# 2025-10968: EPA Lets Three Contractors Handle Potentially Secret Pesticide Data

2025-10968, Agile Decision Science, LLC, Savan Group LLC and Maines; Transfer of Information Potentially Containing Confidential Business Information, is a Federal Register notice from Environmental Protection Agency published 2025-06-17, effective 2025-06-23; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

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- As of: 2026-11-03
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10968
- Title: Agile Decision Science, LLC, Savan Group LLC and Maines; Transfer of Information Potentially Containing Confidential Business Information
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency
- Citation: 90 FR 25615
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: 2025-06-23
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

EPA Lets Three Contractors Handle Potentially Secret Pesticide Data

## Summary

The EPA is letting three companies—Agile Decision Science, Savan Group, and Maines—access certain pesticide-related info, including some confidential business secrets, to help with their contracts. This starts on June 23, 2025, and helps these companies do their jobs better while keeping sensitive info safe. If you send info to the EPA about pesticides or food safety, this update affects you!

## Abstract

This document announces that certain information submitted to the Office of Pesticide Program in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) under 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 Agile Decision Science, LLC, Savan Group LLC and Maines in accordance with the CBI regulations. These entities have been awarded multiple contracts to perform work for OPP, and access to this information will enable these entities to fulfill the obligations of the contract.

## Effects PRIA read

- Contractors Will Access Pesticide CBI: cost, low. If you submit information or data to EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), Agile Decision Science, LLC, Savan Group LLC, and Maines will be given access to that information — including material claimed as confi…
- Contractors Must Protect and Return/Destroy CBI: benefit, low. The contractors must sign agreements to protect information, submit EPA-approved security plans, may use the information only for the contract purposes, are prohibited from disclosing it to third parties without prior written EPA approval (per 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3)), and must destroy or return CBI mat…
- Contractor Analyses May Feed FIFRA Decisions: mixed, medium. EPA states that evaluations of pesticide chemicals performed under these contracts may be used in subsequent regulatory decisions under FIFRA, meaning information provided to EPA and accessed by the contractors could be part of analyses that inform future regulatory actions under FIFRA.

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## Sources
- [2025-10968 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-10968/agile-decision-science-llc-savan-group-llc-and-maines-transfer-of-information-potentially-containing)
- [2025-10968 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-10968.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10968 (as of 2026-11-03).