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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
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