[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 166 (Wednesday, August 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45412-45413]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22805]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-00494; FRL-5736-4]
Cadmus Group, Inc.; 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). Cadmus Group, Inc. has been awarded a contract to perform work
for the EPA Office of Water, and will be provided access to certain
information submitted to EPA under FIFRA and FFDCA. Some of this
information may have been claimed to be confidential business
information (CBI) by submitters. This information will be transferred
to Cadmus Group, Inc. consistent with the requirements of 40 CFR
2.307(h)(3) and 40 CFR 2.308(i)(2), and will enable Cadmus
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Group, Inc. to fulfill the obligations of the contract.
DATES: Cadmus Group, Inc. will be given access to this information no
sooner than September 2, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: BeWanda Alexander,
Information Resources and Services Division (7502C), Office of
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW.,
Washington, DC 20460. Office location, telephone number, and e-mail
address: Rm. 700N, Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, VA, (703) 305-5259, e-mail:
alexander.bewanda@epamail.epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Contract No. 68-C7-0002, Cadmus Group,
Inc. will provide technical support to the EPA Office of Water to
conduct laboratory and field studies and derive from published
literature detailed and comprehensive data bases for chemical and
microbiological pollutants encountered in drinking water, ambient
water, wastewater/sewages sludge, sediment/dredge spoils, fish, and
wildlife. Cadmus Group, Inc. will also provide technical guidance based
on studies and data base analyses concerning the following areas: (1)
The toxicokinetics, human and ecological exposure, occurrence,
environmental fate and effects of chemicals; and (2) infectivity,
occurrence and environmental fate of microbial contaminants. No
subcontractors will be given access to CBI under this contract.
The Office of Water and the Office of Pesticide Programs have
jointly determined that the contract herein described involves work
that is being conducted in connection with FIFRA, in that pesticide
chemicals will be the subject of certain evaluations to be 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, and 7 of FIFRA and under sections 408 and 409 of
FFDCA.
In accordance with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.307(h)(2), the
contract with Cadmus Group, Inc., prohibits use of the information for
any purpose other than specified in the contract; prohibits disclosure
of the information 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, Cadmus Group, Inc. 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 the EPA Office of Water. All
information supplied by EPA for use in connection with this contract
will be returned to EPA when Cadmus Group, Inc. has completed its work.
Dated: August 7, 1997.
Daniel M. Barolo,
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 97-22805 Filed 8-26-97; 8:45 am]
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