The Virtual Exchange Service (VES) is a revolutionary new cloud based platform for creating data exchanges on the Exchange Network. It is node-less. In other words, it eliminates the need for you to create and maintain a node server in your organization. It supports all of the functions of a node and simplifies the creation of data exchanges. It also supports a new communication model to simplify connectivity, the internet services bus (ISB).

The Virtual Exchange Service Administrator is the web interface that you will use to configure your data flows. New data flows are created and data is published by simply filling out forms with no coding required. Data exchanges can be imported from a shared version that fills out the forms for you and lets you concentrate on mapping your data to your staging tables.

Data Exchanges Currently available: AQS ATTAINS BeachNotification BioMonitoring CAFO eBeach EIS EMTS FACID ICIS-AIR ICISDA ICIS-NPDES NHDEvent OWIR Radon RCRA SDWIS SPCC TRI UIC WQX

If this is your first visit to VES and you are planning to use the cloud based services, please download and review the Getting Started with Virtual Exchange Service.

• San Joachim Valley Air district: Established production submission of Air Facility, Compliance Monitoring and Annual Certification data.

• Alabama: Flowing ICIS-AIR data families to EPA in production environment.

• Georgia: Finished production submission of ICIS - AIR data to EPA and actively working on other data flows.

• South Dakota: Receiving Toxics Release Inventory information from EPA / CDX through the TRI OUT dataflow.

• Maine: Retrieving Integrated Compliance Information System(ICIS) information from EPA through ICISDA dataflow.

• New Hampshire: Migrating many dataflows to the VES Environment.

• Texas: Submitting facility information to EPA through FACID dataflow and working on AQS 3.0.