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CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF PRES EXEMPTION CONCERNING AIR FORCE 
OPERATING LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE NEVADA
DEFENSE POLICY 
ENVIRONMENT
DOC DATE: 30 JAN 97 
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SUBJECT: Congressional Notification of Presidential Exemption Concerning the Air 
Force’s Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada
The EPA Office of General Counsel and the Department of Justice Environment 
and Natural Resources Division have reviewed the report and concur with the Department 
of Defense that this report should be provided.
Section 6001(a) requires that you “report each January to the Congress all 
exemptions from the requirements of this section granted during the preceding calendar 
year, together with [your] r…

Dear Mr. Speaker:
Sincerely,
The Honorable Newt Gingrich 
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
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 28,
1996,1 issued Presidential Determination 96-54 (copy attached) and thereby exercised the 
authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act.
The Determination was not intended to imply that in the absence of a Presidential exemption 
RCRA or any other provision of law permit…

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Dear Mr. President:
Sincerely,
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), appeal pending (9th Cir. 
Nos. 96-15535 and 96-15537). The Determination also was not intended to limit the 
applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force’s operating 
loca…

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Presidential Documents
Title 3—
The President
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
information to unauthorized persons; or (b) limit the applicability 
ment of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force’:
Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 1996
Presidential Determination on Classified Information Con­
cerning the Air Force’s Operating Location Near Groom 
Lake, Nevada
Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency [and] the S…

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CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF PRES EXEMPTION CONCERNING AIR FORCE 
OPERATING LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE NEVADA
DOC DATE: 30 JAN 97 
SOURCE REF:
AIR FORCE
CONGRESSIONAL
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