                                  Memorandum

TO: Docket ID No. EPA - HQ - OA - 2018 - 0259
RE: Omitted Hyperlinks for Footnotes in the Proposed Rule
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DATE: May 25, 2018

The following hyperlinks were omitted from the footnotes of the Federal Register Notice for the proposed rule entitled, "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" (RIN 2080 - AA14):

 Footnote 8
 Plan to Increase Access to Results of EPA-Funded Scientific Research: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-12/documents/epascientificresearchtransperancyplan.pdf
 EPA Open Government Plan 4.0: https://www.epa.gov/open/epa-open-government-plan-40
 Open Data Implementation Plan: https://www.epa.gov/open/us-environmental-protection-agency-open-data-policy-implementation-plan
 Scientific Integrity Policy: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-02/documents/scientific_integrity_policy_2012.pdf
 Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/quality/guidelines-ensuring-and-maximizing-quality-objectivity-utility-and-integrity-information

 Footnote 9
 National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp
 National Institute of Science and Technology: https://www.nist.gov/open
 National Institutes of Health: https://grants.nih.gov/policy/sharing.htm

 Footnote 10
 Administrative Conference of the United States' Science in the Administrative Process Project: https://www.acus.gov/research-projects/science-administrative-process
 Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data: https://www.nap.edu/read/9958
 Expanding Access to Research Data: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11434/expanding-access-to-research-data-reconciling-risks-and-opportunities
 Access to Research Data in the 21st Century: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10302/access-to-research-data-in-the-21st-century-an-ongoing
 Health Effects Institute: https://www.healtheffects.org/system/files/AppendixD-data-access_3.pdf
 Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/x2w9h/?_ga=2.15543670.1160736397.1518527893-776332106.1518527893
 Members of the Risk Assessment Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology, the Dose Response Section of the Society for Risk Analysis, and the International Society for Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology: http://www.isrtp.org/GMU%20WEBINAR_DEC_2013/GMU%20Study%20Document4.pdf
 Bipartisan Policy Center's Science for Policy Project: http://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/BPC%20Science%20Report%20fnl.pdf

Footnote 11
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: http://www.pnas.org/page/authors/journal-policies#xi
 PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data-availability
 Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/authors/science-journals-editorial-policies
 Nature: http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/data/data-availability-statements-data-citations.pdf

Footnote 16
 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-topics/de-identification/index.html
 National Institute of Standards and Technology: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2015/NIST.IR.8053.pdf
 U.S. Department of Education: https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/data_deidentification_terms.pdf
 U.S. Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/linkage/technical-documentation/processing-de-identification.html

Footnote 20
 Taylor & Francis: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-repositories/
 Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/author-services/research-data
 PLOS: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data-availability
 Springer Nature: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/research-data-policy/repositories
