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This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds Presidential Determination 95-45, signed September 29, 1995. The determination exempts the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from hazardous waste disclosure rules that would require releasing classified information. It came out of the lawsuits Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. The file also includes Anthony Lake's decision memo, Secretary Sheila Widnall's declaration claiming the military and state secrets privilege, and a Deputy Secretary of Defense recommendation.
.09/.26/95 TUE 10:01 FAI 703 693 9355 0007SAF/GC I. SHEILA E WIDNALL. HEREBY DECLARE THE FOLLOWING TO BE TRUE .AND CORRECT OfFiciai Duties: I am the Secretary o: behalf of the United States. Executive .ion made available to me m my official capacity lawsuits woi authority over the operating loCatto with that operating location ■ ion is made for the purpose of advising the ecurt of the national ■ - , security classification of information that may be relevant to the above The statements made herein are based on (a) my personal consideration of the mailer, (b) my personal knowledge, and ic) my evaluation of informal 1 have concluded that release of certain information relevant to these uld necessitate disclosure of properly classified infoimation about the Air Force 2. Purpose: This Declaration security interests in and the captioned lawsuits --------- ,f the United States Air Force and the head of the r [ exercise the statutory functions specified in the proper Order No 12356. Sec. I (1991), Presidential Order of May 7. 1982 Information, reprinted m 50 U.S. Code Se military and state secrets privilege wit! 12356. I exercise oric::-------- section 8013 of Title 10, U.S. Code and programs that are fully consistent I security information relating to the As the Secretary of the Air Force, I exercise I Department of the Air Force. In that capacity, , I am responsible for Che formulation of Air Force policies • with the national security directives of the President and the Secraary of Defense, including those that protect nattona. defense and foreign relations of the United States. tn rear Groom Lake, Nevada, and the information associated As the head of an agency with control over the information associated unth the operating Iceauon near Groom Lake, I am the proper person to assert the ith regard to that information. Under Executive Order ■ iginal TO? SECRET classification authority, which permits me to determine classification of national security information on .2, 47 Fed Reg. 20.10$ (1982), gpripted in 50 U.S. Code Section 401 I, Officials Designated to Classify National Security
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 35 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.