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Clinton exempts Groom Lake site from environmental disclosure

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Aerial view of Groom Lake and the Area 51 facility in Nevada
The Groom Lake facility, popularly called Area 51, exempted by Presidential Determination 95-45 Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

President Clinton signed Presidential Determination 95-45, exempting the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste-law provisions that would force disclosure of classified information. It cited pending litigation; the site, popularly called Area 51, is central to UFO lore.

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  1. OfficialPresidential Determination No. 95-45 of September 29, 1995 (60 FR 52823)Federal Register via GovInfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) / 1995-10-10
  2. OtherPresidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, NevadaThe American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) / 1995-09-29

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