[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-28836]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by DPRA Incorporated 
and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region VI Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0016 to prime contractor, DPRA Incorporated (DPRA). EPA 
has authorized DPRA, including its team subcontractors, A.T. Kearney, 
Inc., Clarence M. Kelley and Associates, ISSI, Incorporated, Jacobs 
Engineering Group Inc., Life Systems, The Marasco Newton Group, Ltd. 
(MNG), Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (M&E), and TechLaw Inc., access to 
information in Region VI 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:
Karen Hartis, Project Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(6H-MM), 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, TX 75202-2733. Telephone 
(214) 655-6652.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0016, DPRA 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, DPRA employees have access to Agency documents for 
purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, 
inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which DPRA 
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 DPRA requires access to CBI to perform the work 
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days 
notice before contractors are given CBI.
    DPRA is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When DPRA's need for the documents is completed, DPRA will return them 
to EPA.

    Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jeanette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28836 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]
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