[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-6167]
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[Federal Register: March 17, 1994]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-100136; FRL-4763-3]
Syracuse Research Corporation; Transfer of Data
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is a notice to certain persons who have submitted
information to EPA in connection with pesticide information
requirements imposed under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FFDCA). Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) has been awarded a
contract to perform work for the Environmental Criteria and Assessment
Office, and will be provided access to certain information submitted to
EPA under FIFRA and the FFDCA. Some of this information may have been
claimed to be confidential business information (CBI) by submitters.
This information will be transferred to SRC consistent with the
requirements of 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3) and 40 CFR 2.308(i)(2), and will
enable SRC to fulfill the obligations of the contract.
DATES: SRC will be given access to this information no sooner than
March 22, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: BeWanda B. Alexander, Program
Management and Support Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460.
Office location and telephone number: Rm. 234, Crystal Mall 2, 1921
Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA, (703) 305-5259.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract number 68-C3-0369, SRC will
provide technical support to EPA's Environmental Criteria and
Assessment Office (ECAO) in the evaluation of health environmental
effects including aquatic toxicity and environmental fate studies on
the chemicals boron, methyl mercury and ziram. Other chemicals may be
included in SRC's work later in the contract. Readers may contact the
person named above in approximately 1 year to learn if chemicals other
than boron, methyl mercury and ziram will be involved in this contract.
This contract involves no subcontractors.
ECAO and the Office of Pesticide Programs have jointly determined
that contract number 68-C3-0369, involve work that is being conducted
in connection with FIFRA, in that pesticide chemicals will be the
subject of certain evaluations to made under this contract. These
evaluations may be used in subsequent regulatory decisions under FIFRA.
Some of this information may be entitled to confidential treatment.
The information has been submitted to EPA under sections 3, 4, 6, 7,
and 17 of FIFRA and under sections 408 and 409 of the FFDCA.
In accordance with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.37(h)(3), the
contract with SRC, prohibits use of the information for any purpose not
specified in the contract; prohibits disclosure of the information in
any form to a third party without prior written approval from the
Agency; and requires that each official and employee of the contractor
sign an agreement to protect the information from unauthorized release
and to handle it in accordance with the FIFRA Information Security
Manual. In addition, SRC is required to submit for EPA approval a
security plan under which any CBI will be secured and protected against
unauthorized release or compromise. No information will be provided to
this contractor until the above requirements have been fully satisfied.
Records of information provided to this contractor will be maintained
by the Project Officer for this contract in ECAO. All information
supplied to SRC by EPA for use in connection with this contract will be
returned to EPA when SRC has completed its work.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Transfer of data.
Dated: March 7, 1994.
Douglas D. Campt,
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 94-6167 Filed 3-16-94; 8:45 am]
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