[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 184 (Friday, September 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 49275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23575]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5301-4]


Access to Confidential Business Information by Armstrong Data 
Services, Inc.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has authorized Armstrong Data Services, Inc. (ADSI) of 
Vienna, Virginia who is the prime contractor, and Labat-Anderson, Inc. 
(LAI) of Arlington, Virginia who is the subcontractor, for access to 
information 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 through 
September 29, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Irvin Weiss, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Information 
Resources Management, Management Evaluation Staff (3401), 401 M Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone (202) 260-9388.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under EPA Contract Number 68-W5-0024, ADSI 
and LAI provide 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, ADSI and LAI employees have access to Agency 
documents for purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, 
analyzing, inventorying, retrieving, tracking, filming, scanning, etc. 
The documents to which ADSI and LAI have 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 ADSI and LAI require access to CBI to perform the work 
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days 
notice before contractors are given CBI.
    ADSI and LAI are required by contract to protect confidential 
information. When their need for the information is completed, ADSI and 
LAI will return them to EPA.

    Dated: September 15, 1995.
Sallyanne Harper,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resource 
Management.
[FR Doc. 95-23575 Filed 9-21-95; 8:45 am]
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