[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 74 (Monday, April 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20455-20456]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9092]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6576-5]


Notice of Disclosure of Confidential Business Information 
Obtained Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act to EPA Contractor Science Applications International 
Corporation and Its Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') hereby complies 
with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.310(h) for authorization to disclose 
to the Science Applications International Corporation (``SAIC''), of 
San Francisco, California, and its subcontractors, Superfund 
confidential business information (``CBI'') submitted to EPA Region 9.

DATES: Comments, pursuant to 40 CFR 2.310(h)(2), may be submitted by 
April 27, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to: Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 9, Katherine Meltzer (PMD-8), 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katherine Meltzer, Policy & Management 
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 744-1609.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:   

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Notice of Required Determinations, Contract Provisions and 
Opportunity To Comment

    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA'') as amended, (commonly known as 
``Superfund'') requires completion of enforcement activities at 
Superfund sites in concert with other site events. EPA has entered into 
a contract, No. 68-S9-00-10, with SAIC for Superfund enforcement 
support services. These services will be provided to EPA by SAIC and 
its subcontractors Cotton & Co. of Alexandria, VA; Indus Corporation of 
Vienna, VA; Jonas & Associates, Inc. of Walnut Creek, CA; Petroleum 
Properties of Dixon CA; KPMG LLP of San Francisco, CA; McDonald & 
Associates of Capay, CA; Orswell & Kasman of Pasadena, CA; Power 
Partners, Inc. of San Francisco, CA; and ReVision, Inc. of Denver, CO. 
EPA has determined that disclosure of CBI to SAIC employees, and its 
subcontractors' employees, is necessary in order that SAIC may carry 
out the work required by that contract with EPA. The information EPA 
intends to disclose includes submissions made by Potentially 
Responsible Parties to EPA in accordance with EPA's enforcement 
activities at Superfund sites. The information would be disclosed to 
the contractor and its subcontractor for any of the following reasons: 
to assist with document handling, inventory, and indexing; to assist 
with document review and analysis; to verify completeness; and to 
provide technical review of submittals. The contract complies with all 
requirements of 40 CFR 2.301(h)(2)(ii), incorporated by reference into 
40 CFR 2.310(h)(2). EPA Region 9 will require that each SAIC employee 
and subcontractor employee sign a written agreement that he or she: (1) 
Will use the information only for the purpose of carrying out the work 
required by the contract, (2) shall refrain from disclosing the 
information to anyone other than EPA without prior written approval of 
each affected business or of an EPA legal office, and (3) shall return 
to EPA all copies of the information (and any abstracts or extracts 
therefrom) upon request from the EPA program office, whenever the 
information is no longer required by SAIC and its subcontractors for 
performance of the work required by the contract or upon completion of 
the contract or subcontract.

    Dated: March 30, 2000.
Keith Takata,
Director, Superfund Division, EPA, Region 9.
[FR Doc. 00-9092 Filed 4-14-00; 8:45 am]
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