Exemption for Area 51


Message posted by Hank on October 21, 2003 at 12:41:16 PST:

21 October 2003
Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

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[Federal Register: October 21, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 203)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 60277-60279]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr21oc03-123]

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Part IV

The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2003-39 of September 16, 2003--
Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location
Near Groom Lake, Nevada

Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2003-39 of September 16,
2003


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.

(Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, September 16, 2003.

[FR Doc. 03-26704
Filed 10-20-03; 10:07 am]

Billing code 3910-01-P


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