[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR725.88]

[Page 482]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 725--REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND REVIEW PROCESSES FOR MICROORGANISMS
--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart C--Confidentiality and Public Access to Information
 
Sec. 725.88  Uses of a microorganism.

    (a) Assertion of claim. A person who submits information to EPA 
under this part on the categories or proposed categories of use of a 
microorganism may assert a claim of confidentiality for this 
information.
    (b) Requirements for claim. A submitter that asserts such a claim 
must:
    (1) Report the categories or proposed categories of use of the 
microorganism.
    (2) Provide, in nonconfidential form, a description of the uses that 
is only as generic as necessary to protect the confidential business 
information. The generic use description will be included in the Federal 
Register notice described in Sec. 725.40.
    (c) Generic use description. The person must submit the information 
required by paragraph (b) of this section by describing the uses as 
precisely as possible, without revealing the information which is 
claimed confidential, to disclose as much as possible how the use may 
result in human exposure to the microorganism or its release to the 
environment.