[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 20882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-07295]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL 10813-01-OAR]


Transfer of Information Claimed as Confidential Business 
Information to the United States Department of Energy/Argonne National 
Laboratory

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that information submitted to EPA's 
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), 
including information that may have been claimed as Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) by the submitter, will be transferred to 
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)/Department of Energy (DOE). ANL/DOE 
have been awarded a contract to perform work for OAR, and access to 
this information will enable ANL/DOE to fulfill the obligations of the 
contract.

DATES: Access by ANL/DOE to material, including CBI, discussed in this 
Notice, is ongoing and expected to continue beginning April 17, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Sobel, Transportation and 
Climate Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ), 
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) (5512S); telephone number: 202-564-
0543; fax number: 202-343-2801; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is 
providing notice of disclosure pursuant to 40 CFR 2.209(c). Under 
Contract No. DW-089-92568801-0, ANL/DOE will perform lifecycle analysis 
modeling with the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use 
in Technologies (GREET) Model.
    OTAQ has determined that access by ANL/DOE to information is 
necessary for the performance of this contract. EPA conducts lifecycle 
greenhouse gas analysis of biofuel pathways in support of implementing 
the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program under section 211(o) of the 
Clean Air Act. This includes reviewing petitions submitted pursuant to 
40 CFR 80.1416, some of which include data claimed as confidential 
business information. To evaluate these pathway petitions, EPA intends 
to provide data critical to evaluating the lifecycle greenhouse gas 
emissions associated with these biofuel pathway petitions to ANL/DOE. 
Examples of the type of information to be shared include agricultural 
practice data such as crop yields and nutrient input data, anticipated 
biofuel facility operational data such as energy sources and amounts 
used for processing feedstocks into fuels, and detailed descriptions of 
these processes to help practitioners understand the overall biofuel 
pathways being proposed by stakeholders. Some of this information may 
be entitled to confidential treatment. The information has been 
submitted to EPA under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act.
    Records of information provided to ANL/DOE will be maintained by 
EPA Project Officers for this contract. All information supplied to 
ANL/DOE by EPA for use in connection with this contract will be 
returned to EPA when ANL/DOE have completed their work.

    Dated: April 3, 2023.
Karl Simon,
Director, Transportation and Climate Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-07295 Filed 4-6-23; 8:45 am]
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