Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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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 sections

109-112, 114, 129 and 183 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended:

Research Triangle Institute, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle

Park, North Carolina 27709, under contract number 68-W7-0018.

Some of the information may be claimed to be confidential business

information (CBI) by the submitter.

DATES: Access to confidential data submitted to EPA under the CAA will

occur no sooner October 19, 1998.

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 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) and the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) in the

analyses of cost and benefits of actual or potential EPA action taken

under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the CAA. This

contractor was previously authorized to access CBI submitted under TSCA

under a Federal Register document issued June 13, 1997 (62 FR 32319-

32320) .

In accordance with 40 CFR part 2, subparts B and other EPA

regulations and policies, EPA has determined that this contractor

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 contract. The contractor personnel will be given access

to information submitted under the above mentioned section 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 CAA CBI. All access to CAA CBI will

take place at the contractor's facility. This contractor has

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, 2001 under contract 68-W7-0018.

Dated: October 5, 1998.

Robert Perciasepe,

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 98-27265 Filed 10-8-98; 8:45 am]

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