SEC. 824. MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIONAL ERADICATION RESOURCES. Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for enhanced precursor chemical control projects, in the total amount of $500,000. SEC. 825. BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS. (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL.-It is the sense of Congress that any individual serving in the position of assistant secretary in any department or agency of the Federal Government who has primary responsibility for international narcotics control and law enforcement, and the principal deputy of any such assistant secretary, shall have substantial professional qualifications in the fields of (1) management; (2) Federal law enforcement or intelligence; and (3) foreign policy. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO DEFICIENCIES IN INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES.-It is the sense of Congress that the responsiveness and effectiveness of international narcotics assistance activities under the Department of State have been severely hampered due, in part, to the lack of law enforcement expertise by responsible personnel in the Department of State. SEC. 826.5 FURTHER MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES. (a) IN GENERAL.-There are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of State for fiscal year 1999 such sums as may be necessary to carry out section 481 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291). (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.-Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subsection (a) are in addition to amounts made available to carry out section 481 of such Act under any other provision of law. Subtitle C-Enhanced Alternative Crop Development SEC. 831. ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT. Funds are authorized to be appropriated for the United States Agency for International Development for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001 for alternative development programs in the total amount of $180,000,000 which shall be available as follows: (1) In the Guaviare, Putumayo, and Caqueta regions in Colombia. (2) In the Ucayali, Apurimac, and Huallaga Valley regions in Peru. (3) In the Chapare and Yungas regions in Bolivia. SEC. 832. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE COUNTERDRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. (a) IN GENERAL.-There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 5 Added by sec. 2(a) of Public Law 106-35 (113 Stat. 126). 2001, $23,000,000 to support the counternarcotics research efforts of the Agricultural Research Service of the Department of Agriculture. Of that amount, funds are authorized as follows: (1) $5,000,000 shall be used for crop eradication technologies. (2) $2,000,000 shall be used for narcotics plant identification, chemistry, and biotechnology. (3) $1,000,000 shall be used for worldwide crop identification, detection tagging, and production estimation technology. (4) $5,000,000 shall be used for improving the disease resistance, yield, and economic competitiveness of commercial crops that can be promoted as alternatives to the production of narcotics plants. (5) $10,000,000 to contract with entities meeting the criteria described in subsection (b) for the product development, environmental testing, registration, production, aerial distribution system development, product effectiveness monitoring, and modification of multiple herbicides to control narcotic crops (including coca, poppy, and cannabis) in the United States and internationally. (b) CRITERIA FOR ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.-An entity under this subsection is an entity which possesses (1) experience in diseases of narcotic crops; (2) intellectual property involving seed-borne dispersal formulations; (3) the availability of state-of-the-art containment or quarantine facilities; (4) country-specific herbicide formulations; (5) specialized fungicide resistant formulations; or (6) special security arrangements. SEC. 833. MASTER PLAN FOR HERBICIDES TO CONTROL NARCOTIC CROPS. (a) IN GENERAL.-The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall develop a 10-year master plan for the use of herbicides to control narcotic crops (including coca, poppy, and cannabis) in the United States and internationally. (b) COORDINATION.-The Director shall develop the plan in coordination with (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice; (3) the Department of Defense; (4) the Environmental Protection Agency; (5) the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Activities of the Department of State; (6) the United States Information Agency; and (7) other appropriate agencies. (c) REPORT.-Not later than March 1, 1999, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall submit to Congress a report describing the activities undertaken to carry out this section. h. International Narcotics Control1 (1) Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act Title VIII of Public Law 105-277 [Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999; H.R. 4328], 112 Stat. 2681, ap. proved October 21, 1998; amended by Public Law 106-35 [Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Technical Corrections Act; H.R. 1379], 113 Stat. 126, approved June 15, 1999 TITLE VIII-WESTERN HEMISPHERE DRUG ELIMINATION SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) 2 SHORT TITLE.-This title may be cited as the "Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this title is as follows: Sec. 801. Short title; table of contents Page 360 Sec. 802. Findings and statement of policy 361 SUBTITLE A-ENHANCED SOURCE AND TRANSIT COUNTRY COVERAGE Sec. 811. Expansion of radar coverage and operation in source and transit countries 363 Sec. 812. Expansion of Coast Guard drug interdiction 364 Sec. 813. Expansion of aircraft coverage and operation in source and transit countries 365 SUBTITLE B-ENHANCED ERADICATION AND INTERDICTION STRATEGY IN SOURCE COUNTRIES Sec. 821. Additional eradication resources for Colombia 366 367 Sec. 823. Additional eradication resources for Bolivia 367 Sec. 824. Miscellaneous additional eradication resources SUBTITLE C-ENHANCED ALTERNATIVE CROP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN SOURCE ZONE Sec. 831. Alternative crop development support Sec. 833. Master plan for herbicides to control narcotic crops Sec. 832. Authorization of appropriations for Agricultural Research Service counterdrug research and development activities 368 368 369 370 SUBTITLE D-ENHANCED INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING 1 See also Public Law 106-246, establishing Plan Colombia, page 203. 221 U.S.C. 801 note. 3 Added by sec. 2(b) of Public Law 106-35 (113 Stat. 126). 370 370 372 SUBTITLE E-ENHANCED DRUG TRANSIT AND SOURCE ZONE LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT Sec. 851. Increased funding for operations and equipment; report 372 373 Sec. 853. Sense of Congress regarding priority of drug interdiction and counterdrug activities 374 SEC. 802. FINDINGS AND STATEMENT OF POLICY. (a) FINDINGS.-Congress makes the following findings: (1) Teenage drug use in the United States has doubled since 1993. (2) The drug crisis facing the United States is a top national security threat. (3) The spread of illicit drugs through United States borders cannot be halted without an effective drug interdiction strategy. (4) Effective drug interdiction efforts have been shown to limit the availability of illicit narcotics, drive up the street price, support demand reduction efforts, and decrease overall drug trafficking and use. (5) A prerequisite for reducing youth drug use is increasing the price of drugs. To increase price substantially, at least 60 percent of drugs must be interdicted. (6) In 1987, the national drug control budget maintained a significant balance between demand and supply reduction efforts, illustrated as follows: (A) 29 percent of the total drug control budget expenditures for demand reduction programs. (B) 38 percent of the total drug control budget expenditures for domestic law enforcement. (C) 33 percent of the total drug control budget expenditures for international drug interdiction efforts. (7) In the late 1980's and early 1990's, counternarcotic efforts were successful, specifically in protecting the borders of the United States from penetration by illegal narcotics through increased seizures by the United States Coast Guard and other agencies, including a 302 percent increase in pounds of cocaine seized between 1987 and 1991. (8) Limiting the availability of narcotics to drug traffickers in the United States had a promising effect as illustrated by the decline of illicit drug use between 1988 and 1991, through a (A) 13 percent reduction in total drug use; (B) 35 percent drop in cocaine use; and (9) In 1993, drug interdiction efforts in the transit zones were reduced due to an imbalance in the national drug control strategy. This trend has continued throug the following figures: shown by (A) 35 percent for demand reduction programs. (B) 53 percent for domestic law enforcement. (C) 12 percent for international drug interdiction efforts. (10) Supply reduction efforts became a lower priority for the Administration and the seizures by the United States Coast Guard and other agencies decreased as shown by a 68 percent decrease in the pounds of cocaine seized between 1991 and 1996. placeme prority of the alloca (11) Reductions in funding for comprehensive interdiction operations like OPERATION GATEWAY and OPERATION STEELWEB, initiatives that encompassed all areas of interdiction and attempted to disrupt the operating methods of drug smugglers along the entire United States border, have created unprotected United States border areas which smugglers exploit to move their product into the United States. (12) The result of this new imbalance in the national drug control strategy caused the drug situation in the United States to become a crisis with serious consequences including (A) doubling of drug-abuse-related arrests for minors between 1992 and 1996; (B) 70 percent increase in overall drug use among children aged 12 to 17; (C) 80 percent increase in drug use for graduating sen- (D) a sharp drop in the price of 1 pure gram of heroin (13) The percentage change in drug use since 1992, among graduating high school students who used drugs in the past 12 months, has substantially increased-marijuana use is up 80 percent, cocaine use is up 80 percent, and heroin use is up 100 percent. and reducti erdiction eff develop d drug erad Sces, to ach (14) The Department of Defense has been called upon to support counter-drug efforts of Federal law enforcement agencies that are carried out in source countries and through transit zone interdiction, but in recent years Department of Defense assets critical to those counter-drug activities have been consistently diverted to missions that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider a higher priority. the Unit (15) The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, through the Department of Defense policy referred to as the Global Military Force Policy, has established the priorities for the allocation of military assets in the following order: (1) war; (2) military operations other than war that might involve contact with hostile forces (such as peacekeeping operations and noncombatant evacuations); (3) exercises and training; and (4) operational tasking other than those involving hostilities (including counter-drug activities and humanitarian assistance). (16) Use of Department of Defense assets is critical to the success of efforts to stem the flow of illegal drugs from source countries and through transit zones to the United States. 1000 wh 11 For r radar, in For o antanan REPORT |