[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 95 (Thursday, May 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 34922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12146]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7211-3]


Notice of Disclosure of Confidential Business Information 
Obtained Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation 
and Liability Act to EPA Contractor ASRC Aerospace Corp.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hereby complies 
with the requirements of 40 CFR 2.310 (h) for authorization to disclose 
to the ASRC Aerospace Corp. of Greenbelt, Maryland Superfund 
confidential business information (CBI) submitted to EPA Region 9.

DATES: Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted through June 13, 
2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy De La Torre, Contracting 
Officer, Environmental Protection Agency Mail Code: PMD8, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Telephone: (415) 972-3717.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under EPA contract number: 68-R9-0101, ASRC 
Aerospace Corp. provides EPA Region 9 San Francisco information 
management support services to the Environmental Protection Agency for 
the operation of dockets, records manage-ment support programs, and 
records center. In performing these tasks, ASRC Aerospace employees 
have access to agency documents for purposes of document processing, 
filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, retrieving, tracking, 
etc. The documents to which ASRC Aerospace has access potentially 
includes documents submitted under the Resource Conservation and 
Recovery Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act. Some of these documents may contain information 
claimed as CBI. EPA has determined that disclosure of CBI to ASRC 
Aerospace is necessary in order that ASRC Aerospace may carry out the 
work required by the contract with EPA. The information EPA intends to 
disclose includes submissions from all parties related to Superfund 
sites. The information would be disclosed to ASRC for any of the 
following reasons: To assist with the operation of dockets, records 
management support programs, document handling, inventory of records, 
and indexing. 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 requires that each ASRC 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 ASRC for 
performance of the work required by the contract or upon completion of 
the contract.

    Dated: March 22, 2002.
Jane Diamond,
Acting Director, Superfund Division, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 02-12146 Filed 5-15-02; 8:45 am]
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