FY 2020 EXCHANGE NETWORK GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS
Office of Mission Support
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 20 Grants



Recipient Name

Total Number of Awards

Total Amount of Awards

States

22

$4,684,037.00

Tribes

10

$2,527,716.00

Territories

0

$0.00

All Recipients

32

$7,211,753.00

Recipient Name

Project Description

Registered
Components

Award
Amount

Award
Date

STATES / INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE STATE

Alabama -

Department of
Environmental
Management

This project proposes to conduct analysis and planning for, and
create, an electronic submission form and payment system to
streamline the ADEM Form 8700-12 Notification of Regulated
Waste Activity annual submission process.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

10/27/2020

Alaska -

Department of Natural
Resources / Division of
Geological & Geophysical
Surveys

This project proposes to create a new flow of Alaska
groundwater quality data to the EPA's Water Quality Exchange
(WQX).

Not Available -
Active Grant

$196,611

9/29/2020

Arizona -

Department of
Enviornmental Quality

This project proposes to enhance and implement the Combined
Air Emissions Reporting (CAER) System for Arizona air
permittees.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/9/2020


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California -

Sacramento State
University

This project proposes to construct and publish a new
information exchange, the Trash Rapid Assessment Data
Exchange (TRADE), consisting of a crowd-sourced database,
Application Programming Interface (API), and web-based
dashboard. Project benefits include streamlined access to
quality environmental data that will reduce burden and cost,
and expanded participation in data-driven environmental
improvement.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,967

9/8/2020

Colorado -

Department of Public
Health and Environment

This project proposes to develop a chatbot tool for compliance
assistance to the various regulated industries. The chatbot tool
will be available via web access, phone and virtual assistants.
This application seeks funding under Priorities 1 and 3.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$198,435

9/2/2020

District of Colombia -

Department of Energy and
Environment

DOEE proposes to streamline workflows between DOEE Air
Quality Division's (AQD) Air Quality Compliance System (AQCS)
Quickbase database and Integrated Compliance Information
System for Air (ICIS-Air) and upgrade AQD systems to be
compliant with the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule
(CROMERR).

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/10/2020

Hawaii -

Department of Health

The project proposes to integrate the Substance Registry System
(SRS) Service; use Submit Web Services to integrate data into
Federal Registry System API; upgrade and implement RCRAInfo
Outbound Services; and publish Geospatial data sets. This will
enable EHA to improve information quality and transparency
across multiple programs by providing related substance
information. This application seeks funding under Priorities 1, 2,
and 3.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

8/24/2020

Idaho -

Department of
Environmental Quality

This grant project proposes to transmit NOI data and other
payloads via CDX to ICIS-NPDES and develop, test and deploy
web application features for e-NOI and Biosolids permit
submittal, reporting, and compliance.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,141

9/2/2020


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Indiana -

Purdue University

This project proposes to modernize and enhance web-based
Long-Term Hydrological Impact Assessment (L-THIA) with the
latest available datasets and current web
technologies/practices; enhance web-based L-THIA with long-
term Indiana water quality trending tool and EPA's Substance
Registry Services (SRS); and increase access to web-based L-THIA
features in the Great Lakes region through an openly published
REST API and promote its adoption by development of online
training resources.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,468

9/16/2020

Kansas -

Department of Health and
Environment

This grant project proposes to develop hazardous waste
modules in the Kansas Environmental Information Management
System (KEIMS) to improve the collection and management of
hazardous waste data.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/8/2020

Kentucky -

Energy and Environment
Cabinet

This project proposes to provide electronic collection of Drinking
Water compliance data using online web forms and to create a
data sync between existing databases and document
management software. Project benefits include increased data
quality and accessibility for KYDEP and partners, EPA personnel,
and the public, while leveraging existing information technology
infrastructures.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$198,504

10/16/2020

Louisiana -

Department of Natural
Resources

This project proposes to update the organizational structure of
underground injection control well data in the current data
management system and create automated database processes
for improved compliance and enforcement management.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$154,958

9/3/2020

Nevada -

Division of Environmental
Protection

The project proposes to expand WQX data flow capacity
through the Exchange Network to include biological and habitat
monitoring data elements and results, and enhance NDEP's
existing Air Information Management System (AIMS) to allow
for prescribed burning e-permitting and e-reporting.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

8/26/2020


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Oklahoma -

Water Resources Board

This project proposes to connect their IFS database to the EPA's
CBR/NIMs database; create additional connections between
programmatic databases to allow for querying across agency
data; and create a public-facing dashboard, using existing tools,
to display all available and connected agency data.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/23/2020

Pennsylvania -

Department of
Environmental Protection

This project proposes to customize the Chesapeake Bay Nutrient
Tracking Tool and provide front end access to its waste
management eManifest database.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$399,931

9/16/2020

Rhode Island -

Department of Health

This project proposes to perform an analysis and error
identification of its Beach Program Microsoft Access database to
meet EPA data submission standards; rectify the Beach Program
historical data set via the updated Access Database and
verification of new data flow; and implement extract, transform
and load (ETL) of the public notification systems with the
updated Access Database. Project benefits include improved
and streamlined submission mechanisms to deliver data to the
EPA and the public.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$92,282

9/9/2020

Texas-

Water Development Board

This project proposes to streamline Clean Water and Drinking
Water SRF program data to U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) SRF reporting system by enabling a data bridge
(REST API) to maintain and expand the flow of data from the
state's web-based Loan and Grant Management Tracking
System to the new SRF database.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$350,000

8/27/2020

Utah -

Department of
Environmental Quality

This project proposes to create a web form interface to allow
customers applying for a Class V underground injection control
(UIC) well to enter their information online eliminating the need
for paper forms, improving data quality and streamlining data
digitization.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$100,000

9/4/2020


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Vermont -

Department of
Environmental
Conservation

The project proposes to develop one centralized authorization
portal for any entity needing to do business with the Vermont
Agency of Natural Resources. This project commits to
incorporate several components of Shared CROMERR Services
(SCS) into an authorization portal that will be used by both the
COTS Windsor Solutions, Inc., nFORM solution and internally
developed custom solutions.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/9/2020

Virginia -

Department of
Environmental Quality

The project proposes to develop and produce a reusable water
quality monitoring mobile application for use on mobile phones,
tablets or laptops. The application will be used by VADEQ staff in
the field to collect water quality data, take photographs,
automatically compile reports, and upload data to central filing
systems.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$194,750

9/10/2020

Washington -

Recreation and
Conservation Office

This project proposes to design and develop a new data
exchange for hatchery high-level indicators (HLI).

Not Available -
Active Grant

$399,998

9/28/2020

West Virginia -

Department of
Environmental Protection

The project proposes to upgrade its state data systems to
comply with Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the eReporting Rule by
replacing its current system with Automatic Download, Review,
and Approval (ADORA), which will provide a more automated
back-end solution that will automatically download, validate,
move, and close applications. ADORA will be developed for
mining and general NPDES eDMRs.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,992

8/24/2020

TRIBES

Tribe, Region 9 -
Big Valley Band of Pomo
Indians of the Big Valley
Rancheria

This project proposes to convert an existing node to Virtual
Exchange Services for the Big Valley water quality data, mapping
of Tribe and regional data to WQX Schema, and building
technical capacity for the Tribe; and to initiate the development
of a plan for comprehensive water quality management for
domestic water supply, endangered species, and agricultural
water use with Lake County and state and federal agencies.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$200,000

9/21/2020


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Tribe, Region 6 -
Cherokee Nation

The project proposes to establish a radon database and flow
radon data to a national radon exchange via OpenNode2.
Project benefits include simplified and streamlined radon data
entry, increased public access to radon data, and the ability to
share files to a national radon database.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$139,284

9/10/2020

Tribe, Region 10 -
Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama
Nation

This project proposes to develop field applications for entering,
checking, and transferring data, in order to develop a backend
geodatabase that will support a visual, interactive, data-rich web
service that will be easily accessible to tribal program managers
and tribal members, partners, and the public.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,990

9/14/2020

Tribe, Region 6 -
Eight Northern Indian
Pueblo Council

This grant proposes to reuse the existing monitoring data
features of the Ambient Water Quality Monitoring System
(AWQMS) to enhance a tribal Ambient Air Quality monitoring
capability, and build capacity by adding more Tribes and Pueblos
to the partnership including AWQMS/WQX/AQS training and
support for new Tribes/Pueblos and the existing partnership
participants.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$400,000

9/16/2020

Tribe, Region 5 -
The Fond du Lac Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa

This grant proposes to reuse, leverage, and enhance the new
Local Assessments Management Module (LAMM) and expand its
adoption by EPA Region 5 tribal partnership members; add
support for fish consumption advisory evaluation,
documentation, tracking, and publication to their existing tribal
consortium water quality data management and sharing system;
and extend tribal capacity.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$400,000

9/11/2020

Tribe, Region 9 -
Owens Valley Indian Water
Commission

This grant project proposes to leverage two SQL-based
databases for enhanced environmental data management and
sharing, create environmental dashboards for elevated data
sharing with partners, and generate a shared tribal CWA Water
Quality Assessment Report Tool to ease reporting.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$196,727

8/24/2020


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Tribe, Region 1 - Penobscot
Nation

This grant proposes to implement an enhanced database that
will improve the management, review, quality control checking,
analysis. Project benefits include creating a process for
publishing continuous data to the Interoperable Watersheds
Network using EPA's data appliance; developing new data entry
and review forms that will streamline the process for sharing
benthic macroinvertebrate data with the Maine Department of
Environmental Protection; and providing the ability to submit
data to WQX3.0.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$399,522

9/14/2020

Tribe, Region 2 -
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe

This project proposes to create an electronic database/portal
for all tribal members to access environmental data; and create
a portal which would allow submission of environmental
applications electronically.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,096

11/2/2020

Tribe, Region 10 -
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
of the Fort Hall
Reservation

This project proposes to implement an interdepartmental
environmental asset and workflow management visual
database, and build informative, project-based public websites
to display environmental findings to tribal membership and the
community.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$193,160

9/17/2020

Tribe, Region 9 -
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of
the Duck Valley
Reservation

This project proposes to implement an interdepartmental
environmental asset and workflow management visual
database, and build informative project-based public websites
to display environmental findings to tribal membership and the
community.

Not Available -
Active Grant

$199,937

10/28/2020


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