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Access to Confidential Business Information by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Eastern Research Group (ERG)

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[Federal Register: July 30, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 145)]
[Notices]
[Page 38004]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr30jy09-56]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8937-4]

Access to Confidential Business Information by Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) and Eastern Research Group (ERG)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of access to data.

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SUMMARY: EPA will authorize its contractors, SAIC and ERG to access
Confidential Business Information (CBI) which has been submitted to EPA
under the authority of all sections of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, as amended. EPA has issued regulations (40
CFR part 2, subpart B) that outline business confidentiality provisions
for the Agency and require all EPA Offices that receive information
designated by the submitter as CBI to abide by these provisions.

DATES: Access to confidential data submitted to EPA will occur no
sooner than August 10, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaShan Haynes, Document Control
Officer, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (5305P), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, (703) 605-0516.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. Access to Confidential Business Information

    Under EPA Contracts No. EP-W-04-046 and EP-W-04-047, SAIC and ERG
respectively, will assist the Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, Office of Civil Enforcement with the development,
litigation, and settlement of administrative and civil judicial cases
against serious violators pursuant to CWA, CAA, RCRA, EPCRA, OPA, TSCA,
and FIFRA. ORCR collects data from industry to support the RCRA
hazardous waste regulatory program. Some of the data collected from
industry are claimed by industry to contain trade secrets or CBI. In
accordance with the provisions of 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B, OSW has
established policies and procedures for handling information collected
from industry, under the authority of RCRA, including RCRA Confidential
Business Information Security Manuals.
    SAIC and ERG, shall protect from unauthorized disclosure all
information designated as confidential and shall abide by all RCRA CBI
requirements, including procedures outlined in the RCRA CBI Security Manual.
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued regulations (40
CFR part 2, subpart B) that outline business confidentiality provisions
for the Agency and require all EPA Offices that receive information
designated by the submitter as CBI to abide by these provisions. SAIC
and ERG will be authorized to have access to RCRA CBI under the EPA
``Contractor Requirements for the Control and Security of RCRA
Confidential Business Information Security Manual.''
    EPA is issuing this notice to inform all submitters of information
under all sections of RCRA that EPA will provide SAIC and ERG, access
to the CBI records located in the RCRA Confidential Business
Information Center. Access to RCRA CBI under this contract will take
place at EPA Headquarters only. Contractor personnel will be required
to sign non-disclosure agreements and will be briefed on appropriate
security procedures before they are permitted access to confidential
information.

    Dated: July 23, 2009.
Matthew Hale,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
[FR Doc. E9-18199 Filed 7-29-09; 8:45 am]
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