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CROMERR Success Story
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control (DNREC) submitted a consolidated Cross-Media Electronic
Reporting Regulation (CROMERR) application to EPA that covers
modifications and revisions to incorporate electronic reporting into
multiple air, water, and waste programs authorized under 40 CFR.
The application describes how DNREC will use an existing electronic
document receiving system, their web based Online Reporting System
(ORS), to implement electronic reporting for all these programs,
including those that will require electronic signatures for CROMERR
"priority" and "non-priority" reports. Based on a review of DNREC's
submission, EPA has determined that ORS will meet all applicable
CROMERR requirements for electronic document receiving systems,
and that the application is approvable. DNREC is currently completing
upgrades needed to bring ORS into conformance with the system as
it is described in the CROMERR application. Formal approved will be
announced as soon as DNREC notifies EPA that the upgraded ORS is
operational; this is tentatively scheduled for April, 2009.
As an enterprise-wide system for DNREC electronic reporting, ORS
provides a single, unified and consistent approach to meeting
CROMERR requirements for all electronic reporting under DNREC's
EPA-authorized programs. This approach provides a number of
advantages, including greater economies of scale, faster implementation,
easier system support and maintenance, and a single organizational
focal point for CROMERR compliance.
The Delaware's Solution to Meeting
CROMERR Requirements
DNREC ORS builds upon DNREC's existing Online eGovernment web
site to allow regulated businesses to electronically sign and submit
Air National Emissions Inventory Reports, Asbestos Removal
Reports, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
Discharge Monitoring Reports, Hazardous Waste Generator
Registrations and Annual Reports, and Storm Water Notices of
Intent. When fully upgraded. DNREC ORS will be a web-portal-based
document management system that provides repository, audit and
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retrieval features through an intuitive, user-friendly but highly secure user interface. DNREC
ORS will provide a user ID/password-based approach to user authentication and signature that
includes the use of challenge question and response methodology for second-factor assurance of
valid electronic signatures under CROMERRR. Users who sign and submit reports on behalf of
regulated entities will navigate to the portal, sign in, use their password and the answer to a
challenge question to execute electronic signatures, and then submit their signed reports to the
system. These reports will then be validated, stored, and routed to the appropriate authority
within the agency for acceptance or rejection.
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