Access to Confidential Business Information by Armstrong Data Services, Inc.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5301-4]

Access to Confidential Business Information by Armstrong Data

Services, Inc.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has authorized Armstrong Data Services, Inc. (ADSI) of

Vienna, Virginia who is the prime contractor, and Labat-Anderson, Inc.

(LAI) of Arlington, Virginia who is the subcontractor, for access to

information 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 through

September 29, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Irvin Weiss, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Information

Resources Management, Management Evaluation Staff (3401), 401 M Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone (202) 260-9388.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under EPA Contract Number 68-W5-0024, ADSI

and LAI provide 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, ADSI and LAI employees have access to Agency

documents for purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting,

analyzing, inventorying, retrieving, tracking, filming, scanning, etc.

The documents to which ADSI and LAI have 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 ADSI and LAI require access to CBI to perform the work

required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days

notice before contractors are given CBI.

ADSI and LAI are required by contract to protect confidential

information. When their need for the information is completed, ADSI and

LAI will return them to EPA.

Dated: September 15, 1995.

Sallyanne Harper,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resource

Management.

[FR Doc. 95-23575 Filed 9-21-95; 8:45 am]

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