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This file from the Clinton Presidential Library, dated September 1998, holds National Security Council records for Presidential Determination 98-36. President Clinton signed the determination on September 25, 1998. It renews for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, so classified information about the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, does not have to be disclosed. The litigation behind it is Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. Also included are memos from James Baker and Samuel Berger recommending renewal, with EPA and Justice concurring.
September 25, 1998 No. SUBJECT: from Nothing herein is intended to: persons; or (b) limit the applicaniiiry or enrorcemenu 01 . requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's operating Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada location near Groom Lake, Nevada, except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information. THE WHITE HOUSE WASH INGTON Presidential Determination 98-36 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register. I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, (the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-PMP), from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location. Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), I hereby exempt the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate, or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to any unauthorized person. This exemption shall be effective for the full one-year statutory period. 2 1 ‘ : (a) imply that in the absence of such a Presidential exemption, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or any other provision of law permits or requires disclosure of classified information to unauthorized -------- — limit the applicability or enforcement of any
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