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; 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 on or before

June 29, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Street, National Program

Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (3641), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 401 N Street, S.W., Washington, DC

20460. Telephone (202) 260-2573.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE)

program is authorized by the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of

1984 (Pub. 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 to Agency enforcement activities,

providing library services, compiling data, and support in scientific,

engineering, financial, and other areas.

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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 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

authorized 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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CQ-820932-02..................... National Older Worker

Career Center, Inc.

CQ-822791-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-822911-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-822912-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-822985-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823144-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823655-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823893-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823905-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823952-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-823973-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-824021-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-824417-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-824455-02..................... NOWCC.

CQ-824714........................ National Caucus and Center on Black

Aged, Inc.

CQ-824715........................ NCBA.

CQ-824716........................ NCBA.

CQ-824717........................ NCBA.

CQ-824718........................ NCBA.

CQ-825083........................ NCBA.

CQ-825084........................ NCBA.

CQ-825085........................ NCBA.

CQ-825086........................ NCBA.

CQ-825087........................ NCBA.

CQ-826277-01..................... NCBA.

CQ-826278-01..................... NCBA.

CQ-826377........................ NCBA.

QS-823447 NCBA.

CQ-822261........................ National Association for

Hispanic Elderly.

CQ-825236........................ NAHE.

CQ-826228........................ NAHE.

CQ-826229........................ NAHE.

QS-823047 NAHE.

CQ-824362........................ National Council On the

Aging, Inc.

CQ-824363........................ NCOA.

CQ-824364........................ NCOA.

CQ-825438........................ NCOA.

CQ-825527........................ NCOA.

CQ-826218........................ NCOA.

CQ-822533........................ National Senior Citizens

Education and Research

Center.

CQ-822769........................ NSCERC.

CQ-824298........................ NSCERC.

CQ-824299........................ NSCERC.

CQ-824399........................ NSCERC.

CQ-824721........................ NSCERC.

CQ-825529........................ NSCERC.

CQ-825530........................ NSCERC.

CQ-826279-01..................... NSCERC.

CQ-822810-02..................... National Asian Pacific

Center on Aging.

CQ-825520........................ NAPCA.

CQ-825447........................ NAPCA.

CQ-825448........................ NAPCA.

CQ-826340........................ NAPCA.

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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 2.201(h)(2)(iii). This document is intended to fulfill

that requirement.

The grantee organizations are required by the cooperative

agreements to protect confidential information. SEE enrollees are

require to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same

security procedures as Federal employees.

Dated: June 16, 1998

Donald W. Sadler,

Director, Human Resources Staff for OA, OIA, OARM, OCFO and SES.

[FR Doc. 98-16567 Filed 6-19-98; 8:45 am]

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