Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS)

Client Tool Software Downloads

Software will be available on or about March 17, 2009. You must be a Designated Representative or an ECMPS Agent to use the Client Tool.

ECMPS Additional Information

Subscriber Agreement Form

ATTENTION: Beginning with the first quarter of 2009, all industry sources MUST use the Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS) to submit monitoring plan, QA/cert test and emissions data to the EPA for the Acid Rain and CAIR programs.

Sources will no longer be able to use MDC or ETS-FTP/SecuRemote to submit data after fourth quarter 2008.

ECMPS requires use of a new data format which is XML-based (eXtensible Markup Language). This new format will replace the text-based EDR format (EDR versions 2.1/2.2). As a result, sources will no longer be able to use MDC or ETS-FTP/SecuRemote to review/submit data after fourth quarter 2008. Instead, ECMPS will replace these software tools and provide the necessary data evaluation and submittal functions.

If you are not aware of this 2009 requirement, you are strongly encouraged to contact your DAHS vendor immediately, if applicable. If you have questions or wish to be added to the ECMPS Stakeholder email group, contact Laurel DeSantis.

If you do not submit quarterly data to the EPA, please inform the appropriate personnel as soon as possible.

Project Overview

EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) has undertaken a project to re-engineer the process and data systems associated with emissions, monitoring plan, and certification data. As part of the project, CAMD reviewed how monitoring plan information, certification/recertification applications, on-going quality assurance data, and emissions data are maintained, quality assured and submitted. CAMD also reviewed the tools available for checking and submitting data on a quarterly and ozone season basis.

Once the review was complete, CAMD developed a number of goals for the ECMPS project. They include:

Creating a single client tool for all users to check and submit data.
Providing users with the ability to quality assure data prior to submission.
Providing users with one set of feedback.
Allowing for seamless updates to the client tool.
Providing direct access to EPA's database through the client tool.
Maintaining select data outside of the electronic data report.
Creating new XML file format.
Developing new security requirements.

A Flexible Process

Adding flexibility to the process in one of the main reasons for changing how monitoring and emissions data are quality assured and submitted. There are several changes to the process that will involve adding flexibility:

Monitoring plans will no longer be required as part of the quarterly file.
On-going quality assurance test data may be submitted after the tests are performed—users will not have to wait to submit the data as part of a quarterly report.
The new XML file format allows the data to be organized based on dates and hours instead of pollutant type.

Contact Information

If you have questions about the ECMPS project, want to participate in future meetings, or want to help test the new process, please contact Matthew Boze at (202) 343-9211 or boze.matthew@epa.gov, or Laurel DeSantis at (202) 343-9191 or desantis.laurel@epa.gov.