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AI Summary
This document is an administrative marker from the Clinton Presidential Library regarding a report to Congress on a Presidential exemption concerning the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. It outlines the exemption from certain hazardous waste laws that require disclosure of classified information.
Key Findings
- The document serves as an administrative marker, not a textual record. - It discusses a Presidential exemption granted to the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. - The exemption is related to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). - The exemption aims to protect classified information from disclosure to unauthorized persons. - The report to Congress is required annually to detail exemptions granted and their justifications.
OCR Text
2006-0527-F FOI MARKER Document ID: 9700471 Row: 46 A A Section: 5 Stack: v This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the Clinton Presidential Library Staff. Shelf: 8 Position: i Original OA/ID Number: 3220 WON HIE TO: PRESIDENT DEFENSE POLICY KEYWORDS: PERSONS: SUBJECT: STATUS: C DUE DATE: 28 JAN 97 ACTION: PRESIDENT SGD PER WH EXEC CLERK LOGREF: STAFF OFFICER: BAKER CODES: NSCP: FILES: WH DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENT FOR CONCURRENCE FOR ACTION COMMENTS: W/ATTCH BY HAND DATE DISPATCHED BY 2 OF 2 DOC CLOSED BY: NSDRS OPENED BY: NSTSM UNCLASSIFIED *3 LEGAL ISSUES CONGRESSIONAL UNCLASSIFIED NSC/RMO PROFILE FROM: BERGER HILLEY, J RECORD ID: 9700471 RECEIVED: 24 JAN 97 14 RPT TO CONGRESS ON PRES EXEMPTION RE OPERATION LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE DOC DATE: 31 JAN 97 SOURCE REF: FOR INFO BAKER DANVERS FICKLIN KRECZKO NSC CHRON SANDALOW SESTAK RECORD ID: 9700471 CAO ASSIGNED ACTION REQUIRED DOC ACTION OFFICER DISPATCH DATA SUMMARY REPORT DISPATCH FOR INFO DISPATCH FOR ACTION DATE DOC UNCLASSIFIED i' 002 002 970131 970131 UNCLASSIFIED ACTION DATA SUMMARY REPORT Z 97013018 FWD TO PRESIDENT FOR SIG Z 97013119 FOR SIGNATURE X 97013120 PRESIDENT SGD PER WH EXEC CLERK VICE PRESIDENT WH CHIEF OF STAFF 001 BERGER 002 PRESIDENT 002 LOG# PROOFED BY: NSC I NT A RS SYSTEM URGENT NOT PROOFED: A/O DOCLOG BYPASSED WW DESK: DISPOSITION INITIAL/DATE SEQUENCE TO Barmon 1 Dohse Kerrick Steinberg Berger isor Situation Room West Wing Desk < V Records Mgt. N = No Further Action R = Retain D = Dispatch I = Information A = Action cc: ■Vo COMMENTS: ^1. ’97 JAN 30 ph 64? Exec Sec Office has diskette National Security Council The White House 0471 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 31, 1997 ACTION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: THE EXECUTIVE CLERK FROM: SUBJECT: Purpose Background RECOMMENDATION That you sign the attached letters. Letter to Speaker of the House Letter to President of the Senate Report to Congress on the Presidential Exemption Concerning the Operating Location Near Groom Lake SAMUEL R. BERGE JOHN HILLEY Attachments Tab A Tab B cc: Vice President Chief of Staff This report has been coordinated with CEQ as well as the Departments of Defense and Justice and the EPA. To report to the Congress pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). k.;3 C’.orU Under RCRA, you are required to report each January to the Congress all exemptions granted during the previous year and the reasons for doing so. In addition to noting that the exemption was necessary to protect national security (without providing details) the report indicates that the exemption was not intended to limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the operating location except those provisions, if any, that would require disclosure of classified information. ».* * •'* On September 28, you exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, (the operating location) "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" to unauthorized persons. You first granted such an exemption in 1995 in the context of litigation over the Government's compliance with RCRA at the location. THE WHITE HOUSE WASH INGTON Dear Mr. Speaker: Sincerely, 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. 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 28, 1996, I issued Presidential Determination 96-54 (copy attached) and thereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act. Presidential Determination No. 96-54 exempted the U.S. 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 Ho…
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