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United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129
Message to the Congress on the United States Air Force Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada,
January 29, 2003
To the Congress of the United States:
Consistent with section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (the "Act"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), notification is hereby given that on September 13, 2002, I issued Presidential Determination 2002-30 (copy enclosed) and thereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act.
Presidential Determination 2002-30 exempted the United States Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate, or local hazardous or solid waste laws that might require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to unauthorized persons. Information concerning activities at the operating location near Groom Lake has been properly determined to be classified, and its disclosure would be harmful to national security. Continued protection of this information is, therefore, in the paramount interest of the United States.
The determination was not intended to imply that, in the absence of a Presidential exemption, RCRA or any other provision of law permits or requires the disclosure of classified information to unauthorized persons. The determination also was not intended to limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake except those provisions, if any, that might require the disclosure of classified information.
George W. Bush
The White House,
January 29, 2003.
Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on January 30.
Chicago: George W. Bush, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129 Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TKQQT1WK6I3VND8.
MLA: Bush, George W. United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TKQQT1WK6I3VND8.
Harvard: Bush, GW, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, January 31, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:128-129. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TKQQT1WK6I3VND8.
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