In 2015, Exchange Network Governance is convening a series of EN Open Calls to help increase information sharing among Network Partners and build upon planned discussions at EN2015. These webinars are an opportunity for the EN community to gather and discuss topics of interest.

The next EN Open Call will be held May 12, 2015, at 2:00pm ET, and will focus on environmental information challenges and innovations. This Call will be oriented around peer-to-peer sharing, so come prepared to share updates from your organization and to hear about what other EN Partners are doing. During the Call, participants will be called upon to share information on the major information challenges that your agency is facing and how you are thinking of or are addressing them. Examples topics for information management challenges and innovations could include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Integration of facility ID data
• Digital records management
• IT service centralization
• Meeting demands for online service offerings
• Cybersecurity

To participate in the Open Call, please register at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7154470850952096002.

For more information or to provide ideas for future EN Open Calls, please contact Megan Parker at mparker [at] rossstrategic.com.

Kurt Rakouskas
Exchange Network Coordinator
P: 301.531.5186
E: kurt [at] exchangenetwork.net

ICIS Production will be down Friday, April 24, 2015, starting at 5pm ET through Saturday, April 25, 2015, until approximately 12:00pm ET for implementation of ICIS version 7.2 and the Facility Registry System (FRS) incoming transfer. Please note the following expected conditions when ICIS Production is down:

• Any Business Intelligence (B.I.) reports scheduled to execute during the system down-times will execute as soon as the system comes back up. Users will not need to change the times that their reports are scheduled to execute.
• The Federal Version of NetDMR will be up, but submissions from NetDMR to ICIS that take place during the down-time will be held and processed when ICIS becomes available.
• Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) submissions from all NPDES States and Air States/Locals submitted during the down-time will not execute and will not be queued to be processed through ICIS when the system resumes operation. Users will need to resubmit any submissions that failed due to ICIS being down.
• EPA’s NeT electronic notice of intent web forms will be down during the outage.

Thank you for your patience during this period.

Alison Kittle
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
P: 202.564.6233
E: kittle.alison [at] epa.gov

On behalf of the Exchange Network Leadership Council (ENLC), the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) is seeking an experienced, highly motivated, self-employed, contract professional with strong collaboration skills to serve as the Exchange Network Coordinator (Coordinator). The Coordinator’s sole objective is to advance the success of the Exchange Network, its joint Governance structure, and its Partners (i.e., EPA, States, Territories, Tribes, local governments, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, regulated communities, and others). The Exchange Network Coordinator is an independent contractor to ECOS.

ECOS’ Request for Proposal (RFP) EN-ENC-15 is available at: https://www.exchangenetwork.net/en-coordinator-rfp/.

Responses are due to ECOS by 5:00 PM ET on Thursday, April 30, 2015.

Andrew Putnam
ENLC State Co-Chair
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
P: 303.692.3579
E: andrew.putnam [at] state.co.us