Access to Confidential Business Information by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and its Team Subcontractor

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by Science

Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and its Team

Subcontractor

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region X Enforcement Support Services (ESS)

Contract 68-W4-0014 to prime contractor, Science Applications

International Corporation (SAIC). EPA has authorized SAIC and its team

subcontractor, TechLaw, Inc., access to information in Region X

Superfund files which has been submitted to EPA under the environmental

statutes administered by the Agency. Some of this information may be

claimed or determined to be confidential business information (CBI).

DATES: Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted on or before

November 28, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: D.J. Lovelady, Contracting Officer,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (MD-144), 1200 Sixth Avenue,

Seattle, WA 98101. Telephone (206) 553-1770.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0014, SAIC provides

agency-wide information management support services to the

Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records

management support programs, records centers, and file rooms in certain

Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing

these tasks, SAIC employees have access to Agency documents for

purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing,

inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which SAIC

have access potentially include all documents submitted under the

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act,

and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act. Some of these documents may contain information claimed as CBI.

Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B, EPA has

determined that SAIC requires access to CBI to perform the work

required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days

notice before contractors are given CBI.

SAIC is required by contract to protect confidential information.

When SAIC's need for the documents is completed, SAIC will return them

to EPA.

Dated: October 11, 1994.

Jennette Brown,

Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.

[FR Doc. 94-28834 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]

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