Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 15.11.1999

Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to Confidential Business Information

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer confidential business information (CBI) collected from the pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacturing; pharmaceutical manufacturing; and other industries listed below to Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC); Abt Associates, Inc.; Westat; Stratus Consulting; and their subcontractors. Transfer of the information will allow the contractors and subcontractors to support EPA to develop effluent limitations guidelines and standards and intake water regulations under the Clean Water Act (CWA), and in developing or evaluating the need for regulations under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The information being transferred was or will be collected under the authority of section 308 of the CWA. Some of the information was provided voluntarily by industrial facilities; this information also could have been collected under section 308. Some information being transferred from the pulp, paper, and paperboard industry was collected under the additional authorities of section 114 of the CAA and section 3007 of the RCRA. Interest