Intended Transfer of Confidential Business Information

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Intended Transfer of Confidential Business Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of intended transfer of confidential business

information to contractors.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer

confidential business information (CBI) collected from the organic

chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibers (OCPSF) industries to Radian

Corporation (Radian) and to Industrial Economics Incorporated (IEc).

Radian and IEc adhere to EPA-approved security plans which describe

procedures to protect confidential business information (CBI).

Transfer of this information will allow the contractors to assist

EPA in evaluating the need for establishing regulations under the

Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) for air emissions, leaks and

sludges from treatment surface impoundments accepting wastes generated

by the OCPSF industries that were, at point of generation, RCRA

hazardous wastes, but which have been diluted so that the RCRA

hazardous characteristic is removed prior to placement in the

wastewater treatment surface impoundment. The CBI that EPA intends to

transfer to Radian and IEc was collected under the authority of section

308 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Interested persons may submit

comments on this intended transfer of CBI to the address noted below.

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data are due February 6, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Linda Martin (5305), EPA, 401 M

Street SW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Martin at the above address, or

call (202) 260-0062.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has previously transferred information

to various contractors, including CBI, concerning certain industries

that was collected under the authority of section 308 of the CWA. EPA

determined at that time that the transfer was necessary to enable the

contractors to perform their work in assisting EPA in developing

effluent guidelines and standards for certain industries. Notice to

this effect was provide to the affected industries.

Today, EPA is giving notice that it has entered into an additional

contract with IEc (Cambridge, Massachusetts), contract number 68-W3-

0028, and with Radian (Herndon, Virginia), contract number 68-W3-0001.

These contracts arrange contractor support to assist EPA in evaluating

the need to establish regulations under RCRA (specifically, under the

Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) program) for air emissions, leaks and

sludges from treatment surface impoundments accepting wastes that were,

at point of generation, RCRA hazardous wastes, but which have been

diluted so that the RCRA hazardous characteristic is removed prior to

placement in the wastewater treatment surface impoundment. The

information that EPA intends to transfer to Radian and IEc consists

primarily of data previously collected by EPA to support the

development of effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the

CWA for OCPSF industries.

All EPA contractor personnel are bound by the requirements and

sanctions contained in their contracts with EPA and in EPA's

confidentiality regulations found at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. Radian

and IEc adhere to EPA-approved security plans which describe procedures

to protect CBI. The security plans specify that contractor personnel

are required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are briefed on

appropriate security procedures before they are permitted access to

CBI. No person is automatically granted access to CBI; a need to know

must exist.

Dated: January 25, 1995.

Michael Shapiro,

Director, Office of Solid Waste.

[FR Doc. 95-2434 Filed 1-31-95; 8:45 am]

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