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Bush Extends Area 51's Toxic Secrecy Rumors of "alien toxins" persist More of this Feature • Presidential Determination No. 2003-39 - Exempting Area 51 • More About Area 51 • Jobs - Federal • Jobs - State Money Resources • Money for a Small Business • Small Business Grants? The States Have Them • Government Aid & Money – No Grant Needed • U.S. Government Grant Information Sources • Finding Unclaimed Money • Getting Into College - Financial Aid • Are You Eligible for Federal Aid? • Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks • More Money & Financial Resources From Other Guides • History of Area 51: Flyin' High at the Paradise Ranch • Close Encounter at Rachel • Area 51 - Enigma of the West Elsewhere on the Web • Map of Area 51 • Area 51 Image Gallary • The Dreamland Resort - Home of the Little A'Le'Inn • Judge Releases Groom Lake Files • A Grand Aerial Circumnavigation of Area 51 • Three Common Misconceptions About Area 51 • Area 51 Alive, Well and Expanding • The Aurora Aircraft Page • The CIA and the U2 Story About Poll Area 51 is: An airbase... just an airbase A base for secret experimentation with alien technology Not there Current Results Most places that produce toxic waste are required to disclose, in great detail, all the facts surrounding those wastes. Area 51, however, is not "most places." For the fifth year in a row, President Bush has granted the Air Force an executive exemption from legal requirements to disclose information regarding solid or hazardous waste disposal operations at Area 51. All other government and all private business are required to provide information on their waste disposal procedures under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Lawsuits necessitate Area 51's annual exemption Area 51's annual exemption stems from lawsuits filed in 1996 on the behalf of two former civilian employees at the facility. Both employees, Robert Frost and Wally Kasza, died of illnesses attributed to inhalation of smoke from toxic materials being disposed of at Area 51. Plaintiffs in the lawsuits, Frost v. Perry and Kasza v. Browne, claimed that the Air Force and EPA had violated the RCRA by illegally burning Area 51's hazardous waste in open pits. Never seeking any monetary damages, Frost and Kasza asked only that the Air Force be forced to disclose factual information relating to the chemical nature of hazardous waste produced at Area 51 and the methods used for its disposal. Pentagon's defense: "What Area 51?" When the suits were filed, the Pentagon still relied on claims of "military and state secrets privilege" to deny the very existence of Area 51. At trial, Air Force lawyers argued that Frost and Kasza could not have possibly inhaled non-existent smoke from non-existent hazardous waste disposed of at a non-existent Air Force base. Not fully buying the government's "What Area 51?" defense, the courts handed down judgments that satisfied almost nobody. While the plaintiffs were not allowed to find out what Frost, Kasza and other workers had been exposed to, the courts did order the EPA to conduct annual inspections of "an operating location near Groom Lake" for compliance with the RCRA and to make its findings public. The Air Force, however, did not want to make those findings public and the Air Force knew a way to get its way. Under federal law - 42 U.S.C. 6961(a) - the President of the United States can exempt "any solid waste management facility of any department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch from compliance with such a requirement if he determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so." Since 1998, two presidents have chosen to "do so." In 1997, a court ruled that the Air Force's exemption from hazardous waste disclosure for "an operating location near Groom Lake" had to be issued annually by the White House. President Clinton issued the first such exemption in 1998. Oh, That Area 51! The Air Force finally admitted the existence of Area 51 on April 17, 2000, when Air Force spokeswoman Gloria Cales told Associated Press reporters, "We acknowledge having an operating site there [Area 51], and the work is classified." Cales added that the work done at Area 51 involved "operations critical to the U.S. military and the country's security." Area 51 is believed to have been among several desolate dessert Air Force sites used for testing of once top-secret U.S. military aircraft, like the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, and the F-177A stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber. Yet fueled by years of secrecy, the main thing to take off from Area 51 have been rumors and theories concerning "unearthly" operations going on there. Rumors of "alien toxins" blast off Nobody involved in the lawsuits ever even hinted that the substances Frost and Kasza died from were anything but good-old "Made in the USA" hazardous industrial waste. However, Area 51's reputation for extraterrestrial doings led ufologists and conspiracy theorists to claim the workers had actually been exposures to deadly alien toxins, possibly byproducts of alien spacecraft fuel. With its boundaries guarded round-the-clock by forces promising to employ deadly force against against trespassers, the air base that never existed has accumulated more than its share of rumored other worldly purposes, including but far from limited to: Crashed or captured extraterrestrial spacecraft are hidden there. Deceased and possibly surviving alien pilots are kept there. The alien spacecraft are being converted for use by the US Military. With the cooperation of the U.S. Air Force, Area 51 is used by an extraterrestrial military force, (They promise to help us win future wars in return for partial control of our government, the human race, etc.) Besides "eye-witness" accounts from a few credible and many not-so-credible people, Area 51's extraterrestrial rumors are based on three main facts: The Air Force runs it. It's in the desert, just like Roswell, New Mexico Flying lights and objects traveling at impossible speeds and making impossible maneuvers have been reported, even photographed in the vicinity. Still, the question remains... Neither Frost or Kasza ever claimed to have witnessed or to have knowledge of extraterrestrial activities at Area 51. The Air Force publicly claims waste disposal procedures at Area 51 now fully comply with EPA regulations. Why then, does the White House persist in exempting Area 51 from EPA disclosure, an exemption granted to no other military or non-military government facility? The answer, of course is that except for "an operating location near Groom Lake," there is nothing out there but desert. Nothing in the world.

Public Comments

1. Stay right where you are the men in black will be there to pick you up shortly.
2. Steve Fosset,he was too close to it
3. A highly classified tin-foil hat manufacturing operation
4. i think there is an alien spacecraft there. i also think there are live aliens. i know this sounds stupid but i think some of our technology recently (since 1946) has been aided by aliens.
5. Area 51 is hiding, aliens,spacecraft,WMD's,Jimmy Hoffa,and the Fountain of youth.,Osama bin Laden may be there too,it's probably the only place they wouldn't look.
6. Money resources and all of that? Uh what is that about? Do you really think that if there was some (just for arguements sake) alien material it would still be there? It's just a testing ground for things that the general public do not need to know about. Inland (like Los Alamos in the day), empty range and where anything can be tested....... hence why commercial airliners can't fly over. That's it. I enjoy a good little rousing conspiracy tale. But one that really makes no point and not based on real life.... looney land. At least be able to write and make a point. Anybody who reads what you wrote........ uneducated and needs some help. So big yawn.