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B -- REVIEW OF TOLERANCE PETITION DATA SOL PR-98-02291 DUE 061998 POC Valoree S. Lilley, lilley.valoree@epamail.epa.gov E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist, lilley.valoree@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures of FAR Part 13, intends to issue a sole source purchase order to Sciences International, Alexandria, VA. The EPA is FACNET certified. The contractor will be required to provide technical support for the determination of the potential effects of pesticides indirectly applied to food, on human health and on the environment, through the review and evaluation of chemistry and toxicology data contained in pesticide tolerance petitions. To provide the required services, the contractor must be cleared for access to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Confidential Business Information. The contractor will be required to review and critically examine scientific data and information packages submitted as parts of petitions for pesticides indirectly added to food. The petition data packages reviewed will include data and analysis in one or more of the following scientific areas: 1. Chemistry -- Identify and characterization; specifications; manufacturing process including by products or impurities; amount of the pesticide needed for the intended technical effect; results of migration studies; and dietary exposure estimates. 2. Toxicology -- acute feeding studies; short term feeding studies including subchronic (90 day) studies; genetic toxicity studies, chronic feeding studies, and others. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. All questions should be directed VIA E-MAIL to the contract specialist, Valoree S. Lilley, at lilley.valoree@epamail.epa.gov. PHONE CALLS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. SEE NOTES 1, 22, AND 26. (0140)

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