diff --git a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/main/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes.scala b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/main/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes.scala
index cf71a1a342..e0caf9dd50 100644
--- a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/main/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes.scala
+++ b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/main/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes.scala
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ case class GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes(
   project: String,
   computeServiceAccount: String,
   auths: GcpBatchAuths,
-  restrictMetadataAccess: Boolean,
   dockerhubToken: String,
   enableFuse: Boolean,
   executionBucket: String,
@@ -327,7 +326,6 @@ object GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes extends GcpBatchReferenceFilesMappingOper
           project = project,
           computeServiceAccount = computeServiceAccount,
           auths = GcpBatchAuths(batchAuth, gcsAuth),
-          restrictMetadataAccess = restrictMetadata,
           dockerhubToken = dockerhubToken,
           enableFuse = enableFuse,
           executionBucket = bucket,
diff --git a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/actors/GcpBatchBackendLifecycleActorFactorySpec.scala b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/actors/GcpBatchBackendLifecycleActorFactorySpec.scala
index 28a6d12887..151f6970a3 100644
--- a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/actors/GcpBatchBackendLifecycleActorFactorySpec.scala
+++ b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/actors/GcpBatchBackendLifecycleActorFactorySpec.scala
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ class GcpBatchBackendLifecycleActorFactorySpec extends AnyFlatSpecLike with Matc
       project = "project",
       computeServiceAccount = "computeServiceAccount",
       auths = null,
-      restrictMetadataAccess = true,
       dockerhubToken = "test",
       enableFuse = true,
       executionBucket = "executionBucket",
diff --git a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/callcaching/BatchBackendCacheHitCopyingActorSpec.scala b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/callcaching/BatchBackendCacheHitCopyingActorSpec.scala
index 2189612cb1..087589d1fc 100644
--- a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/callcaching/BatchBackendCacheHitCopyingActorSpec.scala
+++ b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/callcaching/BatchBackendCacheHitCopyingActorSpec.scala
@@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ class BatchBackendCacheHitCopyingActorSpec
       project = null,
       computeServiceAccount = null,
       auths = null,
-      restrictMetadataAccess = false,
       dockerhubToken = null,
       enableFuse = false,
       executionBucket = null,
diff --git a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec.scala b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec.scala
index 19805debbe..64fedae418 100644
--- a/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec.scala
+++ b/supportedBackends/google/batch/src/test/scala/cromwell/backend/google/batch/models/GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec.scala
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ class GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec
     gcpBatchAttributes.executionBucket should be("gs://myBucket")
     gcpBatchAttributes.maxPollingInterval should be(600)
     gcpBatchAttributes.computeServiceAccount should be("default")
-    gcpBatchAttributes.restrictMetadataAccess should be(false)
     gcpBatchAttributes.referenceFileToDiskImageMappingOpt.isEmpty should be(true)
     gcpBatchAttributes.logsPolicy should be(GcpBatchLogsPolicy.CloudLogging)
   }
@@ -112,15 +111,6 @@ class GcpBatchConfigurationAttributesSpec
     gcpBatchAttributes.computeServiceAccount should be("testing")
   }
 
-  it should "parse restrict-metadata-access" in {
-
-    val backendConfig = ConfigFactory.parseString(configString(batch = "restrict-metadata-access = true"))
-
-    val gcpBatchAttributes = GcpBatchConfigurationAttributes(googleConfig, backendConfig, "batch")
-    gcpBatchAttributes.restrictMetadataAccess should be(true)
-
-  }
-
   it should "parse localization-attempts" in {
 
     val backendConfig = ConfigFactory.parseString(configString(batch = "localization-attempts = 31380"))