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[FR Doc No: 94-27334]


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[Federal Register: November 4, 1994]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5102-3]

 

EPA Region III Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act Program; Transfer and Disclosure of 
Information to Contractors and Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA Region III intends to authorize certain contractors and 
subcontractors access to information submitted to EPA under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(CERCLA), and informational gathering sections of other environmental 
statutes. Some of this information may be claimed or determined to be 
confidential business information (CBI).

DATES: Contractor access to this information will occur after September 
5, 1994. Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted for thirty 
days from the date of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Wayne Walters (3RC21), 
Senior Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel, EPA 
Region III, 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Wayne Walters, (215-597-1833).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The contractors and subcontractors listed 
below will provide certain services to EPA Region III, including: (1) 
Organizing, reviewing, tracking and summarizing litigation information; 
(2) providing computerized database systems, customized reports and 
software systems; and (3) assisting with document management. In 
performing these tasks, employees of the contractors and subcontractors 
listed below will have access to Agency documents for purposes of 
document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, 
retrieving, tracking, etc. under CERCLA and other environmental 
statutes. Some of these documents may contain information claimed as 
confidential business information (``CBI'').
    Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, EPA has 
determined that these contractors and subcontractors require access to 
CBI to perform the work required under the contracts and subcontracts. 
These regulations provide for five days' notice before contractors are 
given CBI. This notice is intended to provide notice of all future 
disclosures of such information by EPA Region III to the contractors 
listed below.
    All of the listed contractors and subcontractors are required by 
contract to protect confidential information. When the contractors' and 
subcontractors' need for the documents is completed, the contractors 
and subcontractors will return them to EPA. The contractors and 
subcontractors to which this notice applies are as follows:

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              Contractor/subcontractor                   Contract No.   
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CACI................................................  3C-G-ENR-0051     
Acumenics Research and Technology, Inc..............  3C-G-ENR-0052     
Aspen Systems Corporation...........................  3C-G-ENR-0053     
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Marcia E. Mulkey,
Regional Counsel.
[FR Doc. 94-27334 Filed 11-3-94; 8:45 am]
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