[Federal Register: July 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 138)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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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 five days from
the date of publication of this document.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to: Susan Street, National
Program Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3661A),
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 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
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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 No. Organization
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Q-831620......................... National Association for Hispanic
Elderly (NAHE).
Q-831634......................... National Caucus and Center on Black
Aged, Inc. (NCBA).
Q-831633......................... Do.
Q-831635......................... Do.
Q-832229......................... Do.
Q-832230......................... Do.
Q-832231......................... Do.
Q-832232......................... Do.
Q-832233......................... Do.
Q-832234......................... Do.
Q-831636......................... National Council On the Aging, Inc.
(NCOA).
Q-832175......................... Do.
Q-832353......................... Do.
Q-831024......................... National Older Worker Career Center
(NOWCC).
Q-831622......................... Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI).
Q-831623......................... Do.
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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
required to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same
security procedures as Federal employees.
Dated: June 23, 2005.
Linda Wallace,
Director, Customer Services Support Center (3666A).
[FR Doc. 05-14278 Filed 7-19-05; 8:45 am]
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