This document summarizes the COBWEB project, AIP-6, and how federated access management could help meet their goals. COBWEB aims to crowdsource environmental data while ensuring data quality and privacy. AIP-6 will set up a federation of organizations to enable single sign-on for the GEOSS system. The document discusses how federated access control could authenticate users while protecting sensitive data sources. COBWEB and AIP-6 plan to demonstrate how federations can help with these tasks and inform future work on authorization and commerce.