ECMPS Support

The EPA Host will be unavailable starting around 9pm EDT on Friday, June 1st until 6am EDT Monday, June 4th for scheduled maintenance.

While the EPA Host System is unavailable, the following functionality is not available in the Client Tool: synchronize, retrieve, and submit. During that time, users can only work with the Client Tool "offline."
Please contact ECMPS Technical Support if you have any questions about this planned downtime.

Labels: Scheduled Outage

The 2017 Q3 release of ECMPS added check MATSCHV-20, which verifies reported MATS values against values calculated by ECMPS. The check currently returns an Informational Message when the percent difference between the reported and calculated values is greater than 5%. The 2018 Q1 release of ECMPS included the display of the calculated values used in the MATSCHV-20 comparison. As part of the 2018 Q2 release planned for June, MATSCHV-20-A will change from an Informational Message to a Critical 1 Error.

CAMD would like to remind sources of the suggested best practices for reporting values that are rounded, as noted in Section 1.0 of the ECMPS Emissions Reporting Instructions:

"When performing calculations using any value that is reported in the XML, use the value as it is reported. In other words, use the rounded value in the calculation. However, any value that is calculated in an intermediate equation but is not reported should not be rounded before using it in a subsequent equation."

If you have any questions about this change, please contact ECMPS Support.

Labels: Check Specifications, Technical Support Tip

The next version of the ECMPS Client Tool is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The currently planned changes are shown in the list below.

Prior to the release, the EPA Host System will be unavailable starting around 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, June 8th until mid-afternoon on Saturday June 9th, and again the morning of June 13th until the release is completed later that day.

• LINEAR-27C: Corrected the checking of reported vs calculated Percent Error or Mean Difference for Linearity Summary data.
• MATSCHV-20A: Updated the check result severity from Informational to Critical 1.
• SEVNDAY-15, SEVNDAY-16: Updated the code to match the specifications related to setting the CalibrationTestCalcResult to FAILED if the calculated calibration error is > 0.5.
• Corrected the display of Sampling Train Component IDs in the MATS Hg tab.
• Added the ability to report data for Part 60 Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources Subpart TTTT (NSPS4T).

If you have any questions about the June 2018 release, please contact ECMPS Support.

Labels: Release Schedule Information, Scheduled Outage