EPA Rescinds Integrated Grants Management System (IGMS/NGGS) Privacy Act System of Records

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Office of Finance and Administration, has issued a notice proposing to rescind the system of records known as the Integrated Grants Management System (IGMS) and Next Generation Grants System (NGGS), designated EPA-53, under the Privacy Act of 1974. The rescission is justified on the grounds that the IGMS/NGGS is no longer used as a system of records as defined by the Privacy Act. Critically, records within this system are not retrieved by personal identifiers, which is a core criterion for a system to qualify as a 'system of records' under the Privacy Act. This administrative action reflects a routine data governance cleanup rather than a substantive policy change. No personal data is being deleted or transferred as a result; rather, the formal Privacy Act designation is being removed because the system does not meet the statutory definition requiring retrieval by personal identifier. Grant applicants and recipients whose data may have been associated with IGMS/NGGS should note that this does not eliminate EPA's data retention obligations under other federal laws and regulations; it simply removes the Privacy Act system of records designation for this particular system.

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