# Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A96-25959 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Presidential Document - **Published:** October 8, 1996 - **Citation:** 61 FR 52679 ## Text [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 8, 1996)] [Presidential Documents] [Page 52679] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-25959] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 8, 1996 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 52679]] Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 1996 Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency [and] the Secretary of the Air Force 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 (the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795- PMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-PMP) from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location. Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), I hereby exempt the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to any unauthorized person. This exemption shall be effective for the full one-year statutory period. Nothing herein is intended to: (a) imply that in the absence of such a Presidential exemption, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or any other provision of law permits or requires disclosure of classified information to unauthorized persons; or (b) limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information. The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register. (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, September 28, 1996. [FR Doc. 96-25959 Filed 10-7-96; 8:45 am] Billing code 3910-01-M --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A96-25959. Public record. Not legal advice.