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R -- COMPILATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FATE AND EXPOSURE CHEMICAL RECORDS SOL RFP NLM97-206 DUE 032197 POC Sharon Cummings, Contract Specialist, 301/496-6546 WEB: National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html. E-MAIL: Sharon Cummings, cummings@gwsmtp.nlm.nih.gov. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to conduct negotiations with Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) to continue to build and update the Environmental Fate and Exposure Category of chemical records contained in the NLM Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). The records contained in the HSDB must be continually augmented with current environmental fate and exposure data and information. The majority of the data and information sources have been derived from original journal references and unpublished but scientifically credible and documented test results. SRC will be required to extract from data files and source material information pertinent to environmental fate and exposure into a format compatible with the HSDB. SRC has compiled, organized and evaluated environmental fate information on an extensive number in industrial organic chemical which are of high priority in HSDB. SRC has also developed four environmental fate databases which contain information pertinent to fate, transport, anddegradation of 16,000 chemicals in the environment. The HSDB contains over 4,500 chemical records covering all the regulated substances under the Department of Transportation, EPA, and the Labor Department. The health and environmental effects in the files have been kept current as new information is published or generated by industry in compliance with the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Health professionals in the public and private sector use the databases as a source of current data when assessing the impact of hazardous chemical sites, and when obtaining information on the effect of chemicals on health. SRC holds the copyright to the four databases and therefore possesses the rights to the publication or distribution of the information contained within them. The authority to permit contracting without full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1(b)(2). Inquires may be refereed to Ms. Sharon Cummings, Contract Specialist, National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, Building 38A, Room B1N17, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894; phone (301) 496-6546. See numbered Note 22 and 26. (0031)

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