Access to Confidential Business Information by Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by Booz-Allen &

Hamilton, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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

Contract 68-W4-0010 to prime contractor, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.

(BAH. EPA has authorized BAH, including its team subcontractors, CDM

Federal Programs Corporation, Dynamac Corporation, CACI, Northeast

Investigations, Inc., PRC Environmental Management, Inc., ICS

Investigative Consultant Services, and Tri-State Enterprise, access to

information in Region III 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:

Bob Slaughter, Contracting Officer, U.S. Environmental Protecting

Agency (3PM73), 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

Telephone (215) 597-9909.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contact no. 68-W4-0010, BAH 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, BAH employees have access to Agency documents for purposes

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

retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which BAH has access

potentially include all documents submitted under the Resources

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 BAH requires access to CBI to perform the work required

under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice

before contractors are given CBI.

BAH is required by contract to protect confidential information.

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

EPA.

Dated: October 11, 1994.

Jennette Brown,

Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.

[FR Doc. 94-28838 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]

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