[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34182-34183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16118]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-7002-2]
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 July 2, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Susan Street, National
Program Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3650),
Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Street, National Program
Director, Senior Environmental Employment Program (MC 3650), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460.
Telephone (202) 260-2573.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) program is authorized by
the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1984 (Public Law 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 Caucus and Center
on Black Aged, Inc.
CQ-828885................................. NCBA
CQ-828886................................. NCBA
CQ-828890................................. NCBA
CQ-828891................................. NCBA
National Association for
Hispanic Elderly
CQ-828642................................. NAHE
CQ-828947................................. NAHE
National Asian Pacific
Center on Aging
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CQ-828749................................. NAPCA
CQ-828760................................. NAPCA
CQ-828767................................. NAPCA
CQ-828861................................. NAPCA
National Council On the
Aging, Inc.
CQ-828243................................. NCOA
CQ-828641................................. NCOA
QS-828795................................. NCOA
CQ-828944................................. NCOA
National Senior Citizens
Education and Research
Center
QS-828139................................. NSCERC
CQ-828564................................. NSCERC
CQ-828664................................. NSCERC
CQ-828852................................. NSCERC
CQ-828862................................. NSCERC
CQ-828863................................. NSCERC
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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: June 14, 2001.
Donald W. Sadler,
Director, Human Resources Staff #1.
[FR Doc. 01-16118 Filed 6-26-01; 8:45 am]
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