[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 60676]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19062]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10500-01-OMS]


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Rescindment of a system of records notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA), Office of 
the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Technology Solutions is giving 
notice that it proposes to rescind a system of records pursuant to the 
provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. The Superfund Cost Recovery 
Package Imaging and On-Line System (SCORPIOS) system of records (EPA-
39) is being rescinded because the e-Recovery system of records (EPA-
90) replaces it. EPA is now using the e-Recovery system to organize and 
produce reports to recover costs associated with its response to 
releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, or discharges 
or threatened discharges of oil.

DATES: EPA stopped maintaining this system of records on May 08, 2023. 
The e-Recovery system replaced SCORPIOS. The public comment period for 
the e-Recovery SORN closed on July 12, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to comment on this system or records notice 
must do so by October 5, 2023. Submit your comments, identified by 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OMS-2022-0938, by one of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
online instructions for submitting comments.
    Email: [email protected]. Include the Docket ID number in the 
subject line of the message.
    Fax: (202) 566-1752.
    Mail: OMS Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 
2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460.
    Hand Delivery: OMS Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. Such deliveries are 
only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and 
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 
information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OMS-
2022-0938. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed 
to be Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or other information 
for which disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit 
information that you consider to be CUI or otherwise protected through 
https://www.regulations.gov. The https://www.regulations.gov website is 
an ``anonymous access'' system for the EPA, which means the EPA will 
not know your identity or contact information. If you submit an 
electronic comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and 
other contact information in the body of your comment. If the EPA 
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot 
contact you for clarification, the EPA may not be able to consider your 
comment. If you send an email comment directly to the EPA without going 
through https://www.regulations.gov, your email address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 
placed in the public docket and made available on the internet. 
Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form 
of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional 
information about the EPA public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CUI or other information 
for which disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, 
such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard 
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either 
electronically in https://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the 
OMS Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. The Public Reading Room is normally open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 
566-1744, and the telephone number for the OMS Docket is (202) 566-
1752. Further information about EPA Docket Center services and current 
operating status is available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Lam, Ronald Reagan Building, 
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460, Office of Chief 
Financial Officer, (202) 564-2925, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has the authority to recover costs 
associated with its response to releases or threatened releases of 
hazardous substances, or discharges or threatened discharges of oil. To 
support the recovery of certain removal costs associated with 
threatened or actual discharges of oil, EPA submits a Cost Recovery 
Package (CRP) to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). Previously, EPA used 
SCORPIOS to prepare the CRP; however, because SCORPIOS uses old 
technology that has become difficult and expensive for the Agency to 
maintain, the SCORPIOS system (EPA-39) is replaced with the more modern 
e-Recovery system (EPA-90). The information previously stored in 
SCORPIOS is now stored in the e-Recovery system. Information about the 
e-Recovery system and its system of records notice was published in the 
Federal Register (86 FR 31,307) on June 11, 2021

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
    SCORPIOS, EPA-39.

HISTORY:
    66 FR 49947 (October 1, 2001).

Vaughn Noga,
Senior Agency Official for Privacy.
[FR Doc. 2023-19062 Filed 9-1-23; 8:45 am]
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