[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 17785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8612]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Access to Confidential Business Information by TechLaw, Inc. and
Its Team Subcontractors
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region I Enforcement Support Services (ESS)
Contract 68-W4-0019 to prime contractor, TechLaw, Inc. EPA has
authorized TechLaw, including its team subcontractors, CDM Federal
Programs Corporation, Financial Investigations & Services, Inc., Blake
Investigative Agency, Barber Associates, Life Systems, Inc., Science
Applications International Corporation, ISSI, Inc., and HydroGeoLogic,
Inc., access to information in Region I 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 should be submitted to EPA within five working days
after publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary H. Grealish, Project Officer,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (HPC-CAN), JFK Federal Building,
Boston, MA 02203-2211. Telephone (617) 223-5507.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Contract No. 68-W4-0019, TechLaw
provides agency-wide information management support services to the
Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records
management support programs, records centers, and file rooms in certain
Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing
these tasks, TechLaw employees have access to Agency documents for
purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing,
inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which TechLaw
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 TechLaw requires access to CBI to perform the work
required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days
notice before contractors are given CBI.
TechLaw is required by contract to protect confidential
information. When TechLaw's need for the documents is completed,
TechLaw will return them to EPA.
Dated: March 28, 1995.
John P. DeVillars,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-8612 Filed 4-6-95; 8:45 am]
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