Document ID: EPA-HQ-OEI-2018-0566-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records; Rescindment of a System of Records Notice
Posted Date: 2019-08-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 149 (Friday, August 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37870-37871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16568]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9996-32-OMS]

Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

AGENCY: Office of Mission Support, Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA).

ACTION: Rescindment of a System of Records Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research 
and Development is giving notice of its intent to rescind the Peer 
Review Panelist Information System of Records Notice (EPA-37).

DATES: The Agency stopped using the PRPIS on January 27, 2016. Persons 
wishing to comment on the rescindment of this system must do so by 
September 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OEI-2018-0566, by one of the following methods:
    Regulations.gov: www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Email: oei.docket@epa.gov.
    Fax: 202-566-1752.
    Mail: OMS Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 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. 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-OEI-
2018-0566. 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 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 
www.regulations.gov. The www.regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous 
access'' system for EPA, which means the EPA will not know your 
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of 
your comment. However, over 180 federal agencies use 
www.regulations.gov and some may require Personally Identifiable 
Information (PII) and some may not. Each agency determines submission 
requirements within their own internal processes and standards. EPA has 
no requirement of personal information. If you send an email comment 
directly to the EPA without going through 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. 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

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you for clarification, the EPA may not be able to consider your 
comment. 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's public docket visit the EPA 
Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI 
Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 
NW, Washington, DC. 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 OMS Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bhagya Subramanian at 
subramanian.bhagya@epa.gov or (513) 569-7349

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Peer Review Panelist Information System 
(EPA-37) was established to assist the EPA Office of Research and 
Development (ORD) conduct and document review of applications for 
research grants, cooperative agreements, and fellowships through the 
use of peer reviewers from the scientific community. ORD is no longer 
collecting the information about the scientific community. The system 
stopped collecting data on Jan 27, 2016. This information is now 
processed through Inter Agency Agreement (IA) with the Department of 
Health and Human Services. The HHS system is used for Peer reviews. The 
EPA Records Schedule 1003 has a 10-year retention. Records collected 
are stored on a CD and may be disposed in January 2026.

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
    Peer Review Panelist Information System (EPA-37)

HISTORY:
    62 FR 48278 (September 15, 1997)--Establishment of the Peer Review 
Panelist Information System of Records Notice (EPA-37).
    67 FR 8246 (February 22, 2002)--Republication of existing System of 
Records.

    Dated: May 3, 2019.
Vaughn Noga,
Senior Agency Official for Privacy.
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