[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 133 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37564-37565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18587]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6123-7]
Subcontractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under
the Clean Air Act
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA has authorized the following contractors and
subcontractors for access to information that has been, or will be,
submitted to EPA under sections 109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA) as amended. (1) Abt Associates, Inc., 4800 Montgomery
Lane, Suite 500, Hampden Square, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; ICF, Inc.,
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031; EC/R, Inc., 1129 Weaver
Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514; Eastern Research Group,
900 Perimeter Park, P.O. Box 2010, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560;
Alpha-Gamma Technologies, Inc., Suite 350, 900 Ridgefield Drive,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27609; Douglas Rae, 36 Gage Street, Needham,
Massachusetts 02192; Jonathan Rubin, Department of Economics,
University of Tennessee, 519 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville,
Tennessee 37996; Robert Taylor, Department of Agricultural Economics
and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849; Scott
Atkinson, Department of Economics, University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia 30602; under Abt's contract number 68-D-98-001. (2) EC/R, Inc.,
1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, contract
number 68-D-98-026. (3) E.H. Pechan and Associates, Inc., 5537-C
Hempstead Way, Springfield, Virginia 22151; Pacific Environmental
Services, Inc., P.O. Box 12077, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27709, under contract number 68-D-98-052. (4) EC/R, Inc., 1129 Weaver
Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514; The Cadmus Group
Incorporated, 135 Beaver Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154; INDUS
Corporation, 1953 Gallows Road, Suite 300, Vienna, Virginia 22182; Dr.
David Burmaster, Alceon Corporation, P.O. Box 382669, Harvard Square
Station, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238, under contract number 68-D6-
0065. (5) ICF, Inc., 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031, under
contract number 68-D6-0064. (6) Science Applications International
Corporation, 1710 Goodridge Drive, McLean, Virginia 22101, under
contract number 68-D-98-113.
Some of the information may be claimed to be confidential business
information (CBI) by the submitter.
DATES: Access to confidential data submitted to EPA will occur no
sooner than 10 days after issuance of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melva Toomer, Document Control
Officer, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (MD-11), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711, (919) 541-0880.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is issuing this notice to inform all
submitters of information under sections 109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of
the CAA that EPA may provide the above mentioned contractors and
subcontractors access to these materials on a need-to-know basis. These
contractors and subcontractors will provide technical support to the
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) in health and risk
assessment, implementation and strategies development, program review
and tracking, standards review and development, and economic impact
assessments for Federal air pollution control regulations and
development of innovative regulatory strategies.
In accordance with 40 CFR 2.301(h), EPA has determined that each
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subcontractor requires access to CBI, submitted to EPA under sections
109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of the CAA, in order to perform work
satisfactorily under the above noted contracts. The contractors' and
subcontractors' personnel will be given access to information submitted
under the above mentioned sections of the CAA. Some of the information
may be claimed or determined to be CBI. The contractors' and
subcontractors' personnel will be required to sign nondisclosure
agreements and will be briefed on appropriate security procedures
before they are permitted access to CBI. All subcontractor access to
CAA CBI will take place at the prime contractors' facility. Each
subcontractor will have appropriate procedures and facilities in place
to safeguard the CAA CBI to which the subcontractor has access.
Clearance for access to CAA CBI is scheduled to expire on September
30, 2000 under contracts 68-D-98-026 and 68-D-98-052; on September 30,
2001 under contracts 68-D6-0064 and 68-D6-0065; on September 30, 2002
under contract 68-D-98-001; and on May 1, 2003 under contract 68-D-98-
113.
Dated: July 7, 1998.
Richard D. Wilson,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 98-18587 Filed 7-10-98; 8:45 am]
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