Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air

Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The EPA has authorized the California Air Resources Board

(CARB) access to information that has been, or will be, submitted to

the EPA under Section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended.

Some of the information may be claimed to be confidential business

information (CBI) by the submitter.

DATES: Access to confidential data submitted to the EPA will occur no

sooner than ten days after issuance of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Maxwell, Document Control

Officer, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (MD-13), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27711, (919) 541-5312.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is issuing this notice to inform all

submitters of information under Section 114 of the CAA that the EPA may

provide the above-mentioned State agency access to these materials on a

need-to-know basis.

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.301(h), the EPA has determined that

CARB requires access to CBI concerning consumer and commercial products

submitted to the EPA under Section 183(e) and Section 114 of the CAA in

order to carry out its duties under California environmental protection

laws and the CAA. Some of the information may be claimed or determined

to be CBI. The CARB will be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement

and will be briefed on appropriate security procedures before being

permitted access to CBI. All CARB access to CAA CBI will take place at

CARB's facilities. The CARB will have appropriate procedures and

facilities in place to safeguard the CAA CBI to which CARB has access.

Clearance for access to CAA CBI is scheduled to expire on September

30, 1998.

Dated: September 11, 1995.

Mary Nichols,

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 95-23110 Filed 9-15-95; 8:45 am]

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