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This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds Presidential Determination No. 97-35, dated September 26, 1997. It renews the exemption for the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The file also contains memoranda from Samuel Berger, James Baker, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall. They describe the Kasza v. Browner litigation and say the exemption shields classified information from disclosure but leaves environmental standards in force.
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@004SAF GC OSD/GC RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you send to the President the enclosed memorandum and proposed Presidential Determination. COORDINATION: As was true last year, EPA Administrator Browner concurs in this request for exemption, as does the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, which is defending EPA in the pending litigation. DEPSECDEF DECISION: ____________Approved ____________Disapproved ____ Other Attachment: A/S The text of the proposed exemption is the same as that granted last year. It exempts the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake from any provision of hazardous waste law that might require disclosure of classified information concerning the operating location. It also makes clear that other environmental obligations are not diminished. We ask that the exemption be executed and made effective on (but in all events not later than) September 28, 1997, the one- year anniversary of the previous exemption. . »1UA ia:4b FAA /036939355
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 24 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.