[Federal Register: June 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 124)]
[Notices]
[Page 38894-38895]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-7779-5]
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 until July 6,
2004.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to: Susan Street, National
Program Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3650A),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Ariel Rios Building, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. (Telephone (202) 564--
0410).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE)
program is authorized by the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of
1984 (Pub. L. 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
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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
(RCRA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water
Act (SDWA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA),
Emergency Planning And Community Rights to Know Act (EPCRA) and
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA), 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 number Organization
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National Association for
Hispanic Elderly
CQ-830339................................. NAHE
CQ-831334................................. NAHE
National Asian Pacific
Center on Aging
CQ-831497................................. NAPCA
CQ-831498................................. NAPCA
CQ-831499................................. NAPCA
CQ-831500................................. NAPCA
CQ-831501................................. NAPCA
CQ-831534................................. NAPCA
National Caucus and Center
on Black Aged, Inc.
CQ-830980................................. NCBA
CQ-831569................................. NCBA
CQ-829751................................. NCBA
National Council On the
Aging, Inc.
CQ-831427................................. NCOA
CQ-831496................................. NCOA
CQ-831653................................. NCOA
National Older Worker Career
Center
CQ-830918................................. NOWCC
CQ-830969................................. NOWCC
CQ-831021................................. NOWCC
CQ-831022................................. NOWCC
CQ-831023................................. NOWCC
Senior Service America, Inc.
CQ-831289................................. SSAI
CQ-831621................................. SSAI
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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
require to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same
security procedures as Federal employees.
Dated: June 9, 2004.
Linda Wallace,
Director, Customer Services Support Center (3650A).
[FR Doc. 04-14704 Filed 6-28-04; 8:45 am]
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