Subcontractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6123-7]

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 contractors and

subcontractors for access to information that has been, or will be,

submitted to EPA under sections 109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of the Clean

Air Act (CAA) as amended. (1) Abt Associates, Inc., 4800 Montgomery

Lane, Suite 500, Hampden Square, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; ICF, Inc.,

9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031; EC/R, Inc., 1129 Weaver

Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514; Eastern Research Group,

900 Perimeter Park, P.O. Box 2010, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560;

Alpha-Gamma Technologies, Inc., Suite 350, 900 Ridgefield Drive,

Raleigh, North Carolina 27609; Douglas Rae, 36 Gage Street, Needham,

Massachusetts 02192; Jonathan Rubin, Department of Economics,

University of Tennessee, 519 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville,

Tennessee 37996; Robert Taylor, Department of Agricultural Economics

and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849; Scott

Atkinson, Department of Economics, University of Georgia, Athens,

Georgia 30602; under Abt's contract number 68-D-98-001. (2) EC/R, Inc.,

1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, contract

number 68-D-98-026. (3) E.H. Pechan and Associates, Inc., 5537-C

Hempstead Way, Springfield, Virginia 22151; Pacific Environmental

Services, Inc., P.O. Box 12077, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27709, under contract number 68-D-98-052. (4) EC/R, Inc., 1129 Weaver

Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514; The Cadmus Group

Incorporated, 135 Beaver Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154; INDUS

Corporation, 1953 Gallows Road, Suite 300, Vienna, Virginia 22182; Dr.

David Burmaster, Alceon Corporation, P.O. Box 382669, Harvard Square

Station, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238, under contract number 68-D6-

0065. (5) ICF, Inc., 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia 22031, under

contract number 68-D6-0064. (6) Science Applications International

Corporation, 1710 Goodridge Drive, McLean, Virginia 22101, under

contract number 68-D-98-113.

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 10 days after issuance of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melva Toomer, Document Control

Officer, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (MD-11), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27711, (919) 541-0880.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is issuing this notice to inform all

submitters of information under sections 109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of

the CAA that EPA may provide the above mentioned contractors and

subcontractors access to these materials on a need-to-know basis. These

contractors and subcontractors will provide technical support to the

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) in health and risk

assessment, implementation and strategies development, program review

and tracking, standards review and development, and economic impact

assessments for Federal air pollution control regulations and

development of innovative regulatory strategies.

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

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subcontractor requires access to CBI, submitted to EPA under sections

109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of the CAA, in order to perform work

satisfactorily under the above noted contracts. The contractors' and

subcontractors' personnel will be given access to information submitted

under the above mentioned sections of the CAA. Some of the information

may be claimed or determined to be CBI. The contractors' and

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 prime contractors' 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, 2000 under contracts 68-D-98-026 and 68-D-98-052; on September 30,

2001 under contracts 68-D6-0064 and 68-D6-0065; on September 30, 2002

under contract 68-D-98-001; and on May 1, 2003 under contract 68-D-98-

113.

Dated: July 7, 1998.

Richard D. Wilson,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 98-18587 Filed 7-10-98; 8:45 am]

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