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This file comes from the Clinton Presidential Library's National Security Council records. It holds Presidential Determination No. 96-54, dated September 1996, together with the memoranda that led to it. The determination renews for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. The exemption shields classified information from disclosure during the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation, which was on appeal, but it does not waive environmental standards.
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 2 5 SEP iggs NJ Attachment: SECAF Memo I note that EP A Administrator Browner and the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division concur in this recommendation. On September 29, 1995, you issued an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) protecting from disclosure classified information concerning an Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. By statute, the exemption is effective for one year, unless renewed. The exemption was necessitated by a Federal district court ruling that held that classified information could not be withheld from public disclosure under RCRA absent such an exemption. That ruling is now being appealed. In the meantime, and for reasons addressed in the attached memorandum from Secretary Widnall, I concur in her request and recommendation that you renew the exemption to provide continued protection for the full one-year statutory period while the matter is on appeal. MEMORANDUM FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON THRU: MR. LAKE 1O1O DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1010 SUBJECT: Classified Information Concerning the Air Force’s Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada K or WMMVAJta
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 13 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.