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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.

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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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