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CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF PRES EXEMPTION CONCERNING AIR FORCE 
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DOC DATE: 30 JAN 97 
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
3 0 JAh 1997
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] reason for granting ea…

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Dear Mr. Speaker:
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…

Dear Mr. President:
Sincerely,
Presidential Determination No. 96-54 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 para…

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Presidential Documents
Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 1996
Title 3—
The President
Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency land] the Secretary of the Air Force
Presidential Determination on Classified Information Con­
cerning the Air Force’s Operating Location Near Groom 
Lake, Nevada
' [FR Doc. 96-25959
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 23, 1996.
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…

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CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF PRES EXEMPTION CONCERNING AIR FORCE 
OPERATING LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE NEVADA
AIR FORCE
CONGRESSIONAL
DOC DATE: 30 JAN 97 
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RECORD ID: 9700698
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