[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 25]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR260.2]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 260_HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: GENERAL--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 260.2  Availability of information; confidentiality of information.

    (a) Any information provided to EPA under parts 260 through 265 and 
268 of this chapter will be made available to the public to the extent 
and in the manner authorized by the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 
section 552, section 3007(b) of RCRA and EPA regulations implementing 
the Freedom of

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Information Act and section 3007(b), part 2 of this chapter, as 
applicable.
    (b) Any person who submits information to EPA in accordance with 
parts 260 through 266 and 268 of this chapter may assert a claim of 
business confidentiality covering part or all of that information by 
following the procedures set forth in Sec. 2.203(b) of this chapter. 
Information covered by such a claim will be disclosed by EPA only to the 
extent, and by means of the procedures, set forth in part 2, subpart B, 
of this chapter except that information required by Sec. 262.53(a) and 
Sec. 262.83 that is submitted in a notification of intent to export a 
hazardous waste will be provided to the U.S. Department of State and the 
appropriate authorities in the transit and receiving or importing 
countries regardless of any claims of confidentiality. However, if no 
such claim accompanies the information when it is received by EPA, it 
may be made available to the public without further notice to the person 
submitting it.

[45 FR 33073, May 19, 1980, as amended at 51 FR 28682, Aug. 8, 1986; 51 
FR 40636, Nov. 7, 1986; 61 FR 16309, Apr. 12, 1996]