[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8859-8860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-04504]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0978; FRL-9990-77-OECA]
Access by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Contractors to Information Claimed as Confidential Business Information
(CBI) Submitted Under Clean Air Act (CAA), Title I, Programs and
Activities Air, and Title II Emission Standards for Moving Sources, and
Act To Prevent Pollution From Ships (APPS)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's)
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) plans to
authorize various contractors to access information that will be
submitted to EPA under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Titles I and II and the
Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) that may be claimed as, or
may be determined to be, confidential business information (CBI).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 18, 2019.
Contractors' access to information collected under the CAA Titles I and
II, and the APPS, will begin on March 18, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA HQ-
OECA-2012-0978, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: [email protected]. Include Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0978 in the subject line of the message.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change
to https://www.regulations.gov/, including any personal information
provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air Enforcement
Division, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (Mail Code
8MSU), Environmental Protection Agency, 1595 Wynkoop St., Denver, CO
80202; telephone number: (303) 312-6445; fax number (303) 312-7208;
email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Does this notice apply to me?
This action is directed to the general public. However, this action
may be of particular interest to certain parties, including: Motor
vehicle manufacturers and importers; engine manufacturers and
importers; motor vehicle fuel and fuel additive producers and
importers; manufacturers, importers and distributors of motor vehicle
and engine emission control equipment and parts; and any other parties
subject to the regulations found in 40 CFR parts 79, 80, 85, 86, 89-92,
94, 1033, 1036, 1037, 1039, 1042, 1043, 1045, 1048, 1051, 1054, 1060,
1065, and 1068.
This Federal Register notice may be of particular relevance to
parties that have submitted data to EPA under the above-listed
regulations. Because other parties may also be interested, EPA has not
attempted to describe all the specific parties that may be affected by
this action. If you have further questions regarding the applicability
of this action to a particular party, please contact the person listed
in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
II. How can I get copies of this document and other related
information?
A. Electronically
EPA has established a public docket for this Federal Register
notice under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0978.
All documents in the docket are identified in the docket index
available at http://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly available, such as CBI or other
information for which disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain
materials, such as copyrighted material, will only be available in hard
copy at the EPA Docket Center.
B. EPA Docket Center
Materials listed under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0978 will be
available for public viewing at the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. The
EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number
for the Air Docket is (202) 566-1742.
III. Description of Programs and Potential Disclosure of Information
Claimed as CBI to Contractors
EPA's OECA has responsibility for protecting public health and the
environment by regulating air pollution from motor vehicles, engines,
and the fuels used to operate them, and by encouraging travel choices
that minimize emissions. In order to implement various Clean Air Act
programs, and to give regulated entities flexibility in meeting
regulatory requirements (e.g., compliance on average), OECA collects
compliance reports and other information from the regulated industry.
Occasionally, the information submitted is claimed to be CBI by persons
submitting data to EPA. Information submitted under such a claim is
handled in accordance with EPA's regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart
B, and in accordance with EPA procedures that are consistent with those
regulations. When EPA has determined that disclosure of information
claimed as CBI to EPA contractors is necessary, the corresponding
contract must address the appropriate use and handling of the
information by the EPA contractor and the EPA contractor must require
its personnel who require access to information claimed as CBI to sign
written non-disclosure agreements before they are granted access to
data.
In accordance with 40 CFR 2.301(h), we have determined that the
contractors listed below require access to CBI submitted to EPA under
Section 114 of the CAA, Section 208 of the CAA, and APPS, and we are
providing notice and an opportunity to comment on EPA contractors'
access to information claimed as CBI. OECA collects this data in order
to monitor compliance with regulations promulgated under the CAA Title
II Emission Standards for Moving Sources, APPS, and the International
Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), Annex
VI. We are issuing this Federal Register notice to inform all affected
submitters of information that we plan to grant access to material that
may be claimed as CBI to the contractors identified below on a need-to-
know basis.
Under Contract Number 68HERH19C0004, Eastern Research Group,
Incorporated, 14555 Avion Parkway, Suite 200, Chantilly, VA 20151
provides enforcement support for EPA's CAA mobile source regulatory and
enforcement activities including field inspections, investigations,
audits
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and other CAA regulatory and enforcement support that involve access to
information claimed as CBI. Access to data, including information
claimed as CBI, will commence six days after the date of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register, and will continue until March 1,
2024. If the contract is extended, this access will continue for the
remainder of the contract without further notice. If the contract
expires prior to March 1, 2024, the access will cease at that time.
Parties who wish to obtain further information about this Federal
Register notice, or about OECA's disclosure of information claimed as
CBI to contactors, may contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Dated: March 6, 2019.
Phillip A. Brooks,
Director, Air Enforcement Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-04504 Filed 3-11-19; 8:45 am]
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