[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-28838]


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[Federal Register: November 22, 1994]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5108-8]

 

Access to Confidential Business Information by Booz-Allen & 
Hamilton, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region III Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0010 to prime contractor, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. 
(BAH. EPA has authorized BAH, including its team subcontractors, CDM 
Federal Programs Corporation, Dynamac Corporation, CACI, Northeast 
Investigations, Inc., PRC Environmental Management, Inc., ICS 
Investigative Consultant Services, and Tri-State Enterprise, access to 
information in Region III 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:
Bob Slaughter, Contracting Officer, U.S. Environmental Protecting 
Agency (3PM73), 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 
Telephone (215) 597-9909.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contact no. 68-W4-0010, BAH 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, BAH employees have access to Agency documents for purposes 
of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, 
retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which BAH has access 
potentially include all documents submitted under the Resources 
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 BAH requires access to CBI to perform the work required 
under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice 
before contractors are given CBI.
    BAH is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When BAH's need for the documents is completed, BAH will return them to 
EPA.

    Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jennette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28838 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]
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