[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 93 (Friday, May 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30586-30587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12018]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6602-8]


Montrose Superfund Site and Palos Verde Site, Notice of 
Disclosure of Contractor Information That May Contain Confidential 
Business Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of disclosure.

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SUMMARY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations provide that 
EPA may, in special circumstances, disclose business information, 
including confidential business information, ``to the extent ordered by 
a Federal Court.'' 40 CFR 2.209(d). EPA is currently engaged in 
litigation with the Potentially Responsible Parties (``PRPs'') in 
connection with the Montrose Superfund Site and the Palos Verdes Shelf 
Site in California. EPA intends to release to these parties 
documentation of EPA's past costs at the Montrose Superfund Site and 
the Palos Verdes Shelf Site. In accordance with EPA regulations, EPA 
has entered into a Stipulation and Protective Order with the PRPs in 
which the PRPs have stipulated that the documents released to them may 
contain CBI, and have agreed to specified procedures to maintain the 
confidentiality of such information. See 58 FR 460. EPA hereby gives 
notice to the following parties that EPA intends to disclose 
information in EPA's possession that may be confidential business 
information, under the protection of the above-mentioned Stipulation 
and Protective Order:
    (1) Any subcontractor or temporary firm which has performed work 
for any the following contractors under the any of the following 
contracts or inter-agency agreements:
    CH2M Hill (68-W9-0031); DynCorp/Viar & Company, Inc. (68-01-6702); 
ICF Technology, Inc. (68-D1-0135 & 68-01-7456); Lockheed Environmental 
Systems & Tech. (68-C0-0050); Ecology and Environment (68-W0-0037); 
Tech Law, Inc. (68-W0-001); Camp, Dresser & McKee (68-W9-6939); Roy F. 
Weston (68-01-6669); Alliance/GCA (68-01-6769); Jacobs Engineering (68-
01-7351); Planning Research Corp./Tetra Tech EM Inc. (68-W9-0009); 
Armstrong Data Services, Inc.(68-W5-0024); Labat-Anderson Incorporated 
(68-W4-0028 & 68-W9-0052); Science Application International Corp. (68-
W4-0021); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (DW96955411, DW96955287 & 
DW96955258); U.S. Dept. of Commerce (NOAA); U.S. Dept.

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of Agriculture (DW12955106); U.S. Coast Guard (DW69955202); and U.S. 
Dept. of Health and Human Services (ATSDR):
    (2) Other business entities that have done business with the above-
listed contractors and who may have been listed in conflict of interest 
disclosures:
    (3) Unsuccessful offerors to any of the above-mentioned contracts, 
including, but not limited to: Tetra Tech, Inc.; ICF Kaiser Engineers, 
Inc.; Roy F. Weston, Inc.; Jaffe, Trutanich, Scatena & Blum; PRC-EMI 
(Planning Research Corporation--Environmental Management, Inc.); 
Dalston Consulting, Inc.; Resource Applications, Inc.; and URS 
Consultants; and Bechtel Environmental, Inc.

AVAILABILITY: A copy of the Stipulation and Protective Order will be 
provided to the public upon request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth A. La Blanc, Assistant 
Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne St., ORC-3 San 
Francisco, CA 94105; lablanc.elizabeth@ epamail.epa.gov; phone (415) 
744-1364.

    Dated: April 19, 2000.
Elizabeth La Blanc,
Assistant Regional Counsel, Region IX.
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