Clean Air Act: Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6209-2]

Clean Air Act: Contractor Access to Confidential Business

Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The EPA has authorized the following contractor to access

information that has been, or will be, submitted to EPA under section

112(r) of the Clean Air Act(CAA) as amended: Computer Based Systems

Inc., (CBSI), 2750 Prosperity Ave., Fairfax, VA 22031 (Contract #68-W-

98-045) and its subcontractor, Creative Information Technology, Inc.,

(CITI), 9064 Manorwood Rd., Laurel, MD 20723.

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: Dorothy McManus, Office of Solid Waste

and Emergency Response, MC: 5104, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Washington, DC 20460.

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

submitters of information under section 112(r) of the CAA that EPA may

provide the above mentioned contractor and its subcontractor access to

these materials on a need-to-know basis. This contractor will provide

technical support to the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

in the receipt, processing and storage of risk management plans

submitted to EPA under the CAA.

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

contractor and its subcontractor require access to CBI submitted to EPA

under sections 112(r) and 114 of the CAA in order to perform work

satisfactorily under the above noted contract. The contractor's and

subcontractor's personnel will be given access to information submitted

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under section 112(r) of the CAA. Some of the information may be claimed

or determined to be CBI. The contractor's and subcontractor's personnel

will be required to sign nondisclosure agreements and will be permitted

access to CBI. All contractor access to CAA CBI will take place at the

contractor's facility. The contractor will have appropriate procedures

and facilities in place to safeguard the CAA CBI to which the

contractor and its subcontractor have access.

Clearance for access to CBI is scheduled to expire on January 31,

2003 or at contract termination.

Dated: December 16, 1998.

Jim Makris,

Director, Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office, Office

of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.

[FR Doc. 98-34045 Filed 12-22-98; 8:45 am]

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