Access to Confidential Business Information by Enrollees Under the Senior Environmental Employment Program

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-4837-8]

Access to Confidential Business Information by Enrollees Under

the Senior Environmental Employment Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has authorized grantee organizations under the Senior

Environmental Employment (SEE) Program, and their enrollees, for access

to information which has been submitted to EPA under several of 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 five days from

February 22, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patricia Powers, National Program Director, Senior Environmental

Employment Program (8701), Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M

Street SW., Washington, DC 20560. Telephone (202) 260-2573.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE)

program is authorized by the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of

1984 (Pub. L. 98-313), which provides that the Administrator may ``make

grants or enter into cooperative agreements'' for the purpose of

``providing technical assistance to Federal, State, and local

environmental agencies for projects of pollution prevention, abatement,

and control.'' Cooperative agreements under the SEE program provide

support for many functions in the Agency, including clerical support,

staffing hot lines, providing support to Agency enforcement activities,

providing library services, compiling data, and support in scientific,

engineering, financial, and other areas.

In performing these tasks, grantees and cooperators under the SEE

program and their enrollees may have access to potentially all

documents submitted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,

Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, and Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, to the extent

that these statutes allow disclosure of confidential information to

authorized representatives of the United States (or to ``contractors''

under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act). Some of

these documents may contain information claimed as confidential.

EPA may provide confidential information to enrollees working under

the following cooperative agreements:

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Cooperative

agreement No. Organization

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CQ815413-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ815485-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ815923-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816164-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ816300-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816301-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816365-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ816382-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816383-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816384-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816480-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816493-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816510-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816529-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ816734-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ816989-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ816990-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ817139-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ817380-01 National Council on the Aging.

CQ817464-01 National Council on the Aging.

CQ817522-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ817736-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ817738-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ817782-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ817783-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ817801-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ818131-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ818132-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ818186-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ818570-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ818587-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ818634-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ818638-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ818697-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ818851-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ818917-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ818939-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819088-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ819103-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ819187-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ819369-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819370-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819404-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819519-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819520-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819521-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819522-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819523-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819524-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819525-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819526-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819527-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ819613-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819690-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819702-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ819705-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ819851-01 National Council on the Aging.

CQ819874-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ820372-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ820550-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ820551-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ820552-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ820665-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ820829-01 National Council on the Aging.

CQ820916-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ820932-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ820934-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ820962-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ821058-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821104-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821110-01 National Council on the Aging.

CQ821346-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821547-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821548-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821549-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821572-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ821598-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

CQ821982-01 National Council on Aging.

CQ822261-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ822511-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ822533-01 National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ822540-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ822541-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ822542-01 National Caucus and Center on Black Aged.

CQ822545-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ822594-01 Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores.

CQ822612-01 National Council on Aging.

CQ822631-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ822645-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ822646-01 National Council on Aging.

CQ822647-01 National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging.

CQ822652-01 American Association of Retired Persons.

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All organizations are located in Washington, DC, with the

exceptions of the National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging

(Seattle, WA) and Asociacion Nacional pro Personas Mayores (Los

Angeles, CA).

EPA amended its confidentiality regulations at 40 CFR part 2,

subpart B to authorize SEE enrollees for access to confidential

business information (58 FR 7187, February 5, 1993). As discussed in

that notice, EPA offices had been giving SEE enrollees access to

confidential information under the impression that Agency

confidentiality regulations allowed such access. The February 5, 1993

Federal Register notice rectified that error by amending these

regulations to provide for such access. Among the procedures

established by EPA confidentiality regulations for granting access is

notification to the submitters of confidential data that SEE grantee

organizations and their enrollees will have access. 40 CFR

2.301(h)(2)(iii). This notice is intended to fulfill that requirement.

The grantee organizations are required by the cooperative

agreements to protect confidential information. SEE enrollees are

required to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same

security procedures as Federal employees.

Dated: February 4, 1994.

Karen Morehouse,

Acting Director, Office of Exploratory Research.

[FR Doc. 94-3898 Filed 2-18-94; 8:45 am]

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