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This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council records from January 1996. They concern a report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act about Presidential Determination 95-45 of September 29, 1995. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste disposal laws that could require disclosure of classified information. The file includes the determination, memos from the NSC and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and letters to Speaker Gingrich and Vice President Gore, and it cites the Kasza v. Browner litigation.
0475 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON ACTION THE EXECUTIVE CLERK THROUGH: lA^^ FROM: SUBJECT: Purpose Background (the operating location) from anyNevada,near Groom Lake Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting cone and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information" to unauthorized persons. A, you are required to report each January to the all exemptions granted during the previous year and the RECOMMENDATION That you sign the attached letters. On September 29, you exempted the Air Force operating location j m Lake, Nevada, (the operating location) "from any State, interstate or local provision respecting control Letter to Speaker of the House Letter to President of the Senate 1 1 • The exemption was granted in the context of litigation over the Government's compliance with RCRA at the operating location. Attachments Tab A Tab B , in addition to noting that the exemption to protect national security (without providing This report has been coordinated with the Departments of Defense and Justice as well as the EPA. To report to the Congress pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). January 30, 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Under RCRA Congress <_ reasons for doing so. was necessary L 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. cc: Vice President Chief of Staff ANTHONY LAKM( / PATRICK GRIFFIN'.^' 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. 15 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.