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This Clinton Presidential Library file contains White House and National Security Council records from January 1997. They cover the President's annual report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act about Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 28, 1996. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste disposal laws that would require disclosure of classified information, in connection with the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation. The file includes the letters to Speaker Gingrich and Vice President Gore.
Tuerriay. October 8, 1996 Merna ran dura for the Administrator find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt Air FnrrB's ooeratkiK location near Groom uke, Nevada Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP) I hereby exempt the Air Force’s operating location XVJ '0:91 (IHl I6/0E/T0SOO® __i Classified Information Con- Operating Location Near Groom Title 3— The President the absence of such a :— i HisrInsure of classified • [FK Doc. 96-ZS9S9 FHod 10-7-9S: 8:45 ini) ' Billing cod* 3910—01—M THE WHITE HOUSE. Washington. September 28, 1996. fhe’ aXure oniasXd information concerning^ operating location to any 1 one-year statutory period. Nothing herein is intended to: (a) imply that in or~any’'other ’provision of law permits or requires Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 1996 Presidential Determination on ceming the Air Force’s < Lake, Nevada Presidential exemption, the IKKKW ft) fiaFft. ■PPtabili^ or enfome- ment of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force s °P8ra4“8 Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency [and] the Secretary of the Air Force the'unfied Stat'es_Air Force's operating location q_g4-79S-PMP) (the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-.^SS BMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-PMP) from any applicable rcqu re Son nem' GroomLake, Nevada,* except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information. The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register. I hereby eiemot the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from any Federal. State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require unauthorized person. This exemption shall be effective for the full
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.