Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5192-9]

Contractor 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 following subcontractors for access

to information that has been, or will be, submitted to EPA under

section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended. (1) EC/R, Inc.,

3721-D University Drive, Durham, NC 27707, contract number 68D10119;

(2) Alpha Gamma Technologies, Inc, 900 Ridgefield Drive, Suite 350,

Raleigh, NC 27609 contract 68D10117; (3) Energy and Environmental

Research Corporation, (EER), 3710 University Drive, Suite 160 Contract

68D10117,

Some of the information may be claimed to be confidential business

information (CBI) by the submitter.

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

sooner than April 27, 1995.

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 EPA may

provide the above mentioned subcontractors access to these materials on

a need-to-know basis. These subcontractors will provide technical

support to the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) in

source assessment or with a source category survey and proceed through

development of standards for a Federal Air Pollution Control Regulation

or Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG).

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

subcontractor requires access to CBI submitted to EPA under sections

112 and 114 of the CAA in order to perform work satisfactorily under

the above noted contracts. The subcontractors' personnel will be given

access to information submitted under section 114 of the CAA. Some of

the information may be claimed or determined to be CBI. The

subcontractors' personnel will be required to sign nondisclosure

agreements and will be briefed on appropriate security procedures

before they are permitted access to CBI. All subcontractor access to

CAA CBI will take place at the subcontractors' facility. Each

subcontractor will have appropriate procedures and facilities in place

to safeguard the CAA CBI to which the contractor has access.

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

30, 1998 under contract 68D40099 and on September 30, 1997 under

contract 68D40107.

Dated: April 7, 1995.

Mary Nichols,

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 95-9379 Filed 4-14-95; 8:45 am]

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