Federal Register: October 5, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 194)
Presidential Documents
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                        Presidential Documents




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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2000-30 of September 19,
                2000


                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 19, 2000.

[FR Doc. 00-25742
Filed 10-4-00; 8:45 am]
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