If you are or will be implementing EDT OR [manual] spreadsheet-based uploading of CME data (inspections/violations/enforcements) into CERS, you will need to take action because of a recent change in CME upload data specifications.

Cal/EPA has recently changed the data specifications for CME data uploading into CERS. The previous standard supported two different modes of providing violation data:

• Mode 1) Regulators could just provide violation summary counts using CDR fields #910 (http://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/Dictionary/UPDD2/910), #911 (http://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/Dictionary/UPDD2/911), and #912 (http://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/Dictionary/UPDD2/912) and no violation detail records.
• Mode 2) Regulators would provide violation detail records associated with each inspection record.

Cal/EPA had previously alerted the regulator community it intended to require violation detail records in the future, and recent proposed regulatory changes will be finalized in a few weeks which implement this requirement. Because of these changes and the high costs of technically supporting both violation data modes in EDT, Cal/EPA has recently eliminated support for Mode 1 above in both the "Regulator CME Submit" EDT endpoint as well as the manual CME Excel Upload in the Regulator Portal (https://cersregulator.calepa.ca.gov/Compliance/UploadCMEData). From a technical perspective, this change involves the following:

For EDT:
EDT implementers need to acquire the latest version of the input XML schema used by the Regulator CME Submit endpoint (https://cersservices.calepa.ca.gov/Staging/Home/EndpointDetail/RCMESS). This is available at http://cersservices.calepa.ca.gov/Schemas/1/05/RegulatorCMESubmit.xsd, or by downloading the complete set of XML schemas at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/documents/EDT/CERS2EDT-Ver-1dot05.zip. The updated RegulatorCMESubmit.xsd file includes the following comment in the first documentation element: "This schema was revised on 3/21/2013 to "drop" the 3 violation count XML Elements from the InspectionType Complex Type." And the three XML elements for the fields mentioned above have been removed (ClassIViolationCount, ClassIIViolationCount, MinorViolationCount).

For Manual CME Excel Upload:
Make sure you are coding against the updated version of the template at https://cersregulator.calepa.ca.gov/Content/TemplateFiles/CMEDataUploadTemplate.xls, which was modified to remove the three fields mentioned from the "Inspection" worksheet.

For Manual CME Data Entry:
The CERS Regulator Portal will continue to support manual data entry of violation data using either violation data mode (summary or detail) for inspections conducted BEFORE July 1, 2013. Inspections conducted after that date will need to include violation detail records. Unified Program management will be releasing a guidance document to the regulator community in the coming weeks with additional information about CME data. 

The message below was sent out to the CERS Regulator Users Group listserv announcing the release of production "Phase I" EDT Services.

Please note that we have updated the sample EDT Windows WPF application included in the XML Schemas ZIP file (http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/documents/EDT/CERS2EDT-Ver-1dot05.zip) to allow access to the production endpoints. This client app will only access to the environment/endpoints your credentials are righted to use.

The Regulator Portal's EDT Dashboard page has been updated as part of this release with a listing of the endpoint URLs specific to the environment and some additional documentation for most endpoints. The Dashboard can be accessed in the Regulator Portal using the top "Regulators" link, selecting the appropriate regulator, and then selecting the "EDT" link toward the bottom of the left navigation menu. Most of the features on this page are not available until the regulator has been authorized for some level of EDT services in the specified environment (i.e., testing/staging or production).

The CERS EDT Manual will not be updated to reflect the newest services for at least 1-2 weeks.

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Subject: Production CERS EDT Services Released

On February 13th Cal/EPA released the "Phase I" CERS EDT Services for production use. The "Phase I" services include support for downloading facility submittal data entered by businesses into CERS, downloading other types of CERS data (e.g., CERS Chemical Library and CME records), and uploading Submittal Review and CME data to CERS from local data systems. The "Phase I" services address the needs of most CUPAs--the "Phase II" services primarily address the needs of CUPAs implementing their own Local Reporting Portals, and are scheduled for release during Q2 2013.

UPAs can begin using the production services once they have met the requirements described below.

1) UPAs working with a data services vendor (e.g., Accela, Decade, Garrison) need to confirm their vendor has completed testing and been authorized by Cal/EPA for production use of the services. The EDT Services are grouped into numbered “tiers” of increasing business process complexity and security requirements. The CERS EDT Home page at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/EDT/ will be updated regulator showing the testing/authorization status of the data services vendors actively working with Cal/EPA. Any UPAs who are not using the data vendors shown on the EDT Home page for their EDT implementations should contact Chris Allen for further information.

2) A person with authority to make commitments on behalf of their UPA needs to send an email or postal communication to Chris Allen at Cal/EPA (chris.allen@calepa.ca.gov) indicating the UPA wants production EDT access.

3) This communication must indicate whether the UPA needs access to Tier 3 (CME Submissions) and/or Tier 4 (Facility Submittal Action Notifications). All requestors would receive access to Tier 1 (Library Services) and Tier 2 (Query Services). PAs can only request Tiers 1 and 2. UPAs should only request what Tiers are actually needed presently—additional tiers can be requested via an email from the EDT Administrator in the future. A description of the Tiers is available at https://cersregulator.calepa.ca.gov/Public/EDTEndpoints/

4) This communication must also acknowledge the UPA understands/accepts the Data Exchange Agreement at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/EDT/ExchangeAgreement/

5) In the regulator portal, the UPA must establish at least one user as an EDT Administrator who would be Cal/EPA’s first point of contact if problems arise. This person does not necessarily have to be an UPA staff person, but they must have knowledge/access to technical resources and authority to direct them to resolve problems.

6) The UPA must establish a dedicated CERS Account for use of EDT services (which implies the need for a separate email account or email alias). The UPA needs to create the account, and then use the Regulator Portal to add the account with at least “viewer” rights for their regulator. Once EDT tier access is established by Cal/EPA, either the EDT Administrator or Cal/EPA can add the dedicated account as an EDT-Access account.

UPA staff with questions should generally first contact their data services vendors directly about how to proceed with their implementations, and Cal/EPA technical staff will work with the vendors as necessary. However, questions about EDT can be directed to Chris Allen at chris.allen@calepa.ca.gov. 

EDT testers have identified additional minor issues that need to be resolved before Cal/EPA will perform a production release of the "Phase 1" CERS EDT Endpoints as discussed in the recent CERS EDT Update. Due to the staff absences and the annual CUPA Conference, the production release will be delayed for up to approximately a week. 

Cal/EPA has released an updated CERS EDT implementation schedule along with a new set of XML Schemas for communicating with the CERS EDT endpoints.

Please read the CERS EDT Update document at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/documents/EDT/CERSEDTJan2013Update.pdf

Download the new 1.05 XML Schemas release at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/documents/EDT/CERS2EDT-Ver-1dot05.zip

Cal/EPA has released the final CERS EDT Schemas (Version 1.00), which are available at:
http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/EDT/CERS2EDT-Ver-1dot00.zip

This ZIP file includes a cover letter, change log from the RC4 release in December 2011, the Schemas, and technical documentation.

Cal/EPA considers these XML Schemas as final unless Cal/EPA or EDT clients uncover any serious errors that could not be ignored or reasonably worked around in client and/or endpoint code. If such an issue(s) were to arise, Cal/EPA would communicate the nature of the problem(s) and anticipated changes as soon as practical to CERS EDT Listserv subscribers. Cal/EPA will recommend to the Unified Program's Data Steering Committee that any future schema changes be staged annually, with the first adoption deadline being a specific date sometime in the March 2013-October 2013 timeframe, and technical implementation in CERS and local systems occurring in an 8-16 month timeframe after that, depending upon the nature and complexity of the changes.

In late May 2012 TSU will be releasing draft/testing EDT endpoints handling the following data exchanges: Facility Submittal Exports (RFSE), Facility Submittal Action Notifications (RFSAN), and a selection of "library" services for CERS resources such as the Violation Library and the Chemical Library. The draft endpoints release will be accompanied by an updated version of the EDT Services Manual (a minor revision of the Dec.2011 0.90 release is available at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/EDT/EDTManual-dot91.pdf). TSU anticipates a production release of these endpoints during July 2012. In late 2012 TSU will implement additional endpoints for Regulator Facility Submittal (RFSI; needed by local reporting portals), the various CME endpoints, and other "library" services.

If you have technical questions, review the CERS EDT web site (http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/EDT/), and then contact Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov. More general/program-related questions should be directed to Dan Firth at dfirth@calepa.ca.gov or CERS Technical Support at cers@calepa.ca.gov.

[This message was cross-posted on the CERS Regulator User Group listserv]

The Unified Program's Technology Services Unit is distributing Release Candidate 4 (RC4) of the CERS2 EDT XML Schemas. This interim release was requested by EDT implementers who wanted the latest XML schemas reflecting various minor edit/corrections Cal/EPA has implemented since the RC3 release on Oct.26. To help Cal/EPA focus its resources on the CERS user interface release on December 20, RC4 only includes the updated schemas and a summary log of changes, and is not accompanied by complete documentation. The final XML Schemas release will include complete documentation.

The release consists of a ZIP file containing a readme file, a change log document, and the CERS Schemas (XSDs). The ZIP file is available at:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/CERS2EDTRC4.zip

Based upon a review of feedback from several regulators, Cal/EPA has eliminated 30 minimally-required fields for CERS Data Seeding of Facility Information. Cal/EPA has published an updated version of the draft paper discussing CERS Data Seeding along with updated versions of the CERS Data Seeding Microsoft Excel Templates. These documents are available on the CERS Data Seeding home page at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/DataSeeding/.

Some brief notes from the last CERS Data Seeding Questions and Answer phone conference on November 3rd are posted at: http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/docs/data-seeding/DataSeedingQANotes-11-3-2-11.pdf

The next Data Seeding Questions and Answer phone conference is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, January 25, 2012 from 9-10am. More details will be posted in January.

The Title 27 Data Dictionary for Chemical Inventory included five numeric "Hazardous Component [...] Percent By Weight" fields defined as N(4) with the unusual formatting instructions of "2.2 (implied decimal)." Cal/EPA has determined this definition is too ambiguous to use successfully in EDT, and does not align with modern data systems. So Unified Program Data Dictionary has been modified to increase the "length" of these fields (226, 230, 234, 238, 242) from 4 to 6 digits and the "Edit Critera/Codes" definition will be changed to "Percentage with up to 2 decimal digits."   This will support a full range values like 2, 2.01, 20.1 and 100.00.

These change are now reflected in the CERS Data Registry (https://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/) and the summary document of all data dictionary changes available at https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/UPDataDictChangesSummaryOct2011.pdf

Please direct any questions to Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov.

The Unified Program's Technology Services Unit is distributing Release Candidate 3 of the CERS2 EDT Schemas, along with an updated draft of the CERS EDT Manual (Version 0.9). This technical documentation is specifically targeted toward information technology professionals and others who have direct responsibility for implementing machine-to-machine, electronic data transfer (EDT) to the Cal/EPA Unified Program's California Environmental Reporting System (CERS2).

This RC3 release includes a change log document providing summary information on all changes from the RC2 Schemas (released on August 24, 2011). Additional supplemental documentation is provided highlighting the line-by-line differences between RC2 and RC3.

Cal/EPA is seeking any final comments on the CERS EDT Schemas as shown in RC3 by no later than Wednesday, November 9th. This will close a 3.5 month period EDT implementers have had to comment on the CERS EDT schema releases. Please see the cover letter inside of the ZIP file for further information about providing comments.

The release consists of a ZIP file containing a cover letter, the EDT Manual, the change log documents, the CERS Schemas (XSDs), PDF files with Schema documentation, and sample XML files demonstrating XML package structure (they do not contain real data). The ZIP file is available at:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/CERS2EDTRC3.zip  

Cal/EPA is hosting a question and answer session for regulators and their technical staff/contractors about the CERS data seeding process on Thursday, November 3rd from 9-10am. The data seeding process is detailed in "Regulator Seeding of Facility Data in CERS2" which was released by Cal/EPA on Octboer 10th and is available at:

http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/Tempdocs/Seeding/CERS2SeedingOct2011.pdf  

This meeting is intended for technical implementers and other staff with direct responsibility for CERS data seeding to ask questions of the Cal/EPA technical team. All attendees should read the document mentioned above IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING. Cal/EPA staff will have approximately 10 minutes of introductory comments, with the remainder of the meeting reserved for questions and answers. A recording of this meeting will posted at http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/DataSeeding/ .

No prior registration is required. At the time of the meeting:

1. Sign into the web conference at https://cc.readytalk.com/...

2. Call the phone conference number at (866) 618-7124 and provide passcode: ...

Questions or comments can be directed to Dan Firth (dfirth@calepa.ca.gov) or Chris Allen (callen@calepa.ca.gov).

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Cal/EPA has determined a series of CERS fields require minor modification from their previously published Title 27 Regulations and/or Unified Program Data Dictionary values to accommodate Unified Program statewide electronic reporting mandates. The changes can be summarized as follows:

--15 UST Tank alphanumeric fields needed to be lengthened to support actual/current business practices in the field. 14 of the changes involved extending the length of various "Specify Other" fields from AN(15) to AN(35).

--10 UST Monitoring Plan fields for capturing "model number" information were lengthened from various previous lengths to AN(35). These and 3 other longer narrative fields were lengthened to support actual/current business practices in the field.

--The field format instructions for 14 street address fields scattered throughout the data dictionary were modified to drop outdated references to postal standards of 2 lines of 35 characters. Cal/EPA determined the postal standard is no longer implemented by the USPS, and supporting two lines of text in a single field was unnecessarily complex and costly for EDT transactions. The AN(70) definition for all of these fields remains unchanged.

--1 new optional AN(30) field was added to capture supplemental locational text about a facility's physical address when the facility street address field (#103) is insufficient for locating the facility.

A detailed extract from the CERS Data Registry (CDR) listing all of the field modifications summarized above is available at:

http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/docs/EDTDocs/UPDDChangesOct2011.pdf

These changes and ALL CERS fields are available on the CERS Data Registry at https://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/  

An updated summary of EVERY Unified Program Data Dictionary change from what was shown in the Title 27 Data Dictionary is available at:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/UPDataDictChangesSummaryOct2011.pdf  

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General information and documentation about CERS EDT is available at:

http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/EDT/  

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Cal/EPA is scheduling an additional question and answer session for CERS EDT implementers on Thursday, November 17th from 9am-10am. This session is intended ONLY for technical questions by technical professionals responsible for CERS EDT implementation (and who have already read the CERS EDT Manual).

Attendees of the Oct.13th Q&A session will be automatically sent an invite--other interested parties should RSVP to Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov.

A 50 minute audio recording of the Oct.13th Q&A session is available as an 8MB MP3 file at:

http://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/EDT/EDTImplementerOct132011.mp3  

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This message summarizes some recent corrections/changes implemented by Cal/EPA's Technology Services Unit staff (TSU) that may impact any EDT implementers who have or are mapping their fields to the CERS Data Registry (CDR) or starting to construct their facility submittal XML packages. Please refer any questions about the issues in this listserv message to Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov.

VARIOUS OMISSIONS IN CERS DATA REGISTRY

TSU has identified and corrected a number of omissions in the CERS Data Registry. These were:

--A number of HazWaste fields were not identified as CERS Minimally-Required (based on CERS Regulator User Group direction in spring 2011). The following fields have been updated to be shown as CERS Minimally-required: 500, 501, 502, 503, 521, 522, 523, 525, 526, 606, 607, 608, 609, 611, 612, 614, 630, 701, 702, 724, 725, 727, 728

--The Recyclable Materials Report Material UPCF field #522 ("Quantity During Two Year Reporting Period") was incorrectly entered in CDR as varchar(10). It has been corrected to match the definition in regulations as a numeric field.

--The following fields were added in CDR as "placeholders" to reflect long lists of Y/N fields on Tiered Permitting Unit Waste and Treatment Process Combination UPCFs. While no particular one of these Y/N fields are required, businesses must select at least one field (value=Y) on the form. These and other "placeholder" fields were added to CDR to help remind EDT Implementers about this issue.

627 CESQT Unit Waste and Treatment Process Combinations

628 CESW Unit Waste and Treatment Process Combinations

629 CA Unit Waste and Treatment Process Combinations

630 PBR Unit Waste and Treatment Combinations

631 CEL Unit Waste and Treatment Process Combinations Page

"CHEMICALREGULATORKEY" SYSTEM FIELD #20.0053 NO LONGER OPTIONAL

In the RC1/RC2 version of the CERS EDT Schemas, all of the Facility Submittal local regulator keys identifying subparts of various submittal elements were optional (e.g., BizActivitiesRegulatorKey, OwnerOperatorRegulatorKey, USTTankRegulatorKey). However, the Chemical Inventory Submittal Element, which has potentially far more sub-parts than any other submittal element (potentially thousands), poses special challenges for meaningful EDT exception error reporting. TSU has determined the best solution is to REQUIRE a unique local regulator identifier for each chemical inventory record

(ChemicalRegulatorKey, CERS System Field #20.0053). TSU will be encouraging EDT implementers to always provide the various optional local regulator keys identified in the CERS Systems fields to allow regulators to better identify what portion of their XML submission has an error, but ChemicalRegulatorKey will specifically be required. The field definition is shown below.

ChemicalRegulatorKey AN(36): A locally-generated unique identifier used to identify a specific chemical record in a Chemical Inventory submittal element. This particular local regulator key is REQUIRED to support meaningful diagnostic/error reporting. Although any unique alphanumeric string is allowable, a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is encouraged.

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CERS EDT SCHEMAS

Cal/EPA has received very few public comments specific to the draft CERS EDT schemas (basically 3 comments identifying spelling errors). Since Cal/EPA's Technology Services Unit (TSU) has identified additional corrections and enhancements to clarify business requirements, TSU will release a third release candidate (RC3) around October 17 with comments closing in late October. TSU's intent is for RC3 to essentially comprise the final schemas unless community comments require additional change.

The final version will be officially released by mid-November.

CERS DATA REGISTRY URL BEING RELOCATED

The CERS Data Registry's URL will be changing this weekend to https://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/ . Cal/EPA will attempt to ensure its servers automatically redirect users from the old to the new location, but please make note of this change.

CERS EDT IMPLEMENTERS Q&A PHONE CONFERENCE ON OCT. 13

TSU staff will be available for a question and answer session via phone/web conference from 9am~10am on Thursday, October 13th. This session is intended ONLY for technical questions by technical professionals responsible for CERS EDT implementation (and who have already read the CERS EDT Manual). Please RSVP to Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov if you are interested in attending.

ACTIVITIES EDT IMPLEMENTERS CAN DO NOW

Listed below are several points Cal/EPA has communicated in recent phone calls with EDT Implementers.

-- If you have not done so, please read the draft EDT documentation, especially the EDT Manual.

(https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/CERS2EDTRC2.zip)

-- A significant work item for many implementers is to map their data fields to the Unified Program Data Dictionary fields. Please use the CERS Data Registry to see the correct list of fields and data types. The

"Unified Program Data Dictionary (Version 3.10)" and "CERS System Fields" listings reflect the actual fields and their data types that will be used in CERS, which are somewhat different than the fields shown in regulation. (https://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/)

-- Another significant work item is to be able to generate a valid XML facility submittal file from your local data system. Please note that such work DOES NOT require any access to CERS or the EDT web services/endpoints. Your code development tool and/or other tools are available to validate XML files against

a specified schema. If you are unable to generate valid XML files using the draft EDT schemas, you will be unable to participate in CERS EDT.

CERS DRAFT EDT ENDPOINTS AVAILABLE IN MID-NOVEMBER

TSU intends to release draft EDT endpoints in mid-November. The draft endpoints will support authentication and basic validation of XML and/or ZIP files submitted to the endpoints. Cal/EPA will establish a limited number of test accounts for active EDT implementers. More information on gaining access to the endpoints will be available via this listserv during October.

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The Unified Program's Technology Services Unit is distributing Release Candidate 2 of the CERS2 EDT Schemas, along with an updated draft of the CERS EDT Manual (Version 0.8). This technical documentation is specifically targeted toward information technology professionals and others who have direct responsibility for implementing machine-to-machine, electronic data transfer (EDT) to the Cal/EPA Unified Program's California Environmental Reporting System (CERS2).

This RC2 release includes a change log document providing summary information on all changes from the RC1 Schemas (released on July 25th). Additional supplemental documentation is provided highlighting the line-by-line differences between RC1 and RC2.

Cal/EPA is seeking comments on the RC2 release by no later than Tuesday, September 20th. Please see the cover letter inside of the ZIP file for further information about providing comments.

The release consists of a ZIP file containing a cover letter, the EDT Manual, the change log documents, the CERS Schemas (XSDs), PDF files with Schema documentation, and sample XML files demonstrating XML package structure (they do not contain real data). The ZIP file is available at:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/CERS2EDTRC2.zip  

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The Unified Program's Technology Services Unit is distributing Release Candidate 1 of the CERS2 EDT Schemas, along with a preliminary draft of the CERS EDT Manual (Version 0.7). This technical documentation is specifically targeted toward for information technology professionals and others who have direct responsibility for implementing machine-to-machine, electronic data transfer (EDT) to the Cal/EPA Unified Program's California Environmental Reporting System (CERS2).

The documentation is a ZIP file containing the EDT Manual, the CERS Schemas (XSDs), PDF files with Schema documentation, and sample XML files demonstrating XML package structure (most do not contain real data). The ZIP file is available at:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/CERS2EDTRC1.zip  

Please see the cover letter inside of the ZIP file for further information about providing comments on the release.

CERS2 EDT information is accessible at https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/EDT/

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Cal/EPA has released an updated summary of changes to the Unified Program Data Dictionary. The new July 2011 version of the document includes:

-- All of the changes originally released in the January 2011 version of this document.

-- Inspection, Violation, and Enforcement-related changes approved by the CUPA Data Steering Committee in November 2011 which had been documented in a separate document.

-- Additional changes Cal/EPA needed to adopt during the CERS2 development process to ensure the success of the electronic reporting mandates of AB2286.

The summary document is available at

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/UPDataDictChangesSummaryJuly2011.pdf  

A complete listing of ALL fields in the Unified Program Data Dictionary (including annotations of the changes in the summary document discussed above) is available at:

https://cersapps.calepa.ca.gov/DataRegistry/DataElements?dataSourceID=39

COMING SOON: Cal/EPA will publish "Release Candidate 1" of the CERS2 EDT XML Schemas by July 23rd via this listserv. Cal/EPA will be seeking comments on any errors or issues which would significantly impede EDT implementers by no later than August 15th.

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Cal/EPA has released a draft policy on document uploads in CERS2. EDT implementers are encouraged to review this document and provide any comments by March 25th to Chris Allen at callen@calepa.ca.gov.

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/RegUserGroup/2011/03082011/CERS2DocumentUploadsPolicies.pdf  

A number of other documents of potential interest to EDT implementers have been released/discussed during recent CERS Regulator User Group meetings. These include:

Facility Submittal Data Validation in CERS2:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/RegUserGroup/2011/02222011/CERS2Validation.pdf  

CERS2 Submission Statuses for Facility Submittals:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/RegUserGroup/2011/02222011/CERS2SubmissionStatus.pdf  

UST Minimally-Required Fields:

https://cers.calepa.ca.gov/TempDocs/RegUserGroup/2011/03152011/MinRequiredUSTFields.pdf  

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Group listserv to monitor topics/documents discussed by this group:

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COMING SOON: A significant revision of the EDT Implementation Preview document (released February 2nd) will be available sometime in the first half of April. The revision will include significant changes and

more details about the planned CERS EDT services.

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