[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 165 (Friday, August 24, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42892-42893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18405]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0563; FRL-9982-34]


MERP Systems, Inc.; Transfer of Data

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that pesticide related information 
submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including information 
that may have been claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) 
by the submitter, will be transferred to MERP Systems, Inc. in 
accordance with the CBI regulations. MERP Systems, Inc. has been 
awarded multiple contracts to perform work for OPP, and access to this 
information will enable MERP Systems, Inc. to fulfill the obligations 
of the contract.

DATES: MERP Systems, Inc. will be given access to this information on 
or before August 29, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Northern, Information 
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6478 
email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action applies to the public in general. As such, the Agency 
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be 
affected by this action.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0563, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public 
Reading Room is 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 OPP 
Docket is (703) 305-5805. Please review the visitor instructions and 
additional information about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. Contractor Requirements

    The Contractor shall perform activities in the PWS that are 
organized into four (4) main categories: Task Activity 1 is related to 
overall project management; Task Activity 2 is related to information 
about pesticide products, including the receipt of applications for 
regulatory action, the results of EPA registration decisions affecting 
individual products and pesticide uses and reports of incidents 
involving the use of pesticide products; Task Activity 3 is related to 
information about pesticide studies, position papers, analyses and the 
administrative records resulting from the decision processes 
themselves; and Task Activity 4 is related to updating OPP's PRISM 
Label Use Information System (LUIS) which is an automated pesticide 
information system that contains a summary of the legal uses of 
registered pesticide products.
    The contractor shall:
     Capture data that supports regulatory applications, 
decisions, incident reports, and Personally Identifiable Information 
(PII), etc.;
     Provide processing, indexing support and shredding/
destruction of studies and other technical documents of archival 
significance; and
     Make every effort to adopt to changing environments in 
technology, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Homeland Security, 
Presidential Directives, and EPA Management Directives, of which, 
changes could be in the areas of technology, regulations, information 
systems. process adaptations. coordination with other agencies, 
coordination with other Agency contractors. Government furnished 
equipment and/or software, facilities and security requirements, shall 
remain within the tasks activities herein.
    These contracts involve no subcontractors.
    OPP has determined that the contracts described in this document 
involve 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

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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 FIFRA sections 3, 4, 6, 
and 7 and under FFDCA sections 408 and 409.
    In accordance with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3), the 
contracts with MERP Systems, Inc., prohibits use of the information for 
any purpose not specified in these contracts; 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, MERP Systems, 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 MERP Systems, Inc. until 
the requirements in this document have been fully satisfied. Records of 
information provided to MERP Systems, Inc. will be maintained by EPA 
Project Officers for these contracts. All information supplied to MERP 
Systems, Inc. by EPA for use in connection with these contracts will be 
returned to EPA when MERP Systems, Inc. has completed its work.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.

    Dated: August 13, 2018.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, 
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2018-18405 Filed 8-23-18; 8:45 am]
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