Federal Register: October 4, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 193)
Presidential Documents
Page 50805-50807
Presidential Determination No. 2001-27 of September 18,
2001
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 the
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.
[signed:] George W. Bush
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 18, 2001.