Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 06, 2026

Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System last revised: Jan 28, 2026
1503.1070 - 1503.1070 Scientific integrity.

The EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy is based on a Presidential Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, Subject Line: Scientific Integrity, Dated: March 9, 2009. The memorandum directs the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and agencies to develop policies to ensure all scientific work developed and used by the Government is done with scientific integrity. OSTP issued further guidance in the Scientific Integrity memorandum dated December 17, 2010. This section and clause complement the EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy.

[85 FR 66268, Oct. 19, 2020]
authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 41 U.S.C. 1707.
source: 81 FR 31178, May 18, 2016, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 48 CFR 1503.1070