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

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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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 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

the date of publication of this notice.

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 (P.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 for 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

[[Page 10387]] 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 authorize 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 provides confidential information to enrollees working under

the following cooperative agreements:

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Cooperative

agreement No. Organization

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CQ822768-01....... National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ822769-01....... National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ822770-01....... National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ822771-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ822805-01....... National Council on Aging.

CQ822810-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ822828-01....... National Council of Senior Citizens.

CQ822844-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ822911-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ822912-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ822985-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823043-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823144-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823596-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823655-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823905-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823934-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823952-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823893-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823973-01....... American Assoc. of Retired Persons.

CQ823047-01....... National Assoc. for Hispanic Elderly.

CQ823447-01....... National Cau. & Ctr on Black Aged, Inc.

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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 14, 1995.

Joseph K. Alexander,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.

[FR Doc. 95-4595 Filed 2-23-95; 8:45 am]

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