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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.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 2 5 SEP 1995 Attachment a/s 50* A recent Federal district court decision has raised a question whether certain documents, even though properly classified, must nonetheless be disclosed pursuant to an environmental statute, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The documents concern an Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. Although this legal ruling will be challenged, it is important that the continued protection for this classified information be clearly and promptly affirmed. Accordingly, for reasons addressed in the attached memorandum from Secretary Widnall, I concur in her request and recommendation that you issue the proposed exemption under RCRA for the operating location near Groom Lake from any requirement to disclose classified information to unauthorized persons. I note that ERA Administrator Browner and the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division concur in this recommendation. k MEMORANDUM FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON THROUGH MR. LAKE SUBJECT: Classified Information Concerning the Air Force’s Operating Location near Groom Lake, Nevada 1010 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1010 rfl V) I 'Z'jl
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