[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-28837]


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[Federal Register: November 22, 1994]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5108-7]

 

Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic, 
Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region IV Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0038 to prime contractor, HydroGeologic Inc. (HGL). EPA 
has authorized HGL, including its team subcontractors, ISSI, Inc. and 
TechLaw, Inc., 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: Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted on or before 
November 28, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fran Harrell, Contracting Officer, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (4RMB), 345 Courtland Street, NE., 
Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone (404) 347-6821.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0038, HGL 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, HGL employees have access to Agency documents for purposes 
of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, 
retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which HGL 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 HGL requires access to CBI to perform the work required 
under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice 
before contractors are given CBI.
    HGL is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When HGL's need for the documents is completed, HGL will return them to 
EPA.

    Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jeanette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28837 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]
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