[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 22, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-28837]
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[Federal Register: November 22, 1994]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5108-7]
Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic,
Inc. and its Team Subcontractors
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region IV Enforcement Support Services (ESS)
Contract 68-W4-0038 to prime contractor, HydroGeologic Inc. (HGL). EPA
has authorized HGL, including its team subcontractors, ISSI, Inc. and
TechLaw, Inc., access to information in Region IV Superfund files 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 on or before
November 28, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fran Harrell, Contracting Officer,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (4RMB), 345 Courtland Street, NE.,
Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone (404) 347-6821.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0038, HGL provides
agency-wide information management support services to the
Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records
management support programs, record centers, and file rooms in certain
Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing
these tasks, HGL employees have access to Agency documents for purposes
of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying,
retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which HGL has access
potentially include all documents submitted under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
Some of these documents may contain information claimed as CBI.
Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, EPA has
determined that HGL requires access to CBI to perform the work required
under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice
before contractors are given CBI.
HGL is required by contract to protect confidential information.
When HGL's need for the documents is completed, HGL will return them to
EPA.
Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jeanette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management.
[FR Doc. 94-28837 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am]
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