Proposed Changes to Content and Availability of
EMTS Documents
What are EMTS documents?
• Documents are generated in EMTS to aid in your organization's internal recordkeeping
and reporting.
Why are there proposed changes?
• Documents have grown in size as information has been added.
• Number of available documents has increased with each EMTS release.
• Frequency of document availability has increased to meet the needs of EMTS users.
• EMTS retains each document that is generated.
• System performance and database size are affected by the above and are unsustainable.
What are the proposed changes?
Version 1.4
• Create a new daily document - Transaction Status document- that contains transaction
activity for a single day (i.e., yesterday's activity). For each organization it will show
transactions submitted by that organization and transactions specifying that
organization as the trading partner from the prior day. It will also show transactions that
changed status on the previous day (e.g., if a pending trade was accepted yesterday, it
will be displayed on the today's report). The document will be produced once per day
during the overnight document generation process.
• Automatically unsubscribe organizations that fail to download documents for which
they have subscribed after 30 days of inactivity. An email notification will be sent to
users before and after the system performs this action. Users may re-subscribe to
documents at any time.
• Modify the Monthly Transaction History document to display transactions based on
Transaction Status Date rather than Submission Status Date. This will ensure that
transaction status changes occurring after the end of the month will be included in the
Monthly Transaction History document.
Environmental Protection EPA-420-B-11-021
Agency May 2011
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• Require subscription to the Monthly Transaction History document for organizations
that wish to maintain a historic record of transactions in EMTS documents. Then, for
certain documents, purge all "3 per day," "daily," and "weekly" documents once the
"monthly" Transaction History document becomes available. EMTS will retain Monthly
Transaction History documents for a period of one year so that a complete set of
documents exists for the most recent compliance year and a set for the current
compliance year.
Version 1.5
• Fully replace 3 per day, daily and weekly Transaction History documents with
Transaction Status documents. EMTS will no longer produce "3 per day," "daily" and
"weekly" Transaction History documents. The Monthly Transaction History document
will still be available.
• Match the amount of data provided in a document to the frequency of generation for
that document. This change applies to the Completed Trade, Expired Trade, and
Canceled Trade documents. For example, a "daily" Completed Trades document would
contain one day's worth of data (e.g., yesterday's data). All "3 per day" documents
would contain all trades completed that day up until the time when the document is
generated.
When will these changes take place?
• Version 1.4 Release-Summer 2011
• Version 1.5 Release-Fall 2011
Can I submit comments to EPA on these proposed changes?
• Comments due: May 26, 2011
• Submit to: support@epamts-support.com
United States
Environmental Protection May 2011 | Page 2
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