[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34182-34183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16118]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7002-2]


Access to Confidential Business Information by Enrollees Under 
the Senior Environmental Employment Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has authorized grantee organizations under the Senior 
Environmental Employment (SEE) Program, and their enrollees; access to 
information which has been submitted to EPA under the environmental 
statutes administered by the Agency. Some of this information may be 
claimed or determined to be confidential business information (CBI).

DATES: Comments concerning CBI access will be accepted July 2, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Susan Street, National 
Program Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3650), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Street, National Program 
Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3650), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Telephone (202) 260-2573.
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) program is authorized by 
the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-313), 
which provides that the Administrator may ``make grants or enter into 
cooperative agreements'' for the purpose of ``providing technical 
assistance to: Federal, State, and local environmental agencies for 
projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control.'' Cooperative 
agreements under the SEE program provide support for many functions in 
the Agency, including clerical support, staffing hot lines, providing 
support to Agency enforcement activities, providing library services, 
compiling data, and support in scientific, engineering, financial, and 
other areas.
    In performing these tasks, grantees and cooperators under the SEE 
program and their enrollees may have access to potentially all 
documents submitted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, to the extent 
that these statutes allow disclosure of confidential information to 
authorized representatives of the United States (or to ``contractors'' 
under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act). Some of 
these documents may contain information claimed as confidential.
    EPA provides confidential information to enrollees working under 
the following cooperative agreements:

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         Cooperative Agreement No.                  Organization
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                                            National Caucus and Center
                                             on Black Aged, Inc.
CQ-828885.................................  NCBA
CQ-828886.................................  NCBA
CQ-828890.................................  NCBA
CQ-828891.................................  NCBA
                                            National Association for
                                             Hispanic Elderly
CQ-828642.................................  NAHE
CQ-828947.................................  NAHE
                                            National Asian Pacific
                                             Center on Aging

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CQ-828749.................................  NAPCA
CQ-828760.................................  NAPCA
CQ-828767.................................  NAPCA
CQ-828861.................................  NAPCA
                                            National Council On the
                                             Aging, Inc.
CQ-828243.................................  NCOA
CQ-828641.................................  NCOA
QS-828795.................................  NCOA
CQ-828944.................................  NCOA
                                            National Senior Citizens
                                             Education and Research
                                             Center
QS-828139.................................  NSCERC
CQ-828564.................................  NSCERC
CQ-828664.................................  NSCERC
CQ-828852.................................  NSCERC
CQ-828862.................................  NSCERC
CQ-828863.................................  NSCERC
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    Among the procedures established by EPA confidentiality regulations 
for granting access is notification to the submitters of confidential 
data that SEE grantee organizations and their enrollees will have 
access. 40 CFR 2.201(h)(2)(iii). This document is intended to fulfill 
that requirement.
    The grantee organizations are required by the cooperative 
agreements to protect confidential information. SEE enrollees are 
required to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same 
security procedures as Federal employees.

    Dated: June 14, 2001.
Donald W. Sadler,
Director, Human Resources Staff #1.
[FR Doc. 01-16118 Filed 6-26-01; 8:45 am]
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