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This Clinton Presidential Library NSC records folder from January 1998 holds the paperwork behind President Clinton's report to Congress on Presidential Determination No. 97-35, issued September 26, 1997. The determination exempted the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from hazardous and solid waste laws that could require disclosure of classified information. The file includes letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore, NSC clearance emails, and withdrawal sheets. It also notes that the Kasza v. Browner appeal was dismissed as moot.
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 26, 1997 Presidential Determination No. 97-35 HEMDRANDOM FOR THB ADMINISTRA'roR OP THB ENVIRONMENTAL. PR.OTBCTION AGDcr StJBJBCT: THB SECRETARY OF 'nm AIR FORCE Preaidential Determination on.Clasaified ·Information Concerning the Air Poree'• Operating Loc;:aticm Neill' Groom Lake, Nevada I find that it is in the.paramount intere■t Qf the United States · to exempt the Ollited State• Air Fore••• operating location near Groan Lake, Nevada (the subject of litigation in gasza v. Brgvner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-79S•PMP) and Frpat v. perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-716-PMP)), from an� applicable requirement for the di•cloaure to unauthorised penona of cla••ifiad information concerning that operating location. Tharefore, purauant to 42 t1.s.c. 6961(&), I hereby exampt the Air Pore:•,.• operating location near Groom L&Jca, Nevada, fZ'011 any Pederal, State, interstate, or local provision reapect:ing control and abateaient of solid w.. te ·or haaardowl waate d.iapoaal th.At would require the cliecloeure of claaaifiad infonaaticn conc:erning that operating location to any unauthorized person. Thi• exemption ahal.l be effective tor the full one-year atatutory period. Nothing herein i• intended to: (&) imply that in t:be absence of auch a Preaidential exensption, tha Resource Con■ervation � Recovery Act (ltCJlA) or any other provi•ion of law pe%11lit• or require• cli•clo.un of elaaaified information to unauthorized persona; or C�> limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of'law applicable to the Air Poree'• operating location near Groom Lake, lfevada, except tho•• provi.•i�,. if any, that 1110'Uld requize the diaeloaure of cl•••ifiad information. The Secreta.zy ot the Air rorce. is authorized and directed to publi•h this determination.in th• rec;leral Reqistar.
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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.