Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]

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[FR Doc No: 97-26988]

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Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 195 / Wednesday, October 8, 1997 /

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Presidential Determination No. 97-35 of September 26,

1997

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 26, 1997.

[FR Doc. 97-26988

Filed 10-7-97; 10:31 am]

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