52044 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 216 / Thursday, November 9, 2017 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9969–84–OW] 

Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to 

Confidential Business Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of intended transfer of 

Confidential Business Information to 

contractor and its subcontractors. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) intends to transfer 

confidential business information (CBI) 

collected from numerous industries 

under a newly awarded contract to 

Eastern Research Group (ERG) and its 

subcontractors. Transfer of this 

information is necessary for ERG to 

assist the Office of Water in the 

preparation of effluent guidelines and 

standards and with its effluent 

guidelines planning and review 

activities. Much of the information 

being transferred was or will be 

collected under the authority of section 

308 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). 

Interested persons may submit 

comments on this intended transfer of 

information to the address noted below. 

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data 

are due November 14, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to 

M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control 

Officer, Engineering and Analysis 

Division (4303T), U.S. EPA, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control 

Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via email 

at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

transferred CBI to various contractors 

and subcontractors over the history of 

the effluent guidelines program under 

40 CFR 2.302(h). EPA determined that 

this transfer was necessary to enable the 

contractors and subcontractors to 

perform their work in supporting EPA 

in planning, developing, and reviewing 

effluent guidelines and standards for 

certain industries. 

Today, pursuant to 40 CFR 

2.302(h)(2), EPA is giving notice that it 

has entered into a new contract with 

ERG, contract number EP–C–17–041, 

located in Chantilly, Virginia. The 

purpose of this contract is to secure 

technical and engineering analysis 

support for EPA in its development, 

review, implementation, and defense of 

water-related initiatives for a variety of 

industries. To obtain assistance in 

responding to this contract, ERG has 

entered into contracts with the 

following subcontractors and 

consultant: PG Environmental, LLC 

(located in Chantilly, Virginia and 

Golden, Colorado), Great Lakes 

Environmental Center (located in 

Traverse City, Michigan and Columbus, 

Ohio), LimnoTech (located in Ann 

Arbor, Michigan), Mabbett & Associates, 

Inc. (located in Bedford, Massachusetts), 

RESPEC Consulting and Services 

(located in Mountain View, California), 

The Water Planet Company (located in 

New London, Connecticut), and Jack 

Martin (located in Georgetown, 

Delaware). 

All EPA contractor, subcontractor, 

and consultant personnel are bound by 

the requirements and sanctions 

contained in their contracts with EPA 

and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations 

found at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. ERG 

will adhere to an EPA-approved security 

plan which describes procedures to 

protect CBI. ERG will apply the 

procedures in this plan to CBI 

previously gathered by EPA and to CBI 

that may be gathered in the future. The 

security plan specifies that contractor 

personnel are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are briefed 

on appropriate security procedures 

before they are permitted access to CBI. 

No person is automatically granted 

access to CBI: A need to know must 

exist. 

The information that will be 

transferred to ERG consists of 

information previously collected by 

EPA to support the development and 

review of effluent limitations guidelines 

and standards under the CWA and that 

EPA had transferred to ERG under a 

previous contract with them. In 

particular, information, including CBI, 

collected for the planning, development, 

and review of effluent limitations 

guidelines and standards for the 

following industries may be transferred 

to ERG under the new contract: Airport 

deicing; aquaculture; centralized waste 

treatment; coal bed methane; 

concentrated animal feeding operations; 

coal mining; construction and 

development; drinking water treatment; 

industrial container and drum cleaning; 

industrial laundries; industrial waste 

combustors; iron and steel 

manufacturing; landfills; meat and 

poultry products; metal finishing; metal 

products and machinery; nonferrous 

metals manufacturing; oil and gas 

extraction (including coalbed methane); 

ore mining and dressing; organic 

chemicals, plastics, and synthetic fibers; 

pesticide chemicals; petroleum refining; 

pharmaceutical manufacturing; pulp, 

paper, and paperboard manufacturing; 

shale gas extraction; steam electric 

power generation; textile mills; timber 

products processing; tobacco; 

transportation equipment cleaning; and 

other industrial categories that EPA has 

reviewed as part of its CWA required 

annual review activities. 

EPA also intends to transfer to ERG all 

information listed in this notice, of the 

type described above (including CBI) 

that may be collected in the future 

under the authority of section 308 of the 

CWA or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in 

comments in response to a Federal 

Register notice), as is necessary to 

enable ERG to carry out the work 

required by its contract to support EPA’s 

effluent guidelines planning and review 

process and the development of effluent 

limitations guidelines and standards. 

Dated: November 3, 2017. 

Deborah G. Nagle, 

Acting Director, Office of Science and 

Technology, Office of Water. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24427 Filed 11–8–17; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Notice of Termination of the 

Receivership of 10511, Highland 

Community Bank, Chicago, IL 

The Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC or Receiver), as 

Receiver for 10511, Highland 

Community Bank, Chicago, Illinois, has 

been authorized to take all actions 

necessary to terminate the receivership 

estate of Highland Community Bank 

(Receivership Estate); the Receiver has 

made all dividend distributions 

required by law. The Receiver has 

further irrevocably authorized and 

appointed FDIC-Corporate as its 

attorney-in-fact to execute and file any 

and all documents that may be required 

to be executed by the Receiver which 

FDIC-Corporate, in its sole discretion, 

deems necessary; including but not 

limited to releases, discharges, 

satisfactions, endorsements, 

assignments, and deeds. Effective 

November 1, 2017, the Receivership 

Estate has been terminated, the Receiver 

discharged, and the Receivership Estate 

has ceased to exist as a legal entity. 

Dated: November 6, 2017. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24428 Filed 11–8–17; 8:45 am] 

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