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[FR Doc No: 94-26663]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by DESA, Inc.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Informational notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA Region IV awarded Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-S4-4001 to prime contractor, DESA, Inc. (DESA). EPA has 
authorized DESA access to information in Region IV Superfund files 
which has been submitted to EPA under the environmental statutes 
administered by the Agency. Some of this information may be claimed or 
determined to be confidential business information (CBI).

DATES: To be considered, comments concerning CBI access must be 
received by November 1, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Fran Harrell, Contracting Officer, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 
30365.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fran Harrell, (404) 347-2374 ext. 
6821.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract No. 68-S4-4001, DESA provides 
agency-wide information management support services to the 
Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records 
management support programs, record centers, and file rooms in certain 
Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing 
these tasks, DESA employees have access to Agency documents for 
purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, 
inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which DESA 
has access potentially include all documents submitted under the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, 
and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act. Some of these documents may contain information claimed as CBI.
    Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B, EPA has 
determined that DESA requires access to CBI to perform the work 
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days 
notice before contractors are given CBI.
    DESA is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When DESA's need for the documents is completed, DESA will return them 
to EPA.

    Dated: October 18, 1994.
John H. Hankinson, Jr.,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-26663 Filed 10-26-94; 8:45 am]
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