Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Community Right-To-Know; Request for Comment on Change of Contractor Handling Trade Secret Claims, 42896-42898 [E9-20397]

Download as PDF 42896 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 163 / Tuesday, August 25, 2009 / Notices to a collection of information unless it has a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 0.09 hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Respondents/Affected Entities: Past EPA customer groups targeted for customer satisfaction surveys include individual citizens, industry/business, states/other governments, and Web users. Estimated Number of Respondents: 15,720. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,431. Estimated Total Annual Cost: $8,800, includes $0 annualized capital or O&M costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is decrease of 240 hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. This decrease is due to an adjustment to the estimates. Dated: August 19, 2009. John Moses, Director, Collection Strategies Division. [FR Doc. E9–20398 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY pwalker on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES [EPA–HQ–TRI–2009–0614; FRL–8948–8] Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Community Right-To-Know; Request for Comment on Change of Contractor Handling Trade Secret Claims AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). VerDate Nov<24>2008 22:52 Aug 24, 2009 Jkt 217001 ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: This notice announces an upcoming change in location and contractor designated to manage the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data processing for all TRI submissions including TRI Trade Secret and confidential information submitted. Under Section 322 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-toKnow Act, facilities submitting TRI reports may be eligible to claim Trade Secret for the specific chemical identity of a toxic chemical being reported. Information entitled to trade secret or confidential treatment may not be disclosed by the Agency to the Agency’s authorized representative until each affected submitter has been furnished notice of the contemplated disclosure by the EPA program office and has been afforded opportunity to submit its comments. This Federal Register provides notice that EPA’s authorized representative is changing and provides the public an opportunity to comment on this action. Limit your comments to the change of contractor handling trade secret and confidential information submitted to TRI under Emergency Planning and Community Right-toKnow reporting requirements. DATES: Comments should be submitted by August 31, 2009. ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under EPA–HQ– TRI–2009–0614. All documents in the docket are listed in the EDOCKET index at https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in EDOCKET or in hard copy at the OEI Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is 202– 566–1744, and the telephone number for the OEI Docket is 202–566–1752. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Hotline at Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 5101, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Toll free: 1– 800–424–9346, in Virginia and Alaska: PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 703–412–9810, Toll free TDD: 1–800– 553–7672., or https://www.epa.gov/ epaoswer/hotline/. For technical information about this change in contractor and location for TRI data processing, contact: Peggy Bagnoli, Toxics Release Inventory Program Division, OEI (2844T), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: 202–566–1230; Fax: 202– 566–0727; e-mail: bagnoli.peggy@epa.gov. Effective July 30, 2009, certified mail should be sent to CGI Federal, C/O CDX Reporting Center, 12601 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033. All other submissions should be sent to the TRI Reporting Center, P.O. Box 10163, Fairfax, VA 22038. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Does This Notice Apply to Me? A. Affected Entities: Entities that will be affected by this action are those facilities that manufacture, process, or otherwise use certain toxic chemicals listed on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and which are required under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986, to report annually to EPA their environmental releases of such chemicals. Currently, those industries with the following NAICS code designations (that meet all other threshold criteria for TRI reporting) must report toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities: 11— Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (except for NAICS Code 111998); 21—Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (except for NAICS Codes 211112, 212324, 212325, 212393, and 212399); 22—Utilities (except for NAICS Codes 221111, 221112, 221113, 221119, 221121, 221122); 31–33—Manufacturing (except for NAICS Codes 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 323, 325, 326, 327, 334, 335, 337, and 339); 42—Wholesale Trade; 48– 49—Transportation and Warehousing (except for NAICS Code 488390); 51— Information (except for NAICS Codes 511140, 512230, and 519130); 54— Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (except for NAICS Code 541712); 56—Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (except for NAICS Codes 562112, 562211, 562213, 562219, and 562920); and 81—Other Services (except Public Administration) (except for NAICS Code 811490). To determine whether you or your business is affected by this action, you should carefully examine the applicability provisions at 40 CFR Part 350 and 40 CFR Part 372. If you have E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 163 / Tuesday, August 25, 2009 / Notices pwalker on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES any questions regarding the applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the person(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. II. How Can I Get Copies of This Document and Other Related Information? A. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this action under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–TRI– 2009–0614. The public docket includes information considered by EPA in developing this action, including the documents listed below, which are physically located in the docket. In addition, interested parties should consult documents that are referenced in the documents that EPA has placed in the docket, regardless of whether these referenced documents are physically located in the docket. For assistance in locating documents that are referenced in documents that EPA has placed in the docket, but that are not physically located in the docket, please consult the person listed in the preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. Although a part of the official docket, the public docket does not include Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. The official public docket is the collection of materials that is available for public viewing at the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566–1742, and the telephone number for the Notice of Change of Contractor Handling TRI Submissions including TRI Trade Secret Claims Docket is (202) 566–1752. B. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document electronically through the EPA Internet under the Federal Register listings at https://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. An electronic version of the public docket is available through EPA’s electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA Dockets at https://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are available electronically. Although not all docket materials may be available electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit II.A. Once in the VerDate Nov<24>2008 22:52 Aug 24, 2009 Jkt 217001 system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the appropriate docket identification number. III. How Can I Respond to This Notice? A. How and To Whom Do I Submit Comments? You may submit comments through the mail, in person, or electronically. Be sure to identify the appropriate docket control number (i.e., EPA–HQ–TRI–2009–0614) in your correspondence. 1. By mail. All comments should be sent in triplicate to: Office of Environmental Information (OEI/TRI), Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Ariel Rios Building, Washington, DC 20460. 2. In person or by courier. Comments may be delivered in person or by courier to: EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the DCO is (202) 260–7093. 3. Electronically. Submit your comments electronically by e-mail to: ‘‘oei.docket@epa.gov’’. Please note that you should not submit any information electronically that you consider to be CBI. Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of encryption. Comments and data will also be accepted on standard computer disks in Microsoft Office Word 2003 or ASCII file format. All comments and data in electronic form must be identified by the docket control number EPA–HQ–TRI–2009–0614. Electronic comments on this document may also be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries. B. How Should I Handle CBI Information That I Want To Submit to the Agency? All comments which contain information claimed as CBI must be clearly marked as such. Three sanitized copies of any comments containing information claimed as CBI must also be submitted and will be placed in the public record for this document. Persons submitting information on any portion of which they believe is entitled to treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a business confidentiality claim in accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for each such portion. This claim must be made at the time that the information is submitted to EPA. If a submitter does not assert a confidentiality claim at the time of submission, EPA will consider this as a waiver of any confidentiality claim and the information may be made available to the public by EPA without further notice to the submitter. PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 42897 IV. What Is the General Background for This Action? A. Trade Secret. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is mandated by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) of 1990. EPCRA Section 313 and PPA Section 6607 establish requirements for reporting of toxic chemical releases and other waste management quantities. Under Section 322 of EPCRA and 40 CFR Part 350, facilities submitting TRI reports may be eligible to claim Trade Secret for the specific chemical identity of the toxic chemical being reported. To support a claim of trade secrecy, a facility may need to submit additional confidential business information. Pursuant to 40 CFR 350.23 (‘‘Disclosure to Authorized Representatives’’), information entitled to trade secret or confidential treatment may not be disclosed by the Agency to the Agency’s authorized representative until each affected submitter has been furnished notice of the contemplated disclosure by the EPA program office and has been afforded a period found reasonable by that office (not less than five working days) to submit its comments. Such notice shall include a description of the information to be disclosed, the identity of the contractor, subcontractor, or grantee, the contract, subcontract, or grant number, if any, and the purposes to be served by the disclosure. This notice may be published in the Federal Register or may be sent to individual submitters. V. This Notice Announces a Change of Contractor Designated To Manage the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data Processing for All TRI Submissions The contract to manage the TRI data submissions was competed in 2001 and was awarded to the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) (GSA Contract GSOOT99ALD0203). This contract will end September 30, 2009. A new contract was awarded to CGI, Incorporated (GS– 35F4797H TO#1518) on April 1, 2009. The management of TRI data submissions will transition to CGI by the end of September 2009 and remain with CGI through March 30, 2012. This new facility will be located in Fairfax, Virginia. Effective July 30, 2009, certified mail should be sent to CGI Federal, C/O CDX Reporting Center, 12601 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033. All other submissions should be sent to the TRI Reporting Center, P.O. Box 10163, Fairfax, VA 22038. All TRI submissions including trade secret and confidential E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1 42898 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 163 / Tuesday, August 25, 2009 / Notices information submitted pursuant to 40 CFR Part 350 will be managed by CGI. In accordance with 40 CFR 350.23, EPA has determined that CGI and their subcontractors require access to trade secret and confidential information submitted under 40 CFR Part 350 in order to receive, manage, process, and safely store such information. The contractor will have appropriate procedures and facilities in place to safeguard the TRI trade secret and confidential information to which the contractor and subcontractors have access during the term of this contract. The contractor’s and subcontractor’s employees will be required to sign a ‘‘Confidentiality Agreement’’ prior to being permitted access to trade secret and confidential information submitted under 40 CFR Part 350. All contractor and subcontractor access to TRI trade secret and confidential information will take place at the contractor’s facility in Fairfax, VA. Dated: August 10, 2009. Rick Martin, Acting Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access. [FR Doc. E9–20397 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM pwalker on DSK8KYBLC1PROD with NOTICES Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Companies The notificants listed below have applied under the Change in Bank Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and § 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank holding company. The factors that are considered in acting on the notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). The notices are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The notices also will be available for inspection at the office of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing to the Reserve Bank indicated for that notice or to the offices of the Board of Governors. Comments must be received not later than September 9, 2009. A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291: 1. Bradley John Franklin, Eleanor Rose Franklin both of Sidney, Montana; and Gregory Lynn Franklin, Othello, Washington, to join a group acting in VerDate Nov<24>2008 22:52 Aug 24, 2009 Jkt 217001 concert with John Franklin, Sidney, Montana; to acquire control of 1st United Bancorporation, Inc., Sidney, Montana, and thereby indirectly acquire and retain control of 1st Bank, Sidney, Montana. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 20, 2009. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E9–20389 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] Bank and Trust Company, Pinehurst, Georgia. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 20, 2009. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E9–20390 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S BILLING CODE 6210–01–S GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Maximum Per Diem Rates for the Continental United States (CONUS) Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below. The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications also will be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than September 21, 2009. A. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105-1579: 1. Franklin Resources, Inc., San Mateo, California; to acquire up to 7 percent of the voting shares of State PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration (GSA). ACTION: Notice of Per Diem Bulletin 10– 01, Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 continental United States (CONUS) per diem rates. SUMMARY: The General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) annual per diem review has resulted in lodging and meal allowance changes for locations within the continental United States (CONUS) to provide for the reimbursement of Federal employees’ expenses covered by per diem. Per Diem Bulletin 10–01 updates the maximum per diem amounts in existing per diem localities. The CONUS per diem rates prescribed in Bulletin 10–01 may be found at https://www.gsa.gov/perdiem. GSA based the lodging per diem rates on the average daily rate that the lodging industry reports. The use of such data in the per diem rate setting process enhances the Government’s ability to obtain policy-compliant lodging where it is needed. In conjunction with the annual lodging study, GSA identified three new nonstandard areas (NSAs): Jefferson City (Cole County) and St. Robert (Pulaski County), Missouri; and Middlebury (Addison County), Vermont. The meals and incidental expense rates for all NSAs and for standard CONUS will also be updated. For a complete listing of pertinent information that must be submitted through a Federal executive agency for GSA to restudy a location, or if a CONUS or standard CONUS per diem rate is insufficient to meet necessary expenses, please review numbers four and five of our per diem Frequently Asked Questions at (https:// www.gsa.gov/perdiemfaqs). DATES: This notice is effective October 1, 2009, and applies for travel performed on or after October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact Ms. Jill E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 25, 2009)]
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[FR Doc No: E9-20397]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-TRI-2009-0614; FRL-8948-8]


Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Community Right-To-Know; 
Request for Comment on Change of Contractor Handling Trade Secret 
Claims

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces an upcoming change in location and 
contractor designated to manage the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data 
processing for all TRI submissions including TRI Trade Secret and 
confidential information submitted. Under Section 322 of the Emergency 
Planning and Community Right-to- Know Act, facilities submitting TRI 
reports may be eligible to claim Trade Secret for the specific chemical 
identity of a toxic chemical being reported. Information entitled to 
trade secret or confidential treatment may not be disclosed by the 
Agency to the Agency's authorized representative until each affected 
submitter has been furnished notice of the contemplated disclosure by 
the EPA program office and has been afforded opportunity to submit its 
comments. This Federal Register provides notice that EPA's authorized 
representative is changing and provides the public an opportunity to 
comment on this action. Limit your comments to the change of contractor 
handling trade secret and confidential information submitted to TRI 
under Emergency Planning and Community Right-to- Know reporting 
requirements.

DATES: Comments should be submitted by August 31, 2009.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under EPA-HQ-
TRI-2009-0614. All documents in the docket are listed in the EDOCKET 
index at https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be 
publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket 
materials are available either electronically in EDOCKET or in hard 
copy at the OEI Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 
telephone number for the Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744, and the 
telephone number for the OEI Docket is 202-566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact The 
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Hotline at Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mail Code 5101, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, Toll free: 1-800-424-9346, in Virginia and 
Alaska: 703-412-9810, Toll free TDD: 1-800-553-7672., or https://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hotline/. For technical information about this 
change in contractor and location for TRI data processing, contact: 
Peggy Bagnoli, Toxics Release Inventory Program Division, OEI (2844T), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: 202-566-1230; Fax: 202-566-0727; e-
mail: bagnoli.peggy@epa.gov. Effective July 30, 2009, certified mail 
should be sent to CGI Federal, C/O CDX Reporting Center, 12601 Fair 
Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033. All other submissions should be sent 
to the TRI Reporting Center, P.O. Box 10163, Fairfax, VA 22038.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Does This Notice Apply to Me?

    A. Affected Entities: Entities that will be affected by this action 
are those facilities that manufacture, process, or otherwise use 
certain toxic chemicals listed on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) 
and which are required under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and 
Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986, to report annually to EPA 
their environmental releases of such chemicals. Currently, those 
industries with the following NAICS code designations (that meet all 
other threshold criteria for TRI reporting) must report toxic chemical 
releases and other waste management activities: 11--Agriculture, 
Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (except for NAICS Code 111998); 21--
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (except for NAICS Codes 
211112, 212324, 212325, 212393, and 212399); 22--Utilities (except for 
NAICS Codes 221111, 221112, 221113, 221119, 221121, 221122); 31-33--
Manufacturing (except for NAICS Codes 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 323, 
325, 326, 327, 334, 335, 337, and 339); 42--Wholesale Trade; 48-49--
Transportation and Warehousing (except for NAICS Code 488390); 51--
Information (except for NAICS Codes 511140, 512230, and 519130); 54--
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (except for NAICS Code 
541712); 56--Administrative and Support and Waste Management and 
Remediation Services (except for NAICS Codes 562112, 562211, 562213, 
562219, and 562920); and 81--Other Services (except Public 
Administration) (except for NAICS Code 811490).
    To determine whether you or your business is affected by this 
action, you should carefully examine the applicability provisions at 40 
CFR Part 350 and 40 CFR Part 372. If you have

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any questions regarding the applicability of this action to a 
particular entity, consult the person(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section.

II. How Can I Get Copies of This Document and Other Related 
Information?

    A. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this 
action under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-TRI-2009-0614. The public docket 
includes information considered by EPA in developing this action, 
including the documents listed below, which are physically located in 
the docket. In addition, interested parties should consult documents 
that are referenced in the documents that EPA has placed in the docket, 
regardless of whether these referenced documents are physically located 
in the docket. For assistance in locating documents that are referenced 
in documents that EPA has placed in the docket, but that are not 
physically located in the docket, please consult the person listed in 
the preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. Although a part 
of the official docket, the public docket does not include Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. The official public docket is the collection of 
materials that is available for public viewing at the EPA Docket 
Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1742, 
and the telephone number for the Notice of Change of Contractor 
Handling TRI Submissions including TRI Trade Secret Claims Docket is 
(202) 566-1752.
    B. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the Federal Register 
listings at https://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. An electronic version of the 
public docket is available through EPA's electronic public docket and 
comment system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA Dockets at https://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, access the index listing 
of the contents of the official public docket, and to access those 
documents in the public docket that are available electronically. 
Although not all docket materials may be available electronically, you 
may still access any of the publicly available docket materials through 
the docket facility identified in Unit II.A. Once in the system, select 
``search,'' then key in the appropriate docket identification number.

III. How Can I Respond to This Notice?

    A. How and To Whom Do I Submit Comments? You may submit comments 
through the mail, in person, or electronically. Be sure to identify the 
appropriate docket control number (i.e., EPA-HQ-TRI-2009-0614) in your 
correspondence. 1. By mail. All comments should be sent in triplicate 
to: Office of Environmental Information (OEI/TRI), Environmental 
Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Ariel 
Rios Building, Washington, DC 20460. 2. In person or by courier. 
Comments may be delivered in person or by courier to: EPA Docket 
Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC. The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the DCO is 
(202) 260-7093. 3. Electronically. Submit your comments electronically 
by e-mail to: ``oei.docket@epa.gov''. Please note that you should not 
submit any information electronically that you consider to be CBI. 
Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the use 
of special characters and any form of encryption. Comments and data 
will also be accepted on standard computer disks in Microsoft Office 
Word 2003 or ASCII file format. All comments and data in electronic 
form must be identified by the docket control number EPA-HQ-TRI-2009-
0614. Electronic comments on this document may also be filed online at 
many Federal Depository Libraries.
    B. How Should I Handle CBI Information That I Want To Submit to the 
Agency? All comments which contain information claimed as CBI must be 
clearly marked as such. Three sanitized copies of any comments 
containing information claimed as CBI must also be submitted and will 
be placed in the public record for this document. Persons submitting 
information on any portion of which they believe is entitled to 
treatment as CBI by EPA must assert a business confidentiality claim in 
accordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) for each such portion. This claim must 
be made at the time that the information is submitted to EPA. If a 
submitter does not assert a confidentiality claim at the time of 
submission, EPA will consider this as a waiver of any confidentiality 
claim and the information may be made available to the public by EPA 
without further notice to the submitter.

IV. What Is the General Background for This Action?

    A. Trade Secret. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is mandated by 
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) 
and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) of 1990. EPCRA Section 313 and 
PPA Section 6607 establish requirements for reporting of toxic chemical 
releases and other waste management quantities. Under Section 322 of 
EPCRA and 40 CFR Part 350, facilities submitting TRI reports may be 
eligible to claim Trade Secret for the specific chemical identity of 
the toxic chemical being reported. To support a claim of trade secrecy, 
a facility may need to submit additional confidential business 
information. Pursuant to 40 CFR 350.23 (``Disclosure to Authorized 
Representatives''), information entitled to trade secret or 
confidential treatment may not be disclosed by the Agency to the 
Agency's authorized representative until each affected submitter has 
been furnished notice of the contemplated disclosure by the EPA program 
office and has been afforded a period found reasonable by that office 
(not less than five working days) to submit its comments. Such notice 
shall include a description of the information to be disclosed, the 
identity of the contractor, subcontractor, or grantee, the contract, 
subcontract, or grant number, if any, and the purposes to be served by 
the disclosure. This notice may be published in the Federal Register or 
may be sent to individual submitters.

V. This Notice Announces a Change of Contractor Designated To Manage 
the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data Processing for All TRI 
Submissions

    The contract to manage the TRI data submissions was competed in 
2001 and was awarded to the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) (GSA 
Contract GSOOT99ALD0203). This contract will end September 30, 2009. A 
new contract was awarded to CGI, Incorporated (GS-35F4797H 
TO1518) on April 1, 2009. The management of TRI data 
submissions will transition to CGI by the end of September 2009 and 
remain with CGI through March 30, 2012. This new facility will be 
located in Fairfax, Virginia.
    Effective July 30, 2009, certified mail should be sent to CGI 
Federal, C/O CDX Reporting Center, 12601 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 
22033. All other submissions should be sent to the TRI Reporting 
Center, P.O. Box 10163, Fairfax, VA 22038. All TRI submissions 
including trade secret and confidential

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information submitted pursuant to 40 CFR Part 350 will be managed by 
CGI.
    In accordance with 40 CFR 350.23, EPA has determined that CGI and 
their subcontractors require access to trade secret and confidential 
information submitted under 40 CFR Part 350 in order to receive, 
manage, process, and safely store such information. The contractor will 
have appropriate procedures and facilities in place to safeguard the 
TRI trade secret and confidential information to which the contractor 
and subcontractors have access during the term of this contract. The 
contractor's and subcontractor's employees will be required to sign a 
``Confidentiality Agreement'' prior to being permitted access to trade 
secret and confidential information submitted under 40 CFR Part 350. 
All contractor and subcontractor access to TRI trade secret and 
confidential information will take place at the contractor's facility 
in Fairfax, VA.

    Dated: August 10, 2009.
Rick Martin,
Acting Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access.
[FR Doc. E9-20397 Filed 8-24-09; 8:45 am]
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