Subcontractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5877-5]

Subcontractor 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: Indus Corporation,

1953 Gallows Road, Vienna, Va 22181, contract number 68D60010;

Environmental Investigations (EI), 2327 Englert Drive, Durham, NC

27713, contract number 68D60010; TRC Environmental Corporation, 6340

Quadrangle Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, contract number 68D60010; EC/

R, Inc., 2327 Englert Drive, Durham, NC 27713, contract number

68D60011; Acurex Corporation, 555 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA

94039, contract number 68D60012; Alpha-Gama Technologies, Inc., 900

Ridgefield Drive, Raleigh, NC 27609, contract number 68D60013; The

Kevric Company, Inc., 8401 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910,

contract number 68D60014.

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 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

economic impact assessment for Federal Air Pollution Control

Regulations.

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 subcontractor has access.

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

30, 2001 under all above listed contracts.

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Dated: August 12, 1997.

Mary D. Nichols,

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 97-21917 Filed 8-18-97; 8:45 am]

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