[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
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[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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