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NSDI defined as the technologies, policies, and people necessary to promote sharing of geospatial data throughout all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors, and the academic community. The NSDI clearinghouse is available to Federal, State, local, and Tribal contributors to register as clearinghouse nodes where metadata about geospatial data, services, and resources can be published and harvested for discovery by any user. FGDC manages NSDI and provides guidance and instruction for using and registering nodes on NSDI. States are encouraged to utilize Statewide coordinating councils to develop and maintain strategic and business plans for efficient Statewide geospatial data infrastructures in support of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. DHS is encouraging States to examine Statewide or large regional approaches to the production of certain data, particularly framework (base map) data and critical infrastructure data that are conducive to Statewide data maintenance. Adopting this approach wi\l align with Presidential directive A-16 for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, save money, and promote data integration for mutual aid response. Metadata of an organization's geographic data holdings is an important first step to participating in the NSDI. Metadata provides not only a way to inventory and preserve investments in costly geospatial data resources within an organization, but also is a means for its discovery and sharing with other organizations. Metadata standards recommended to comply include FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, Version 2 (CSDGM), FGDC-STD- 001-1998 or when available the ISO Metadata Standard 19115 using draft ISO Technical Specification 19139; and Metadata Service Guidelines: Metadata must be posted and harvestable through the Geospatial One-Stop Portal at http://www.GeoData.gov. Geospatial One Stop Portal (www.geodata.gov) As a part of one of Office of Management and Budget's 24 Federal E-Gov initiatives (www.whitehollse.gov/omb/egovl), the Geospatial One Stop portal was established to promote data sharing across Federal entities and is available to the public for use as a discovery portal. Geospatial One Stop portal (www.geodata.gov) is an interface to NSDI established under Executive Order 12906. The portal harvests geospatial resource metadata from nodes registered with NSDI and is a repository for all metadata published and accessible on NSDI. Users also have the option to publish metadata holdings directly to Geospatial One Stop enabling smaller organizations with the ability to share and collaborate on geospatial resources. Version 2 of the portal wi\l be OGC standards enabled for OGC Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Catalog Service for the Web (CSW). An important feature on Geospatial One Stop for grantees is the geodata.gov Market Place. Here users can find information about planned acquisitions of geospatial resources and future projects or activities that may align with their own objectives. If grantees find no existing resources on Geospatial One Stop in either the metadata searches or in the Market Place, they are strongly encouraged to register their planned activities for geospatial data acquisition or future projects and activities so that others may prevent from redundant efforts. H-5