diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.esb.camel/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/esb/camel/ProcessUtil.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.esb.camel/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/esb/camel/ProcessUtil.java
index c2079f34e8..16eaef1f55 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.esb.camel/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/esb/camel/ProcessUtil.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.esb.camel/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/esb/camel/ProcessUtil.java
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ public class ProcessUtil {
     protected static final IUFStatusHandler handler = UFStatus
             .getNamedHandler("Ingest");
 
+    protected static final EventBus eventBus = EventBus.getInstance();
+
     protected transient final static ThreadLocal<DecimalFormat> FORMAT = new ThreadLocal<DecimalFormat>() {
 
         @Override
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ public class ProcessUtil {
         // error occurred and statement logged incorrectly
         if ((processEvent.getProcessingLatency() > 0)
                 && (processEvent.getProcessingTime() > 0)) {
-            EventBus.getInstance().publish(processEvent);
+            eventBus.publish(processEvent);
         }
 
         // Make sure we have something to log.
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/res/spring/event-common.xml b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/res/spring/event-common.xml
index 6acb725514..7619438902 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/res/spring/event-common.xml
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/res/spring/event-common.xml
@@ -5,11 +5,5 @@
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
   http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">
-
-    <bean id="eventBusThreadCount" class="java.lang.String">
-        <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="15" />
-    </bean>
-
     <bean id="logHandler" class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.event.handler.LogHandler"/>
-
 </beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/resources/eventBus.properties b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/resources/eventBus.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5f0d71f7c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/resources/eventBus.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Number of threads for async event bus
+eventBusThreadCount=15
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/event/EventBus.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/event/EventBus.java
index b4abaf34aa..e49b91ee8d 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/event/EventBus.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.event/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/event/EventBus.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import com.google.common.eventbus.AsyncEventBus;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.event.Event;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.status.IUFStatusHandler;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.status.UFStatus;
-import com.raytheon.uf.edex.core.EDEXUtil;
 
 /**
  * 
@@ -36,11 +35,11 @@ public class EventBus {
     static {
         int threadCount = 15;
         try {
-            threadCount = Integer.parseInt((String) EDEXUtil
-                    .getESBComponent("eventBusThreadCount"));
+            threadCount = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty(
+                    "eventBusThreadCount", "15"));
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            statusHandler.error(
-                    "Unable to set thread pool size from spring; defaulting size to "
+            statusHandler
+                    .error("Unable to set thread pool size from property eventBusThreadCount; defaulting size to "
                             + threadCount + ".", e);
         }
         asyncEventBus = new AsyncEventBus("EventBus",
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.registry.feature/.project b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.registry.feature/.project
deleted file mode 100644
index ed01c57c53..0000000000
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.registry.feature/.project
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<projectDescription>
-	<name>com.raytheon.uf.edex.registry.feature</name>
-	<comment></comment>
-	<projects>
-	</projects>
-	<buildSpec>
-		<buildCommand>
-			<name>org.eclipse.pde.FeatureBuilder</name>
-			<arguments>
-			</arguments>
-		</buildCommand>
-	</buildSpec>
-	<natures>
-		<nature>org.eclipse.pde.FeatureNature</nature>
-	</natures>
-</projectDescription>
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/res/spring/stats-common.xml b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/res/spring/stats-common.xml
index b65b190f93..420e3344a1 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/res/spring/stats-common.xml
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/res/spring/stats-common.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,5 @@
 	</bean>
 
     <bean id="statsHandler" 
-       class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats.handler.StatsHandler" 
-       depends-on="eventBusThreadCount"/>
+       class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats.handler.StatsHandler"/>
 </beans>
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/stats/handler/StatsHandler.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/stats/handler/StatsHandler.java
index a8dd09b0d6..d4b6853ed2 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/stats/handler/StatsHandler.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/stats/handler/StatsHandler.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  **/
 package com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats.handler;
 
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.common.status.UFStatus;
 import com.raytheon.uf.edex.database.dao.CoreDao;
 import com.raytheon.uf.edex.database.dao.DaoConfig;
 import com.raytheon.uf.edex.event.EventBus;
+import com.raytheon.uf.edex.stats.util.ConfigLoader;
 
 /**
  * Subscribes to the event bus and stores them in the appropriate stats table
@@ -81,10 +83,33 @@ public class StatsHandler {
     /**
      * Registers StatsHandler with the event bus
      */
-    public StatsHandler() {
+    public StatsHandler() throws Exception {
+        loadEventValidTypes();
         EventBus.getInstance().register(this);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Loads the stats configuration to determine the events to track.
+     * 
+     * TODO: Update ConfigLoader to be instance and have file time checking to
+     * know if config needs to be reloaded.
+     * 
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    protected void loadEventValidTypes() throws Exception {
+        ConfigLoader configLoader = new ConfigLoader();
+        configLoader.load();
+        HashSet<String> myValidEventTypes = new HashSet<String>();
+
+        for (StatisticsConfig config : configLoader.getConfigurations()) {
+            for (StatisticsEvent event : config.getEvents()) {
+                myValidEventTypes.add(event.getType());
+            }
+        }
+
+        validEventTypes = Collections.unmodifiableSet(myValidEventTypes);
+    }
+
     @Subscribe
     @AllowConcurrentEvents
     public void eventListener(Event event) {