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.
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