ment of the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of energy and mineral resource extraction, processing, conversion, and utilization systems, and of their industrial operations; (2) development and demonstration of cost-effective methods for control and management of operations with environmental impacts associated with the extraction, processing, conversion, transmission and utilization of energy (except transportation utilization), and mineral resources, and with industrial processing and manufacturing facilities; (3) identification and evaluation of alternatives, including conservation measures, for these systems and operations; and (4) coordination on intra- and interagency health, ecological and control technology research and demonstration activities associated with the environmental aspects of energy systems. (c) Office, of Air, Land, and Water Use. The Office of Air, Land, and Water Use, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air, Land, and Water Use, is responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating a comprehensive program for the: (1) Development and demonstration of cost-effective methods for the prevention or management of pollutant discharge or waste disposal into the environment, except those related to energy, mineral, or industrial processes; (2) development and demonstration of methods for the management of the impact of land and water use activities on air and water quality; (3) development and demonstration of optimum methods for the total environmental management of pollutants which originate from multiple sources and are transported to exert their effects through one or more media; (4) development of models and other methods for linking source emission to exposure; (5) development of new methods, equipment, and procedures for detecting, identifying and measuring pollutants; (6) development of optimum mechanisms for implementing environmental control or management methods; (7) assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of land, water, and air pollution control and management activities; and (8) the development and demonstra tion of such specific items as: Treatment technology for public water supplies; methods for disposal of hazardous wastes, and alternative methods of pest control. (d) Office of Health and Ecological Effects. The Office of Health and Ecological Effects, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Health and Ecological Effects, is responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating a comprehensive research program for the: (1) Development of health and ecological data needed for the establishment of standards and criteria or guidelines for those components of the environment in which specific pollutants or activities may require control; (2) determination of the fate, transport, and exposure effect, in relation to the ecosystem, of environmental pollutants, singly and in combination; (3) development and verification of methods and models for analyzing the socio-economic impact of overall environmental degradation and alternative control strategies, which includes preparation of multi-media assessments of available scientific and technical information on specific pollutants; and (4) comprehensive assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of existing and proposed policies and standards; and (5) coordination of the Agency's policies and programs related to carcinogens and similar agents. § 1.36 Office of the Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances. The Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances is responsible for development of Agency strategies for implementation and integration of the pesticides and the toxic substances programs under applicable Federal statutes; developing and operating Agency programs and policies for assessment and control of pesticides and toxic substances; developing recommendations for Agency priorities for research, monitoring, regulatory, and information-gathering activities relating to pesticides and toxic substances; developing scientific, technical, economic, and social data bases for the conduct of hazard assessments and evaluations in support of toxic sub stances and pesticides activities; providing toxic substances and pesticides program guidance to EPA Regional Offices; and monitoring, evaluating, and assessing pesticides and toxic substances program operations in EPA Headquarters and Regional Offices. (a) Office of Pesticide Programs. The Office of Pesticide Programs, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs, is responsible for pesticide activities of the Agency, including development of strategic plans for the control of the national environmental pesticide situation for application by the Office of Pesticide Programs, other EPA components, other Federal agencies, or by State, local, and private sectors; establishment of tolerance levels for pesticide residues which occur in or on food and the registration of pesticides; monitoring of pesticide residue levels in food, humans, and nontarget fish and wildlife and their environments; review of pesticide formulations and relevant data for efficacy and hazard; establishment of sales or use restrictions; investigations of pesticide accidents and incidents; establishment of guidelines and standards for product examination; preparation of model legislation for use by States and others in the development of more effective pesticide control programs; provision of program policy direction to technical and manpower training activities in the pesticide area; development of research needs and monitoring requirements for the pesticide program and related areas; and review of impact statements dealing with pesticides. (b) Office of Chemical Control. The Office of Chemical Control, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Chemical Control, is responsible to the Assistant Administrator for the planning, evaluation, and operation of the toxic substances regulatory control program established under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including identifying and initiating needed actions to provide for regulatory restrictions on the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures under sections 5 and 6; performing or ensuring the per formance of scientific, economic, and technological assessments in support of such regulatory actions; holding informal hearings on proposed regulations under section 6; developing procedural rules for implementation of section 5; and receiving manufacturing and processing notices, coordinating reviews, and initiating and providing for necessary regulatory actions under section 5. (c) Office of Testing and Evaluation. The Office of Testing and Evaluation, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Testing and Evaluation, is responsible to the Assistant Administrator for the planning and operation of the program for identifying and evaluating the hazards that chemical substances and mixtures may present to health and the environment, including, developing methodologies for performing hazard/risk evaluations and criteria for acquiring and assessing pertinent scientific data; establishing and implementing policies and procedures for requiring testing under section 4 of TSCA, including testing to establish basic chemical and physical properties and to determine health and environmental effects, developing and evaluating test protocols, guidelines, other contents of section 4 rules, and selecting chemicals to be tested; conducting hazard/risk assessments in support of regulatory actions, including actions to prohibit or limit the manufacturing, processing, use, and disposal of existing chemicals, under sections 6 and 7 of TSCA; and providing expertise, as needed, to the Office of Chemical Control by performing hazard assessments in support of new chemical evaluations and regulatory actions under section 5. (d) Offices of Program Integration and Information. The Office of Program Intergration and Information, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Program Integration and Information, is responsible to the Assistant Administrator for promoting integration of the Agency's toxic substances activities in accordance with policies and procedures established by the Toxic Substances Priorities Committee (TSPC); coordinating relationships between toxic substances program offices and EPA Regional Offices; and establishing and operating toxic substances information management programs and policies. Activities directed towards promoting integration of toxic substances control activities include developing an agencywide system to indentify and characterize toxic substances problems; developing procedures to establish the Agency's toxic substances priority action list; developing procedures to coordinate and integrate the Agency's toxic substances research, monitoring, risk assessment, standardsetting and public participation activities; coordinating with other Federal agencies to identify significant toxic substance problems and to foster an integrated Federal approach to such problems; developing and implementing procedures, under section 9, to ensure that actions taken under TSCA are coordinated with the Agency's actions under other statutory authorities and with regulatory actions of other Federal agencies; and coordinating the Agency's response to environmental and health crises (other than spills and other discharges) involving chemicals. Responsibility for managing the toxic substances information program includes developing and implementing programs for the acquisition and dissemination of information on toxic substances under sections 8 and 10(b) of TSCA; reviewing the adequacy of toxic substances data management systems and toxics data management policies, regulations, and issues; and developing monitoring programs to generate scientific data. Subpart C-EPA Field Installations § 1.41 Regional Offices. Regional Adminstrators head regional offices and are responsible to the Administrator for the execution of the regional programs of the Agency within the boundaries of their regions. The Regional Administrators serve as the Administrator's principal representatives in the regions in contacts and relationships with Federal, State, interstate and local agencies, industry, academic institutions, and other public and private groups. They are responsible for accomplishing national program objectives within their regions as 2.215 Confidentiality agreements. 2.216-2.300 [Reserved] 2.301 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Clean Air Act. 2.302 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Clean Water Act. 2.303 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Noise Control Act of 1972. 2.304 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 2.305 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. 2.306 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Toxic Substances Control Act. 2.307 Special rules governing certain infor mation obtained under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. 2.308 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. 2.309 Special rules governing certain information obtained under the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. AUTHORITY: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552, 553; secs. 114, 208, 301, and 307 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7414, 7542, 7601, 7607; secs. 308, 501, and 509(a) of the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1318, 1361, 1369(a); sec. 13 of the Noise Control Act of 1972, 42 U.S.C. 4912; secs. 1445 and 1450 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300j-4, 300j-9; secs. 2002 and 3007 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6912, 6927; sec. 14 of the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2613; secs. 10, 12, and 25 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, as amended, 7 For the purposes of this part: (a) "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (b) "EPA record" or, simply, "record" means any document, writing, photograph, sound or magnetic recording, drawing, or other similar thing by which information has been preserved, from which the information can be retrieved and copied, and which is, was, or is alleged to be possessed by EPA. The term includes informal writings (such as handwritten notes, drafts, and the like), and also includes information preserved in a form which must be translated or deciphered by machine in order to be intelligible to humans. The term includes documents and the like which were created or acquired by EPA, its predecessors, its officers, and employees by use of Government funds or in the course of transacting official business. However, the term does not include materials which are legally owned by an EPA officer or employee in his or her purely personal capacity. Nor does the term include materials published by nonFederal organizations which are readily available to the public, such as books, journals, and periodicals available through reference libraries, even if such materials are in EPA's possession. (c) "Request" means a request to inspect or obtain a copy of one or more records. (d) "Requestor" means any person who has submitted a request to EPA. §2.101 Policy on disclosure of EPA records. (a) EPA will make the fullest possible disclosure of records to the public, consistent with the rights of individuals to privacy, the rights of persons in business information entitled to confidential treatment, and the need for EPA to promote frank internal policy deliberations and to pursue its official activities without undue disruption. (b) All EPA records shall be available to the public unless they are exempt from the disclosure requirements of 5 U.S.C 552. (c) All nonexempt EPA records shall be available to the public upon request regardless of whether any justification or need for such records has been shown by the requestor. § 2.102 [Reserved] § 2.103 Partial disclosure of records. If a requested record contains both exempt and nonexempt material, the nonexempt material shall be disclosed, after the exempt material has been deleted in accordance with § 2.119. § 2.104 Requests to which this subpart applies. (a) This subpart applies to any written request (other than a request made by another Federal agency) received by any EPA office, whether or not the request cites the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. See § 2.107(a) and § 2.112(b) regarding the treatment of requests which are directed by the requestor to offices other than those listed in § 2.106. (b) Any written request to EPA for existing records prepared by EPA for routine public distribution, e.g., pamphlets, copies of speeches, press releases, and educational materials, shall be honored. No individual determination under § 2.111 is necessary in such cases, since preparation of the records for routine public distribution itself constitutes a determination that the records are available to the public. § 2.105 Existing records. (a) The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, does not require the creation of new records in response to a request, nor does it require EPA to place a requestor's name on a distribution list for automatic receipt of certain kinds of records as they come into existence. The Act establishes require ments for disclosure of existing records. (b) All existing EPA records are subject to routine destruction according to standard record retention schedules. § 2.106 Where requests for agency records shall be filed. (a) A request for records may be filed with the EPA Freedom of Information Officer, A-101, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20460. (b) Should the requestor have reason to believe that the records sought may be located in an EPA regional office, he may transmit his request to the appropriate regional Freedom of Information Office indicated below: (1) Region I (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Freedom of Information Officer, Room 2303, John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, Mass. 02203. (2) Region II (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Freedom of Information Officer, Room 1005, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10007. (3) Region III (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Freedom of Information Officer, Curtis Building, Sixth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19106. (4) Region IV (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Freedom of Information Officer, Suite 504, 1421 Peachtree Street, NE., Atlanta, GA 30309. (5) Region V (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, |