# Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A98-27265

## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** October 9, 1998
- **Citation:** 63 FR 54476

## Text

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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