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- EXEMPTION FROM SOME CLASSIFICATION LAWS 31/01/96
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- Source: U.S. Newswire
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- Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
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- 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 29, 1995, I issued Presidential Determination 95-45 (copy
- attached) and thereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under
- section 6001(a) of the Act.
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- Presidential Determination No. 95-45 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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- 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 information to unauthorized persons, but rather to
- eliminate any potential uncertainty arising from a decision in pending
- litigation, Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP). The Determination also
- was not intended to limit the applicability 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.
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- Sincerely,
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- WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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