[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 133 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37564-37565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18587]


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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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