For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 16, 2003
Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Presidential Determination No. 2003-39
The Secretary of the Air Force
SUBJECT: Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's
Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada
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.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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