[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-28148]


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[Federal Register: November 15, 1994]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Transfer of Data to Contractor

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Intended Transfer of Confidential Business 
Information to Contractors and Subcontractors.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer 
confidential business information (CBI) collected from the pulp, paper, 
and paperboard manufacturing; pharmaceutical manufacturing; and other 
industries listed below to Science Applications International 
Corporation, Inc. (SAIC); Abt Associates, Inc.; and their 
subcontractors. Transfer of the information will allow the contractors 
and subcontractors to assist EPA in developing effluent limitations 
guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act (CWA), and in 
developing or evaluating the need for regulations under the Clean Air 
Act (CAA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the 
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The information being transferred 
was or will be collected under the authority of section 308 of the 
Clean Water Act. Some of the information was provided voluntarily by 
industrial facilities; this information also could have been collected 
under section 308. Information being transferred from the pulp, paper, 
and paperboard industry was or will be collected under the additional 
authorities of section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and section 3007 
of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Interested 
persons may submit comments on this intended transfer of information to 
the address noted below.

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data are due November 21, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Mr. David Hoadley, Document Control 
Officer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303), 911 East Tower, U.S. 
EPA, 401 M Street S.W., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. David Hoadley, Document Control 
Officer, at (202) 260-7765.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has previously transferred to its 
contractors, SAIC (located in Falls Church, Virginia) and Abt 
Associates (located in Cambridge, Massachusetts), information, 
including confidential business information (CBI) concerning certain 
industries collected under the authority of section 308 of the Clean 
Water Act. EPA determined that this transfer was necessary to enable 
the contractors and subcontractors to perform their work in assisting 
EPA in developing effluent guidelines and standards for certain 
industries. Notice to this effect was provided to the affected 
industries.
    Today, EPA is giving notice that it has entered into additional 
contracts, numbers 68-C4-0046 and 68-C4-0060, with SAIC and Abt 
Associates, respectively. The reason for these contracts is to secure 
additional contractor support in statistical and economic analyses. To 
obtain assistance in responding to these contracts, SAIC and Abt 
Associates have entered into contracts with their subcontractors.
    SAIC will provide the same type of statistical, technical, and data 
base support services as previously provided in contract number 68-C0-
0035. In the new contract, SAIC has retained, from the previous 
contract, the statistical and economic analysis services of 
subcontractor Research Triangle Institute (RTI) located in Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina. SAIC has also obtained the services of 
two other subcontractors, Software Technology Group (located in 
Fairfax, Virginia) and Highland Data Services (located in Bluegrass, 
Virginia), for computer support and data entry.
    Abt Associates will provide the same type of economic and 
regulatory analysis and evaluation support services as previously 
provided in contract number 68-C0-0080. In the new contract, Abt 
Associates has retained, from the previous contract, the economic 
analysis services of three subcontractors: Eastern Research Group 
(located in Lexington, Massachusetts); Industrial Economics, Inc. 
(located in Cambridge, Massachusetts); and RCG/Hagler Bailly Inc. 
(located in Boulder, Colorado). Abt Associates has also obtained the 
economic analysis services of five other subcontractors: Apogee 
Research (located in Bethesda, Maryland); Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. 
(also located in Bethesda, Maryland); Fu & Associates, Ltd. (located in 
Arlington, Virginia); Radian Corporation (located in Herndon, 
Virginia); and Research Triangle Institute (located in Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina). Fu & Associates will provide computer 
support in addition to economic analysis support.
    All EPA contractor and subcontractor personnel are bound by the 
requirements and sanctions contained in their contracts with EPA and in 
EPA's confidentiality regulations found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B. 
SAIC, Abt Associates, and their subcontractors adhere to EPA-approved 
security plans which describe procedures to protect confidential 
business information (CBI). The procedures in these plans are applied 
to CBI previously gathered by EPA for the industries identified below 
and to CBI that may be gathered in the future for these industries. The 
security plans specify that contractor and subcontractor personnel are 
required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are briefed on 
appropriate security procedures before they are permitted access to 
CBI. No person is automatically granted access to CBI; a need to know 
must exist.
    The information that will be transferred to SAIC, Abt Associates, 
and their subcontractors consists primarily of information previously 
collected by EPA to support the development of effluent limitations 
guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act. In particular, 
information, including CBI, collected for the development of effluent 
limitations guidelines and standards for the following industries may 
be transferred: centralized waste treatment; industrial laundries; 
incinerators; landfills; machinery products and manufacturing; oil and 
gas; organic chemicals; pesticide manufacturing; pesticides 
formulating, packaging, and repackaging; pharmaceutical manufacturing; 
petroleum refining; pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacturing; steam 
and electric; and transportation equipment cleaning.
    EPA also intends to transfer to SAIC, Abt Associates, and their 
subcontractors all information listed in this notice, of the type 
described above (including CBI) that may be collected in the future 
under the authority of section 308 of the Clean Water Act, as is 
necessary to enable SAIC, Abt Associates and their subcontractors to 
carry out the work required by their contracts to support EPA's 
development of effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the 
industries listed above.

    Dated: November 3, 1994.
Tudor T. Davies,
Director, Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water.
[FR Doc. 94-28148 Filed 11-14-94; 8:45 am]
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