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This Clinton Presidential Library file of White House and National Security Council records from January 1996 concerns President Clinton's report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It contains NSC routing sheets, memoranda from James Baker, Anthony Lake, Patrick Griffin and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore. The letters give notice of Presidential Determination 95-45 of September 29, 1995. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste laws that would require disclosure of classified information.
0475 THE WHITE HOUSE ACTION THE EXECUTIVE CLERKTHROUGH: LT^^ FROM: SUBJECT: Purpose Background RECOMMENDATION That you sign the attached letters. Letter to Speaker of the House Letter to President of the Senate Attachments Tab A Tab B President sjd per WH Executive Clerk —. This report has been coordinated with the Departments of Defense and Justice as well as the EPA. WASHINGTON January 30, 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT To report to the Congress pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). ANTHONY LAK^ PATRICK GRIFFIN'/T' cc: Vice President Chief of Staff Under RCRA, you are required to report each January to the Congress all exemptions granted during the previous year and the reasons for doing so. In addition to noting that the exemption was necessary to protect national security (without providing details), the report indicates that the exemption was not intended to limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the operating location except those provisions, if any, that would require disclosure of classified information. On September 29, you exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, (the operating location) "from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information" to unauthorized persons. The exemption was granted in the context of litigation over the Government's compliance with RCRA at the operating location. Report to Congress on the Presidential Exemption Concerning the Operating Location Near Groom Lake
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.