Presentation on EPA's Facility Registry Service API for the DC Web API Meetup. The API is being used in front end integration and master data management, delivering data quality improvements, better integration, and burden reduction to reporters.

1. DC Web API Meetup:
EPA’s Facility Registry
Service API
David Smith 202-566-0797 Smith.DavidG@epa.gov
Matt Kelly 202-566-1597 Kelly.Matthew@epa.gov
https://epa.gov/frs
10/5/2016
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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2. • FRS: EPA’s Facility Registry System
• Master Data Management - aggregates and
integrates locational and other core facilities data
across EPA programs and state partners – pulls from
nearly 100 systems and datasets
• Facility location and associated geodata; corporate
ownership and parents; points of contact; program
IDs; NAICS/SIC codes; Tribal indicators
• Over 4 million facilities and places of interest in US
and Territories
FRS: Overview

3. FRS: Overview
Facility location and associated geodata;
corporate ownership and parents; points
of contact; program IDs; NAICS/SIC codes;
Tribal indicators

4. FRS: Overview
• Master Data Management
• Data Quality Improvements
– Validation
– Verification
– Geocoding
– Spatially Derived
Attributes
• Shared Services for Facility Data Management
and Reporting

5. FRS: APIs
• Chunky: Bulk Data Exchange
– National Environmental Information Exchange
Network
– Started in 1998, to facilitate data exchange with
states
– Primarily WSDL / SOAP-based, for server-to-server
exchanges
• Chatty: Services for Web Apps
– Facility Lookup and Reporting

6. Exchange Network
• http://www.exchangenetwork.net/
• Collaborative Service Oriented Architecture for
Data Exchange
– Federal
– State
– Tribal
– Territorial
– Industry
– Academia

7. FRS on the Exchange
Network
• FRS: Shares and integrates data across many State Partners,
along with Tribal and Territorial Partners
• https://www.epa.gov/enviro/frs-exchange-network

8. • Bidirectional FRS Facility Data Sharing via FacID
• http://www.exchangenetwork.net/data-exchange/facility-
identification/
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Data Flow

9. Value Proposition
• Cross-Media Integration Across Many
Programs and Interests
• Validation and Verification
• Geocoding and Geoprocessing
• Web services
= Value Added

10. Problem Statement
• Issue: Multiple stove-piped
reporting systems
• Issue: Access to timely,
comprehensive information
• Issue: Dozens of independent versions of “the
truth”
• Issue: Still trying to resolve data together via
fuzzy match after the fact

11. Pursuit of Solution
• Start with what we already know about a
facility: Search and retrieve data
• Allow users to update information (name
changes, mergers & acquisitions, et cetera)
• Provide front-end validations: validate
addresses, geocode locations, show map view
• Allow users to create records – create master
record and assign master ID on the fly

12. Simple examples - A few dozen lines of
code, jQuery & leaflet.js
https://github.com/USEPA/FRS-
getfacilities-samples
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Public Facing Query API

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Examples on Github

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Deduplication
Burden Reduction
Via Shared Service
Estimate 140,000 annual hours
reduction in just one program a

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Standardized,
validated
address
Geocoded coordinates
Visual feedback on map
Create new record:
Smart form
powered by API
Write API
Write API secured by NAAS;
allows new, standardized,
validated, master records to
be created, assigning unique
ID
Ability to fine-tune location

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Benefits
• Less duplicative data entry
• Better data quality
• Master records for new facilities created on
the fly, instantly available to other enterprise
applications
• Better integration
• Burden reduction both for regulated industry
and for agency users

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18. • When EPA and its partners share identifiers and data,
we can help provide more details, and allow partners
to leverage and link to each others’ data and reports
• Potential applications for communities: simple code
samples (lookup API only) on Github -
https://github.com/USEPA/FRS-getfacilities-samples
• Find out about enforcement and compliance,
chemical risk, infrastructure, cleanups and more
• Couple it with other APIs like Envirofacts, ECHO or
other agencies like EIA
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Opportunities

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Thank You / Questions?
Topic URL
FRS Home Site https://www.epa.gov/frs
FRS Geodata Download https://www.epa.gov/enviro/geospatial-data-download-service
FRS REST Services https://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/FRS_REST_Services.html
FRS ArcGIS Server Service https://geodata.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/OEI/
FRS Linkage Application https://frsfla.epa.gov
EPA Geospatial Program https://www.epa.gov/geospatial/index.html
EPA Geodata Gateway https://edg.epa.gov/
David Smith 202-566-0797 Smith.DavidG@epa.gov
Matt Kelly 202-566-1597 Kelly.Matthew@epa.gov