[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 17785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8612]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by TechLaw, Inc. and 
Its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region I Enforcement Support Services (ESS) 
Contract 68-W4-0019 to prime contractor, TechLaw, Inc. EPA has 
authorized TechLaw, including its team subcontractors, CDM Federal 
Programs Corporation, Financial Investigations & Services, Inc., Blake 
Investigative Agency, Barber Associates, Life Systems, Inc., Science 
Applications International Corporation, ISSI, Inc., and HydroGeoLogic, 
Inc., access to information in Region I 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 should be submitted to EPA within five working days 
after publication of this notice in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary H. Grealish, Project Officer, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (HPC-CAN), JFK Federal Building, 
Boston, MA 02203-2211. Telephone (617) 223-5507.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Contract No. 68-W4-0019, TechLaw 
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, TechLaw employees have access to Agency documents for 
purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, 
inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which TechLaw 
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 TechLaw requires access to CBI to perform the work 
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days 
notice before contractors are given CBI.
    TechLaw is required by contract to protect confidential 
information. When TechLaw's need for the documents is completed, 
TechLaw will return them to EPA.

    Dated: March 28, 1995.
John P. DeVillars,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-8612 Filed 4-6-95; 8:45 am]
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