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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.
k THE WHITE HOUSE WASH INGTON Dear Mr. President: der Sincerely, the Enclosure those provisions, if classified informati to imply that in the absence ' any other provision of law of classified information to Senate 20515 zecurity. ore, in the paramount The Honorable Albert - Gore President of thj Washington, D._ evada from any ,dr solid waste ified information ized 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, ther interest of the United States. / Presidential Determination No. 97-35 exempted the/United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Federal, State, interstate, or local hazardous laws that might require the disclosure of cla^ concerning that operating location to unauth Consistent with section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (the "Act"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. §76961 (a) , notification is hereby given that on September 26, 1997/ I issued Presidential Determination 97-35 (copy attached) and t/ereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions section 6001(a) of the Act. The Determination was not intended of a Presidential exemption RCRA o: permits or requires the disclosure* unauthorized persons, but rather/to eliminate any potential uncertainty arising from a district court decision in pending litigation, Kasza v. Browner Mj. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP), the relevant appeal from which was subsequently dismissed as moot (9th Cir. Nos. 96-15535 and ,96-15537; decided January 8, 1998) . The Determination also way not intended to limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's operaxing location near Groom Lake except y, that would require the disclosure of
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 22 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.