Please share the following with everyone.
Here is a statement from the White House:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
January 29, 1999
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear
Mr. President:)
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 25, 1998, I issued
Presidential Determination No. 98-36 (copy attached) and thereby exercised the
authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act. Presidential
Determination No. 98-36 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 would require the disclosure of classified information.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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The 'government' still
continues to use the ambiguous (and meaningless) phrase "operating location
near Groom Lake". It is a base and not just a location. It is not
"near" Groom Lake. The base is right there at Groom Lake!!
Why can't they come out and say that the base is right there at Groom Lake!!
Even though the term AREA 51 signifies the geographical jurisdiction of the
Department of Energy (DOE) and not the Air Force, the fact of the matter is
that the Air Force controls the operations at the site. So, why
not come out clean and name the base Groom Lake/Area 51 facility!!
We urge all concerned citizens, once again, to attend the upcoming People's Rally at AREA 51 this June 6, 1999. For more details, please go to:
God bless you all!
-from Norio Hayakawa