Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5108-7]

Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic,

Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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

Contract 68-W4-0038 to prime contractor, HydroGeologic Inc. (HGL). EPA

has authorized HGL, including its team subcontractors, ISSI, Inc. and

TechLaw, Inc., access to information in Region IV 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: Fran Harrell, Contracting Officer,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (4RMB), 345 Courtland Street, NE.,

Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone (404) 347-6821.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0038, HGL provides

agency-wide information management support services to the

Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records

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

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

these tasks, HGL employees have access to Agency documents for purposes

of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying,

retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which HGL has 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 HGL requires access to CBI to perform the work required

under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice

before contractors are given CBI.

HGL is required by contract to protect confidential information.

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

EPA.

Dated: October 11, 1994.

Jeanette Brown,

Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.

[FR Doc. 94-28837 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]

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