Transfer of Data to Contractor

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5105-6]

Transfer of Data to Contractor

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Intended Transfer of Confidential Business

Information to Contractors and Subcontractors.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer

confidential business information (CBI) collected from the pulp, paper,

and paperboard manufacturing; pharmaceutical manufacturing; and other

industries listed below to Science Applications International

Corporation, Inc. (SAIC); Abt Associates, Inc.; and their

subcontractors. Transfer of the information will allow the contractors

and subcontractors to assist EPA in developing effluent limitations

guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act (CWA), and in

developing or evaluating the need for regulations under the Clean Air

Act (CAA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The information being transferred

was or will be collected under the authority of section 308 of the

Clean Water Act. Some of the information was provided voluntarily by

industrial facilities; this information also could have been collected

under section 308. Information being transferred from the pulp, paper,

and paperboard industry was or will be collected under the additional

authorities of section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and section 3007

of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Interested

persons may submit comments on this intended transfer of information to

the address noted below.

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data are due November 21, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Mr. David Hoadley, Document Control

Officer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303), 911 East Tower, U.S.

EPA, 401 M Street S.W., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. David Hoadley, Document Control

Officer, at (202) 260-7765.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has previously transferred to its

contractors, SAIC (located in Falls Church, Virginia) and Abt

Associates (located in Cambridge, Massachusetts), information,

including confidential business information (CBI) concerning certain

industries collected under the authority of section 308 of the Clean

Water Act. EPA determined that this transfer was necessary to enable

the contractors and subcontractors to perform their work in assisting

EPA in developing effluent guidelines and standards for certain

industries. Notice to this effect was provided to the affected

industries.

Today, EPA is giving notice that it has entered into additional

contracts, numbers 68-C4-0046 and 68-C4-0060, with SAIC and Abt

Associates, respectively. The reason for these contracts is to secure

additional contractor support in statistical and economic analyses. To

obtain assistance in responding to these contracts, SAIC and Abt

Associates have entered into contracts with their subcontractors.

SAIC will provide the same type of statistical, technical, and data

base support services as previously provided in contract number 68-C0-

0035. In the new contract, SAIC has retained, from the previous

contract, the statistical and economic analysis services of

subcontractor Research Triangle Institute (RTI) located in Research

Triangle Park, North Carolina. SAIC has also obtained the services of

two other subcontractors, Software Technology Group (located in

Fairfax, Virginia) and Highland Data Services (located in Bluegrass,

Virginia), for computer support and data entry.

Abt Associates will provide the same type of economic and

regulatory analysis and evaluation support services as previously

provided in contract number 68-C0-0080. In the new contract, Abt

Associates has retained, from the previous contract, the economic

analysis services of three subcontractors: Eastern Research Group

(located in Lexington, Massachusetts); Industrial Economics, Inc.

(located in Cambridge, Massachusetts); and RCG/Hagler Bailly Inc.

(located in Boulder, Colorado). Abt Associates has also obtained the

economic analysis services of five other subcontractors: Apogee

Research (located in Bethesda, Maryland); Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.

(also located in Bethesda, Maryland); Fu & Associates, Ltd. (located in

Arlington, Virginia); Radian Corporation (located in Herndon,

Virginia); and Research Triangle Institute (located in Research

Triangle Park, North Carolina). Fu & Associates will provide computer

support in addition to economic analysis support.

All EPA contractor and subcontractor personnel are bound by the

requirements and sanctions contained in their contracts with EPA and in

EPA's confidentiality regulations found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B.

SAIC, Abt Associates, and their subcontractors adhere to EPA-approved

security plans which describe procedures to protect confidential

business information (CBI). The procedures in these plans are applied

to CBI previously gathered by EPA for the industries identified below

and to CBI that may be gathered in the future for these industries. The

security plans specify that contractor and subcontractor personnel are

required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are briefed on

appropriate security procedures before they are permitted access to

CBI. No person is automatically granted access to CBI; a need to know

must exist.

The information that will be transferred to SAIC, Abt Associates,

and their subcontractors consists primarily of information previously

collected by EPA to support the development of effluent limitations

guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act. In particular,

information, including CBI, collected for the development of effluent

limitations guidelines and standards for the following industries may

be transferred: centralized waste treatment; industrial laundries;

incinerators; landfills; machinery products and manufacturing; oil and

gas; organic chemicals; pesticide manufacturing; pesticides

formulating, packaging, and repackaging; pharmaceutical manufacturing;

petroleum refining; pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacturing; steam

and electric; and transportation equipment cleaning.

EPA also intends to transfer to SAIC, Abt Associates, and their

subcontractors all information listed in this notice, of the type

described above (including CBI) that may be collected in the future

under the authority of section 308 of the Clean Water Act, as is

necessary to enable SAIC, Abt Associates and their subcontractors to

carry out the work required by their contracts to support EPA's

development of effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the

industries listed above.

Dated: November 3, 1994.

Tudor T. Davies,

Director, Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water.

[FR Doc. 94-28148 Filed 11-14-94; 8:45 am]

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