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This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds a January 31, 1997 action memorandum from Samuel Berger and John Hilley to President Clinton, which recommends he sign letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore Jr. The letters are the required report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. They cover Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 28, 1996, which exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from waste disposal laws that would require disclosing classified information.
Tuesday. October II, 1996
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The President
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Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 1996
-Presidential Determination on Classified Information Con-
cerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom
Lake, Nevada
Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency [and] the Secretary of the Air Force
I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt
the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada
(the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner {D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP)
and Frost v. Peny (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-PMP) from any applicable require
ment for.. the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information
concerning that operating location. Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6961(a}.
I hereby exempt 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
the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location
to any unauthorized person This exemption shall be effective for the full
one-year statutory period.
Nothing herein is intended to: (a) imply that in the absence of such a
Presidential exemption. the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
or any other provision of law pennit.s or requires disclosure of classified
information to unauthorized persons: or (b) limit the applicability or enforce
ment of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Fore.e's operating
location near Groom We, Nevada. except those provuions. if any, that
would require the disclosure of classified information.
The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed '° publish this
determination in the Federal Register.
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THE WHlTI: HOUSE.
Washington, September 28, 1996.
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