[Federal Register: January 17, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 10)]
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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 on or before 
January 23, 2006.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Street at (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 Recovery Act, 
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 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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                National Association for Hispanic Elderly
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CQ-832815................................  NAHE
CQ-832816................................  NAHE
CQ-832820................................  NAHE
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                 National Asian Pacific Center on Aging
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             National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc.
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CQ-832550................................  NCBA
CQ-832790................................  NCBA
CQ-832791................................  NCBA
CQ-832792................................  NCBA
CQ-832793................................  NCBA
CQ-832794................................  NCBA
CQ-832795................................  NCBA
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                   National Council on the Aging, Inc.
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CQ-832227................................  NCOA
CQ-832396................................  NCOA
CQ-832718................................  NCOA
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                  National Older Workers Career Center
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CQ-830918................................  NOWCC
CQ-830969................................  NOWCC
CQ-831021................................  NOWCC
CQ-831022................................  NOWCC
CQ-831023................................  NOWCC
CQ-832729................................  NOWCC
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                      Senior Service America, Inc.
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CQ-832396................................  SSAI
CQ-832427................................  SSAI
CQ-832625................................  SSAI
CQ-832626................................  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 
required to sign confidentiality agreements and to adhere to the same 
security procedures as Federal employees.

    Dated: December 22, 2005.
Susan Street,
SEE Program Manager, Customer Services Support Center (3661A).
[FR Doc. E6-403 Filed 1-13-06; 8:45 am]

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