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gils: Re: FW: Key ID Sign-on -- another way of searching govt info

gils: Re: FW: Key ID Sign-on -- another way of searching govt info

Re: FW: Key ID Sign-on -- another way of searching govt info

Steve Hufford (Hufford.Steve@epamail.epa.gov)
18 Dec 96 8:48:35 

Message-Id: <9612181350.AA9334@epahub2.rtptok.epa.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <gils@cni.org>
From: Steve Hufford <Hufford.Steve@epamail.epa.gov>
Date: 18 Dec 96  8:48:35 
Subject: Re: FW: Key ID Sign-on -- another way of searching govt info

Regarding the collective letter being sent to Administrator Browner concerning 
EPA's Facility Identification Initiative (alias Key ID):
Please note that this initiative and GILS, though complementary, are not as 
directly related as Jeff Thomas's explanatory letter implies.

For example, the Key ID initiative does NOT actually seek "to create an 
automated information system that integrates and makes easily available all 
information resources within the EPA through a centralized database that will 
serve as an information locator of environmental data".  The Key ID initiative 
is directed primarily at facility-related information, and does not apply to 
all of EPA's data and information resources.  This is because EPA is concerned 
with many things other than regulated facilities.  

I hope this understanding will be of use to you, regardless of whether you sign 
the letter.
Steve Hufford
EPA, Office of Info. Resources Management

ps. there is a Federal Register notice concerning the Facility Identification 
Initiative, Vol. 61, No. 195, p.52588, dated 10/7/96.  It explains the 
initiative and welcomes written comments on or before 12/23/96.  You might 
consider using that route for comments, in addition to or instead of the letter 
to EPA's Administrator.

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