[Federal Register: September 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 171)]
[Notices]               
[Page 52325-52326]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to Confidential Business 
Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Intended Transfer of Confidential Business 
Information to Contractor.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer 
confidential business information (CBI) collected from airport deicing 
operations to SciMetrika. Transfer of the information will allow the 
contractor to support EPA in the planning, development, and review of 
effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the airport deicing 
point source category. The information being transferred was or will be 
collected from airports and airlines under the authority of section 308 
of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Interested persons may submit comments on 
this intended transfer of information to the address noted below.

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data are due September 11, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document 
Control Officer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S 
EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document 
Control Officer, at (202) 566-1044, or via e-mail at 
siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  EPA has transferred CBI to various 
contractors and subcontractors over the history of the effluent 
guidelines program. EPA determined that this transfer was necessary to 
enable the contractors and subcontractors to perform their work in 
supporting EPA in planning, developing, and reviewing effluent 
guidelines and standards for certain industries.
    Today, EPA is giving notice that it has entered into a contract 
with SciMetrika, contract number EP-C-06-075, located in Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina. The purpose of this contract is to 
secure statistical analysis support for EPA in its development, review, 
implementation, and defense of water-related initiatives for the 
airport deicing point source category.
    All EPA contractor, subcontractor, and consultant personnel are 
bound by the requirements and sanctions contained in their contracts 
with EPA and in EPA's confidentiality regulations found at 40 CFR Part 
2, Subpart B. SciMetrika will adhere to EPA-approved security plans 
which describe procedures to protect CBI. SciMetrika will apply the 
procedures in these plans to CBI previously gathered by EPA and to CBI 
that may be gathered in the future for the airport deicing point source 
category. The security plans specify that contractor personnel are 
required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are briefed on 
appropriate security procedures before they are permitted

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access to CBI. No person is automatically granted access to CBI: a need 
to know must exist.
    The information that will be transferred to SciMetrika consists of 
information previously collected by EPA to support the development and 
review of effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the CWA 
for the airport deicing point source category.
    EPA also intends to transfer to SciMetrika all information listed 
in this notice, of the type described above (including CBI) that may be 
collected in the future under the authority of section 308 of the CWA 
or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in comments in response to a Federal 
Register notice), as is necessary to enable SciMetrika to carry out the 
work required by its contract to support EPA's development of effluent 
limitations guidelines and standards for the airport deicing point 
source category.

    Dated: August 21, 2006.
Ephraim S. King,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
 [FR Doc. E6-14643 Filed 9-1-06; 8:45 am]

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