[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 145 (Thursday, July 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 38004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18199]


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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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