TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, September 18, 2003

From the White House, 2003 September 18:

Presidential Determination No. 2002-30

MEMORANDUM FOR ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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.

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GEORGE W. BUSH

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: The Air Force facility at Groom Lake, of course, is more commonly known as Area 51. Clinton first issued this exemption when widows of Air Force men killed by some kind of materiel at Groom Lake filed suit. It has been renewed every year since, by both Presidents.

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