Access to Confidential Business Information by TRC Environmental Corporation and Its Team Subcontractors

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information by TRC Environmental

Corporation and Its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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

Contract 68-W4-0020 to prime contractor, TRC Environmental Corporation

(TRC). EPA has authorized TRC, including its team subcontractors,

American Management Systems, DynCorp, Viar, Industrial Economics

Corporation, Joseph Spina Associates, Ecology and Environment, and

InfoPro, access to information in Region II 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 December 28,

1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

John Bachmann, Contracting Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (FAMB), Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New

York, NY 10278. Telephone (212) 264-2702.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0020, TRC 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, TRC employees have access to Agency documents for purposes

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

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

under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice

before contractors are given CBI.

TRC is required by contract to protect confidential information.

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

EPA.

Dated: October 16, 1994.

Jeanette Brown,

Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.

[FR Doc. 94-28839 Filed 11-22-94; 8:45 am]

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