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[FR Doc No: 94-28834]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5108-4]

 

Access to Confidential Business Information by Science 
Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and its Team 
Subcontractor

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region X Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0014 to prime contractor, Science Applications 
International Corporation (SAIC). EPA has authorized SAIC and its team 
subcontractor, TechLaw, Inc., access to information in Region X 
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: Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted on or before 
November 28, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: D.J. Lovelady, Contracting Officer, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (MD-144), 1200 Sixth Avenue, 
Seattle, WA 98101. Telephone (206) 553-1770.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0014, SAIC provides 
agency-wide information management support services to the 
Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records 
management support programs, records centers, and file rooms in certain 
Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing 
these tasks, SAIC employees have access to Agency documents for 
purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, 
inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which SAIC 
have 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 SAIC requires access to CBI to perform the work 
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days 
notice before contractors are given CBI.
    SAIC is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When SAIC's need for the documents is completed, SAIC will return them 
to EPA.

    Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jennette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28834 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]
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