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Area 51: Bush Exempts Secret Base From Environmental Laws
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 09:35 am ET
30 December 2002
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Area 51: Bush Exempts Secret Base That super-secret Air Force base near Groom Lake, Nevada -- purported site of everything from captured aliens to the highest of high-tech aircraft -- has been exempted by President Bush from environmental laws that would disclose classified information regarding base operations. President Bush's decision about Groom Lake was made last September and published December 24 in the Federal Register. Groom Lake has been the target of litigation brought about by former workers at the base. That legal action focused on health effects resulting in the handling and disposal of hazardous wastes at the secret locale. Bush judged that "it is in the paramount interest of the United States" to prevent disclosure of information about Groom Lake. The Presidential decision exempts the Air Force activity at 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." The exemption shall be effective for a full one-year statutory period.
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