# Transfer of Data to Contractor > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A94-28148 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Uncategorized Document - **Published:** November 15, 1994 ## Text 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A94-28148. Public record. Not legal advice.