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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by TRC Environmental 
Corporation and Its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region II Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0020 to prime contractor, TRC Environmental Corporation 
(TRC). EPA has authorized TRC, including its team subcontractors, 
American Management Systems, DynCorp, Viar, Industrial Economics 
Corporation, Joseph Spina Associates, Ecology and Environment, and 
InfoPro, access to information in Region II 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 December 28, 
1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
John Bachmann, Contracting Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency (FAMB), Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New 
York, NY 10278. Telephone (212) 264-2702.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0020, TRC 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, TRC employees have access to Agency documents for purposes 
of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, 
retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which TRC 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 TRC requires access to CBI to perform the work required 
under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice 
before contractors are given CBI.
    TRC is required by contract to protect confidential information. 
When TRC's need for the documents is completed, TRC will return them to 
EPA.

    Dated: October 16, 1994.
Jeanette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28839 Filed 11-22-94; 8:45 am]
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