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This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (case 2006-0527-F, NSC Records Management, Area 51 folder) contains January 1998 National Security Council records. They concern President Clinton's annual report to Congress under section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The file includes NSC routing memos, staff clearance emails, and letters dated January 31, 1998 to Newt Gingrich and Al Gore. It also holds Presidential Determination No. 97-35, which exempted the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from disclosing classified information under hazardous waste laws.
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary February 2, 1998For Immediate Release January 31, 1998 (Dear Mr. President:)Dear Mr. Speaker: Sincerely, WILLIAM J. CLINTON # # # TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE The Determination was not intended to imply that in the absence of a Presidential exemption RCRA or any other provision of law permits or requires the disclosure of classified infor mation to unauthorized persons, but rather to eliminate any potential uncertainty arising from a district court decision in pending litigation, Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP), the relevant appeal which, was subsequently dismissed as moot (9th Cir. Nos. 96-15535 and 96-15537; decided January 8, 1998). The Determination also was not intended to limit the applica bility or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information. Consistent with section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (the "Act"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), notification is hereby given that on September 26, 1997, I issued Presidential Determination No. 97-35 (copy attached) and thereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act. Presidential Determination No. 97-35 exempted the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate, or local hazardous or solid waste laws that might require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to unauthorized persons. Information concerning activities at the operating location near Groom Lake has been properly determined to be classified, and its disclosure would be harmful to national security. Continued protection of this information is, therefore, in the paramount interest of the United States.
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