IGIS Pollution Area QAP Version 3.3.pdf

Army IGI&S Program

Geospatial Data Layer

Quality Assurance Plan (QAP)

Pollution Area

SDSFIE 3.1 Gold: PollutionArea

SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation: PollutionArea

Final

Version 3.3

January 10, 2017

IGI&S Program Geospatial Data Layer QAP – Pollution Area

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORY

1.0 FEATURE DEFINITION

1.1 Geospatial Data Layer Roles and Responsibilities

1.2 Feature Description

1.3 Characterization

2.0 POLICY AND REGULATIONS

3.0 REPRESENTATION

3.1 Geographic Representation

3.2 Positional Accuracy

3.3 Logical Consistency

3.4 Completeness

3.5 Temporal Representation

3.6 Spatial Reference

4.0 VALID SOURCES AND SOURCE SELECTION CRITERIA

4.1 Feature Specific Sources and Toolsets

5.0 HQDA SOURCE DATABASES

6.0 SPECIFICATIONS FOR GRAPHIC ENTITIES AND ATTRIBUTES

6.1 Database Storage

6.2 Attribute Tables

6.2.1 SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation Acceptable Values Clarification

DOCUMENT CHANGE HISTORY

Development

Step Description Date Completed

0.1 OACSIM IGI&S & Proponent Draft November 12, 2015

0.2 Proponent Initial Review July 29, 2016

0.3 Community Review Period August 31, 2016

0.4 OACSIM IGI&S & Proponent Final Review September 28, 2016

1.0 N/A1 N/A

2.0 N/A1 N/A

3.0 N/A1 N/A

3.1 N/A1 N/A

3.2 Published October 1, 2016

3.3 Published (Update) January 10, 2017

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

Version 3.2 updated to Version 3.3

Annual Review Conducted

1. Updated to improve standardization with other QAPs.

2. Updated to remove references to the SDSFIE 2.6 Gold model to reflect full migration to SDSFIE 3.1.

1 No versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, or 3.1 exist as in January 2016 all QAPs were standardized at version 3.2.

1.0 FEATURE DEFINITION

1.1 Geospatial Data Layer Roles and Responsibilities

Table 1 - Roles and Responsibilities

IGI&S Proponent: OACSIM Installation Services Directorate –

Environmental Division (DAIM-ISE)

Installation Functional SME: ENV SME or equivalent

Data Steward: ENV SME or equivalent

Prioritization: Army CIP Priority 1

1.2 Feature Description

A pollution area is an area depicting pollutant concentration boundaries. This includes operable unit boundaries, plumes, concentration boundaries in all media, and other environmental waste areas. It is an area in the air, surface water, groundwater, sediment, or soil where the constant measured or modeled pollution chemical constituent value (e.g. contaminant concentration) of chemical residues, radioactive waste residues, waste product residues composed of petroleum based fuels or lubricants, mixed waste (i.e. radioactive and chemical) residues, or medical waste, is at least a specified value determined to be dangerous to the environment. Examples of this include locations where harmful smoke and/or gases are released into the air, such as chimneys, vents, etc. Pollution areas also include locations which have been used for the disposal of hazardous waste (e.g., pit, buried drums, etc., as opposed to areas where hazardous waste is stored for future retrieval or removal), areas where specific actions or restrictions are in place to control the noise levels in the atmosphere, broad areas that contribute pollution to the environment (e.g., agricultural cropland), areas where ordnance and explosive waste residues are present or buried in the water, soil, or sediment, and areas where man’s activity or environmental conditions cause particles to become airborne and obscure visibility.

Per Army Regulation (AR) 200-1, pollution prevention is the Army’s preferred approach, where timely and cost-effective, to achieve and maintain compliance with environmental laws and regulations. This approach aims to prevent pollution from all sources to the extent practicable.

Installations should incorporate pollution prevention planning throughout the mission, operation, or product life cycle. The program’s requirements are that installations are to periodically review operations and conduct pollution prevention opportunity assessments, maintain an updated installation pollution prevention plan, implement cost-effective pollution prevention opportunities identified by the assessments, develop and implement a Green Procurement

Program with emphasis on the mandatory purchasing preference programs, address environmental concerns throughout the acquisition life cycle, and all Army activities will comply with the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

Per the Department of Defense Instruction 4715.4, it is DoD policy to use an approach that incorporates pollution prevention at installations, and into all phases of acquisition, operations, maintenance, support and ultimate disposal of weapon systems over the system life-cycle, as well as an approach that uses the environmental management hierarchy to develop environmental solutions. The Department of Defense will, among other activities, prevent pollution at the source to eliminate or minimize adverse health effects while protecting, preserving, restoring, and enhancing the quality of the environment. It will also reuse pollutants that cannot be eliminated; recycle, in an environmentally safe manner, pollutants that cannot be reused; treat, in an environmentally safe manner, pollutants that cannot be eliminated or recycled; and dispose or release pollutants into the environment only as a last recourse and only where such disposal or release can be controlled and conducted in a manner that is safe for human health and the environment.

1.3 Characterization

Pollution area sites represent specific sites where pollutants are concentrated. The pollution area layer will include polygons representing the boundary defining the furthermost geographic extent of the area. This geospatial data layer should be used to capture one polygon per site. Mapping of pollution area sites is critical for long-term strategic management and monitoring. Accurate depiction of current pollution area sites will allow for the rapid identification of areas for future surveying and building of action plans to manage those areas properly.

2.0 POLICY AND REGULATIONS

Table 2 - Geospatial Data Layer Applicable Documents

Program(s) Driver(s)

Office of the Assistant

Chief of Staff for

Installation Management

(OACSIM)

- AR 115-13, Installation Geospatial Information and Services

- AR 200-1, Environmental Protection and Enhancement

- AR 70–1, Army Acquisition Policy

Federal, State, and Local

Laws and Statutes

- 42 USC 6901, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

- Sections 6901–6992k, Title 42, United States Code (42 USC

6901–6992k)

- Sections 13101–13102, Title 42, United States Code (42 USC

13101–13102)

- Public Law 109–58, Energy Policy Act of 2005

- Executive Order 13693, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade

Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and

Logistics (USD(AT&L))

- Department of Defense Instruction 4715.4, Pollution Prevention

The most recent version of the Army documents listed above can be obtained from the Army

Publishing Directorate website. The most recent version of the federal, state, and local laws and statutes listed above can be obtained from the Government Publishing Office website. The most recent version of the Pollution Prevention Instruction listed above can be obtained from the

Environmental Protection Agency website.

Army Publishing Directorate (APD):

Website: http://www.apd.army.mil/ http://www.apd.army.mil/

Government Publishing Office (GPO):

Website: http://www.gpo.gov/

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):

Website: http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/regulations

3.0 REPRESENTATION

3.1 Geographic Representation

Pollution area features should be stored in the SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation PollutionArea feature type, which was created to depict pollutant concentration boundaries. The SDSFIE 3.1

Army Adaptation utilizes this feature type’s default geometry of area. Use of alternate geometries is not allowed for the PollutionArea feature type. If an installation requires the use of a subclass to the PollutionArea feature type to properly store PollutionArea features, a new subclass must be created in accordance with the Army IGI&S Program SDSFIE Implementation

Guidance.

The pollution area geospatial data layer will include closed polygons representing the boundary defining the geographic extent of the area, as defined by environmental site assessments. Each individual pollution area shall be represented by a single area feature.

3.2 Positional Accuracy

Pollution area features must, at a minimum, meet a level of positional accuracy for depiction on a

1:24,000 scale cartographic product. The minimum absolute horizontal accuracy for pollution area features is 6 meters. The horizontal accuracy must be compiled, tested, and reported in accordance with Part 3 of the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Geospatial Positioning

Accuracy Standards: the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA). Spatial accuracy must be reported at the 95% confidence level. The spatial accuracy standard is available at http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards_publications/index_html. Vertical accuracy is not currently tested for the pollution area geospatial data layer.

3.3 Logical Consistency

Potential environmental site area features may overlap but should be attributed properly to uniquely identify the area. These features should be validated for connectivity and not contain undershoots, overshoots, node mismatches, dangling arcs, or self-overlaps.

3.4 Completeness

This geospatial data layer must include all pollution area features within the installation’s site(s) boundary or the boundary of land owned, leased, or held by the installation.

The pollution area geospatial data layer will contain attribute fields in accordance with the current OACSIM approved Army Adaptation to the current SDSFIE version. Although http://www.gpo.gov/ http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/regulations http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards_publications/index_html all attribute fields must exist in the attribute table, only those attribute fields listed in Table 4 -

Required Populated Attributes, are required to be populated.

3.5 Temporal Representation

The pollution area geospatial data layer will reflect existing conditions. Updates to the completed pollution area geospatial data layer will occur when existing pollution areas are changed or when pollution areas are added or removed from the installation. At a minimum, the pollution area geospatial data layer will be updated annually.

3.6 Spatial Reference

The bounding coordinates to capture the north, south, east, and west-most spatial extents of the pollution area geospatial data layer will be based on one of the following: a) Universal

Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone, meters or b) local State Plane Coordinate System, feet. At a minimum, feature types within the database should have a spatial reference with a precision of

1,000. The horizontal datum to be utilized is World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84), and the vertical datum shall be Mean Sea Level (MSL) as determined by the Earth Gravitational Model

2008 (EGM2008) Geoid.

4.0 VALID SOURCES AND SOURCE SELECTION CRITERIA

Information for the pollution area geospatial data layer must be obtained and/or validated at the installation level from the environmental SME, or equivalent. The environmental SME will have overall responsibility for completing and updating the spatial, attribute and metadata features of the pollution area geospatial data layer in accordance with this QAP. In all cases, the Data

Steward should work with the SME to identify the most reliable source for the pollution area geospatial data layer.

4.1 Feature Specific Sources and Toolsets

The following sources of data will be considered for capturing new geospatial data collection efforts or updating existing geospatial data. These sources are to be used in conjunction with the sources listed in the Valid Sources and Source Selection Criteria section of the QAP General

Guidance document: https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/43327385.

Environmental Resources Databases – Military database records containing environmental cleanup site inventory attributes and properties.

Environmental Restoration Information System (ERIS) – ERIS and ERIS Range is a central repository for Army installation chemical, geological, and hydrology data to document the Army environmental restoration and range program field data.

https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/43327385

5.0 HQDA SOURCE DATABASES

The Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) source database is the authoritative, auditable source of information where data is recorded. Properly utilizing HQDA source databases is crucial to maintaining accurate and relevant information. Maintaining duplicative databases is inefficient, undermines the reliability of the information, and creates unsustainable business processes. Departments within HQDA are currently collaborating to ensure business systems are interoperable to ensure reduced redundancy.

Environmental Database of Record

Headquarters Army Environmental System (HQAES) is the enterprise information system that enables the Army to collect, analyze, and report environmental data in an efficient and effective manner.

Headquarters Army Environmental System: HQAES is the authoritative environmental database of record for the Army Environmental Program. Users at any level can see and use their environmental data in HQAES. This system utilizes technology with sufficient tools to support Army Headquarters, Commands, and installation needs. The data collected for reporting is transparent and supports interoperability. HQAES collects all data once and distributes the information to several enterprise and feeder systems.

Website: https://hqaes.army.mil/my.policy

6.0 SPECIFICATIONS FOR GRAPHIC ENTITIES AND

ATTRIBUTES

The DoD I&E community has been operating in compliance with the SDSFIE data model since

FY07. The SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation is the current geospatial data standard for the Army

IGI&S community. Further guidance pertaining to the implementation of the SDSFIE 3.1 Army

Adaptation can be found in the guide listed below.

Army IGI&S Program SDSFIE Implementation Guidance:

https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/42118840

6.1 Database Storage

Table 3 – SDSFIE Database Storage

SDSFIE 3.1 Gold

Modeled Bin: EnvironmentalManagementRestorationAndOEHazards

Feature Type: PollutionArea

SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation

Functional Theme: EnvCrossFunctional

Feature Type: PollutionArea https://hqaes.army.mil/my.policy https://www.us.army.mil/suite/doc/42118840

6.2 Attribute Tables

In order to comply with DoD and Army IGI&S Program geospatial data standards, all attributes must exist in the PollutionArea feature type; however, not all of the attribute fields are required to be populated in every feature type. Table 4 identifies the attribute fields required to be populated, their definitions, acceptable values, and the authoritative data source from where the attribute value should originate. In addition to the attributes listed in Table 4, the geometry-appropriate SDSFIE 3.1 Gold Foundational attributes must be present in the feature type schema.

See the QAP General Guidance for more information about Foundational and Common attributes.

GIS databases are the authoritative data source for only feature level latitude and longitude attribute data. Other feature level attribute data must be properly obtained from its appropriate authoritative data source, per guidance in this QAP, and not maintained in a GIS attribute table.

Departments within OACSIM are currently collaborating to ensure all vital data is stored and maintained in its proper business system. When connectivity with HQDA source databases is established, only those attribute fields whose source database is “IGI&S Generated” will be stored in the geospatial database. As such, attributes identified as belonging in HQAES but not currently located in HQAES, have been placed into a section in attribute table titled “Pending

HQAES Interface”. These attributes should continue to be collected and maintained utilizing guidance in this QAP until new guidance is published indicating their placement in HQAES.

1SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation attribute information corresponds to the SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation published on 08/11/2014.

Table 4 - Required Populated Attributes

Common

Name

SDSFIE 3.1

Army Adaptation1

Attribute

Definition

SDSFIE 3.1

Army Adaptation

Acceptable Values1

Attributed

Example

Feature

Geometry

Type

IGI&S GENERATED

Clean Up Site Identifier cleanUpSiteIDFK Foreign Key. Used to link the record to the applicable ENVIRONMENTAL

HAZARDS SITE record.

User Defined POL02042 Area

Contaminant Type contaminantType Classification of the pollutant.

Predefined Domain:

See Table 5, “ContaminantType”

Biological Area

Installation Code installationID The code assigned by the Military Service or Agency used to identify the site or group of sites that make up an installation.

HQIIS PRNT_INSTL_CD

Value 51105 Area

MatrixType matrixType Type of the polluted matrix (e.g., air, groundwater, soil).

Predefined Domain:

See Table 5, “MatrixType”

SOLID Area

Permit Number permitNumber Tracks permit number in accordance with Clean Air Act. User Defined 43492 Area

Pollution Area Identifier pollutAreaIDPK Primary Key. A unique, user- defined identifier for each record or instance of an entity.

<Site Identifier> plus

<Unique Pollution Area

Identifier>

498002459 Area

Real Property Site

Unique Identifier rpsuid The unique identifier (UID) used to permanently identify a Site. HQIIS SITE_UID Value 4980 Area

INTERFACE WITH HQAES

Environmental

Unique ID environmentalUID

Foreign Key. Used to link the record to the applicable record in the HQAES database system.

Text (20) TBD Area

6.2.1 SDSFIE 3.1 Army Adaptation Acceptable Values Clarification

The table below outlines the domain values and their definitions for specific attributes as cited in the Required Populated Attributes table (Table 4).

Table 5 –Acceptable Values Clarification contaminantType

Biological Biological.

Chemical Chemical

ChemicalWarfare ChemicalWarfare.

MedicalWaste MedicalWaste.

Munitions Munitions.

MunitionsConstituents MunitionsConstituents.

NA Not applicable.

Noise Noise.

Petroleum

A naturally occurring flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface.

Radiological Radiological.

TBD To be determined.

matrixType

AIR Air.

GROUNDWATER Groundwater.

NA Not applicable.

Other Other. Must be described in the sdsFeatureDescription attribute.

SEDIMENT Sediment.

SOIL Soil.

SOIL_AND_GW Soil and Groundwater.

SOLID Solid product, materiel, etc. (e.g., wood, concrete, wallboard).

SURFACE_WATER Surface water.

TBD To be determined.