Kairos Newsletter

Russell F. Schimmer   •   July 10, 2024

Issue No. 2

Summary Updates since June 25
The Kairos Interface is recently upgraded and the Kairos Database has exceeded 200,000 regulatory records-permits, bonds, violations, and underwriters-covering 11 jurisdictions-a mix of coal, mineral, and metal commodities-in the U.S. We have cued up three more regulatory agencies for pipeline processing this week and will soon have all existing agencies as current as in our master-database collection pool.

In addition to functional improvements and fixes to the Kairos Interface, we have limited the number of selected regulatory records for exporting or for cycling through different display groups, such as from Permits to Bonds, to 3,000 records. This limit is to avoid browsers from crashing or timing out, particularly on phones. But not selecting any records before cycling to a different display group will still carry all the records from the original results to the next display group.

Lastly, fully implemented is selecting specific underwriters from the Underwriter Index and searching Kairos for associated bonds and permits to view what different underwriters are bonding, where, and for how much in any of the jurisdictions loaded in the Kairos Database.

Level of Kairos Access
We will continue to update existing agency data and add some new agency data to the Kairos Trial version through July, but moving forward the Client and Subscription versions of Kairos will take priority for updates to existing agency data and the rolling out of new data, as well as new features and display tables.

New Display Tables and Searchable Activities
This month we are building and integrating three new display tables. Two are dedicated to agency data, one for Landfills and one for Oil and Gas, and the third is dedicated to SIAS Advanced Analytics, such as Cost-To-Reclaim Estimates and Site Rankings. As the summer progresses, we will implement the initial Advanced Analytics tables on the Kairos Client servers first.

Future Kairos Interface Upgrades and Tools
The next upgrades to the Kairos Interface will correspond with the initial releases of the new display tables but also include a new tool for exporting geographic information for permits, as either a GeoJson file or a KMZ file, to open in apps such as Google Earth.

Kairos  .   .  .  Simple, yet dynamic

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