Rules and Regulations. Notice

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Action: Notice
Citation: FR Doc. 00-8956 · FRL-6576-7

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 on or before April 17, 2000.

Supplementary Information

The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) program is authorized by the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 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: Cooperative agreement number Organization CQ-827602 N ational O lder W orker C areer C enter, Inc. CQ-827603 NOWCC. CQ-827604 NOWCC. CQ-827605 NOWCC. CQ-827606 NOWCC. CQ-827607 NOWCC. CQ-827655 NOWCC. CQ-827656 NOWCC. CQ-827657 NOWCC. CQ-827658 NOWCC. CQ-827659 NOWCC. CQ-827660 NOWCC. CQ-827661 NOWCC. CQ-825084 N ational C aucus and Center on B lack A ged, Inc. CQ-826278 NCBA. CQ-826377 NCBA. CQ-827211 NCBA. CQ-827212 NCBA. CQ-827213 NCBA. CQ-827214 NCBA. CQ-827216 NCBA. CQ-827217 NCBA. CQ-827847 NCBA. CQ-827848 NCBA. CQ-827849 NCBA. CQ-827850 NCBA. CQ-827865 NCBA. CQ-828031 NCBA. CQ-828032 NCBA. CQ-828033 NCBA. QS-826702 NCBA. CQ-826228 N ational A ssociation for H ispanic E lderly. CQ-826229 NAHE. CQ-827938 NAHE. QS-827189 NAHE. QS-827210 NAHE. CQ-822810-02 N ational A sian P acific C enter on A ging. CQ-825448 NAPCA. CQ-825520 NAPCA. CQ-826340 NAPCA. CQ-828075 NAPCA. CQ-828126 NAPCA. CQ-825438 N ational C ouncil O n the A ging, Inc. CQ-825527 NCOA. CQ-826218 NCOA. CQ-827255 NCOA. CQ-827273 NCOA. CQ-827274 NCOA. CQ-825528 N ational S enior C itizens E ducation and R esearch C enter. CQ-825529 NSCERC. CQ-825530 NSCERC. CQ-826279 NSCERC. CQ-826776 NSCERC. CQ-827332 NSCERC. CQ-827333 NSCERC. CQ-827334 NSCERC. CQ-827335 NSCERC. CQ-827415 NSCERC. 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: March 20, 2000. Donald W. Sadler, Director, Human Resources Staff #1. [FR Doc. 00-8956 Filed 4-10-00; 8:45 am]