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AI Summary

This document is an administrative marker from the Clinton Presidential Library regarding a Presidential Determination on classified information concerning the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. It outlines the exemption from public disclosure requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) for classified information related to this facility.

Key Findings

- The document is an administrative marker, not a textual record. - It pertains to a Presidential Determination on classified information concerning Groom Lake. - The exemption is to protect national security information from public disclosure. - The exemption is effective for one year unless renewed. - The document references ongoing litigation regarding RCRA compliance at the facility.

OCR Text

2006-0527-F FOI MARKER Document ID: 9606505 Row: 45 Shelf: 10 Stack: v A A Position: 2 This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the Clinton Presidential Library Staff. Section: i Original OA/ID Number: 1123 'A 1 r * FROM: PRESIDENT ENVIRONMENT PERSONS: SUBJECT: ACTION: PRES SOD PD 96-54 DUE DATE: 28 SEP 96STATUS: C STAFF OFFICER: BAKER LOGREF: FILES: WH NSCP: CODES: DOCUMENTDISTRIBUTION FOR ACTION FOR CONCURRENCE COMMENTS: DISPATCHED BY DATE BY HANDW/ATTCH OPENED BY: NSTSM CLOSED BY: NSGP5 OF5 DOC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED NSC/RMO PROFILE TO: BROWNER, C WIDNALL, S KEYWORDS: LEGAL ISSUES PD DOC DATE: 29 SEP 96 SOURCE REF: PD ON CLASSIFIED INFO CONCERNING AIR FORCE OPERATING LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE FOR INFO BAKER KRECZKO NSC CHRON RECORD ID: 9606505 RECEIVED: 25 SEP 96 14 RECORD ID: 9606505 DOC ACTION OFFICER CAO ASSIGNED ACTION REQUIRED DISPATCH DATA SUMMARY REPORT DOC DATE DISPATCH FOR ACTION DISPATCH FOR INFO UNCLASSIFIED 004 004 005 005 005 005 960927 960927 960929 960929 960929 960929 UNCLASSIFIED ACTION DATA SUMMARY REPORT Z Z Z Z X BROWNER, C WIDNALL, S VICE PRESIDENT WH CHIEF OF STAFF BURNS, W CONROY, R DUSAULT, P SAUNDERS, T 96092519 APPROPRIATE ACTION 96092610 ADD-ON / APPROPRIATE ACTION 96092617 FWD TO PRESIDENT FOR SIG 96092712 FOR SIGNATURE 96093010 PRES SGD PD 96-54 001 BAKER 002 BAKER 003 LAKE 004 PRESIDENT 005 »• r (o5os LOG# PROOFED BY: SYSTEM URGENT NOT PROOFED: A/0 DOCLOG BYPASSED WW DESK: DISPOSITION INITIAL/DATE SEQUENCE TO Harmon Dohse Sens Soderberg Natl Se< Berger Lake Situation Room West Wing Desk Records Mgt. N = No Further Action D = Dispatch I = Information A = Action Exec Sec Office has diskette National Security Council The White House 3 NSC INT ARS Natl Sec Advisor has seen 3^ ___________/ p— 3 ^2X5 COMMENTS: 1 R = Reiatrr" t 9 os LOG# PROOFED BY: NSC INT ARS URGENT NOT PROOFED: SYSTEM A/O BYPASSED WW DESK: DISPOSITION INITIAL/DATE SEQUENCE TO Harmon Dohse Sens Soderberg Berger Lake Situation Room West Wing Desk Records Mgt. N = No Further Action D = Dispatch A = Action COMMENTS: -Vi Exec Sec Office has diskette National Security Council The White House 3 3- b1-'] DOCLOG Nat! Sec Advisor has seen cc:^-^l( R = Reiakr ) ^L\ 3^ I = Information Kr1' __________ z- 3 THE WHITE HOUSE WASH I NGTON September 28, 1996 SUBJECT: 42 U.S.C. /? Cj. UaxaX-oaa Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register. MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 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 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. Presidential Determination No.96-54__________ 6505 September 27,1996 ACTION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THE EXECUTIVE CLERK THROUGH: ANTHONY FROM: SUBJECT: Purpose Background While ruling Presidential Determination on RCRA Exemption for the Operating Location at Groom Lake cc: Vice President Chief of Staff THE WHITE HOUSE WAS H INGTON To continue to exempt the Air Force from public disclosure requirements concerning the inspection and inventory of hazardous waste at the Air Force "operating location near Groom Lake." That ruling is now being appealed, as is plaintiffs' challenge to the sufficiency of your original exemption. In the interim, Deputy Secretary of Defense White and Secretary of the Air Force Widnall recommend that you renew the exemption to provide continued protection for national security information while the matter is on appeal. EPA Administrator Browner …

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