From: | Pete (pberry@i2020.net) |
Title: | EXEMPTION FROM SOME CLASSIFICATION LAWS |
Source: | U.S. Newswire |
Date: | January 31, 1996 |
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.
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.
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.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM J. CLINTON