1
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
[
OEI­
2005­
0015;
FRLxxxx­
x]

Office
of
Environmental
Information
Request
for
Comment
and
Request
for
Information
on
System
Requirements
Document
for
Environmental
Terminology
Services.

AGENCY:
Environmental
Protection
Agency
ACTION:
Request
for
Comment
and
Request
for
Information
SUMMARY:
The
U.
S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency
is
seeking
to
redesign
its
current
Terminology
Reference
System
(
TRS)
[
see
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
trs
]
in
order
to
better
support
future
semantic
web
needs,
increase
usability
and
integrate
with
other
systems
for
enterprise­
wide
content
management,
search,
and
portal
development.
The
agency
has
established
the
following
requirements
and
is
interested
in
receiving
comments
and
information
from
potential
bidders
and
experts
in
the
field
regarding
these
requirements.

Dates:
Comments
and
or
information
must
be
submitted
on
or
before
November
28,

2005.

FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT:

Linda
Spencer;
Environmental
Protection
Agency;
1200
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
MC
2822T;
Washington,
DC
20460;
Phone:
202
566
1651;
Fax:
202
566
1624;
Email:

Spencer.
linda@
epa.
gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
2
The
Agency
is
seeking
a
commercial
off­
the­
shelf
(
COTS)
and/
or
Government
off­

theshelf
(
GOTS)
software
package(
s)
to
match
the
user/
system
requirements.
The
Agency
will
also
consider
customization
of
a
COTS/
GOTS
and
the
integration
of
several
COTS/
GOTS
products.

Part
of
EPA's
vision
is
to
see
the
TRS
evolve
from
being
just
a
terminology
repository,

into
a
suite
of
Environmental
Terminology
Services
(
ETS).
It
will
always
remain
a
repository
for
environmental
terminology
and
terminology
structures
(
taxonomies,

thesauri,
ontologies,
dictionaries,
etc.).
However,
the
environmental
terminology
contained
in
the
repository
will
be
enriched.
Through
use
and
curation,
the
TRS
will
evolve
from
a
term­
based
system
to
a
concept­
based
system.
The
concepts
the
ETS
contains,
along
with
their
terms
and
definitions,
will
have
sufficient
metadata
to
enable
those
concepts
to
be
used
as
the
building
blocks
for
the
creation
of
business­
driven
Agency
terminology
structures
(
taxonomies,
thesauri,
etc.)
The
repository
will
also
contain
an
authoritative
controlled
vocabulary
for
the
Agency
which
can
serve
in
the
creation
of
glossaries
for
web
pages
and
documents,
a
common
vocabulary
for
search
engines,
and
in
the
development
of
rules
and
regulations.

I.
General
Information
A.
How
Can
I
Get
Copies
Of
These
Documents
and
Other
Related
Information
?

1.
Docket.
EPA
has
established
an
official
public
docket
for
this
action
under
Docket
ID
No.
OEI­
2005­
0015.
The
official
public
docket
is
the
collection
of
materials
that
is
available
for
public
viewing
at
the
OEI
Docket
in
the
EPA
Docket
Center,

(
EPA/
DC)
EPA
West,
Room
B102,
1301
Constitution
Ave.,
NW,
Washington,
DC.
The
3
EPA
Docket
Center
Public
Reading
Room
is
open
from
8:
30
a.
m.
to
4:
30
p.
m.,
Monday
through
Friday,
excluding
legal
holidays.
The
telephone
number
for
the
Public
Reading
Room
is
(
202)
566­
1744,
and
the
telephone
number
for
the
OEI
Docket
is
(
202)
566­

1752.

2.
Electronic
Access.
You
may
access
this
Federal
Register
document
electronically
through
the
EPA
Internet
under
the
"
Federal
Register"
listings
at
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
fedrgstr/.

An
electronic
version
of
the
public
docket
is
available
through
EPA's
electronic
public
docket
and
comment
system,
EPA
Dockets.
You
may
use
EPA
Dockets
at
http://
www.
epa.
gov/
edocket/
to
view
public
comments,
access
the
index
listing
of
the
contents
of
the
official
public
docket,
and
to
access
those
documents
in
the
public
docket
that
are
available
electronically.
Although
not
all
docket
materials
may
be
available
electronically,
you
may
still
access
any
of
the
publicly
available
docket
materials
through
the
docket
facility
identified
in
Unit
I.
B.
Once
in
the
system,
select
"
search,"
then
key
in
the
appropriate
docket
identification
number.

Dated
November
3,
2005
Oscar
Morales
Division
Director
Collection
Strategies
Division.
Office
of
Information
Collection
US
Environmental
Protection
Agency
