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Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

 Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic

[Federal Register: November 22, 1994]


ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5108-7]

Access to Confidential Business Information by HydroGeoLogic, Inc. and its Team Subcontractors

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.


SUMMARY: EPA awarded Region IV Enforcement Support Services (ESS) Contract 68-W4-0038 to prime contractor, HydroGeologic Inc. (HGL). EPA has authorized HGL, including its team subcontractors, ISSI, Inc. and TechLaw, Inc., access to information in Region IV Superfund files 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 November 28, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fran Harrell, Contracting Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (4RMB), 345 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone (404) 347-6821.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under contract no. 68-W4-0038, HGL provides agency-wide information management support services to the Environmental Protection Agency for the operation of dockets, records management support programs, record centers, and file rooms in certain Headquarters, Regional, Laboratory, and other offices. In performing these tasks, HGL employees have access to Agency documents for purposes of document processing, filing, abstracting, analyzing, inventorying, retrieving, tracking, etc. The documents to which HGL has access potentially include all documents submitted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Some of these documents may contain information claimed as CBI. Pursuant to EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, EPA has determined that HGL requires access to CBI to perform the work required under the contract. These regulations provide for five days notice before contractors are given CBI.
HGL is required by contract to protect confidential information. When HGL's need for the documents is completed, HGL will return them to EPA.

Dated: October 11, 1994.
Jeanette Brown,
Acting Director of Office of Acquisition Management. [FR Doc. 94-28837 Filed 11-21-94; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-M

 
 


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