diff --git a/Golden_Repo/e/ESMF/ESMF-8.4.0-foss-2022a.eb b/Golden_Repo/e/ESMF/ESMF-8.4.0-foss-2022a.eb
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a96ba2377406353423fcd7ff3fd271fad088c5b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Golden_Repo/e/ESMF/ESMF-8.4.0-foss-2022a.eb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-name = 'ESMF'
-version = '8.4.0'
-
-homepage = 'https://www.earthsystemcog.org/projects/esmf/'
-description = """The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is a suite of software tools for developing
- high-performance, multi-component Earth science modeling applications."""
-
-toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2022a'}
-toolchainopts = {'usempi': True, 'openmp': True, 'cstd': 'c++11', 'pic': True}
-
-source_urls = ['https://github.com/esmf-org/esmf/archive/']
-sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
-patches = ['ESMF-6.1.1_libopts.patch']
-checksums = [
-    {'v8.4.0.tar.gz': '28531810bf1ae78646cda6494a53d455d194400f19dccd13d6361871de42ed0f'},
-    {'ESMF-6.1.1_libopts.patch': '3851627f07c32a7da55d99072d619942bd3a1d9dd002e1557716158e7aacdaf4'},
-]
-
-builddependencies = [('CMake', '3.23.1')]
-
-dependencies = [
-    ('netCDF', '4.9.0'),
-    ('netCDF-Fortran', '4.6.0'),
-    ('netCDF-C++4', '4.3.1'),
-    ('libarchive', '3.6.1'),
-]
-
-# disable errors from GCC 10 on mismatches between actual and dummy argument lists (GCC 9 behaviour)
-prebuildopts = 'ESMF_F90COMPILEOPTS="${ESMF_F90COMPILEOPTS} -fallow-argument-mismatch"'
-
-buildopts = 'ESMF_NETCDF_INCLUDE=$EBROOTNETCDFMINFORTRAN/include '
-buildopts += 'ESMF_NETCDF_LIBS="`nc-config --libs` `nf-config --flibs` `ncxx4-config --libs`"'
-
-# too parallel causes the build to become really slow
-maxparallel = 8
-
-moduleclass = 'geo'
diff --git a/acls.yml b/acls.yml
index cf65be5840262d44417253a7556ef79078dfd0b3..deca563e41dcd2ad77a769bcf6ab185cbbd2d735 100644
--- a/acls.yml
+++ b/acls.yml
@@ -525,8 +525,8 @@ software:
     owner: 'strube1'
     base: True
   - name: 'ESMF'
-    owner: 'strube1'
-    mou: True
+    owner: ['griessbach1', 'strube1']
+    mpi: True
   - name: 'exiv2'
     owner: 'strube1'
     base: True