolote
                           La Loma                Tecolotito
                           Mosquero                Watrous
                           Roy
        A.    Developed "Guidebook for Management for Small Water ^
              Systems" which provides information on how to start up and *
              maintain small water systems from incorporation to setting,
              rates »
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         Infrastructure  Development Assistance Program

 The Infrastructure Development Assistance Program (IDAP) has provided training and
 technical assistance to communities throughout the state for nearly five years. Our work
 concentrates on helping small communities build local capacity to better meet their
 needs to plan, develop, operate and maintain their infrastructure facilities. Most activity
 involves assistance in capital improvement planning (GIF), enterprise fund management
 and solid waste management

 The IDAP accomplishments and plans for this year and next are summarized in the  .
 following sections.
                    1992 - 1993 ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE


       Solid Waste Planning

       •    Assisted Pecos on landfill closure plan

       •    Assisted Encino on landfill closure plan

       •    Tri-County Regional Solid Waste Authority (Torrance County, southern
             Santa Fe County and eastern Bernallilo County)
                   Conducted preliminary landfill site assessment

       •    Southeast NM Economic Development District
                   Economic analysis of landfill sites; prepared recycling plan; assisted
                   with RFP for solid waste consultant and proposal evaluation

       •    Lincoln/Otero County
                   Prepared market feasibility study; landfill cost analysis;  preliminary
                   site analysis and selection

       •    Taos and North Central Region
                   Prepared landfill feasibility study and cost analysis

       •    NM Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department
                   Statewide recycling economic development study

       •    Participated in Governor's Conference on the Environment and USDA
             Cooperative Extension Solid Waste Conference
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                    NEW MEXICO
      INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
             ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
                    The University of New Mexico
                New Mexico Engineering Research Institute
                      1001 University Blvd. SE
                   Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
\
                Program Director — Norman D. Falk, P.E.
                        (505)272-7340 ..
                        January 1993
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                                         Attachment 14
          Universtiy of New Mexico
          Engineering Research Institute (NMERI)
          •New Mexico Infrastructure Development Assistance
          Program.1 January 1993.
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         CONTACT AGENCY:
               CIS MANAGER
               TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
               UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
               ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87131
               PHONE:(505)277-3622
               FAX:{505)277-3614
                                                                     R**oorc« Geographic Information Sy*t*m
                                                                                     AOBOCOB 3-92
                                                  D-10
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ATTRIBUTE TYPE:   ARC/POLY              ITEM NAME:        COUNTYLN
INPUT WIDTH:      1                     OUTPUT WIDTH:     1
TYPE:            I                      DECIMALS:
ALTERNATE NAME:
DESCRIPTION:      NEW MEXICO COUNTY BOUNDARY ONLY; NO STATE OUTLINE
CONTENT:         COUNTYLN • 1; ALLOWS USER TO SELECT THE NM COUNTY BOUNDARY


ATTRIBUTE TYPE:   POLY                  ITEM NAME:        COUNTY NAME
INPUT WIDTH:      10                    OUTPUT WIDTH:     10
TYPE:            C                     DECIMALS:
ALTERNATE NAME:
DESCRIPTION:      NEW MEXICO COUNTY NAMES
CONTENT:         ALLOWS USER TO SELECT INDIVIDUAL OR ALL COUNTY NAMES FOR NEW MEXICC
PART III:   Data Quality


DATA LAYER SUMMARY:
      DATA LAYER:      NEW MEXICO COUNTY BOUNDARY
      FEATURE TYPE:     ARC


DATA FORMAT:
      SOFTWARE:       ARC/INFO 5.01
      PROJECTION:      LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC
   .   UNITS:            METERS          DATUM:     NAD 27
        0

DATA ACCURACY TOLERANCES:
      FEATURE ACCURACY:      AS ACCURATE AS SOURCE DATA
      POSITIONAL ACCURACY:              ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY:
      RMS: .004 -50.79 METERS


DATA DEVELOPMENT AUTOMATION:
      AUTOMATION PROCESS:   MANUALLY DIGITIZED
      DEVICE:                 CALCOMP 9000 SERIES
      TECHNICIAN:             MILTON OSPINA
      AUTOMATION DATE:       12/25/90
      QUALITY CONTROL:       CHECK PLOT OVERLAYED WITH ORIGINAL;  NO ERRORS WERE
                            DETECTED
      UPDATE SCHEDULE:       NONE
   •   LAST UPDATE:


COMMENTS:
                                                      R««oure« Geographic Infomwtion Syrtwn
                                                                     AOBOCOB 3-92
                                     D-9
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                              COVERAGE DOCUMENTATION


             The purpose of this documentation is to thoroughly describe the coverage being
             named,  information  is provided on the source graphic, as well as what
             processing the data has undergone to create the coverage.
       COVERAGE ID:          AOBOCOB
       DATA CATEGORY:      BOUNDARY
       PART I:    Source Graphic Lineage Report
       TITLE:      STATE OF NEW MEXICO                          DATE:
       AUTHOR:    US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                               ORIGINAL:   1967
       SOURCE:    US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                               REVISION:   1985


       COORDINATE SYSTEM:     LAT/LONG. UTM. STATE PLANE. TRS      SCALE:      1:500.000
       PROJECTION: LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC                      DATUM:     NAD 27
       BASE MAP:  USGS STATE BASE                              MEDIA:      MYLAR
       GEOGRAPHIC LEVEL: STATE


       USE:  GENERAL REFERENCE FOR STATE OF NEW MEXICO
       COMMENTS:
       RESTRICTIONS:


       COLLECTED BY:     TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
       PHONE:           (505)277-3622
       PART (I:    Data Dictionary
       ATTRIBUTE TYPE:    ARC/POLY              ITEM NAME:        STATE
       INPUT WIDTH:      1                      OUTPUT WIDTH:    1
       TYPE:             |                      DECIMALS:
       ALTERNATE NAME:
       DESCRIPTION:      NEW MEXICO STATE BOUNDARY
       CONTENT:         STATE - 1; ALLOWS USER TO SELECT THE NM STATE BOUNDARY
                                                             Rctoure* Geographic Infonrntion Sydwn
                                                                            AOBOCOB 3-92
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      PROJECTION:       LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC
      UNITS:            METERS                DATUM:     NAD 27


DATA ACCURACY TOLERANCES:
      FEATURE ACCURACY:     AS ACCURATE AS THE MULTIPLE SOURCES THE DATA WERE COMF
                            (LED FROM
      POSITIONAL ACCURACY:                    ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY:
      RMS:


DATA DEVELOPMENT AUTOMATION:
      AUTOMATION PROCESS:   KEY ENTRY
      DEVICE:                TEKTRONICS 4200 SERIES
      TECHNICIAN:             SARAH FRUIT AND ERLE WRIGHT
      AUTOMATION DATE:      01/28/91
      QUALITY CONTROL:       CHECK PLOT OVERLAYED WITH USGS STATE OF NEW MEXICO BASl
                            AND EACH COORDINATE-CHECKED AGAINST SOURCE DATA
      UPDATE SCHEDULE:       NONE
      LAST UPDATE:


COMMENTS:


CONTACT AGENCY:
      GIS MANAGER
      TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
      UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
      ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87131
      PHONE:(505)277-3622
      FAX:(505)277-36U
                                                      RMOUTM Geographic Information Syctwn
                                                                      GR.OCN! 3-92
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      RESTRICTIONS:
      COLLECTED BY:
      PHONE:
TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
(505)277-3622
      PART II:    Data Dictionary
      ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
      INPUT WIDTH:
      TYPE:
      ALTERNATE NAME:
      DESCRIPTION:

      CONTENT:
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ITEM NAME:
OUTPUT WIDTH:
DECIMALS:
POP 90
9  "
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS NUMERICAL POPULATION COUNT FOR THE 99 INCORPO-
RATED PLACES IN NEW MEXICO
EXAMPLE: SILVER CITY - 10.683; ALLOWS USER TO SELECT THE INCORPORATED
PLACE AND DISPLAY THE 1990 POPULATION
      ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
      INPUT WIDTH:
      TYPE:
      ALTERNATE NAME:
      DESCRIPTION:

      CONTENT:
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ITEM NAME:        CODE
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POPULATED PLACES
CODE - 1: POPULATED PLACES BASED ON GNIS BUT NOT RECOGNIZED BY
CENSUS BUREAU; CODE - 2: GNIS DUPLICATES ON THE GNIS COUNT; CODE - 3:
DECENNIAL CENSUS RECOGNIZED PLACES
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      DATA LAYER SUMMARY:
           DATA LAYER:
           FEATURE TYPE:
      POPULATED PLACES
      POINT
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           SOFTWARE:
      ARC/INFO 5.01
                                                             R«*ourc* Geographic Information Sy*t*m
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                                            D-6
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                                 COVERAGE DOCUMENTATION
               The purpose of this documentation is to thoroughly describe the coverage being
               named.   Information is provided on the  source  graphic,  as well as what
               processing the data has undergone to create the coverage.
         COVERAGE ID:
         DATA CATEGORY:
            GFLOGNI
            POPULATED PLACES
         PART I:    Source Graphic Lineage Report
         Source
         TITLE:

         AUTHOR:
         SOURCE:
 GEOGRAPHIC NAMES INFORMATION SYSTEM (GNIS)
 NEW MEXICO. ALPHABETICAL LISTING
 US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
 US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
-DATE:
      ORIGINAL-
      REVISION:
1980
         COORDINATE SYSTEM:
         PROJECTION:
         BASE MAP:
         GEOGRAPHIC LEVEL: STATE
            LAT/LONG
 SCALE:
 DATUM:
 MEDIA:
                                                         NAD 27
                                                         TABULAR
         USE:  REFERENCE FOR ALL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES IN NEW MEXICO
         COMMENTS: THIS SOURCE IS GNIS PHASE I
         RESTRICTIONS:
         COLLECTED BY:
         PHONE:
      TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
      (505)277-3622
         Source
         TITLE:
         AUTHOR:
         SOURCE:
'NM POPULATION TOTALS BY CITY. 1990
US CENSUS BUREAU
US CENSUS BUREAU
         COORDINATE SYSTEM:     N/A
         PROJECTION:            N/A
         BASE MAP:              N/A
         GEOGRAPHIC LEVEL: STATE

         USE:
         COMMENTS:
DATE:
      ORIGINAL'
      REVISION:
1991
                                              SCALE:
                                              DATUM:
                                              MEDIA:
            N/A
            N/A
            TABULAR
                                                                Rmourc* Geographic Information Syitwn
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         CONTACT AGENCY:
               CIS MANAGER
               TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
               UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
               ALBUQUERQUE. NM 87131
               PHONE:(S05J277-3622
               FAX:(50S)277-3614
                                                                    Rnoure* Geographic Information Syctwn
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ATTRIBUTE TYPE:   ARC                          REDEFINED ITEM NAME:    ACT UNIT
INPUT WIDTH:      1                            OUTPUT WIDTH:          1   ~
TYPE:            I                             DECIMALS:
ALTERNATE NAME:
DESCRIPTION:      ARCS WHICH DEFINE THE ACCOUNTING UNIT BOUNDARY LINES
CONTENT:         EXAMPLE: ACT UNIT - 1 ALLOWS USER TO SELECT THE ACCOUNTING UNI
                 BOUNDARIES. "


ATTRIBUTE TYPE:   ARC                          REDEFINED ITEM NAME:    CAT UNIT
INPUT WIDTH:      1                            OUTPUT WIDTH:          1
TYPE:                                         DECIMALS:
ALTERNATE NAME:
DESCRIPTION:      ARCS WHICH DEFINE THE CATALOGING UNIT BOUNDARY LINES
CONTENT:         EXAMPLE: CAT UNIT - 1 ALLOWS USER TO SELECT THE CATALOGING UNI
                 BOUNDARYLINES
PART Hi:   Data Quality


DATA LAYER SUMMARY:
      DATA LAYER:       BOUNDARY
      FEATURE TYPE:     POLY


DATA FORMAT:
      SOFTWARE:        ARC/INFO 5.01
      PROJECTION:       LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC
      UNITS:             METERS                      DATUM:     NAD 27


DATA ACCURACY TOLERANCES:
      FEATURE ACCURACY:      AS ACCURATE AS SOURCE DATA
      POSITIONAL ACCURACY:                          ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY:
      RMS: .004« 50 METERS  .


DATA DEVELOPMENT AUTOMATION:
      AUTOMATION PROCESS:   MANUALLY DIGITIZED
      DEVICE:                 CALCOMP 9000 SERIES
      TECHNICIAN:             SARAH FRUIT/ERLE WRIGHT
      AUTOMATION DATE:       05/30/91
      QUALITY CONTROL:       CHECK PLOT - OVERLAYED WITH ORIGINAL; NO ERRORS WERE
                            DETECTED
      UPDATE SCHEDULE:NONE
      LAST UPDATE:


COMMENTS:
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        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:

        CONTENT:
POLY
2
I
REDEFINED ITEM NAME:     REG
OUTPUT WIDTH:           2
DECIMALS:
2-DIGIT REGIONAL CODE FOR HYDROLOGIC UNITS USED BY THE US WATEi
RESOURCE COUNCIL
FIRST 2-DIGITS OF HYDRO CODE
        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:

        CONTENT:
POLY.
2
I
REDEFINED ITEM NAME:     SUBREG
OUTPUT WIDTH:           2
DECIMALS:
2-DIGIT SUBREGIONAL CODE FRO HUDROLOGIC UNITS  USED BY US WATEF
RESOURCES COUNCIL
THIRD AND FOURTH DIGITS OF HYDRO CODE
        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:

        CONTENT:
POLY
2
I
REDEFINDED ITEM NAME:    ACT UNIT
OUTPUT WIDTH:           2
DECIMALS:
2-DIGIT ACCOUNTING UNIT CODE FOR HYDROLOGIC UNITS USED BY USGS FOR
NATIONAL WATER DATA NETWORK
FIFTH AND SIXTH DIGITS OF HYDRO CODE
        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:

        CONTENT:
POLY
2
I
REDEFINED ITEM NAME:    CAT UNIT
OUTPUT WIDTH:          2   "
DECIMALS:
2-DIGIT CATALOGING UNIT CODE FOR HYDROLOGIC UNITS UTILIZED BY USGS FOR
INDEXING
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH DIGITS OF HYDRO CODE
        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:

        CONTENT:
ARC
1
I
REDEFINED ITEM NAME:    REG
OUTPUT WIDTH:          1
DECIMALS:
ARCS WHICH DEFINE THE REGIONAL CODE BOUNDARIES FOR THE HYDROLOGIC
UNITS
EXAMPLE: REG - 1 ALLOWS USER TO RESLECT THE REGIONAL BOUNDARIES
        ATTRIBUTE TYPE:
        INPUT WIDTH:
        TYPE:
        ALTERNATE NAME:
        DESCRIPTION:
        CONTENT:
ARC
1
I
REDEFINED ITEM NAME:    SUBREG
OUTPUT WIDTH:          1
DECIMALS:
ARCS WHICH DEFINE THE SUBREGIONAL BOUNDARY
EXAMPLE: SUBREG -  1  ALLOWS USER TO RESELECT THE SUBREGIONAL
BOUNDARIES
                                                               Resource Geo0r«phie Information Syvtem
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                       COVERAGE DOCUMENTATION
      The purpose of this documentation is to thoroughly describe the coverage being
      named.  Information is provided on the source graphic, as well as what
      processing the data has undergone to create the coverage.
COVERAGE ID:         AOBOHUM
DATA CATEGORY:     ADMINISTRATIVE/OWNERSHIP
PART I:    Source Graphic Lineage Report                             •


TITLE:      HYDROLOGIC UNIT MAP-1974. STATE OF NEW MEXICO  DATE:
AUTHOR:    US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                               ORIGINAL:    1967
SOURCE:    US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                               REVISION:    1974


COORDINATE SYSTEM:     LAT/LONG, TRS                     SCALE:     1:500.000
PROJECTION: LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC                     DATUM:     NAD 27
BASE MAP:   USGS STATE BASE MAP                          MEDIA:     MYLAR
GEOGRAPHIC LEVEL:  STATE


USE:       SHOWS HYDROGRAPHIC UNITS AND HYDROGRAPHY USED BY USGS
COMMENTS:  SHOWS HYDROLOGIC UNITS AND ACCOMPANYING HYDROGRAPHY USED BY USGS FOR
           CATALOGING AND WATER ACCOUNTING
RESTRICTIONS:


COLLECTED BY:      TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CENTER
PHONE:           (505)277-3622
PART II:    Data Dictionary


ATTRIBUTE TYPE:   POLY                        ITEM NAME:        HYDRO COOT
INPUT WIDTH:      8                           OUTPUT WIDTH:     8
TYPE:            I                           DECIMALS:
ALTERNATE NAME:
DESCRIPTION:      8-DIGIT HYDROLOGIC UNIT CODE USED BY THE USGS FOR CATALOGING AND
                INDEXING
CONTENT:
                                                     Resource Geographic Information Synwn
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                                          APPENDIX D





                                  COVERAGE DOCUMENTATION
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                            River Basins
         .N,
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              Regional Water Planning Areas
        .N
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                           Hydrologic Units
                                 Page C-2
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                        County Boundries
         .N
                                PageC-1
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                                        APPENDIX C





                                      CIS COVERAGES
                                          13
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                                           COE Report
                                                        County: RIOARRD3A  022
                                                        District Code: SWAS001
                                                    CORPS OF ENGINEERS ALBQ DIST
Community  : ABIQUIU           0004
Basin      : RIO GRANDE        07
Agency     : CESWA  Study Type : WCML  Sponsor
Date Tntt**t>** :       Date CVrrrplftPd: 02/01/92
Origional Cost: $100,000   O & M Cost: $0    Jan. 1992 : $130.000
Annual Project Benefits: $1000 Benefit Cost Ratio: 12
Number of reports for mis site: 1

Report Title : ABIQUIU DAM AND RESERVOIR OPERATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WATER
          CONTROL MANUAL TITLED ABIQUIU DAM AND RESERVOIR, RIO CHAMA,NEW
          MEXICO, APPENDIX A TO RIO GRANDE BASIN MASTER REGULATION MANUAL
          (FEBRUARY 1982).

Project    : EARTHFILL STRUCTURE FOR FLOOD AND SEDIMENT CONTROL WITH SPF LEVEL OF
          PROTECTION. PROJECT IS AUTHORIZED TO STORE 200,000 AF OF SAN
          JUAN-CHAMA DIVERSION WATER. MAJOR WATER USERS INCLUDE CITY OF
          ALBUQUERQUE & RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DISTRICT.

Study Area  : ABIQUIU DAM IS LOCATED ON THE RIO CHAMA NEAR THE TOWN OF ABIQUIU, NM,
          ABOUT 32 MILES UPSTREAM FROM THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RIO CHAMA AND
          THE RIO GRANDE THE RESERVOIR HAS A DRAINAGE AREA OF APPROXIMATELY
          2146 SQ.ML

awnarta   : AUTHORIZED BY FLOOD CONTROL ACTS OF 1948 AND 1950. REPORTS INCLUDE
          ABIQUIU RESERVOIR REALLOCATTON-RIO CHAMA STUDY SUMMARY A
          APPENDICES A, B, C (1981) AND ABIQUIU RESERVOIR, DM NO. 19, INITIAL
          RESERVOIR FILLING PLAN/FLOOD EMERGENCY FLAN (OCTOBER 1983).

Jtatus     : DAM COMPLETED IN 1963.  REC FACUJnES COMPLETED IN 1981. REPORTED FLOOD
          CONTROL BENEFITS COMPUTED FOR 1991 & CUMULATIVE BENEFITS AMOUNT TO
          $230,209,100 TO DATE. B:C RATIO FROM 1960 HOUSE DOCUMENT & THE O&M IS
          AVERAGE ANNUAL SINCE PROJECT COMPLETION.

                        Time / Date Enter
                                   Sample COE Report

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                Community
                County
                Basin
        FEMA Report

        FORT SUMMER
        DE BACA
        PECOS
Code :0165
Code : 007
Code : 06
                NHP Status: R      NFIP Map: I
                NHPDate  : 02-04-81
                Number of NFIP & WYO Policies : 0
                NFEP Coverage : $0  WYO Coverage : $0
                Number of Claims Made : 0
                Amount of NFIP Claims Paid : $0
                District Code : SWAF025
                Number of reports for this site : 1
                Time / Date Entered : 16:55:48 12-23-91
                            Sample EEMA Report

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                     COE/FEMA Summary Report
                Community Code
                Community
                District
                County Code
                County
                Basin Code
                Basin
                COE Study
                FEMA Study
0366
RIO GRANDE
                     Select Type of Report:
                         Sample Summary Rep
                              PageB-l
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                                               APPENDIX B





                                            SAMPLE REPORTS
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                                             REFERENCES
           1.   COE, Albuquerque District, "New Mexico Statewide Inventory of Flood Protection Needs,"
                   Final Report to the Interstate Stream Commission, January, 1992
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                                     SECTION IV
                      CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
A.    CONCLUSIONS

       All six of the stated objectives were completed as pan of die development of the FPI CIS
application. With the successful completion of this project it is clear that CIS is well suited to this
application of access to bibliographic information. CIS databases like the FPI, when convened to
a CIS application, hold tremendous potential uses for water resource and other natural resource
managers.                                             —   -                  »

B.    RECOMMENDATIONS

       After initial use and evaluation of the FPI CIS application, as has been summarized here,
additional enhancements which might be added to it include the following:

       1. Add explanation text as found in report
       2. Provide a mechanism to capture and print the contents of a selected window session to a
          standard postscript printer
       3. Add base themes for enhanced geographic reference Le., Rivers and Roads
       4. Breakout Real Property from non-infrastructure producing studies in COE reports
       5. Prepare and /or include Soil Conservation Service 11 digit code watersheds and
          incorporate into reporting breakdown.
       After having successfully completed die conversion of the FPI into a user friendly CIS
based information access system it is dear that its utility could confidently be expanded to include
many other valuable databases. These might include:
       1. Interstate Stream Commission's Water Use and Ground Water Report Database  ---
       2. USGS Reports
       3. Soil Conservation Service Snow Pack and Infrastructure Reports
       4. Water Resource Research Institute (WRRI) Reports
       5. Bureau of Reclamation Reports

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                              TABLE 1. LIST OF USER OPTIONS (CONCLUDED).
               Menu Option               Description/Purpose
                            Summary                 Pick a community and display it's summary
                                                     repon, optionally display me associated COE
                                                     or FEMA report

                     Counties                  Activate die drop down menu to designate die
                                               Counties                               *
                            COE Studies Only          Shade die counties widi COE Studies
                            FEMA Studies Only        Shade die counties with FEMA Studies
                            Study Sites                Shade all counties with either study
                            Report                   Pick a county and display it's associated COE
                                                     or FEMA repon
                     River Basins               Activate die drop down menu to designate die River
                                               Basins
                            Study Sites                Shade die river basins with COE Studies
                            Report                   Pick a river .basin and display it's associated
                                                     COE or FEMA report
               Return                   Return to die main menu
               Zoom                    Zoom on an area by picking two diagonal boundary points
                                        and redraw all currently requested features
               Reset                    Reset the graphic display area to the entire state and redraw
                                        ail currently requested features
               Clear .                   Clear die graphic display and unselect all features
               Quit                      Exit the CIS application and return to ARC/INPO
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                                  TABLE 1. LIST OF USER OPTIONS
               Menu Option
      Description/Purpose
               Hydrologic Units
               River Basins
                     Brazos-Red
                     Gila
                     Little Colorado
                     Mimbres
                     Pecos
                     Rio Grande
                     San Juan
                     Tularosa
                     AD
                     Basin Names
               Counties
                     Borders
                     Names
               Water Planning Areas
                     Borders
                     Names
               Study Sites
                     Communities
                           COE Studies Only

                           FEMA Studies Only

                           Both Studies

                           All Study Sites
      Draw the Hydrologic Unit boundaries
      Activate the drop down menu to draw the River Basins
             Draw the Brazos-Red river basin
             Draw the Canadian river basin
             Draw the Gila river basin
             Draw the Little Colorado river basin        *
             Draw the Mimbres river basin
             Draw die Pecos river basin
             Draw the Rio Grande river basin
             Draw the San Juan river basin
             Draw the Tularosa river basin
             Draw all the river basin boundaries
             Plot the river basin names
      Activate die drop down menu to draw the Counties
            Draw the county boundaries
            Plot die county boundary names
      Activate die drop down menu for die Water Planning Areas
            Draw the Regional Water Planning Area borders
            Plot the Regional Water Planning Area names
      Activate the menu to designate the Study Sites
            Activate the drop down menu to designate die
            Communities
                   Plot locations of communities with COE
                   Studies
                   Plot locations of communities with FEMA
                   Studies
                   Plot locations of communities widi COE and
                  FEMA Studies
                . •
                  Plot locations of all communities with either
                  study
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                                              SECTION m
                                           USER INTERFACE
         A.     DESCRIPTION

                The user interface for this application is a menu driven combination of graphic and text
         windows displayed simultaneously on the user terminal The user interacts with the menus and
         display windows through the use of a mouse activated cursor. Menu selection or study site
         designation is achieved by "pointing and clicking" on the particular selection. To select an area for
         zooming, the user points and clicks on two diagonal points bounflingThe area of interest  *

         B.     MENU OPTIONS

                User options may be used in any order or combination and for either die entire state or for
         any portion of the state, that is: any zoomed area. Table 1 list specifies and describes the user
         options.
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       The USGS GNIS required some modification to accommodate the use of some "unofficial"
 names in the original FPI data and to correct some deficiencies in the current GNIS (locating
 communities not found in the GNIS).

       The Hydrologic Unit coverage required some enhancement to allow aggregation of the
 hydrologic units into the major river basins. The aggregated hydrologic units were then used to
 generate a river basin coverage.

       The County Boundary coverage was used as it was received
                                                                              i
       As was mentioned, the Statewide Regional Water Planning Areas coverage, was obtained
 from the Interstate Steam Commission in an AutoCAD® format. This coverage was convened into
 a DXF format using an internal AutoCAD0 function and men convened into ARC/INFO0
 coverages using ARC/INFO® utilities. Two data layers were extracted and convened: the planning
 area boundaries and their names.

       Appendix C contains hard copy maps of the Regional Water Planning Areas coverage, die
 Counties Boundaries coverage, the River Basin coverage, and the River Basin Coverage.

 C.    RELATE TABLES

       The last significant data preparation task was the generation of a data table which allowed
 the CIS to relate the spatial data to die attribute data.  This so called "relate table" defines the six
 data table relationships required for geolinking. This relate table is an original data set developed
 for this application.

D.     SUMMARY                                                              '• •

      The attribute data was geolinked via the relate tables to die spatial data. Prom this linkage
the ability to spatially access the original FPI data through a CIS application was developed as the
user interface.


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                                             SECTION n
                                     DATABASE PREPARATION
               The CIS database for this task incorporated two primary data types, first, the attribute data,
         comprised of die study rite summaries and reports residing in the FPI database on a personal
         computer, and second, the spatial data, comprised of ARC/INFO0 coverages available for use on a
         UNIX based workstation.  The development and implementation platform chosen for mis
         application was ARC/INFO0 CIS software running on a DEC Station 5000/200 workstation.
         This imposed a requirement for all data to be suitable for this environment Appendix A contains
         the program and menu script listing developed during this task.                       •

         A.    ATTRIBUTE DATA

               The first data type, the attribute data, consisted of three data sets, the communities data set,
         also called the summary data set, (FLOCOMMDBF), die Army COEs Site Study data set,
         (FLOSSWA.DBF), and the FEMA Site Study data set, (FLOFSWADBF). At the onset of this
         task, these three data sets were contained in a dBaselll Plus® database in the internal database
         format. These data sets were extracted from the dBaselll Plus0 environment in an ASCII format
         using internal dBasein Plus® functions, and transmitted via Local Area Network to the
         workstation. Once in the workstation environment, the data was conditioned for insertion into the
         CIS database management system: INFO0. Three data structures designed to accommodate the
         FPI data were then implemented in the CIS and the data was imported into these data structures
         through the use of ARC/INFO® utilities.  This now made the FPI data accessible in a CIS
         environment. Appendix B contains sample reports which are available within the-FPI CIS
         application.

         B.    SPATIAL DATA

               The second data type, the spatial ^«**. consisted of three ARC/INFO® coverages available
         in die public domain: die USGS GNIS, die Hydrologic Unit thematic coverage, and die County
         Boundary coverage. Also, one convened AutoCAD0 coverage of water planning areas widi
         associated names, provided by die Interstate Steam Commission, was incorporated. All mapped
         coverages used were available at a scale of 1:500,000 and covered die geographic extent of New
         Mexico (Appendix Q. For more detailed documentation on each of diese coverages see Appendix
         D.
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          spatial referencing mechanism to water resource based bibliographic references brings a new
          paradigm to collective information access not previously seen in New Mexico. Hopefully this new
          approach to information retrieval will serve as a foundation for other water resource related
          databases which reside within the state.

          C.     OBJECTIVES

                 The primary objective of the FPI CIS task described herein was to convert the existing
          non-CIS based FPI into a CIS based tool for use in spatially querying and analyzing the flood
          protection data currently available in New Mexico. The following achieved this conversion:

                 I.    The original data sets contained in the FPI were used to avoid the cost of
          regenerating the data.

                 2.    The FPI data sets were restructured, as required, to be suitable for use in a CIS.

                 3.    Public domain CIS data sets were acquired for use in spatially locating the FPI
          study sites.

                4.    The FPI data sets were geographically linked with the CIS data sets to allow GIS
          manipulation of UK FPI data.

                5.,.    Designed and implemented a GIS application to allow spatial query and analysis of
          the FPI data.

                6.     Retained, wherever possible, the current functionality of the original FPI data.

          D.    APPROACH

                The approach taken to  develop the FPI GIS application involved a direct determination of
          cunentcapabiUties and then a projection of the enhancements possible in a GIS. First, the current
          FPI functionality and data contents were evaluated using an in-house copy of the FPL Second, an
          assessment was made of the added functionality and capabilities possible in a GIS implementation
          of mis type of database. Third, a determination was made of the steps needed to develop and
          implement the GIS with it's related software, daffffrct data structures, and data layers. Finally, a
          definition of the development schedule and sequence was developed.
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        accurate mapping of these study sites and areas. Having this comprehensive spatial and tabular
        database pertaining to statewide flood protection studies will contribute significantly to many of the
        United States Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) Water Rights Program manager's decision making
        needs as well as other water resource managers in New Mexico.

        B.     BACKGROUND

               The FPI database was originally requested by die Interstate Stream Commission from the
        CESWA for incorporation into a revised state water plan. As mentioned earlier, this agreement
        was established as pan of the PAS Program, which was established by Congress to enable states
        to use COEs planning expertise in the preparation of comprehensive plans for the development,
        utilization, and conservation of the water and related land resources of drainage basins located
        within the boundaries of a state.  At the request of the Albuquerque District COEs Planning
        Department through the efforts of the USFWS, die New Mexico Engineering Research Institute
        (NMERI) was commissioned to convert die FPI database to a menu driven CIS based report query
        application.

               As taken from  Reference 1 :

                     "The database consists of Study Data reports and FEMA Data reports. The
               Study Data report includes pertinent data from completed COEs planning studies
               conducted for communities, counties, or river basins that identify flooding
               problems and solutions. The FEMA Data report consists of National Flood
               Insurance Program (NFTP) information for communities in New Mexico.

                     A computer program tided Planning Assistance to States (PAS) was
              developed in Fort Worth Texas District for die Texas Statewide Inventory of Flood
              Protection Needs compiled by die Fort Worth District in partnership widi die Texas
              Water Development  Board. The program was developed on die miciucutuputer to
              assist in die compilation of die inventory data. The PAS System is written in
              dBaseTH Plus9 and is * full feature, menu driven, user friendly, database
                 nageuKju system.
              The FPI contains useful information for communities, regional agencies, civil defense
        (emergency response) agencies, and water resource managers. Because of its orientation to
        kxational reference (die reports of various sites and areas distributed dnoughout New Mexico) die
        FPI lends itself well to die display and query capabilities which CIS software utilities offer. This
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                                       SECTION I
                                    INTRODUCTION
 A.    INTRODUCTION

       Recently, the Corps of Engineers Southwest Division, Albuquerque District (CESWA)
 completed and delivered the first compilation of the New Mexico Statewide Inventory of Flood
 Protection Needs, in report and database format, (hereinafter to be referred to as "the Flood
 Protection Inventory" (FPI)) to the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission as part of the
 Planning Assistance to States (PAS) Program (Reference 1). Established by the Water Resources
 Development Act of 1974, the PAS Program provides a mechanism for the Corps of Engineers
 (COE) to provide assistance to states for situations that are unique, such as preparing
 comprehensive state water plans.

       The FPI currently resides in a personal computer based Relational Database Management
 System (ROMS), dBaseHI® Plus, and contains flood control study and project report references
 which have been conducted throughout New Mexico since 1974. This includes Federal
 Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA), flood insurance studies and a variety of Corp of.
 Engineers Flood Protection Study Data Reports. In its current dBaseffl0 Plus format the
 inventory is an extremely useful reporting tool; however, it does not have the capability to display
 and query the locations of each project in a mapped spatial format  The inventory currently does
 have the spatial references: community names, county names, and river basin names, which can
 serve as links from the FPI data to a spatially referenced Geographic Information System (CIS)
 based application.

       This task documented herein applied the process of geographically linking the original data
 sets to a spatial reference, making the original data sets suitable for use in a CIS. Geographic   -
 linking or "geolinking", as referred to here, is the process of relating a data set with a "soft" spatial
reference (Le. community name) to a data set with a "hard" spatial reference (Le. latitude,
longitude). The link is through the use of data elements common to both data sets and database
techniques known as relational operations. This technique combined the data elements from both
data sets to locate and describe a place of interest In mis case the community, county, and river
basin names found in the FPI database were used to geolink to the digital United States Geological
Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), the County Boundary, and
aggregated Hydrologic Unit GIS coverages respectively for New Mexico. This allowed the
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                                  LIST OF TABLES





Table                                                                         Page




   1.    LIST OF USER OPTIONS	'.	7
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                        TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section                                                       Page

   I.   INTRODUCTION	_	1

       A.  INTRODUCTION	.7	1
       B.  BACKGROUND..-:	^	2
       C.  OBJECTIVES	„	3
       D.  APPROACH	3

  II.   DATABASE PREPARATION	4

       A.  ATTRIBUTE DATA	4
       B.  SPATIALDATA	T.	4
       C.  RELATE TABLES	5
       D.  SUMMARY	5

 III.   USER INTERFACE	6

       A.  DESCRIPTION	6
       B.  MENU OPTIONS	6

 IV.   CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS	1.....9

       A.  CONCLUSIONS	9
       B.  RECOMMENDATIONS	9

       REFERENCES	1	10
                                                            ?•
       APPENDIX

       A.  PROGRAM AND MENU SCRIPT LISTINGS	11
       B.  SAMPLE REPORTS	12
       C.  GIS COVERAGES	13
       D.  COVERAGE DOCUMENTATION	14
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  NMERIOC 92/33
  THE FLOOD PROTECTION INVENTORY:
  GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION
  John L. Peterson, Ted A. Moore, and Glenn M. Olson

  NEW MEXICO ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  The University of New Mexico
  Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1376
  May 1992

  FINAL REPORT
  Prepared for

  United States Department of the Interior
  Fish and Wildlife Service
  Region 2 Water Rights Program Manager
  P.O. Box 1036
  Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103
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                                                                    Attachment 13
                                      Universtiy of New Mexico
                                      Engineering Research Institute (NMERI)
                                     The Flood Protection Inventory Needs Geographic
                                     Information System Application1 Peterson, J; Moore,
                                     T; and G. Olson. May 1992.       *"
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Planned Additions to  The NM Water Resource Information System for 1993

       As was the original intent of the Rood Protection Needs Inventory GIS application,
another major contributor's holdings will be brought into the system in 1993. The Soil
Conservation Service's Albuquerque office will be contributing four record types to the WRIS in
FY93.  These^will include Snowpack-reports, Soil Survey Report(s) status, Resource and
Conservation Development Projects, and Basin Reports.
       In addition to added record types, NMERI will add menu hooks for future inclusion of the
USGS's Ground Water Site Inventory, EPA River Reach-3 file coverages, EPA's Toxic Chemical
Release Inventory, and when it is completed, the Soil Conservation Service's 11 digit Sub-Basin
Watershed coverage, to the application.. Other relevant coverages may be added as requested.
NMERI will reconstruct the WRIS application to fully take advantage of Arc/Info 6.1 thread and
cursor functions for enhanced user interface performance.
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NMERI Infrastructure Development Assistance Program (IDAP) Activities

       The Infrastructure Development Assistance Program (IDAP) was created in 1988 to
address infrastructure problems in New Mexico (see enclosed program description). The program
is administered by NMERI and by legislative appropriation. The purpose of the IDAP is to
strengthen local infrastructure management capabilities through a statewide program of technical
assistance, training, and technical development The program is intended to mobilize appropriate
public and private resources to make additional professional assistance available to towns,
counties, and other public bodies with infrastructure management responsibilities. IDAP programs
are coordinated by a broad-based Infrastructure Council composed of representatives from public
and private sector organizations.
       Currently as a pan of the IDAP program's activities, NMERI is actively working with
several communities in New Mexico, many in southern New Mexico, to assist with water and
wastewater planning. I have enclosed a memorandum from our community planner summarizing
our most current IDAP activities in the southern part of the state. Although not currently linked to
our WRIS GIS application, reports and other helpful information may be associated to their
respective community locations by use of the USGS Geographic Names Information System
(GNIS) or by editing in known locations, i.e., colonias locations captured by GPS measurements
or satellite imagery.
       Another useful IDAP produced reference to parties interested in development of GIS in the
border area is the Acequia Sourcebook. Please find enclosed a brief overview of THE ACEQUIA
SOURCEBOOK FOR your information (copies arc available upon request).
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       NMERI personnel inventoried and produced, the first existing catalog of digital data known
to reside in the state of New Mexico as part of the RGIS Program.
       NMERI continues the on-going development of a CIS based multi-agency system which
effectively shares water related data bases and promotes water related data exchange between state
and federal agencies within New Mexico.
       NMERI personnel were instrumental in developing the current set of CIS standards and
guidelines for New Mexico.
NMERI GIS and Related  Water Resource Holdings and Activities:

The Flood  Protection Inventory Needs Geographic  Information System (GIS)
Application  (tentatively planned to be referred to as the New Mexico Water
Resource Information System (NM WRIS)  in 1993 as it is expanded)

       Enclosed as an attachment is a final report presented to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
and sponsored by the Corp of Engineers (COE) and New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission,
entitled THE FLOOD PROTECTION INVENTORY NEEDS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEM APPLICATION. Work performed in the development of this GIS application will
eventually be incorporated into New Mexico's State Water Plan.
       This report summarizes a GIS application for accessing all flood protection related COE
Reports compiled for projects between 1974 and 1992 and Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) reports for all reports on record, by spatially indexed GIS query functions.
Within this Arc/Info based application a user can query COE or FEMA reports prepared at three
levels of geography; community, county, or by river basin. GIS coverages used for this
application include: New Mexico County Boundaries and Names, USGS Geographic Names
Information System (GNIS) used to locate communities, the USGS 8-digit code Hydrologic Unit
boundaries, River Basin boundaries and their names, and Regional Water Planning district
boundaries and their respective names.
       The database contains useful information for communities, regional agencies, civil defense
(emergency response) agencies, and water resource managers.., Because of its orientation to
locational reference (the reports of various sites and areas distributed throughout New Mexico) the
Flood Protection Inventory lends itself well to the display and query capabilities which GIS
software utilities offer. This spatial referencing mechanism to water resource based bibliographic
references brings a new paradigm to collective information access not previously seen in New
Mexico. Hopefully this new approach to information retrieval will serve as a foundation for other
water resource related databases which reside within the state.
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   CIS AND DIRECTLY RELATED WATER RESOURCE HOLDINGS OF THE
    NEW  MEXICO ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NMERI) FOR
                           SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO
Introduction/Background

      The New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) is a branch of the University of
New Mexico's College of Engineering. NMERI conducts engineering and scientific research,
development, testing, and evaluation. Technical Assistance and expert services are also essential
NMERI tasks performed in support of the University's three-part mission: education, research,
and public service.
      With over 25 years of research experience, NMERI serves the needs of clients from the
public and private sectors and enjoys an international reputation in many specialized areas.

NMERI  GIS Capabilities

      The New Mexico Engineering Research Institute has complete in-house capabilities to
develop data intensive GIS applications. We currently utilize the New Mexico state standard for
GIS software, Arc/Info version 6.1. We also have on site, two Digital Equipment Corporation
(DEC), 5000 series Unix/RISC work-stations and a variety of other data processing and
networking systems. Our staff includes a practicing geographer, engineers, and senior software
developers with specific expertise in the design and development of GIS based data systems and
other data intensive information systems. Additionally, NMERI has ongoing cooperative
agreements with other University of New Mexico entities which augment and round-out our data
development and networking capabilities.

NMERI  Relevant GIS Experience

      NMERI has specific relevant experience in the development of GIS based data systems.
We have developed GIS applications for clients which include the United States Department of
Agriculture, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, the City of Albuquerque, NM, the New Mexico
Economic Development Department, the United States Army, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS), and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
      NMERI has administered, since 1987, the Resource Geographic Information System
(RGIS) Program, a statewide GIS initiative established by the New Mexico State Legislature.
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                                         Attachment 12
          Universtiy of New Mexico
          Engineering  Research Institute (NMERI)
          •GIS and Directly Related Water Resource Holdings of
          the New Mexico Engineering Research institute for
          Southern New Mexico*
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     high, moderate or low aquifer vulnerability. The criteria for
     delineating  the  zones  are based  on  water quality  (total
     dissolved  solids)  and depth  to water values.   (Dave Logan,
     personal communication,  February 1990.)
                            REFERENCES
1.   Gallaher, Bruce M., Dennis M. McQuillan, Liza D. Chavez, Harry
     F. Hull and Millicent Eidson.   1987.  Ground-Water Quality and
     Public  Health,  Albuquerque South Valley.   NM Environmental
     Improvement Division.   Santa Fe.   240 p.

2.   Keller,  Natalie S.  and Bruce  M.  Gallaher.    1987.   Ground-
     Water Quality in the Albuquerque  South Valley, Albuquerque,
     New  Mexico:     Raw  Data  and   Statistical  Summary.    NM
     Environmental Improvement Division.   Santa Fe.

3.   Perkins, Betty  L.  and Maxine S. Goad.  1980.   Water Quality
     Data for Discharges  from New Mexico  Uranium Mines and Mills.
     NM Environmental Improvement Division. Santa Fe.  87 p.
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   Surface Water Bureau

        Surface water quality.  The  Surface  Water Bureau maintains
        several  databases  related to  surface water  quality.   As
        surface water quality can  affect ground water quality, data
        from these  sources  can be  of use to ground water protection
        and investigations.             *

   1.   NPDES Facts Database.    Glenn  Saums    827-2827
        Information about NM NPDES permit holders.

   2. - Water Body System.  "Susan Hill    .827-2792      *"
        An EPA-written database on lake and stream use-attainability
        status.  It is associated with  the EPA's Reach File 3, which
        provides visual geographic information.


   Underground Storage Tank Bureau*

   1.   Registered tanks.  Nancy Gutierrez 827-0199
        The Bureau  maintains  a database of  registered underground
        storage tanks (USTs)   using  Oracle  software on  NMED's Data
        General Minicomputer.  Information collected about each tank
        includes location, tank status,  age of tank and material and
        quantity stored.  The tank registration form,  and therefore
        the database, is being  updated to contain  additional data
        concerning release detection, spill and overfill protection,
        certificate   of   compliance,   installation   and  corrosion
        protection   information.      (Nancy   Gutierrez,   personal
        communication, December 1990.)

   2.   Contamination case priority ranking.  Anna Richards    827-
        0079.
        The Bureau  maintains  a contamination  case  priority ranking
        database on an IBM PC  using dBASE III+  software.  Information
        about the location, type of  contaminant,  depth to water and
        other factors are used to determine a priority rank for each
        leaking UST  case.   (Marcy Leavitt,  personal communication,
        December 1990.)

   3.   Case remediation status.  Anna Richards 827-0079.
        The Bureau maintains a leaking underground storage tank  (LUST)
        remediation  database  using Oracle  software on  NMED's Data
        General minicomputer.    This  database  contains  information
        about the location of LUSTs,  contamination and the remedial
        status.   (Marcy Leavitt,  personal communication,  December
        1990.)

   4.   Aquifer vulnerability naps.  Anna Richards   827-0079.
        In  1989,  the  Bureau  had a  consultant   (Lee  Wilson  and
        Associates)  develop a  set  of  aquifer  vulnerability maps for
        the entire State.  The maps divide each county into zones of
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3.   RICRIS.  Anna Walker     827-4300

4.   Biennial Report System.  Anna Walker    827-4300

5.   Small Quantity Generator.  Stephanie Stoddard     827-4300


Solid Waste Bureau _

1.   Landfills.  Dave Duran 827-2950                  _ '
   " The Bureau maintains' a registered landfill database  on an IBM
     PC  using  dBASE  III+  software.   This   database  contains
     information  about landfills  (both closed and  active)  that
     handle domestic and commercial waste.  More records  are being
     added to this database as the new solid waste regulations  call
     for registration of industrial landfills as well. Information
     in this database includes location, type of landfill,  surface
     drainage, soil type,  depth to water,  age of landfill, wells
     in proximity, nearby water courses and types of waste in the
     landfill.  There are plans to transfer this database  to Oracle
     software on NMED's Data General minicomputer.   (Randy Gabriel,
     personal communication, December 1990.)

2.   PCBs, asbestos,  recycling.   The Bureau has plans to  develop
     a polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) database that would contain
     information about  facility inspections as well as complaints
     of spills or  other violations   The same type of database is
     planned for asbestos information.  The Bureau also would  like
     to develop a database for recycling information and activities
     in New  Mexico.   Another  planned database would be used to
     store  information  related  to  household hazardous   waste.
     (Chuck Hules and Barbara Hoditschek, personal communication,
     February 1990.)

3.   Landfill Biting 6IS project.  In 1989, the solid waste program
     executed  a demonstration  project  using  GIS  technology  for
     identifying potential landfill sites in the Albuguergue-Belen
     Basin and  vicinity.  This project  was  performed jointly by
     NMED, the U.  S.  Geological Survey, Water Resources Division
     in Albuquerque  and the University  of  New Mexico/New  Mexico
     Engineering Research Institute  (NMERI).

4.   Permit Tracking.    John French    827-2866.

5.   Facility Type. George Beaumont     827-2780.

6.   Management Plan.    Carrie Strahan 827-2865.

7.   Annual Report. Carrie Strahan 827-2865.
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     personal communication, February  1990.)

13.  Natural  resource damages inventory.   Dennis McQuillan  827-
     2831.
     The  Remediation  Section maintains  a  database  of  natural
     resource damages in Mew Mexico due  to hazardous materials.
     The  database contains information about contaminated ground
     water, soil, surface water, air,  flora,  fauna, the food chain
     and  human  exposure.   Information about the location,  source
     of  contamination  and type  of  contaminant  is maintained.
     (Dennis McQuillan, personal communication, December 1990.)

14.  Biannual report  on hazardous waste.  Jim Mullany  827-0212.
     The  Bureau has entered the 1987 Biannual Report on  Hazardous
     Waste  onto the Focus database on an  IBM  PC.    This  database
     contains information  about large quantity generators of  RCRA
     waste.   Information tracked includes  location of  facility,
     type  of   waste  and  amount,  as  well  as   information  on
     transporters of  waste and management of waste o'n site.   (Jim
     Mullany, personal communication, December 1990.)


Hazardous and Radioactive Materials Bureau

1.   Hazardous  waste  facilities.  Herbert Grover 827-4300 & Bruce
     Swanton 827-4300
     The Hazardous Waste Program tracks enforcement and permitting
     information  for  facilities   engaged  in  hazardous  waste
     activities in Mew  Mexico.   This information, as  well  as
     information about site location, owner/operator and types  of
     hazardous  waste  managed  is  maintained  in  the  U.   S.
     Environmental Protection Agency's  (EPA's) Hazardous Waste  Data
     Management System  (HWDMS) on EPA's mainframe  computer system
     in North Carolina.   (EPA is in the process of  changing  over
     to a database called RCRIS which tracks the same information.)
     There are about 15 sites that treat, store or dispose of large
     quantities of  hazardous  waste in Mew Mexico, and about 100
     facilities that generate  or  transport large quantities  of
     waste.  The Program has also developed a limited database  on
     small quantity generators of hazardous waste within the State.
     This  database  is  stored  using  dBASE  IH+  software  on  a
     personal computer  and contains information on  approximately
     1400  facilities.   (Boyd Hamilton,  personal   communication,
     December 1990.)

2.   HIPP shipments.  The Radioactive Waste Section has  access  to
     the  U. S.  Department of Energy's  (DOE's)  TRANSCOM  database
     which  tracks  the  status  of  WIPP  (Waste  Isolation Pilot
     Project)  shipments.  Information maintained in this  database
     includes location,  type  of material,  quantity, time  shipped
     and  emergency response  measures.   (Bobby Lopez,   personal
     communication, December 1990.)
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          docket  system  using  Oracle  software  on NMED's  Data
          General minicomputer.   The case docket system tracks the
          status  of  all  ground  water contamination cases being
          handled by the Section.

8.   Water Fairs.  Barb Giesler    827-2732
     The Technical Services Section has collected a large amount
     of data  from their Water Fair program.   Water samples from
     private wells are  tested for pHf conductivity, temperature,
     organic vapor, nitrate and iron.  Further tests  for manganese,
     sulfate and sulfides are  performed if deemed  necessary.  Some
     of these  data have  been entered into one of  two databases
     using dBASE III+ software on an IBM PC.   The  rest of the data
     reside in hardcopy files.

9.   Albuquerque  South  Valley  study.  A cooperative  agreement
     between  the U.  S.  Geological  Survey  (USGS)  and NMED was
     entered into for the computer analysis of water quality data
     from the  Albuquerque South Valley that  was  collected for a
     special study conducted  during the mid-1980s.   USGS's PRIME
     minicomputer and the U. S.  Environmental Protection Agency's
     (EPA1 s)  IBM  mainframe  computer were   used  for  the  data
     analysis.  The results are  available in two NMED publications
     (1 and 2).   The  data  are  stored on  EPA' s  IBM  mainframe
     computer in North Carolina.  They may also be available from
     USGS Water Resources Division in Albuquerque.

1O.  Uranium mines and mills study.  In 1980 a report was prepared
     presenting data obtained from effluent  samples collected by
     NMED during 1977 -  1979 at  all New Mexico uranium mines known
     to be undergoing dewatering and at all operating uranium mills
     (3).

11.  STORET.  EPA & USGS
     The U.  S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) STORET
     water quality database contains some ground water quality data
     for New  Mexico.   Very little of NMED's  ground  water data,
     however,  are  stored on this system.   The ground water data
     collected for the Grants Mineral Belt Study done by NMED are
     stored on STORET.   The U. S.  Geological Survey's ground water
     quality data  are periodically transferred from the Survey's
     National database to STORET.

formerly databases of the Toxic Sites Bureau:

12.  Superfund sites.  Randy Merker     827-0078
     The  Superfund Section  tracks  information  about  potential
     Superfund sites in New Mexico.  EPA maintains a Comprehensive
     Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information
     System  (CERCLIS)  database that holds information  on these
     sites.  Information stored  in this database includes location
     and the status of investigations at the  sites.  (Steve Gary,
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      system allows NMED to identify those dischargers failing  to
      adhere to reporting requirement guidelines and thus  results
      in  better  compliance  with State  ground  water protection
      regulations.    Ground  water quality  monitoring data  from
      discharge plan facilities is largely stored in hardcopy files.
      (John  Parker, personal  communication, December  1990.)

3.    Underground Injection Control Program.  Ernie Rebuck 827-2945
      The Underground Injection Control Program in the Ground Water
      Section maintains a database of underground injection  sources
      on  an  IBM  PS/2 using  dBASE III+  software.   The  database
      contains  information about the locations of these  injection
      sources,  types  of  sources,  waste  stream  characteristics,
      injection intervals and geologic formation  characteristics.
      Most of these sources are  class 5 "wells"  (including  various
      types   of  disposal  wells,  miscellaneous  wells  and other
      facilities  such as septic  tank  leach fields not ordinarily
      thought of as "wells").   (John Parker, personal communication,
      December  1990.)

4.    Septic systems.  Delbert Bell      827-2788
      The Liquid  Waste Section maintains information on  permitted
      and  registered  domestic  septic  systems.   These  data are
      computerized  and are maintained in  each of the  four  NMED
      District  Offices, rather than at the Central Office.  Data  on
      system type,  location,  depth to water and lot size are  some
      of  the  parameters  collected.     (Pat  Hanson,  personal
      communication, December 1990.)

5.    Ground water contamination incidents.  Natalie Keller 827-
      2912
      The Technical Services Section maintains a database  of ground
      water  contamination incidents  on an IBM PC using dBASE  III+
      software.   There are well over 1500 documented ground water
      contamination sites  involving over 140 public wells and  over
      1300 private  wells  in  New Mexico.    Information  about  each
      incident  includes location,  source of contamination,  type  of
      contaminant and the  status of cleanup activity.

6.    Unauthorized discharges.   Bill Bartels   827-2981
      The  Technical  Services Section  maintains  an  unauthorized
      discharge  and  complaint  database  on  NMED's  Data  General
      minicomputer  using Oracle  software.   This  database  allows
      staff  to  track  the types  of incidents  reported,  their
      potential to contaminate ground water and the status of their
      compliance  with  the  New  Mexico  Water  Quality   Control
      Commission  regulations.   Among information  entered  is the
      location, contaminants and actions taken on an incident.  This
      information was formerly kept in hard copy files.

n/a:  7.   Ground water contamination cases.  The Technical Services
          Section also maintains a ground water contamination  case
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                GROUND HATER QUALITY DATA SOURCES
                              at the
                    HM ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT
                    Prepared by Natalie Keller
                      and Michael Gallagher
                  Evaluation & Planning Section
                   Surface Water Quality Bureau

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The NM Environment Department  (NMED) has a number of ground water
related databases and files.  These data sets contain information
about  ground  water quality,  as  well  as  known  and  potential
contamination  sources.   The  following is  a list  of  these  data
sources by program.


Ground Hater Protection and Remediation Bureau

1.   Public water supplies.  Richard Asbury   524-6300
     The Drinking Water Section has computerized its public water
     supply  data management  system.   The  Public  Water System
     Inventory  stored  in dBASE  IV contains information  on  each
     system,  including  all   drinking  water  quality   results.
     Numerous reports can be generated by the computer system,  such
     as information on sampling schedules  and contaminant level
     violations.  The above information is currently being entered
     into  an IBM  PS/2 microcomputer  in NMED's  Central  Office.
     There are plans to transfer this database to Oracle  software
     on  NMED's  Data  General minicomputer.    (Richard  Asbury,
     personal communication, December 1990.)

     Information  dealing  with   microbiological  and  turbidity
     reporting  statewide is  stored on an IBM  PC  in the  NMED Las
     Cruces   District   Office.      (Richard  Asbury,    personal
     communication, December 1990.)

2.   Discharge plans.  Chuck Thomas     827-0652
     The Ground Water Section maintains a discharge plan  database
     on an IBM  PS/2 using  dBASE  III+ software.  This database is
     in the  process of  being transferred to  Oracle software on
     NMED's Data General minicomputer.  The Discharge Plan  Tracking
     System allows for the storing, cataloging, cross-referencing
     and   retrieving  of  data   pertinent  to   discharge   plan
     administration and compliance tracking information.   Location
     information  along with  facility  type, means  of discharge,
     monitoring  requirements  and  compliance  are tracked.    The
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  programs,  when  not   restricted  by  administrative   or   legal
  requirements, and that all data bases comply with the mrTiimrmi set
  of data elements for ground water.

  Outputs:_

  a.   A summary of the minutes, of the meetings will be submitted to
       the EPA 25 days following the end of each quartet,  (Stategic
       activity 5.)

  4.   Ground Water Media Users Training -

  Ground water staff in various NMED programs addressing ground water
  will be trained in the use of the Divisional software and hardware
  systems.  Training will be focused on promoting interaction between
  programs.  Staff working with programs that encounter interactions
  between  surface  and ground water will also  be  eligible for this
  training.   This  effort"will not duplicate training efforts which
  may be included in other Federal grants. Expenditures for supplies
  and/or contracts and/or other will be with forwarded funds from fy-
  92 tasks not completed.

  Outputs:

  a.   A list of training provided and staff trained will be sent to
       EPA quarterly 25  days  after the  end  of the quarter
  b.   An  outline  of the staff produced GIS  training,  and a list of
       staff attending will  be provided to EPA  quarterly  25 days
       after the end of the quarter.   (Stategic activity 5.)

 - ,4-.   Water Fair Support

  The Environment Department will continue to conduct its Water Fair
  program,  where technical  staff  and field sampling equipment are
  taken  into the community  to test homeowner collected' samoles of
  private  well  water.   Grant funded  staff will  participate in
  database development  and maintenance.   Some  public  information
  materials  will be  produced or purchased with grant funds forwarded
  from the uncompleted fy-92 task A. 5.

  Outputs:

  a.   A  listing of Water  Fairs  and basic  statistics  will be
       presented to the EPA quarterly within 25 days  of the  end of
       the quarter.  (Stategic activities  5 and  6.)

  Cost:   $51,245
p.B.120                              l*.

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Work Element B:  Ground Water Data Management


1.   Geographic Implementation Project

The recently establish arc-info geographic information system will
be  used to create  small scale base  maps,  and' demonstrating the
adequacy  of current NMED databases as CIS layers.   Projects will
also  be developed to assist the  ground water  program evaluation
effort  in work element A, when possible.  When applicable,  NMED
programs  will be assisted in upgrading databases for  use in the GIS
system.

Outputs:     "                 _

a.    A  log of  NMED programs  given  database  assistance will be
      maintained and a copy forwarded to  EPA within  25 days after
      the end  of each quarter.
d.    Maps of data layers developed will be produced and sent to EPA
      quarterly.
c.    Maps  submitted with program   evaluation reports  will  be
      identified.   (All outputs relate to stategic activity 5.)

2.    Database Projects

Database projects directly related to ground water media technical
projects  will  be  undertaken as required.    Projects  currently
scheduled include developing a wellhead protection database  and an
environmental insult (non-permitted) database.

Outputs:

a.    Reports from existing NMED databases will  be developed to
      demonstrate their  impact on wellhead protection areas, and
      submitted to EPA quarterly  beginning with the  third quarter,
b.    Reports  from  the  environmental  insult database will be
      developed and submitted  to  EPA quarterly beginning with the
      second quarter.
 c.    A summary of  additional database  projects grant funded staff
      has work  on  will  be submitted 25 days after the end of each
      quarter.  (All outputs relate to stategic activities 4  and 5.)

 3.   Environment Department Ground Water Quality Data Working Group

 The Ground Water Quality  Data Working group established by the FY-
 92 grant has been very successful.    The grant funded  data staff
 person will  continue to  be a member of this working group.  The
 principle tasks  will  be to  assure  that all ground water data
 collected and  created  by the  Department  is available  to all
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                        rk to aaeure all aotivitiae impacting ground water are baaed
                 on •  oonaiatent undaretanding  of the  atate'e water  reaonreea,
                 priority protection and. remediation requirement*,  and regulatory
                 authorities and  raapenaibilitiea.   a, eompreheneive  ground water
                 quality  protection  program  moat,  by definition,  oonaider  tha
                 intaraetiona  af  anrfaea   and  ground water,  aad  consider  the
                 relationehip  between  around  water  quality  and  ground  water
                 quantity.

                 Ontputat

                 Product* of each activity are dae to Da 25 daya after the end of
                 the quarter in which they  are produced.  Specific output* will bei

                 a.   staff  will keep  the  Profile  currant  aad  participate
                      appropriately  in developing a  multi-year program  plan and
                      implementing Haw Mexico 'a CGVP9.   Opdatea on Conprehanaire
                      Procraa  development  will  be •obmitted qoarterly.    (CfiOMPP
                      development proceaa and  atratigie aotivitiea 2 and 3.)
                 b.   Hew  Mexico 'a ability to aaaaaa and characterize it 'a around
                      water  reeeuroe through  exiating monitoring programe ao that
                      rational and conaiataat deoiaion-making can be undertaken will
                      be aaaeaaad.   A  report will  be aubmitted  at the end-of^year,
                      aad  will include recommendation* to  implement a aof ficient
                      program. (Strategic activity  9.)

                 Additional  related  oatputa will be forwarded  to Z&A aa they are
                 generated or aa they are approved by HH8D adminiatrative officiala.


                 2.    Ground  Water  Import to Cengreaa (30S(b))

                 Hew Mexico  haa long bad a policy of fall inolotion of ground water
                 iaauea in it 'a biennial report to Conor eaa, Hater <7""^itiT UA
                 Pollatioa Cag^rol la B*<* Hagloo.  Jumna 40 the 305 (b)  report.   The
                         •valuat -    -
program evaluation data uaed for ground water quality program* haa
conaiatad,  however,  of  indirect  and non-comparable  maaanrea..
Method* to better evaluate programe with direct water quality data,
where  poeeible,  will  be  developed  during  fy-»3 for  uae  in
developing  both  the CSSfft  and the  lf»4  303 (b)  report.   The
wellhead Protection program will be one of the  program* evaluated.

Outputat

a.   •ummariee' of program apeeifie  evaluation report*  will be
     enbmitted aa developed.   (Strategic  activities 4 and 5.)

Coatt 49C,478
PaatllB                            USEPAOffioa of Water flVH-547). US4*exioo Border OlSCatalog attachment. Juty1993.

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               FY 1993 EPA/STATE WORK PLAN AGREEMENT
             CLEAN WATER ACT SECTION 106-GROUND WATER


I.   Overall Objective

The  objective  of developing the New Mexico Comprehensive Ground
Water Protection Program is incorporated into this work plan.  The
CSGWPP  strategic  activity specified by the draft  CSCWPP Guidance
is identified  for each task.  In FY 19.93 and succeeding years, New
Mexico  hopes to make use of CWA 106-ground water funding to  further
develop and implement a comprehensive program.  Additionally, the
State hopes to assume funding responsibility for  ongoing programs
initially generated using CWA 106  funds.   Pending availability  of
state funds, certain ongoing activities must continue as CWA  106-
funded  projects.

II.  Program Elements

     A.   Planning and Program  Development
     B.   Ground Water Data Management
     C.   Agricultural Chemicals

Work Element A: Planning and Program Development

 1.    Comprehensive Ground Water Protection Program Development

A Comprehensive Water Resources Management Program is a fundamental
necessity  in  an  arid state.   At  present, there  are 13  State
 governmental agencies whose actions directly or indirectly affect
New Mexico ground water.   Within the  New Mexico  Environment
Department  there  are  21  programs,  both  state and  federally
mandated, with the potential to affect the state's ground water.
 The need  for  such  a program is discussed in the New Mexico State
 Ground Water Profile.

 In addition to direct point and  nonpoint sources of pollutants,
 interactions  between  surface   and   ground  water  can compromise
 otherwise pristine water resources.   In a  very  real sense, all
 environmental  media  are  interconnected,  and  a  total  resource
 management program must  consider  those interactions.

 A first step in  developing a  program  to  manage  the total water
 resource   is  to   develop  a   Comprehensive  State  Ground  Water
 Protection Program which would integrate or coordinate all state
 ground water  protection  activities in New  Mexico  and provide  a
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     VGA graphics
     Modem (Bit FAX)

     WordPerfect
     CEO Connection


Arc/Info coverages on the Aviion include:

          from DSGS, these DLG  files:  New Mexico hydrography; NM
          transportation,   including   roads,   railroads,   and
          miscellaneous transportation systems including pipelines,
          telegraph, and telephone  lines;  NM county borders; and
          GUIS, a set of USGS place names.

     -    also from DSGS: NM state borders; eco-regions; geology;
          hydrologic unit borders; vegetative type; and land use;
          and US county boundaries;  and  in a few selected cases,
          coverage  information  on  some  neighboring  counties in
          adjacent states.

     -    drinking water well information in the Santa Fe area.


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NEC 486/331 personal  computer
     4 MB RAM
     120 MB hard drive
     VGA board
     Entre VGA monitor
     Ventel internal  modem (1200)
     60 MB tape backup system

     Windows 3.1
     Lotus 123 V2.4
     Design Cad 2-D v5.0
     CrossTalk
     Graphics
          Golden
          Surfer
          Grapher
     GW Models
     dBASE 3+
     dBASE 4 vl.O
     ArcView  (demo copy)
     Basic compiler
     FORTRAN compiler
IBM PC AT personal computer
      20 MB hard drive
      40 MB hard card
      Math coprocessor
      640 RAM
      CGA or EGA card
      Sysgen multisync 3D

      WordPerfect
      Framework
DG Walkabout/sx
      3 RAM
      40 MB hard disk
      math coprocessor
      modem (2400)

      PC Oracle
      CEO Connection
      DG Blast
 DG Notebook/Walkabout  (386/sx)
      4 MB RAM
      60 MB hard disk
      math coprocessor
 USEPA Office of Water (WH-547). US-Mexico Border OIS Catalog attachment Jury 1983.                 Peg* 115

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                  Computer Hardware and Software
                 Evaluation and Planning Section
                   Surface Water Quality Bureau
February 16, 1993
Prepared by Natalie Keller
& Michael Gallagher
Peripherals

     ALTER Proline Digitizer
          Serial connection
          D size
          AC41 Controller
          Keypad

     Houston Instruments (HI) DMP-61 6 pen plotter
          Serial connection
          D size
          HPGL emulation
          Scanner (not installed)

     Hewlett-Packard (HP) PaintJet XL300
          Parallel connection
          HPGL2 emulation
          8.5 x 11 paper
          11 x 17 paper

     Texas Instruments (TI) 865'printer
          Parallel connection
          Dot matrix
          Wide carriage

     Monochrome monitor to use with laptop computers

     Data General (DG) laser printer

Computers

AViiON 300 series workstation
     24 MB RAM
     360 MB hard drive
     1000 MB add on hard drive
     CD ROM reader
     150 MB tape drive

     UNIX operating system
     ARC/INFO +
          ArcView module
          TIN module


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  Existing and planned projects for the NMED/SWQB Data Center.

The  major  current  project  at our  office  is  to  achieve  GIS
capability  for our existing  databases, which include the public
wells database  (see page I/- #1, on the accompanying paper,  "Ground
Water Quality Data Sources at  the  NMED");  the ground water  (GW)
discharge plan, (pg 1, 12, usually referred  to as the GW permit
database);  the landfills  database (pg4, II);  the CERCLA database
(pg 5, middle II); and the Hazardous waste database (pg3,  #1).

Our underground storage tank  data  (pg  5, bottom tl)  does not  have
lat/long  information  at  present, but .may be  added  soon.    The
Surface Water Quality Bureau  (SWQB)  has  less extensive in-house
database  experience,  but has achieved great  capability  and  has
extensive historical records on the US EPA Storet national database
in Research Triangle Park, NC.  SWQB in-house  PC databases  include
a surface water use attainability dataset and an NPDES discharge
permit database.

For  the  mid-term  we would  like  to  achieve  an  expanded  GIS
capability for  our surface water sections as well.   Other projects
still  in the  discussion  stage  include  digitizing  the   aquifer
vulnerability maps  (pg 6,  14, we have on-hand, one paper map per
KM county); and developing a  wellhead  protection GIS database.

The DOE oversight programs intend to  use GIS.   We would like  to
coordinate with them  as they  develop their procedures.

Hardware and  software on Hand

Please refer to the accompanying list  of hardware and software for
specific  details.    We  use   a Data  General  Aviion 300-series
workstation with  about 24 MB  RAM, and  two HDs totalling about 1.3
GB of storage,  running X-Windows and Arc/Info ver 6.1. We  have an
Altec digitizer,  a Houston Instruments Plotter,  and an HP Color
Printer.  The Aviion is  networked to our other Data  General  mini
computers and will  soon be connected to a network  of  ED personal
computers.  The mini and  the PCs currently contain the databases
of several surface and groundwater sections.  We hope to link those
systems with  Arc/Info on our  workstation and with Arc/View on the
PCs so that all of our data is available to whichever staff  can use
it.

The data center also contains a 486 PC running DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1
and  programs  such as Lotus  123,  Design  Cad 2-D,  and  several
graphing  and  modeling programs.  We  may install AutoCadd v!2  in
the near future.
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                                                                     Attachment 11
                                              New Mexico Environment Dept (NMED)

                                              'Existing and Planned Projects for——
                                              NMED/SWQB Date Center
Pag*112
                               USEPAOffic»o< Water (WH-547). US4*«doo Bordw OB Catalog «ttochm«iL July 1983

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Census Bureau Public         Demographic Data (ethnic distrib., +-18yrs, pop
Law Files (PL94-171)          dens.)

Teale Data Center            CA. Township/Range/Section Boundaries

USEPA                   .  River Reach III (streams coded to relate to water
                            qual. data)

 1:24.000 Scale:                                      r

 CDFG Nat Diversity DB       Endangered Species
 USGS                      Geographic Names Information System
 USFWS                     National Wetlands Inventory
 USEPA                     Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Date of unknown scale:

CDOHS                     California Drinking Water Wells
USEPA                     Toxic Release Inventory

Many data lavers developed for these specific areas:

EMSL                       Yuma, Arizona
USEPA-R6.R9                US-Mexico Border
USEPA                     San Gabriel Basin
USEPA                     San Fernando
USEPA                     Southern California Bight
USEPA                     Mountain Vww/Moffett Field
USEPA Offic* of Water (WH-547). US-Mexico Border QIS Catalog attachment July 1993.                      Page .,„

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                         U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9
                           Information Resource Management Branch
                            Geographic Information System Center
                                GEOGRAPHIC DATA LAYERS
                                       October 1992
1:2.500.000 Scale Coverages:

USEPA                     Ecoregions

1:2.000.000 Scale Coverages:
USGS Digital Line Graphs
1:750.000 Scale Coverages:

USGS
1:500.000 Scale Coverages:
USGS

1:250.000 Scale Coverages:

USGS GIRAS
USGS
NOAA/NOS/USGS

1:100.000 Scale Coverages:
County Boundaries
Streams
Lakes
Dams
Hydrologic Unit Codes (Drainage Basins)
Indian Reservations
National Parks,Wildlife Refuges, etc.
California Faults
Nevada Geology
Land Use/Land Cover
Digital Elevation Model(DEM)
California Coastal Shelf Bathymetry
CENSUS BUREAU TIGER LINE FILES 1990.  Data is available for the United States through EPA's
National GIS Program, OIRM Branch, Washington D.C. Tiger File geographic features include:
       nonvisibte boundaries-

       political boundaries-

       road/rail features-

       misc. trans.-
       hydrographic features-
       MSAs, census tracts, census blocks, ZIP code boundaries,
       voting disL
       county and municipaj boundaries, Indian Reservations,
       National Parks and Forests
       highways, county roads, city streets, address ranges for urban
       pipelines, power transmission lines
       shoreline, streams (peren/intermit),
       canals, lakes
                         USEPA Off** or Water (WH-547). US-M«doo Borfer OtS Catalog attachment July 1 »3.

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                                                                       Attachment 10
                                 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9
                                 San Francisco, Calif.

                                 •Geographic Data Layers: October 1992.'
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  proximately 20 students and 4 GRAs in
  four projects presents a significant chal-
  lenge in project control. Clearly, strong
  management is needed to ensure data base
  quality and to keep the project on sched-
  ule. Having clearly defined and well-under-
  stood responsibilities and maintaining good
  communication among participants are es-
  sential to the project's success. Communi-
  cation is facilitated by  regular planning
  meetings between the instructor  and the
  GRAs and biweekly team meetings during
  the laboratory sessions to  discuss  the
  project's status and any problems the stu-
  dents may have.
    The CIS applications course culminates
  in the preparation and  presentation  of
  group and individual modeling reports. To
  satisfy the group  requirement  for  the
  course, each student team defines the con-
  tents of the report, agrees on individual re-
  sponsibilities for the presentation, performs
  one or more dry runs of the report, and pre-
  sents the results in oral and written form.
  In their group reports, students are encour-
  aged to  give a project overview, describe
  the processes  they followed in developing
  the data base, and discuss any special prob-
  lems and recommendations for additional
  project work.  When the  oral reports are
  given, interested faculty, students, clients.
  and other members of the public are in-
  vited to attend. Typically, the presentations
  are given in a  highly professional  manner
  complete  with  slides  and  poster-size
  displays.


  INTERFACE

  GIS education  with

  funded research

  must be

  accomplished

  within a curricular

  framework.
   The other student obligation is the indi-
 vidual modeling project. To complete this
 requirement, each student applies a model
 of his or her choice (deterministic or proba-
 bilistic, and physical or human) to the data
• base developed by their team. The end prod-
 uct is a poster display appropriate for a
Table 2. Course schedule for Geography 584
   Oau
  numbtr          Court* schedule
     1     Course Introduction. Overview of
           CESAR
     2     Overview ot CIS and GIS Software
     3     GIS Applications I. Review of ARC/
           INFO
     4     GIS Applications II. GIS project
     5     GIS Applications III. AMLs
     6     GIS Applications IV. GIS project
         . (continued)
     7     System Planning AMLs (continued)
     6     GlS Management. GIS protect
           (continued)
     9     Knowledge-Based Techniques Interac-
           tive ARCPLOT (continued)
    10     Error Management. GIS project
           (continued)
    11     GlS Standards. Interactive ARCPLOT
           (continued)
   '-12     Fractals GlS protect (continued)
    13     Spatial Interpolation. ARCSHELL
    14     Network Analysis Network software
    15     GIS and Modeling. GIS project
           (continued)
 Oau
numbtr          Count schedule
  16     Legal Issues. Network, software
         (continued)
  17     The TIN Data Model. TIN software
  18     Statewide GlSs. GIS project
  19     National GlS Activities. TIN software
         (continued)
  20     Global GISs. GIS project (continued)
  21     Preliminary Model Presentations
  22     Examination
  23     visualization. GIS project (continued)
  24     The Future of GIS. GIS project
         (continued)
  25     GIS project (continued)
  26     GlS protect (continued)
  27     Team presentations
  28     Team presentations
  29     Individual presentations
  30     Individual presentations
professional conference, as well as written
and oral reports. The emphasis for the in-
dividual project is to integrate scientific
modeling and GIS and articulate the results
to the instructor, other class members, and
interested persons who may wish to attend
the presentation.
  Examples of projects include siting hik-
ing and riding trails in a state park, mea-
uring the effect on sensitive plant species
of releasing reclaimed water into a natural
stream, and modeling the erosion caused
by using off-highway vehicles.

•UMMMO U»
The CIS Applications course at SDSU dem-
onstrates how university instruction and
grant and contract research can be inte-
grated in a GIS curriculum with benefits to
students, faculty; and funding agencies.
  Those benefits are exemplified by the de-
partment's  contract with the State of Cali-
fornia's Department of Parks and Recrea-
tion, Off-Highway Vehicle Division. This
 project will result in a comprehensive data
 base that will be used by park managers to
 monitor  the environmental impacts of off-
 highway vehicles. Students working  on
 this project learn about  all  phases of the
 GIS process, from collecting  data to output-
 ting hard copy. Finally, the  project's prin-
 cipal  investigators, who  are faculty mem-
 bers, gain additional GIS experience that
 can be passed on to future students.

 MEFKRKMCES
 GoodchiU. M.F.. and KJt. Kemp, editors. 1990.
 NCCIA Cure Curriculum in CIS. University of
 California. Santa Barbara.
 Wright. R.D., and EC. Griffin. 1991. CIS Teach-
 ing Facilities'at San Dicfo State Univcnhy. CIS
 Teaching  Facilities: Six Cast Snidia Unite  Ac-
 quitition and Management ef laboratories. S.D.
 Palbdino  and K. Kemp, editors. NCCIA Techni-
 cal Paper 91-21. University  of California. Santa
 Barbara.
 Wright. R.D. 1991. Interfacing GIS Education
 witti Giant and Contract Retard). CIS/US V? Pro-
 ceeding 1:467-477. •
          Pag* 108
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Table 1. CIS courses offered by the Department of Geography at San Diego State
University
Courses
Geographic Information Systems
GtS Applications
Internship/Special Study
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
Seminar in Techniques of Spatial Analysis
Research and Thesis
Prerequisite counts
Map Investigation
Aerial Photograph Interpretation
Maps and Graoruc Methods
Remote Sensing of Environment
Spatial Data Analysis
Computer Programming
Ancillary count*
Automated Cartography
Ouantitive Methods in Geographic Research
Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
Field Geography
Advanced Automated Cartography
Advanced Automated Cartography Laboratory
Advanced Ouantitive Methods in Geography
Advanced Remote Sensing
Advanced Remote Sensing Laboratory
Advanced Field Research
Level*
junior, senior
senior, graduate
senior, graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
junior
junior
junior
junior, senior
junior
freshman, sophomore

senior, graduate
senior, graduate
senior, graduate
senior, graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
per week.  The lectures cover important
CIS implementation topics, most of which
have been  adapted from NCClA's Core
Curriculum in CIS. The laboratories are de-
voted to carrying out the various phases of
a current funded project. To satisfactorily
complete all parts of the course generally
requires a minimum of 8-10 hours per
week.  The required  readings  for this
course are pertinent articles from profes-
sional  journals, conference proceedings,
and industry publications such as Gto Info
Systems.
   Csene •nnejMtet an* r*** Prior to en-
tolling in the GIS Applications course, stu-
dents must have completed one of the fol-
lowing: Geography 484  —  Geographic
Information Systems; Geography 583 —
Automated Cartography: or Geography
588 — Intermediate Remote Sensing. Ad-
ditionally, students must have completed t\
least one college-level course in computer
programming with a grade of "C" or bet-
ter.  Recommended programming  lan-
guages include FORTRAN. C, and Pascal.
Grades are awarded on the basis of student
performance on an essay examination (50
percent), an individual modeling activity in-
volving an oral presentation and a written
report (20 percent), and a team project that
also includes an oral presentation and a writ-
ten report (30 percent).
   Uctwt Milieu. The lecture portion of
the course comprises 30 one-hour sessions
devoted to lectures on  CIS applications
topics, an essay examination, team oral re-
ports, and individual oral reports on mod-
eling projects. The modeling project con-
ducted by each student is based on the data
base that is prepared as a pan of the team
project, as described later in this  article.
The course lectures represent a combina-
tion of applications-oriented topics and a re-
view of ARC/INFO software on the VAX
minicomputer, the SUN workstations, and
the PCs.
   Laboratory MtilMtt. The primary objective
for the laboratory is to allow students to ap-
ply the CIS implementation concepts cov-
ered  in the lectures. This is accomplished
using a combination of demonstrations, dis-
cussions,  tutorials, and work on current
projects. Data base compilation, data base
automation, analysis and modeling, and
hard-copy generation are among the topics
covered. ARC/INFO software is employed
for most projects,  but other packages are
used as the need dictates. Students not al-
ready familiar with the software are re-
quired to spend approximately 40 hours in
the fast two weeks working through soft-
ware training materials.
   StudMrt eroMct*. The team and individual
projects are the activities that focus the stu-
dents' CIS education. At the third class
meeting the 18-20 students are assigned to
four  teams of 4 to 5 students each. Prior to
creating the  teams, students are surveyed
to determine their knowledge of GIS and re-
lated disciplines,  their professional inter-
ests, and their academic abilities.  Assign-
ments result in  teams that  are roughly
equal on the basis of student strengths and
weaknesses. Each team is assigned to a cur-
rent funded project under the immediate su-
pervision  of a graduate research assistant
(GRA) who  is already working on the
project. The GRA meets with the team on
a regular basis and provides guidance in all
phases of data base development and mod-
eling, and, in general, serves as a resource
person for students on all matters relating
to the project.
   Once teams are formed, each is briefed
about the project by the assigned GRA.
The  briefing  comprises information about
the project's background, its objectives, cur-
rent  status, and a description of the layers
in the data base  that still need to be cre-
ated. Additional familiarity with the proj-
ect is provided through a meeting between
the students and their project's client. Stu-
dents also take a reconnaissance field trip
to the project site if it is located within  50
miles of the university. The visit allows stu-
dents to better visualize the relationships
between landscape features and their repre-
sentation  in digital form. Also, students
can  determine whether any  site-specific
problems exist, such as difficult access that
could inhibit field checking the data base.
   Involving and coordinating a class of ap-
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 Tht Executive Committee for CESAR are (left to right) Dr. Alton Hope, Dr. Richard Wright, Dr. Douglas Stow, Dr. Ernst Orrffin {chairman,
 Department of Geography). Not shown Is Dr. Janet Franklin.
                                                                                                                                    vi
                                                                                                                                   II,
                                                                                                                                   I
                                                                                                                                   1!
of  the costs of  using equipment in
CESAR.
  CESAR is vi-ell equipped with CIS hard-
ware and software. The two research-ori-
entsd rooms combine clusters of graphics
terminals (Tektronics. Wilson\illc. Ore-
gon). 486  PCs. and workstations from
IBM (Armonk. New York) and  Sun Mi-
crosystems (Mountain View. California).
The adjoining spatial analysis laboratory is
equipped with 386 PCs. and  Macll and
Macllci computers (Apple Computer. Cu-
pertino. California). All hardware and soft-
ware  in the center  are linked via the
Ethernet network. Linkages include connec-
tions to the in-house VAX 11/780 minicom-
puter  and to the university's VAX  6000-
320 minicomputer (Digital Equipment Cor-
poration. Maynard. Massachusetts).
  The software holdings for CIS. digital im-
age processing (DIP), automated cartogra-
phy, and spatial statistics are extensive.
         Pa0e106
Leading  the list of software are ARC/
INFO (Environmental Systems Research In-
stitute. Redlands, California) and ERDAS
(Atlanta, Georgia), which are integrated
via ERDAS's Live Link software. ARC/
INFO gives the department vector CIS ca-
pability, whereas raster processing is pro-
vided by ERDAS, SPANS (Tydac Tech-
nologies, Arlington, Virginia). OSU-MAP
(Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio),
1DRIS1 (Clark University, Worcester. Mas-
sachusetts), and MAP H (John Wiley and
Sons,  New York,  New York).  ARC/
INFO. SPANS, and ERDAS are used for
both research and instruction,  whereas
OSU-MAP. 1DRIS1. and MAP II are used
primarily for instruction.

CURRICULUM CONTEXT
Interfacing CIS education  with funded
research  must be accomplished within a
curncular framework. At SDSU the CIS
curriculum consists mainly of three-unit,
lecture-laboratory courses offered at the up-
per division and graduate levels on a semes-
ter basis. Enrollments in CIS classes are
80-100 students  each year. Prerequisites
for CIS classes  include  one or more
courses from cartography and computer pro-
gramming. Table 1 lists CIS courses cur-
rently offered at the various levels.

GEOGRAPHY M4 - O1S
APPLICATIONS
COWM eventew. Geography  584 is the sec-
ond in a series of CIS courses offered by
the department. The course focuses on dif-
ferent applications for CIS: the implemen-
tation of CIS at local, regional, national,
and global scales; and the use of spatial ana-
lytic  techniques in CIS. Table 2 lists the
course schedule.
  The course format includes two hours of
lecture and three hours of laboratory work
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                 ' EDUCATION-

  Integrating University
  Education  and  Funded
  Projects in  a  GIS
 .Applications  Course
  Richard O. Wright
  Sanpiego state University
  The Geography Department a' San
  Diegc State University has developed a
  GIS applications course that is coordi-
  nated with funded projects. This article
  describes the institutional setting, the
  laboratory facilities, and the curriculum
  context for the course.
  A PhD student (above) uses GIS software
  to work with • layer of the Rancho*
  Cuyemaca State Park data base.
                                 ntegraling university geographic informa-
                                 tion systems (GIS) education  with
                              L-  funded grant and contract research of-
                                 fers a number of advantages and oppor-
                              tunities for students, faculty, and funding
                              organizations. Learning by doing k an ef-
                              fective educational approach. Additionally,
                              working on a reai-worid project helps gen-
                              erate interest in GIS and motivates student
                              learning.  Qualified students  can obtain
                              financial support through funded research
                              projects and gain insights into CIS as a pro-
                              fession through  hands-on  experience.
                              Funded projects are a source of monies for
                              maintaining  a high technological level in
                              the CIS laboratory. Certainly, experience
                              on funded projects  can augment a faculty
                              member's knowledge of CIS and thus in-
                              crease the quality of the instruction offered
                              to students. Finally, funding organizations
                              gain access to costly technology and to a
                              skilled faculty-student labor pool.
  «0
tttlttsljtast MARCH IM;
USEPA Office of Water (WH-547). US-Mexico Border GIS Catalog .attachment July 1993.
  San Diego State University's (SDSU's)
Department of Geography has developed a
CIS applications course that is coordinated
with funded projects. Projects are solicited
from public and private organizations at
the national, state, and local levels on both
informal and competitive bases. The types
of projects sought are those that have a sub-
stantive GIS research component in an ap-
plication of interest to our faculty. This
article provides an overview of an institu-
tional setting, laboratory facilities, and GIS
curriculum designed to train students to ap-
ply GIS technology.

WSTITUTIONAL SETTING
SDSU has a comprehensive  curriculum
and a student body of about 33,000. GIS
is the exclusive responsibility of the Depart-
ment of Geography, which has 20.5 fac-
ulty positions to serve SO graduate majors
and 165 undergraduate majors. Approxi-
mately 5,000 students per year are enrolled
in geography courses.
  The department's primary specialties in-
clude GIS, cartography, remote sensing,
spatial  statistics,  urban  and  behavioral
geography, biogeography, environmental
geography, and Latin America.  The Bache-
lor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of
Philosophy (offered jointly with the Univer-
sity of California, Santa Barbara) degrees
and a Certificate in  GIS are awarded hi
geography.

PHYSICAL FACILITIES
The Center for Earth Systems Analysis Re-
search (CESAR) is the department's instruc-
tional-research facility. It occupies approxi-
mately 3.000 square feet of floor space and
has three  main rooms that contain com-
puter equipment. Two of the rooms accom-
modate specialized graduate and undergradu-
ate courses and independent research. The
third room is a spatial analysis facility that
is used mainly as an instructional labora-
tory for courses in GIS, remote sensing, spa-
tial statistics, and automated cartography.
CESAR is dedicated for use by students en-
rolled in  courses in the Department of
Geography and by geography faculty and
graduate students working on research
projects that include funding to cover some
Rlchtrt Wright is a professor in the Depart-
ment of Geography at San Diego State
University, San Diego, California.
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                                         Attachment 9
                     San Diego State University

                     •Integrating University Education and
                     Funded Projects in a GIS Applications
                     Course.' Geo Info Systems magazine.
                     Mar. 199Z  Richard Dr Wright
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                              FIGURE 3
                 ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
                       ACADEMIC VICE PRESIDENT
        SDSU FOUNDATION
                 COMPUTER CENTER
                     DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS & LETTERS |
                      CHAIRMAN, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
   EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
                                 Faculty
                                                 Clerical
                                                 Staff
    Technical
    Manager
Graduate
Research
Assistants
    I

Students
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                                   FIGURE 2
         CONCEPTUAL VIEW OF HARDWARE INTEGRATION
             HP 8 Pen
             Plotter  I
  Catomp
  Digitizer
-   486 pC
   Video
   Digitizer
  Tektronuc
  InkJet
-   486 po
  Cipher
  Tap* Drive v^
 OCR
 Film Writer
               _L
             486 PC
-   486 PC
             486 pC
             486 pC
   Hitachi
  Digitizer
        L_L   Sun
        ~~ SparcStationl
     Sun
    4/110
              486 PC
             •  »
               Sun
           SparcStationl
               IBM
            RISC 6000
                                      Ethernet
                    486 pc
Broad I Band
 Net 1 work
6000-320
   VAX
                              11/780
                               VAX
                              Calcomp
                               Plotter
                               LQP02
                               Printer
             Raster
             Tech
                               VT/100
                               Terminal
                          T
                               VT/100
                              Terminal
                                    Micro Vax II
                                               DecWriterl!
,, Thermal
~ Printer
                                                         386 pc
  386 PC
  386 pc
                              386 pc
                              386 pc
                                                         386 pc
 Tektronix
   4207
                             Tektronix
                               4207
                             Tektronix
                               4207
                                                        Tektronix
                                                          4207
                                                        Tektronix
                                                          4207
                                                                 Tektronix
                                                                   4107
Cafcomp
Digitizer
           Cttomp
           Digitize
           Caicomp
           Digitizer
                                                  VT/100
                                                  Terminal
                                 Zeta 8 Pen
                                  Plotter

UMrWnur

Optical
Disk Drive

Macintosh II
1



Macintosh U

1
Macintosh Utx


Apple
Macintosh Iti

Macintosh II

Talk
Macintosh lid
Macintosh U


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                                      FIGURE 1
                                   FLOOR PLAN
     Stttofi
     Dili.
                       trtm
                             HOC
                 CESAR
        Project
                             'Computer Room
       Technical
       Manegef*a
        Office
            tlM*
                                   V«
                              n
                   CESAR
Photographic
  Darkroom
T                  Staff
                 tographer's
                  Office
                                             towy i
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TABLE 4
COURSES REQUIRING THE USE OF LAB IN CESAR
Course
381 • Maps and Graphic Methods
385 • Spatial Data Analysis
484 - Geographic Information Systems
488 • Remote Sensing of the Environment
582 • Automated Cartography
584 - Geographic Information Systems Applications
585 - Quantitative Methods in Geographic Research
588 - Intermediate Remote Sensing of the Environment
682 - Advanced Automated Cartography
683 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems
685 • Advanced Quantitative Methods in
Geographic Research
688 • Advanced Remote Sensing of Environment
780 - Seminar in Techniques of Spatial Analysis
799 - Research and Thesis
Internship/Special Studies Courses
Level
Junior
Junior
Junior
Junior
Sen/Grad
Sen/Grad
Sen/Grad.
Sen/Grad.
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Sen/Grad.
Location of
Class Activity
Lect, & Lab in SAL
Leo. & Lab in SAL
Leo. & Lab in SAL
Leo. & Lab in SAL
Lect. & Lab in SAL
Some use of CESAR
Lect. in SAL
Lab in CESAR
Lect.& Lab in CESAR
Lect. in SAL
Lab in CESAR
Leo. in Seminar Rm.
Lab in CESAR
Lect in Seminar Rm.
Lab n CESAR
Lect. in Seminar Rm.
Lab in CESAR
Lect in Seminar Rm.
Lab in CESAR
Leo. in Seminar Rm.
Lab in CESAR
Lab in CESAR
Lab in CESAR
Typical
Class
Size
20
20-30
20
20
15-20
15-20
15-20
15-20
10-15
10-15
10-15
10-15
10-15
10
10
  SAL - Spatial Analysis Laboratory
PtplOO
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                                   TABLE3
                                 SOFTWARE
           VAX
WORKSTATIONS
           ARC/INFO 5.1
           Disspla
           Eidas7.2
           Erdas/Aic Live Link
           LandTrak
           Vicar

           BMDP
           C compiler
           Fortran compiler
           Mini tab
           Oracle
           SPSS
APART
ARC/INFO 5.1
Erdas7.5
Erdas/Arc Live Link
IPW
SPANS

C compiler
Fortran compiler
PC
           MACINTOSH

           Autocad
           Canvas
           Claris CAD
           Cricket Graph
           CIS Tutor
           Excel
           Exstatix
           MacDraw Pro
           MacProject
           Map n Map Processor
           Mapmaker
           MacDraw n
           MacGIS
           MacWrite
           Pixel Paint
           Statview
           Super 3D
           Word
ARC/INFO 3.4D
Autocad
Erdas7.5
Erdas/Arc Live Link
GISPlus
GEO/SQL
Idrisi
Map Collection
Maplnfo
OSUMap
SPANS
Transcad

BMDP
Fortran Compiler
Grapher
Lous 123
Manifest
Oracle
SPSS PC
Surfer
QEMM
Windows
WordPerfect
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                                 TABLE 2
                              HARDWARE
-MINICOMPUTERS
VAX 6000-320 (Campus Computing)
VAX 780
MicroVAXn

TERMINALS
Tektronix 4207 (5)
Tektronix 4107
VTlOO's (7)
DecWriterll
WORKSTATIONS
Sun 4/110
   -16Mb RAM
   -300Mb Hard Drive (2)
   -150Mb 1/4" Tape Drive
Sun SparcSution 1 (2)
   -16Mb RAM
   - 600Mb AnD ATAco Hard Drive
   - 1Gb AnDATAco Hard Drive (1)
   - 105Mb Conner Hard Drive
IBM RISC  6000
   -16Mb RAM
   - 1Gb AnDATAco Hard Drive
   - 150Mb 1/4" Tape Drive
 OUTPUT DEVICES
 Tektronix 4696 InkJet Printer
 Tektronix 4396DX Thermal Printer
 Calcomp 1044 8 Pen Plotter
 Hewlen Packard 7550A 8 Pen Plotter
 Zeta 8 Pen Plotter
 LaserWriter!! (Postscript) (2)
 Personal LaserWriter (Postscript)
 Dot Matrix Printer (4)
 QCR Film Writer
INPUT DEVICES
Calcomp9100 Digitizer (4)
Hitachi Digitizer
Cohu Photodigitizer
MICROCOMPUTERS
486's (3)
  - 200Mb IDE Hard Drive
  - 20Mb Bernoulli Drive       -
  -8Mb RAM             *
  -14" Sony 1304 Monitor
  -19" Mitsubishi Monitor
486 (2M
  - 200Mb IDE Hard Drive
  -8Mb RAM
  -14" Sony 1304 Monitor
486 (3)
  - 200Mb IDE Hard Drive
  -8Mb RAM
  -16" NEC 4D Monitor

386's (6)
  - 100Mb IDE Hard Drive
  -4Mb RAM
  -14" Mitsubishi Diamond Scan Monitor

286
  - Copy2PC (PC To MAC Data Conversion)

Macintosh nfx
  -160Mb Hard Drive
  -8Mb RAM
  - 650 Mb Iomega LaserSafe Optical Disk Drive
  - Color Scanner
  - Digitizing Tablet
  -19" SuperMac Monitor

Macintosh II (4)
  -40Mb Hard Drive
  -2Mb RAM
  -19" SuperMac Monitor

Macintosh Hci (4)
  -80Mb Hard Drive
  -5Mb RAM
  • 19" SuperMac Monitor
Other
Albedometer
Biovision Infrared Video Camera
Everest Infrared Thermometer (1)
Exotech Handheld Radiometer (2)
Panasonic 4 Head VCR
Tape Drive (9 Track)
Vista Truevision Frame Grabber
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                                   TABLE 1
             HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE EXPENDITURES

Hardware
Software
Total
Phase 1-
150,000
50,000
200,000
Phase 2
75,000
18,000
93,000
PhaseS
80,000
10,000
90,000
On-going
Purchase.
Program
35,000
15,000
50,000
Total
340,000
93,000
433,000
        Note: Dollar amounts are actual dollars spent and do not reflect deep discounts,
  contributions, and trades. The actual replacement value of the equipment and software at
  time of purchase is well over $600,000.
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          •7.  The initial allocations of space and funding for hardware and software should be
              sufficient to create substantial capability at the outset of operation.  A minimum
              configuration  is likely to hamstring the effort from the  beginning.  At least one
              workstation should be provided for every three students.  Fewer workstations will
              not allow adequate student access to CIS equipment during the laboratory session.

          8.  Project activities should be initiated as soon as possible to place participants on a
              steep learning curve, to establish a track record, and to have a product that can be
              demonstrated  to administrators, other faculty, and prospective funding agencies.
              It is important that a cadre  of expert users (faculty, staff, and  students) be
              established early on.

          9.  Devote as much time  as possible to demonstrations and other activities which
              raise the visibility of the facility to individuals both on and off campus.

          10. Before the facility is  established,  agreements  should be  reached regarding
              responsibilities  for hardware  and  software maintenance .costs.   A  clear
              understanding of who is responsible for what will help to avoid conflict later on.

          11. Some effort should be made  to negotiate cost reductions  with vendors on the
              purchases of hardware and software, especially on annual software  maintenance
              costs.   However, remember that you normally can't get something for nothing
              from the private sector. You must be prepared to offer something of benefit to the
              company in exchange for cost reductions, such as the development of applications
              software and laboratory exercises.

          12. CIS instruction requires a rich instructor/student ratio.   A  minimum of  one
              instructor  or  instructional assistant  for  every  ten  students  is desirable for
              introductory CIS classes. Advanced classes involving extensive research projects
              may require even fewer students per instructor

          13. Finally, consult early and widely with those who have established successful CIS
              facilities. A few thousands of dollars spent on experienced consultants is a wise
              investment for an undertaking that can eventually exceed several  hundreds of
              thousands of dollars!
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      .  8.  The initial 1.00 permanent Technical Manager position will be increased to 2.00
           positions. This additional position will give some relief to the Technical Manager
           and bring more knowledge of  systems programming and UNIX operating
           environments to the Center. This will allow a fuller utilization of workstations for
           GIS/RS applications.

        9.  Although used intensively, the  Center still has  some unused research capacity.
           More attention is being given to ways of integrating spatial modeling and decision
           support systems methods with GISfDIP techniques. It is also desirable to expand
           the graduate instruction and research uses of the facility in human geography
           applications such as urban, socioeconomic, and transportation.

        10. The use of the facility for regularly scheduled upper division/graduate instruction
           in GIS/RS is nearing saturation, but there are unused weekend and summer hours
           that could  be  made available  for  training workshops  focusing on  specific
           applications, analytical techniques, and software packages.  Workshops provide
           an important community outreach function and can help to increase the financial
           base of the Center.  However, the community outreach function will continue to
           be secondary to the primary mission of research and upper division/graduate
           student instruction.


 VL  RECOMMENDATIONS

        Based on our experience in developing  CESAR,  we  can  offer a number of
 recommendations for those wishing to establish a similar facility.

        1.  A clear statement of the mission and goals of the facility should be articulated
           early on.  This will determine the facility's operating characteristics as weU as the
           type of hardware and software to be purchased.   For example, a facility that
           serves both research and instructional needs will have a different technological
           mix than one that is intended for instruction only.

        2.  Establishing and operating  a GIS facility is a dynamic process that requires
           flexibility as well as foresight on the part of those involved.  To be successful you
           must be able to adapt quickly to changes in technology, personnel, and research
           demands.

        3.  The Department Chair must be  a strong advocate of the facility to the university
           administration.

        4.  The department and the university administration must be strongly committed to
           the creation of a successful facility. Don't be reticent about getting commitments
           in writing.

        5.  Two or more faculty members with expertise in  GIS/DEP and its applications are
           needed to mount a successful program and must be able to interact on a frequent
           basis.  Even more  than the administration, they must be strongly dedicated to
           making the facility a success.

        6.  A permanent staff position and a minimum operating budget should be allocated
           to the facility to assure operating stability.
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      ,8.  To develop  GlSs for  public agencies for use  in  environmental resource
          management and urban and regional planning.

      In our opinion, many of these goals have been, achieved since the advent of CESAR.
We are proud that in less than five years CESAR has become one of the premier CIS/DIP
university instructional/research facilities in the United States.

Future Plans

   -  In the next five years it is "unlikely that CESAR will experience the same dramatic
increases in floor space and hardware as it has in the past five years. Instead, attention will
focus on upgrading and making more efficient use of existing facilities and on replacing
outmoded hardware and software with new capabilities as they evolve.  We anticipate that
several initiatives are likely:

      1.  The effort  now underway to integrate the  various platforms via the Ethernet
          system will be completed in the near future.  Additional Ethernet cards, cabling,
          and software are required to accomplish this task.

      2.  In addition to networking existing equipment, the capability of CESAR can be
          enhanced significantly  by  upgrading some  of the existing equipment.   For
          example, the  hard disk capabilities of the Sun and Rise workstations are  being
          expanded. The performances of the ERDAS  and PC ARC/INFO 386  computers
          are also being increased by installing additional memory.  Other improvements
          are being achieved by adding 3-1/2" drives to  some 386  computers and by
          installing DBASE 3 to run with PC ARC/INFO.

      3.  As noted earlier, the  lack of inter-project communication was  identified  as an
          shortcoming in the functioning of CESAR.  To rectify this,  a loose matrix
          organizational structure consisting  of  a)  vegetation  mapping, b) CIS, c)
          biophysical remote sensing, and d) image processing/change detection interests
          groups has been created to cut across project boundaries. Regular meetings of the
          vegetation  group  for interested  faculty and  students is producing a  cross
          fertilization of ideas among projects.

      4.  A high priority is being given to obtaining software for analyzing socioeconomic,
         demographic, and transportation data.  This should encourage more involvement
          in the Center by the department's human geography specialists.

      5. Demonstration modules are important for showing the Center's accomplishments
         and capabilities. The modules on hand need to be upgraded and new ones need to
         be added to the Center's library.

      6. Additional hardware,  including tape backup systems, scanning,  optical compact
         disk,  global positioning system,  and color  projection technologies  are  being
         considered.  There is also  a  need to expand the Center's color graphics and
         workstation capabilities and to replace the in-house VAX 11/780  computer with a
         more powerful machine.

      7. Some software packages  on hand have yet to  be integrated into our CIS
         curriculum.   For example, GeoSQL,  SPANS,  and  GRASS  are  significant
         packages that are just now receiving our attention.

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  V. EVALUATION STAGE

        After four years of operation, we are now  in a position to evaluate some of the
  successes and difficulties associated with the evolution of CESAR.  The establishment of a
  firm set of goals and planning for the  long-term future of the Center within the broader
  context of the department's goals is a critical consideration.

  Achievement of Goals

        Over time, the mission of CESAR has evolved to provide  technical support for a
  variety of the department's programs.  These  include  supporting upper division/graduate
  instruction and research in the areas of geographic information systems, remote sensing,
  automated cartography, digital image processing, and spatial statistics.  The center also seeks
  to back research in a variety of geographic application areas such as urban and transportation
  modeling and environmental analysis. Finally, CESAR has a community outreach mission
  that involves training in CIS, DIP, and RS for potential users of these technologies in private
  industry and government agencies.

        To carry out  its missions, a number of goals have been established for CESAR.
  These include:

         1.  Enriching  our students' educational experience by providing laboratory equipment
           and  hands-on experience for students in CIS, RS,  AC,  spatial statistics,  and
           selected systematic geography courses that require technical support

        2.  Providing  financial support for graduate students  in order to attract more  and
           better students  to the graduate program.  We have created a large cadre of
           graduate students who have a sense of direct involvement in the department

        3.  Providing  technical support for graduate student thesis research.  Without CESAR
           or a comparable facility many theses completed each year would not be feasible.

        4.  Generating funds to be used to maintain state-of-the-art technology in areas of
           rapid change.  Without a dependable source of income for upgrading hardware
           and  software capability, a GIS/DIP facility can quickly become obsolete  and
           uncompetitive in terms of  research grants, and  inadequate  for instructional
           purposes.

        5.  Helping to support other department functions that relate to CESAR (i.e. some
           purchases  made with CESAR funds also are used in support of other courses).
           For example, map and aerial  photographs obtained for grants or contracts can be
           used in   support  of laboratory  exercises  on  map and aerial  photograph
           interpretation.

        6.  Contributing to the professional development of faculty and facilitating scientific
           research which increases the capability of GIS/DIP in spatial problem solving.
           The  hardware  and software in CESAR  make  it  possible tor faculty  with
           specialties in GIS and RS to compete for research grants and contracts to cany
           out their research plans.

        7.  To provide GIS/DIP/RS training to educators, urban and regional planners, land
           developers, environmental consultants, and other  members of the community.
           This is accomplished through demonstrations and workshops of varying lengths.
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 workshops and given opportunities to work  in  research projects leading to papers at
 professional meetings and journal publications.  In addition, a half-time technical assistant
 has recently been added to alleviate some of the work-load of the Technical Manager.

 External Relationships

       The success of CESAR depends on its relations to a number of other entities both on
 campus and off. As the activities of the Center have grown, these considerations have taken
 on added importance and consume greater amounts of time and effort

       Department of Geography  CESAR is well integrated with other functions in the
 department, a  situation which  contributes to  positive attitudes  about the  Center.   For
 example, all personnel practices, including the hiring of graduate assistants and technical
 staff, are accomplished within  the  context of the department's  policies on governance.
 Discussions of the Center are included in department meeting agenda and are intended to
 familiarize all faculty with potential uses of CIS/DIP in* their specialties and to clarify the
 role of the Center in carrying out the  department's mission. The integration of CESAR in the
 department has been aided by involving faculty who  are not skilled in CIS/DIP in joint
 research that incorporates their systematic training and requires the use of CESAR facilities.
 As a result, 13 of the department's  20 tenure track faculty use CESAR either directly or
 indirectly.

       On Campus  On the SDSU campus,  administrators in the College of Arts  and
 Letters, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Foundation are supportive of the
 department and its GIS/RS  programs.   This has  been translated into improved physical
 facilities and  significant funding for  hardware and software.  Relationships with other
 departments have been limited to cooperative research situations.  To date, joint  projects
 involving GIS/DIP have been conducted with faculty in civil engineering (hydrology  and
 transportation  analysis), ecology,  biology, and geology  as well as the Systems Ecology
 Research Group. Although specific  plans for expanding cooperative GIS/DIP projects with
 other departments have not been formulated, it is anticipated that additional joint research
 will be initiated with specialists in computer science, urban planning, and some of the social
 sciences within the near future.

       Government and  Industry  Many members  of the Department of Geography,
 including those  on CESAR'S Executive Committee,  have developed  strong links  with
 community agencies and private  industry.  Extensive community  service  and the many
 demonstrations of CESAR's capability performed for groups visiting CESAR have raised its
 visibility. CESAR's mission includes a significant service component This is accomplished
 through training workshops and contract research for public agencies and private firms. A
 good example of a beneficial type of cooperative relationship with private industry is seen in
 the designation of CESAR as a  Beta site for numerous software manufacturers with whom
 the Center has been involved.

       Other Universities CESAR's relationships extend beyond the Campus boundaries to
other universities. The department is an associated institution of the NCGIA and several of
pur faculty have been involved with the CIS Core Curriculum and some of the CIS research
initiatives. The high esteem in which the department's GIS/RS program is held by peers at
various  institutions  has facilitated the  recruitment of excellent graduate students to the
department and their integration into CESAR projects.
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        Graduate Research Assistants  Graduate research assistants play an important role
 within the structure of CESAR. They are involved in virtually all phases of grant/contract
 research and also lend their expertise to other students using the facility. Research assistants
 for CESAR are selected from the pool of applicants admitted to the department's graduate
 program and ranked for support by the faculty as a whole. From this ranked list, CESAR
 project  directors are given first choice from among the new, in-coming students with
 appropriate technical skills.   After  consultation with  project directors,  those chosen for
 CESAR assignments are  integrated into various projects on the basis of  their skills and
 interests.  Because the primary selection criteria for departmental research assistants  are
 academic performance  (GPAs and  GRE scores), in some instances there are  imperfect
 matches between the technical attributes of those selected for RA support and the  technical
 needs required for specific projects.  This is an occasional problem, but one that must  be
 tolerated within limits because of our desire for CESAR to be integrated with the department.
 These mismatches can usually  be remedied within a short time  by  training RAs in  die
 specific areas they may be lacking.

        Graduate student labor is an essential component of the CESAR operation.  Because
 we have had a stand-alone Master's program (until approval of the joint Ph.D. program with
 UC Santa Barbara in the Fall of 1990), students normally leave the program after two years
 and thus it is necessary  to train new project team members on a frequent  basis.  The
 inefficiencies associated  with this  turn-over are unavoidable  given the  desirability  of
 graduating  Master's students  in a  timely  manner.  However, this  problem should  be
 somewhat diminished by the growth of the PhJX program and the longer tenure of doctoral
 students.

        Another difficulty in relying upon graduate student researchers  is mat at  certain
 points in the semester control over the timing of work schedules is limited because they have
 other responsibilities as students. At times, their commitments to courses may detract from
 the attention they pay to the assistantship assignments. Thus, in the short term there may be
 some interruptions in the flow of project work, causing temporary delays in meeting  project
 deadlines.

        Nonetheless, despite these limitations graduate research assistants  have  done  an
 excellent job for us. As a group they have been quick to acquire new skills, very responsible
 in fulfilling their obligations, eager to accept responsibility, and often  add useful insight to
 the projects in which they are involved.

        Integration of Research and Instruction  Research and instruction are often well
 integrated in courses at the both graduate and undergraduate levels, especially GIS classes.
 This allows students to learn by participating in "real world" projects while at the same time
 the projects benefit through the availability of students to perform fundamental tasks, such as
 map compilation, database development, data processing, and data output, required in the
 research.

       Technical Manger CESAR's technical manager is highly competent, but at times is
 overwhelmed by responsibilities that range from supervising the operation of the Center to
 assisting students and faculty in the  use of the equipment  In terms of the operation of the
 Center, this means that delays sometimes occur in accomplishing certain  tasks required for
 the smooth functioning of the Center and for improving its capability.  Also, because the
 facility has evolved so rapidly, there has been little opportunity to document all procedures
 and information applicable to CESAR. Much of CESAR's operating and project information
 is stored only in the Technical Manager's head!  The loss of our Technical  Manager would
 cause a major disruption in the functioning of CESAR. To sustain his morale and sanity, the
 Technical  Manager has  been  encouraged to  participate in professional meetings and

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 supervised by the Chair, but interacts directly with the Technical Manager, Pis, and members
 of the Executive Committee.

       Graduate Research Assistants. Approximately 20 one-half time graduate research
 assistants are employed in CESAR through the department.  Most of these RAs are supported
 by the grants or contracts on which they are working.  In addition to project work, research
 assistants are assigned evening and weekend blocks of time supervising the use of CESAR.
 This allows CESAR to remain open for research and instructional activities even when the
 Technical Manager  is not on duty.   Research  assistants report directly  to  their  faculty
 supervisors, but interact frequently with the  Technical Manager.  On matters relating to
 payroll and such things as office space, research assistants interact with the  Chair or the
 Department Secretary.

       University Computer Center (UCC) Personnel   The UCC provides a variety of
 hardware and software support for CESAR. UCC personnel maintain ARC/INFO software
 on the central VAX  6000-320 computer and assist the Technical  Manager in the operation
 and maintenance of CESAR's VAX 11/780 computer and its CIS software. UCC also offers
 an equipment repair  service for CESAR's Macintosh and IBM PC computers as well as
 picking-up the cost for a number of software maintenance contracts in support of CESAR.
 Software and hardware support  involves direct communication between the Technical
 Manager and UCC personnel.  Policy matters require direct  communication  between the
 Chair and UCC management

       San Diego State University Foundation  The Foundation is a non-profit auxiliary of
 the university.  It is responsible for  administering  all  university grants and contracts,
 including accounting, purchasing, and payroll functions.   The Department Chair and the
 project directors interact with Foundation personnel on a frequent basis. Each PI is assigned
 a Foundation Project Administrator to coordinate their grant/contract Pis and Foundation
 PAs work closely to ensure the smooth administrative operation of projects.

 Internal Relationships

       It can be concluded from what has been discussed to this point that CESAR is a fairly
 complex operation. Internally, within the department, a variety of relationships exist which
 must function in harmony if CESAR is to be successful.

       Faculty  Involvement  CESAR has a core of five specialists in CIS and remote
 sensing whose professional activities require a  well  equipped  and smoothly functioning
 facility as well as several additional faculty who utilize CIS  within their research and
 teaching activities. The synergism generated by the interaction of several faculty with vested
 interests in the  Center  has provided the energy and dedication needed for  a successful
 operation.

       Much of the  research conducted in CESAR is of interest to more than one faculty
 member. The result is that many projects are co-directed by two or more faculty. This has
 contributed to a high level of cooperation among the CESAR faculty. Several of the projects
involve vegetation mapping.  To facilitate communication, a vegetation specialty group
 involving approximately 15 faculty and students  was established which meets  bimonthly to
 share ideas, to discuss possible solutions to research problems, and to chart future research
 directions. Also, a growing interest in modeling within CIS among faculty using CESAR is
providing a catalyst  for interaction across the traditional physical/human boundaries of the
discipline.
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 projects. Ail graduate research assistants involved in CESAR projects are issued keys to the
 facility and can enter it at any time. Undergraduates can obtain access to CESAR after hours
 by checking out a key for 24 to 48 hours from the Geography Department Office. CESAR is
 available primarily to students enrolled in courses in the Department of Geography, typically
 GIS/RS  and related classes, and Geography faculty and graduate students working on
 research projects. Use by faculty and students outside the department is limited to those who
 are involved in joint research with members of the Geography faculty.

 Responsibilities
       The organization of CESAR reflects several aspects of its evolution and  therefore
 responsibilities for the facility are shared.  As a departmental facility, the Department Chair
 is integrally involved in its overall management As a cooperative instruction and research
 laboratory, faculty are intimately involved in establishing policies and procedures as well as
 day-to-day operational oversight.  The daily operation of the facility is in tile  hands of
 CESAR's Technical Manager. These relationships and their interactions are outlined here.

       Department Chair The Department Chair (Ernst Griffin) is the general manager for
 CESAR with ultimate responsibility for its functioning (Figure 3).  He works closely with the
 Faculty Executive Committee to establish policies and with the Technical Manager to see
 that those  policies  are carried out  He  interacts with upper level administrators in the
 University  Computer Center, the Office of the Vice  President for  Academic Affairs, the
 College of Arts and Letters, and the SDSU Foundation on matters that may affect the well
 being of CESAR. He is also responsible for public relations with these groups.

       Executive Committee  The Executive Committee is comprised of five geography
 faculty (Janet Franklin, Allen Hope, Gerard Rushton, Douglas Stow, and Richard Wright)
 with expertise in DIP, RS, and GIS as well as various application areas such as hydrology,
 biogeography, and decision support systems.  They direct or co-direct approximately 90
 percent of  the funded research conducted in CESAR.   As mentioned  above, committee
 members work closely with the Department Chair on policy matters.  They also provide
 advice to the Technical Manager on CESAR's daily operations and its  technical needs. As
 principal investigators on projects, they give direction to graduate research assistants and
 other students who are working on CESAR projects.   In addition  to the Executive
 Committee, meetings involving all CESAR faculty users (euphemistically called Cesarians)
 are held periodically to discuss topics of importance. The entire faculty of the department is
 also briefed regularly as to the status of CESAR and any changes in policies which may have
 been made.

       Technical Manager The Technical Manager (David McKinsey) is responsible for
 the day-to-day operations of CESAR. He reports to the Department Chair and the Executive
 Committee and interacts with personnel from the University Computer Center, Geography
 faculty, the clerical staff, research assistants,  and students enrolled in GIS, remote sensing,
 spatial statistics, and various classes using GIS/DIP applications. The Technical Manager
 assists faculty and students in the use of GIS/DIP systems, orders supplies, schedules and
 records equipment use,  gives software demonstrations, performs systems and applications
 programming, and maintains hardware, software, and the reference manual library, dearly,
 the Technical Manager is a key figure in the successful operation of CESAR.

       Clerical Assistant  One-half  of  a clerical assistant's position is funded through
 CESAR activities. The Clerical Assistant maintains financial records on CESAR grants and
 contracts, prepares purchase orders for supplies and equipment, types project reports, grant
 and contract proposals,  research papers, and CESAR correspondence.  This person is
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 Security
       The security measures for CESAR'S  hardware and software are moderate at best
 Systematic backup of data is not done but there are a number of protections for software. For
 example, all system software is backed up, account passwords are changed frequently, many
 data sets are available for read access only, and archival data is on tape in a locked room with
limited access privileges.  There is no special security for the equipment except for that
 provided by locked doors, the presence of CESAR staff and research assistants, and nightly
 checks by campus police personnel.  CESAR's vulnerability to vandalism and-iheft, while
 relatively high, has yet to be a problem in the five years of its operation.

 Laboratory Use
       CESAR is a department  facility.  As such, instruction and research use is largely
 confined to geography faculty and to students enrolled in geography courses (See Table 4).

       The SAL portion of CESAR is a combined  lecture/laboratory facility.  It is used
 primarily for those junior-level CIS (and related) classes whose hardware and software needs
 can be met with Macintosh and PC equipment  The lectures for senior/graduate-level
 students(500-numbered courses)  are also  conducted in SAL, but their laboratories must be
 conducted in CESAR to take advantage of CESAR's more sophisticated CIS technology. In
 the graduate portion (600-  and 700-numbers) of the curriculum, classes are taught in the
 seminar room, with CESAR being used for carrying out class-related CIS research activities.

       Approximately 50 percent of the courses listed in Table 4 are offered each semester,
 and have a combined enrollment of approximately 1 IS.   Another  25 students and faculty
 normally work in CESAR on various research projects, making for a total of 140 users who
 must be accommodated each semester.  To  serve this volume of research and instruction,
 priorities have to be set for the use of most equipment.  Students in a particular class have
 priority status for using  equipment during the laboratory  portion of their class.  At other
 times students can sign up for two-hour blocks and can continue working even longer at  a
 station until they are bumped by another person. This  system maximizes access to the
 equipment and works fairly well except near the semester's  end where there is a large
 demand by students who  have waited until the last minute to complete class projects.

       Most CIS courses involve two hours of lecture and three  hours of laboratory per
 week. A typical laboratory session consists of 1/2 hour of demonstration followed by 2 1/2
 hours of work on an exercise or project under the immediate supervision of an experienced
 graduate student assistant  The average student will  spend an additional 4-5 hours of
 laboratory time each week outside of class,  for a total of 7-8 hours of laboratory time per
 week.

       Because it  is largely  a  self-supported facility, principal investigators on funded
 projects who wish to use CESAR in their research are asked to include a CESAR use-charge
 within their budget proposals. Monies generated in this way are used for maintenance and
 up-grading activities within CESAR.

 Operation of CESAR
       During the academic year (September-June), CESAR is open from 8:00 AM to 10:00
 PM, Monday through Friday, and from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on  Saturdays and Sundays.
 Summer hours are from  8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays. The only time that CESAR is
 unavailable for use is on Fridays from  3:00 to 5:00 PM when clean up and preventative
 maintenance are conducted.  After 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday and on weekends, the
 Center is supervised by graduate assistants who are also working on CESAR research
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        • The three large rooms used in CESAR are well designed for their intended uses. A
   30" x 48" computer table for each piece of equipment, a set of four 30" x 72" tables for
   workspace and small group discussion,  map storage cabinets, supplies storage cabinets,
   bookcases for manuals, light tables, numerous  bulletin boards,  white  boards, adjustable
   chairs and a projection screen comprise the furnishings for the  three large rooms.   The
   importance of numerous bulletin boards and white boards for posting work and equipment
   reservations schedules, working illustrations, messages, and informative maps and charts
   cannot be overemphasized.   Likewise, it is important to provide  adequate wall space and
   bookcases for the very large volume of reference manuals typically needed to support use of
   the equipment and the software.

   Hardware

         The  department has put together an impressive  facility  in terms of  hardware
   capability (See Table 2).  On the west side of CESAR, the computer hardware consists of
   clusters of the following equipment: 1) Tektronix graphics terminals, 2) 486 PCs and 3)
   workstations (SUN SPARC and IBM RISC).   The adjoining spatial analysis laboratory
   contains eight 386 PCs and eight Macintosh computers  (4 Mac  Us and 4 Mac nCis),
   eventually to be expanded to 20 student stations.  All hardware and software in the Center is
   internally and externally linked via the Ethernet (See Figure  2).  These linkages include
   connections to the in-house VAX 11/780 as well as to the university's VAX 6000-320.

         CESAR has been outfitted with several different digitizers and many different types
   of printers  and  plotters (See  Table 2).   All are available to students for meeting the
   requirements of both laboratory exercises and research. The equipment is available first on a
   reservation system  then on a first-come-first-served basis. Providing adequate hardcopy
   capability at a low to moderate cost has been and continues to be a difficult problem.  The
   CaJcomp pen plotter, the Tektronix thermal printer, and the LaserWriter are the most popular
   devices for output, but are inadequate for large-size color output requiring extensive polygon
   fill. Other hardcopy technologies, e.g. electrostatic printers, are being considered, but high
   purchase and maintenance costs militate against them.

         In planning the acquisition of computer hardware, we decided that it would be
   preferable to install small numbers (4-8) of several different types of equipment rather than
   large numbers (20 or more) of one or two types.  The advantage of this approach is that it
   maximizes the flexibility and  adaptability of the faculty for  responding to technological
   change and different research/instructional needs.  A negative aspect of this approach is that
   fewer students can be served Having a wide variety of computer hardware, with different
   operating systems, also presents more complex maintenance and  management problems.

   Software

         CESAR's  software  holdings for CIS, DIP, automated  cartography,  and spatial
   statistics are extensive (See Table 3).  Heading the list  of software are ARC/INFO and
   ERDAS.  The former is available on PCs, workstations,  and  the two VAXs, whereas the
   latter is installed on PCs and SUN workstations.  As mentioned previously, ARC/INFO and
   ERDAS are integrated on some stations via the "live link".  ARC/INFO gives the department
   vector CIS capabilities while raster functionalities are provided by ERDAS, SPANS, OSU-
   MAP, IDRISI, and the MAP  H Map Processor.  ARC/INFO, SPANS, and ERDAS are
   employed for both research and instruction.  OSU-MAP, IDRISI, and MAPI!  are used
   primarily for instructional purposes.
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        integrated into courses taught in the department.  Thus there is  a clear and symbiotic
        relationship between the instructional and research goals of CESAR.

        Hardware and Software Acquisitions - Phase 3
              In  recognition  of the importance of continuing  to upgrade CESAR'S  computing
        capability, the department  recently completed  the third  phase of hardware and software
        acquisition.   Since  its inception, teaching and research activities  have  been conducted
        simultaneously within CESAR.  As-the volume of grants/contract activity has expanded, so
        has the number of our faculty who are skilled in IP/GIS and spatial techniques.  From the
        original nucleus of two colleagues teaching two courses per year, we now have seven faculty
        members teaching more than a dozen courses per year in which IP/GIS are incorporated into
        the curriculum.  This parallel growth of instructional and research activities has placed a
        good deal of stress on CESAR facilities.  Therefore, we decided to separate some of the
        instructional functions from  the research activities  in CESAR  in  order to enhance the
        efficiency of both areas.

              To accomplish this goal additional equipment was needed and a $96,000 purchase of
        486 PCs, MAC IlCis, and SUN equipment was made. The funds were provided through a
        loan from the University Foundation which will be  repaid within  18 months from fees
        charged to funded projects using CESAR.

        Physical Plant

              Concurrent with the receipt of new hardware and software in early 1987, 600 square
        feet of floor space was dedicated  to CESAR by  converting  the department's  remote
        sensing/aerial photograph interpretation laboratory into a CIS/DIP facility, which roughly
        tripled the area previously available.  The remote sensing/aerial photography interpretation
        lab was temporarily relocated across the hallway into a portion of the cartography laboratory.

              The space dedicated to CESAR was doubled  the next year  by expanding  into an
        adjacent room, which was obtained in a trade with the Sociology Department The existing
        cartography laboratory (1250 square feet) was split into two rooms, one of which was given
        to Sociology in exchange for the room adjacent to CESAR. The other room, of about 650
        square feet, continued to be dedicated to manual cartography, remote sensing, and map and
        aerial photograph interpretation.  Finally, the space devoted to CESAR was increased to
        3,000 square feet in December of 1990 when new research and office space, built especially
        for the Department of Geography, was occupied.


        IV. OPERATIONAL STAGE

        General Layout

              As the room layout shows (See Figure  1),  CESAR facilities consist of three main
        rooms containing computer equipment The two large rooms on the west separated by a
        CPU room and offices for the Technical Manager and  other CESAR staff, are devoted
        primarily to research activities in GIS/DIP but also accommodate specialized graduate and
        advanced undergraduate courses and independent  student research.  The adjoining  large
        room on the east the Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL),  is used mainly as an instructional
        laboratory for upper division and  graduate courses in GIS, RS, spatial statistics and
        automated cartography. A  darkroom and an office for the Department Cartographer round
        out these new laboratory facilities.
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 Hardware and Software Acquisitions - Phase 2
       As mentioned previously, while  the  initial proposal emphasized  remote sensing,
 within a year of its funding CESAR had evolved into an integrated GIS/RS research and
 instruction facility. In the summer of 1987 a second lottery grant, this one for $93,000, was
 funded by the university to upgrade CESAR to accommodate more students, larger databases
 ~and more sophisticated modeling. These monies were used to purchase Macintosh Ds, 386
 PCs, and additional ARC/INFO and ERDAS capability. In addition, at roughly this same
 time the university provided CESAR with a  VAX  750 mainframe  minicomputer for
 ARC/INFO. While somewhat dated, having a VAX in-house within CESAR permitted us to
 process much larger data sets as well as utilizing "Live-Link" techniques between ERDAS
 and ARC/INFO.  The original VAX 750 was recently replaced with a VAX 780.  The
 university maintains the CESAR VAX and we continue to have full access  to all systems in
 the University Computer Center through an Ethernet link.

       The evolution of the facility as an integrated GIS/RS center was hastened by two
 major grants. Within months after the establishment of CESAR  a contract was awarded to
 Richard Wright by United Enterprises Inc.  to develop a land use GIS for a 9,000-acre portion
 of Otay Ranch in southwestern San Diego County. The primary purpose of this 15-layer
 database was to demonstrate how GIS  technology could  be employed in planning and
 managing the development  of  the Otay Ranch subdivision.   The  owners  of United
 Enterprises who are also directors of the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, were pleased
 with the outcome of the Otay Ranch GIS  pilot project  As a result of this  project a formal
 proposal was submitted by Richard Wright and Ernst Griffin to the Stephen and Mary Birch
 Foundation to support the creation of a center for excellence in environmental and land use
 analysis using GIS and  IP technologies.   The request,  which was funded in September of
 1988  in the amount  of $632,000 over  a five-year period, has several  components: an
endowed chair contribution, graduate research assistant support, database development for
 research and instruction, faculty released time for research and curriculum development,
 hardware and  software  purchases, and  community  outreach  via  a  series  of summer
 workshops.  This grant was  very important to the early development of CESAR in  part
 because it provided a degree of financial stability for several years.

       A second grant that has had a major impact on the early evolution of CESAR was a
 National Aeronautics  and Space Administration  award to Douglas Stow in the amount of
$600,000 over  three years  for a project entitled "Efficient Updates of  Vector-Coded
Geographic  Information  Systems Using Remotely  Sensed  Data".      This  on-going
collaborative effort with ERDAS, ESRI and the San Diego Association of Governments
(SANDAG)  involves research to promote the commercial use of satellite image data and
image  processing systems for updating land use  coverages in regional GISs.  Techniques
have been developed and tested for integrating raster image data with vector GIS coverages.
The techniques have been transferred to SANDAG and  are now being used operationally to
update a 1986 land use inventory to 1990 conditions.   Similar  techniques are now being
employed in another CESAR project for mapping vegetation  and identifying sensitive
habitats in southern California. This grant, with its emphasis on raster-vector integration, has
helped to focus research and instructional activities in CESAR.

       Like all grants and contracts accepted by CESAR, these projects incorporate graduate
students and often advanced undergraduates in the research process.  These students receive
practical training in a wide array of research activities which  enhance their  educational
experience.  A large percentage of our graduate students' theses and seniors' honors projects
emerge from their involvement in sponsored research projects.  At die same time, the
specialized techniques and databases which result from research activities are frequently
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 position 'costs.  Subsequently, Allen Hope was hired to fill this position.  As a result, the
 Center was funded and three faculty with RS/GIS skills were in place.

       One of the reasons that the university supported this initiative was because of the
 excellent possibilities for externally funded projects that could be obtained by researchers
 using RSA5IS_techniques. The department estimated that with qualified faculty the new
 Center could generate a steady-state grant/contract funding base of $150,000 per year after
 four years.   These  projections were evaluated by  the SDSU Foundation's  Development
 Office (the university's research auxiliary) and were considered to be reasonable.,^ a result,
 the  university's administrators may-have felt that they were making a "good investment"
 which could produce tangible returns.

       Overall, we  faced very few hurdles  in pursuing this initiative.  The  university's
 administrators at various levels were very supportive of our ideas and worked to help them
 succeed. We are convinced that this was due to the fact that we had done a great deal of
 groundwork all along the line. As a result, we were able to anticipate questions, provide
 pertinent information in a  timely manner, and intelligently project the impact of the program.
 Further, the department had a Five-Year Plan in place and the proposal fell within the
 objectives defined within the plan. 'The lesson from our experience is clear  homework is
 good.


 ffl. ACQUISITION STAGE

       Since its inception in 1986 there have been three major purchases  of hardware and
 software for CESAR (See Table 1). Two  of these were the  result of successful lottery
 proposals within the university and the third was self-funded through a loan from the SDSU
 Foundation.  These  three main acquisition phases will be discussed here.  In addition, we
 have an on-going  program of purchases to maintain and up-grade CESAR's equipment base
 financed through monies generated by CESAR,

 Hardware and Software  Acquisition • Phase 1

       During the first year of funding the equipment and software actually purchased varied
 little from that which was proposed. The only additions were the  numerous odds and ends,
 such as cables, computer chips, connectors, and supplies, that are essential to the operation of
 a computer facility.  Individually, these  items do not cost much, but in  total  they added
 several thousand dollars to the expenditure.  That  the initial purchase plan survived largely
 intact into the acquisition  stage was due in large part to the detailed planning that was done
 and the short time (approximately three months) between proposal submission and systems
purchase.

       An important aspect of the proposal stage that expedited the acquisition process was
the evaluation of hardware  and software.  Prior  to submitting our proposal, it had been
determined that ARC/INFO and ERDAS software would comprise the primary CIS and DIP
capability of the new facility.  These two packages and the  companies that produce them
- ESRJ and  ERDAS - rated highest in terms of  the factors that we considered to  be
important  when  selecting  software and hardware for a  research/educational facility.
Additionally, both companies recognized  the potential value of having their  software
installed at San Diego State University.  Thus they were very cooperative in  helping us to
define our needs as well as potential solutions. Consequently, when the proposed purchases
went  out  for  bid  ESRI and ERDAS were  the only  vendors  that  could provide
software/hardware with  the capability we needed at a price we  could afford.
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   initiative.  Several independent discussions were held with the Dean of the College of Arts
   and  Letters,  the Dean of the Graduate Division  and Research,  the Vice  President and
   Associate  Vice President for  Academic Affairs, and the Executive Director of the SDSU
   Foundation. We outlined what we wanted to accomplish, what resources we  thought would
   be required, and what we envisioned the results would be  for the department, the College,
   and the university. We emphasized the merits of RS/GIS as an instructional  and a research
_  tool, how our students would  benefit if our ideas were implemented, and howthe initiative
   tied into the long-term planning of the department.  In turn, we received encouragement and
   viable suggestions on'strategies for formulating a proposal.  This may have been the key
   phase in ultimately having a successful project because it involved key decision-makers early
   in the process and may have brought them "on board" psychologically.


   H. PROPOSAL STAGE

          The initial official proposal  to create a center emphasizing remote sensing, the
   precursor of CESAR, was made in two parts during the late Spring of 1986: one through the
   university's "Lottery Funds" competition and a second directly to the Vice President for
   Academic Affairs.  Although the proposals were made  separately, they were integrally
   related in that the first provided the funding for hardware/software while the second made
   position monies available.  Additional proposals  to support CESAR were  submitted and
   funded in subsequent years from the university and externally.

          As a pan of the law creating a state lottery in California, a percentage of the income
   generated is divided among the various pans of the educational community. Within die CSU
   system, a portion of those monies go directly to the individual campuses and are utilized at
   the discretion of the presidents. Because of their sources, these funds are generally to be
   used to benefit the instructional  mission of the  university.  Therefore, the department
   requested $200,000  to develop a center which  focused upon advanced undergraduate and
   graduate instruction  in image processing of remotely sensed  data and its cartographic
   analysis through  geographic  information system technologies.  Given  the skills of the
   existing faculty, the specific foci of the Center were to be hydroclimatology, geomorphoiogy,
   and biogeography with an emphasis upon spatial analysis of form and process.  It was argued
   that the Center would enhance the learning experience of students in geography and closely
   allied disciplines by providing hands-on experience with "sophisticated computer-based
   techniques  in  remote sensing and geographic  information systems".  The proposal  was
   funded in the Summer of 1986.

          The monies provided were used to purchase the initial hardware and software needed
   to equip the lab.  Three ERDAS PC turn-key systems with  IP and CIS  software modules
   were the main components acquired for remote sensing activities, along with peripherals
   such as an electronic digitizer, a video digitizer, a tape drive, an ink-jet printer, and a QCR
   digital video copy camera. Two hand-held radiometers and polycorders were purchased for
   field data  collection.  ARC/INFO software  for use on a VAX minicomputer cluster was
   acquired as die base for our CIS functions along with two Tektronix graphic terminals.  A
   CalComp plotter was also purchased to provide hardcopy.

          Simultaneously, die Vice President for Academic Affairs was asked to approve and
   fund a new entry-level tenure track position that would allow the department to bring in a
   second specialist in  remote sensing of die physical environment so that we could begin to
   create a node of expertise in that area. The  individual hired would be expected to become
   grant active.  To facilitate this latter consideration, a zero-teaching load was  to be assigned
   for die first semester.  The Vice President and die Dean of die College of Arts and Letters
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       In a broader context, during the mid-1980s the department was grappling with ways
to develop an identifiable focus which would allow it to move forward. We were seeking
ways to attract and retain outstanding young faculty while also  improving our program's
stature, locally within the university as well as nationally within the discipline.  At  the same
time  it was  also becoming clear that a revolution was occurring in both software and
hardware, technically as well as cost-wise, that presented exceptional  opportunities  for
geographic research and instruction.  Departments that developed programs which placed
them at the forefront of these changes could have the potential to make enormous strides
quite rapidly.  This  fortuitous conjunction  in a time of departmental soul-searching and
accessible  technological  innovation  was   the  catalyst  which was  to lead  to  the
conceptualization of CESAR.

       The combination of RS/DIP/GIS  as the technical focus of the department offered a
number of benefits.  First,  we had a small  but  highly skilled nucleus of faculty  (Richard
Wright and Douglas Stow) already working in these areas. By adding to this core, we felt we
could bring about change  without major disruptions in  existing activities.   Second,  the
techniques were applicable to problems in both human and physical geography thus allowing
us to reach a  wide range of  student and faculty interests.  We also perceived that this would
allow us to develop a facility which could broadly benefit the faculty as a whole and act as an
inducement to attract new faculty. Third, we felt strongly that students with a background in
these areas would be much  better prepared for spatial problem solving. We concluded that
curricular changes in this direction would  be a significant benefit for our majors, both
graduate and undergraduate.  Fourth, application of these techniques to spatial problems
could provide significant advancements to geographic knowledge. This complimented  the
desire of the faculty to increase their opportunities  to do good,  basic scientific research.
Fifth, image processing and CIS could be used to develop cross-disciplinary research ties on
campus, an important consideration from both a scientific and political perspective. Sixth,
there are excellent  external grant/contract  opportunities for  faculty  working with  these
techniques. Because of limitations inherent in the California State University system budget,
it was important for the department to  attempt to broaden its base of financial support
Finally, the public relations or "gee whiz" effect of the techniques was very strong and mis
could have an important impact upon administrators  in control of funding.  Virtually all of
the university's higher administration is composed of  people trained in the sciences and they
recognized the importance  of computers in research and instruction.  Along with several
additional positives, we  concluded that an initiative to create a major laboratory facility in
RS/GIS should be pursued vigorously.

       Clearly, the pre-1987 situation had to be drastically upgraded if the department was to
conduct  a  major program  of RS/GIS  instruction and research commensurate  with  the
expertise and professional aspirations of the concerned faculty.  Thus, the Department Chair
(Ernst Griffin) along with Profs. Wright and Stow set  about to determine what was needed to
create an adequate laboratory. A number of hardware and software vendors were contacted
for information and a great deal of literature was perused.  Several persons who had hands-on
experience with various systems  configurations in established labs were contacted for their
opinions and advice.  After a possible hardware/software configuration was agreed upon
internally, we invited a consultant (Dr. John Jensen, Department of Geography, University of
South Carolina) to  critique pur thinking.  As  a result of his  visit a revised plan was
established which gave us  significantly  greater flexibility and growth potential  than our
original design.  The cost of bringing in someone intimately familiar with setting up a  lab
proved to be very worthwhile and cost effective.

       Once  we felt that we had an adequate idea of what was needed, informal contacts
were  made with key administrators on campus to solicit their  views and  suggestions as to
how to proceed as well as to try to gauge the degree to which they might  support our

                          	
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      San Diego State University


          THE CENTER FOR EARTH SYSTEMS ANALYSIS RESEARCH
                                       (CESAR):

        AN INTEGRATED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND

                 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING LABORATORY


            The Department of Geography at San Diego State University houses the Stephen and
      Mary Birch Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research (CESAR).  Originally proposed in
      the summer of 1986 as a facility emphasizing remote sensing, CESAR instead evolved into a
      ttate-of-the-art, integrated  geographic  information systems  (CIS)  and  digital image
      processing (DIP) laboratory. CESAR serves a dual function as both an instructional facility
      and a research laboratory supporting externally funded grants and contracts. Specific courses
      at the upper division and graduate levels as well as independent student research occur within
      CESAR.  Simultaneously, a wide-variety of funded activities are in place. In mid-1991 the
      total value of projects in progress was nearly $2 million and included international, national,
      state and local-level projects funded by public and private sector institutions.

            To provide a  context of the academic environment in which CESAR functions, a
      thumb-nail sketch of the university and department seems appropriate.  San Diego State
      University is the flagship campus of the 20-member California State University system. A
      comprehensive university with  some 33,000 students, SDSU offers bachelor's degrees in 76
      areas, the master's degree  in 56, and the doctorate in 8, including geography.  Several
      departments in the university have gained national stature for the quality of their programs.
      The faculty attracted nearly  $45 million dollars in research awards in 1990-1991. Within the
      Department of Geography there are 20.5 faculty positions to serve some 165 undergraduate
      and 50 graduate majors.  Approximately 5,000 students per year take classes in Geography.
      The department's primary specialties include GIS, cartography, remote sensing/DIP, and
      spatial statistics as applied  to problems in urban and behavioral geography, biogeography,
      environmental geography, and  Latin America.  The Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and
      Doctor of Philosophy (offered  jointly with the  University of California, Santa Barbara) as
      well as a Certificate in GIS are awarded in Geography.


      I. CONCEPTUAL STAGE

            Prior to  1987 the  department's ability to conduct  a program of research and
      instruction involving digital cartography, GIS, DIP, and remote sensing was severely limited
      by inadequate facilities. Although courses in automated cartography and remote sensing had
      been offered for more than  a decade, the level of technology  employed was very low. For
      example,  as late as 1986,  image processing was  limited to two or three small software
      packages, such as M1CROPIPS, running on a single IBM PC. Automated cartography (AC)
      and GIS courses were supported largely with Harvard software (e.g.. SYMAP and GRID),
      DISSPLA, basic plot subroutines, and other graphic packages  residing on die university's
      CYBER mainframe computer.  These programs were accessed  by telephone lines via 300-
      baud modems and displayed  on four "dumb"  terminals. In-house graphics capabilities
      consisted  of a Tektronix 4027 CRT, a Hitachi 42-inch digitizer, and a  12-inch Zeta plotter.
      All of the equipment was housed in a room of less than 200  square feet The two courses
      taught  annually  in  remote  sensing  and  automated cartography enrolled a  total  of
      approximately 20 students.  Because no staff support was  available for these activities,
      technical supervision  was provided by the two faculty with expertise in RS/AC and by some
      of the graduate students enrolled in the courses.
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       GIS TEACHING FACILITIES:
       Six Case Studies on the Acquisition and
             Management of Laboratories
                          Edited by:

                 Stephen D. Palladino and Karen K. Kemp
             National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
                  University of California at Santa Barbara
                        September, 1991
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                                                        San Diego State University

                                                        Excerpt from:
                                                        •GIS Teaching Facilities:
                                                        Six Case Studies on the Acquisition
                                                        and Management of Laboratories.1
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          	   DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
          STEPHEN AND MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION
     CENTER FOR EARTH SYSTEMS ANALYSIS RESEARCH
                 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY


    The Stephen and  Mary Birch  Foundation Center for Earth Systems
Analysis Research (CESAR) is a computer-based research and instruction
facility  administered by the Department of Geography.  The purpose of the
Center  is to apply state-of-the-art technology in Image processing,  remote
sensing,  geographic information  systems,  automated cartography and
numerical modeling to  problems with a spatial dimension.  Research con-
ducted  by the  CESAR is directed at both applied and fundamental problems
in fields ranging from biophysical remote sensing to urban planning.  This
research  includes computer-based  map and image data processing and
spatial simulation modeling as well as field experimentation. Current and in
progress grants and contracts are in  excess of 2.0 million djollars.


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                                                        San Diego State University

                                                        Descriptive information: Dept of
                                                        Geography.         ~
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                              San Diego Regional Vehicle Occupancy and Classification Study-1990
                              (September 1990)
                              Regional Transportation Improvement Program (July 1990)
                              1992 TransNet FY90 Annual Report (July 1990)
                              San Diego Traffic Generators (January 1990)
                              Regional Transportation Models (June 1988)

                              INFO bulletins:
                                San Diego Freeways Levels of Service (INFO '92, No. 2)
                                1990 Regional Transit Survey (INFO '91, No.S)      —
                              Maps:
                                1991  Average Weekday Traffic Volume Map (the Metropolitan Area and
                                North County maps are at a 1"- 6,000* scale, the East County map is at a
                                scale of  f"-2mi.)
                                San Diego Regional. Bicycling Map (1"-1 mile scale)
                                Regional Transit Map
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                General and Community Plans
                      •  General Plan Changes in the San Diego Region (March 1990)
                      •  INFO Bulletins:
                           The Region's General Plans (INFO '87, No. 5)
                Employment Estimates/Activity Centers
                     _•  1988 Employment Estimates (January 1990)*
                      •  INFO
                            1990 Regional Employment Inventory (INFO *91, No. 6)^  ~
                            1990 Activity Centers (INFO '90, No. 5)              *
                Land Use
                    - •  Regionally Significant Open Space—Definition (July 1990)
                      •  1986 Land Use Inventory (January 1987)*
                      •  INFO Bulletin:
                           Land Usf Patterns in the San Diego Region (INFO '86, Special Issue)
                      •  Map:
                           1990 Land Use Inventory (1"«2 mile scale)
                Criminal Justice
                      •  Crime in the San Diego Region-Annual Report (March 1992)
                      •  Inmate Population Management Studies (January 1991)
                      •  Indicators of Drug Use in San Diego County (October 1990)
                      •  Impact of Illegal Immigration of the Criminal Justice System (August 1989)
                      •  Needs Assessment: San Diego County Justice System,  1987 (May 1988)
                Transportation/Transit
                         1991 Congestion Management Program (November 1991)
                         1990 Regional Transit Survey (October 1991)
                         Transportation Control Measures for the Air Quality Plan (June 1991)
                         Average Weekday Traffic Volumes 1986-1990 (May 1991)
                         Bicycle Counts at Selected Intersections in San Diego County 1990
                         (February 1991)
                         Regional Transportation Plan (January 1991)
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Population and Housing Estimates
      •  January 1, 1991 Population and Housing Report (February 1992)*
      •  Population and Housing Estimation System-Revised Users Manual and Technical
         Documentation (September 1988)
      •  INFO Bulletins:
           January 1, 1991 Population and Housing Estimates (INFO '91, No. 4)
DemogTaphic/EconomicrCharacteri sties
      •  1990 Household Income Estimates (May 1991)"
      •  1988 Household Income and Expenditure Patterns (August 1990)*
      •  INFO Bulletins:
           San Diego Fact Sheet (INFO '92, No. 1)
           Demographic Characteristics of the San Diego Region (INFO '91, No. 3)
           1990 Public School Enrollment (INFO '91, No. 1)
           Vital Events  in the San Diego Region (INFO '90, No. 6)
           Trends and Comparisons in Economic Indicators (INFO '90, No. 3)
           Demographic Maps of San Diego (INFO '89, No. 6)
           Daytime Population 1986 and 2010 (INFO '89, No. 1)
           Comparing San Diego (INFO '88, No. 1)
           Purchasing Power in the San Diego Region (INFO '86, No. 2)
Regional Growth Forecast
      •  DEFM Forecast 1990 to 2015, Vol. II-Technical Forecasting Manual and User's
         Guide (December 1991)
      •  DEFM Forecast 1990 to 2015, Vol. m-Database Documentation and Update
         Manual (December 1991)
      •  Comprehensive Plan for the San Diego Region, Vol. 10 (October 1989)
      •  Overview of the Regional Growth Forecasting System (October 1989)
      •  Series 7 Growth Forecast-Water and Sewer Agencies (May 1989)
      •  Final Series 7 Regional Growth Forecast Land Use Inputs (October 1988)
      •  Demographic and Economic Forecast 1960-2010 (April 1987)*
      •  INFO Bulletin:
           Series 7 Regional Growth Forecast (INFO '89, No. 2)
           Population Growth in the San Diego Region 1900-2010 (INFO '88, Special
           Issue)
           Series 7 Regionwide Forecast (INFO '87, No. 1)
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                                                   APPENDIX A
                                 REPORTS AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
                 Current reports pertaining to each of the data bases described earlier in this report are listed
                 here.  Publications containing data as well as those providing a technical discussion of the
                 methodology used are included.   Also included is a list of INFO Bulletins that relate to
                 each topic area.  INFO Bulletins, available individually or on a subscription basis, are
                 published seven times a year and contain information about recently produced or updated
                 data bases.  For more information about these reports and the cost (if any) associated with
                 them,  contact SANDAG's Public Information Specialist at (619) 595-5300.

                 Census
                       •  1990 Census: Housing Characteristics (October 1991)*
                       •  1990 Census: Population by Age and Race/Hispanic Origin (August  1991)*
                       •  Population by Race: '80 &  '90 Census Comparisons (April 1991)*
                       •  1990 Census: Population by Race (April 1991)*
                       •  1990 Census: Hispanic Population by Race (April  1991)*
                       •  1990 Census: Total Population and Housing Units  (April 1991)*
                       •  INFO Bulletins:
                             1990 Census Detailed Characteristics (INFO '92, No. 3)
                             1990 Census: Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Overview (INFO '92,
                             Special Issue)
                             1990 Census Jurisdiction Profile (INFO '92, Special Issue)
                             1990 Census Population and Housing Characteristics (INFO '91, Special Issue)
                             1990 Census Race  and Hispanic Origin (INFO '91, No. 2)
                             1990 Statistical Areas (INFO '91, Special Issue)
                             1990 Census (INFO '90, No. 2)
                             San Diego Migration Patterns (INFO '85, No. 5)
                             Public Use Micro-Data Sample for the San Diego Region (INFO '84. No. 8)
                       •  Maps:
                             1990 Census Tracts With Subregional Areas (1"«2 mile scale)
                             1990 Census Tracts and Blocks (I"-800' scale)
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       Natural Resource Areas
              •   Agricultural preserves
              •   Agricultural contract lands
              •   Important farmlands
              •   Sensitive soils
              •   National Wetlands Inventory (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
              •   Hydrography
              •   Hydrologic basins
              •   California Natural Diversity data base
              •   Coastal sage scrub
              •   MSCP vegetation (Multiple Species Conservation Program study area)
              •   MHCP vegetation (North County Wildlife Forum Multiple Habitat Conservation
                  Program study area)
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  Transportation
         •   Freeways
         •   Major roads
         •   Minor roads
         •   Local roads
         •   PailmarU
         •   Street annotation for freeways, interstates, major and  minor streets
         •   Street network files for highway modeling                    ~~
         •   Transit network files for transit ridership models
         •   Local jurisdiction circulation element streets
         •   DIME file
  Land Based
  ^•^•AM^^EHHAiK                   ^
         •   1986 and 1990 generalized land use
         •   1980, 1986 and 1990 land ownership
         •   General and Community plans
         •   Generalized steep slope (25%+) and flood plain boundaries
         •   Fault lines
  Urban Activities
         •   Activity centers  (major employers, office buildings, industrial parks, schools,
             Hospitals, shopping centers)
         •   Elementary, junior high and high schools
         •   Existing landfills
         •   Employment sites
  Base Map Features
         •   Public lands survey (township, range, sections, ranches)
         •   County boundary
         •   Shoreline, lakes, lagoons, major streams
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                           BOUNDARY FILES AND COVERAGES
    As discussed in the Data Bases section of this report, SANDAG maintains an updated version
    of the DIME file as the street centeMine data base.* Also maintained as pan of the
    geographic information system is a collection of boundary files and coverages for geographic
    areas and features such as census tracts, jurisdictions! boundaries, special districts, freeways,
    local streets, and natural resource^reas. These files are used in data analysis, modeling,
    reporting and tabulating data, and for graphically portraying data in map form.  User-defined
    areas, such as service areas, can be digitized (put into computer-readable format) and added
    to the collection of boundary files. -These files can then be used in a computer overlay
    process to tabulatrand map data for those areas. The following is a list of the coverages and
    boundary files maintained as part of the Regional Information System.
    Boundary files
           •   Census tract boundaries (1980 and 1990)
           •   Census block and block group boundaries (1980 and 1990)
           •   Census Designated Places (CDP)
           •   Subregional Areas (SRA)
           •   Major Statistical Areas (MSA)
           •   North  County Transit District (NCTD) and Metropolitan Transit Development
               District (MTDB) service area boundaries
           •.  Jurisdictional boundaries (January 1, 1991)
           •   City and County of San Diego community planning areas
           •   Spheres of Influence (10 cities have spheres of influence that indicate likely areas
               of future annexation)
           •   San Diego City Council and County Supervisorial districts
           • •  Zip codes
           •   School, water, sewer and fire districts *
           •   Traffic analysis zones
           •   Airport noise contours, accident potential zone (APZ) contours and runways
           •   Master Geographic Reference Areas (MGRAs): The smallest geographic unit
               maintained in  the regional information system, created by overlaying census
               block and tract boundaries, jurisdiction boundaries,  Community Plan Area
               boundaries, and other geographic areas to form about 25,000 unique geographic
               areas that can be aggregated to form user-defined areas.
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on existing and future land uses.  The models are updated based on information obtained
from the Travel Behavior Survey and On-Board Transit Survey, while existing and future
land use patterns are obtained from the Regional Growth Forecast.  TRANPLAN is
commonly used to evaluate the traffic impacts of proposed development and improvements
to the region's existing and future highway and transit systems.  The model is also used to
analyze person or transit trip movements between areas.

In addition to each jurisdiction's Circulation Element of the General Plan, SANDAG
maintains two computerized street network systems-a highway modeling network and a
transit modeling network. The networks are used in transportation modeling, facility site
location analysis, and computer map generation.

The highway modeling network consists of all freeways, prime arterials, major arterials, and
some  smaller streets for the purpose of connectivity. Included are current street/road
patterns as well as future configurations. Some of the attributes associated with each street
segment are link distances, peak and offpeak travel times, posted speeds, name descriptors,
traffic volumes, functional road classifications, capacity (the amount of traffic which can
effectively flow through a section of roadway), and signal or stop sign controls.

The transit modeling network is a subset of the highway network. All street links with transit
activity are contained in the transit network Mies. All routes and their possible configurations
are represented. Street links with transit service have a number of attributes associated with
them, including route numbers which use the link,  frequency of service  or headways, number
of bus stops, travel times, bus speeds, and  fare structures.  Bus speeds and travel times are
based on a relationship to auto speeds and drive times, number of bus stops, bus stop
activity, and time of day.  1986 and 1990 base year networks are maintained, as well as
future networks for  1995, 2000, and 2010.

A short-range transit model called STOPS is used in evaluating the demographic and
economic characteristics of potential transit riders.   It is an interactive menu-driven micro-
computer data retrieval system that includes graphics capabilities. Information such as  race,
gender, age, housing value, and employment characteristics can be obtained for the
population within user-specified distances from existing or proposed transit stops.
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                                         MODELS
     Regional Growth Forecasting Models

     There are two phases to the forecasting process and four major models used to obtain the end
     results. The first phase uses the Demographic and Economic Forecasting Model (DEFM),
     which produces a forecast for the San Diego region. DEFM combines a population-
     employment forecasting model with an economic impact analysis system. It uses a series of
     econometric equations, derived from historical data, which reflect the interaction between
     economic forces and population growth. The model produces annual forecasts for the region
     which represent the overall demand for housing and jobs over a 25-year forecast period.
     DEFM consists of six sectors which are directly or indirectly linked. The sectors are
     population,  employment, income, construction, prices, and public finance.

     The second  phase uses two allocation models to distribute the regional forecast to subareas
     within the region. The first of the subregional allocation models is the Employment
     Allocation Model (EMPAL). It produces the future distribution of employment. This
     distribution  becomes the input to the second model used in the allocation process, the
     Projective Land Use Model (PLUM).  PLUM allocates other activities, such as population
     and housing units to subareas based upon the location of employment, the capacity to absorb
     additional development, and transportation accessibility.

     The final model used in the forecasting process in the Sophisticated Allocation Process
     (SOAP).  SOAP is a micro-allocation model that distributes the subregional level forecast
     from PLUM/EMPAL to the smallest geographic component, the Master Geographic
     Reference Area (MGRA).  The allocation of development activities to MGRAs is determined
     by two primary factors-the availability of appropriate land for that activity and the
     accessibility to employment opportunities.
     Transportation and Transit Models

     Transportation modeling efforts utilize the transit and socio-economic data bases and transit
     networks described elsewhere in this report, as well as a number of others unique to
     transportation planning.  The Transportation Planning Package (TRANPLAN) is a set of
     computer programs that assist in regional and subregional planning of street, highway, and
     transit facilities. TRANPLAN includes a system of trip generation, trip distribution, and
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 information on occupancy counts over time and indicate whether programs to encourage
 higher vehicle occupancy through ridesharing programs prove to be effective.
 Freeway Level of Service Analysis
 Traffic engineers utilize a level of service (LOS) rating to indicate the degree of congestion
 along freeway segments.  Although there are various methods to determine these ratings, the
 method used locally is based upon the "volume/capacity* concept (the number of vehicles
 divided by the freeway segment's capacity). Related to this calculation is vehicle density (the
 number of vehicles per mile per lane) and the average travel speed.  Using this methodology,
 with vehicle counts provided by CALTRANS, six LOS ratings have been defined. Current
 and historic weekday LOS information for 61 locations along the region's 11 freeways is
 maintained.  Hourly LOS data are also available to help evaluate the spreading of peak
 period  travel time. By monitoring traffic conditions over time, areas with the most critical
 levels of congestion can be addressed.
 Bicycle Use Survey
 The Regional Bicycle Counting Program identifies directional bicycle volumes at major street
 intersections.  To conduct the counts, surveyors are stationed at intersections throughout the
 region in the morning between 6:00a.m. and 9:00a.m. and in the afternoon between
 3:00p.m. and 6:00p.m.  Separate counts of adult riders, children, and those on mopeds are
 taken.  This study is conducted approximately every two years, with many of the sites
 staying the same each year to allow for the analysis of data over time. In 1990, counts were
 taken at 71 locations.  The information is used by local government agencies in planning for
 and providing a regional network of safe bicycle routes and facilities that will encourage
 people to use the bicycle as an alternative means of commuting. The next bicycle counts are
 scheduled for Fall 1993.
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        other performance data to the region's fixed-route transit operators. In addition to boardings
        and alightings, the number of passenger and revenue miles, average trip lengths, passenger
        and revenue minutes, standing and seating capacity, maximum loads, gallons of fuel used,
        miles of service over capacity, and on-time performance indicators also are measured for
        each route. Transit operators usejhis information to correct running times, determine the
        frequency of service, analyze route configurations and bus stop locations, and to analyze the
        need for facility improvements and equipment changes.
        Trolley Ridership Estimation Program
        Since the Trolley is a barrier-free-system (no turnstiles, etc.) it is not feasible to count the
        number of persons boarding and alighting each vehicle to determine ridership.  It is therefore
        necessary to estimate ridership by combining information collected from vendomat machines
        with survey information collected on-board the vehicles by fare inspectors.  The purpose of
        the fare inspector surveys is to determine the percentage of passengers using a monthly pass
        or other types of fare media not requiring the use of vendomat machines. By combining data
        from these two sources (vendomat machines  and fare inspector survey data), a monthly
        estimate of ridership by fare payment type is produced.  Average ridership for weekdays,
        Saturdays, and Sundays are calculated for the system and by line.  A data base is maintained
        that contains trolley ridership information dating back to 1981, when trolley service began.
        Average Daily Traffic Volumes
        Each jurisdiction annually conducts vehicle counts on local streets and arterials, while
        CALTRANS performs vehicle counts on the region's freeways.  Each agency makes those
        counts available to SANDAG for inclusion on the Average Weekday Traffic Volume map
        that is published each year.  The 24-hour volumes are standardized to represent traffic
        volumes on an average weekday. Also published is a report listing all street segments and
        their current and historical volumes over a five year period.
        Vehicle Occupancy and Classification Survey
        Vehicle occupancy monitoring programs were conducted in the San Diego region in 1981,
        1985, and 1990. Each year, Meld counts at one hundred locations were made on non-holiday
        weekdays during the morning peak commute period (6:30 a.m. to 8:  a.m.), with counts
        recorded  at 15-minute intervals. At the same time that occupancy counts were made, field
        surveyors determined vehicle classification data (trucks, passenger vehicles, motorcycles,
        etc.). The results of the vehicle occupancy monitoring program are used to evaluate facility
        needs, mode splits, vehicle emissions, and fuel consumption.  The data also provide
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California Natural Diversity Data Base
The California Natural Diversity Data Base is a state-wide data base developed by the
California Department of Fish and Game. If contains information on rare, threatened or
endangered plant and animal sightings.  SANDAG's version of the data base contains point
locations for species sightings within the San Diego region only.  Although it is not a
comprehensive inventory of all rare plant and animal species, it provides historical and
current information on sightings of rare plants and animals.
TRANSPORTATION-RELATED DATA BASES

Travel Behavior Survey
Li 1986, a travel behavior survey was conducted of almost 3,000 randomly selected
households in the region.  The two primary purposes of the survey were to obtain trip origin
and destination information and to determine travel patterns throughout the region.  This
information is used to calibrate the trip generation, trip distribution, and mode split models
that are part of the regional transportation modeling package. For this survey, each
household member was asked to  keep a trip diary of his or her travel during the assigned
travel day. This information included trip purpose, location, trip length, mode of travel, and
vehicle occupancy.  Household characteristics obtained from the survey include household
size, tenure, structure type, income, and vehicle ownership.  This survey is updated  every 10
years.
On-Board Transit Survey
The most recent on-board transit survey was completed in the Fall of 1990.  Over 40,000
surveys were collected on-board the region's 90 transit routes. The survey was conducted to
determine trip-making characteristics such as purpose, fare used, mode of access to and from
transit stops, and the origin and destination of the trip. In addition, the demographic
characteristics of transit riders were obtained, including age, gender, income, occupational
status, number of vehicles available, household size, geographic area of residence, and
frequency of use of public transit.  The survey results are used by the region's fixed-route
transit operators in their transit planning activities.
Regional Transit Passenger Counting Program
This program updates passenger boardings and alighting* by bus stop on an annual basis.
While the program was initiated in 1979 to satisfy Urban Mass Transit Administration (now
Federal Transit Administration) requirements, it is also designed to provide ridership and
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National Wetlands Inventory
The National Wetlands Inventory, developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains
data on wetlands in the San Diego region.  The information was collected in 1985 and
identifies over 140 types of wetlands.  The classification system is hierarchical and structured
around a combination of ecological, hydrological and substrate characteristics.  The data base
contains wetland classifications for rivers, streams and creeks as well as for water bodies
such as lakes, lagoons, and bays^ ~
Hydrography
The hydrographic data base contains streams and their direction of flow replicating the
stream drainage patterns in the region.  Digital files were obtained from the Teak Data
Center in Sacramento.  The data base was developed in cooperation with the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and is based on digital files from the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Important Farmlands
The State of California Department of Conservation Farmland Mapping and Monitoring
Program inventories important farmlands in the state.  The data base contains information on
the location of prime and unique farmlands, grazing lands, and farmlands of state-wide or
local importance in the region.  This information is updated every two years.
Agricultural Lands
Agricultural preserves and Williamson Act contract lands are included in this data base.
Land within agricultural preserves is classified into three land use categories-urban prime
(parcels located within three miles of cities of 25,000+ population), other prime, and
nonprime (grazing land, which is the major agricultural contract land in San Diego County).
Vegetation
Various efforts are currently under way to collect information on natural vegetation
communities and sensitive habitats in the San Diego region.  These include the City of San
Diego's Clean Water Program Multi-Species Conservation Plan, the Metropolitan Water
District's Pipeline 6 study, and well as efforts by local agencies and the North County
Wildlife Forum. All of the vegetation and habitat data bases will be joined into one seamless
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The 1990 Land Use Inventory reflects land use patterns in the region as they were in June,
1990.  The file was created using new technologies involving satellite imagery and change
detection procedures.  Multi-date imagery, from 1986 to 1990, were viewed simultaneously
to produce a composite image which highlighted areas of change. Using the image as a
backdrop, new land uses were added to the file. Ancillary resources, such as color infra-red
photography, Thomas Bros, maps, USGS topographical mips, the employment inventory,
and the activity centers data base were used to identify over 70 types of land uses. A color
1* to 2 mile scale Generalized Land Use map is available that portrays 19 categories of land
use. The digital file can be used to tabulate and plot any combination of land uses.  The
land use inventory is updated approximately every five years for use in the Regional Growth
Forecast and  the Regional Transportation  Plan.
Public Ownership
The 1990 Public Ownership File inventories lands owned by public agencies. Eleven
categories of federal, state and local agencies are contained in the data base.  Information
was obtained from local jurisdictions, the County of San Diego Tax Assessor, and other
public agencies such as the California Department of Forestry, California Department of
Parks and Recreation, and water and school districts. The data base is updated
approximately every five years in conjunction with the Regional Growth Forecast.
Public Land Survey
The Public Land Survey, developed primarily by the U.S. Geological Survey, shows
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township and range lines and the resulting sections and ranches in the region's land base
survey.
Steep Slopes
This data base identifies areas in the region with a slope of 25 percent or more.  The original
mapped information was created by the U.S. Geological Survey using a photomechanical
process to translate the distance between contours into percentage slope.  The digital data
base was created by electronically scanning the mapped information and converting it to
ARC/INFO format.
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EMPLOYMENT-RELATED DATA BASES

Employment Estimates
The 1990 Regional Employment Inventory is the most current compilation of site-level
employment statistics.  The inventory reflects an estimate of average annual employment
(from the Economic Development Department) classified by industry at the place of work
and is comprised of three components: civilian wage and salary employment, self-employed
and domestic workers, and military employment.  Since 1972, employment inventories have
been produced by SANDAG for use in transportation studies, public facilities analyses,
growth forecasts, and other applications.  An historical series such as this allows for analysis
of regional employment trends in terms of type of employment, number and size of
employers, and geographic distribution.  The Employment Inventory is updated every two
years.
Activity Centers
"Activity centers" are facilities and institutions that attract large numbers of people and
generate high volumes of vehicle trips on a regular basis. The 1990 Activity Centers
Inventory contains data on eight different types of facilities: major employers, office
buildings, industrial parks, government centers, shopping centers, hospitals, tourist attractors,
and schools.  The location, size, number of employees, and date of establishment is
maintained for each facility.  Each facility is given a unique identification number which
allows tracking over time even though the name or location may change. The information
can be used to evaluate the need for additional facilities, to perform transportation demand
analyses, assist in land use planning, and to monitor growth forecasts.  The Activity Centers
inventory is updated every year.
LAND .USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BASES

General and Community Plans
An important data base is developed as a direct result of the Regional Growth Forecast
process.  This is a computer-readable file of General/Community plans, which contains
planned land use information for each jurisdiction. Information about lands constrained from
private development by policy, public ownership, or for environmental reasons is also
maintained.  By performing a series of computer overlays of existing land use, planned land
use, and constrained lands, net developable acres by land use category can be tabulated and
mapped. Also maintained is a computer-readable file of each jurisdiction's Circulation
Element of the General Plan.
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 .geographic areas to allow for aggregation to user-defined and other non-standard geographic
 areas.
 Demographic Characteristics Estimates
 While it is important to address planning issues on the basis of the overall change in
 population size, changes in the characteristics of the population can be of equal or greater
 significance. For example, changes in the age structure affect school, health care, and
 marketing issues.  Estimates of the population by age, racial/ethnic composition, and
 household income are developed down to the census tract level of geography.  The
 demographic characteristics program has two purposes. The first is to provide current
 information and update key trends in the region's demographic make-up. The second is to
 analyze these changes and their impact on various planning issues in the region.  These
 estimates are produced every two years.
  Regional Growth Forecast
  In cooperation with local jurisdictions, a forecast of population, housing, employment, and
  land use is developed. The first step in the process is to develop a regionwide forecast.  A
  subregional forecast is then prepared based on the General/Community plans each jurisdiction
  has in place at the time  the forecast is produced. (See "Regional Growth Forecasting
  Models" in the Models section of this report.)

  The current subregional forecast, Series 7, portrays the likely timing and distribution of
  future population, housing, and employment for the years 1995, 2000, and 2010.  This
  forecast is currently being updated in a cooperative effort between SANDAG and local
  jurisdictions.  The Series 8 Regional Growth Forecast uses the 1990 Census as the base and
  will provide information for the years 2000, 2010, and 2015.  For the first time, the
  subregional forecast will include projections of the population by four ethnic groups, age,
  and sex.  The preliminary Series 8 subregional allocation is scheduled for release in the Fall
  of 1992.
  Criminal Justice Data
  The Criminal Justice Research Division collects and maintains historic and current crime and
  justice-related information from the region's ten local law enforcement agencies.  Statistical
  data, such as crimes and clearance rates by type of offense, characteristics of crimes and
  victims, and offender characteristics are examples of the types of information available in
  tabular and graph form.
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      Since the DIME file's inception for the 1970 Census, SANDAG has updated and maintained
      a street center-line data base, making the file an integral part of the regional information
      system.  The "enhanced DIME file" now includes 1990 Census geographic area information
      from the TIGER file, shape nodes, zip codes, private roads and full county coverage.

      There are two special files that are scheduled for release in 1993." The first is the Census
      Transportation Planning Package (CTPP). In this file census data are aggregated to special
      transportation planning zones to provide demographic information and travel characteristics
      about people at  their place of work. The CTPP includes journey-to-work data (including
      origin and destination information) means of transportation to work, travel times, socio-
      economic characteristics of workers, and other census information about persons and
      households.

      The second special file is the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).  PUMS files consist of
      a sample of actual census records (stripped of name and address) that allow the user to
      produce special  crosstabulations of information, such as age of householder by household
      income. Because of the small sample.size of this file; the information is available only for
      areas of 100,000 persons or more.  There will be two PUMS files, one a five percent sample
      and the second a one percent sample.  In San Diego,  geographic areas in the five percent
      sample Mle will  be defined as 13 groups of subregional  areas, with the population in each
      group ranging from just over 100,000 to about 350,000. The one percent sample will also
      have information for 13 areas, but those areas are defined as the four cities over 100,000 in
      population (Chula Vista, Escondido, Oceanside, and San Diego), with the City of San Diego
      divided into  nine areas and a total for the remainder of  the county.
      Population and Housing Estimates
      Population growth in the region is monitored through annual population and housing
      estimates, developed in cooperation with local agencies and the California State Department
      of Finance (DOF).  The estimates provide intercensal estimates of the size and geographic
      distribution of the population for jurisdictions and census tracts.  The estimates use the
      census as their base and are prepared using the "housing unit method", the most commonly
      used technique for making subcounty population and housing units estimates.  The
      components of this method are total housing units, occupancy rates.average household size,
      and the number of people living in group quarters (such as military barracks and college
      dormitories.) Using building completion and demolition data and group quarters  and
      annexation information provided by local agencies, DOF produces annual estimates for each
      jurisdiction. SANDAG then produces estimates at the census tract level that are controlled to
      the jurisdictional totals. Every two years, the estimates are produced for very small

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                                    DATA BASES
Historical, current, and projected data of many types are maintained as pan of the Regional
Information System.  Some are primary data bases, created by SANDAG specifically for use
in regional and local planning activities.  Others axe secondary in nature, compiled from
outside sources.

In most cases, information from each data base is available in summary format in printed
reports, bulletins, or in computer-readable format (ASCII or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet format).
Technical reports describing the methodology used to produce the data are also available for
some data bases.  Appendix A lists the data and technical reports containing information
about the data described in  this section; Appendix B provides examples of data profiles that
are available for selected data bases.
 DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC DATA BASES

 Census
 The census, conducted every ten years, provides the most detailed collection of demographic
 data available.  SANDAG/SourcePoint is designated as the Regional Census Data Center for
 San Diego.  As such, we are involved in pre-census planning activities, such as questionnaire
 content development and the definition of census-related geographic areas, such as census
 tracts and block groups.  Once census data are released, we are the first in the region to
 receive the data in computer-readable format and are able to make the information available
 far in advance of printed reports distributed by the Census Bureau.

 The most geographically detailed information comes from the "short form", or 100 percent
 count questionnaire that all households received.  This information, available down to the
 census block level of geography, includes information about the population by ethnicity, age,
 marital status, household composition, and housing information such as type, tenure,
 occupancy status, value, and rent.

 Less geographically detailed but more comprehensive in terms of the information available is
 data from the "long form", or sample questionnaire.  This questionnaire was received by
 about one out of six households  and contains all of the short form questions as well as
 additional questions about income, educational attainment, occupation, employment status,
 ancestry, place of work, disability status, vehicle ownership, commute patterns, and length of
 residency. This information is available down to the block group level of geography.
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      In addition to printed format, SANDAG can receive and distribute data and digital
      information on the following media:

            PRIME:
            •   Magnetic tape: 1600 or 6250 bpi; EBCDIC; no label, block size < 24,000, even
                block factor.

            IBM compatible PCs:
            •   3V4" or 5V4" diskette, low or high density.

            UNIX Workstations:
            •   DC 6150 data cartridge tape (in Tape Archiving [TAR] format)
            •   8 mm cassette (TAR. format)
            •   3V4" diskette (TAR format)
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                    COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
SANDAG uses a Prime 9955 n minicomputer and Sun Sparcstations to perform the data
processing and geographic information systems (CIS) functions described in this report.  Two
Calcomp 8-pen color plotters, one connected to the Prime computer and another connected to
a Sun Sparcstation, are used to produce all color plots. Outside service bureaus jre used to
provide electrostatic plotting services.

More than 80 PCs are maintained, with most connected through two Novell networks.  In
response to the ever-increasing use of PCs in the workplace, SANDAG offers microcomputer
workshops free of charge to local agency staffs.  The workshops, conducted twice a year,
include half-day sessions for spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3), wordprocessing, (WordPerfect) and
general PC skills at introductory and intermediate levels.  Approximately 500 people attend
these workshops during each session.

The CIS used at SANDAG is ARC/INFO v.6.0, developed by ESRI of Redlands, California.
ARC/INFO is used to automate, manipulate, analyze and display geographic data. The
characteristics of the software include its modular design, its ability to integrate many types
of data, its utility for developing application-specific user interfaces with screen menus and
its programming language called Arc Macro Language (AML). ARC/INFO is structured to
accommodate various relational database management  systems and can  operate on many types
of computers with a variety of graphics hardware.

Using ARC/INFO, SANDAG has the ability to perform map digitizing and editing and
conduct analytical operations using map overlay and summary statistics procedures.  Feature-
based editing is used to maintain and update the digital databases.  Points,  lines, areas, and
map annotation can be moved, copied, added, deleted, or reshaped using ARC/INFO.
Tabular attributes can be created and updated or transferred between features. The
cartographic production component of the software is used to produce a variety of map
products at SANDAG.  Features from any number of map coverages can be selected for
display and drawn with different symbols.

ERDAS software provides image processing and raster geographic information system
capabilities. The ERDAS-ARC/info Live Link allows for the integration of vector data  with
raster imagery.   Additional software includes a Fortran compiler and SPSSx v. 3.1 for
statistical analysis.
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                                   INTRODUCTION
 The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is the regional planning agency and
 •council of governments" for the SanJMego region.  This Association is governed by a
 Board of Directors composed of an elected official from each of the region's 19 local
 governments. Supplementing the voting members are advisory representatives from the U.S.
 Department of Defense, the California Department of Transportation (CALTRftNS), the San
 Diego Unified Port District, and Tijuana/Baja California.

 SANDAG's monthly Board of Directors meetings provide the public forum for significant
 regional issues suchras growth, transportation, environmental management, housing, open
 space, air quality, energy, fiscal management, economic development, and criminal justice.
 Association Directors adopt plans,  establish policies and develop programs for these regional
 issues which are used by local governments and other public and private organizations.

 As a result of the tasks carried out in the Overall Work Program and special projects  for
 member agencies, many data bases and an array of technical capabilities have been
 developed.  These, along with the  staff that performs the processing and analysis of the
 information, make up the Regional Information System. This report includes a discussion of
 the major components of this system.

 Access to information and services is available to SANDAG member agencies through the
 Local Technical Assistance (LTA)  program.  SourcePoint, a non-profit corporation chartered
 by SANDAG, was established to provide data and technical expertise to non-member public
 agencies, the private sector, and the general public.  Appendix A contains a list of data
 reports and technical documentation that have been developed for some of the information
 described in the "Data Bases*  section of this report.  Appendix B includes sample data
 profiles used to summarize the information in tabular form.  In most cases, these can be
 produced for standard geographic areas (such as jurisdictions) as well as for user-defined
 areas, such as facility service areas or marketing areas.
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       Freeway Level of Service Analysis   	19
       Bicycle Use Survey	19

MODELS	23
       Regional Growth Forecasting Models	23
       Transportation and Transit Models	23

BOUNDARY FILES AND COVERAGES	27
       Boundary Files	7 . . .27
       Transportation	7	28
       Land Based	28
       Urban Activities	28
       Base Map Features  	._	28
       Natural Resource Areas  	29

APPENDIX A-Reports and Technical Documentation	33

APPENDIX B~Data Profiles	39

APPENDK C-1990 Census Tract/Subregional Area Map	47
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                                 TABLE OF CONTENTS


     INTRODUCTION	3

     COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE	7

     DATA BASES	11
         Demographic and Economic Data Bases	11
            Census	11
            Population and Housing Estimates	12
            Demographic Characteristics Estimates	13
            Regional Growth Forecast	13
            Criminal Justice Data	13

         Employment-Related Data Bases  	14
            Employment Estimates	14
            Activity Centers	14

         Land Use and Environmental Data Bases	14
            General and Community Plans	14
            Land Use	15
            Public Ownership	15
            Public Land Survey	15
            Steep Slopes	15
            National Wetlands Inventory  	16
            Hydrography	16
            Important Farmlands	16
            Agricultural Lands	16
            Vegetation  	.'	16
            California Natural Diversity Data Base	17

         Transportation-Related Data Bases	17
            Travel Behavior Survey  	17
            On-Board Transit Survey	17
            Regional Transit Passenger Counting Program  	17
            Trolley Ridership Estimation  Program  	18
            Average Daily Traffic Volumes  	18
            Vehicle Occupation and Classification Survey	18

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                                    ABSTRACT
                                 TITLE:      Regional Information System Overview

                              AUTHOR:      San Diego Association of Governments
                                 DATE:      September 1992
                   NUMBER OF PAGES:
49
                            ABSTRACT:
As a result of the tasks carried out in the
Overall Work Program and special
projects for member agencies, many data
bases and an array of technical capabilities
have been developed. These, along with
the staff that performs the processing and
analysis of the information, make up the
Regional Information System.  This report
(updated from the previous June 1992
report) includes a discussion of the major
components of this system.
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                                      Board of Directors
                            SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS
          The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is a public agency formed voluntarily by
          local governments to assure overall areawide planning and coordination for the San Diego region.
       Voting members include the Incorporated Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista. Coronado, Del Mar. El Cajon,
              Encinitas, Escondido, Imperial Beach, La Mesa. Lemon Grove, National City, Oceanside,
            Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach, Vista, and the County of San Diego.
                Advisory and Liaison members include CALTRANS, U.S. Department of Defense,
                                         and Tijuana/Baja California.

                                    CHAIRWOMAN: Hon. Gloria McClellan
                                     VICE CHAIRMAN: Hon. Mike Bixler
                           SECRETARY-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Kenneth E. Sulzer
                 CITY OF CARLSBAD
                 Hon. Bud Lewis. Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Ann Kulehin. Mayor Pro T«m

                 cmr OF CHULA VISTA
                 Hon. Leonard Moora, Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Tim Nadar, Mayor

                 cmr OF CORONADO
                 Hon. Michal Napolitano. Mayor Pro Tarn
                 (A) Hon. Susan KaKh. Councilmambar

                 COY OF DEL MAR
                 Hon. Elliot Parks, Daputy Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Hanry Abarbanal, Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Ed Gelbart, Councilmambar

                 cmr OF EL CAJON
                 Hon. Harriat Stookwall, Daputy Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Mark Lawis, Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Richard Ramos, Councilmambar

                 cmroFENcwiTAS
                 Hon. Maura. Wiegand. Mayor
                 (A) Hon. QaH Hano. Councilmambar

                 cmr OF ESCONDIDO
                 Hon. Jarry Harmon, Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Lori HoR Plailar, Councilmambar

                 CtTY OF MPERIAL BEACH
                 Hon. Mika Bbdar. Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Mart Qoatha, Vtee Mayor

                 CITY OF LA MESA
                 Hon. Art Madrid. Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Barry Jantt, Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Jay LaSuar. Vice Mayor

                 CTTY OF LEMON DROVE
                 Hon. Brian Cochran, Mayor
                 (A) Hon. Jaroma Legerton, Councilmambar

                 CtTY OF NATIONAL CITY
                 Hon. Jass E Van Davantar, Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Miehaal Dalta, Councilmambar

                 CmrOFOCEANStDE
                 Hon. Nancy York. Councilmambar
                 (A) Hon. Malta Bishop. Daputy Mayor
cmr OF POWAY
Hon. Don Higginaon, Councttmambar
(A) Hon. Jan Goldsmith, Mayor
(A) Hon. Bob Emary, Councilmambar

CITY OF SAN DIEGO
Hon. Judy MoCarty, Councilmambar
(A) Hon. Tom Bahr, Councilmambar

cmr OF SAN MARCOS
Hon. Laa Thibadaau, Mayor
(A) Hon. Mika Praaton. Vioa Mayor
(A) Hon. Mark Loschar, Councilmambar

cmr OF SANTEE
Hon. Jack Doyta, Mayor
(A) Hon. Hal Ryan, Vie* Mayor

CITY OF SOLANA BEACH
Hon. Richard Handlin, Councilmambar
(A) Hon. Margaret Schlasingar, Daputy Mayor
(A) Hon. Celine Olson. Mayor

cmr OF VISTA
Hon. Gloria E. MoCtaflan, Mayor
(A) Hon. Bamia Rappaport, Mayor Pro Tarn

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO
Hon. Brian Bilbray. Supervisor
(A) Hon. Susan Gotding, Suparvisor
(A) Hon. John MaeOonald, Suparviaor

STATE DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION
(A) Jaaua Garcia, District Eleven Director

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
(Uaiaon Member)
Cant Tom Crane. CEC. USN
Commanding Officer Southwoet DMston
Naval FaoMbea Engineering Command

TUUANA/BAJA CAUFORNIA
(Advisory Member)
Hon. Cartea Montejo Favela
Presidenla Municipal da Tijuana
Revteed Auguat 24,1992
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                   REGIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
                                  OVERVIEW
                                 September 1992
                                    San Diego
                                ASSOCIATION OF
                                 GOVERNMENTS
                          San Diego Association of Governments
                             First Interstate Plaza, Suite 800
                           401  B Street, San Diego, CA 92101
                                   (619) 595-5300
           This project was financed with federal funds from the Urban Mass Transit Administration and
          Federal Highway Administration, state funds, and local funds from SANDAG member jurisdictions.
     MEMBER AGENCIES: Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinrtas,
         Escondido, Imperial Beach, La Mesa, Lemon Grove. National City, Oceanside, Poway,
           San Diego, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach, Vista, and County of San Diego
 ADVISORY/LIAISON MEMBERS: California Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Defense,
                              and Tijuana/Baja California None
USEPAOffk* of Water dc«Bo^^                                           p  M

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                                                                            Attachment 6
                                                  San Diego Association of Governments

                                                  •Regional Information System Overview.*
                                                   Report September 1992.    _
Peg* 50
                               USEPAOffiot of Water (WH*47). US-Mwtoo Border OB Ctfatog rttachmtrt. Ju«y19W.

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                                 State of California
                         DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
                              Natural Heritage Division
                             Natural Diversity Data Base

                               License Agreement

You are subject to the following terms and conditions with regard to the purchase^ and/or
use of data from the Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB):

1.    You are free to make copies of NDDB data or database applications in digital or
      hardcopy form for use or distribution within your department, agency, business or
      corporation. Subcontractors may have access to these data during the course of
      any given project but should  not be given a copy for their use on subsequent,
      unrelated work.  We are a cost recovery operation. Your distribution of
      unauthorized copies of our data to individuals or corporate entities outside of your
      own group compromises our fiscal resources and,  consequently, our abilities to
      collect and distribute these data to you.  This copy privilege does not extend to
      professional organizations, associations or affiliations. In these cases, we will
      negotiate a special rate for organization members.  Should you be approached by
      individuals outside your organization for the type of data that we provide, please
      refer them to the NDDB.

2.    As a professional courtesy, we ask that you acknowledge the NDDB as a source of
      your information whenever you use NDDB data in your reports, papers, publications
      or in maps that incorporate NDDB graphic elements.
                                                               •\

3.    You must recognize that the  NDDB is dynamic.  We add, delete and change records
      on a daily basis.  Consequently,  we strongly advise that you plan to update your
      NDDB data sets  about every six months for most applications of our information. It
      is your responsibility to use a current copy of NDDB data for your analysis or other
      work.

4.    NDDB data require a certain degree of biological expertise for proper analysis,
      interpretation and application. Our staff is available to you by phone to advise you
      in the technical aspects of our data.  We can also  arrange NDDB training and
      orientation for you.  It is your responsibility to insure that the data you obtain from
      us are not misapplied.

5.    We work very hard to keep the NDDB as current and up to date as possible given
      our capabilities and resources. However, we cannot and do not portray the NDDB
      as an exhaustive and comprehensive inventory of rare species and natural
      communities.  Field verification for the absence and presence of sensitive species
      will always be an important obligation of our customers. Likewise, your
      contribution of data to the NDDB is equally important to the maintenance of the
      NDDB.
        6/92
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                                           Attachment 5
                         California Dept of Fish and Game
                         NaturalDiversity Data Base

                         •License Agreement1
USEPA OffiM of Water (WH-547). US4tadeo Bontor OB Catalog altochintnt. July 1903.

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                                  TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
                             HDDB^Beographic Information system

              In 1989, the Department of Fish and Cane transferred the Natural
              Diversity Data  Base  (NDDB)  to a  modern  Geographic  Information
              System (CIS).  The NDDB CIS  is an  integrated  system of hardware,
              software and data.which is used to store and  analyze information
              about the geographic:extent  and condition of  rare  and endangered
              species and communities in California.

              The  NDDB CIS  uses Hewlett-Packard  computers  and HP-UX  (UNIX)
              operating system  foe  its  computing platform.    The configuration
              consists of a local area network (IAN) -of seven workstations which
              are -equipped with  high-resolution color displays • and  8 to  32
              megabytes of local RAM.  Total disc storage space available on the
              system is  about  2.5  gigabytes.   Peripheral  devices include  a
              CalComp 36* color electrostatic plotter, one 3'x4'  and four 2'x3'
              digitizing tables-,  a high-speed line printer, laser printer, a tape
              cartridge unit  and" a 6250  BPI 9-track tape drive.

              The software used is a vector-based CIS called Gcnooap, a product
              of Genasys, Inc. of Fort Collins,  CO..  Genamap is  closely linked
              with the Oracle relational data base  manager through th*e industry
              standard, Structured Query Language (SQL)  interface.   Genamap is
              used for  the graphic and geographic  functions, while Oracle handles
              the extensive textual attributes. The system provides a variety of
              tools  for   input,  storage,   manipulation and   output of  digital
              spatial  data.    Data  input  is accomplished  through  digitizing
              hardcopy maps,  coordinate geometry (COCO),  or importing existing
              digital data.  The graphic data are stored topologically within
              Genamap as points,  lines or areas.  Each nap feature is assigned a
              "tag" value which is the key field  used to link it  to the textual
              attribute  data  stored  in  Oracle  relational tables.    Typical
              analyses  include  retrieval  of species  occurrences  based  on
              geographic location, such  as  by 7.5' quad or a project area; or by
              proximity,   such  as within  two miles  of a project  area.   The
              attribute data can be used  to narrow  the  search  criteria using
              thematic characteristics,  such as  species  or  listing  status,  in
              addition to geographic criteria.  The results  of queries can then
              be output using pre-formatted text  reports or  color maps.

              In addition to rare species  and natural community  data,  the JEIS
              contains land ownership information and -cartographic data such as.
              roads, streams,  boundaries and Public Land Survey System.  The CIS
              is also be  used by the Significant*Natural Areas Program (SNAP)  to
              identify areas  of  significant biological diversity and by Realty
              Services to manage parcel  information for DFG-owned lands.

              For information regarding  the CIS contact Tom Lupo,  Geographer, at
              (916)445-6264.   For species data retrievals  contact Nancy Vierra,
              Information Services Coordinator, at  (916)324-3812.

                                                                    « April 1992
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                                            Attachment 4
                   California Dept of Fish and Game
                   Natural Diversity Data Base

                   Technical Description: NDDB GIS'
I5iPA"Offic. of Water (WH547). US4tadoo Bocd«r OB CttalOfl rttochmwit July 1993.

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 Standard costs for other products continued:
     Map Overlays	$   30.00
     Magnetic Tape	$   15.00
     Floppy Disk	$    2.50
     1 Hour of Staff Time	$   25.00

     Typical requests for information will usually involve a report and map overlay for a
 single USGS 7.5' quad. The average quad in California has about seven (7) NDDB records.
 The cost for such a retrieval would be calculated as follows:

     Cost for 7 records (@ $8/record)  	$   56.00
     1 Map Overlay   	$   30.00
     Total	$   86.00

     We find that many of the requests we receive are for projects in the south coastal and
 San Francisco Bay areas where we have records for many rare and threatened species and
 natural communities. In these  regions, the per request cost usually range between $140 and
 $240 per quad.  Text only requests will not include a separate charge for staff time unless an
 inordinate amount of staff time is required due to the custom nature of the request.

     We will charge 50% of the total cost for cancellation of orders that we have taken,
 processed, but not yet delivered.  Orders that have been delivered cannot be returned,
 and no refund will be made.

     We frequently customize products to meet the needs and desires of our customers.  For
 example, we can produce  county specific data sets for use with our RareFind application.
 We attempt to be flexible  with product design and pricing to best serve the information needs
 of the conservation and development communities.

     For'more information on NDDB products and services, please call our Information
 Services Staff at either (916) 324-3812 or (916) 327-5960, or write to us at:

                                  Information Services
                               Natural Heritage Division
                         California Department of Fish and Game
                                    1416 9th Street
                                Sacramento, CA 95814
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                                       State of California
                            DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
                                   Natural Heritage Division
                                  Natural Diversity Data Base

                               PRICE SHEET - AUGUST 1992

         The Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB) collects information on the location and
     condition of California's rare and threatened species and natural communities, and enters
     these data into a computerized data management and mapping system. This information is
     made available to interested parties for a fee in the form of computer printouts, map
     overlays, and in computer files on disk or tape. The entire inventory can be purchased for
     an annual subscription in the form of a microcomputer database application called RareFind.
     RareFind provides a text based (no graphics) report for any of California's 2,800+, 1:24,000
     scale quad maps (United States Geological Survey 7.5 minute maps).

         The location for a single population or community stand is the basic unit of record in
     this  system. Product pricing is based on the number of records  involved for a given-
     retrieval.  The NDDB uses a two-tiered pricing structure that affords a 50% reduction in the
     per record cost for government agencies and private conservation organizations*.  Private, for
     profit organizations or individuals are charged the full rate. These rates are listed in the
     following table.
Number of Records
first 100
from 101 to 200
from 201 to 500
from 501 to 1,000
from 1,001 to 3,000
from 3,001 to 8,000
over 8,000
Cost/record
Commercial Rate
$8.00
$4.00
$2.00
$1.00
$.50
$.25
$.12
.Cost/Record
Conservation Rate
$4.00
$2.00
$1.00
$.50
$.25
$.13
$.06
    Standard costs for other products are:

                          RareFind (offered as an annual subscription) -

                 Commercial « $2,500                         Conservation « $1,250

         Renewals are given a 10% reduction off these rates. Organizations can make as many
    copies of the data and application as necessary for their internal uses but can not make copies
    for distribution outside of the organizations.
Pag* 44
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                                                                       Attachment 3
                                             California Dept of Fish and Game
                                             Natural Diversity Data Base

                                             "Price Sheet.  August 1992."
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                     NATURAL DIVERSITY  DATA  BASE!
                                    Program Guide for Users
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                                                                        Attachment 2
                                                     California Dept of Fish and Game
                                                     Natural Diversity Data Base

                                                     •Program Guide for Users*
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                                       ATTACHMENTS                            Page No.

  Attachments reflect information some catalog participants provided to supplement catalog
  abstracts of their GIS systems. The attachments are listed according to submitting
  organization and follow the same order as that shown in the table of contents on page 4.


  UNITED STATES:

      ARIZONA:
          University of Arizona: Arizona Remote Sensing Center
              1.  Foldout: •Capabilities in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.*
                  Office of Arid Lands Studies, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona	38

      CAUFORNIA:
          State Agencies:
              Department of Fish and Game: Natural Diversity Database:
              2.  Program Guide for Users	41
              3.  Price Sheet. August 1992.	43
              4.  Technical Description: NDDB Geographic Information Systems	46
              5.  License Agreement	48
          San Diego Association of Governments:
              6.  'Regional Information System Overview.' Report: San Diego Association of
                  Governments. September 1992	50
          San Diego State University:
              7.  Descriptive  information	77
              8.  Excerpt from 'GIS Teaching Facilities: Six Case Studies on the Acquisition
                  and Management of Laboratories.' Palladino, S.D., and K. K. Kemp.
                  September  1991	79
              9.  'Integrating University Education and Funded Projects in a GIS Applications
                  Course.' Geo Info Systems  magazine, Mar. 1992. Richard D. Wright	104
          U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9:
              10. Geographic Data Layers. October 1992.	109

      NEW MEXICO:
          State  Agencies:
              New Mexico Environment Department (NMED):
              11. 'Existing and Planned Projects for NMED/SWQB Data Center	112
          University of New Mexico:
              Engineering Research Institute:
              12. 'GIS and Directly Related Water Resource Holdings of the New Mexico
                  Engineering Research Institute for Southern New Mexico*	128
              13. The Flood Protection Inventory Needs Geographic Information System
                  Application.' Peterson, J; Moore, T; and G. Olson. May 1992.	132
              14. 'New Mexico Infrastructure Development Assistance Program.' January 1993. ..  166
              Technology Application Center  Resource Geographic Information System:
              15.  Foldout: 'RGIS Clearinghouse.*	181
              16.  List of RGIS Clearinghouse Coverages	184
p*0* %                           United State* Environmental Protection Agwicy. Offiot of Water (WH-547). July 1803.

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ATTACHMENTS

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                                                                              Attachment 1
                                             University of Arizona
                                             Arizona Remote Sensing Center

                                             Foldout:  'Capabilities In Remote Sensing and
                                             Geographic Information Systems.*
P«Q«38             '             USEPA Office of W«t»r(WH«47). US4taxkx> Bwd«r CIS Catalog rttachnMiit July1993

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ATTACHMENTS (continued))                                                   Page No.


    TEXAS:
        Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN):
                17. Excerpt from draft work plan 	187
        International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC):
                18. Excerpt: "Water Bulletin Number 60: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related
                    Data* International Boundary and Water Commission  1990 	196
        State Agencies:
            General Land Office (GLO):
                19. CIS Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill Response Activities:
                    Executive Summary of Project Report November 1992	201
            Parks and Wildlife: Coastal  Wetlands Habitat Monitoring:
                20. Quality and accuracy reports	205
            Transportation: Texas Road Inventory Mapping System:
                21. County map features	w	   208
                22. Table of Contents,  'Standards and  Guidelines for Geographic Information
                    Systems in the State of Texas.'  Texas Geographic Information Systems
                    Standards Committee.  August 1992.	211
            Water Commission:  Texas Water Commission Regulatory and Compliance
                              System (TRACS):
                23. Excerpt from TRACS program description	216
                24. Excerpt from 'Regional Assessment of Water Quality: The Rio Grande
                    Basin.' Texas Water Commission, Environmental Systems Section.  Draft
                    Report August 1992. 	226
                25. Project Description: Public Drinking Water Supply Vulnerability
                    Assessment Program	241
                26. Project Description: Integrated Information System: Initial GIS Applications.   244
                27. Summary of Texas Clean Rivers Act of 1991	247
            Water Development Board:  Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS):
                28. Description of TNRIS	251
                29. Geographic Information System Development:  Role for TNRIS	255
                30. Digital Cartography/GIS Data Catalog (Table of Contents + sample page)..  258
        Universities:
            University of Texas at Austin: Bureau of Economic Geology:
                31. Border Environmental Atlas: Project Description	270
        U.S. Government Agencies:
            Geological Survey, Texas District:
                32. Texas District Geographic Information System, Spatial Data Library
                    Description.	291


MEXICO:

    BAJA CALIFORNIA:
        Centra de Investigation Cierrtifica y de Education Superior de Ensenada, B.C. (CICESE):
                33. Graphic layout of computer network.	307
 USEPAOffk* of Water (WHS47).  US-Mexico Border OtS Catalog attachment July 1983
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Centre de Investigation Cientlfica y de Education
Superior de Ensenada, B.C. (CICESE)	
                                                       MEXICO
                                       (Baja California, Mexico)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
Mainly Baja California, Mexico.
                                 *
far city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico: watershed, surface
drainage, Uthology, terrain slope and aspect, faults and fractures.
  Geographic Databases:  Elevation models (3 second arc grid); geology (1:250,000 and some
                          1:50,000); satellite imagery, scanned aerial photographs; city block
                          vector files (DWG and DXF) of major cities; tabular data of
                          oceanographic, geological, and geophysical surveys.

  CIS Platform: Hardware: Network of Sun workstations, satellite links to CRAY-YMP
                          supercomputers at San Diego Super Computer Center and Mexico City
                          Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.
                                                     *p

               1 Software:  GRASS, ERMAPPER, ORACLE relational database system, KHOROS
                          scientific visualization system.     ^   ::  ;              -:;!;  :
 Major Applications:
 Spatial database supporting Earth Sciences
 Division research.

 Data Sources:
 Institute Nacional de Estadistica Geografica e
 Informatica (INEGI).  Surveys: geological,
 geophysical, oceanographic.

 Data Quality Management:
 Have verified in-house developed data sets.

 Updates/enhancements:
 Working on enhancements, catalog, value
 added data sets, integration of existing data
 sets, importing or linking flat files or relational
 data bases to GIS environment

 Users of system/availability:
 Research and teaching staff.  Data are available
 upon request and clearance by system
 developers.
                    Contact:
                    United States:
                    M.C. Alejandro Hinojosa
                    Earth Sciences Division
                    Centre de Investigation Cientifica y de
                      Education Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
                    P.O. BOX 434843
                    San Diego, CA 92143-4843.
                    Tel: (from U.S.) 01152-617-4-4501  to 4508.
                    Fax: (from U.S.) 01152-617-4-49-33 or 4-48-80.
                    EMAIL alhinc@cicese.mx

                    Mexico:
                    M.C. Alejandro Hinojosa
                    Centre de Investigation Cientifica y de
                      Education Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
                    Apdo, Postal 2732
                    Ensenada, Baja California 22830
                    Mexico.
                    Tel: (from Mexico) 91-617-4-4501 to 4508.
                    Fax: (from Mexico) 91-617-4-49-33 or 448-80.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •CICESE is a research institution founded by the Mexican Government in 1973.  Its mission is to
 develop, assimilate, and spread new technologies and basic and applied science with emphasis on
 the solution of regional and national problems. The Ecoiogia de Baja California (ECOBAC) group is
 a group within CICESE It is dedicated to the study of the marine environment in the Pacific Border
 area.  One of its activities is to monitor pollution on the coastal zone from the city of Ensada, Baja
 California to the U.S. border.  For information on the ECOBAC group, contact Dr. M. L Uzarraga-
 Partida at the CICESE telephone and fax numbers listed above."

 ATTACHMENT:
 33. Graphic layout of computer network.
United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH-547). July 1093.
                                                           Page 35

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University of Utah
DIGIT Lab
                                                                                    UTAH
                                                                           (Arizona, Mexico)
  Geographic Coverage:   Southern Arizona, Northern Sonora, Negates.

  Type of Coverage:       Land use, terrain, transportation.   :  i  >           y

  ^Geographic Databases:  Image files of border region.;   :      ; v   ~ y:           ~

  CIS Platform:  Hardware: Sun Spare II, Sun Spare IPX Tektronix 4301, Tektronix XP25, Tektronix
        ; :-      ':;..•      ^

                Software:  ARC/INFO, ERDAS, Microstation, JDRISI.
                                               Contact:
                                               Brian Haslam
                                               Director, DIGIT Lab
                                               Tel: 801-581-3612

                                               Dr. George Hepner
                                               Chair, Dept of Geography
                                               Tel: 801-585-3155

                                               University of Utah, OSH 270 - Geography
                                               Salt Lake City, UT 84112
                                               Internet Email: blhas@geog.utah.edu
                                               Fax: 801-581-6957

                                               Users of system/availability:
                                               Users are Southwest Center for Environmental
                                               Research and Policy members, EPA, SEDESOL,
                                               local agencies, and  university investigators.
                                               Fees are charged for certain data and services.
                                               Internet access is available via public directory.
                                               Login access is available upon request
                                               approved by Brian Haslam.

 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •Some problems encountered have been the cost of satellite imagery and acquisition of Sonoran
 data Limited data on the Border is available from USGS.1

 ATTACHMENTS:
 None.
Major Applications:
Hazardous materials: surface/subsurface
migration, land use, populations at risk.

Data Sources:
Federal Agencies: Census Bureau, Geological
Survey (USGS), Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA). Other: Secretaria de Desarrollo
Social (SEDESOL), Institute National de
Estadistica Geographica y Informatica (INEGI),
literature, local agencies.

Data Quality Management:
Geolineus for lineage tracking, RMS  testing,
visual verification, coordinate of known location
testing.

Updates/enhancements:
Will acquire four Spare LX workstations.
Pag* 34
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U.S. Geological Survey, Texas District
USGS Water Resources Division GIS
                                                         TEXAS
                                                          (Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage;
State of Texas.

Geologic, geographic, cartographic, and hydrogeplogic information;
State, county, and munjc^al boundaries; roads, trails, railroads,
pipelines.  Physical measurement or analysis attributes are available for
fion-GIS databases.
  Geographic Databases:  Hydrologic Unft boundaries, GCRASA, ETRASA, NAWQA, NURP.
                          USGS also maintains several non-GIS databases of informatkxi about
                          ground water, surface water, and water quality.

  G1S Platform:  Hardware: Data General Avifon Unix Workstations.

                Software:  ARC/INFO.
 Major Applications:
 Prepare maps for conducting hydrologic
 investigations reports; produce maps from
 hydrologic models or statistical packages;
 analyze spatial distribution of hydrologic
 variables; conduct quality assurance checks on
 district databases.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Geological Survey. Other.
 various sources.

 Data Quality Management:
 The accuracy of data from non-USGS sources is
 the responsibility of the agency that made the
 original interpretations included in the data set

 Updates/enhancements:
 Not available.
                     Contacts:
                     Richard O. Hawkinson
                     District Chief
                     U.S. Geological Survey
                     Water Resources Division
                     8011 Cameron Road, Bldg. 1
                     Austin, TX 78753
                     Tel: 512-873-3000
                     Fax: 512-873-3090

                     Users of system/availability:
                     The GIS supports about 30 users including
                     hydrologists and engineers. The Texas District
                     is connected to other USGS district offices
                     across the United States.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •Our experience is that much of the hydrologic information about the Border region is in printed
 reports or in digital databases that have not been converted into GIS coverage. Our system is
 compatible with all systems using ARC/INFO and we can prepare data sets for distribution to most
 GISs in use today.*

 ATTACHMENT:
 32, Texas District Geographic Information System, Spatial Data Library Description.
United State* Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH547). July 1993.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Region 6 GIS Center
                                                                                  TEXAS
                                                                       (New Mexico, Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage;
                         New Mexico, Texas,

                         Hydrography, U.S.-Mexico Border, primary highways, secondary roads,
                         minor roads and trails, polftical boundaries, railways, airports, selected
                         landmarks, Native American lands, population, ecoreglons, USGS 7,5
                         nun. quadrangle grid/State waste landfills, major Federal facilities, air
                         and water monltodng.''                      '  ' '
  Geographic Databases:  U.S. EPA River Reach file and Ecoregions, USGS Quadrangle Grid,
                         Federal Hydrologic Basins, Public Law 84-171 redistricting population:
                         data; Census STF 3A economics and lifestyle data, Toxic Release
                         Inventory C87-I90), Superfund National Priority List sites.
  CIS Platform: Hardware: DG Aviion 5220 file server, DG Avlion 412 work stations, Sun Spare
                         stations. CalComp digitizer, CD-ROM drive, optical disk cartridge, tape
                         drives, Tl PostScript laser printer, Versatec electrostatic plotter, Seiko
                         PostScript thermal wax plotter.

               Software:  UNIX operating system, ARC/INFO.
Description of Major Applications:
With Texas State agencies:
•  Texas/Mexico Borderlands Data Center;
•  Rio Grande/Rio Bravo GIS Task Force;
•  Rio Grande toxic assessment study;
•  Mapping of Colonias;
•  Environmental Atlas of the Rio Grande/Rio
   Bravo area;
•  El Paso Air Quality Study.
•  El Paso Ground Water Study;
•  Inventory of solid waste sites;
Other:
•  Cameron County Data Integration Pilot;
•  International Data Exchange Pilot with
   Secretaria de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)
   (on hold).

Data Sources:
Federal Agencies: Environmental Protection
Agency (Office of Research and Development);
Census Bureau; Geological Survey; Fish and
Wildlife Service; Army Corps of Engineers.
Other, colleges and universities; State agencies;
Secretaria de  Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL).

Data Quality Management:
All data is referenced to Census TIGER base
maps; data sets are documented using COV-
DOC AMLs. Features are located using local
maps, USGS quads,  State and local expertise,
or maps provided by facilities on TIGER base.
Program staff  are responsible for  verifying data
provided by their systems.
                                              Contact:
                                              David A. Parrish, Regional GIS Coordinator
                                              Environmental Analysis Section (6E-SA)
                                              Tel: 214-655-8352
                                              Fax: 214-655-7446
                                              EPA EMail: parrish.david
                                              Internet EMail: parrish.david@epamail.epa.gov

                                              John Reed, Computer Systems Administrator
                                              Computer Services Section (6M-AC)
                                              Tel: 214-655-6553
                                              EPA EMail: reed.john
                                              Internet EMail: reed.john@epamail.epa.gov

                                              U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                                              1445 Ross Ave., Suite 1200
                                              Dallas, TX 75202-2733

                                              Users of system/availability:
                                              GIS is used by EPA Region 6 staff and
                                              contractors via EPA X.25 network including
                                              Internet

                                              Updates/enhancements:
                                              The Region 6 GIS Center plans to include data
                                              elements required by the EPA locational data
                                              policy and the FINDS policy.

                                              COMMENTS (System Originator):
                                              Region 6 works closely with State, local, and
                                              international agencies to develop compatible
                                              GIS systems/applications.

                                              ATTACHMENTS: None.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Joint Task Force-6
                                                                                TEXAS
                                              (Arizona, California, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas)
                          Southwestern US.-MexIco Land Border and within 40 miles of the
                          Border on the U.S. side (CA, AZ, NM, TX).  Also entire Texas Gulf
                          Coast                                          :;:

                          Slope Aspect, land use/land cover, some geology, elevation data, soil
                          •information, endangered species data      r      ••".-!
Geographic Area:
Type of Coverage:
  Geographic Databases:  TIGER/Une data, STATSCO soils, Digital Elevation Map, Landsat
  (:.;'.".         :   M   !;   ilhematic mapper images      ~    r    :/:

  CIS Platform:  Hardware: Sun Spare II, Versatec color electrostatic plotter; Textronix color ink jet
          :  £:  :  !"      ^                                        :

               'Software:  ORASS 4.0, ERDAS, ARC/INFO.
 Major Applications:
 Not available.

 Data Sources:
 Federal Agencies: Census Bureau, Defense
 Mapping Agency, Environmental Protection
 Agency (EPA), National Park Service. Other
 Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Earth
 Orbiting Satellite (EOSAT).

 Data Quality Management:
 Land cover data derived from satellite imagery is
 ground verified using global positioning
 systems.

 Updates/enhancements:
 System is updated constantly to support clients.
 Full implementation of system will begin in the
 spring of 1993.
                                            Contacts:
                                            Scoff Walker
                                            Physical Scientist
                                            Tel: 817-334-3246
                                            Internet Email Address: scott@155.84.92.32

                                            Tom Nelson
                                            Physical Scientist
                                            Tel: 817-334-2095
                                            Internet Email Address: tom@155.84.92.2

                                            U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
                                            P.O. Box 17300; CESWF-PL-RE
                                            Fort Worth, TX 76102-0300
                                            Fax: 817-885-7539

                                            Users of system/availability:
                                            System is used by researchers, EPA, military
                                            engineers. Data is available on a case by case
                                            basis with access limited by personnel time
                                            limitations and by the sensitive nature of some
                                            data
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •Some problems encountered include lack of a consistent geology layer across the study area and
 a lack of manpower. The regional nature of the study area limits the scale of data; more detailed
 data is not available covering the entire study area*

 ATTACHMENTS:
 None.
United State* Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH-547). July 1893.
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   University of Texas at Austin
   Bureau of Economic Geology
                                                         TEXAS
                                               (New Mexico, Texas)
     Geographic Area:
    -Type of Coverage:.
South Texas-lower Rio Grande area. South Padre Island, Gulf of
Mexico. Also Rio Grande Border Area and adjacent portions of the
New Mexico-Mexico Border Area                     :

Water depths, water chemistry, regional water-wen data, wetlands,
aquatic habitats, surficial geology and ground water data for selected
areas*-  :      ./..*.-••'.;•..  ..•••'•'•:':_.-'.  ; •:..•• --.:. ...v.,  •' .=xfyvcv •..-/-
     Geographic Databases:  Not available.      ;         ^                r;     ;             r

     CIS Platform: Hardware: DECstation 5000/240 PXG workstation, X-tenminals, IBM compatible
             ;               80386 and 60486 PCs, Macirtoshes, Silicon Graphics workstation, CD-
                   '„••"••• ROM drives, 8mm tape drive, Versatec 8936R color electrostatic plotter,
                            Versatec 7222 black-and white electrostatic plotter, QMS Colorscript
                            100 printer, Hewlett Packard Draftpro and 7475 plotters, Hewlett
                            Packard LaserJet Series II printer, Calcomp digitizers.

                  Software:  ARC/INFO 6.1.1, ArcView, PC ARC/INFO 3.4D, GRASS.
    Major Applications:
    Studies of shoreline changes; distributions of
    wetlands and aquatic habitats; characterizations
    of geologic and hydrologic setting of proposed
    radioactive waste repository.

    Data Sources:
    Not available.

    Data Quality Management:
    Not available.
                     Contact:
                     Jay A. Raney, Deputy Associate Director
                     Bureau of Economic Geology
                     University of Texas at Austin
                     University Station, Box X
                     Austin, TX  78713-7508
                     Tel: 512-471-1534 or 471-7721
                     Fax: 512-471-0140

                     Users of system/availability:
                     Not available.
    Updates/enhancements:
    Not available.

    COMMENTS (System Originator):
    The Bureau has been using GIS for several years on a variety of projects. We have long-standing
    interests in the coastal environments of the Gulf of Mexico, including the South Texas-Lower Rio
    Grande area The Bureau expects to begin work soon on a Border Environmental Atlas that will
    provide a comprehensive database for the Rio Grande Border Area and adjacent portions of the
    New Mexico-Mexico Border Area*  (See description on Page 29.)

    ATTACHMENTS:
    None.
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     United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water O/VH-547). July 1983.

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University of Texas at Austin
.Bureau of Economic Geology
Border Environmental Atlas: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border Area
                                                        TEXAS

                                       (Mexico, New Mexico, Texas)
   Geographic Area:


   Type of Coverage:
The Border Area corridor from El Paso-Cuidad Juarez to the Gutf of
Mexico.

Hydrochemistry and hydrodynamics of ground water systems,   ,
environmental geology, energy, and other natural resources; *~
environmental baseline data
   Geographic Databases:  Notavaflabte.           :                            ~
                                                                          >
   CIS Platform: Hardware: OECstation 5000/240 PXG wortcstaUon, X-temninals, IBM cxxnpattbte
                        ,  80386 and 80486 PCs, Macintoshes, Silicon Graphics workstation, CD-
                          ROM drives, 8mm tape drive, Versatec 8936R color-electrostatic plotter,
                          Vei^atec 7222 black and whhe electrostatic plotter, QMS Colc>rscript
                          100 printer, Hewlett Packard Draftpro and 7475 plotters, Hewlett
                          Packard LaserJet Series H printer. Calcomp digitizers:          •

                Software:  ARC/INFO 6.1.1 MArcView, PC ARCTINFO 3.4D, GRASS.
  Major Applications:
  Assess and guide development of the border
  area land use planning; assess environmental
  status of air, land, and water; environmental
  education; support policy development, analysis,
  and prioritization of enforcement activities;
  provide for technology transfer between EPA
  and Secretaria de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL).

  Data Sources:
  Federal agencies: Environmental Protection
  Agency, Federal Emergency Management
  Agency, Geological Survey, International
  Boundary and Water Commission. Other
  Mexican agencies; State of Texas Water
  Commission, Dept of Health, and Water
  Development Board

  Data Quality Management:
  Quality assurance controls for GIS will be added
  to the Bureau's existing quality assurance
  program.

  Updates/enhancements:
  Not applicable.
                    Contacts:
                    Jay Raney, Deputy Associate Director
                    Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
                    University of Texas at Austin
                    University Station, Box X
                    Austin, TX 78713-7508
                    Tel: 512-471-1534 or 471-7721
                    Fax: 512-471-0140

                    Users of system/availability:
                    Not available.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 The Bureau expects to begin work soon on the Border Environmental Atlas with startup funds
 provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Atlas will provide a comprehensive
 database for the Rio Grande Border area and adjacent portions of the New Mexico-Mexico Border
 area*
 ATTACHMENT: No. 31. Project description.

United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WH-547). July 1993.
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Texas A&M University
Texas Transportation Institute
                                                         TEXAS
                                                   (Mexico, Texas)
  Geographic Area:
  Type of Coverage::
Laredo, Tex (Webb County); Nuevo Laredo, TamauDpas 
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State of Texas
Texas Water Development Board
Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
                                                         TEXAS
                                                          (Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
State of Texas.:
                         •»••                     '       '
Water resources, lakes, aquifers, meteorology, biological resources,
geology, vegetation types, acoregions, nydrotoglc unfts, irrigated
farmlands, forests, dams, 08 and gas wells, airports, jurisdictlonal
boundaries, ftighways, population data.
  Geographic Databases:  Digital Elevation Models, Digital Une Graphs, Census data, TIGER/Une
                          data

  GIS Platform:  Hardware: SUN, Intergraph.      -   .

                Software:  ARC/INFO, Intergraph-MGE.
 Major Applications:
 TNRIS operates a GIS primarily to support
 participating agency mapping requirements.
 The system's responsibilities are primarily data
 inventory, indexing, and distribution.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Geological Survey, Census
 Bureau.  Other, various Texas agencies.

 Data Quality Management:
 Not available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 Not available.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 None.
                    Contact:
                    Charles Palmer, Manager
                    Texas Natural Resources Information System
                    Texas Water Development Board
                    P.O. Box 13231
                    Austin, TX 78711-2321
                    Tel: 512-463-8402
                    Fax: 512-463-9893

                    Users of system/availability:
                    TNRIS supplies data to government, academia,
                    and the private sector. Some data files are
                    available through a remote terminal access
                    system.  Other data are available by contacting
                    the referenced agency. TNRIS has a lending
                    library of remotely sensed data and distributes
                    USGS maps to government agencies.
 ATTACHMENTS:
 28. Description of TNRIS.
 29. Geographic Information System Development: Role for TNRIS.
 30. Digital Cartography/GIS Data Catalog (Table of Contents + sample page).
United State* Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH-547). July 1983.
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State of Texas
Texas Water Commission
TWO Regulatory and Compliance System (TRACS)
                                                                               TEXAS
                                                                                (Texas)
                         Rio Grande watershed within Texas.

                         Ecoregions, streams, aquatic life, public water supply weds, springs*
                         surface water Intakes, major and minor aquifers, stream flow, wellhead
                         protection data, well location, sotioeconomicdata, phystochemical ,
                         data, benthic mlcroinvertebrates, fish species, abundances.
Geographic Area:

Type of Coverage:
  ^Geographic Databases:  DRASTIC, RUSTIC solute transport model, RCRA data, Toxic Release.
                         Inventory, Superfuhd data, TIGER, EPA Ecoregions, river basins,
                         watershed Jxxjndaries, ~

  CIS Platform: Hardware: IBM RS 6000,03 Avikxi

               Software:  ARC/INFO v. 6.1.1, TIN 6.0, NETWORK 6.0, GRID, ArcVTew,
 Major Applications:
 Evaluate groundwater pollution potential; assess
 regional water quality (Rio Grande Basin); Public
 Drinking Water Supply Vulnerability Assessment
 program, Clean Rivers program.

 Data Sources:
 Federal Agencies: Census Bureau,
 Environmental Protection Agency, Geological
 Survey. Other International Boundary and
 Water Commission, Texas Water Commission,
 Texas Water Development Board, Texas
 Agricultural Extension Service.

 Data Quality Management:
 In-house certification criteria established.
                                           Contacts:
                                           Barry Allison, GIS Team Leader
                                           Texas Water Commission
                                           P.O. Box 13087
                                           1700 N. Congress Avenue
                                           Austin, TX 78711-3087
                                           Tel: 512-463-5368
                                           Fax 512-463-8298

                                           Users of system/availability.
                                           System is used by in-house staff. However, staff
                                           responds to information requests from outside
                                           sources as internal resources permit

                                           Updates/enhancements:
                                           Recent system upgrades are reflected in shaded
                                           area above under "CIS Platform.'
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •With this system, TWC is introducing GIS technology in concert with the design and development
 of a unified, agency-wide relational database management system (RDBMS). TWC may be one of
 the first agencies to deploy the latest in RDBMS and GIS technologies in a complementary mode
 from the ground up.*

 ATTACHMENTS:
 23. Excerpt from TRACS program description.
 24. Excerpt from Regional Assessment of Water Quality: The Rio Grande Basin. Texas Water
    Commission, Environmental Systems Section.  Draft Report August 1992.
 25. Project Description, Public Drinking Water Supply Vulnerability Assessment Program.
 26. Project Description, Integrated Information System: Initial GIS Applications.
 27. Summary of Texas Clean Rivers Act of 1991.
                               United State* EnvkoniMntal Protection Agwwy, Office of Water (WH-547). July 1983.

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State of Texas
Department of Transportation
Texas Road Inventory Mapping System
                                                         TEXAS
                                                          (Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  -Type of Coverage:
State of Texas.
                                          ,_           s

DOT has digitized all USGS 7.5 miiuae quadrangles for Texas,  Most
features are digitized except for contour lines.
  Geographic Databases:  USGS 7,5 minute quadrangles.

  GIS Platform:  Hardware: Intergraph.

                Software;  MteroStatioa
 Major Applications:
 Publication of county and city maps.

 Data Sources:
 Federal Agencies: Geological Survey.

 Data Quality Management:
 Quality and accuracy report available from
 Texas Department of Information Resources:
 512-475-4700.

 Updates/enhancements:
 Generally updated on a 1-year to 3-year cycle.
                    Contact:
                    Step/ten IV. Shackelford
                    Texas Dept of Transportation (TXDOT)
                    Division of Automation
                    125 E. 11th Street
                    Austin, TX 78701-2483
                    Tel: 512-465-7714
                    Fax: 512-465-3671

                    Users of system/availability:
                    Texas Dept of Transportation and Texas Natural
                    Resources Information System (TNRIS):
                    512-463-8338.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 None.
 ATTACHMENTS:
 21.  County map features.
 22.  Table of Contents, Standards and Guidelines for Geographic Information Systems in the State of
     Texas, Texas Geographic Information Systems Standards Committee.  August 1992.
United State* Environment*! Protection Agency, Office of Water (OW-547). July 1993.
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 State of Texas
 Railroad Commission of Texas
 Oil and Gas Well/Pipeline Mapping System
                                                                                  TEXAS
                                                                                   (Texas)
 Geographic Area:


JType of Coverage:
                          State of Texas (approximately SO percent complete: :128 of 254
                          counties; 40 in progress):

                          Oil and gas wen locations: Identification numbers, status, and type.
                          Hazardous Bquid pipelines: operator, type of-fluJds.
                          4Tiumber,system name;
   CIS Platform: Hardware: VAX 8800 host, 6 VAX Station workstations, 14 X-window terminals;
                          Calcomp 58444 color and 67436 monochrome electrostatic plotters,
                          Versatec 36* monodvorne electrostatic plotter,          :;

                Software: Synercom Technology's 1NFORMAP HI v.3.4.7
  Major Applications:
  Well mapping system contains locations on over
  600,000 welts, including all oil, gas, water
  injection, brine mining, storage wells, and
  geothermal wells. Pipeline mapping system
  contains locations of hazardous liquid pipelines
  under Railroad Commission jurisdiction.

  Data Sources:
  Federal agencies: Geological Survey 7.5 minute
  quadrangle maps.  Other: Railroad Commission
  of Texas hard-copy maps, plats, and records;
  aerial photography; Texas General Land Office
  county survey maps.

  Data Quality Management:
  Visual verification and proofing using overlay at
  a light table is done for each county; beginning
  to verify well locations using Global Positioning
  System receivers. Verification also takes place
  as maps are used in the field.  The accuracy of
  the well data is limited by the validity of
  information provided by regulated oil and gas
  operators.

  Updates/enhancements:
  The system is 8 years old.  The completed
  portion of the State is updated continuously;
  additional data layers (pits, disposal wells) will
  be added later.

  COMMENTS (System Originator):
  •Benefits of GIS have come from greater access to the location maps, easier updating of well
  information, increased data security and greater variety in map scale options. The maps have been
  used for many special projects which would not have been possible before. Cost and staffing have
  been problems for the project, especially given the size of Texas and the number of wells (over 1
  million) that must be automated.'

  ATTACHMENTS:
  None.
                                             Contacts:
                                             Lorelei Weitzel
                                             Systems Analyst
                                             Tel: 512-463-7244

                                             Letty Vicinaiz
                                             Open Records Representative
                                             Tel: 512-463-7254

                                             Railroad Commission of Texas
                                             1701 N. Congress Ave.
                                             Austin, TX 78701
                                             Fax: 512-463-8488

                                             Users of system/availability:
                                             Commission staff, field inspectors, other State
                                             and local governments; Federal agencies such
                                             as Bureau of Land Management; members of
                                             the oil and gas industry, and the general public.
                                             Digital map data and hard-copy maps are
                                             available for viewing in the Austin central office.
                                             No online access to mapping system except
                                             limited viewing in central office for the public.
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                                Untod SUlM Environmtntal Preuetfon Ag«noy, Offle* of Water (WH*«7). July 1993.

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State of Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department
Coastal Wetlands Habitat Monitoring
                                                                TEXAS
                                                                 (Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  Jype of Coverage:
       Texas coastal zone, some inland parts of the Rio Grande.

       .Land cover, wetlands, hydrology, species distribution.
  Geographic Database*:  Historical aerial photography and digital remote sensing data including
                          Landsat Thematic Mapper; 1:100,000 Digital Une Graphs.—

  CIS Platform:  Hardware: Sun workstation; 486 microcomputers; Ethernet system,

                Software:  Microimage 4.1; ARC/INFO 6.0; GRASS 3,0; ATLAS/GIS1,2.; ERDAS.
 Major Applications:
 Habitat and land use inventories of the Texas
 coastal zone; trend analysis of habitat changes
 over time; fisheries; resources assessment
 during regulatory reviews; and cooperative
 agreements with Federal programs to
 complement ongoing, national mapping efforts.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Fish and Wildlife Service,
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
 Administration. Other. EOSAT Corp. (Landsat),
 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, University
 of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology.

 Data Quality Management:
 Quality and accuracy reports (see attached).

 Updates/enhancements:
 Mapping of submerged vegetation and estuarine
 habitats has been planned for the entire Texas
 Coast  Wetland habitat  mapping and change
 analysis have been performed for limited sites.
                           Contact:
                           Dr. Warren Pulich, Jr.
                           Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.
                           Coastal Studies Program
                           4200 Smith School Road
                           Austin, TX 78744
                           Tel: 512-448-4314
                           Fax: 512-440-8887

                           Users of system/availability:
                           Data on various media are available on special
                           request
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •Eventually all data will be compiled in a biological resources GIS database for coastal Texas based
 on ARC/INFO format*
 ATTACHMENT:
 20. Quality and accuracy reports.
Untod SUM Eiwto
•I Protection Agency. Offie* of Wtter (WH-547). July 1993.
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State of Texas
Texas General Land Office (GLO)
GIS Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill Response Activities
                                                          TEXAS
                                                           (Texas)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
Texas Coastal Areas.

Oil spai related data, including surface water bodies, wetlands,
discharge sites, land and biological resources, estuarine areas,
jurisdictional boundaries, transportation, solid waste facilities, and land
use and ownership.
  Geographic Databases:  Not applicable.

  GIS Platform: Hardware:  Intergraph and Sun Workstations.
                                    ''«*•        fc
                Software:  ARC/INFO 6.1.
 Major Applications:                            Contacts:
 Facilitate exchange of GIS data between State     Bruce Smith, Assistant Director
 and Federal Agencies in Texas; assist the GLO    Coastal Division
 in developing an oil spill GIS; ensure proper       Tel: 512-463-5055
 documentation of data sets acquired for the
 GLO GIS.                                     Scof Friedman, GIS Analyst
                                               Tel: 512-463-5144

                                               Texas General  Land Office
                                               Coastal Division
                                               1700 North Congress Avenue
                                               Austin, TX 78701-1495
                                               Fax: 512-475-0680


 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 The 'Geographic Information System (GIS) Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill Response
 Activities' is a compilation of information on oil spill related data sets held by State and Federal
 Agencies. The dictionary is an initial component in GLO's development of a GIS to support the
 Statewide oil spill response and prevention program. It is designed to ensure proper
 documentation of data acquired for the GIS and is a first step in the development of State GIS data
 standards.  Conducted between September 1,1991, and November 31,1992, with funding by the
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State, the project received input from more than 52
 individuals representing 19 organizations.

 The dictionary describes the format location, structure, and usage of 55 data coverages called
 thematic layers.' Other information items include: 'Entity Reports,' which identify and define the
 data elements in the thematic layer, 'Attribute Reports,' which describe attributes or characteristic
 features of the data; and a list of Texas GIS contacts."
 ATTACHMENT:
 19. Executive Summary of Project Report: •Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS)
    Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill Response Activities.*  November 1992.
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Internationa! Boundary and Water
Commission (IBWC)
Joint U.S.-MexJcan Water Quality Monitoring
                                                                                TEXAS
                                                      (California, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas)
    The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) does not have a computer O1S but
  - does compile water quality data, primarily chemicaVbJochemlcat data, Including metals^ The
    .data, consisting of 40-60 parameters, Is maintained in Paradox 3.5, using Enable 300,

    Geographical Are*: Border area from Texas-New Mexico State fine to the Guff olMBxico as
                      well as the New River area In California.
                                                     w-

   'Type of Coverage:  Storage in major reservoirs, sources of river flow, diversions, water quality,
                      dimatotogical data, drainage basin and Irrigated areas.
                                             Contacts:
                                             Qzz/e Linguist
                                             International Boundary and Water Commission
                                             United States Section
                                             4171 N. Mesa,  Suite C-310
                                             El Paso, TX  79902
                                             Tel: 915-534-6704
                                             Fax: 915-534-6680

                                             Users of system/availability:
                                             Not available.

                                             Data Quality Management:
                                             Not available.

                                             Updates/enhancements:
                                             IBWC does not plan to purchase any new
                                             equipment in the near future.
Major Applications:
Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data
published annually by the IBWC.

Data Sources:
Federal Agencies: IBWC, USDA Agricultural
Research Service and Soil Conservation Service,
Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service,
Geological Survey, National Weather Service.
Other: Texas Board of Health; Texas Water
Commission; Middle Rio Grande Conservancy
District; Red Bluff Water Power Control District;
State of Colorado, Division of Water Resources;
Rio Grande Compact Commission; Delta Lake
Irrigation District; Del Rio City Water Dept; Eagle
Pass City Water Dept; Laredo City Water Dept;
Del Mar Conservation District; Central Power
and Light Co.; El Paso Dept of Water and
Sewerage; Maverick County Control and
Improvement District No. 1.

Mexican Agencies: Ministry of Agriculture and
Hydraulic Resources of Mexico, Meteorological
Service of Mexico, Meteorological Service of the
State of Chihuahua, Federal Power Commission
of Mexico, Potable Water Board of Piedras
Negras (Coahuila), Federal Board of Public
Improvement Works of Nuevo Laredo
(Tamautipas), Water and Drainage Board  of Cd.
Acuna, Coahuila.

COMMENTS (System Originator):
TBWC has considered using the STORET database but access cost ($300) is prohibitive.*

ATTACHMENT:
18.  Water Bulletin Number 60: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data. International Boundary
    and Water Commission. 1990. Excerpt
United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water frVH-547). Jury 1993.
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Consortium for Internationa! Earth
Science Information Network (CIESIN)
U.S.-Mexico Regional Environmental Information System (Proposed)
                                                        TEXAS
                                              (U.S.-Mexico Border)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
U.S,-MexicoBorder Area

Watershed boundaries, aquifer vulnerability, clrnate, soils, topography,
geology, land cover/land use, human population Cereus Ihfonration,
county boundaries and transportation, crop production, management
practices, government policies.
  Geographic Database*:   Physical, biological, and socfoeconomfc databases being determined

  G1S Platform:  Hardware: Sun SparcStatkxi LX, Sun SparcStation 10 Models 30 and 41;
                          Tektronix Phase color printer.

                Software:  GRASS, ARC/INFO, Oracle, ERDAS.

     CIESIN proposes to develop a U.S,-Mexico Regic»r»aJ Environmemal Iriformatton System that
     initially wfll include a Compendium of Metadata and Data Seis tor the Border :area j;7he:: C
     Compendium will aim to identify major environmental change-related data sets In the U.S.-
     Mexico Border area The new system will be adapted from one developed and tested in the
     Saginaw Bay, Mich,, area Other tools  available through CIESIN will be considered.  This
     project fe called for under an EPA-CIESIN Cooperative agreement The goal is to provide
     information  related  to what has been and is being  done to characterize  exposure  to
     environmental risks of people living within the U.S.-Mexico Border regioa  :
 Major Applications:
 Integration analysis of changes in environmental
 resources, economics, and demographics and
 of how these changes affect policy.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Dept of Agriculture's Soil
 Conservation Service, Census Bureau, Defense
 Mapping Agency, Environmental Protection
 Agency, Geological Survey,  National Oceanic
 and Atmospheric Administration, NASA. Other
 State agencies and academic institutions.

 Data Quality Management:
 Will comply with EPA Information Resources
 Management Policy Manual  and be compatible
 with the Global Change Data and Information
 Program Implementation Plan

 Updates/enhancements: Not applicable.
                    Contacts:
                    Philip E. Meier, Data and Information Resources
                    CIESIN
                    2250 Pierce Rd.
                    Saginaw, Ml 48603
                    Tel: 517-797-2669
                    Fax: 517-797-2622
                    Internet: phil.meier@ciesin.org

                    Robert C. Worrest, Environmental Pgms Coord.
                    CIESIN
                    1825 K Street, NW, Suite 805
                    Washington, DC 20006
                    Tel: 202-775-6614
                    Fax 202-775-6622
                    EPA EMail: worrestrobert
                    Internet: robertworrest@desin.org
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •CIESIN is a nonprofit consortium of universities and research institutions associated with
 organizations throughout the world. It was formed out of a congressional mandate to find ways to
 transform data the United States spends tremendous resources collecting into information that
 policy analysts and resource managers can use.'

 ATTACHMENT:
 17.  Excerpt from draft work plan.
Pag* 20
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University of New Mexico
Technology Application Center
Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) Clearinghouse
                                                 NEW MEXICO
                                                     (New Mexico)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
•New Mexico (Statewide, regional, and county coverages);

Hydrology, surface water drainage, Bio Grande Channel Study Data,
feature names.
  Geographic Databases: TlGER/Une files, 1:100,000 Digital Une Graphs, River Reach files,
                         nydrologlc units.

  CIS Platform:  Hardware: DEC 5000 workstation, Versatek electrostatic plotter.

                Software: ARC/INFO 6.0,
 Major Applications:
 Data are collected and stored for Clearinghouse
 distribution.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Census Bureau,
 Environmental Protection Agency, Geological
 Survey.

 Data Quality Management:
 Data sets developed in-house have
 documentation and have been visually verified.
 Other data sets are evaluated and documented
 when possible.

 Updates/enhancements:
 System is 4 years old.  Necessary
 enhancements will be made as the program
 grows and changes.
                     Contacts:
                     Shirley Lopez
                     Manager, GIS Division

                     Amy Budge
                     Manager, Geographic Data Services
                      Division/RGIS Clearinghouse

                     TAC, University of New Mexico
                     Albuquerque, NM 87131-6031
                     Tel: 505-277-3622
                     Fax: 505-277-3614
                     Internet: slopez@spock.unm.edu, and
                             abudge@spock.unm.edu

                     Users of system/availability:
                     Users are researchers and analysts in State,
                     Federal, and local government agencies and in
                     private industry.  Data are available via various
                     media including diskettes, tapes, and hard copy.
                     Cost estimates are available upon request
                     Contact RGIS Clearinghouse.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 •GIS has been most valuable in the types of activities the RGIS program does.  We have found
 ARC/INFO to be to be a useful management and data conversion tool It is also a very powerful
 spatial analysis tool and when combined with  remote sensing technology we are able to provide
 more indepth analysis for our clients.  Some problems encountered have been lack of full
 documentation, incompatible systems, and porting large data sets from a workstation to PCs. The
 system is constrained in that most data sets are currently at a small scale and there is a lack of
 good quality source data in both mapped and digital formats.1
 ATTACHMENTS:
 15. Foldout: "RGIS Clearinghouse.1
 16. List of RGIS coverages.
United State* Environmental Protection Ag«ncy. Office of Water (WH-547). July 1993.
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University of New Mexico
New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI)
                                                NEW MEXICO
                                                 (New Mexico)
  Geographic Area:
Southern NSW Mexico, local cities along the border, and some State-
wide information.
  Type of Coverage:       Hydrotogic data, water planning districts, jurisdictionaT boundaries.

  Geographic Databases:  US3S Hydrotogic Units, River Basins, Regional Water Planning Units,
                         New Mexico Counties, USQS Geographic Names information System
                         (GNIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency Reports.

  CIS Platform-Hardware: DEC 5000 series Unix/RISC workstations and a variety of other data
                         processing and networking systems.

               Software:  ARC/INFO 6.1.1.
 Major Applications:
 •  Resource Geographic Information System
   (RGIS) development of a GIS-based multi-
   agency system to share water related
   databases;
 •  Support to water/wastewater treatment
   planning, mainly in southern New Mexico;
 •  Catalog of existing digital data for the State
   of New Mexico; and,
 •  Flood Protection Inventory Needs Geographic
   Information System (GIS) Application.

 Data Sources:
 Federal Agencies: Environmental Protection
 Agency, Geological Survey, Army Corps of
 Engineers, Federal Emergency Management
 Agency.  Other: State agencies.

 Data Quality Management:
 Not available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 NMERI will soon add data from the Department
 of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. It also
 plans to add other data from USGS and EPA.
                    Contacts:
                    John Peterson
                    Geographic Information Coordinator
                    New Mexico Engineering Research Institute
                    University of New Mexico
                    1001 University Blvd., SE
                    Albuquerque, NM 87106-4342
                    Tel: 505-272-7295
                    Fax: 505-272-7355

                    Users of system/availability:
                    Federal and State agencies and the private
                    sector.
COMMENTS (System Originator):
•NMERI recommends The Acequia Sourcebook as a useful reference for persons interested in
 developing a GIS in the Border area Copies are available from NMERI upon request1

ATTACHMENTS:
12. GIS and Directly Related Water Resource Holdings of the New Mexico Engineering Research
   Institute (NMERI) for Southern New Mexico.
13. The Flood Protection Inventory Needs Geographic Information System Application. J. Peterson, T.
   Moore, and G. Olson. May 1992.
14. New Mexico Infrastructure Development Assistance Program. January 1993.
    16
   '  United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WH447). July 1803.

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State of New Mexico
New Mexico Environment Department (NMEO)
Surface Water Quality Bureau
                                                NEW MEXICO
                                                    (New Mexico)
  Geographic Coverage;
  Type of Coverage: -
New Mexico, firnited information for some neighboring counties in
,adjacent States,
            / hydrographlc unit boundaries, transportation, county and
State boundaries, .place names, ecoregtons, geology, vegetation, tend
use, pipelines, and telegraph and telephone lines for Ne^r Mexico.
Wellhead-protection information for the city of Santa Fe only.
  Geographic Database*:  Underground Storage Tanks (UST), ground water discharge plans,
                         drinking water wefe; landfflls,and others. These are In-house Oracle
                         or PC databases which contain varying degrees of geographic
                  -  .    informattoiiiTheyaTe'n^
                         work to that end is proceeding. (RCRA,; CERCUS, STORET are EPA-
                         maintained databases that contain New Mexico data.);

  GIS Platform: Hardware: DG Aviion 300-series workstation, Aftek digitizer, Houston instruments
                         plotter,-Hewlett Packard color printer.   ::   \   :        -....    ;     :

               Software:  ARC/INFO, ArcView.and TIN.             i:               :
 Major Applications:
 Convert in-house ground water related
 databases onto GiS coverages: most of these
 are databases of pollution sources and potential
 sources along with some well information (public
 wells and water fair); digitize aquifer vulnerability
 maps by county for the UST Bureau; generate
 Ground Water Contamination Inventory maps
 showing contamination and cleanup by county.

 Data Sources:
 Coverages listed under Type of Coverage* (in
 shaded area above) except wellhead data are
 from U.S. Geological Survey.  Wellhead data
 and Oracle and PC databases (listed under
 •Geographic Databases') are in-house
 databases.
                    Contact:
                    Michael Gallagher, Water Resource Specialist
                    Surface Water Quality Bureau
                    Evaluation & Planning Section
                    State of New Mexico Environment Dept
                    P.O. Box 26110
                    Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502
                    Tel: 505-827-2921
                    Fax: 505-827-0160

                    Users of system/availability:
                    Available for in-house use.
 Data Quality Management:
 Not available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 Not available.

 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 None.

 ATTACHMENT:
 11. 'Existing and Planned Projects for the NMED/SWQB Data Center.*
United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WB-547).
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 9 GIS Center
                                                  CALIFORNIA
                                               (Arizona, California)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
Arizona, California.

Water bodies, streams, drinking water wells, wetlands, transportation,
cay and administrative boundaries, hydrotogic units, hydrograpNc
data, air monitoring stations, Indian reservations, wildlife refuges.
  Geographic Databases:  TIGgR/LJne, Digital Elevation Maps, Digital Une Graphs, River Reach
                         File, Ecoregions, Toxic Release inventory, California Oeasti Shelf
                         Bathymetry,

  GIS Platform: Hardware: DG and Sunsparc workstations, etectrostatic plotter, color postscript
                         printer, thermal wax printer.

               Software:  ARC/INFO.
 Major Applications:
 Protecting endangered species; long-term and
 short-term community planning, including land
 use, growth, transportation, environmental
 monitoring.

 Data Sources:
 Federal Agencies: Census Bureau,
 Environmental Protection Agency, Geological
 Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
 Administration.  Other: Stephen P. Teale Data
 Center of the California Department of Fish and
 Game.

 Data Quality Management:
 Documentation is kept on each coverage
 including source, scale, projection, accuracy,
 and constraints.

 Updates/enhancements:
 System is enhanced constantly to meet Agency
 needs.
                    Contacts:
                    Carmen Maso
                    Cartographer (GIS)
                    U.S. EPA Region 9 (P-5)
                    75 Hawthorne St
                    San Francisco, CA 94105-3901
                    Tel: 415-744-1750
                    Fax: 415-744-1474
                    EPA EMail: EPA99029
                    Internet Email: maso.canmen@epamail.epa.gov

                    Users of system/availability:
                    EPA analysts are primary users. Direct access to
                    system is not available to general public.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 The GIS Center at Region 9 is a service oriented team, assisting other divisions at Region 9 with
 base map support, geographic analysis, and GIS project development11
ATTACHMENT:
10. Geographic Data Layers. October 1992.
Pag* 16
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San Diego State University (SDSU)
Canter for Earth Systems Analysis Research
                                                                           CAUFORNIA
                                                                               (California)
  Geographic Area:
                         UJS. side of the San Dtego-Baja California border, Tijuana River
                         Estuary, Pine Creek Watershed, Otay Mesa, Santa Margarita River
                         (tower portion), San Diego metropolitan area, Miramar Naval Airbase*
  Type of Coverage:       All types of natural resource data.

  Geographic Databases:   Natural resources databases. Digital Elevation Maps, some Digital Line
                          Graphs,^                                       «.

  CIS Platform:  Hardware: Sun, Vax, IBM Rise 6000, Tektronix, Calcomp plotter, Tektronix thermal
                          printer, Tektronix InkJet printer, HP pen plotter.

                Software:  ARC/INFbrGRASS, fiRDAS, 1DRISI, MAP,SPANS, and otters.
 Major Applications:
 Modeling water resources and pollution, multiple
 species preserve planning.

 Data Sources:
 Maps, aerial photos, orthophotographs, and
 various
 Data Quality Management:
 Visual verification and field checking.

 Updates/enhancements:
 System is 5 years old and is upgraded
 periodically.
                                             Contacts:
                                             Dave McKinsey
                                             Technical Manager
                                             Tel: 619-594-8042
                                             Internet: dave@geosun2.sdsu.edu

                                             Richard Wright, Ph.D.
                                             Professor of Geography
                                             Tel: 619-594-5466
                                             Internet: wright@geosun2.sdsu.edu

                                             Dept of Geography
                                             San Diego State University
                                             San Diego, CA 92182
                                             Fax: 619-594-4938

                                             Users of system/availability:
                                             Researchers at SDSU and land use planners.
                                             Access is limited to local users.  Fees and
                                             barters are used to defer costs.

COMMENTS (System Originator):
The Center could not accomplish the types of analyses it does without GIS and remote sensing.
The main problem has been inadequate data*

ATTACHMENTS:
7. Descriptive information.
8. Excerpt from GIS Teaching Facilities: Six Case Studies on the Acquisition and Management of
  Laboratories. Palladino, S.D., and Kemp, K.K. September 1991.
9. Integrating University Education and Funded Projects in a GIS Applications Course.  Wright,
   Richard D.
United State Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH-547)
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San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
SANDAG Geographic Information System
                                                                         CAUFORNIA
                                                             (California: San Diego County)
   Geographic Area:

   Type of Coverage:
                       San Diego County, California

                       Water and sewer districts, hydrographyt natural resource data, Census
                       tracts, jurisclictiorialooundarjes, land related data, urban activities, ,
                       transportation, freeways, roads, railroads, street annotation, street
                       center ifnes, transit network, employment, tend use, tend ownership,
                       slope, fault lines, activity centers, sols, vegetation, statistical areas.
          -   .          (See Attachment)

Geographic Databases:  DIME/TIGER, Digital Elevation Models, National Wetlands Inventory.

CIS Platform: Hardware: Prime 9955II minicomputer, Bun Spare stations, PCs.  Calcomp color
                       pen plotters..

             Software:  ARC/INFO 6.0, ERDAS-ARC/1NFO Live Link, SPSSx-3.1, Fortran
                       compiler.
 Major Applications:
 Population, housing, and employment estimates;
 demographic economic analyses; regional
 growth forecasting; community planning;
 transportation planning.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Census Bureau, Geological
 Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service. Other.
 California Department of Finance, various
 SANDAG divisions, local jurisdictions, Stephen
 Teale Data Center, California Dept of
 Transportation (CALTRANS).

 Data Quality Management:
 Internal documentation of databases is
 available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 System is updated periodically.
                                           Contact:
                                           Bob Parrott
                                           Director of Research
                                           San Diego Assn. of Governments
                                           Suite 800, First Interstate Plaza
                                           401 B Street
                                           San Diego, CA  92101
                                           Tel: 619-595-5300
                                           Fax: 619-595-5305

                                           Users of system/availability:
                                           Access to information is available to SANDAG
                                           member agencies through a Local Technical
                                           Assistance (LTA) program.  For a fee
                                           SourcePoint, a nonprofit corporation chartered
                                           by SANDAG, provides data and technical
                                           expertise to nonmember public agencies, the
                                           private sector, and the general public.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 None.
 ATTACHMENT:
 6. "Regional Information System Overview.* Report: San Diego Association of Governments.
   September 1992.
P«g«14
                                        United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WH-647).

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State of California
Department of Fish and Game
Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB)
                                                  CALIFORNIA
                                                       (California)
  Geographic Coverage:

  'type of Coverage:
State of California

State and Federal listing status, location, condition, date of
observation, precision of siting of rare plants, animals, and natural
communities,
  Geographic Database*:  Point and polygon tocationa! information of sitings.

  GIS Platform:  Hardware: Hewlett-Packard computers, HP-UX (UNIX) operating system, CaJComp
                          electrostatic plotter, digitizing tables, high-speed line printer, laser
                          printer, tape cartridge unit, tape drive.

               'Software:  ARC/INFO, Genamap (vector-based),linked to Oracle relationat
                          database system.
 Major Applications:
 Determine where rare plant and animal species
 are located.  Determine whether planned
 projects will affect species of special status.

 Data Sources:
 Citations are available upon request.

 Data Quality Management:
 Not available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 The database is updated every day.
                     Contact:
                     Tom Lupo, Geographer
                     Natural Heritage Division
                     Tel: 916-445-6264
                     Fax: 916-324-0475)
                     Internet: tlupo@gishostdfg.ca.gov

                     Information Services Coordinator
                     Tel: 916-324-3812

                     California Department of Fish and Game
                     1416 Ninth Street
                     Sacramento, CA 95814

                     User* of system/availability.
                     Data is available to the public for a fee. Costs
                     are calculated by the number of records located
                     in the area searched and  by the time required to
                     prepare reports and overlays (see attachments).
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 Nona

 ATTACHMENTS:
 2. Program Guide for Users.
 3. Price Sheet August 1992.
 4. Technical Description: NDDB Geographic Information System.
 5. License Agreement
United State* Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WB-547). July 1993.
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State of Califomnla
Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency
Stephen P. Teale Data Center
GIS Technology Center	
                                                                         CAUFORNIA
                                                                             (California)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
                       State of California                :                            /  •:

                       Hydrology, Hydrography, vegetation, air basins, air districts, poOficaf:
        :         -     and Jurisdictional districts, board of equalization districts, Census block
                       and tracts, efevatfon, terrain, geographic names, public tend 1
        ;,              ownership, public land survey system, transportation, fi® responsibility:
  •  '                  areas, water features, water wells and springs, airports and       :    ;:
                       transmission and railroad lines, city and county boundaries, populated
                       place names, major highways, 1989 Farmlands, 1985 National
               ;        Wetlands Inventory.        ;•    :/  ='__-•

Geographic Databases:  1990 Census, TlGER/Une data, Digital Elevation Models, Digital Une
                       Graphs, Geographic-flames Inventory System.

CIS Platform: Hardware: Sun Microsystems Spare stations and DEC workstations networked to
                       a Sun 690 multiprocessor file server providing 100 mips of computer
                       power, 20 GIGS disk storage, Tektronix digitizers, PIC electrostatic
                       plotter and PostScript printer.

             Software:  ARC/INFO revisions 5.0, 5.0.1, and 6.0.1, GRID, TIN, NETWORK,
                       COGO, Object Code, ArcView, and SureMAPS.
 Major Applications:
 Natural resources management,
 resource/service allocations, environmental
 monitoring, transportation planning,
 demographic analysis.

 Data Sources:
 Federal agencies: Census Bureau, Defense
 Mapping Agency, Geological Survey, U.S. Forest
 Service, Bureau of Land Management.
 Other. State of California

 Data Quality Management:
 Quality varies with source data Subjective
 evaluations of data quality are available in data
 Pbrary documentation.

 Updates/enhancements:
 The following layers will be available soon:
 airports, hospitals, and long term health care
 facilities.

 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 The GIS Technology Center also provides application development and consulting services.'

 ATTACHMENTS:
 None.
                                            Contacts:
                                            Pam Leonhardt, GIS Staff Analyst
                                            Tel: 916-263-1767

                                            Randy Moon/, Manager
                                            GIS Technology Center
                                            Tel: 916-263-1886

                                            Stephen P. Teale Data Center
                                            P.O. Box 13436
                                            Sacramento, CA 95813-4436
                                            Fax: 916-263-1346

                                            Users of system/availability:
                                            Data and services are available to Federal,
                                            State, and local government agencies and the
                                            general public. Fees are charged.
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Advanced Sciences Inc.
Corporate G1S
                                                                            CALIFORNIA
                                                                          (California, Mexico)
   Geographic Area:

   Type of Coverage:
                         San Oiego County and California, Baja California-Tijuana area      :

                         Water quality, rivers, elevation* roads, cultural features, infrastructure.
  Geographic Databases:  TIGER line data, WATSTORE, DEMS, Digital Une Graph, data derived
                :          :from institute Nacional de Estadistica Geographica y Informatica  ::
       '            '                 '           "                                         '
   GIS Platform: Hardware: Sun Spare II. various PC 486/50. CD drive, HP D at drive, 1/4' tape
        *  .  ."-•-..    .     drive.. J-. •::-.-::••• :'. ' '  '   ...  '.-'  ' '":. ;/.-•• ::    ;•               .  : .. .

                Software:  ARC/INFO :(C.l), GRASS, PC ARC/INFO a4D-h, ARC/CAD, ARC/VIEW,
                =          1DR1S1.; v ....... •  .vv. •• v;:  •  '    -.,:•;-    .                    '
                                               Contacts:
                                               David W. Gallaher
                                               GIS Manager

                                               Rudy Prosser
                                               GIS Coordinator

                                               Advanced Sciences Inc.
                                               4909 Murphy Canyon Rd.
                                               San Diego, CA 92123
                                               Tel: 619-560-8552
                                               Fax: 619-560-8538

                                               Users of system/availability:
                                               ASI staff and clients. System is for internal use
                                               but ASI is open to exchange of information.
Major Applications:
Groundwater, hazardous waste, air quality,
vegetation, geology, wildlife, engineering, noise,
population, utilities, socioeconomic studies, and
community relations.

Data Sources:
Federal Agencies: Census Bureau, Dept. of
Defense, Navy Department, Environmental
Protection Agency, Geological Survey, National
Park Service. Other municipal CAD files, San
Diego Assn.  of Governments, Institute Nacional
de Estadistica Geographica y Informatica
(INEGI), City of Tijuana, Earth Observation
Satellite Co.  (EOSAT), and a variety of internally
built files.

Data Quality Management:
Where known, a data pedigree has been
established.

Updates/enhancements:
Expansion across the corporation is underway.

COMMENTS (System Originator):
•GIS has been beneficial to data integration, data visualization, conflict identification, and the ability
to ask previously impossible questions. The largest problem has been the cost and quality of data
Both scale and accuracy are highly variable and range from 1'« 100' to 1'=24,000'.  Many
questions remain regarding the accuracy of data that we did not build. Most databases in use
today were not built with GIS in mind. In addition, a more detailed listing of data sets could be
useful in the future.'

ATTACHMENTS:
None.
United StatM Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WH-547). July 1993.
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University of Arizona
Arizona Remote Sensing Center
                                                      ARIZONA
                                                  (Arizona, Mexico)
  Geographic Area:

  Type of Coverage:
•Arizona; Negates and Sonora in Mexico.

Water quality, household water use, sewer and water infrastructure,
geology, surface hydrology, land use (1987), jurisdictions, zoning,
roads.
  Geographic Database*:  Generated internally.

  CIS Platform: Hardware: IBM PC 386 and 486, digitizer, high resolution color monitor, tape
                         drive, optical disk drive, Calcomp pen plotter, XybJon multfepectraJ
                         video camera, bl-spectraf multiplexing video camera.

               Software:  ARC/INFO, ERDAS, IDRISL   ,*
 Major Applications:
 Multitemporal mapping of rangeiand resources
 and land use, assessment of vegetation
 degradation, historic land use mapping,
 vegetation and wildlife habitat mapping,
 sampling locust habitat (West Africa),
 muftitemporal mapping of a hazardous waste
 site.

 Data Sources:
 Local, Federal, State, and international agencies.

 Data Quality Management:
 Not available.

 Updates/enhancements:
 On a continuing basis.
                     Contacts:
                     Stuart E Marsh, Associate Director
                     Arizona Remote Sensing Center
                     Office of Arid Lands Studies
                     College of Architecture
                     University of Arizona
                     845 North Park Avenue
                     Tucson, AZ 85719
                     Tel: 602-621-1955.
                     Fax: 602-621-3816
                     Telex: 1561507 ARID UT

                     Users of system/availability:
                     Not available.
 COMMENTS (System Originator):
 None.
ATTACHMENT:
1. Foldout: Capabilities in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Office of Arid
   Lands Studies, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona
                                         Uftitod 81^ Envirannwntal Protection Ag«^^                    Julyl

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GIS
Tex.:
U.S. EPA Region 6
Tex.:
U.S. Geological
Survey, Texas Dist.
Utah, Univ. of:
DIGIT Lab
MEXICO:
Centre de
Investigation
Cientifica y de
Education Superior
de Ensenada, B.C.
(CICESE)
pg
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34
35
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California/
California
Region



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Sonora
Plains/
Colorado
River
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X

Sierra
Madre
Occidental/
Continental
Divide
X

X

Northern
Plateau/
Great
Plains
X
X


Sierra Madre
Oriental/
Santiago
Mountain
X
X


Gulf of
Mexico
Coastal
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International
Boundary and
Water Commission
Tex., State of:
General Land
Office
Tex., State of:
Parks and Wildlife
Dept.
Tex., State of:
Railroad
Commission
Tex., State of:
Transportation
Dept.
Tex., State of:
Water Commission
Tex., State of:
Water Development
Board
Tex., A&M Univ.,
Tex. Transportation
Institute
Tex., Univ. of at
Austin; Bureau of
Economic Geology;
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Environmental Atlas
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                   US-Mexico Border GIS Systems:  Geographic Coverage
GIS
Arizona, University
of: Arizona Remote
Sensing Center
Calif.:
Advanced
Sciences, Inc.
(corporate)
Calif.:
San Diego Assn of
Govts
Calif.:
San Diego State
University
Calif., State of:
Bus., Transp.,
Housing: Stephen
P. Teale Data
Center
Calif., State of:
Fish & Game Dept.
Calif:
U.S. EPA Region 9
New Mex., State of:
Environment Dept.
New Mex, Univ. of:
Engineering
Research Institute
New Mex., Univ. of:
Technology
Application Center
Tex:
Consortium for
International Earth
Science Information
Network (CIESIN)
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11
14
15
12
13
16
17
18
19
20
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California/
California
Region

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X
X
X
X
X



X
Sonora
Plains/
Colorado
River
X





X
X


X
Sierra
Madre
Occidental/
Continental
Divide

-





X
X
X
X
Northern
Plateau/
Great
Plains










X
Sierra Madre
Oriental/
Santiago
Mountain










X
Gulf of
Mexico
Coastal
Plain/ Gulf
Coast
Lowland
Region










X
United State* Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water (WH-547). July 1993.
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Catalog Organization
Catalog Is Preliminary Effort
GIS Descriptions. The catalog contains a one-
page description for each of the 26 GISs listed.
Entries are listed alphabetically according to
the State/country where the GIS is physically
located.  This location is indicated in the upper
right hand comer of each entry. The State or
country names appearing in parentheses
below the top line in the upper right comer
represent the areas of geographic coverage for
that entry.

Matrix Showing Geographic Coverage.
Following this page and before the individual
GIS listings is a matrix that summarizes the
coverage of each entry according to
geographic region from west to east along the
border; that is, from the Baja,
California/California region to the Gulf of
Mexico.

Attachments.  Some organizations submitted
supplemental material that more fully explains
their systems.  This material is presented
under the •ATTACHMENTS* section at the end
of the catalog.
The purpose of this catalog is to provide a
preliminary list of water-related GISs that
pertain to features along the border. It should
acquaint GIS developers and users with
information on some existing systems identified
by various organizations that either have GISs
or may want to develop them.

The goal is to help water program managers
and staff access valuable and dynamic
information as they strive to develop or
upgrade their own programs. It may help them
decide whether to introduce a GIS component
into their current projects.  It may help them
determine whether a GIS exists that can serve
as a model they can adapt to their own
systems or needs. Or it may help them
discover that a GIS already exists on a subject
they had planned to pursue. A further goal is
to stimulate the information sharing and
people-to-people networking that help assure
the best use of scarce resources for all those
working to improve environmental conditions
along the U.S.-Mexico border.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (WH-547). July 1993.
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                                     The GIS Catalog
                                          and the
                              United States-Mexico Bonier
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Catalog

This catalog identifies 26 existing or proposed
geographic information systems (GISs) that
contain information on the water environment
within 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) of the
U.S.-Mexico border. The catalog is part of an
effort by governments and communities on
both sides of the border to better manage their
water resources as called for by the February
1992 'Integrated Border Environmental Plan for
the Mexican-U.S. Border Area' The Plan was
issued jointly by the Secretaria de Desarrollo
Urbano y Ecologia (SEDUE) of Mexico and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The
GIS catalog aims to provide a ready reference
for GIS system developers and users at all
levels of government and the private sector in
both the United States and Mexico.
The Need for GIS Information Along the
Border

The catalog responds to the need voiced by
water program managers and staff of both
countries to share GIS information that can
help solve environmental problems existing
along the border. GIS allows information
extracted from various existing databases to be
combined to produce valuable new information
formatted and displayed for quick
comprehension in a way which GIS has made
economically feasible for the first time.  This
new data can not only visually demonstrate
relationships between complex environmental
problems but also can help point the way to
optimal solutions. Typical GIS outputs are
maps, charts, graphs, tabular listings, and
surface models.
What Is a GIS?

Managers and technical staff who have created
GISs express strong support for GIS as a
decisionmaking and planning tool. A
geographic information system is a
computerized database management system
that has a unique ability to link, integrate, and
visually display information contained in
numerous disparate databases.  It allows
capture, storage, retrieval, analysis, and
display of spatial (tocationally defined) data  It
consists of hardware, software, data and an
organizational framework of people and
organizations. GIS technology bridges the
disciplines of computer science, information
management, and cartography.  GIS data may
come from sources as diverse as maps, aerial
photographs, and satellite imagery to
socioeconomic, census, meteorological, and
crop records.
GISs and Water Quality

Among GISs described in the catalog are
projects either developed or in progress by
State, Federal, and local agencies; educational
institutions; advocacy groups; and the private
sector. Much of the information these systems
contain is useful to such water-related activities
as managing point and nonpoint pollution,
evaluating management alternatives for local
water use planning and zoning, and modeling
the effects of existing and proposed activities
on water quality.
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                                      CONTENTS                              Page No.

GIS Catalog and United States-Mexico Border	   5
Matrix: Geographic Areas Covered by GISs  	   7
GIS locations listed alphabetically by State/Country:
UNITED STATES:
      ARIZONA:
              University of Arizona (Arizona Remote Sensing Center)	  10
      CALIFORNIA:                                             -             ~
              Advanced Sciences, Inc. (corporate)  	  11
              State Agencies:       "                                        _
                     Business, Transportation, and Housing:
                           Stephen P. Teale Data Center	  12
                     Department of Fish and Game:
                           Natural Diversity Database	  13
              San Diego Association of Governments 	  14
              San Diego State University	  15
              U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9  	  16
      NEW MEXICO:
              State Agencies:
                     New Mexico Environment Department (NMED)	  17
              University of New Mexico:
                     Engineering Research Institute	  18
                     Technology Application Center:
                           Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS)
                              Clearinghouse	  19
      TEXAS:
              Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)	  20
              International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)	  21
              State Agencies:
                     General Land Office (GLO):
                       GIS Prototype Data Dictionary for Oil Spill
                           Response Activities	  22
                     Parks and Wildlife: Coastal Wetlands Habitat Monitoring	  23
                     Railroad  Commission: Oil and Gas Well/Pipeline Mapping System	  24
                     Transportation:  Texas Road Inventory Mapping System	  25
                     Water Commission: Texas Water Commission Regulatory and
                           Compliance System (TRACS)	  26
                     Water Development Board:  Texas Natural Resources Information
                           System (TNRIS)	  27
              Universities:
                     Texas A&M University: Texas Transportation Institute	  28
                     University of Texas at Austin: Bureau of Economic Geology:
                           Border Environmental Atlas  	  29
                           Geographic Information System (GIS)	  30
              U.S. Government Agencies:
                     Army Corps of Engineers	  31
                     Environmental Protection Agency Region 6  	  32
                     Geological Survey	  33
       UTAH: University of Utah:  DIGIT Lab 	  34
MEXICO:
       BAJA CALIFORNIA:  Centre de Investigation Cientifica y de Education Superior de
                                Ensenada, B.C. (CICESE) 	  35.

Attachments	  36

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                   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
       Production of this catalog was made possible through the
enthusiastic participation and generous contributions of time, talent,
and knowledge by the organizations who submitted information on
their own geographic information systems (GISs) for the catalog.

       Especially noteworthy are the interest and commitment
exhibited by the GIS coordinators and others who serve as GIS
contacts for the participating organizations. These individuals, many
of whom are identified in the catalog entries, represent a substantial
intellectual and economic investment in water-related GIS information
by catalog contributors.  Most are from academic institutions,
government agencies, advocacy groups, and the corporate sector.

       Catalog participants have helped identify a significant
collection of GIS resources available to communities or organizations
seeking to alleviate the serious environmental problems that exist
along the United States-Mexico border.  We appreciate their
cooperation and valuable contributions.
                    Michael B. Cook, Director
     Office of Wastewater Enforcement and Compliance (WH-547)
           United States Environmental Protection Agency
                    Washington, D. C. 20460

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