Oil and Natural Gas

Handling Confidential Business Information (CBI)

Do not submit information you claim as confidential business information (CBI) to EPA via this website. EPA will make all the information submitted through this website available to the public without further notice to you. Anything submitted using this website cannot later be claimed to be CBI. Furthermore, under CAA section 114(c) emissions data is not entitled to confidential treatment and requires EPA to make emissions data available to the public. Thus, emissions data will not be protected as CBI and will be made publicly available.

If your submittal includes information claimed to be CBI, submit the portion of the information claimed as CBI to the OAQPS CBI office. The preferred method to receive CBI is for it to be transmitted electronically using email attachments, File Transfer Protocol, or other online file sharing services.

Procedure for transmitting CBI

Electronic submissions must be transmitted directly to the OAQPS CBI Office at the email address oaqpscbi@epa.gov and should include clear CBI markings and be flagged to the attention of the Leader, Measurement Technology Group. Some important points to keep in mind:

• If assistance is needed with submitting large electronic files that exceed the file size limit for email attachments, and if you do not have your own file sharing service, please email oaqpscbi@epa.gov to request a file transfer link.
  


• You must associate any CBI that you send with the ATM request created on this website. Please specify the "Request ID" as displayed in the upper right corner of the request form (see picture) with any CBI you submit, regardless of which channel you send it through.


• If you cannot transmit the file electronically, you may send CBI information through the postal service to the following address:
  
  
  OAQPS Document Control
  Officer (C404-02), OAQPS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711
  Attention Leader, Measurement Technology Group.
  
  
  The mailed CBI material should be double wrapped and clearly marked. Any CBI markings should not show through the outer envelope.