Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5522-1]

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 contractor for access to

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

114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended: Alpha-Gamma Technologies,

Inc., 900 Ridgefield Drive, Suite 350, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27609,

contract number 68D60006.

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 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 EPA may

provide the above mentioned contractor access to these materials on a

need-to-know basis. This contractor 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 this

contractor 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 contract. The contractor's 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 contractor's

personnel will be required to sign nondisclosure agreements and will be

briefed on appropriate security procedures before they are permitted

access to CBI. All contractor access to CAA CBI will take place at the

contractor's facility. This contractor 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 May 28,

2001 under contract 68D60006.

Dated: June 11, 1996.

Mary Nichols,

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 96-15444 Filed 6-18-96; 8:45 am]

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