EXEMPTION FROM SOME CLASSIFICATION LAWS

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


Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

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